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way to steal from your gas tank. right now the temperatures out this are hovering around the freezing mark. >> and the question is will today's snow leave us with any icy patches to deal with in the morning. topper joins us live with all of the answers. >> i think here is the deal. it's not going to be a sheet of ice everywhere but i think there are going to be slick spots and i want people to be aware of that. most of the snow has melted. maybe a half an inch on the terrace felt. let's start with temperatures. how cold is it going to get? 35 right now downtown. and, in fact, that's gone up since 7:00 this evening. temperatures generally above freezing, which is good. but don't let that lull you into a sense of security. it could be 34 on your car and it can still register ice. especially on overpasses, take it easy tomorrow. 34 in gaithersburg, 34 in leesburg. it is 30 in martinsburg and hagerstown. already 28 in winchester. not quite as chilly downtown

because the clouds have not broken. black ice early morning. the road may look wet but it's actually frozen. that's black ice. slow down. especially overpasses. that's what we're most concerned about. snowfall, well, two inches in clinton. an inch in springfield. two inches in catlett. and about a half an inch in culpeper, virginia. so here is the deal. you your wakeup weather, temperatures in the 30s to start with. lingering clouz. 28 -- clouds. 28-34 by 8:00. by 9:00, just chilly. temps above freezing. 34-42. we'll come back and talk about not one but two storms heading our way. okay, top, with the price of gas going up, you might not be surprised but a number of residents have had gas stolen out of their cars. the surprise is how the thieves are doing it. >> it's not the old siphon in the tank trick. short of keeping your car off the street, there's not a lot

you can do about it. matt jablow explains how it's going down. >> reporter: just when you thought you heard everything, there is a new meaning for drilling for gas. betty thompson gets 25 files to the gallon, assuming, of course, somebody hasn't drilled a hole in the gas tank and stolen all of the gas. >> it was just before christmas. >> reporter: that's exactly what happened a few weeks ago after betty's grandson borrowed her car and parked it near a friend's house. >> i can't believe it. it sounds like a lot of trouble to get gas. >> reporter: it turns out she's not alone. it happened to her grandson's car in the same location and police say in the past month somebody with a drill has stolen the gas out of several cars in the 7400-block of new hampshire avenue. police say they don't know who is doing it. >> it wasn't nice at all. >> reporter: and betty thompson says the whole thing has her completely baffled. >> just made me feel really bad

about people. i don't know why people would do something like that. >> that's matt jablow reporting. now, new at 11:00, that's not blood. it's cranberry juice. that's what people tried to tell the inspectors right after a double stabbing at the club. now, according to the washington examiner, the alcohol beverage control board says the club's security board tried to hinder the investigation and they lied to the inspection officers. >> the city shut down the lounge after the new year's eve fight. a spokesman for the lounge tells the examiner the establishment is being unfairly targeted by neighbors who just don't want a nightclub near them. a university poll out today has former massachusetts governor mitt romney leading. second place ron paul by 23%. but if voters anywhere defy the poll sters, it's been in new

hampshire. gary nurenberg has the last. >> reporter: romney hopes the polls are right, but gingrich says they're still wide open. >> it's a classic new hampshire last minute you pollsters thought you had us. >> there are still some undecided and hopefully we can reach them. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: rick santorum is competitive here but hasn't turned last week's surprising tie in iowa. >> we are sam's club and costco folks. >> reporter: so if the polls are right, it's romney to lose and opponents monday tried chipping away. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> reporter: huntsman was referring to a romney sound bite that came at the end of a description of health care and the right to change insurance companies. >> if you don't like what they do, you can fire them.

i like being able to fire people. >> reporter: a super packed supporting newt gingrich had clips from a movie that restructured troubled companies closing some. >> for tens of thousands of americanses, the suffering began when mitt romney came to town. >> reporter: and texas governor rick perry scoffed at this weekend's assertion. >> there were a couple of times i wondered whether i was going to get a pink slip. >> i'm sure i was worried. >> reporter: romney says that corporate restructuring created jobs. well, how important is it really to win the primary? our last three presidents all lost new hampshire before getting the nomination and winning the presidency. voters in the tiny town always vote at midnight and they're assembling there right now counting down the minutes before they become the first voters to

actually vote in a real election. and 24 hours from now, right here on 9 news now, the results. derek. >> thank you. well, a pair of nikes will cost you more than 200 bucks, but they might have also cost one young man his life. 19-year-old david lee robertson and a colleague went to northeast dc and somebody attacked them there. a gun battle broke out and robinson's colleague got away. the attacker shot and killed robinson and stole the nikes right off his feet. he leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend and a mayor asking what in the world is going on here. >> come on, ladies and gentlemen. it is time for us to be able to end this kind of tragic violence in our society. >> well, tonight police are offering a reward of $25,000 for any information that leads to an arrest. okay. here is the bad news. there have been more than 50

home burglaries in bethesda and chevy chase just in the last two months. the good news, montgomery county police had made at least nine arrests and they're hoping to catch even more suspects. in the meantime, they're asking everybody to folsom simple safety rules, like -- to follow some simple safety rules, like locking your doors and hiding behind the windows so nobody can hide behind them. >> you want to keep bushes and shrubs away from windows and doors. >> police also say if you're going to go out of town, you might want to have somebody pick up your newspapers and any other items that are delivered to your door. they say the best way to keep the crooks out is to make sure it doesn't look like you're out. in tonight's health alert, a possible mixup at a factory leads to a huge drug recall. powerful prescription drugs may have been packaged with over-the-counter medicine by mistake. so far, no word of anybody getting the wrong drug or getting sick. they do want you to look at the

pills. the drugs being recalled all have expiration dates of 2014 or earlier. many adults take a baby aspirin as a kind of insurance policy against heart attack or stroke, but a new study shows only people with existing heart problems or who are at high risk of them should be following the regimen. researchers looked at several studies involving more than 100,000 people total who did not have prior heart disease. taking aspirin didn't lower their death rates. >> we know that aspirin works in people who are high risk or even moderate risk. it's the people who are low risk that really we're not sure whether using an aspirin a day or every other day is beneficial. >> the reason is the risk of side effects. aspirin can increase the risk of bleeding in the stomach and intestine. and, derek, since aspirin thins the blood, in care cases it can cause a struck by causing a brain -- stroke by causing a brain hemorrhage. >> i want to get this straight. if you have had a clogged artery

or if you've had a heart attack. >>ment advice stays the same. -- the advice stays the same. they're telling the people they should continue the regimen. in fact, i know a lot of people that carry aspirin around with them so they can take it at the first sign of chest pain. the bottom line is the drugs work. it's kind of a pros and cons things. >> thanks. we appreciate that. ready for life to get a little more expensive around here? according to the washington post, metro is about to have for a 5% fare hike and they're going to raise the parking rate. a series of one-way flat fares. so a rush hour trip no matter how far you go would be $6. $4 would be the off peak fare. that is for one stop or as many stops as you like. it's facing a $116 million shortfall next year. still ahead tonight, snoop dog says he would like to smoke some pot with the president. >> so what is it about light snowfall that throws somebody's

routines into disarray. are washingtonians just weather whimps? we'll find out coming up.

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this for a neighborhood poster. you can sleep knowing the clan is awake. yes, the clan as in klu klux klan. this turned up on lawns. at the bottom, it gives a number to call if there are troubles in your neighborhood. >> we put flyers up that are educational, informational flyers. they're not meant to intimidate. we don't hate other races but we're here to look out for our own race. >> it's wrong to have this thrown out. we don't need prejudice. >> police did get a lot of complaints but the flyers do not constitute any sort of hate crime. a man is in federal custody charged with attempting to provide assistance to a terror group. craig baxam was arrested two weeks ago in kenya. he was on his way to somalia to join al-shabab which is a

violent militia. baxam was never a real threat. >> in terms of threatening our freedom, no. this is a lost individual who is actually probably very uninformed about what it was even getting into. >> baxam was in the u.s. army for four years before getting out last summer. he is now being held without bail. it seems like celebrities are always taking up a good cause. even rapper snoop dog has become an advocate for getting medicinal marijuana. he said if he had a chance to talk to the president about making pot legal for medicinal purposes, he would make sure the room was filled with an ah-roma before they started -- aroma before they started chatting. they found small amounts of weed on his tour bus and he was arrested. he has since been cited with

drug paraphernalia. and speaking of legalization of pot, republican voters have fallen in and out of love several times but the one guy who has been supported and remained steady is the one that thinks the federal government should have nothing to say about whether or not you light up a joint. tonight derek asks what is it about ron paul? >> you know, anita, he is not particularly smooth or charismatic. in fact, he's actually kind of old and cranky. the texas congressman ron paul is a guy that says not only does he want to phase out your social security, he wants to eliminate the department of education, commerce, health and human services, homeland security, even fema and most especially the irs. not to mention dumping the federal reserve. this is a platform from the 90s. the 1890s. but all that said, ron paul finished a strong third in iowa, and he might just grab second place in new hampshire,

outpolling several more mainstream politicians. what is going on here? well, i think, first of all, ron paul is real. you may not believe in his ideas, but he sure does. and these days we are hungry for authenticity. secondly, he really is for a shrinking government. and, finally, paul is talking about somebody else has mentioned. that is protecting your civil liberties. now, let's be real, ron paul is a flawed candidate who will not be our next president. but what does it say about our country, our politics and, frankly, the current crop of candidates that so many people seem to think he should be? anita. >> all right, derek. well, as we have been saying, it's been snowing. and some people are saying snow, snow, go away despite how mild it's been. what is it about washingtonians that even in light snowfall it seems to affect everything from their behavior on their roads to the patience levels. what is all the trouble with snow, ken? >> reporter: well, anita, here is the short answer. people simply aren't used to it. and there's another thing going

on here in the washington area. it's split. there are folks that believe it's still a southern town and there are those that say not a town. this is northeast. new england. we should expect this. but even this amount was enough to throw people's evening routines into disarray. the majority of monday's snowfall came right during one of the most dreaded time windows in washington. you guessed it, rush hour. and for those that don't know how to deal with this snow, that translates into headaches. >> common sense goes out like, oh, what am i going to do. >> reporter: according to washingtonians we spoke with, it happened all the time. even if the snowfall isn't signature. >> they're afraid to walk. they're afraid to drive. and really is it that big of a deal. >> if you look at the drivers and how people are driving, it's better walking. >> reporter: so why is it that people in our region are often unprepared to handle the snowfall. >> people don't know what to make of it. >> we panic. we're not used to the first snow. it gets a little slick and you have to calm down and get in the

groove. >> reporter: getting in the groove may be easy this winter, seems as how it's been so mild. but remember last winter and the one before that? >> we all thought we could handle it and then it turned out we couldn't. >> reporter: snowmageddon caused many people in our area to fear snow, even if it's nothing more than just some flakes that don't stick. >> when you have the first snowfall, we all kind of freak out. >> reporter: but like one man says, what doesn't break you should simply make you stronger. >> if you lived through snowmageddon, i think you're tough enough to live through anything. >> reporter: hopefully there aren't any snow me gedonmageddons any time in the near tu tur. everything is on schedule for tomorrow. this time you can't blame it on the snow. >> but that is the first question the kids ask. wait, there is snow. do you think -- >> i know. >> no, it will not be closed

tomorrow. get your homework done. >> i grew up in dc. we never closed the public -- almost never gave us the day off. >> that was the old days. you walked to school too? >> several miles. >> it's like wind if you're a golfer, wind can get in your head and affect how you behave and snow kind of freaks some people out. but it was pretty conversational. >> yes. >> and in terms of a city, some say south, some say north. we average 18 inches a year. let's start with our live camera. this is our weather cam brought to you by michael and son and you can see the capitol. no longer obscured by the snow. which generally ended between 6:00 and 8:00, depending on where you were. if you were west of town, it ended up about 6:00, 6:30. right now temperatures are above freezing. the dew .32. so if we clear, we still have the potential to make it to the freezing mark even downtown. satellite picture radar combined, we'll zoom into the south. this is actually good news because it's raining in texas. any time we see rain in texas,

that's a good thing. this is also our next storm. it's going to be a big rain maker. probably hold off until wednesday afternoon, but up to an inch of rain is possible as we get into wednesday after nan and wednesday night. in the -- afternoon and wednesday night. in the meantime, clouds are lingering and we have fog. it's reducing visibility with the fog but it's also keeping the temperatures from falling. if we get clear skies before dawn, that's what i'm worried about. or some breaks in the clouds. we're going to develop some slick spots early. mr. bernstein will be in here at 4:25 in the morning. a pretty nice day. grab your sunglasses. the sun will eventually return. grab your umbrella for the relatively big storm. that is going to be a rain event. overnight partial clearing. chilly. we have some fog. some slick spots. lows 28-34. winds west, southwest at about 10. so the lows tonight inside the beltway in downtown either side

of the freezing mark. but you go up 270, 29 in gaithersburg, maybe 30 in reston, maybe 31 out towards college park but 29 in sterling and 28 in leesburg and 28 in manassas. overpasses the big concern. if it looks wet, it could be ice. returning sunny tuesday morning. temperatures in the 30s and 40s and winds light out of the west about 10. by afternoon really a nice day. mostly sunny, milder. high temperatures around 50 and winds out of the northwest at about 10. let's break it down for you. in the morning to start temps chilly in the 30s. but by noon, it's going to be nice. sunshine, 46-51 and then by evening milder. 49 to about 54 with sunshine. now, the next three days, we're going to have rain on wednesday. we lowered temps back to the mid 40s. it will still be mild on thursday. maybe a morning shower. 50. here is the next seven days. here comes the return of winter now late in the week.

friday notice the temperature. thursday night 36. high temperature on friday 36. arctic air is coming in. holes in the clouds on saturday. cold and chilly on sunday. and then rain or snow possible on monday with temperatures back in the upper 30s. with the next storm we have a little more cold air and a stronger system so we'll watch it carefully. >> okay. >> okay. okay. so was it a hockey score of the national championship game tonight? good grief. >> two good defenses though. you didn't expect it to be as high scoring as we've seen. but it still was. >> it's dull. >> yes. >> you're not helping my highlights here, derek. [ laughing ] >> the sec will have won six championships in a row. but who will host the game?

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scoring this season, but the title game was supposed to be anything but. alabama has top ranking. lsu not far behind. which one would muscle each other. the big easy. there is nick sabin. no touchdown game until the fourth quarter. lsu down 15-0 when jefferson fumbles the ball. lsu chances of a come back. not anymore. then the only td of the game finally. four and a half minutes left. alabama on top right now 21-0. it looks like redskins linebacker fletcher will actually be making the trip to hawaii after all. he was selected as an alternate. now he will replace the injured brian urlacher. georgetown hoyas were on a surprising 11 game winning streak before dropping to west virginia on saturday. fortunately for them they play in the big east and the schedule doesn't get much easier from

here. hoyas hosting cincinnati looking to get back in the win column. down low behind the back pass to porter for the layup. hoyas up five. a chance for a shot and he steps out of bounds. georgetown with a season high 17 turn overs this game. drop their second big east game 68-64. west virginia and hartford taking on the huskies. here in the final three minutes west virginia down two. kevin jones with the dunk to tie up the game at 55. and then down to the final seconds. jones chance to win the game. misses. they go on to fall to the 16th rank connecticut 64-57. wizards lewis today talking about why he didn't play in yesterday's game against minnesota. they reported he had a knee injury but sources close to the team said he chose not to play after he got into a fight with

assistant coach. they said that simply wasn't the case. >> if he's talking to you in a friendly matter, it's just a long time. he's a loud talker. and i don't know. somebody must have took him and maybe he was just talking. i have no idea what is going on. >> and the caps wrapping up their west coast trip in los angeles. they strike first and early. johanson gets the goal in the first two minutes of the game. unfortunately they are now down 2-1. so unfortunately i don't have very good news for you tonight. >> you don't. >> we'll be right back.

. we're going home. we hope we don't slip in all of the snow. >> no. >> good night, everybody.