the maryland border. includes all of west virginia and the panhandle and back into the panhandle of maryland. you jump the divide, a winter storm warning. midnight to 7:00 p.m. on saturday. now live doppler 9,000 shows light rain north of town. some is mixing with snow, and so it's going to turn to snow pretty quickly in the northern counties tonight. i think you'll see 1 to 2 inches. 41 at national, but still 37 in gaithersburg. 39 up in frederick and 39 also over toward leesburg. so here's the deal. rain showers turning to snow showers. 1 to 2 inches frederick north and west. lows in the 30s. we'll come back and tell you when the chance of accumulating snow will be in the immediate metro area. >> for the first time in more than a year, president obama has a 10 point lead over mitt romney. in the latest poll, he is just 4 points ahead of former congressman, rick santorum.

that despite 75% of likely republican voters saying they think romney will be the party's nominee. three of the four republican nominees made an appearance in the district today. at the meeting today. >> reporter: anita, the republican presidential candidates want conservative voters in their camp and the gop field came here to washington today. each to sell themselves as the only conservative choice. >> the support of thousands of conservative voters is up for grabs at this annual convention. some are here in washington to promote their candidates. others to settle on a favorite. >> i am really trying to discern the information that they present when they speak and i'll make my decision based on that. >> a big win for rick santorum. he's hoping his momentum will

carry him through the nomination. >> as conservatives and tea party folks that we are not just wings of the republican party. we are the republican party. >> mitt romney is still the gop front runner, but santorum is right on his heels. romney's job here is to convince conservatives he is one of them. >> i know that this president will never get it. but we conservatives aren't just proud to cling do our guns and religion. we are proud to cling to our constitution. >> newt gingrich is also here trying to rebound from disappointing finishes in the last five contests. >> this campaign is a mortal threat to their grip on the establishment because we intend to change washington, not accommodate it. >> conservative voters here will have their say when they cast their ballot in the convention straw poll saturday. ron paul is the only candidate who is not attending the

conference. his son, senator ran paul spoke on his behalf on thursday. danielle nottingham, back to you. >> thank you danielle. before heading to sea-tac, he spent the morning speaking to a technology council. new information about the funding battle between a prominent breast cancer charity and planned parenthood. speaking out for the first time since resigning from susan g. komen for the cure. the organization's former vice president tells the daily beast the two groups came to an agreement in december about funding, but then planned parenthood broke the deal for its own political purposes. a planned parenthood spokesperson denies the group organized any sort of campaign against komen. >> well today, president obama announced a compromise on the new rules covering contraception. >> women will still have access to free preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where they

work. that core principle remains. but, if a woman's employer is a charity or hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive carefree of charge. without copays and without hassles. >> the government is still facing three lawsuits on the contraception rules by groups that say this compromise doesn't go far enough to address their concerns about religious freedom. >> 9news now uncovered new information in yesterday's deadly police shooting that left a 54-year-old woman dead in culpeper. >> i'm peggy fox in culpeper, where an eyewitness to a fatal police shooting is contradicting what state police are saying about the investigation and why the officer fired. >> his hand on the door handle. i remember distinctly because hands are close together.

which chris says he saw a culpeper town police officer shoot 54-year-old patricia cook to death in this church parking lot yesterday morning. cook was in her jeep wrangler. state police say cook rolled up the window catching the officer's arm inside and dragged him. it didn't happen that way. >> he was right next to the vehicle. he had one hand on the door handle and one hand on his weapon. she was rolling the window up and they were exiting out of the parking lot. the window was half way up. he said stop or i'll shoot. didn't think he was going to do it, but she got the window all the way up and that's when he shot and she took a left out of the parking lot here and he stepped out in the street and fired five more times. >> michelle says the officer was not dragged. he couldn't have had his arm caught because he fired through the glass. >> i'm angry, i'm frustrated. i'm sad. i'm fighting back tears right now. >> in culpeper, 9news now. >> tears as well in a

charlottesville courtroom as george huguely taped his statement. bruce leshan is live outside the courthouse, yet another dramatic day of testimony. huh bruce? >> it was definitely a dramatic day, anita, and george huguely was not the only one crying. yeardley love's mother appeared to be crying, as one of the jurors. we also got our first look today at yeardley love's bedroom door. the one george huguely allegedly kicked in. >> a crime scene investigator unwrapped the vinyl door and unveiled a huge hole. next to the knob. huguely kicked the door in to get at yeardley and left his dna behind. it was not the door that had yeardley love's family.

detectives at first did not tell the former uva lacrosse player that his exgirlfriend was dead. huguely told police he went to yeardley's apartment just to talk. but he says she started screaming and hitting her head against the wall. she was like a fish out of water. i grabbed her and shook her. but i never struck her or hit her or anything. we were wrestling. she may have had a bloody nose. i tossed her on the bed. i may have grabbed her neck, but i never strangled her. then the detectives told huguely that yeardley love was dead. did you hit her head into the wall? did you crack it? no, you guys said she had a black eye and a bump on the head. huguely starts sobbing. she's not dead. i didn't. i did not. you're lying. i never did anything that could do that to her. >> now the tape puts huguely's

lawyers in a tough box, left to insist that yeardley love died not from the struggle, but perhaps from some kind of heart abnormality. but today a reknown cardiac pathologist testified that yeardley love's heart physically was absolutely normal. as for this affair of the heart, this relationship with george huguely is violent relationship, well that was anything but normal. anita. >> bruce leshan. thank you for that. again the trial continues next week. we'll be following it. coming up tonight on 9news now at 7:00, i'm sure many of you have signed permission slips for your kids to go off on school trips, but what about a permission slip to have a cookie? we'll tell you what the state is thinking about doing and what other foods may be affected coming up at 7:00. >> okay. we'll look forward to that. still to come in this half hour of 9news, a police chase from maryland into the district ends

with a fiery crash. we'll tell you what happened. and up next, the national park service decides how to fix some problems at the new memorial honoring dr. martin luther king jr.

back now with a 9news now update. how it will correct a paraphrased quote inscribed on the new memorial to dr. martin luther king, jr. the paraphrase reads, i was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness and drew a will the of criticism for those who said it portrayed king as being arrogant. the correction will be a direct quote from a recorded speech king gave just two months before he was assassinated. >> meantime, go ahead, lesli. >> virginia congressman, frank wolf is asking a federal panel to reject a design for a

memorial honoring president dwight d. eisenhower. >> objects to the design. architect proposed a memorial park framed by large metal tapestries depicting the home in kansas. his role as a military hero and president would be represented in stone on a smaller scale. the family says the design over emphasizes eisenhower's roots and neglects his accomplishments, which were large indeed. still ahead, it's a skill being dropped in the driving test. it's absolutely essential to live and move around here.

back now with a commuter alert for just about everyone considering riding metro this weekend. trains will be single tracking on various parts of the red and green lines and on the orange line. shuttle buses will replace trains between the east and

trains stations. and between the huntington and stadium-armory stations. definitely time to pack your patience. lesli. >> all right anita. remember five years ago when lexus introduced a car that can parallel itself? the skill that is so vital in our area is taking another hit in the district. >> i'm scott broom in northeast washington where we learned that dmv has not been testing motorists to see if they can parallel park to get their license. that's where 9news steps in today with a 9news parking test. >> everybody should know how to parallel park. >> you always wonder whether or not you're going to pass that part of the test. >> that's chai williams, and here she goes, between the 9news cones. not perfect, but good enough. >> are you ready to take my test? here comes lynn webster. >> she hit the cone.

>> you hit the cone. so you might have bumped a car. >> you need to know how to parallel park. >> i live on a residential, with cars coming on a one-way street. if someone is having a difficult time parking, everyone has to wait. >> they don't have enough space on their lots to give the test. in northeast washington, scott broom, 9news now. >> a high speed police chase ended in a ball of fire and with a serial robbery suspect behind bars. it started in maryland and ended up in northeast d.c. kristin fisher has the latest from the scene of the crash. >> this car chase lasted for 45 minutes. it all ended right here when the car spun out of control and then slammed into this tree. you can still see pieces of this car everywhere. here's part of the hub cap. then, the car caught fire and you can see that the flames went all the way up 20 feet

high. >> we thought it was going to blow up. >> davis and her daughter hid behind a bush in their front yard and watched. firefighters were trying to put out the car fire while police were handcuffing the serial robbery suspect inside. 19-year-old marquis hunter. >> it's crazy. i saw thousands of police cars everywhere. >> it all started an hour earlier. a gas station robbery. >> officers observed a vehicle that was involved in numerous robberies here along the d.c., maryland line. >> when detectives approached, hunter fled. leading d.c., prince georges county, and u.s. park police on a high speed chase into the district. at one point, hunter rammed into one of those cruisers, sending the officer to the hospital with minor injuries. then, hunter rammed into this tree so hard that the air bags deployed. >> the police officers had to break their window with the crow bar. >> hunter was taken away in an ambulance. he's already been charged with unauthorized use of the

vehicle, but he's going to be extradited to prince georges county where he will likely face several robbery charges. in northeast washington, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> you're back and you get to talk about something that you don't really get to talk about much, do you even know what to do with it? >> here's the deal. it's so nuisance and on a friday. but -- >> we're talking about snow. >> but that said, i think everyone will have a covering by saturday night, maybe 10:00, 11:00. kids will be happy. it will be festive. we're looking at temperatures downtown above freezing. no problems downtown if you have big friday plans. let's start with a live look outside. this is our weather cam brought to you by michael and son. temperature has gone up in the last hour at national. from 43 to 44. some light rain reported. winds are calm now and the pressure is rising 30.02 inches of mercury. the dew point fell from 31 to about 30. all right, so satellite picture

radar combined. here's all the moisture. the frontal boundary, the arctic front is well to the west of us in the midwest. if two things coming our way. area of low pressure will develop and skirt the coast as we go through tonight and tomorrow. that will give us moisture and really, this cold air comes flying in tomorrow afternoon and that will give us another chance for some snow showers. that's the upper level energy. but it can be intense sometimes and very cold atmosphere. can't hold much moisture, but it will squeeze everything out. where is the arctic air now? it's 7 in bismarc. only 19 in chicago. so, you can see detroit still 32 and st. louis is 30. it's west of detroit and west of st. louis. but this is where the core of the arctic air is. it's going to be cold. some of the coldest air we have seen this season. especially on sunday. temperatures again, okay. 43 in bethesda. 43 in great falls. and 43 in springfield.

that's why we aren't that concerned with roads. that said, temperatures upper montgomery county, upper 30s, and some snow is mixing in. fort valley, which is south of front royal, they are reporting snow as well. snow in hagerstown. after midnight, roads will be bad from frederick north and west. arctic air, roads okay in the metro area. but slick up north and west and 1 to 2 inches tomorrow night. even downtown, windchills tomorrow night 5 to 15. so, here's the future cast. we'll put this into motion. by 10:30. most of the activity to the north. that's all snow. then it does turn to snow as we get into saturday morning and into southern maryland. maybe not st. mary's county, but charles county. another batch of snow showers move in during the evening with the front itself and that could lay down the 1 to 2 inches and it could look interesting for a while and tomorrow night if you're headed out, the roads could be slick. next seven days. in the wake of that, we're looking at temperatures struggling to get back to the

freezing mark on sunday and then we look at low 40s on monday and light snow on tuesday. at this point, not a huge deal. and maybe some light snow next friday, but again, not a huge deal either. so no problems tonight. tomorrow night, downtown, take it easy. >> okay, we'll do that. thanks, top. >> we're back with sports in just a moment.

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and now, 9sports with dave owens, the best sports in town. >> lebron james, is there another athlete that he has as much hate as him? maybe tim tebow. but they have a reason to december pize the king. he has taken him and mopped the floor with them over the years. ejecting the wizards out of the playoffs. that's what the wizards are facing tonight. not a pleasant proposition any time. but especially coming off wednesday night at the hands of the knicks. you can't stop new york. how >> there's a star on every team. it's not about the stars. it's about our team. so, there's no magical secret in trying to defend guys like that. it's going to take a team effort. >> here's what they are up

against. lebron at practice earlier today. averaging eight rebounds. that's top 30 in the three categories. no one else can say that. like him or hate him, he's a beast and he loves washington. >> i love coming here. i love the city and i always have fun with the fans. always good to be back. >> le'ron landry did not get surgery last season, instead, he opted for alternative platelet treatment, which worked on his shoulder, but hasn't worked on his tendon. in a recent interview with 106.7, great reporting on this. landry explained the apparent disconnect between him and the team. they wanted him to have surgery, he didn't because of the extended recovery time necessary. this latest injury, the one that kept him out of half the season is a different injury. he'll continue with the platelet treatment. howard tore his acl and will

miss the remainder of the year. and you remember, howard broke his foot and missed nine games. we are heartbroken, surgery is scheduled within the next couple of weeks. time to announce the winner of the high school game of the week poll. 8200 of you say, hilton bulldogs undefeated. looking to remain undefeated. finally, you've been watching myself and kristen berset going toe to toe in the anchor poll. currently tied at 2. we need your help to break the tie. what sport should we play next? we have a will the of great ideas on our facebook page. >> it's fun to watch. >> how about sin cronized sin cronized swimming? >> cbs news is next.