chris collins, volunteer firefighter, would be there to save your life. then one night, hit by a car at an accident scene, it was his turn to ride in the ambulance. after years of rehab, chris has learned to take care of himself. but money is so tight, he has trouble staying warm. he just can't afford heating oil. nice to meet you, chris. nice to meet you, and thanks for the oil. you look like you're a fighter, chris. well, i guess i have to be. chris is among the millions of americans who risk their lives each and every day to keep us safe -- our firefighters, our police officers, our emts and first responders -- men and women who sacrifice for others and sometimes need our help. chris: thanks, joe, and thanks to citgo and the peop of venezuela. hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >> you just have a few hours left to see the popular panda tai shan at the national zoo. wrong video, obviously. today is the last day

." >>> tonight, carlton time was, if you got into tuble out here, chris collins, volunteer firefighter, would be there to save your life. then one night, hit by a car at an accident scene, it was his turn to ride in the ambulance. after years of rehab, chris has lened to take care of himself. but money is so tight, he has trouble staying warm. he just can't afford heating oil. nice to meet you, chris. nice to meet you, and thanks for the oil. you look like you're a fighter, chris. well, i guess i have to be. chris is among the millions of americans who risk their lives each and every day to keep us safe -- our firefighters, our police officers, our emts and first responders -- men and women who sacrifice for others and sometimes need our help. chris: thanks, joe, and thanks to citgo and the people of venezuela. hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold.

.  time was, if you got into trouble out here, chris collins, volunteer firefighter, would be there to save your life. then one night, hit by a car at an accident scene, it was his turn to ride in the ambulance. after years of rehab, chris has learned to take care of himself. but money is so tight, he has trouble staying warm. he just can't afford heating oil. nice to meet you, chris. nice to meet you, and thanks for the oil. you look like you're a fighter, chris. well, i guess i have to be. chris is among the millions of americans who risk their lives each and every day to keep us safe -- our firefighters, our police officers, our emts and first responders -- men and women who sacrifice for others and sometimes need our help. chris: thanks, joe, and thanks to citgo and the people of venezuela. hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> you're watching 9news now's continuous team coverage. live from the 9news now safety center. >> welc

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the lawmakers include maryland democrats elijah cummings and chris collins and eleanor holmes norton. >>> and chrysler is dealing with problems of their own. they found a defect with crash sensors that control the airbags on more than 350,000 minivans. the sensors can crack and fail. in 2005 and 06 grand caravan models. this is not a recall according to chrysler but they say you need to contact your dealer to have the sensors replaced. >>> more details this morning about a tragic incident in orlando. one of the whales at sea world -- or one of the killer whales at sea world grabbed a veteran trainer and dragged her under water, killing her. recorder right before the accident but they knew from the start that something was wrong. the podle family took this video after the lunch with shamu show ended at 2:00. they were there celebrating their son's birthday. the video shows the trainer dawn bradow in the tank with the killer whale. they both seemed playful during the show but then they saw the whale drag the girl under the water by her tony tail. this was the last shot before turning of

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time was, if you got into trouble out here, chris collins, volunteer firefighter, would be there to saveen one night, hit by a car at an accident scene, it was his turn to ride in the ambulance. after years of rehab, chris has learned to take care of himself. but money is so tight, he has trouble staying warm. he just can't afford heating oil. nice to meet you, chris. nice to meet you, and thanks for theil. you look like you're a fighter, chris. well, i guess i have to be. chris is among the millions of americans who risk their lives each and every day to keep us safe -- our firefighters, our police officers, our emts and first responders -- men and women who sacrifice for others and sometimes need our help. chris: thanks, joe, and thanks to citgo and the people of venezuela. hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> by a thin margin on capitol hill, the house votes to let the government get $2 trillion more in debt. some house hearts and conserva

now i have the pleasure of throwing it to a man who always finds fun in the snow, pat collins. >> chris, on connecticut avenue, it's starting to come down now. i'd call it flurries but you know how that works. flurries turn into light snow. then big flakes. then before you know it, holy snow plow. what a dilemma we have here on connecticut avenue. how do you measure the new snow with all of the old snow? all you really want to know is what the new snow is going to amount to. hit it, lieutenant turner! ah. before long here, we'll have a new ground zero on connecticut avenue. it will be snow stick ready. and speaking of ready, everybody is getting ready for the second storm. the fire department in a constant state of readiness. and joining us here on connecticut avenue, d.c. fire chief, dennis reuben. how did today go, chief? >> hey, pat. very, very well. we spent a lot of time preparing for the next portion of the storm. 10 to 20 inches. we've been able to refresh, replenish, get our apparatus back in shape, hopefully rest our people. ready for round fo. >> we're all going to be ready. i

chris gordon. >> nice job. >>> well, as we've seen, quite a few people ventured out of their homes today in spite of the awful conditions out there. pat collins spent the day at connecticut avenue in northwest washington. he has met quite a few characters in his -- from his vantage point. pat, what's going on? >> well, doreen, it's still snowing. it's still blowing. and it's still cold. here now, some sights and sounds from our snow day at our post on connecticut avenue. on my tombstone, scott, i'm going to have patty stand by, you're next. you've got a sweater for stanley. and you have a rain coat. >> we do. even in -- even stanley gets cold in this weather. >> so he's got the sweater and the rain coat. >> he's well taken care of. we should have gotten him boots for his paws. >> maybe next storm. >> yeah, exactly. >> all right. >> sam, what brought you out? >> i was hungry. >> the refrigerator empty? >> yeah. i ate all the food from the last storm. nothing there right now. >> so you went and got the pizza? >> yeah. >> what did you get on the pizza? >> there's cheese and green peppers and mushrooms and black olives. >> and this will last you

collins, thanks so much with the police chief. >> thanks, pat. >>> and we are going to check with chris gordon now.up in bethesda along river road and he can tell us what the conditions are looking like there. has it stopped snowing? >> reporter: i'll tell you, i've been watching the