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into question. >> want to congratulate senator santorum, wish him the very best. we'll keep campaigning down the road but i expect to become our nominee with your help. >> reporter: now he they had to maine where ron paul hopes to stage his comeback on saturday. the texas congressman is the only candidate without a win. still he celebrated a strong second place showing in minnesota. >> when the dust settles, i think there's a very good chance we're going to have the maximum number of delegates coming out of minnesota. >> reporter: newt gingrich stayed out of sight at the -- as the results were announced. he's focused on winning big on super tuesday next month. he'll spend a second straight day campaigning in ohio where early voting is ready under way. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. 76 delegates from colorado and minnesota were up for grabs but will be assigned at a later date. the missouri primary not binding and no delegates will
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be awarded based on tuesday's results. the c.i.a. will continue to maintain a large presence in afghanistan and iraq long after u.s. troops leave both countries. an article in "the washington post" says it's part of a plan by the obama administration to help protect american interests in the region. >> the two c.i.a. offices in kabul, afghanistan and baghdad, iraq are expected to be the largest offices for the agency outside the united states. the article also says c.i.a. officers in both countries are going to work to reduce the influences of al qaeda and the taliban in the region. in district news d.c. mayor vincent gray delivered his state of the district address last night. he applauded the city's recent population growth and touched on the city's strengthening economy and lower unemployment rates. the mayor said the nation's capital is making progress in education reform. >> i plan to -- my plan on building one city focuses on
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three priorities. creating a new economy for the district that is growing and diversified. two, ensuring that district residents are prepared for the jobs of the new economy. and three, improving the quality of life for all. >> mayor gray said emergency response times in the city have improved and their plans to hire even more police officers -- there are plans to hire even more police officers in the future. surveillance video is usually used to catch criminals in the act. this time it got two prince george's county police officers in trouble instead. their arrest of a suspect is caught on camera. >> we have more on the two different versions of what happened five days ago during an arrest on rhode island avenue in brentwood. >> reporter: the story began around 9:30 friday night when two prince george's county police officers approached 19- year-old ryan dorm, a young man whom the officers said they suspected was about to rob a gas station on rhode island avenue. according to the officers,
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while struggling with dorm, one of the officer's guns went off. no one was hit. dorm was promptly arrested and accused of trying to grab the officer's gun. some residents of this brentwood neighborhood say something about the story just never added up. >> it just didn't make sense. >> reporter: the police department's new inspector general now apparently agrees. >> we have an internal investigation. >> reporter: after watching surveillance video of the incident, the police department has suspended the two officers involved. one of whom is a 13-year veteran of the department and referred the matter to the state's attorney's office which could charge the officers criminally. sources tell 9news that the surveillance video shows that the officer's gun went off not during a struggle with the suspect as the officers claimed. >> we had questions about that. >> reporter: but while one of the officers was hitting the suspect in the head with the gun after tackling him from behind. >> did not hit the police officer. >> reporter: this man who asked not to be identified says he knows ryan dorm and that dorm, a convicted felon, was targeted
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by police for no apparent reason. >> they say he ran. that's all he did was ran. that is no reason to get shot at. >> reporter: late yesterday the prince george's county state attorney's office dropped all charges against ryan dorm. police are trying to determine if two people found shot to death just blocks apart are connected. christopher donald smith was found dead about 10:45 monday night in new carrollton. the ambulance crew handling the smith case spotted another victim less than a mile away. 23-year-old edward thompson, jr. prince george's county police believe he was gunned down while riding a bicycle. opening statements could begin as early as today in the yeardley love murder trial but first prosecutors and defense attorneys must cut 13 more people from the jury pool. when they're finished they'll have 12 jurors and three alternates. former uva student george huguely is charged with
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murdering his ex- girlfriendyardley love in 2001. a self-proclaimed historian and art correct will pleaded guilty in his role of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in historical documents and art. last year police seized treasures from his home. many of the documents came from the maryland historical society. the entire plot was exposed when a historical society employee spotted the accomplice james sabadoth stealing some of the documents. sabadoth pleaded get to the heist last year. a high official at the komen charity has resigned following the organization's funding of planned parenthood. sources sekomen's vice president for public policy was the driving force behind excluding planned parenthood from komen grants.
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she wrote, i'm deeply disappointed and my involvement in it. i openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for komen's future and the women we serve. 4:36. here's some of the other stories making news. supporters of california's same- sex marriage ban or vowing to bring their fight to the supreme court. they want justices to overturn a federal appeals court ruling tuesday declaring the ban also known as proposition 8 unconstitutional. despite this decision, no new same-sex marriages will be allowed in california until the legal battle plays out. pennsylvania state prosecutors are asking that jerry sandusky be kept indoors as part of his bail condition. they say they've received complaints the former penn state assistant football coach has been watching children in the school yard from his back porch. a lawyer for sandusky calls the charges totally unfounded. he's currently under house arrest while awaiting trial on
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52 child sex abuse charges. a huge crowd greeted the giants. they received the symbolic keys to the city. the giants of course beat my new england patriots 21-17. congrats giants on super bowl xlvi on sunday. >> the owner said they put an end to the brady bunch once again. our time 4:37. at 4:42, donald trump is coming to d.c. or at leeps the name is. -- at least the name is. 50 lawmakers in virginia prepare to vote on the tim tebow bill. >> what's that? >> we'll explain. we're back with your weather first. you're watching 9 news now.
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4:39. 38 degrees. we're looking at snow developing later this morning. out west midday to the afternoon here in the metro. and south and east a rain-snow mix as temperatures fall in the mid-30s. winter weather advisories go in effect in just a few hours. not a big storm. i'm detail the timing and how much we'll get in about five minutes. monika is in with time saver traffic. thank you so much. we're going to take a live look at a serious accident right now on new york avenue here at florida avenue. it's been here for almost four hours and the detour is set up in place. i think it's going to be a long, long time before they can open this up. in the meantime you need to choose alternate routes inbound new york avenue. use bladensburg road or rhode island avenue as your thte situation all morning long. back to you. >> thank you, monika. 4:40, time for the first your money segment of the morning. >> i'm looking forward to this
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update because i didn't see money news yesterday. >> let's make some money. it's all about greece. upbeat news about greece gave wall street a little tiny shot in the arm yesterday. as for today, we're going to get a look at mortgage rates and of course continue to watch the situation. in greece. checking the numbers if wall street the dow stands at 12,878. it added 33 points in trading yesterday. nasdaq was up by 2. s&p 500 did even better, up by almost 3. more than 148 million americans are nearly -- are nearly half of the country received some sort of government assistance check in 2010. that's according to annal sis of 2010 census data by george washington university. the federal government sent a record $2 trillion to individuals in fiscal 2010. that is a 75% jump from a decade earlier. 26% of americans lived in households where someone received medicaid. 15% received food stamps. 16% of people lived in
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households collecting social security and 15% received medicare benefits. donald trump coming to d.c. the federal government selected the real estate mogul to redevelop the old post office pa villion. trump will convert the building into a hotel with restaurants, a spa and conference facilities. the old post office was built in 1899 to house the u.s. postal -- post office headquarters. today the building holds the food court, a few shops. they cater to tourists. the general services administration says trump will preserve the building's historic features. >> it's a gorgeous building, especially the facade. so that will be nice. >> it's not going to be called trump's u.s. post office? he pupts his name on everything -- puts his name on everything. >> i'm not a fan of donald trump in terms of his financial stuff but i will say his recent redevelopment projects have been beautiful. they're not sort of the trump of old. gold leaf and so forth. they tend to be more modern and upscale. it will be interesting to see
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what he does. >> that's cool. >> thank you. how do you get your baby to sleep all the way through the night? it's a question every new parent is asking. >> coming up, we'll show you one possible answer. we're back in two minutes with your weather first. whatcha lookin' for hon?
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ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. good morning. welcome back to 9news now. this is the day howard calls interesting for his forecast. tell us more about the snow and how much we're going to get or not. >> we have a clipper coming. most of us are going to see some snow today but it's kind of warm. temperatures in the upper 30s. road surface temperatures yesterday were in the 60s, even near 70 under the sunshine even though air temps were in the 50s. so we have warm surfaces.
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that means to me a lot of the snow that falls is going to melt on the road but may accumulate a little bit on the grassy surfaces. let's get things started. we do have winter weather advisory going in effect later this morning north and west of d.c. this will include the entire shenandoah valley and parts of northern virginia. loudoun county, montgomery, frederick, carroll. this goes into effect later this morning through the evening hours for a little bit of snow. we'll talk about that in a moment. the bus stop forecast, mostly cloudy, chilly this morning. temperatures in the 30s. some areas have actually dipped into the upper 20s but about 30 for the low spots. sunrise 7:08. no problems this morning. the day planner, we've got clouds. 38 at 8:00. noon 38. a mix of some rain and snow. most of the precip at noon will still be north and west of d.c. by the middle of the afternoon, here comes the snow. 37. 37 and snow, it's melting on
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the road surfaces. as we get into the evening hours, we'll still be looking at snow at 8:00 p.m. maybe 36 in town. north and west especially after dark, that's when we could run into a couple of those slick spots. we're looking at snow and rain across parts of west virginia. i-79 as it marches to the east. this gives you a timetable. still going to be several more hours before we have to deal with it out west. temperatures in luray and hagerstown, winchester freezing or below. it's down to 30 if gaithersburg. 34 culpeper. down south we have mid-30s at the pacs naval air station -- pacs naval air station. visibilities are fine. temperatures running at 38 at national. feels like 36 with a light northeast wind at 3 miles an hour. bigger picture, want to show you the storm system. coming through the ohio valley with rain in southern kentucky and tennessee. snow north of take, especially as you head to indiana and ohio. a couple of hours in the
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darkinger blue, mod -- darker blue, moderate snow. for us we'll put everything in motion. cloudy through 9:00. a little bit of snow into garrett county. toward noon i still think we're okay. we may start to see some flurries. you have to go west of 81 to really see some of that snow. as we head toward 3:00, north and west of town we should be seeing snow. this is why the weather services put the weather advisory in effect north and west of us. we get into the snow for the evening commute but remember, temperatures should be above freezing. so i think the roads are wet. sure, people are going to freak out a little bit with some snow flakes out there. it will slow you down, even with wet roads. tonight 9:00 still some light snow to the north. that will be winding down to flurries by midnight. want to quickly show you my accumulation map before we get to the forecast. just a trace to maybe an inch in the immediate metro. the inch part will be north and west of gaithersburg and maybe toward sterling. one or two possible upper montgomery and loudoun
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counties. maybe 2 to 4 in the mountains. the forecast today, we've got the afternoon rain-snow mix. north and west a little snow. 40 for the high this morning. tomorrow upper 40s. watch out for a few slick spots tonight. friday 50 degrees. then we turn cold this weekend. maybe a few flurries on saturday. it's 4:48. 4:49. monika, over to you. 4:49 means there's been an ongoing investigation at the scene of a serious overnight accident for four hours now. you're looking at it live from our camera crew on new york avenue at florida avenue in northeast. if you're planning to head on to new york avenue, i think this closure is going to remain in place for some time with the accident investigation and cleanup. serious injuries involved in this one with a tractor-trailer and two vehicles involved in the accident. i'm going to take you over to a map so i can give you some perspective of where it is and what you can do. on the inbound side of new york avenue, the closure i believe is between 4th street and florida avenue northeast. so you can take the brentwood parkway but i suggest you go
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ahead and take bladensburg road to the south of the accident or montana avenue to rhode island avenue to the north of the accident and avoid it all together. as i said, it's already been there for four hours and it's going to be there for a while longer with serious injuries involved as well. we'll take you over to another map. on the inbound side of braddock road inside the beltway, that is shut down basically between ravensworth and backlick road with a pole down. we're being told by authorities that take closure may remain in place till about 7:00 this morning. so if you're heading inbound on braddock road, you can go ahead and exit to the beltway but i suggest you go ahead and use route 236 to the north of this incident instead and avoid braddock road if you can this morning. we'll take you to a live picture. if you're planning to head inbound on i-66, that is doing okay. a close-up shot of nutley street where all lanes are open. i'm keep you posted on both of those situations once again at 4:55. mike and andrea? >> thank you, monika. it is 4:50 now. today the virginia statehouse will vote on something called the tim tebow bill.
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if approved, it would give home schooled kids in the state a chance to play high school sports. it's named after the denver broncos quarterback tim tebow because he was home schooled and he was able to play football at a public high school in florida. cheap airline seats will not increase your risk of dangerous blood clots. the american college of chest physicians reviewed a research on deep vain thrombosis. it -- vein thrombosis. it subjects it doesn't matter how much room you have. it's crucial you get up and walk around. many parents of infants and toddlers know all about sleepless nights. >> we have a few new parents in our newsroom so they know specifically. randall pinkston shows us where some parents are now turning to get a good night's rest. >> reporter: for the first time 4-month-old lance is going to sleep without his parents rocking or swaddling him.
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these new parents want him on a sleep schedule because kristin is heading back to work. >> getting up in the middle of the night is really what gets to me. >> reporter: they hired a group of sleep professionals. >> you're going to come over to the crib. >> reporter: dream team baby comes into the home and helps infants and toddlers learn to fall asleep on their own and soothe themselves back to sleep during the night. consultants organize a daytime napping and feeding schedule so a child will be sleepy at bedtime and not hungry during the night. they also create the right sleep environment. >> what we want to do is have him bond with one fairnts sleep toy. we always -- one favorite sleep toy. >> reporter: there's lots of crying but he's asleep within 12 minutes. >> cry it out is a method parents use that soon tears are going to teach your baby. that is not what we're doing
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here. we're going to teach the parent how to interact with him, how to know if something is wrong so that they can go in. >> reporter: he gets up a few more times but gets himself to sleep again. >> alex and i just tried not to cry and let him kind of work it out and he fell back to sleep. >> reporter: one week later, everyone is sleeping through the night. >> he did it. >> reporter: randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. >> a week? that got my attention. >> really. >> sleep training is not recommended for babies under 4 months old. parents should always talk to the pediatrician before they start something like this. it is 4:53. and time for the question of the morning. >> super bowl weekend is the slowest weekend in america for one of these things. is it a, movie ticket sales, b, weddings, or c, retail shopping. what do you think? >> log on to the wusa9 facebook
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4:56. we're cloudy this morning. some snow is on the way. we'll see it north and west midday and here early afternoon pushing toward the metro. temperatures slowly falling to the mid-30s by 6:00. looks like roads in the metro will stay just wet. more details coming up during 9news now at 5:00. monika samtani is in and all sorts of trouble at 5:00 a.m. we have a live picture of one of the trouble spots. on new york avenue a tractor- trailer and two vehicles involved inbound new york avenue. it's shut down. use bladensburg road or montana avenue instead. i'll have more details at 5:00. madonna's planning to pack more stadiums. >> chris brown is making a grammys comeback. we have those stories and more in this look at entertainment. >> reporter: the material girl
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is planning more stadium shows on her upcoming world tour. madonna rocked the lucas oil stadium in indianapolis during half time at the super bowl. her concert promoter announced the september show at yankee stadium in new york. tickets for most u.s. shows go on sale monday. singer chris brown is set to perform at the grammys this sunday on cbs. the awards almost ended his career three years ago. brown admitted to assaulting then girlfriend reanna after a pre--ry hanna after a gamey party. -- rihanna after the grammy party. stars hit the red carpet. ryan reynolds plays a young c.i.a. agent on the run with his fugitive charge played by denzel washington. >> i wanted to work with the director. that was the first thing. i think he's a brilliant young
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director daniel espinoza. together we worked on the screenplay for six months. >> reporter: "safe house" opens in theaters friday. >> 386 new york's finest versus one -- 38 of new york's finest versus one guy. >> reporter: the world is getting a look at the trailer for the amazing spiderman. the super hero is leaping into 3-d. he investigates his parents' disappearance. the film will be in theaters on july 3. that's your eye on entertainment. cbs news, los angeles. good morning. thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 ap. i'm andrea roane. glad you're with us. i'm mike hydeck. good morning, monika samtani. >> she lrld has a lot to talk about. howard, over to you. going to feel like winter. afternoon highs 46. we'll be below that. that hasn't happened a lot, many times really the last few months and we're going to get a little bit of

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