his entire family was here, dan snyder was here and the redskins trainer and security staff are definitely protecting their investment. we'll see you in a minute. >> amazing pictures. if you didn't know griffin had surgery 3 1/2 weeks ago you wouldn't watch know by watching him walk around tonight. and we'll have more on the rehab later in sports. >>> to the weather now, light snow fell across the area tonight. started with flurries for most of the afternoon and then around sunset the flakes really started to fly giving us a light coating on our cars and on the ground as well. let's find out if there's more where that came and here's chuck bell with a first look at the forecast, right on schedu, right, chuck? >> absolutely, jim, this is two clippers in two days and another chance tomorrow and yet another chance coming up on monday. the first clipper that we dealt with a few hours ago the bulk is moving on out, still snow showers from western virginia and southwestern virginia as well but in and around town not a whole lot left going on. passing snowflakes and temperatures have come up sinc

if the redskins choose the route, dan snyder versus every owner in the nfl. and the cowboys were docked salary space, significantly less, $5 million for the season destd decision to penalize both teams. and multiple reports say the redskins haven't given up. speaking of caps. and a cool 3.7 million. and two years. $4 million. this season, averaging the most ice time. >>> not a big surprise friday. peterson's first title defense in 14 months. he had the controversial win over them and then tested positive for synthetic testosterone. now, he is back. >> i just trying to remind people that i am a top fighter. you know? even before the kahn fight. and just remind people that look if you take the kahn fight away from me that fight never

. >> reporter: and do you hear that dan snyder? a new lawsuit to get the redskins name changed, expected to be heard next month at the u.s. patent and trademark office. in the meantime all this talk of a possible redskins name change, it is lighting up the wusa facebook page. one viewer writes can it not be it? and why is it hateful? because it is not. another facebooker says to leave it alone. not everything is racially motivated. another response, the native americans might see it a little differently. if you could have them call on the redskins that we could have a teen be called the n word. sounds fair. it is just a great derogatory term as they are to the african americans. want to join in on the conversations? you could do it any time. just log on to wusa9's facebook page. >>> the search is on for the body of the 2-year-old little girl. apparently carded away in the trash. her mother is now charged with murder. annapolis police arrested the 25-year-old chelsea booth early this morning. >> i'm scott broom in annapolis junction

dan snyder will be a hero. >> reporter: he says it will take more than today's pow wow to get it done. meantime a new lawsuit will be heard next month to try to get the redskins to change its name. in washington, surae chinn, wusa9. >> well, as the week comes to andrea we want the leave -- an end we want to leave you with some of our best moments. >> we hope they make you smile. we've had a great week. take a look. >> they did it. they held on until the bitter end. ♪ >> so we got to get the heart pumping. >> are you all ready? you all ready to get up. exercise into one. all right. >> montgomery blare high school -- >> you are proud of your high school. >> i am. >> woo-hoo! ♪ >> wizards no longer the worst record in the nba. >> do you know what that means right? you're reading the rest of the show. >> okay go ahead and enjoy. ♪ >> and after that i want to say "call me maybe." i love that song. good morning, thank you for watching wusa9 at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. you are welcome to our home here. >> and it is friday. so how bad is that right? i'm mike hydeck, thank you for joining u

i think dan snyder and the organization have made it very clear they are proud of the heritage and the name, and i believe the fans are too. >> always a hot topic. but the team everybody is talking about right now is the ravens. >> we will have some stuff that you really want to see. up next, tax problems for a popular business. >> we are talking about georgetown cupcake. >> anyone who has been to georgetown cupcake, which is a lot of people, you know the deal -- the stand in line sometimes with in a while before ordering. >> despite their popularity, the city said they cannot pay up to $200,000 that they owe in taxes. natasha barrett has the story from georgetown. >> the officials at the d.c. tax office said they tried to get in touch with georgetown cupcake several times, by mail, over the phone, and heard nothing until last night. the popular store along m street in georgetown is known for its devoted customers who lined up around the store, and it has a hit tlc reality show, featuring the owners who are sisters. >> it is really ought to. it does not make sense, to forget about some

he was joined by owner dan snyder and g.m. bruce allen. it's the first time in ten years the redskins have changed training camp locations. >> that will do it for your morning sports. i'm kristen berset. have a great friday. >>> look it here. the capitals looking for their third straight win. on a visit to tampa last night, already up 2-1. a bullet into the net. washington jumped to a 4-1 lead. the lightning got back in it with two goals of their own. the caps did hold on for a 4-3 win. that is three in a row after really a horrible start to the season for the caps. >> talk about horrible. these passengers on their trip, relieved passengers though are finally enjoying hot showers and good meals and working toilets after getting off that crippled cruise ship. their story coming up. >>> plus, we are not making this up. a meteor explosion has caused hundreds of injuries and damage halfway around the world. monika? >> if you're planning to head on the inner loop of the beltway northbound 495 leaving river road, there's some tire debris along t

and try to find somebody who would have anything nice to say about dan snyder, right?would have a really hard time. even long-time fans of the team. >> bill: the only people who would have anything nice to say are the people who get invited to sit in his box, the same people every game. they love him. everybody else hates him. even the players. hey, we've got -- lot going on today. so igor volsky, it's tuesday. igor volsky from think progress will be along as always to bring us up to date on what think progress is working on. we're excited to welcome back our favorite republican commentator to the show, who says we're not fair and balanced rich galen who runs that blog, founded a blog called mullings.com will be here to bring us up to date on the goings on on the republican party. and then david jackson will be joining us from the white house to tell us why white house. >> reporter: s are all upset today -- why. >> reporter: s the republican party has found their savior. she's going to save them. >> on this tuesday other headlines making news, burger king had itself a

. >> do the redskins, does dan snyder have an official position on this?as not met with the people who are advocating the change. but his lawyers representing his team have been fighting them in court over the trademark for many years. and i don't think he's actually said anything publically about it except that he didn't want to change the name. he's been quoted as saying that it's tradition, he has some concern about all of the controversy about it. i think that the legal case doesn't look to me to be as strong as the moral or philosophical case. >> because basically trademark law as i understand it and it's really complicated. i read several hundred pages of briefs recently on this. it's very complicated. if the word was not used with intent to disparage from the beginning, then you can make a case at least in court that you can keep using it forever. now, i think in this case even if it wasn't used with intent to disparage in the beginning which i believe personally, the term has become seen as more disparaging overtime. for instance, the earlier dicti