the driver of that mangled metro bus out of the bus after a lengthy extrication process. a few moments ago, we spoke with one of the passengers on board the bus who told us exactly what happened. >> when i got up, i went to the bus driver and she said the truck cut her off. so after that, all i know is we hit that tree and bang, bang, bang, that's where i am. >> what did it feel like? >> it felt scary. we weren't expecting it. >> i felt the bus sway and then it was like, bang, we just hit. >> once again, one person is confirmed dead. ten others have been taken to the hospital with various injuries after a metro bus collides with at least one other vehicle, perhaps several other vehicles were involved. the cause of the accident at this point is not known. as you can see behind me, emergency crews are very much on the scene and rockville pike just north of nih is closed in both directions and we are told will be closed for some time to

come. of course, as soon as we get anymore information, we'll pass it along. for now, let's go back to the studio. derek, anita. >> thank you, matt. republican presidential hopefuls are canvassing iowa trying to swing support ahead of the caucuses. voters will convene next tuesday. rick perry, newt gingrich, and michele bachmann hitting city after city on bus tours. many iowa voters are undecided whom they will pick and less than a week, the candidate haves gone on the attack to get those folks support. >> i think ron paul's views are totally outside the mainstream. virtually every decent american. >> one of the people running for president thinks it's okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon. i don't. >> there aren't very many politicians who spent more time page off donors. >> well, newt gingrich may no longer be the front runner for the republican nomination. a new gallop daily tracking

poll released this afternoon shows he and mitt romney tied with 25% of republican voters nationwide. just four weeks ago, gingrich led romney by 15 points. new at 6:00, spotsylvania county suspended a commonwealth attorney after she was charged with a dui. amy harper crashed her suv into the back of another car on salem church road friday night. that led to a three-car pileup. officers charged harper with driving under the influence of alcohol after investigating the accident. now she is off the job until her trial. >> a crime spree that has several residents on edge could soon be coming to an end. police have a hot lead that could potentially bring down a group of burglars targeting houses. ken is live with more. ken, good evening. >> good evening, anita. that lead came in earlier today. we're talking about this woman right here. police say this is 30-year-old patrice joseph. this bull ten went out yesterday. she was wanted for questioning

in burglaries. she wasn't charged, but she was questioned all day by police. >> the burglars have struck about half a dozen times. this home surveillance video shows the first of the string of robberies that began in november. just like in this video, police say the suspects break into houses when no one is home. and they mostly steal electronics, jewelry, and credit cards. sometimes they ransack the house for over an hour. two surveillance cameras caught suspects trying to cash in on their stolen goods. the suspect tries to sell a stolen laptop to employees at a radio shack. and another instance, a different suspect was seen trying to get cash from an atm. now neighbors out here in cheverly are hoping they don't get hit. >> it's unfortunate, but people look for the moments. >> it's unfair, especially when they take advantage of people that are not home. this is not a rich neighborhood. people are struggling just like everywhere else.

>> cheverly police are asking anyone that will help them to give them a call. we are live in cheverly, 9news now. >> hopefully that will get wrapped up. >> man suspect second-degree as the serial slasher in northern virginia fled down to peru. fairfax county police are trying to figure out if johnny can be extradited to stand trial. he arrived in peru a couple weeks ago and he is believed to be in the capital city of lema. police issued a warrant. they believe he is the guy who was using a raiser blade or box cutter to slash nine women in their buttocks while they were out shopping. an update on garage fires. frederick county police have arrested four 16-year-old boys and charged them with arson. investigators believe those are the boys who were using marine flairs to set fires in the two garages in the villages of urbana neighborhood. officers used surveillance video from a nearby wal-mart

showing those boys shoplifting the flairs and that's how they tracked them down. the fires caused an estimated $130,000 worth of damage. and the murder of a popular local rapper shaking fans from his home in while oak, maryland. all the way to nigeria. police are still saying little about the death of franklin amobe. >> in white oak, maryland, where news of the murder of a popular local rapper spread online as far as nigeria. >> yeah. yeah. >> this was the rapper known as frank, seen in locally produced videos on youtube. his life ended at age 24 yesterday. dropping near a bus stop in white oak after being shot while getting into his car at this apartment complex on stewart lane. news of frank's death spread in the rap music community most prominently. where there are thousands of mentions of him. music bloggers in nigeria picked up the news.

amobe's family is nigerian. electronic court records of his numerous brushes with the law. some fans reported digy was turning his life around and pursuing higher education. and most all said he will be dearly missed. in white oak, scott broom, 9news now. tomorrow north korea will hold a national memorial for kim jong-il. today tens of thousands of people braved the cold and snow to line his funeral procession. many of them weeping and falling to the ground. they paid respects to the man called their supreme leader. he ruled north korea for 17 years. the next ruler, his son, north koreaen tv showed him walking along his father's coffin, dabbing tears with his hankerchief. how many parking tickets did you get this year? new figures out today said d.c. issued nearly 2 million of them over the last 14 months. the only other cities with more on record, chicago and new york

both much bigger towns. delia is live in georgetown where a lot of those tickets are issued and annoy a lot of us. delia. >> i know. i've been subject to some of those tickets. not today, thankfully, but we did run into a lot of folks who were very disappointed coming out to their cars. especially here in georgetown, finding out they had a ticket slapped on their windshield and it didn't blow away. you said it, d.c. is much smaller in comparison to new york and chicago. this policy of writing tickets, $1.6 million. even on a windy day, that parking ticket will not blow away. >> we have a problem here. >> aaa mid atlantic says district officers wrote 1.6 million parking tickets in 2011 by may. the city collected $50 million and is on track to far surpass last year's revenue of $80.4

million and fiscal year 2009's 70.7. >> a lot is motivated by the profit margin. >> i understand that for safety purposes and fire trusts and everything. but they are making a killing. >> off of meters alone, the city grossed $9.5 million in just three months. money which goes to the district's general fund. >> using the revenue of the tickets for the proper funding of other programs, then it's okay. >> many people complain about them being trigger happy. that's what they do. they begin writing the ticket before the meteorologist expires. >> meter expires. >> while many are just doing their job, some get a bad rep. >> i call them the ladies of

hate. they aren't ambassadors for the city. they are going around just to raise revenue and charge you fines for parking. that's horrible. the more we can do to not give them the opportunity, i thirty better it is for me and my family. >> ouch. he said it. i didn't. there are lots of gentleman, fine gentleman who do the job and they are just doing their job. it's a very tough job to do with a will the of frustrated drivers for getting these big tickets on their cars. that gentleman, he took public transit all the way from baltimore with his family today. let's break down 1.6 million tickets. to give you perspective. that's $5,000 tickets a day. 350 an hour. five tickets every minute until 10:00 p.m. >> thank you so much, delia. ugly numbers indeed. we have more numbers for you. tonight, more than 40 million people take the blood thinner, plavix. there's a new study that says a

previous warning may not be warranted. anita, you'll have this important alert coming up at 7:00. still ahead, commuting costs are just a fact of life and coming up next, how they are going up. anny. >> we had some strong winds winds howl through the area. the temperatures are going to drop fast. the windchill feels like in the 30s in downtown and mid 20s in gaithersburg. i have your forecast coming up. but first, scientists release their report about chesapeake pay damage from tropical storm lee and it is good news for those of us that love the bay. details when we come back.

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wusa9 salute all who serve at home and abroad this holiday season. >> hi, we're stationed in germany and we are saying a big hello and merry christmas to uncle bob. the institute, the virginia institute, that is, of marine science says the sediment plume that formed in the chesapeake bay after tropical storm lee did not do the damage people were afraid of. scientists were worried it would destroy under ground grass beds used by blue crabs. they say many of those under water beds remain in the bay. how would you like to see the mall filled with 1 million tents? folks connected with occupy wall street say that is what they are aiming for. they filed paperwork with the park service to hold a huge demonstration called occupy congress. filling the mall on january 17, the day congress begins its next session. no word yet whether the park service plans to approve the

gathering. the occupy folks say approval or not, they are coming. up next, from tolls to tax credits to cost of commuting keeps going up. how much more you'll pay. but first, here's a quick preview on tonight's cbs evening news. >> you heard that no two snow flakes are alike. how the man captured their unique beauty was one of a kind. that's tonight on the cbs evening news.

melwood and wusa9 salute all who serve at home and abroad this holiday season. >> i'm from arlington, virginia. i want to give a shout out to my family in new jersey. my mom and dad and my sister up in maryland and all my friends in the d.c. area. happy thanksgiving and happy merry christmas. miss you guys. see you soon. >> come next tuesday, make sure you have plenty of money on your easy bass and smart trip, because once we get the first of 2012, the cost of commuting is going up for a lot of people. surae chin is live with full details on all the changes.

hi surae. >> reporter: hello anita. you know the main toll plaza is always busy and in a few days, they'll be busy taking more of your money. >> money coming out of my pocket that i haven't had to so far. >> at the main toll plaza in virginia, you'll pay a quarter more. that's $1.50 a trip to pay for metro silver line and the dulles way gets a 30-cent hike. dining or shopping, get ready to pay a dime more an hour. >> federal systems, you know, encouraging more cars in this way. it doesn't make any sense. >> rebecca is one of thousands of d.c. federal workers who participates in the commuter tax benefit. in the new year, she can no longer set aside a maximum 230 untaxed dollars a month in transit. because it's been reduced to $125. but the parking gets a bump up to $240 encouraging more people on the road.

>> to me, it's stupid. but then, i considered a source and congress and stupid are somewhat -- to me. >> cars do stay the same because it already went up to $4 in november. but the biggest changes come with trucks. three axles actually get a reduction by $1 from $9 to $8. larger trucks get this, five axles, you will be paying $24. that's up from $15. the six axle trucks up to $30 there $18. to get ready come january 1, you're going to have to pay up. back to you. >> surae chin, thanks for that. you can tell surae is bundled up and you need to be tonight. >> we have clear skies. a lot of temperatures to plummet overnight. you are going to feel a difference tomorrow morning where temperatures will be starting in the 20s in a will the of locations. it's going to be a cold one.

we also had winds getting stronger. national airport, peek wind gusts 38 miles per hour. baltimore at bwi are 41. martinsburg, west virginia, 40. and even in hagerstown, 38-mile per hour wind gusts. they aren't as bad, but breezy at this hour. 23 of the northwest in downtown. 21 in winchester. out toward the bay, the wind gusts are at 28 for pax river. and 29 in cambridge. all right, here's a look at your windchill. temperatures feeling like they are in the low 30s in downtown. 26 in gaithersburg. 27 in winchester and 30 in leesburg. so it is feeling cold out there. here's a look at your satellite and radar picture where thanks to high proximate we'll see high skies. friday, a little chance for a light passing shower. milder, than much coarld as we

look at the new year. breezy and colder tonight. pleasant and chilly. friday is mild with clouds and new year's weekend looking to be mild before the arctic air takes control. here's a look at your future cast. again, by thursday, we'll see a few clouds move in. we aren't going to see any showers. on friday, a chance for a shower because of this system here, generally north of town. the better chance you'll see a shower. again on friday, most of it staying to the north and west of us. so tonight, what can you expect? clear skies, breezy, very cold. that windchill is going to feel in the 20s and teens. lows getting down into the 20s. west winds at 10 to 15. lows tonight, mid 20s. annapolis in the lower 30s. here's your forecast for tomorrow morning. mostly sunny, very cold. bundle up. again, 20s and 30s. highs will be around mid 40s in

most locations. so we'll be around seasonal for this time of year. in downtown, right around 47 degrees. 48 for arlington and 46 degrees in rockville. here's a look at your seven-day forecast. we are going to be milder on friday. 54 degrees. again, i got the rain drop on there because of a slight chance for a shower. nothing heavy. the weekend for new years looking good. in the 50s and we should be dry. a little snow flake on monday. maybe a little bit of snow. otherwise, it's going to be much colder tuesday, wednesday, highs topping out only in the upper 30s. it's going to feel like january for sure. >> all right, kristen is here with the redskins who got snubbed with an honor he deserves. >> leading the league in tackles. he is 36 years old. still playing at a high level, but he gets snubbed. the redskins get no respect at all. london fletcher speaks out after getting snubbed. plus, georgetown continues.

that's next in sports.

now, 9sports with kristen burset. the best sports in town. >> there's been a lot of outcry from fans and players about the redskins getting snubbed in the probowl selection. the one is the absence of london fletcher.

despite leading, despite 1 1/2 sacks fletcher was bypassed once again by voters likely because of the team's losing record. fletcher tweeted last night, quote, don't know if i should be upset or laugh. obviously it doesn't matter what you do on the field. >> when the results came, you know, just be thankful that they are playing at a high level. >> continue to work on your craft and come down, it is not a question of whether or not. >> if you want to hear more, have been selected as alternates. it was time to talk season finale. the redskins have a chance to talk about a victory about a division rival. >> the division opponents going to a hostile environment and trying to get this win. >> i like the nuke nucleus of

our team. >> we'll have a pleasant surprise. the georgetown hoyas. they are 10. 1, ranked 12th in the country. they are in for a good test as they open up big east play. the kfc yum arena. undefeated at home after dropping a game to kansas. the hoyas have been red hot. they are careful not to get over confident. facing off for the million tear bowl in d.c. here after an air force touchdown. eric payne takes the kickoff back for an 87-yard touchdown. toledo up 21-7. air force coming back strong. pick it up late in the second quarter. tim jeffrey to johnson for a 37- yard touchdown. tied at 28 at the half. i do want to say, 56 points is the highest first half total in the college bowl ever, since 2004, sorry. >> that's all for 9news now at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next.

derek will be here at 7:00.