you can see it comes across the river here from dale city and lorton, chantilly south to manassas and into northern fauquier county, toward the plains, haymarket, gainesville seeing just a couple of raindrops on the windshield. temperatures much warmer west of the mountains. we've got 40s and 50s there. look at this. in new england, 20s and 30s. new york now up to 40. locally we've got a big range. it's 33 in millersville. 36 bowie. you head out east to north, we have low 40s. in germantown 31 but we go from 37 in leesburg to 49 in round hill. and it's 39 this morning in springfield. a gorgeous sky once again. we'll show that you on our michael & son weather camera. 42 national. feeling like 39 with a south wind at 5 miles an hour and the humidity is up. so we'll see a couple of sprinkles this morning, but the bulk of the rain today is going to be well north and west of us. we'll get into the milder air shooting temperatures into the 50s, even low 60s. south and southwest of town. tonight more clouds. a little drizzle develops. then the front starts to move in by tomorrow midday towar

the chantilly mayors of the last now 11 years in jail and remains in jail tonight. he was convicted of a drug- related murder but it was dropped after they found there was suppressed evidence. a federal courts halted the release. tonight a victory for a montgomery county family who was suspended after attending his fingers were a gun. the principal will remove the suspension from the first greater cause permanent record. he was suspended for a day after christmas after allegedly pointing a finger at a classmate and saying pow. a montgomery county lawmaker wants to make sure companies that makes the cameras are not making out like bandits. right now some of those companies are getting a big chunk of money. >> they do in dean. these speed cameras bring in millions of dollars in fines, so the companies are bringing in big bucks. they tell us the problem is it is the way they are making the money. if you are already a fan of speed cameras, this information may send you through the roof. a portion of the ticket you pay goes to the vendor. it can be as much as 40%. >> i t

you'll have a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show at the dulles expo center in chantilly, virginia. one winner will be randomly selected through friday. >>> one of the reasons we get so concerned about our super bowl food is because nobody wants to leave the house and miss all those fantastic commercials. >> here's another one of our favorite super bowl ads from super bowl's past. this has puppy love. >> which one? you like this one? how about this little guy, huh? yeah. >> puppies and kids make great tv. >> i lover it. good -- i love it. good so, so cute. we're going to have more super bowl commercials in the next half-hour. we'll show you three more tomorrow and sunday you get all the new ones. >>> thanks so much for joining us. 6:00 a.m. wusa9 is where you are. i'm mike hydeck. monika samtani will have traffic in just a moment. >> i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. we begin this hour with howard bernstein and the changing weather outside. >> the winds are blowing outside. temperatures are dropping. the rain is leaving. and the cold is returning. got to watch out in

question of the day correctly, you'll have a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show in chantilly, virginia february 1 through the 3rd. one person randomly selected each day thro >>> welcome back. your weather first on this tuesday morning. some of you may need jackets. we have some areas in the 30s. a few showers have been across northern virginia, generally along south of i-66. we'll head toward 9:00 with temperatures still in the low 40s in town but mid-40s if not low 50s here. we'll get through the afternoon. the colder stuff east. only 43 in annapolis at noon. but 59 in orange. we're looking at temperatures this afternoon 50s in town with some 60s south and west, even warmer tomorrow. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm here in new orleans, super bowl week has begun. the baltimore ravens arrive monday afternoon to get settled into their hotel, talk with the media folks for a little bit. they got a little practice in, in the morning on monday before they left. but even after that, the fun began. thousands of ravens fans braved the freezing rain and packed baltimore's inner harbor

this is in chantilly. flooding at that intersection.o flooding as you make your way closer to annandale. woodburn road is closed at spicewood drive. aaron, over to you. >> thank you. >>> a new metro ad campaign aims to change the public's perception about the word "jihad." posters are up at shaw, waterfront, rockville, and dunn loring metro stations. they show images of muslims expressing their jihad. the council for american islamic relations says the word has become synonymous with terrorism, but they say it really means struggling in the way of good. >>> you will soon see track work on all five metro lines this weekend. it's the blue and orange lines you may want to avoid. buses replacing trains between federal center southwest and cheverly on the orange line and between federal center and benning on the blue line. that means the capital south, eastern market, potomac avenue, and stadium armory, minnesota avenue, and deanwood stations will all be closed. there's also single tracking on the red and orange lines. sunday only on the gre

robinson, chantilly and st. johns taking on good council. log onto the website to vote. >> stay with wusa9 and cbs evening news next. >> at 7:00 derek has our area's only local newscast. >>> we leave you with scenes around town this week as people get ready for the inauguration. it's an exciting time and take a look. >> the whole church wants to sit near there so they can shake hands with the president. >> for $100,000 you do get a ringside seat at the museum. >> the president, the vice president, the justices will be in this booth. what country am i? >> don't mess it up. >> he

first up john from chantilly. i know the first mantra is to protect children and this is supposed to be the first step. the major problem is these first steps are not dealing with the hearts and minds of people before they become mentally ill. these first steps are not dealing with the run of the mill criminals who kill more people each year than these recent mass killings combined. these first steps are not dealing with the media onslaught of violence in games, tv shows, movies, et cetera. these first steps, though, are curtailing the ability of law abiding citizens to exercise their second amendment rights but john from lorton, virginia, says the second amendment is a big deal but it is not the only deal. today americans can purchase almost any kind of weapon and ammunitions as long as they don't have background problems. despite this the nra is jumping up and down about any kind of restriction disputing the reasonable approach proposed. background checks probably will work, but the nra is hell bent on preventin

it's located about 40 miles outside paris in a place called chantilly. it apparently has fine dining and live music. they have a pool table in the bar where you can play billiard anglais. you can also get hot stone massages. and here is the entrance sign for the hotel driveway. you see the little arrow there on the right? those two guys who look like jackets from an old olympics opening ceremony, those are actually the french police. and they are guarding the chateau de la tour because the taliban is there. the taliban is at the chateau de la tour, i should be clear, because they were invited. see, technically what our troops are doing in afghanistan is supporting what is supposed to be the afghan government's war against the taliban. and representatives from the afghan government and the taliban spent last month at this hotel in chantilly, france, talking about peace, talking about how the war ends from their perspective. because when our war is over, over there, they of course will still live there with each other. you do have to kind of wonder, this i

you'll have a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show at the dulles expo center in chantilly, virginia. one winner will be randomly selected through friday. >>> welcome back. your weather first at 4:556789 very windy. leftover showers but temperatures are going to settle down into the 40s, even upper 30s in the northern shenandoah valley. wind just gusted to 47 in andrews. that will be the case most of the day with the winds potentially gusting close to 50. so be aware of that. >>> ongoing water rescue in place right now in montgomery county. gold mine road at chandley mill west of new hampshire avenue. be aware there are road closures and flooding problems scattered around the metropolitan area this morning. i'll be back with more at 5:01. back to you, mike. >> the story just gave me the chills when i read it the first time. the sandy hook elementary school chorus is going to be featured in super bowl xlvii in new orleans. a group of 26 children from the same school where those first graders were killed as adults on december 14 in newtown, connecticut, again they'll be perfo

well, in the mailbag tonight the fiscal cliff, no, we didn't fall off as many feared, but john from chantillysays there's no reason to celebrate. well, they did it again, the president and senate, kicked that old can two months down the road. the president seems to have prevailed by raising $41 in taxes for of buck in spending cuts and not a word about raising the debt ceiling which we reached earlier this week. i know they said they'd deal with all that in the next two months. i've heard that before. is this a great country or what? seems that or what is winning out. john, your points are well taken except i am holding out hope there is a will to deal with all the things you're talking about. have you checked out the president's demeanor lately? he's been in his no more mr. nice guy mode since the election. i'm hoping that no nonsense attitude carries over into fixing entitlements and reforming the tax code. then there was this on the healthcare workers in indiana, fired for refusing to take a flu shot. emily from fairfax says get ready to go to court over that one. it seems being fired for

going to get a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show at the dulles expo center in chantilly, virginia from february 1 through the 3rd. one winner will be randomly selected through friday. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. 4:56. your weather first on this mild wednesday morning. we'll be dry most of the day, although late this afternoon, watch out for showers and storms the. could hold off till after dark. another warm day. highs 66 to 72. the winds will be picking up over 30 miles an hour. monika, over to you. >>> serious accident. cleanup and investigation will continue throughout the morning rush hour on the inner loop of the beltway. that's southbound i-495 after route 50. you're looking at a live picture right now. this one involving three vehicles. one a fire truck. it's going to be there for a while. one lane gets by in each direction. but i'll have details on how to get around that in a few minutes at 5:01. back to you guys. >>> here's a sentence you haven't heard much lately. sylvester stallone hits the red carpet in new york. >> the new and improved sylvester.

about a law student valving l three services a subsidiary of the defense contractor glitchy based in chantilly virginia the corporation has been forced to pay a total of five point two eight million dollars to seventy one former inmates at the infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq for being tortured and forty four different incidents and unsurprisingly since these payments were made two months ago the story has gone virtually unreported because this is huge this is the first time lawyers of former prisoners at abu ghraib have successfully collected money from a defense contractor in a case regarding torture but wait a tick the amount was only five point two eight million dollars to be divided among seventy one people five point eight million dollars is the price of getting away with torturing seventy one human beings so that's seventy four thousand dollars a person pretty small players price to pay to break down someone's health and their dignity especially when it's public record that l three services was given a four hundred fifty million dollars u.s. government contract per year that's unfair

pots will be with us. 20 degrees from washington to lexington park. 19 in warrenton and girk. 18 in chantilly is washington. this is the solid area and there is some pretty good moderate areas. we will show you some detail. there is the beltway and washington but west in manassas we have reports of blue sky so there is a downward motion in the clouds hyped the -- behind the clipper. we will see cloudiness but clearing will develop overnight. a couple of totals reports from frost frostberg frost burg frostburg four inches. cumberland three inches. westminster one. these temperatures are kae. even with the chemicals on the road doing some good, when you get to 12 13, 14 degrees like we will be overnight chemicals don't do a lot of good so even with a little precipitation icy patches will be a problem all evening and into tomorrow morning. after the clipper moves out we will get clearing skies and i think by morning we will be 14 degrees in the suburban areas to 20 in downtown washington. plenty cold. this is the advisory still in effect until 9:00. i expect in many areas they will be under the

, you have a chance to win four tickets to the washington golf show at the dulles expo center in chantilly. one winner will be randomly selected >>> welcome back. howard here. your weather first. 5:22 on this wednesday morning. this very mild wednesday morning. 50s, even 60s south of town right now. we're going to see more clouds than sunshine and more wind than yesterday as temperatures will climb well in the 60s by noon. in fact, i think we may be even warmer than 64. the rain concern, though, north and west of town this afternoon, even early this evening, greater than here in the metro. looks like those storms come through tonight. some of those could be on the strong side. >>> good morning, everybody. we're coming to you from the mercedes-benz super dome in new orleans. we're headed into day three of super bowl week which means all the craziness of media day, which was tuesday, is over. now it's time for the teams to get down to business and focus. media day is good for us media folks because we not only get to talk to players about the big game but also some team personnel that we usu

both men attended a huge gun show in chantilly and showed how easy it was for anyone to purchase a gun and high number ammunition clip. >> i was stunned. it was easier than i thought. in fact, you go around and ask people where can i go purchase a gun without a criminal background check? how can a void that? and people would point out different dealers that you could do that. it was easier than i imagined and i was shocked. >> reporter: in the video the private seller jokes about the lack of a background check. >> you're not a felon this week. next week. >> reporter: the delegate lays out $175 in cash and purchases a .22 caliber pistol. senator ebbing spent $20 purchased a high capacity ammunition magazine. >> i bought a 30 round ammunition magazine that can be used lethally and this is the sale sort of device that was used -- same sort of device that was used in newtown, connecticut to, take 20 innocent children's lives and six brave adults lives. >> reporter: the two legislators are trying to talk the general assembly into requiring background checks for every weapons transaction and

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to the west, accident activity in chantilly is tying up route 50 at 28.so the wreck as you approach 29 in gainesville although that has been moved to the shoulder. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> the nation's newest congress is our big story this morning. the 113th congress is set to be sworn in later today. >> the new congress will have several key issues to deal with from the start. first on their list, a $60 billion sandy relief package. melanie alnwick is live on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: good morning. the failure of that package to come up for a vote tuesday night sparked outrage from lawmakers from new york and new jersey in both parties but they have been assured that it will be one of the top,s when the new congress is sworn in later today. at noon today, 12 new senators and 81 new representatives will be seated. the 113th congress is a bit more diverse with more female, black, hispanic and asian lawmakers. it will also have the knewest number of veterans since world war ii. after a bruising battle tuesday over

undercover video showed two lawmakers buying a weapon at a chantilly gun show without a background check. it is not illegal. the proposed bill would have required private vendor at gun shows to sell their guns through licensed dealers so that all buyers would be subject to checks. >>> d.c.'s police chief is challenging the findings of a report that be released today questioning how rape cases are handled in the district. the police chief says information was gathered using flawed methods. one victim tells us she was mistreated by police, and her case was mishandled after she said she was sexually assaulted. >> the detective right in front of me told the nurse that i didn't need the exam done. and the nurse to her credit said that that was her job to determine and that i would need to talk with her. i did. the experience of being raped was absolutely humiliating. but it wasn't until i talked to police that i felt shamed. >> my fear is that because this report is based on older data, incidents involving one or two detectives who are no longer in the unit, it's painting a picture that that'

starting to see some of the lower 30s north and west. 33 out toward chantilly and toward great falls. we're starting to see about 35 down toward springfield. this is about it for the morning hours. although we have overcast skies this morning, we'll break out with sunshine later on today with the partly to mostly cloudy skies, we'll hold temperatures right around 37 as we head in toward the afternoon but by late day, say about 4:00 or so, we should hit our high of 38 at the airport. it does look like we'll keep things clear and calm overnight tonight so if you have any evening plans, make sure you dress accordingly because we're going to feel quite a bit of a chill with temperatures plummeting after that 5:00 hour. overall, though, today is looking pretty good. the morning features mainly cloudy skies and, yes, some very cold temperatures. we'll increase that with some sunshine later on this afternoon but we're going to whip up a bit of a breeze in the afternoon. it will stay chilly in our extended forecast all wait through this remainder of the abbreviated workweek. if you have weeke

undercover video showed two lawmakers buying a weapon at a chantilly gun show without a background checks not legal. the proposed bill would have required private vendors at gun shows to sell guns through licensed dealers so all buyers would be subject to checks. >>> a judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging maryland's gambling expansion. that lawsuit argued that question 7 required a majority of all of the state's registered voters to approve the referendum. not just a majority of those who actually voted. a judge rejected that idea. question 7 paves the way for vegas-style table games and 24-hour gambling at all maryland casinos. it also permits a sixth casino in the state at national harbor in prince george's county. >>> 6:37 the time. 23 degrees. a local company reporting major losses into the billions. why they blame the government. >>> plus, we are checking on the condition across the area for you. slick roads the norm now. weather & traffic on the 1s. >>> a major overhaul in the works. where metro is considering digging tunnels. >>> two new jersey men say subway is shortchangin

undercover video showed two lawmakers buying a weapon at a chantilly gun show without a background check, which is not illegal. the proposed bill would've required private vendors to sell their guns through licensed dealers so all buyers would be subject to checks. >>> turns out a report of a gunman at a virginia campus that forced a lockdown was actually a hoax. the university of virginia college is back open this morning. police gave the all clear late last night. virginia state police say the student who reported seeing a gunman confessed she made the story up. >>> meantime, parents want answers after a high school student has been shot and killed this school year. over the weekend, 16-year-old marcus antonio jones was shot and killed outside a birthday party. police held a public meeting last night at friendly senior high school in ft. washington where jones attended. police say two fights broke out at the school on tuesday. parents say they're concerned for their kids' safety. >> when they come tell us that they're threatened at school, it makes you -- it hurts me to my heart. >> jo

to the roads in virginia, still seeing flooding in chantilly, stone heather drive at ladybank lane, alls are blocked there. getting closer, this time to annandale. seeing closures along woodburn road at spicewood drive. the district dealing with a downed tree along portage in northwest. cleeshs near connecticut avenue -- closures near connecticut avenue and beech drive. back to you. >> thank you. >>> breaking news in bethesda, maryland. chopper 4 over the scene of a house fire in bethesda. you see there sfieft are -- firefighterses are working on the scene. >>> good morning, from the live desk, breaking news out of bethesda. chopper 4 is on top of the scene here of an early morning house fire that has been put out. you see multiple fire crews putting out the hot spots. this happened in the 7700 block of glenmore springway in bethesda. we have a report that one person was assisted out of the house and transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. again, you see multiple firefighters on the scene getting on top of the roof, making sure that the fire is out and all th

if you go to a gun show, there is one in chantilly. five years ago, 8% were women, last year, 30%. the shooting sports have spread. five or six years ago, one of the fastest ways to go bankrupt would be to open a private shooting range. today, they are flourishing all of the country and they seem to be profitable. when this board expands, it seems to mean that you have a greater need for public education as to how you should be doing these things. if you join the nra and go to one of our 80,000 trainers, you get that. there are a lot of people that are not members. i think a public education campaign on the safe handling of firearms would be very wise and we would love to participate. >> i would love to get the sign up sheet for the field trip to the gun show. >> the next time they have in chantilly, i will have a sign up sheet. there has been a lot of talk about whether this time is different. so, this is a political question rather than ideological. do you think that this time is different? if it is, it does not seem that the nra has change in any way is positions on what is acce