heart attack can differ between women and men. cardiologists say emotional stress like the loss of a loved one is actually more likely to lead to heart attacks in women while physical stress leads to more heart problems in men. how would you like to feel healthier and younger? who wouldn't, right? tune in tonight for 9 news now at 11:00. a local woman shows you the ingredients to her anti-aging smoothie. it looks like it's doing wonders for her. you'd swear she's 10 years younger than her real age. join me tonight at 11:00. this is 9 news now. tonight an about face from one of the country's most prominent breast cancer charities after it had announced that it would no longer make donations to planned parenthood. peggy fox is here with more on the susan g. komen for the cure's apparent reversal. >> komen's ceo apologized and said the change in their funding criteria wasn't made to penalize planned parenthood, but, of course, people took it that way.

some doubt whether they apology will have any future dollars behind it or not. >> i think they realize that they were losing money and support. reporter: congressman jim moran says the apology doesn't go far enough after komen severed ties with planned parenthood earlier this week. the largest breast cancer organization said it would not fund organizations that are under investigation, but the congressional probe into planned parenthood is political. now komen founder and ceo nancy brinker seen here in an earlier interview says we will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. >> no federal money ever goes to fund abortions. we know that the move in congress is a politically motivated one and actually this funding from komen had nothing to do with abortion. it has to do with early screening for breast cancer. reporter: while planned parenthood leaders are hopeful future komen grants will be approved, jeannie monaghan with

family research council wants the opposite. >> this was a pretty significant victory this week in the sense of an organization that doesn't want to be foreignally partnered with the nation's largest -- formally partnered with the nation's largest abortion provider. reporter: pressure also came from capitol hill. several representatives spoke out, made statements and a number of senators signed a letter asking komen to reverse its course. >> it was found they brought upon themselves and i think they've tried to correct it. unfortunately, it's going to be some time before this wound heals. they politicized something that never should have been. >> komen's apology statement says they will continue to fund existing grants to planned parenthood and will consider future applications, but only time will tell if komen does or does not approve any more grants to planned parenthood. >> have to keep our eye on it. >> sounds like they managed to make everybody upset before it was over. the virginia house of delegates passed a bill that would let private adoption

agencies block certain a dongses over religious or moral beliefs -- adoptions over religious or moral beliefs. republican todd woodstock says his bill protects public freedom but opponents say the state works directly with many private adoption agencies and this bill amounts to government sanctioned discrimination. also a committee in the house of delegates passed a rule that would tighten the rules on voter registration and in-person voting. new voters would have to show a photo id to register and produce a government issued photo id at the polls. >> campaign 2012 makes its next stop in nevada and right now the polls are showing mitt romney doing big in that state's caucuses, but newt gingrich is not ready to back down. reporter: mitt romney can ignore new evidence the economy might be rebounding. >> we've got good news this morning on job creation in january. i hope that continues. reporter: but he won't be giving any credit to president

obama. at a roundtable of struggling business leaders romney says the president's policies have only prolonged the suffering. >> this president has not helped the process. he's hurt it. reporter: but it's newt gingrich who is convinced he'll be the one to go head to head with obama. he attacked romney for his recent comments that he wasn't concerned about the poor because they have a safety net. >> if you're a genuine conservative, first of all, you don't say that you don't care about the poor. [ cheering and applause ] reporter: polls show romney has a 20 point lead heading into saturday's caucuses, but gingrich is trying to convince undecided voters he's the real conservative choice. dick whitmer came out to hear how the former house speaker plans to improve the economy. the 69-year-old is facing the prong of coming out of retirement because -- prospect of coming out of retirement because i just can't afford it. >> i want to know what they're going to do to solve the problem, not political

rhetoric. >> whitman has just one day left to settle on a candidate. >> that poll giving romney a 20 point lead shows one in 10 likely nevada voters are still undecided. a fresh start for hundreds of thousands of americans this new year. according to the labor department, 243,000 people who had been unemployed found themselves jobs in january. president obama was in arlington today to push his plan to help veterans find jobs. the backdrop? fire station no. 5, one of the first stations to respond to the pentagon on september 11th, 2001. >> you guys answer this nation's call during its hour of need and in the years that followed as americans went to war, some of you answered that call as well. these are americans we want to

keep serving here at home as we rebuild this country. so we're going to do everything we can to make sure that when our troops come home, they come home to new jobs, new opportunities and new ways to serve their country. >> this is the second time this week the president has been in northern virginia to back up his state of the union. wednesday he was in falls church talking mortgages. a sergeant with the d.c. police department has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. she is 36-year-old aisha hackley. last august she pleaded guilty to see founding off $40,000 from the bank account of an elderly woman. hackley had been assigned to help that woman in a crime investigation, but during the course of it hackly got the woman's bank account information and wrote checks to herself. a drunken driver who hit and killed a nun has been tensed to 20 years in prison. carlos -- sentenced to 20 years in prison.

carlos martinelly montano had been convicted in october. the accident happened in august of 22 in bris toy, virginia. sister denise -- bristow, virginia. sister denise mosier was killed. two other nuns were injured. george huguely is accused of killing the virginia lacrosse player in may of 2010. our bruce leshan will be in the courtroom when that trial begins and his live reports from charlottesville start monday at 5:00. tonight at 7:00 on 9 news now the army's top investigator grilled by house members about mismarked graves at arlington national cemetery. hear what he had to say about the army's own investigation and if anyone would ever face criminal charges on 9 news now, 7:00. >> our mild weather may be good for us, but part of the country is getting slammed with snow tonight. top? >> yeah. we'll come back, talk about the possibility of some snow here over the weekend. we'll show you the numbers,

another beautiful day, 52 and 37, another day above average, another day above freezing at night. up next the fictional godzilla may be a giant lizard song from radiation, but scientists are cram bling to explain that real life jibe -- scrambling to explain this real life gigantic prawn. check it out. we'll be right back. tostitos, how'd you think of these scoops chips?

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so scientists had discovered this, a gigantic prawn off the coast of new zealand nearly a foot long, 10 times the size of the normal species. the discovery raised a lot of questions. is this something in the environment that did this, food sources? not to mention it's a really creepy color. an amazing picture of a national icon posted on our wusa9 facebook page today.

>> rachel applegate thorn put up this photo of a bald eagle. she said she took it at huntsman lake and we did some research and learned the chesapeake bay watershed is a common stop for bad eagles between may and december. the department of game and inland fisheries say bald eagles begin to come back to our area between january and march as they head north from florida and the gulf coast back to their breeding ground. let's start with construction in tysons corner where you'll see closings and changing traffic patterns that has tonight. look for signs directing you along the beltway, i-66 and route 7. on metro this weekend's track work will close the rosslyn and arlington cemetery station impacting service on the blue, yellow and orange lines. still to come, the occupation continues but for how long? the latest on the situation

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right now occupy protesters are bracing for park police to move in at any moment. this is a live picture of mcpherson square now and the park police issued a no camping order 4 1/2 days ago. it's not clear how strongly the protesters will resist. reporter: i'm bruce leshan at mcpherson square where a sense of impending trouble has settled. a judge says the tents may be legally protected, symbols of this protest, but the mattresses, the blankets, the sleeping bags, the towels all of which the police could see easily, well, those may not be protected. >> students and workers will never be defeated. reporter: police and protesters remain locked in an uneasy standoff. authorities have ordered the occupiers to remove the big

tarp, the tent of dreams that they've stretched over the statue of general mcpherson and they've told them to get rid of their camping gear. a judge has told police they can enforce that order as long as they do not close the park and evict all the protesters who are not sleeping. >> a lot of people resist, you know. i'm not one of them. i'm not going to stand here and get hurt fighting with the police. i'm a washingtonian. i'm just going to pack up and leave. reporter: peacefully. >> yeah of. reporter: charles mcdonough says he hasn't slept in days. he's an unemployed carpenter. >> i have a 7-year-old that just turned 7 yesterday. i'm here because i don't want her future to be my present. reporter: if and when the tent comes down, we may yet see it again. the protesters say curators from the smithsonian have asked them to add it to their collection, a kind of visible reminder of a movement that has done so much to raise questions

about in on quality of wealth in america. in mcpherson square bruce leshan, 9 news now. >> we're keeping a close eye on the occupy encampment and if anything happens, we'll let you know. this is a live camera we positioned in the offices of henderson legal services that overlook the square. it's dark now and it's hard to see, but trust me, those tents are still there. you can check out that live video from mcpherson square any time by logging onto our website at www.wusa9.com. tonight the snow is piling up in parts of colorado with flakes falling as fast as 3 inches an hour in some parts of the state. we have more from denver on what winter really looks like. reporter: it's been quite the day in denver, the snow really started last night, really picked up overnight and we are up to, oh, about 12 inches in some areas of denver and we're expecting 4 or 5 throughout the rest of the day. now that snowfall, if it does hit 17, would put us at one of

the snowiest months of february ever in just one day. out west in the foothills 35 inches of snow and it's still coming down. there's been a lot of problems in the eastern plains with winds closing roads and highways and making life really tough on truckers. in terms of the airport, projected 600 flights canceled in the denver area. that's causing problems for people trying to get out of town. we talked to people trying to get to the super bowl in indianapolis. that's not happening now. we talked to people who have weddings here this weekend. they've had to adjust their plan because people can't get into denver. schools are canceled throughout the entire area. so it's been quite the event here, february in denver actually not one of the snowiest months we have here. so when we're talking about 12, 14, even 17 inches in the downtown area, as i said, would put us at one of the snowiest months of february and that's just with a 24 hour window.

so the problems continue for us. this is supposed to go on into saturday morning. so quite the prolonged event, a lot of adjustments going on in terms of travel and school and we'll see what happens in terms of when this will come to andy and hopefully our super -- an end and hopefully our super bowl plans on sunday can go on as planned. >> wow, okay. >> cool stuff. evergreen, colorado in jefferson county, northeastern colorado, 36 inches. >> wow. >> they're used to that, though, right? >> yeah. that's in the plains, sort of. the ski resorts got some, not that much and actually that same system is coming here. i wish it had more oomph to it. it doesn't. it may give us a bit of wet snow sunday. >> we'll take a wimpy system any day, thanks. >> i know we will. temps cooling off now. so grab a jacket if you're headed out. it's not crazy cold, though. here's a look at the capitol, our live weather cam brought to

you by michael and son. temperatures down to 46 at national, winds north, northeast at 5, pressure rising 30.42 inches of mercury and dew point stands at 28. here's the deal. here's the storm in the midwest in the plains states and it's still like a spring storm because there's not that much snow associated with it. yes, it's snowing in western nebraska and eastern colorado, but look at all the showers and thunderstorms in through kansas city and missouri and really there's a lot of storms with this, a lot of warm air with this storm even though it's early february. these are monster storms rolling through kansas city headed across i-70 headed towards st. louis in the next six to seven hours. meanwhile we have the snows back in the rockies. notice it doesn't go much farther than 25 to the west. so it's mainly a foothill snow and a plains snow, but these are unbelievable storms around springfield headed toward 70 and eventually it could go all the way into illinois by tomorrow morning.

temps now 43 in bethesda, 45 rockville, 46 downtown, 43 in great falls. so it's just kind of chilly. a touch of winter, it's possible over the weekend. cold and dry tonight. dry most of tomorrow, rain saturday night, maybe mixed changing to snow north and west of town by dawn sunday, and wet snow is possible for us on sunday except for southern maryland. i think you folks will end up with just light rain. how much snow? most of it falls in the mountains. maybe an inch in frederick, maybe a trace in gaithersburg. i think we'll see some wet snowflakes, but surface temperatures will remain above freezing. clear skies early tonight. high clouds come in late, cold, lows in the 30s. tomorrow morning clouds thicken up a little bit, stays dry, temperatures in the 30s and 40s and by afternoon mostly cloudy. we'll call it cool, light rain possible by evening, but the bulk of the day is still dry, high temperatures near 50 with light winds. now the next seven days again

some wet snow possible sunday, temps around 40. so it's going to be above freezing and next week we're in pretty good shape again, mid- 50s monday, near 50 tuesday, gets a little bit cold wednesday. it's all rill active, highs around 40, then either side of 50 -- relative, highs around torment, then either side of 50. more rain possible next friday night. got a big game coming up this weekend. >> can't wait. >> tired of all the talk, let's play football. winding down with all the questions from indy both coaches talking about the long journey. and maryland fans won't be happy about a future schedule change, the conference expansion, an annual rivalry going away? we'll explain next.

and now 9 sports with dave owens, the best sports in town. >> 48 hours counting. by now you know the combatants, giants, patriots, rematch from a couple years ago. giants shocked the pats that day 17-14 and ended new england's dream undefeated season. sunday is a rematch from the regular season giants, week six, 24-20. today the final availability before each team sequesters

themselves. with that in mind let's hear that same old coaches vanilla standard soundbite for the day for the final time. >> it's a long haul and so to be able to get here what is you work for. so it's a great experience. each one is different. they're all special. >> our team has played good football against great football teams and we always quote to our team, you know, humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform and that's the way we look at it. >> and there you have it. one of the reasons we love this time of year, maryland duke basketball. typically comcast center is loudest when the blue devils make their annual trip here, but that will change when syracuse and pitt get they are releases from the big east and join the acc. maryland and duke will no longer play an annual home and home series. that will only happen every three years now. maryland will play pittsburgh in an annual home and home and virginia will play virginia tech in the annual home and

home. that's all because of conference expansion. tuesday, january 10th, maybe it doesn't mean much to you, but it does to the wizards. flip saunders was still coaching and washington got its first win of the season in toronto. they'll look to replicate it tonight north of the border. andray blatche still out with a strained calf. over 11,000 voighted winner glen burnie and old mill just edging out good council at bishop and we'll have those highlights tomorrow night at 11:00. you've been watching the anchor bowl 2-2 tied between me and kristen. we want to decide the next sport to compete in. go to www.wusa9.com and our facebook page and we'll let you decide and take the best suggestion. >> you were great at the bowling. loved the bowl. >> i let her win. i let her. >> yeah. you were really a gentleman. glad to see you brought your a game. that is it for us. >> have a great weekend,

everyone. good night.