frederick westminster abbey low taylor, 1911 christine frederick and efficiency engineer of the household in her book, the new housekeeping. john b. watson we might consider an engineer of a sigh i can and certainly behavior. famous for advocacy behavioralist, psychology, and walter lippmann. a young man, he's writing drift in mastery his first big book in 1917 but will become a kind of fixture of american pundit ri, political commentary. he is the an engineer too. coming right out of the progressive and prague notist tradition. in fact embodying those traditions. engineer of politics and public life. what do i mean by that. people like lippmann and his colleagues. here a importantly a new republic. we're in favor of fact finding and politics. that should ring some bells right? and john dewy. to figure out the fair distribution of a crisis and perhaps the public ownership of city utilities right electricity. gas. they wanted experts on workplace regulation to draft legislation not politicians, right but people who knew something about regulation to be doing the drafting of legislation. th

here again is -- that is not christine frederick but that is someone who looks like christine frederick. the start in the late 19th century but take on an expert-driven advice. the new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. household engineer and professional consultant. one question we might pose here, i think it's clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. right? but how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment? what's changed and what's remained the same? nothing is every totally a break with the past, we might say. what strikes about you this? >> she has taken this idea of the scientific method and applied it to make it as efficient as possible and saving time in everything way and everything is planned out. at the end i was interested when she threw out this is why this is so important and women are leaving -- becoming mothers to join the work force and that's slil because housekeeping is so important. that reminded me of the beacher sisters. it was her taking the new methods but

visit ncicap.org] drug busts in frederick county. these sheriff's department and the department of homeland security just wrapped up a news conference on that bust. john gonzales has the latest. >> there is currently a heroin crisis in maryland according to the sheriff's office. the seat of tables inside the sharks office give you an idea of how bad the problem is. of0 grams of pot, a number guns, you can see -- everything confiscated as a part of two major busts in frederick county. sheriff's office, state attorney, and the fbi have been working together in an operation that has resulted in 90 people being charged since last year. enormous amount of pearson here with deadly consequences. >> the number of overdoses in inderick county -- just 2014, we have had 83 heroin related overdoses, 22 of those fatal. >> state police are trying to stay on top of what has become a large hub of dark activity here in maryland. distributors have been arrested, including a woman who is pregnant. state's attorney was longer and stiffer penalties becau

frederick martin. was lost in a he huge blizzard in alaska. and was not able to finish the trip. in a way, he lost his place in aviation history. but he didn't. december 7, 1941. in charge of all airfields in hawaii? frederick martin. and his s out that he counterpart, belanger, had report predicting the attack of the japanese on pearl harbor to the letter. the time it occurred, the day week it would occur. read before the war and -- in 1947, -- 1937, a man comes here from delaware. he wants to be a pilot. he doesn't finish at purdue, he finishes in the army. december 7, 1941, he is in hawaii. his plane is out at a royal airfield. frankly, he was out all night. all night playing poker -- out all night playing poker. just as the attacks started, he got into a car, and raced out to his airplane -- which was portrayed in the movie "pearl harbor". >> they look like jets. >> i didn't even know the jets -- >> get me to my god damn airplane. >> and he got up, and he was to shoot down four japanese airplanes t

i focus on the literary works on frederick on home economics and frederick taylor who saw to improve industrial efficiency. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. great. hello everybody. today as you know we're going to take up the topic engineering, work and the person. and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of the characters in his novel. and just to sort of summarize where we got last time. in the pages, i think we saw the workings of many things. not just a sto

but actually, frederick is just doing it, right?. notice what she borrows, right, t from the factory?ory. she talks about, well, men in the factories do r#(wsthis. i'm also using this index card system on my wall. i borrowed this from my husband right? so there's this kind of lelism parallelism that she's sketching, which may be enough be e to keep women in the home to feel that their work is as professional, right asjcÑ ientif scientificic as requiring of scientific attention and care. yeah? >> i think it's interesting but maybe more subtle contrast between the two is maybe how deal they deal with housekeepers or mothers of different classes. because in beacher, it was if you were f of greater means that you should be more philanthropic, and set up homes up for children, and use your money in terms of philanthropy. but in frederick she uses the efficiency as an equalizer. she on page 41 she said a strong as mo reason is are tool is more omen c efficient anmethods.um when someone can afford a vacuum motor o cleaner or other excellent

of martinsburg and across the maryland line into washington county and north central and central frederick county. just some wet snowflakes coming do above freezing n ds melting on the alling for grassy areas. there may be a light accumulation on grassy areas, frederick, washington, panhandle of west vir two hovering near 4. your drive time forecast for today, well, rain and maybe a little bit of sleet north and west. mostly rain. so a wet commute through the morning and then during the afternoon only in the upper 30s to near 40 with another round of showers coming through during the afternoon. rain by them. up next, weather and traffic on the 1s. the hour by hour breakdown. melissa, how are the roads? pr moe'll be talking about the for sure. megan mcgrath will be tweeting. so will i. southbou 123 and spout run from a sinkhole f. you're on g.w. parkway they'll push you off 123. work your way over it to the spout run if you're trying to get down to the airport. taking a look here other spots in virginia 66, 95 looking good. no problems there. george's county moving right along, no construct

[applause] >> you begin the book with frederick douglass. really interesting choice because he was a very complicated guy, wasn't he? tell us about his bearing witness and a.at which he glossed sight of that. >> it is always on fire. . tubman 19 times, in the belly of the beast. david walker, he is a dead man 9 years later in boston. what a bounty on his head. willing to tell that kind of truth, vicious forms of evil in this society, not just white supremacy but spills over, to indigenous peoples, coordination of working people, anti-jewish, anti-arab, anti catholic, all of those part of our history but white supremacy sitting at the center. frederick douglass is the most eloquent picks slave in the history of the modern world. by eloquence i'm talking cicero and eloquence, wisdom speaking in the face of catastrophe. there is nothing like him. he is part of the american imperial machine and his relation to haiti and the dominican republic and my critique, it is hard to be on fire for a long time because you have 1860's 7-65. he had 30 years

i focus on the literary works on frederick on home economics and frederick taylor who saw to improvestrial efficiency. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. great. hello everybody. today as you know we're going to take up the topic engineering, work and the person. and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of the characters in his novel. and just to sort of summarize where we got last time. in the pages, i think we saw the workings of many things. not just a story, r

in frederick county. this is going to continue as we move on through the night, but everybody is going to be on the wet side tonight as there's a lot more moisture back to the west. because of the moisture and the colder air, areas will see a lot of sleet over the next 12 to 24 hours, back to winchester, frederick, martinsburg. winter weather advisory in effect until 1:00 a.m. on inside, a 24-hour winter weather advisory. we'll talk about the timing of this and what it means to your tuesday morning commute coming up in just a minute. >>> new at 11:00, an ambulance driver is in the hospital with critical injuries, after a crash involving several cars. it happened about 7:00 this evening at washington boulevard near kit kat road in elk ridge. several lanes were shut down by police and will remanin closed for a couple more hours. no word yet what caused this accident. >>> a warning tonight after a student at the university of maryland told police she was sexually assaulted. jackie bensen in college park righ

, -- up in northern maryland out of frederick, they have leaved the west minutester area. a couple -- westminster area. a couple of sprinkles here but it's fairly light. what we're looking at for the rest of today is mainly clouds. maybe if we're lucky a peak of sunshine but don't count on t. south and west could flirt with 60. a cold front comes tonight a. stray shower with that. we'll be in the 40s by 9:30. 30s tomorrow morning. looks blustery on thursday. weekend it's a 50-50 weekend. i'll tell you which is the better 50 for you when i come back with the forecast in a few minutes. >> howard, thank you. >>> still ahead on wusa9, in the hot seat. manufacturers of airbags linked to several deaths undergo sharp questioning on capitol hill. >> plus, a new cosby accuser comes forward. this woman says she was underage when she was victimized. those stor >> investigators in ten ten want -- in tennessee want to know what caused a fatal school bus crash. two young children and an adult were killed when two buses collided in knoxville. more than ten others were hurt. a bus was tra

frederick is a great programmer, i was talking to frederick last summer about giving him more time.ffered him an opportunity of moving from atlantic city to his own apartment in new york city. he jumped at that idea, i would be able to arrange that he would be able to work for me full time. he's dedicated, i can always find him here, he will work sometimes 12 hours a day, he even called me once he stayed up all night working on a project. >> that's pretty much everything. >> behind the key word it doesn't matter that physically you know my body doesn't work properly. everybody is the same behind the keyboard as long as you can use the keyboard. i work two jobs. i work one job is with my boss aaron. aaron pays for the rent here. that's $13 pe -- $1300 a month. he's a tenant here, he pays for rent. >> good afternoon. >> my name is frederick brennan. i'm just calling to see when the nurse is going to be here to help me with my intake. it's been around a month. i believe i first called you guys in january or december. as part of my medical coverage i'm entitled to an aide. i only make a

we talk to police here in frederick. >> reporter: a cab driver is shot and killed after picking up a'm surae chinn in capitol heights with the very latest. >> reporter: streets are empty now, but in a few hours it's going to be shoulder to shoulder in old town, alexandria, as people bring in the new year. >> i'm first alert meteorologist erica grow. temperatures will feel like they're in the teens when you wake up tomorrow morning, a chilly new year's day forecast coming up. >> good evening. i'm jan jeffcoat. >>> the search for a missing frederick toddler comes to a tragic end tonight. >> i'm debra alfarone. police say the body found near an ohio creek this morning is that of 14-month-old cameron beckford. the child's mother told police she left her child on a stranger's doorstep. >> what kind of charges the woman could face. >> reporter: i'm stephanie ramirez in frederick where we learned from police today this was not a kidnapping, that the mother went to ohio around december 15th supposedly to visit friends and family, but in ohio is where everything went wrong for the children's

for areas to the west, including frederick county, hagerstown right down 81.nd everybody to the west of the blue ridge, it does not include the d.c. metro area. we will see just rain here. i'll talk about how the rain will move in when it moves out and what to expect over the next couple days as this roller coaster will just continue. >> doug, thank you. >>> new details on a breaking story in georgetown university now being pulled into the scandal involving that rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women. the news4 i-team broke this story online just about an hour ago. tisha thompson obtained the lawsuit and joins us now with more. tisha? >> jim, a third-year georgetown university law student only known as jane doe filed a

metro area but does include places along the blue ridge, frederick county, maryland, and frederick county, virginia. mostly for sleet and freezing rain. i'll show who is going to get what during the day tomorrow in a couple minutes. >> thank you, doug. >>> breaking news out of west virginia now. there is a manhunt under way at this hour after four people were killed in three separate shootings that police believe are linked. a fifth person was rushed to the hospital today. this happened in mont gailia county in the north central part of the state. state police have now taken over at least one of the scenes. they're looking for a 39-year-old suspect believed to be in a black ford 150. >>> first at 4:00, a prominent d.c. rabbi accused of videotaping women is now out of a job. kersher israel synagogue announced the termination of barry freundel's contract, accused of secret recording women in a religious bath. two universities where freundel taught have begun investigations of their own. freundel has also got to find a new place to live. right now he's living in a home owned by the synagogue

metro, through loudoun and frederick counties. once we get into the evening hours, clouds return to the area. high temperatures today cooler than they were yesterday. i'll let you know how much in 10 minutes. for now over to melissa with a check of the roads. >> still have this crash on temple hills. this is a closure. beech road at old branch avenue. all lanes blocked. your alternate to get around this is st. barnabas. this has been an accident investigation the past couple of hours now. the inner loop between connecticut and georgia, the crash now on the right shoulder. so nothing really to worry about in terms of traffic flow. wider look at things inner and outer loop. everything moving along nicely. no major problems right now. prince george's county everyone behaving themselves now. 95 in virginia cardinal drive, northbound and southbound moving along. same thing into and out of town on 66. live picture of 270 in 10 minutes. >>> thank you, melissa. 5:02. tensions are running high across the country between police communities

that's why that winter weather advisory is in effect for areas like frederick county, maryland, frederickounty, virginia, areas around i-81. not much going on around d.c. cold again may mix with sleet. sleet bounces off your car. roads just on the wet side. really not too worried about roads here. winter weather advisory, areas of sleet, some snow, but not a lot. roads could get slick, but once again, not a huge deal. we're not talking about shutting down any roadways. i don't expect to see any big problems. 40 degrees for tomorrow on your tuesday. you'll need the coat. 57 on wednesday, though. back up and right back down. 50 degrees on thursday. and then another system moves in that could bring us a little mixture on friday. but then saturday and sunday we're just talking about shower activity and temperatures remaining below average, guys. so yeah, get used to it. say goodbye to the 70s. >> all right. thank you, doug. >>> there was some good news, some bad, and a whole lot of ugly. chris cooley breaks down the redskins fourth straight loss in this week's cooley report. >>> free speech a

reverend dean nelson, he is one thehe cofounders of frederick douglass foundation. and so i'm going to ask you to the community. how wen we talk about want to have a conversation aout crime and guns, is there push and a pull within the faith community as to whether it amendmentsecond rights enforced, or should it be something that, you know, we are as we to get as many guns can possible off the streets? >> well, thank you, regina. and, again, i am here foricularly as a chairman the frederick douglass foundation, which i'd like to affirm is an organization that righteousness and justice, liberty and virtue. minister. licensed and so talking about this is important. much,d appreciate it so from professor johnson, when he talked a little bit about even the civil rights movement, particularly the nonviolent that characterized the civil rights struggle, while you like dr. king, abernethy, these men who practicing nonviolence in their public demonstrations, you would be hard-pressed to find any of them particularly most of being from the south, that had that guns oring we

you do see a little bit of a mix just to the east of i- 81 and frederick county. winter weather advisories, frederick county north and west. nothing crazy, though. a littlebit of rain in leesburg on the moderate side. a mess. heading west 66 westbound or even now northbound on i 270, which is never fun, more rain to worry about. we'll zoom in and you can see pretty good rains from frederick to leesburg, aldi and hay market with lighter activity into fairfax county and rockville and the bethesda area. this is around smithburg. we're looking at hagerstown. there's smithburg. a little bit of freezing rain in this area. temperatures still right around 32. i think you're going to see a little bit of icing on the trees. i don't think the roads will be a problem. when this batch of rain rolls through, temps go up a little bit. 37 in springfield. everybody above freezing in the immediate metro area and that's as low as we'll go tonight. temperatures are going to remain above freezing overnight, they will not fall down. bus stop temperatures, 34 to 44. chilly for the kids

frederick kempe our guest is -- .ur guest is frederick kempe unfortunately we are running out of time. is writing a book tough? >> it is the hardest and most enjoyable thing i've done. you just have to dig so much harder like you do in daily reporting. there is a rewarding at the end. >> where did you write? >> part of the in panama. i wrote the book of the in my home on capitol hill. >> is there a certain time of day you write? >> yes. i write best from 6:00 in the morning to 10:00 in the morning, to 11:00 at night. >> where did you get your first interest in writing? it inhink i already had junior high school and high school. i so much enjoyed writing about things that i saw. reading authors that i enjoyed. >> where did you grow up? what's in salt lake city, utah. i mentioned that to noriega. he asked me where i was from. he said the mormons. many intelligence agents. >> where did you go to school? >> the university of utah. then the journalism school at columbia. >> you wrote some for "newsweek?" >> yes. covering germany and eastern europe. >> you think can in the acknowledgments.

we keep ongoing from there. 25 for frederick. notice teens through manassas down through orange with a little bit of the wind. it will feel uncomfortable. take a look at your seven-day forecast. and so it will be a little bit better as they would be cold, but the winds are out of the southwest. again, 10 to 15 miles per hour, we'll add a little chill. by friday it's getting better, then comes some winds or i'm sorry the rain showers for saturday night in to sunday. now, monday, it will be >>> winter is just a couple weeks old, but before long we will be in to those days when the sunlight seems to be out for this long. what comes with that is seasonal defective disorder. there are some ways to do it. joining us to help us with some of the flus at this time of the year to get you tied to the forensic psychology at the school of psychology and there happens to be a washington, d.c. candidate. thank you so much for coming. >> first and foremost we have talked about it year in and year out. for those that don't know, what is the seaso

and 270 away from the spur you're looking good near frederick. and a wider look of things on the inner loop and outer loop near st. barnabas moving along. and here in virginia we are a little slow through dale city with a little bit of volume. back with traffic in ten minutes. >>> he was shot in the head but today 9-year-old jayden scantell is recovering at home. he took a huge step in his recovery to leave the hospital. as he left the hospital he was giggling a sight his mother never thought she would see again. he was playing on a playground in d.c. when a stray bullet hit him in the head. the doctors told him and his family he would die. >> i am just overwhelmed. my son has done a remarkable recovery thanks to children's hospital. >> the concern for jayden's mother is now returning to the old neighborhood. jayden just wants to live somewhere safe. fmplts you live in sterling, virginia soon you'll be able to go to two brand new convenient stores. they plan to put a gas station at the corner of old dock and sh shaw road. we are not sure when you

this afternoon at gary rollins funeral home in frederick and again from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. tonight at jackson chapel united methodist church. that is also in frederick. >>> still ahead on wusa9, a republican lawmaker gives president obama rare kudos on his handling of the sony cyber attack. sort of. >>> plus, should another country aside from north korea be held accountable for this as well? we'll explain, coming up after the break. as a small business owner you wouldn't deliver just half of what you have to offer to your customers. so why are you settling for half-fast internet? only verizon fios comes with speedmatch. upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. so large files are sent in a snap and video conferences with customers are seamless. don't miss your last chance to get $300 when you switch to fios internet and phone for just $99.99 a month with a 2-year agreement. that's $300 when you switch to internet and phone with 99.9% network reliability. and verizon is ranked highest in customer satisfaction by j.d. power. call 1.888.410.4404 now to get america's only

in frederick stephanie rez, wusa9 news. >> details are hard to listen to. >>> a cab driver shot and killed after picking up a passenger in capitol heights and police are looking for the gunman. surae chinn is live in the neighborhood where it happened. >> reporter: the 29-year-old cab driver from ethiopia was found in the 800 block of in capitol heights maryland and police are searching for a shooter. the owner of the company silver cab of prince george's county says khdeir yaya leased his car from them and has been driving for them for two years. he said he was a good guy, a good driver and he had picked someone up after being flagged down at the addison metro station. at 6:00 we talk to the cab company owner, other cab drivers. they say they feel they've lost a family member coming up in the next hour. >>> prince george's county police made an arrest in a murder in fairmount heights. alexis henderson is now charged with first degree murder. it's thought henderson got into an argument with the victim rafael frazier that ended with frazier being stabbed to death. his body was found inside

frederick county maryland, frederick county, virginia, the panhandle of west virginia down i-81. he'll be back later on to talk about how this round of winter weather -- we told you it wouldn't be much, but the next round, i'll talk about that, too. what's happening next. i've got your forecast. >> thanks, doug. >>> a georgetown law student says her university should have done more to protect her from a rabbi who worked there. he is accused of secretly videotaping women during a ritual bath, and now she has filed a class action lawsuit. and as the news4 i-team's tisha thompson reports, that lawsuit names both the university and the georgetown synagogue. >> reporter: that is where rabbi barry freundel is accused of illegally videotaping women as they undressed and went into a ritual bath known as a mikvah. as a professor at georgetown's law school, he encouraged the student to write a term paper on the ritual bath and told her to research it by immersing herself on two different occasions. the suit says she is one of at least 100 women who might have been videotaped, and says the

reverend dean nelson, he is one of the cofounders of the frederick douglass foundation. and so i'm going to ask you to speak to the community. and when we talk about how we want to have a conversation about crime and guns, is there a push and a pull within the faith community as to whether it should be second amendment rights enforced, or should it be something that, you know, we are trying to get as many guns as we can possible off the streets? >> well, thank you, regina. and, again, i am here particularly as a chairman for the frederick douglass foundation, which i'd like to affirm is an organization that believes in righteousness and justice, liberty and virtue. and i am a licensed minister. and so talking about this is important. i would appreciate it so much, from professor johnson, when he talked a little bit about even the civil rights movement, particularly the nonviolent approach that characterized the civil rights struggle, while you had leaders like dr. king, abernethy, these men who understood practicing nonviolence in their public demonstrations, you would b

these folks are headed northbound near frederick. more in ten minutes. >>> reaction after the virginia congressman said one of his colleagues spoke to a white supremacist group. >>> and how the president managed to put a wrench in the plans for >>> he was shot in the head but today 9-year-old jayden sanchel is recovering at home. this is a huge step in his recovery. when he left the hospital he was giggling and that's a sight his mom never thought she would see again. he was on a playground in south d.c. when a stray bullet struck him in the head. doctors told his mother that he would die so it's a miracle that he's alive. >> i am just overwhelmed. my son has done a remarkable recovery thanks to children's hospital. >> the concern for jayden's mother now is returning back to the old neighborhood. jay deppn just wants to live somewhere safe. >>> and last-minute mcfadden's is closed after five people were stab there had on friday night. the alcohol board will issue a statement on whether they can reopen by 4:00 wednesday afternoon. the

. >> were tracking a developing story about a missing 14-month-old from frederick. cameron beckford's mother claims she left the tower on the front porch last night. she abandoned the boy from columbus ohio. police were alerted to the case after the children's father asked him to check on the children's welfare. more on that story coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. >> dozens of elite military divers are planning to join the search for wreckage of air asia flight 8501. the search will resume in relatively shallow water after debris and some bodies were found floating nearby. >> the grief is heart wrenching. 162 souls on board, 17 children one infant. search and recovery team say there is no hope they will find any survivors. >> it was a horrible experience but we would do our best to help them right now. >> the debris, undeniable remnants of flight 8501. the chief of indonesia search-and-rescue said the team had retreat -- retrieve pieces of the plane along with a blue suitcase. several bodies have also been re the pilot reported problems with bad weather, but it's sti

if you're in frederick, you'll have sun from 9:00 on, clouds staying to your south. next three days, there's our end of the year, cold, clear, quiet, 38, still cold new years day, 40, but pretty good news for the winter classic. no wind, no sleet, no snow, not so bad really. back in the mid-40s on friday. rain develops saturday. i suppose a little cold air could be wedged in, maybe a little sleet north and west of town briefly, but it's a rain event, rain and 52 sunday and then pretty good arctic air on monday, liking that, only 30 for a high. >> i hope it's not a harbinger of things to come. >>> speaking of harbingers, the mighty wizards in action against that bearded guy? >> i know. the houston rockets, they haven't won in houston in 25 road games. they're starting a tough west coast road stretch tonight. they had an unforeseen delay of the game. >> and we'll check in with the great 8 of the caps >>> now wusa9 game on sports brought to you by xfinity. >> the wizards began a five- game western road trip tonight and look to extend their road win streak to four agains

lincoln. >> sir. >> frederick. is your father able to tolerate a friend?>> seward's jaw is broken in two places and his right arm is fractured. so on april 9th, unaware of lee's surrender, lincoln returns to washington to visit his injured secretary of state. >> i think we near ly, richmond is back in the arms. i walked her streets. i sat in jeff davis' own chair. >> thank you for coming, mr. president. >> how could i stay away when my secretary of state is rendered in such a way as he cannot but listen? i have worked my own hand as hard as at sawing wood, so many others hands have i shaken. i was at the prison. general weitzle asked me point blank how to treat the defeated confederate soldiers. i told him to let them up easy. my old friend. >> it is close to 10:00 p.m. when secretary of war stanton delivers to lincoln the telegram reporting that robert e. lee has surrendered. the next day washington city is in full celebration. a crowd gathers in front of the white house to serenade lincoln and to call for him to speak. he politely promises a speech the n

. >> and that breaking news involves a toddler from frederick, maryland, reported missing after his mother took him off to ohio. police now have charged 24-year-old fa nisha stevens in connection with her son's disappearance. they say she is partially cooperating but search crews still have to find her son. kevin lewis is live with the breaking details. >> leon, prosecutors in columbus ohio, have charged stevens with tampering with evidence and endangering the life of a child. it is alleged the 24-year-old mother took her 14-month-old son cameron beckford and his sister to a relative's house in ohio. what happened there? that is the mystery tonight. a massive search for a tiny toddler. 14-month-old cameron beck foverment police canvased a columbus, ohio park. dive teams searched the creek. by the end of the day the police renamed their investigation to a recovery mission. >> mom took cameron and his 6-year-old sister to a relative's home. the father became nervous and contacted authorities. >> look building at phone numbers that we had on file and ba we were able to locate a possible addre

the boy's father asked frederick police to do a well fare check. the mother took the toddler and his sister to ohio this month. the girl has been located. >> a portion of columbia pike is closed tonight in both directions water main break. a 16-inch water main broke just after 9:00 this morning. no word when columbia pike will reopen. look at that. >> let's hope the water doesn't have to freeze in the next few days. >> boy. >> we are told to get ready for very cold temperatures. >> chief meteorologist dug dug is here to show -- doug hill is here to show us how low the temperatures will go. >> some of the water where it runs off, ice is possible in that area. current temperatures, down to 32 in gaithersburg, washington dulles with 40 degrees. through the evening, lower 30's. by tomorrow morning we'll be near 20, 21. even in downtown washington, a cold start to the day and new year's eve will be sunny. highs 37 to 41. the breeze will make it feel colder. what about new year's day and the first weekend of the new year? i'll have that momentarily. >> a

ambush killings two new yo >>> there is new information tonight in a murder on christmas eve in frederick co 20-year-old was shot a number of times by anoth along u.s. 40 in middle town maryland. the female suspect has not been . police have charged a man named curtis evans with accessory after the fact and first degree murder. police say he drove the suspect to new york after th >>> the search for a missing toddler has now turned into a 14 blap month old's . >> his father lives in frederick maryland he reported the boy and his six-year-old sister missing the mom took them earlier this month. the mother told the father she left cameron an theporch of a housing development. > a broken water main shut down one of the busiest roads in fair. we are live at columbia pi >> we have late word that these repairs could indeed linger into to. it was a slow painful crawl home along columbia pike in the bailey's cross roads area. thousands of motorists sat waiting to be diverted onto near by streets. >> i've gone hal >> my house is one block aw. been sitting 30 minutes. >> the cause a 16 inch water ma

a missing child alert was issued earlier this month after the boy's father in frederick maryland told police he took camera and a sister out of state. the little girl is now in custody of child there is is. we are learning more about the man shot to death in capitol heights overnight. we have confirmed the victim was in fact a taxicab driver. talked to people who live barack -- along the drive where that occurred. >> i looked out the window and saw police cars are doubt. >> a deadly investigation after a taxi driver was shot dead inside his cab. >> it was kind of shocking. the area is relatively safe. >> police say it all happened here in this neighborhood just before one of. take a look at this video. you can see this solar -- silver cap sitting with the lights on. police found a man yet to be identified inside with gunshot wounds. he died a short time later. you can see from the bumper the cap collided with another car at some point. >> some neighbors say this is a relatively quiet neighborhood and they have only seen petty crimes. they say they had never seen anything like this. ho

frederick 34, martinsburg 35, reagan national hanging on at 44, lexington park at 41. the satellite radar, all of the action suppressed south of fredericksburg where we might have light snow mixing in the week -- mixing in with the wintry mix. montgomery county, frederick county washington county, not going to be a problem tomorrow morning other than the typical rush-hour commute, although should be like because of the holidays. light snow or rain possible in the morning, mainly south of d.c. ranging from the upper 20's to middle 30's. through new year's eve into the upcoming new year, we have a shot of colder air on the way. how cold will get? details coming up. >> stay with abc 7 adnd wjla.com as we track the forecast. techie gerace will update the forecast tomorrow morning. -- jacqui jeras will update the forecast more morning. >> former president george h.w. bush will remain at the hospital another night. he is waiting for doctors to return home. tomorrow will be one week since the former president was admitted to hospital after scares from shortness of breath. in

cameron's father lives in frederick, maryland. he reported the boy and 6-year-old sister missing after their mother took them earlier this month. the girl is now in the care of child protective services. the mother faces childen dangering and tampering with evidence. well it is new year's eve. a whole lot going on in our area to ring in the new year. alexandria you can attend first night. shops and buildings in old town will turn into performance venues. you're looking at video from last year's last night sell operation. the main stage to watch the ball drop at broad and washington streets. no matter what you decide to do tonight, make stay safe. the washington regional program is offering free rides home as part of soberride to discourage drunk driving. call 1-800-200-taxi. the free rides end at 6:00 a.m. >>> metro will be running trains tonight until 2015. most will run into 2:00 a.m. two hours later than normal. if you miss the last train, you'll have to wait longer than normal to get the next one. trains won't start running un

the funeral is set for tuesday in frederick. happening now, crews are on the scene of a fatal crash in fairfax county just before 10:00 on the shoulder of interstate 495 south. this is route seven chopper video. it is not clear yet, exactly what caused the accident. we do know the two right lanes are blocked. two people were taken to the hospital after a crash involving an dump truck in prince george's county this morning. -- involving a dump truck entrenched george's county this morning. -- in prince george's county this morning. both lanes of ranch avenue were shut down while the crews cleaned up the mess. -- branch avenue were shut down while the crews cleaned up the mess. we just learned that the washington monument is back open. it was closed this morning for a leak. right above the screening room at the entrance, they say at affected the x-ray machine. officials say that it opened up about 15 minutes ago. it has been raining for the past couple of days. big changes, temperatures are dropping for the last two days of the ye

frederick douglass to do? >> boy, again, this is not an element of lincoln's schedule that i'm familiar with. i did hear about this recently. what douglass, to the best of my memory, was with meeting with him about was, one, to, you know, continue to support emancipation. but also pushing for voting rights. >> in addition, again, this is a wonderful period. lincoln asked frederick douglass to organize an underground movement in the south if he lost the election that would get as many slaves to escape as possible from the south, if he lost the election. and to have that underground movement in place in case the election went the wrong way. and that's an extraordinary covert assignment that douglass took on and was glad he didn't have to carry out. >> but, of course, this -- this would be in keeping with the emancipation proclamation itself which was designed to go at the , soft underbelly of the confederacy, which was slavery. the reason 80% of military age white southern men can be in the military is because y

temperatures still -- 48 in frederick, 51 in hagerstown. wind, thatsterly means the cold front is through, bringing in the cooler and drier air. overnight, partly cloudy and cold here in the wind will flare up and diminish later, 30-37 degrees. we will look toward the week in and be our seven day outlook coming up in about 13 minutes. >> let me tell you how happy we are that you are joining us this afternoon. a new study shows that more americans are turning away from live tv for streaming services these days. americans say they now stream shows at least once a month. it's up 60% to almost 11 hours a month. take you for joining us. one thing you cannot readily stream is a sporting event. >> two of the biggest games are happening in the d c area tonight. tim brant is here with a preview as the wizards take on the lakers. >> you have nba, college basketball tonight. i woke up this morning and had to check the calendar. it's like march 3 instead of december 3. march madness in december. the lakers visit the phone booth. let starting college pa

flowers have been arriving all day here at the rollins funeral home in frederick. church members, community leaders, friends, and family all remembering a woman well loved in the community. >> she was well loved in her church and community. she loved her church. >> prosecutors say she was killed on december 22 by her own granddaughter, the 19-year-old harris, who along with her four-month-old child had been living with her. harris told police she saw a hooded black male running from the home after her grandmother was attacked multiple times with a knife, but police said they found a lady t-shirt going to harris and other inconsistencies in her account. she was arrested and held without bail. now, they are remembering a woman who spent decades helping in the school system and only recently organizing an event in her church to help others. a funeral service will be held tomorrow for morris at the methodist church where she was so actively involved here in frederick. meantime, her granddaughter will undergo a mental evaluation but right now, she faces first-degree mur

this is the time lapse we will share with you from frederick, maryland. a lot of clouds this morning, but frederick and other areas the high-pressure built-in clear skies over day and it turned into a beautiful tuesday with lots of sunshine and temperatures just about average for late december. 28 degrees in frostburg rockville with 34. 35 in laurel. the lows were pretty chilly this morning. right now the warm spot locally is reagan national. tonight with clear skies and light winds and dry air with high pressure overhead, 20-30 degrees will be the range of temperatures by tomorrow morning. around the eastern part of the country is plenty cold. caribou maine, two degrees below zero. still hanging at 80 degrees in miami. that's relatively mild. the farther west you go, the colder it gets. two degrees in minneapolis. that is the core of the arctic air mass. now showing signs of spreading east and that's how we will get the colder temperatures tomorrow with high pressure pushing across the appellations. maybe near 40 degrees for new year's day. friday the ar

frederick police are working with ohio police who are handling the charges at this time. >> i guess we're asking the community to keep this family in their prayers. this is a very tough situation obviously for the father who is having to now deal with traveling to ohio to regain custody of his 6-year-old. >> stevens originally told police she left 14-month-old cameron at a stranger's doorstep. >>> police are looking for a suspect they say took off bound in handcuffs, 21-year-old devonte trusty of curtis bay on the run since monday when police found drugs on him during a traffic stop in pasadena. they arrested him. he somehow managed to get away. officials say trusty is scheduled for trial in february on burglary, assault and gun charges. >>> let's take a live look at new year's in paris because it's 2015 there already. >> so pretty. >> i wish i was there i think. i'm very happy to be here, however. many of us venturing out tonight to ring in the new year. >> of course, you're happy to be here. who wants to be outside? you got to have a coat and gloves. it's going to be rather chilly. eric