the men to lose their footing all fall nearly 30 feet. they both survived. the wind caused this large tree to topple near the intersection of 64th street and ridge drive in the cabin john section of bethesda. it crashed in the front yard of a home and onto a street. no one was injured there. topper shutt is standing by in the weather center. he's got more on this wind alert. >> reporter: can you imagine if we had these winds when foliage was on the trees. fortunately in the summertime we get winds that just gust. we've had strong winds for 12 hours. let me show you the gusts. the wind advisories are in longer in -- no longer in effect for us. they are in the mountains but they're still 22 in baltimore. here's the highest gusts. 52 at national and 59 in frederick. these are incredible. 60 in leaseburg and 71 miles per hour wind gust in martinsburg, west virginia. that is within 3 miles of a hurricane force wind. that's unbelievable. they're going to be slow to diminish and gust at least

until midnight. snow showers tonight. breezy and chilly tomorrow and on sunday. a quick peek at doppler shows snow showers from frederick to 270. we'll talk about where those are headed and the potential of another storm next week. back to you. you just talked about the high-wind warnings and advisories posted around the region. many have been lifted broom's assignment was to get blown around. he joins us live via a skype. >> reporter: live via skype from behind the wheel on the outer loop of the beltway, two on the wheels a definite. it came with significant hazards and interesting sites to see. in the interesting sights category check this carpet of ice that forms on the eastern shore of the chesapeake bay bridge. it came from automaker the spray that gopt blown around when wind whipped

white caps on the bay smashed ashore. it was belowing so hard here most of the seagulls decided to stay grounded. but up on the bay bridge, a serious hazard. a restriction on empty tractor-trailers, rv's and the like for fears with that winds blowing at highway speeds could below a big truck right off the highway. >> if it hits you strong enough it will take some years off your life. >> reporter: some trucker sat tight waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. in upper marlboro a gust up around 50 miles per hour took out this billboard. no one was hurt when it came crashing down but it's another measure of the power of this storm to shred everything from advertising to roof shingles. the rest of us endured the windchill. it felt like 10 or 15 degrees most of the day. >> basically you're just cold. >> just cold. cold. >> reporter: cold and anxious that all those rocking trees don't come down on

the power lines. a day of wind warnings to watch out for. >> live on skype outer loop of the beltway. in the end there was damage but it was not widespread. that's good news. and so is good news that the wind is kind of stopped blowing this car around tonight. reporting live, scott broom, 9 news now. modelling the behavior, both hands on the wheel. fewer out on the roadways after out for debris and power lines, right, patranya? >> watch out for winds and drivers trying to get around. the toll road to alexandria, a 10 to 15 minute delay. on the other side of 495 i-95 to route 50 is jammed. a live shot at silver spring, this is an area where we have downed trees in the

area. shut down right now between georgia and lay hill road. downed trees on top of power lines. we've been seeing this in many areas. take randall road as an alternate and finally a wrap up in the district where it's busy. it's friday, no rain, no snow but of course the winds. we have signal lights out in many spots there so do use kaupgs and treat them as a four-way stop. back to you. now to a story you'll only see on 9:00. a disturbing new facebook attack has targeted at least one montgomery county school. the predator poses as a flow student, asks to be facebook friends but as andrea roane reports that's when the trouble starts when an unsuspecting student accepts that online friendship >> can i see the pictures? >> reporter: students who attend the bethesda chevy chase high school were friended on facebook who is a porning on rafr who uses a name close to a student and cell phone number of his unsuspecting classmate. >> i found it so hurtful.

>> reporter: marie olson killian was horrified to find her son's name attach a nude photograph. >> they were saying the person in the lewd photograph was my son. my son's name appeared as the individual in the photograph. luckily my son has no similar physical characteristics. >> reporter: at first her son suspected it was a prank by a classmate. >> he came downstairs and said we don't know who this is. this is not one of our friends. >> reporter: just the last three weeks. predator has infiltrated the facebook accounts of nearly 200 students. >> when you set up on these accounts you're giving your name, your date of birth, your city and state. there is a lot of information. your web history, where you're going. >> reporter: the national center for mission and exploited children investigates leads of predators controlling social media sites. >> this they can be used to create accounts and wreak havoc on credit histories and a lot of times teenagers

won't know until they a apply for financial aid in college. >> reporter: cyber crime investigators are seeing a growing trend of teens and even children becoming the victims of identity theft. in this case, the imposter's facebook page was taken down late last night. andrea mccarren, 9 news now. the national center for missing and exploited children has a cyber tip line where parents can roirnt appropriate activity. it receives 100 leads every week. it's 1-800-843-5678. montgomery county police tell us a third man is in custody for the rape of an 11-year-old girl. police say 39-year-old rohalio mondragon and two other men grabbed the sixth grader tuesday night. they say the man dragged the child to an apartment on carol avenue and raped her. enough at 6:00 a prostitution bust that

spanned several states. julie mckenna and mark brick house are accused of luring a 17-year-old runway from california to new york and forcing her into prostitution. that happened last december. this week the two brought the girl to a hotel in -- woodbridge, virginia. she managed to escape and begged a clerk at a store for help. the two hid out at a hotel in laurel, maryland and that's where marshals arrested them. now they are back in prince georges county awaiting trial. get to breaking news in montgomery county. this is a fire in white oak. a townhouse fire in the white oak section of silver spring. it's a second alarm fire. this is at 11273 columbia pike. off 29. fire was seen coming threw the roof. -through the roof. there is breaking news at

this townhouse white oak, maryland. a key member of obama's administration resigns. those stories and more coming up when 9 news now returns in 2 minutes.

japan's meteorological agency says a strong quake shook the southern region of the country and a tsunami warning has been issued. it measured 7.3 on the richter scale. we'll keep you posted. white house social secretary desiree rogers is stepping down three months after take heat for helping to allow a northern virginia couple, the sleigh his to crash the -- salahis to crash the president's first state dinner.

martin o'malley is in iraq at the invitation and cost of the u.s. defense department. these are pictures with o'malley with maryland's army reserve. in an interview from baghdad the governor talked about how hmm bling his conversations with maryland troops have been. >> the one of the thing that strikes me is the common thread that runs throughout the conversations. and that is just how much the men and women here miss their family and their kids and their loved ones back home. the most common requests i get is repetedly, can you call my mom? can you call my dad when you get home? can you call my kids, my husband, my wife, let them know i'm okay? i miss them. >> he'll have a lot of calls to make when he comes home. he'll be back here in maryland on sunday. jet blew air has cancelled several flights today because of a computer malfunction. the airline says all customers whose flights were cancelled can receive a refund or they'll accommodate them on the next jet blue flight at no

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act works with calcium to rebuild enamel. to avoid dental problems act daily. it was quite a scene today at the lab school in dc. somehow high school students there were exposed to pepper spray. two had serious reactions and had to go to the hospital. dozens of others were checked out too as a precaution. no word yet on who brought the can to the school >> they had some rash and slight trouble breathing. maybe combined with preexisting medical conditions that they had. so they were more serious than the others. but certainly, their condition was not life-threatening. >> the school spokesperson says they're trying to figure out how this all happened. all the students have been sent home. investigators still don't know the cause of a two-alarm fire that critically injured a little girl and her father in hyattsville this morning. some one in the rental

office of the toledo plaza apartments spotted smoke and called for help. audrey barnes joins us live. >> reporter: a neighbor who lives next door says she banged ferociously on the door trying to alert the 5-year-old man inside with his young daughter. when they didn't answer she rushed back to her own apartment to get her family out. and wait for fire crews who finally got the pair out. >> i said in 203 there is a baby with her father. >> reporter: she was practically hysterical knowing the little girl who is like a granddaughter to her was trapped in a burning apartment with her dad. >> when i was outside i was shouting help the baby. >> reporter: hyattsville fire crews rushed into the burning apartment and found them. >> they took both individuals out of the apartment and got them immediately to the ambulance twit we took them to the hospital. >> reporter: both needed cpr. the child was suffering from smoke inhalation. her dad, burned over 80% of

his body. >> the units made a valiant effort to get the individuals out as quickly as they could. and that's what they did. >> now, still no word tonight about what exactly caused this fire. neighbors tell me they heard a loud bam and saw smoke pouring from underneath the door into the hallway. leslie? >> was the fire contained to just that one apartment there? >> reporter: yes. it went to two alarms and crews got here quickly and managed to contain it. other people in the building were evacuated but at 6:07 the lights came back on and families are now being allowed back into their homes. their thoughts are obviously with the injured man and his young daughter who are in very critical condition tonight. >> let's hope they recover. thank you for that. we can consider ourselves lucky. we didn't get the snow component much this latest north least storm. certainly not that much of it.

but new york city did. >> my bus was cancelled. it took me two hours to get here. >> that wet, heavy snow has dragged down a lot of power lines and left nearly 3 kwar terdz of a million people without electricity. the roads are so bad police have shut down interstates in new jersey and pennsylvania. winter hurricane. that's what it was. >> what's with this storm? >> reporter: 95 miles per hour winds off the massachusetts coast which is hurricane force. >> you keep talking about a coastal system. >> reporter: it's a strong subtropical jetstream. we've not had that pattern for the last five years. we're in a pattern right now. the next three days we're going in the right direction. maybe a flurry tomorrow. breezy. and breezy sunday. temperatures in the mid-40s by then. finally monday, nice. it will be 50. by the way, 50 is average

right now. wind gusts, we're still seeing wind gusts over 20 miles per hour and going to probably see wind gusts 25 to 30 miles per hour until midnight. there are no wind advisories or high-wind warnings. out toward the mountains, strong winds but not damaging winds. tonight, windy and cold, snow showers possible. also flurries possible. low temperatures is 25 to 30 and winds west, northwest, 15 to 25 and gusty. let me show you the live doppler. this will show you strong snow showers. we talked about this yesterday. they're spinning around finally crossing the river. we'll go out toward lowden county and leesburg. these are pretty good snow showers. especially north of leesburg, past to aldi. everything is pushing down to the south and east. it's going to roll down the dulles toll rode in the next couple hours. we'll move a little further to the north and east. these are heavy too on the west side of 270.

from clarksburg westward and up toward urban a. poolesville, pretty good snow showers. they will lay down a coating. let's talk about temperatures. still above freezing, thankfully. 36 in vi en a 36 in the plains and 37 in culpepper. below freezing toward kaiser. 31 you there. tomorrow morning mostly cloudy, windy and cold. flurries possible but no snow showers. 20s and 30s. winds west, southwest at 10 to 20. tomorrow, maybe a flurry but hides 40 to 45 and winds westerly at 10-15. satellite picture will zoom into the big storm out on the california coast. that's where a lot of the storms have come from this year. no exception here. this is going to move into the four corners area and move into the gulf coast and then get to a position off the southeast coast next week. we will watch it very carefully. this monster storm, the backlash of the storm is off

the coast of long island but it's snowing back to chicago. that is pretty impressive. the next seven days. 43 tomorrow, a flurry. 46 on sunday. 50 on monday but a possible coastal storm tuesday night, wednesday, and into early thursday. we're back in the 30s tuesday and wednesday and back up into the 40s once we get into thursday and friday. i will say we have some things going for us on the wednesday storm. atmosphere -- >> we heard what dc is going to do but now we heard alexandria will add an additional 30 minutes to the school day to make up all the time lost because of the snow. 10 minutes in the morning and 20 in the afternoon. check the plan for your school district on our website, wusa9.com. we know a bit about the future for the students national ex an dra. we want to no -- in

alexandria. what about jason came bell? >> reporter: mike shanahan hadn't talked to reporters during the combine but today he d wait until you hear what he had to say about jason campbel his future. the other wizard speaks about the locker room gun incident. that's coming up next in sports. this is a strawberry pop-tart.

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now, 9 spoefrments the best sports in town. >> reporter: when it comes to coaching ack you men, nobody questions mike shanahan. on a a couple super bowl rings will do that. after april season that saw a lot of cooks in the kitchen the hope is that he'll be only one wearing the apron. step one, clarify the jason campbell situation. he spoke at the nfl combine. he said the team ex suspects to tender an offer to campbell next week. 17 is currently a restricted free agent. shanahan says he expects the quarterback to be at

mini-camp. we'll have much more from shanahan tonight on sports at 11:00. what about danny tomlinson? could he be a fit at redskins park? he said he and the recently released running back are good friends and he respects him. then kind of seeing he may have gone too far he said i don't want to discuss lt any further and show my hand. everyone is focused on steven strauss berg with good reason. his spring training debut march 9. today was the full full squad work out for the nats. how about that sunny picture. doesn't that look nice? nationals getting the show on the road. the whole group hit the field for the first time today. the team brought in a lot of new faces this year but one of the old faces, willie harris, says you still got to make it happen on the field. >> we've made a lot of changes here. the front office, scouting, and as far as our ball club

goes. we just have to go out and play ball. me personally i'm sick of losing 100 games and want to be here when thing get better. hopefully it's this year. >> reporter: look whose back. levon hernandez just signed on wednesday and begins his thirt stint with the nats. levon was the opening day starter when the nats came back to d.c. in '0506. jevaris crittenton also pled guilty with gilbert arenas. he's back in his home of atlanta serving out his suspension. presumably hoping to return to the nba next season. he broke his silence last night on an atlanta radio station and says he's trying to surround himself with positive people and realizes his mistake. >> i'm sorry for the incident. to all my families, to my fans, to the kids who look up to me.

definitely a mistake that shouldn't happen but everything happens for a reason. i just want to move forward. positive talk and positive people around me just doing the right things. >> reporter: wizards continue to apply make up to the roster signing guard shawn livingston to a ten-day contract. he went pro straight out of high school and was a promising player before a horrible knee injury three years ago. he's basically been working his way back since. it was supposed to be an olympic semi-finals day. turned out to be a vancouver wood shed job. here's the medal count. usa leading the way at 32. germany second at 27. norway, 20. the home team canada in this case with 17, austria and russia rounding out the top 6. if you're a golfer human heck letters are tough enough but how about these birds, these parrot in lexington oaks in tampa have learned to heckle the

golfers on the 11th and 16th hole. i'm sure someone taught them how to say hit the blanking ball. >> that what they say? >> imagine if tiger came up to the tee? you can only imagine. >> you can you imagine. >> we won't. here at 9 news now we recognize more of you are getting up earlier in the morning. need your up-to-date local news, weather, and traffic. we're proud to announce the first regularly scheduled 4:30 a.m. newscast in washington. starting march 8, 9 news now will run from 4:30 until 7:00 a.m. andrea and howard will have the latest news, weather and traffic. followed by inside edition and insider from 9:00 to 10:00. that's if for us on 9 news now at 6:00. the cbs evening news with katie couric is next. we'll be back