hello. i'm jc way hood. thanks for joining us. south carolina holds their

primary soon and mitt romney is the favorite. but his opponents are trying to change that. >> reporter: meeting with south carolina supporters, mitt romney sounds like he's already the gop nominee. he continues to ignore his republican challengers and attack president obama. >> he's run out of ideas, he's run out of excuses and in 2012 he's going to run out of time. >> reporter: romney is leading the south carolina polls and in a new national poll, he has a 20 point lead over his closest rival. during last night's debate on fox news channel, romney opponents tried to knock down the front runner. >> he has no influence which makes you wonder how much influence he would have if he were president. >> reporter: they pushed him to immediately release his tax returns. >> so the people of south carolina can take a look and decide if you know if we have a flawed candidate or not. >> reporter: polls show romney does well with republicans looking for a candidate who can beat president obama but his

opponents are trying to convince voters romney can't win back the white house. rick santorum, rick perry and newt gingrich are all working to get that message to south carolina conservative evangelical voters. >> i have to convince the people that might like to vote for santorum or for perry, that those would be wasted votes and the only think we can get a conservative nominee is to vote for me on saturday. >> reporter: he only has four days in south carolina. danielle nottingham, 9 news. >> and they can directly challenge the front runner before saturday's primary. a debate is being set for thursday night in charleston. the search continues this afternoon for the person who left a baby girl in the bitter cold to die. the child was discovered yesterday abandoned on a sidewalk on channing street northeast. the neighbors who found the

baby tried to warm her and perform cpr but it was too late. emanual dugger was walking back home from buying cigarettes when he saw the baby in a towel. >> the baby was like so cold, like icy cold. the eyes were not opening. >> police have not said whether the child died from hypothermia or another cause. d.c. has a safe haven law, which allows an infant to be dropped off at a safe place like a firehouse or a hospital. sky 9 was over the scene of a deadly crash in frederick county, maryland. this was the scene on route 75, south of jones road in libertytown. a tractor-trailer, pickup truck and third vehicle were involved. one person was killed. right now police are not releasing the name of the

victim. this morning a judge denied a man accused in the deadly crash bail that left an 8-year- old dead. the suspect has been identified as 22-year-old victor aldana of fairfax county. he is facing manslaughter and drunk driving charges. police say he was driving sunday near the landmark mall in alexandria. he swerved off the road, hit an 8-year-old boy and his mother. the child died. the mother is recovering. the man is being held in an alexandria jail. 33-year-old kevin darnell ray has a bail review hearing in rockville this afternoon. in temple hills on friday police say that ray tied up six victims, including a child, and sexually assaulted one person. police say he also tied up a family in bethesda and sexually assaulted the cleaning lady just days earlier.

officers found and arrested ray in north carolina over the weekend. >> both police departments understood the threat and also the terror that was causing the community and we worked around the clock to make sure that we could put an end to this, and we have. >> ray is no stranger to police. he served 18 years in prison for manslaughter and he is on the maryland sex offender registry. more trouble for metro. a man is suing the transit agency after he was arrested for standing up for friend's violent arrest. delia gonsalves has the details. >> reporter: lawrence miller is suing metro saying his first amendment rights were violated back in may in an incident here right outside of the metro station. standing with his attorney, lawrence miller said he is fighting metroment back in may he witnessed his friend being thrown from his wheelchair and

being slammed to the ground by two metro police officers. at the time metro said his friend was drunk, resisted arrest and fell out of his chair. miller said when he spoke up against the treatment, he was arrested for it. >> any time you stand up for something, there are consequences for anything. for every action there is a reaction. at that time i wasn't thinking about the reaction. i was just acting. >> we stand for the first amendment and the right of free speech and the officers need to know that it applies to their work as much as it does to anyone. >> the two officers were returned to full duty after an investigation by metro. it is metro's policy not to comment on pending litigation. >> reporter: on u. street, delia gonsalves, 9 news. >> the man in the wheelchair was treated for minor injuries. charges against both men were later dropped. still to come, divers pull more bodies from the luxury

ship that ran aground off the coast of tuscany. and i'm going to go one-on- one with the montgomery county police chief in just a moment. stay with us. we'll be right back.

all right, i'm one-on-one today with montgomery county chief manger. and we want to talk about the series of home invasions that

occurred at residences and the neighborhood is terrified. of course there was a big arrest. but before we get to ray, let's talk about these home invasions that occurred. i've lived in the county for 40 years, i don't remember home invasions of this sort, of this level or significance. what made this so outstanding? >> we have home invasion robberies in the county, but not many. but the ones we do have, usually the victim is targeted for some reason. very often we have drug dealers targeted by other drug dealers and we also have many business owners who are known to bring large sums of cash home after they close up the business. those folks are sometimes targeted. but what made these different and what concerned the community was the random nature of these victims. this guy came over on the metro, we know that. and he was looking for -- in both cases -- finding a woman

arriving home and then just took them from there, as they were going into the home. >> and sexually assaulted -- >> the case in bethesda, yes. and this guy actually has a history of this. he had been convicted of sexual assault before and was on the registry as a sexual offender. >> very dangerous? >> he was a dangerous guy. and because he did three home invasions, two in montgomery, one in prince george in the span of of four days. >> now you found him in north carolina? how did that come about? >> well we received information that he was down there with a female acquaintance. it turned out i think to be his girlfriend. and they were in a home down there that i think may have belonged to a family member of the girlfriend. and as luck would have it, but not luck -- we had planned for this sort of thing. our repeat offender unit which

are experts in tracking people down are members of the united states capital area marshalls task force. so the fact that they had the authority on this marshall task force, it was montgomery county detectives that traveled to north carolina, we got in touch with the local authorities down there in the kitty hawk area and were able to get their assistance. we knew the house he was in. we watched him. he left the house and went to a wal-mart and we caught him coming out of the wal-mart and as he was coming out, he resit ed. he tried to get away from us down there and we were able to apprehend him. >> congratulations to drur staff-- to your staff. i know leggett is releasing an important budget today. you can speak about that? >> it is the capital improvement budget and this is what the county is going to spend money on in terms of the facilities. i can tell you from the police department perspective, our buildings, the police stations,

are typically very old and in need of replacement. our station on wisconsin avenue in bethesda has been around since the 60s. we have mold growing in the basement that we can't get rid of. it is deteriorating, the physical plant, and we have other stations that are too small to house the number of personnel that we have, so we are going to see a new animal shelter, a new bethesda and silver spring station so that is all good for the police department. >> very good. and congratulations on the arrest and thank you for being here with me, montgomery county police chief tom manger. when we come back, anny will have the forecast. jc, showers coming to an end. but breezy and mild today. but get ready for the temperatures to drop once again. i have your full forecast, including the seven-day, coming up after the break.

rescue crews have found five more bodies as they search the wrecked cruise ship on italy's coast. that brings the total to 11 people dead. but dozens more are still missing. anna matt ranga has search for the victims and a audio of the ship's captain moments after the disaster. >> reporter: divers from the italian navy used control explosions to open parts of the costa concordia's hull. >> we hope if someone is still alive we can find them.

>> reporter: crews have found more bodies as they search the ship. divers are combing through the vessel and firefighters are navigating through upside down rooms and debris up top as they look for those missing. including a couple from minnesota. more than 4,000 people escaped the costa concordia on friday night after it hit a rock and started to tip. infrared images show passengers using rope ladders to climb down the side of the ship to the safe ty in the dark. in a phone call a italian coast guard official orders the captain back to the ship to help stranded passengers. coast guard officials tell the captain, get on board the ship and coordinate the rescue on board. are you refusing? he responds, no, no, i am not refusing. but it is not clear if he ever returned. he has come under heavy fire. the company that owns the cruise liner said he did not

follow the approved route and human error likely caused the deadly accident. a judge questioned the captain behind closed doors on tuesday. he faces several charges, including causing a ship wreck, abandoning ship and manslaughter. cbs news, gill leo, italy. >> the captain has been rested and could face up to 15 years in prison if he is convicted. by the way, a virginia couple was on that ship the day it sank. they are back home, luckily, in alexandria. and they share their story with us. >> when you are on a cruise, the titanic always comes up. but in a jokingly manner. you never imagine it could happen. >> it is surreal. you don't really expect to see the boat you just stepped off of happen way halfway under water. >> they got off the cruise ship hours before the boat went

under. they say the crew did not go through the standard emergency procedures until they had been on the boat for 3 days. speaking of survival, egypt's revolution is inspiring women across the country to stand up. rita nissan explains why so many are learning martial arts in order to protect themselves. >> reporter: egyptian women are fighting back. they are learning skills necessary to fend off assaults. it is rare for women in the arab world to take classes like. this but these women say they have no choice. >> it is just nice to know i can defend myself, since the situation is getting worse. it is not as safe any more. >> reporter: women were hoping the streets of cairo would be safer after the over throw of mubarak last year, but they say men still verbally assault them, grope and sometimes rape. thousands of women protested

against brutality just last month saying they are harassed every day in this male- dominated society. self-defense classes are springing up all over egypt. there is always a danger for women, this instructor says. they need to know how to react and they can't be weak. women say they are getting stronger and they don't live in constant fear. they just wish these classes weren't needed in the first place. rita nissan for cbs news. >> egyptians overthrew mubarak in ann 18 day uprising last february. he is now on trial in cairo for war crimes. new security cameras are going up in georgetown. they can see activity 200 feet away and record license plates and they will be able to zoom in on facial features. they say crime went up 12% last

year. >> hopefully it will deter crime but they are also important for prosecutoral use after the event. >> the citizens association of georgetown is working with police in the second district to figure out where the cameras will go. and now we get the weather from anny. beautiful day. it was raining this morning but now it is getting better. >> and we have the mild air coming in from the southwest, jc, so it will be mild for january. and the showers are coming to an end. i think we'll see the sun make an appearance a little bit this afternoon. here is a look at your michael and son weather camera where we saw cloudy skies out there. well i guess we don't have the weather camera. we'll work on that. let's take a look at our current conditions where temperatures are warming up. 50 degrees, the winds out of the south, southwest at 14 miles per hour under cloudy conditions. live doppler 9000 hd, not as much green on the screen which means the showers are coming to

an end. still have a couple scattered throughout the area, northwest of town, toward warrenton and fredericksberg and east of harrisonberg and also toward the eastern shore. but again, these showers are coming to an end. and we're probably going to see some partial clearing this afternoon. the temperatures today into the lower 50s by 1:00. upper 50s by 3:00 under partly sunny conditions thanks to the southwesterly breeze, and milder air being pumped in. this evening partly cloudy and still in the 50s. here is a look at the satellite and radar picture combined. we have this area of low pressure over the area, making the morning commute wet. but for this evening's commute. most of us should be dry. only a slight chance for a passing shower. so for today, breezy and milder. then for wednesday, breezy and colder. even colder on thursday. also a slight chance for flurries on thursday afternoon and thursday evening. the wind gusts around town are around 21 miles per hour here

in d.c. out of the southwest. fredericksberg is 28, tapa han acaround 31 mile-per-hour wind gusts and right now temperatures are here in the 50s here in downtown. fredericksberg 59, tappahannock 63, gaithersburg in the upper 40s. now i want to broaden out the picture because you can see where the cold front is and the dividing line right there. behind it the cold air, des moines 15 degrees. this front makings it way to our area tonight and overnight and we'll get left with the cold air, especially by tomorrow. you are going to feel it. our future-cast showing us the cloud will break up a little bit. not all sunshine today but i think we'll see a little bit of it under partly sunny conditions and then the rest of tomorrow looking like a dry day. partly cloudy but colder. highs for today well above the average high of lower 40s. 57 in downtown and 59 for manassas. 60 in fredericksberg, 57 for annapolis. and for parts of bay, we do

have a small craft advisory in effect for this afternoon. lows tonight chilly, 37 in downtown. 33 in leesberg. 29 in martinsberg and culpeper in the mid 30s. here is a look at your next three days. so breezy today and mild. showers coming to an end, wednesday breezy and thursday mid 30s and a chance for a flurry. here is your seven-day outlook. cold and mid 30s and on saturday snow possible, wilder for sunday and monday. we'll be right back.

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are you seeing purple yet? a lot of ravens fans around us. they are supporting their team. the ravens are going to play the patriots on sunday for a trip to the superbowl. and there is a fellow in ellicott city who spent 7 hours getting his hair cut and died with the team logo. that was interesting. most people are taking it a little bit easier and getting t- shirts and hats and jackets. and that is very good news for retailers. >> it is huge for the town. it keeps store owners moving when things would be slow right after the holidays. >> if you are a fan of your team and if you have the means to follow them and show your enthusiasm, these are the kind of things you do. >> the afc title game right here on channel 9 at 3:00 on sunday afternoon. i hope tonight that you will have dinner with me at one of my favorite restaurants and that is wildfire restaurant in tysons galleria.

cocktails at 6:30, dinner at 7:00. it is a bubbly dinner so we'll have champagne. and fabulous food. wildfire at tysons galleria tonight at 6:30. join me there. make reservations. we don't need the umbrellas the rest of the day. >> no. you should be fine. maybe a passing shower. but milder and breezy today. >> come back and visit us at 5:00. bye-bye.