gainesville on 66. we're in great shape. and we're going to end with a live look northbound 95. southbound 95 pothole repair in dale city. back to you guys. >>> thank you monika. it's something most of us do almost every day. you walk to the front door after you hear a knock or the doorbell and you open the door. >> but when a longtime alexandria resident did that yesterday, it cost her her life. delia goncalves is live in alexandria this morning with more on a murder that police are trying to solve quickly. good morning delia. do they have any information to go on? >> reporter: not just yet. however, police are still actively searching the area and they have this home still taped off well after this crime occurred at 11:30 in the morning. as you mentioned the gunman knocked on the door and fired his gun needily after the women -- immediately after the women opened the door police are telling us. this morning that gunman is still on the loose. music teacher and lifelong resident 59-year-old ruthanne lodato was killed a caretaker who also answered the door was shot but we're told

fiance, jason doyle, immediately drove the 400 miles from his home in miami to michelle's home in gainesville to see what was wrong. >> he finds michelle's house is -- it's locked up. all the doors are locked. all the windows are locked. the outside lights are still on, as they would have been left on from the night before. >> her dog was inside, and the tv was on. through a crack in the blinds, jason could actually see what later turned out to be michelle's foot. >> when police arrived, they found michelle's body in her bedroom, face down. it was clear she'd been dead for some time. >> she was in a somewhat awkward position with her left arm folded up underneath her body. >> at first glance, there was no trauma to the body, no bruises, no wounds, no blood. >> we had no indication of what would have caused her death. >> the medical examiner thought the position of michelle's body face down was unusual. >> if somebody is sick and in the process of dying, most folks tend to end up either on their side or on their back. >> there were no foreign fingerprints in the apartment, no signs of forced e

. >> he supposedly was running an escort agency out of gainesville, florida, which is where the universitya is. the escort service, obviously, was a front for prostitution. >> while running his escort service, permenter got angry when a rival escort service took some of his business. >> so, he and another gentleman went to tallahassee with guns, and they hired one of these rival escorts. and once they had her in their presence, they pulled guns on her, told them to take her to their boss. >> a shoot-out followed. permenter shot and wounded his rival and was himself shot twice. he went straight from the hospital to a 12-year prison sentence. >> this is not somebody that you want to be messing around with. of course, karen, when she begins dating tim, has no clue about this. >> when karen learned the truth, she ended their relationship and started dating other men. >> tim, who is a very jealous guy, starts going through her house, looking for things, looking for clues. >> according to karen's friend, tim had found a used condom in karen's trash and was furious. >> this was not the first time

we're in good shape on 66 in from gainesville, the dulles toll road in from the airport as well.k to you guys. >>> it may not have been much of a game but a record number of people tuned in to watch it all unford. -- unfold. 111.48 million viewers watched in the u.s. that beat the previous super bowl in 2012 when the new york giants played the new england patriots. nielsen says 5.6 million u.s. users sent out 25 million tweets about the game. >>> the newly crowned super bowl champs -- [indiscernible] quite a few fans greeted the team as they deplaned but the big celebration is coming up tomorrow. that's when the city is hosting a victory parade for the super bowl champs. >>> perhaps you're more a puppy bowl person than a super bowl person. more than 12 million tuned in to the animal planet extravaganza last year. two of the competitors were from virginia. >> who knew. ginger you see on the screen, a 6-month-old english sheep dog mix who was an adopted from a ohio humane society last september lives in arlington. burmese mountain dog poodle mix named bach is from falls chump. cool

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dulles toll road from sterling, 66 from gainesville the lanes are open all the way to fairfax and the beltway and tysons corner as well. and a live look one more time. this is 66 coming in from centreville. all the way in toward the roosevelt bridge the lanes are open. back to you guys. >>> well, whether you're taking the metro or crawling on the beltway, you know that getting around in this area can be a real nightmare. i spoke to some medical professionals about traffic stress and the toll it may be taking on our bodies. ♪ >> traffic's becoming one of the defining elements of the washington region. so it's becoming a major stress for many people in the metropolitan area. >> traffic jams, construction, bad drivers. commuters often admit that traffic is getting on our nerves. >> people that get intensely angry, get elevated blood pressure and can have arrhythmias. >> we decided to do a test to find out how much our commutes truly affect us physically. >> i don't know where these people live. i'm just -- it baffles me a little bit. >> meet our case study. we placed an ekg monitor on hi

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. >> julie carey, gainesville, virginia. >> and a convicted child rainest was caught today in virginia. u.s. marshals arrested eric hartwell in a hotel in norfolk, but he did not go quietly. deputies had to break down the door and take him down.n parole he cut off the gps monitor and left town. investigators say he has a violent history going back to the 1990s and consistently failed to register as a sex offender. >> have there is something out there called revenge pornography, and maryland lawmakers want to make sure it is banned across the state. there are more and more cases of people maliciously posting nude pictures of a former lover meant to embarrass them. so now there is a bill that makes it illegal to post anything that causes severe emotional distress, and the panel ti is a fine and imprisonment. >>> and there is a bill to protect transgendered people from discrimination. it protects them from employment, and housing and other areas. there is a similar proposal in the house awaiting a committee hearing next week. >>> residents in prince george's county are getting a chance to

steve osunsami, abc news, gainesville, florida. >> it sure is. >>> and we thank you for watching. abcnews.com. "nightline" later. i'll see you again, right here, tomorrow night. good night. >>> we're in the mid yefl a fast moving storm >> the stoefrm leaving a messy mark throughout the bay area. >> two investigations have culminated in arrest of three people. i'm michael finney. details are just ahead. >> plus, birds getting an assist from farmers making their way home through the california drought. >> against back drop of the san francisco skyline, a live take a look at winter rain storm now lingering over the bay area. and getting all of us wet. good evening, i'm ama daetz. >> it's not exactly a drought buster but the storm is giving parts of the bay area a much-needed soaking. here is a live tour of the bay area camera. you can see the affect it's having tonight. here is another live picture from the south bay. you're getting your share of winter weather this, storm has come in two waves, really. here is spencer christian, another couple hours of this, >> as a matter of fact w

but you know, gainesville, orlando, tampa. i think we'll have the biggest hispanic technology conference ever in the world is going to be in miami in may. so people want to be here of the we've got great young people. we've got great universities, great state colleges. they want to be here to build their companies. we already have the third most number of technology companies in the country in florida. so we are the next, the whole state is the next silicon valley. melissa: is it essential to be tech focused? i keep hearing you say you have ii.t. professionals trained. -- ii.t. poe professionals. >> i think it is very important. i make sure state universities and colleges are graduating students for the future. where are the jobs growing. that will be degrees we focus on and recruit companies here to expand. make sure they stay here. other governors are trying to recruit like i am. we'll do them better than anyone else. melissa: you got me convinced. open fox business bureau on the beach. >> you would love it. have a great day

after befriending a fellow carpenter, and helping him build his house, he said there was a local in gainesville, florida. that is where i went and met my business agent. she is a hero. i went from $10 per hour in 1995 to $15 per hour. have not looked back. the courage that it takes for my fellow union people, i want to thank them. i have physical courage as a marine, but i could not make a living. i found the labor movement where i got my self-respect and ignity back. uest: thank you very much. host: we go to james from akron, ohio. democratic line. caller: yes, you are talking about a lot of things this morning. my first comment, i will make this quick. the republican party wants the minimum wage to say where it is. most of the people in the south -- they are red states. if that is the case, then let it see where it is that after one year. they should be able to make a living wage. we should immediately go to a living wage if they survive for one year. that is the first thing. people are talking about what happened in detroit. greed has happened in detroit. it has happened across the country.

. >> tiffany sessions' disappearance when she went out for a walk in gainesville made national news.f the largest missing persons searches in history, organized by her father, patrick sessions. he says he's never stopped looking for his daughter and he joins me now on the phone. mr. sessions, first of all, how did the breakthrough in the case come about? >> well, we found a tie-in to another case that happened a few years after tiffany disappeared, a girl named beth foster, who was abducted and murdered and her body was recovered about two weeks after she was abducted. we didn't initially tie the two cases together because they weren't really pure roles involved in beth's case. what changed was the increase in the accuracy of dna testing. last year it came back a solid hit on him from beth. and so, we started looking at him harder. and interviewi ining him. but unfortunately, he wouldn't talk. when he died in prison, the investigators were able to get his personal effects and we found his diary naming the girls that he had killed other than tiffany. but in tiffany's case, he named th

tiffany's parents rushed to gainesville to look fehr her. >> we were all trying to get a handle on whatstmas one month earlier. she came up to me and gave me a hug and it was a hug that i'd never had before. it was a very, very long hug and she gave me a big kiss and she said, mom, i love you. >> she would have been wearing some kind of a sweat suit. >> reporter: jim eckert was one of the lead detectives in 1989. >> this woman literally vanished off the face of the earth. >> reporter: in desperation, pat, a marketing executive, did what he knows how to do best. he organized press conferences, brought in famous faces like football hall of famer dan moreno and politician jeb bush. and he coordinated one of the biggest private searches in florida history. over 700 people showed up. thy searched the swamps around tiff in's walking route. they blanketed the state with flyers, put tiffany's face on billboards, and answered the hotline. >> i mean this was really kind of unprecedented the amount of attention that tiffany sessions got, and yet -- >> no leads, no physical evidence. >> it was pret

first call comes from gainesville, virginia. caller: good morning. i have a comment. the u.s.conomy is coming out of a deep recession. whens $1.2 trillion president obama took over, it is now town to $200 billion. it is way past due be cut paramilitary to a comfortable level. they will continue to fight and we will be wasting money cutting -- wasting money doing their wars for them. the time we focus on infrastructure program with the same money and hope that the republicans can come on board and support president obama's programs. thank you so much. host: more details of the pageant on -- of the pentagon budget request. officials acknowledged that budget cuts will pose greater risks on the armed forces if they are some again, ordered to carry around -- carry out large-scale military action. there would be a larger number of casualties. our next call comes from new orleans. allen is on our line for independents. >> good morning. one of the things i would like as adress is the entire -- retired military person, i retired from the active military in 1984. i did not realize how m

after befriending a fellow carpenter, and helping him build his house, he said there was a local in gainesvilleorida. myt is where i went and met business agent. she is the euro. -- a hero. i went from $10 per hour in 1995 to $15 per hour. i have not looked back. the courage that it takes for my fellow union people, i want to thank them. courage as aal marine, but i could not make a living. i found the labor movement where i got my figures -- self-respect and dignity that. guest: thank you very much. akron,e go to james from ohio. democratic line. caller: yes, you are talking about a lot of things this morning. comment, i will make this quick. the republican party wants the minimum wage to say where it is. most of the people in the south -- they are red states. case, then let it see where it is that after one year. they should be able to make a living wage. we should immediately go to a living wage if they survive for one year. that is the first thing. talking about what happened in detroit. greed has happened in detroit. it has happened across the country. the older people in these andories --

prince william, haymarket, gainesville, warrenton, the lanes, marshall freezing rain. western maryland, some areas approaching half an inch of freezing rain out in western maryland right now. even in cumberland, frostburg, they had half an inch of snow first. you get a little base underneath the ice, that's better than none. temperatures still hovering around the freezing mark. above it on the eastern shore. a quick look at the temps around the shenandoah valley from 29 in berkley springs to 32 in purcelville. let's go over to monika with timesaver traffic. >>> a tree down across the interstate. 270 is what i'm talking about on the southbound side of 270 after route 109. a tree down across the roadway in hyattstown. we're told that only the left shoulder is getting by. you can see the icicles forming on this camera. that's what's weighing the trees and power lines down. we're getting examples of this all over town right now. right now 270 your last chance to exit will be route 109 unless you want to squeeze over to the left shoulder. i'm even suggesting you use all alt

we have a shot from gainesville coming up in on 66. very light traffic, they are starting to build just a little bit. >> we want to talk with the death of a beloved virginia man. vienna hasr of passed away. brianne carter is live. it is a sad day here in vienna. a woman who served in public office for decades has died. mayor passed away on sunday. this is coming from the vice mayor here in the town of vienna. elected in first 2000. she served on the town council for four years prior to that. diagnosed with lung cancer last year. she continued to server town, she said she would not seek reelection. she is been a longtime virginian. she is lived here for decades and served in many community organizations. thissad day for so many in town as they learned this news. brianne carter, abc 7 news. anotherarned of shooting in alexandria, near were a music teacher was recently killed. cover liles is at the live desk. is already on pins and needles. the killer of a music teacher is at large. now police are investigating other shooting, this time i