geoff: all right. craig: that was pretty easy. can't you go -- back it up a little. geoff: how dare you, good sir! i perish the thought of wrking with you again. craig: i'm absolutely flabbergasted at your -- you naughty little bony -- good night, everybody.

. a storm alert. topper is tracking heavy rain. plus a chance for snow this week. also, a powerful dc councilman pushing for relaxed gun laws. find out why he says some current rules just don't make

sense. people feel that money is owning our country. >> plus local corruption. with several area leaders under investigation, we compare cases and ask why our politics got so dirty. this is 9news now. but first we have late breaking news for you out of silver spring where a girl was stabbed at a high school. gary nurenberg is live there with the latest on this one. gary. >> reporter: derek, northwood high school is at 919 university boulevard west not far from four corners where the northwood gladiators kicked off their basketball season tonight with a win. police say during the game an altercation of some kind broke out exclusively among female students from kennedy. that fight then spilled into the parking lot where one girl was stabbed repeatedly and taken to suburban hospital with what are now described as non-life-threatening injuries. we saw detectives leave the school a few minutes ago saying they were going to suburban hospital to try to find out

exactly what happened. their investigation apparently hindered because witnesses are refusing to cooperate. no other injuries. no arrests we know of yet. >> gary nurenberg, we thank you for that. so what is it with our politicians? one former elected official sentenced, one major political operative convicted and several ongoing. it was quite a day for politics in maryland and dc today. the headline, former prince george's county jack johnson will be off to federal prison to serve a lengthy sentence. matt jablow has all of the sorted details. >> reporter: it was a bad day for good government here in the washington area. >> your thoughts on the sentence? >> reporter: first former prince george's county executive jack johnson was sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribe money and then urging his life lesli in a famous wire tapped phone conversation to literally cover some of it up. >> put it in your panties and walk out of the house. >> reporter: a few hours later

and a few miles to the north in baltimore, a top aid to former maryland governor bob urlich was convicted of trying to avoid the robocall last year. also today ironically the dc city council several members of which are now being investigated for possible corruption. preliminary approved a new ethics bill. >> today was a horrendous day. >> reporter: strong ethics laws are only the beginning. that broader election law reforms are what is really needed to fix a badly broken system. >> until we get rid of what is essentially a legalized system of bribery, we're going to see the show over and over again. >> reporter: the people we sfoek with tonight in northwest -- spoke with tonight in northwest washington hole heart edly agree. >> people -- wholeheartedly agree. >> people feel that money is running the country. >> it's business as usual. >> too much money in politics. it's corrupting politicians.

it's definitely doing that on a daily basis and yearly basis for the past ten years. >> reporter: so what can be done to be sure it doesn't go on for the next ten years. election law reforms now before congress and a few state legislatures would go a long way. derek. >> matt, we can only hope. well, come this time tomorrow night, it will actually be snowing in parts of the metro. topper shutt here now with the latest on this storm which is moving faster than we thought. >> it is. which means is going to move out faster than we thought, which is a good thing. let me start with the winter watches and warnings. we'll come back and give you the other watches because we're now under a flood wash. we're looking at -- watch. we're looking at heavy rain too. we're looking at winter storm watches essentially west of i81. that is for late tomorrow night. the winter storm warning denoted in white. and that is across the divide for our friends out in oakland. and then for early afternoon through tomorrow night. so here is the deal. we timed it a little bit. it's going to move a little

faster. so we kind of changed some of the exits and entrances in terms of the cold air. temps are going to fall all day. it will be a significant snow in the mountain. rain to snow mainly northwest of town. the time frame now 10:00 p.m. tomorrow until 3:00 a.m. on thursday. it is 63 in leesburg and 61 in gaithersburg but temps will fall all day tomorrow. here is your wake up weather. please remember to take an up brem la and a cold. it's -- umbrella and cold. it's going to be mild at 5:00 and 9:00 and temps will fall tlult the day. we'll come back -- throughout the day. we'll come back and talk more about the possibility of it turning to snow. >> thank you, top. the one dc council member has his way, the procedure for owning a firearm in the city could get significantly easier. he has a lot of folks talking tonight. ken molestina is live with

details of the mendelson plan. ken. >> reporter: derek, this is it right here. the mendelson plan. he's calling it the firearms amendment act of 2011. now, if this passes, it would loosen certain restrictions on the books right now as to how dc residents go about owning guns. >> we have now had three years experience and there are some issues that have come forward. >> reporter: dc councilmen is talking about the process residents must go through to legally own a handgun in the district. he is calling for a change in his firearms amendment act of 2011. according to him, several steps in the process will be removed. >> some aspect that could be just a little easier. >> reporter: for example. >> we require a vision test. but i don't know that there is anybody who requires a vision test. >> reporter: so that will be gone. training for handgun proficiency will also be made more accessible. his new amendment will allow those looking for licenses to have their guns while they train

in the district rather than have them train in another state. police will also no longer require a ballistics test before giving it back to the owner. >> there is better technology, which we already have in the law. >> it's going to save time. it's going to save us money. the burden is really going to help. >> reporter: michelle is a current licensed handgun owner in the district, and she is hoping it passes. not everyone is as joyful about the proposition. the brady campaign says as the dc council considers this legislation, it should use great caution in using changes in current law that can increase the gun misuse in the district. >> it's going to help law abiding district. it's not going to help people that bring guns illegally in the district. >> reporter: a hearing is scheduled for january. earlier tonight i reached out to the police department to see what they thought about all of this. they replied back saying they haven't had a chance to speak to mendelson about the details, the

specifics of the proposition. we're live outside the wilson building, ken molestina, 9news now. well, tonight randy babbitt is out as chief of the federal aviation administration. babbitt announced his resignation three days after police pulled him over and arrested him for drunken driving. police pulled him over after an officer saw him driving on the wrong side of the road. babbitt said in a statement today that he didn't want to allow anything to "cast a shadow on the work being done by his colleagues at the faa". well, get ready for more possibly offensive displays on the loudoun county courthouse lawn. already we've seen the community get outraged at the crucified skeleton of santa. now the board of supervisors have rejected the proposal to get rid of the displays. the creator of santa's skeleton is a christian and says the whole thing was to depict how society's materialistic

obsessions and addictions are killing the season's peace, love, joy and kindness. >> it was predictable. it was easy to see it coming. the klu klux klan has put up crosses and i shutter to think we might get to this point. >> if we just go ahead and remove the ordinance for public displays as a community, we can come together with the government sponsoring what is tasteful there on the courthouse. >> all right. but in the meantime, a nativity scene along with two displays from the church of the flying spaghetti monster are also slated to go up. so what do you get when two groups plan to march in downtown dc. a traffic nightmare. and that is what police are predicting when protestors from rdc and occupy dc head towards k street tomorrow. demonstrators with rdc spent today in front of the office buildings down on the hill

demanding jobs. >> who are we. >> 99. >> about 20 protestors actually went into the senate office building and camped out inside senate minority leaders office. they were demanding a meeting but it never happened. again, police say from 13th and k to 17th and k streets tomorrow will be pretty congested starting around 11:00 in the morning. so maybe you too want to grab the attention of congress, but all you want to occupy is your comfy leather couch. well, we have got a website for you. it's called reverse robocall.com. and a few key strokes and you're hitting up your favorite congress person and all of their capitol hill people. >> with one click you can send a message to all 535 members of congress and that has never been able to be done before. >> you might want to consider it pay back for the automated calls we get from the politicians. for $0.99 you can robocall

president obama and for $1.99 reach out to the rest that keep bugging you during the dinner hour. >> as a result of your telephone call, i will not be voting for you or considering you as candidate. >> and what is more, this website lets you record and share your robocalls online. in tonight's health alert, the fda may decide as soon as tomorrow to put the morning after pill over-the-counter for women of all ages. if you take this within 72 hours of intercourse, plan b is an estimated 85% effective in preventing pregnancy. right now, though, it's only available to women 17 and older without a prescription. however, they still have to ask the pharmacist to get it because teens 16 and younger need a doctor's order. the science behind plan b has been pushed aside by the politics of abortion rights. >> i'm really hoping that fda will do what it would normally

do, which is do its job and make a decision based on the evidence. and right now that means that this product, plan b, one step, will go over-the-counter for all women. >> officially the fda declines to say anything about the time line for the decision, but it only has until tomorrow to respond to the manufacturer's request to put plan b over-the-counter for all women. still ahead tonight, what if you couldn't forget? if you remembered every moment of every day of your entire life. >> there are people who can remember everything and never for get everything at all. >> read a memory expert and tells how you can physically make your brain and your memory bigger. that's coming up.

this is special agent brian santeago. i'm sending out holiday wishes. i love you wendy and hannibal. i hope you guys have a great christmas and happy new year. the notorious bank robber known as the geezer bandit has struck again, but this time he has left behind some clues. he has hit at least 16 california banks over the past couple of years. but during his latest get away, one of those packs exploded and the geezer dropped not only his cash but his day planner. now the cops are trying to lift some fingerprints, maybe a little dna. and, by the way, officers don't know if this guy is really as old as he looks or maybe just

really good with makeup. it is california, after all. but his get away car is certainly no geezer. it's a five series beamer. maybe 500 horses. alec baldwin got booted off an airplane in new york. to pass some time, he was playing a game on his cell phone called words with friends. well, that led to words with a light attendant who insisted that he had to turn the phone off. that is what escalated into him getting booted. it's just the latest incident for a celebrity having a temper. so do you know when you can't remember the guy's name you met. in the show just before the newscast tonight, unforgettable, the protagonist has just the opposite problem. she can't forget anything. gary nurenberg reports there really are people like that. >> reporter: you've seen the show. >> only a few people in the world have the ability to

remember everything. >> reporter: really. >> yes, there are people who can remember everything. >> i'm one of them. >> and they never forget anything at all. >> reporter: it's not up here, it's back here. your temporal lobe. >> the part of the brain that is important for short-term memory sits inside the temporal lobe and is approximately the size of your grow. it can grow. it can become bigger with things such as exercise. >> reporter: so stop riding around and, you know, get some exercise. the shooting part is optional. the exercise can be less dramatic. >> so if you walk one mile a day, you're more likely to remember better than if you just have a sedentary lifestyle. >> quick, what did i have for lunch yesterday. >> reporter: it matters. eat healthy food and relax. >> if you're stressed all of the time, poor sleep, you're more likely to have forgetfulness. >> reporter: challenge your brain. >> it applies to brain more than your muscles. >> reporter: you can train your

brain. concentrate to remember the person's name you just met. >> pay attention to their face, their eyes, their ears. immerse yourself in their features. once you hear someone's name, it will help if you repeat the name at a time that you're introduced. >> reporter: and here is the big deal new research this year finding about your brain getting physically bigger. >> our brain has an incredible capacity for growth and for learning and for change. there is no limit of how much new information you can pack in on our day-to-day life. >> maybe more than a little. >> reporter: maybe. what really has the doctor excited, though, is the prospect of delaying by 10 or 15 years the onset of alzheimer's disease for those who are prone to getting it. the prospect of even avoiding it completely by giving the brain a heavy workout. and the business about the portion of your brain that controls memory actually getting bigger so that you can remember more stuff, it's true. but you have to give your brain a constant workout so that you can remember the name of that

person you just met or, bobby, the co-workers you see every day. >> oh, that is a terrible thing. thank you, gary. >> [ laughing ] . we do remember the weather is going to get a little rough around our neighborhood, and did you mention a flood watch has been put into effect. because earlier you said it was going to happen. >> i said the flood watch for tomorrow. i'm on the fence. mr. bernstein i'm leave him a note. let's start with the flood watch. it is really essentially the metro area. montgomery county, the district, prince george's county, fairfax county and up into howard county and also anne arundel county. it doesn't mean it's not going to flood in any other county. everybody is going to get two inches of rain from the system. and i just tweeted this a minute ago, the possibility of flooding and rain is a bigger story than the possible changeover tomorrow night. look there is nothing going on except here in the east. we have, again, not one but two

storms. one storm is kind of drifted up into pennsylvania. but this is the second storm down over knockville. and this is going -- knoxville. and this is going to become the much more dynamic storm that is going to wraparound cold air and maybe a brief change to snow north and west of town. if you're in charles county and south and east of town and east of i95, you're not going to see a change, i don't think. here is the change, you need your umbrella and a coat tomorrow. it's going to be mild to start and cold to finish. rain heavy at times. we're talking about two inches of rain. i think it's going to be the benchmark for everybody. temps will fall. and i would allow extra time for morning and evening commute. heavy rain looks to be rolling in here just in time for the evening commute. overnight cloudy, breezy and mild. rain and showers will develop again. temps have gone up since 6:00. winds south, southwest at 10-15. by morning, cloudy and mild with rain. heavy at times. temps still in the 50s.

notice the winds are northwest. that means the cold front will be east of us. a colder air just starting to get going and pouring into the metro area. by afternoon, temps start to fall. cloudy, breezy turning colder with rain, again, heavy at times. highs in the 40s. winds increasing out of the north at about 10-15. so in terms of your day planner, 50s to start. then temps go down. upper 40s to low 50s at noon and in the 40s by evening. colder. so grab the umbrella and a coat. heavy rain is on the way. let's talk about some change over time. i think hagerstown as early as 10:00 tomorrow. frederick will go to snow by 11:00. rockville around midnight. and i just don't think we're going to see a change over south and east of town or east of i95. the storms specifically pulling out too fast. so the next three days, after we get through tomorrow night, just chilly on thursday. 45. back to near 50 on friday with clouds coming in. the clouds coming in on friday will signal another cold front. it's going to get cold over the

weekend, but it will be nice. sunshine on friday and cold on saturday. that's okay. sunshine on sunday. back in the mid 40s. and we have the army-navy came at fedex on saturday. and then we're back near 50 next week with sunshine. >> weather man, sir. >> all right. now, the thing is fred davis best player for the season. >> we knew it was coming. two redskins suspended but what does this mean moving forward for the redskins. plus more bad news for terps football. more players j

now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> the nfl today officially suspended redskins tight end fred davis and tackle trent williams after rumors they failed drug test. they are suspended without pay for four games is which all this

season and will officially be removed from the 53 man roster. they cannot visit the practice facility or participate in any team activities. this comes another big blow to an already injury riddled offense. >> they're big contributors. we need everybody. it's a sad thing. >> you have to make the most of every opportunity and it's unfortunate how this happened. but i have to capitalize on it. >> the 112 army-navy game is this sunday and here is a little taste of what to expect. >> one team, one fight. but today for this team it's war. >> go navy. beat army. >> tune in to wusa friday night for a special feature. call for those who serve. count down to the grid iron battle. that's 9:00 this friday on wusa.

more bad news for maryland football. three freshman will leave at the end of the season. that now means six players that have chosen to transfer this year. the terrapin basketball hoping their win sunday over notre dame can give them a little confidence boost. the last time they played at home they lost to illinois. now they're looking to regain that home court advantage when they start a six-game home stretch at the comcast center on wednesday. >> we got an opportunity here to really get better. we have some practice time coming up after this game tomorrow night where we can really improve and hopefully add a couple pieces and get ready for the acc. >> all right. george mason in action tonight visiting virginia. first half patriots mike morrison gets a big dunk. mason pulls in ten but they say uh-uh. i got three for your two. he had 18 points in the night.

cavs down patriots 68-48. the nba schedule was released tonight. here is a look for key match ups. they open the season december 26th against new jersey. president obama's favorite team comes to town on the 30th and lebron and heat on february 10th. and finally a game between rockford. that means the play is dead. this guy decided not to. he's just walking. walking. drops the ball and the other team lands on it. >> oh, man. >> easy six points. all because he didn't neil in the end zone. >> wow. that is like the guy when you play basketball who thinks you can do a check ball. >> and it isn't. >> you just lay it up. >> not a happy day for that