darcy has more. darcy? >> reporter: the victim was running across the parng lot earlier here this evening. apparentlshe was in a hurry to try to catch a metro train or bus, and that's when she was struck and killed by a van here in the parking lot. authorities say the van driver did remain here on the scene and is cooperating with authorities. this is video of that van described by authorities as a shuttle for an area hotel. police sayhe victim apparently ran in front of the van just after 6:00 tonight. she died at an area hospital about one hour later. an accident reconstruction team was here for several hours tonight. the van driver was questioned by police. her status at this point is unknown. authorities say the victim was a 25-year-old woman from maryland. at this point they did not release her identity. apparently she was running towards the metro station and ran in front of the van which struck her, and that was . we're just reminding pedestrians to be careful when they're crossing the street, crossi

just watch darcy in the 1993 film "the nutcracker."e she's made of spun sugar rather than muscle and bone. >> i just loved to work. i loved to try to make my pirouettes butter, my jumps better. ♪ >> for 30 years, longer than most current ballerinas have been alive, dararcy danced for the renowned new york city ballet. but she wasn't born wearing a tutu she grew up in southern california wanting to be just like her four older brothers, until family trip to see rudolph in "sleeping beauty" changed everything. >> when he came out my brother started to giggle because he was wearing tights. and they thought it was, you know, a little too much of a showing. i remember thinking, what are they laughing at? how could they laugh, it's so beautiful. >> it's fair to say that darci had the last laugh. she started studying ballet when she was still in elementary school. and at 16 became the youngest dancer to join the new york city ballet. kissler was the last ballerina to be hand picked by the legendary founder and choreography george ballanchi. fo

reporting live, darcy spencer, news 4. jim, back to you. >> a lg night for them. thank you, darcy. >>> several school districts announced closings and dela for tomorrow. prince williams, spotsylvania, will be closed. you can find all of the delays and closing at the bottom of the screen. >>> coverage of the storm continues. workers have a long night ahead. >> reporter: they certainly do. cre inside th massive salt dome here behind me. they have been here around the clock. the shift that's on right now will be here until 7:30 tomorrow morning. salting and de-icing around prince georges county. talking to officials, montgomery and prince georges county are certainly ready for the snowfall. many residents got a lot more thanhey expected than a few inch of snow. it's been a long day for kenneth. after working a full shift at the busy mall in groan lt, now he's just trying to get home. but mother nature isn't making easy. >> i had a mishap. to avoid somebody, i hit the bank and my car busted. and i got a doughnut. when i put it on, see. >> reporter: thursday's snow, ev

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darcy spencer talked to the family about the unusual lat delivery. >> reporter: last week the henry familyd a box in the mail full of christmas presents from justine in orlando. it said open the box. so they did. something wasn't quite right. the clothes were too tight and belt too small. and the candy canes, they were stale. >> my son's shirt was a size too small. my daughter's belt didn't -- wasn't even close. reporter: debbie henry texted her sister-in-law to thank her for this rather bizarre box of gifts. >> i said what package? i didn't send you a package. i am not that organized yet. wait sclal don't eat the candy canes! they are really old! >> reporte as it turns tout package had been sent by the nielsens one year ago. the date marked december 17, 2009. but it just arrived at the henry's doorstep more than 8650 miles away. talk about snail mail. >> it is slow. extra slow. >> when you heard it was from a year ago i thought that was crazy. that's ridiculous. how can tey misplace a box and then send it at the exact time they were supposed to send it before a year later? >> reporter: wh

darcy spencer with more on warnings from transportation officials tonight. >> the virginia departmenttransportation has hundreds of trucks out on theoads here in northern virginia pretreating trouble spots. officials say icy road conditions could be a problem for the early morning commute. at the vdot depot in lexandria, trucks load up with salt, the ammunition to battle icy road conditions expected for monday morning commuters. >> the mn concern for tonight will be wet roads becoming icy roads in the morning. >> reporter: vdot is deploying 300 trucks to spread salt on overpasses and bridges and roads known to freeze. >> we're really expecting the temperatur to drop after midnight and possibly connue with precipitation. so the wet pavement becoming icy pavement is really our main concern. >> reporter: bitter cold temperatures are expected to grip the regio already the weather causing major flight delays and cancellations. bill doherty came to washington from st. louis,here it was snowing. >> very blustery in st. louis. it apparently started to ice. they had to pull us off on the tarm

darcy spencer is on ninth street with the latest on this. >> reporter: there's been a lot of last-minu legal wrangling. a petition was filed late yesterday, trying to block this club from reopening today. an appeals court judge denied that petition. dc9 could open here in the next few hours. a popular ninth street bar could reopen for the first time in two months tonight. it will haen under a cloud of controversy. 27-year-old ali mohamed died after police say he was chased, tackled and beaten by four d bar workers in the early morning hours of october 15th. police say he had thrown a brick through the window of the club. an appeal of the d.c. alcohol and control board decision allowing dc9 to open its doors was denied by an appellate court judge. >> the d.c. government, the liquor board, is not doing the right thing. >> reporter: initially the bar workers and owner were charged with second-degree murder in what the d.c. police chief called vigilante justice. the next day the charges are reduced to aggravated asault after the results were inconclusive. all charges were dropped. >> that

for now, darcy spencer, reporting live. >> thank you. >>> the pentagon metro rail station was closed for a couple hours thisorning due to a suspicious package. someone reported seeing some lights blinking in a subway trash can. it started out to be a harmss -- turned out to be a harmless christmas ornament that someone tossed out. during the investigation, trains re forced to pass through the station without stopping. that meant passengers that to get off at a different station and walk or take a bus to the pentagon. the scare me one day after investigators revealed a northern virginia man was arrested for plotting to blow up metro trains. >>> fairfax county police are cracking down on professional shoplifters. they have already arrested dozens of people and recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise stolen from our local malls. chris goon joins us now with more on this crackdown during the holiday season. >> reporter: good evening. police say some of the shoplifters are local and others are from out ofstate. they're stealing identification, using phony credit cards an

you will hear from gretna criminal clerk darcy griffith that porteous insisted that any representation made by the marcottes he checked out with the district attorney, the police or the jail before the granting of a bond. indeed, you will hear testimony that judge porteous himself often picked up a phone, called the prosecutors, called the jail, to personally make sure that the underlying facts were correct. perhaps the most serious misrepresentation to the house was the portrayal of judge porteous' granting bonds and splitting bonds. a split bond is well-known to criminal defense attorneys. it is simply split between a commercial component and a property or third party component. in this way a person who might not be able to afford the full or entire bond could still secure the bond by getting a family member to come in and put her property up as a surety. despite the reputations made in this case, judge porteous did not invent split bond. most judges, and you will hear testimony, most judges in gretna split bonds with the support of the state prosecutors. split bond reviewed as a way

you will hear from gretna criminal clerk, darcy griffin that any representations made by the marcottes be checked out with the district attorney, the police, or the jail before the granting of a bond. up deed, you will hear testimony that judge porteous himself picked up a phone, called the prosecutors or the jail to personally make sure that the gorped lying facts were correct. perhaps the most serious misrepresentation to the house with the portrayal of judge porteous' granting bonds and splitting bonds. now a split bond is well-known to criminal defense attorneys. it is simply split between a commercial component and a property or third party component. in this way, a person who might not be able to afford the full or entire bond could still secure the bond by getting a family member to come in and put her property up as assurety. now, judge porteous did not invent split bonds. most judges, you will hear testimony, most judges in gretna split bonds with the support of the state prosecutors. split boppedz were viewed as a -- bonds were viewed as a way for prisoners who would be other

darcy a rest. let him remain within the covers ofs the book, and let the bennet sisters do their business, you know, in words. se we don't need to see anotherse bunch of actors being these people. i've seen more adaptations ofejd pride and prejudice than i care for. >> host: in several of your books, i've come across a phrasing, and i'm going to paraphrase a little bit, but you've written for the new to be born, the old must die. >> guest: yeah.we well, i hi it's originally -- i think it's originally the italian marxist antonio gramsci who talked about a transitional phase in which he says the oldcn refuses to die, and the new cannot be born. and be he says in that there ariseth a whole variety, a large variety of morbid symptoms. and i think, you know, he wass talking about a moment when he wanted a certain kind of revolution, you know, whichappe obviously didn't happen. but i think it's true that what happens -- we live in a time of. colossal change, i mean, closepi colossald,. very rapid, very r