erica was headed to a different college in gainesville, santa fe.planned to take classes near his home in miami. erica broke it off with pedro. she didn't want a long-distance relationship. after all, they were just 18 years old. and the big, wide world was ahead of them both. >> i wanted him to find someone and fall in love with them and live a normal life. i just didn't think he was the one for me. >> reporter: they were barely uncked, classes just starting when a sudden change of plans. pedro didn't want to be left behind in miami after all. as the fall semester started, he showed up in gainesville, as his friend robert remembered. >> he just visited gainesville and that was the intention was just to visit. and then he ended up signing a lease and enrolling for classes in the fall at santa fe college. >> maybe there was life after hog warts for erica, pedro and christian. could the friendship be renewed? ? if that was indeed the hope, it was dashed with awful news on september 21st, 2012. >> it was tense. we were nervous. we were scared, you know

you're looking here 66 in gainesville. no reports of any issues there making your way through gainesville, maybe headed for front royal. i can show you where the accident is on 95 in the laurel area. again that's going to be off to the right side of the roadway. shouldn't impact true much if you're making your way towards the capital beltway. >> thanks, trenice. >>> things are pretty calm on the roads in the immediate d.c. area this morning after our burst of snow. >> we'll take that. but refreeze is a bigger concern in our far northern and western suburbs. a mixture of rain, sleet and snow fell in frederick county for one yesterday coating i-75 and 270 in maryland. that spells trouble. a driver taking her family from florida to her mother's house in cumberland saw a car wipe out right in front of them. >> the car hydroplaned across the road and almost flipped. we smelled burnt tires and saw the car coming and into the ditch. luckily the kids didn't see it. that was a good thing. >> in fact the kids from florida, they got

then by midnight, now we're below freezing gaithersburg, rockville, leesburg, gainesville, great falls and manassas, you're on the cusp about 33. by 1:00 in the morning, everybody is below freezing except for extreme downtown which means national airport. looking ahead, we have fresh arctic air here. coldest air of the season tomorrow. windchills tomorrow in the teens. keep that in mind as you send the kids to the bus stop. high temperatures tomorrow over 20 degrees below average. lows tomorrow night are going to be in the teens in the burbs and some cases in the low teens. when we come back, we'll talk about how long it's going to stay cold and look ahead to another pattern change next week. >>> mourners are gathered at this hour in lanham, maryland remembering dr. martin salia who died this morning from ebola after being evacuated to a nebraska hospital over the weekend. he was a permanent u.s. resident but he spent most of his time performing surgery if his native seer leion. he leaves behind a wife and two sons still living here in maryland. here's how mourners remembered him today

gainesville -- gangs like the crips and the bloods and all these types of thing started in the neighborhood where i grew up. i share with people to see if they can connect with me because i share with the communities many times what we 1-800-was fried bologna sandwiches. anybody a fried bologna sandwiches in this room? so that was my time that i grew up. i ask people and i asked my mother at that young age of eight years old does anybody give a dam whether i lived or died when asked if anybody care if i survived is a little black kid growing up in south-central los angeles and did anybody understand my hopes are my dreams or aspirations? with that and i take from that what we are doing in baltimore in the cities i have been and as i try to push organizations to be progressive. i try to push organizations towards having academic information comment and focusing on what works. not the flavor of the day. not what mythology is that based on empirical data based on the best practices in those things that work for police agencies. as i say that with some baltimore today we have programs like ceas

is what we have right now, there are more showers and storms through marshall and haymarket in gainesville, so we will have scattered showers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm, but nothing with the same intensity as earlier. but if you are going out tonight, get an umbrella and plan ahead. the showers will go until about 11:00 through midnight. we have showers just east of marshall. here is what we have on the big picture, we have a bunch of rain spinning behind this cold front through ohio and through , but we willginia see by the morning it will be anywhere from 38 degrees to 44 we will havethen partly cloudy skies through the weekend. thanratures now are cooler yesterday, even more so back through the midwest. our futurecast shows things spinning around after that shower activity has left, and we will get on to improving weather conditions over the next several days. here are the next seven days, it is showing that the numbers are following. thene a's on sunday, and as we head through early next week, we will have a warming trend, and after tonight the next chance of rain is not until

slow on 66 headed from gainesville. still showing real backup at this point this morning. taking a look at travel times. slow from quantico to the beltway. taking twice as long as it should. fairfax to the beltway, 18 minutes. taking a look at maryland, slow on the outer loop as well. very slow actually. 22 from 95 to 270. 270 jermantown to the beltway, 21 minutes. see you at 6:51. more on this crash on 66. >>> so far pharpl warner the apparent winner over ed gillespie. a look at at what needs to happen today to finalize the vote count. >>> the new incentive g.m. is using to get >>> welcome back at 6:45. news 4 is following the election results and digging into what comes next for the races not yet final. >> just one way we are working to get you up to the minute the minute you're up. we start with megan mcgrath. >> reporter: good morning. democratic incumbent mark warner ahead by the thinnest of margins. 49% of the vote. ed gillespie, 48% of the vote. only 12,000 votes separating them. 99% of the precincts have reported. later this morning the canvas will begin. election

he just started his freshman year at the university of florida in gainesville. >> i'm going through allhat he went through. i started remembering how he was during that time. i guess now i've always followed his example in school and now that example is gone, so i have, i guess, just follow my own route. >> reporter: erica will be there, but moving ahead has been hard for her. she can't forget that fleeting moment when she fell in love with christian and then he was gone just like that. >> we weren't dating that long. we had the death talk. what happens if something happened tomorrow and he got hit by a car and he looked at me, he said, i don't know what i would do without you. i don't know what i would -- i looked at him and i was like, i'll tell you what you're going to do. you're going to find somebody and you're going to live your life. >> reporter: do you ever get up in the morning just shaking your fist in outrage at the heavens. pedro, why did you do this to me? not just christian the victim. you're a victim too. >> it's so difficult to think of it that way. i would still give an

this is the time from get from gainesville, all lanes are open.at 644, we had a crash. you see ther there flashing blue lights, a tractor-trailer accident still continues to block the right half of the roadway. 270 south has not been battle morning. heavy right here in -- 295 getting past eastern avenue, towards 11th street bridge, all lanes open, just a lot of volume. >> a couple of clouds across the region, 36 degrees. it will be a breezy day. when chill factor is that 28. torture is 28 and some of the suburbs like dulles airport. 27 in manassas. about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. still about 10 degrees below average. cold front will pass through our region for today, that will drop our temperatures act tonight into the 20's in most areas. tomorrow, will be the coldest next day of the week, but a little warmer for the weekend. >> thank you for watching. another news update at a 20 5 a.m. back to good morning america. ♪ ♪ the river run >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. and we are celebrating the life of an american icon. as we learn

remember in gainesville, the crash over to the right side of the roadway. that is causing some of the slowdowns. headed northbound, pretty slow through stafford. it opens up for a minute approaching dale city and then slows down again. be back in 10 minutes. >> see you then. thank you, melissa. it is w 5:54. you could pay the cheapest gas in five years this thanksgiving. global prices for crude oil have dropped since its lowest level since 2010. the average in the district is 3:05 for a gallon of regular. maryland, 2.84. west virginia, $2.93. >>> a russian capital carrying three astronauts is now docked at the international space station. they are joining three others already aboard the iss. the new crew will be there for six months. this is only the second time in the station's 16-year history that two women have been on board for a long-term mission. >>> temperatures are finally above freezing in buffalo. but the storms just keep on coming there. rain is on the way there today. more than seven feet of snow is melting. that of course could lead to dangerou

out of up to, no problems there either. 66 a at 29 gainesville moving along. the spur looking about as good as it possibly can. i'll be back at 5:21. weather and traffic on the 1s. a live look at 95 in virginia. >> melissa, thank you. new developments following this shocking abduction caught on camera. a crucial new clue that is leading police to our area this morning. . >>> for hundreds of thousands of people expected to descend on the national mall, the work now under way to get ready for the biggest show in town. - oh, the young. their energy seems like an unlimited resource we sometimes wish would run out, at least for a moment. but as we grow into adults, it's important to learn how to use our energy wisely, especially when it comes to electricity. you can save energy and money by caulking around windows. and by using a power strip, you can turn off several devices when they're not in use, or when you're simply done. it's all about using your energy wisely, and novec is here to help. for more tips, go to novec.com. novec: helping you save. >>> 14 after th

your alternate is lee highway. 66 headed into town, quite slow before centreville out of gainesville.w at oak ton. river dale at bw parkway, a crash with the right lane blocked. 270 at montrose headed into town towards the spur, it is slow. this is normal volume that looks typical for this time of day. see you at 6:41 with travel times >> thank you, melissa. you're being asked to keep your eyes peeled for a red volvo that was involved in a car jacking in bethesda at 7:00 last night on hampton lane right off wilson lane. police say an 18-year-old was parked on the side of the road, when a man opened the door, held a gun to her head and told her to get out of the car. a second man opened the passenger door and stole the woman's bag. they are still looking for the dark red volvo with maryland tags 1 ae 3792. it was last seen on 14th street and primrose in d.c. police in montgomery county say they have seen a spike in crimes involving cars. most thefts are happening at gas stations. since friday, there have been three cases in montgomery county. >>> today a bond hearing for the maryland m

>>> 66 west of 29 gainesville, very hard to see through that.an hardly tell where that picture was taken. south of the beltway, it is lifting a little bit when we first looked at this. i'm asking people to tweet me pictures. foggy morning in fulton. please keep those pictures coming as well. taking a look at 270 into and out of town looking quite good. no major problems. prince george's county clear as far as the roads go. fog through that area. wider look at things, no major problems into or out of town. live picture of 270 can coming up. >>> thanks, melissa. it's now 5:32. president obama announced a big agreement between the u.s. and china to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. the new goal is to emissions by 2015. china is not commit to go cut emissions by a specific amount but for the first time it agreed to do what it could to reverse carbon emissions by 2013. >>> lawmakers are ready to get back to work. they have a lot to get done before the new congres takes over in january. tracie potts is live on capitol hill

taking a look at 66 and 95, as you come out of gainesville, a little bit slow. 48 miles per hour. i'm back in 10 minutes with more on the crash. tom, how are you doing this morning, sir? >> freezing cold.

however, 66 eastbound heading out of gainesville, slow traffic through manassas. 66 after route 50, seeingnificant delays there. no reports of incidents in the roadway. elsewhere, 270 out of frederick, seeing some delays. as you leave frederick, heading south on 270 as well. no incidents being reported there. and then here's a live look at 95 in maryland. you're slow as you approach the beltway. seeing wet conditions on the road. no incidents reported here as well. aaron and eun, back to you. >>> 5:41. your road trip for thanksgiving could be cheaper than last year. the national average for gas dropped 44 cents in the past two months. that is the longest stretch in six years. the drop of crude oil prices causing the gas prices to fall. the average of regular unloaded $3.11. in virginia, your average is $2.70. and in west virginia, the average regular unleaded $2.98. work on the silver line could slow you down today. crews are starting a year-long project on the dulles greenway. they are building a bridge to support the silver line as it crosses over broad run on the way to ryan road in ash

taking a look at 66 and 95, as you come out of gainesville, a little bit slow. 48 miles per hour. i'm back in 10 minutes with more on the crash. tom, how are you doing this morning, sir? >> freezing cold. big area under a freeze warning. all the counties in blue, virginia, somaryland, be brings your house plants inside. dress warmly today. you'll need a warm winter coa hat, scarf. you won't need an umbrella. no rain today. we'll have lots of sunshine. temperatures in montgomery in the upper 30s. near 40, prince georges and fairfax. areas farther south and west where it is the coldest no warren ton, 30. culpepper is 28 degrees. we can see the first light of dawn showing up. sunrise an hour earlier. there's the capitol. warmer weather on the wo election next weather and traffic warming for the day ahead. back to you. >>> tom, thank you. 6:01. a d.c. man will be sentenced for murdering another mn at a prince george's county gas station. dwayne le mar williams shot and killed eric walker while he was pumping gas in 2013 in templ hills. surveillance caught williams trying to steal walk

enormous, miami, tampa, orlando, jacksonville, a top 50, and then you have to hit tallahassee, gainesville, pensacola, and three different states we're talking. florida is a complicated beast. >> you have done some time in florida. >> i did my time in florida. >> that's why florida and ohio are he two states considered to be the bell weathers for the country. i don't know -- you've have been to the panhandle, this is a lot of different than the pan ladies and gentlemen -- >> when i lived there? lower alabama. >> few people with dogs under their porch. >> bob, don't you think that north carolina is becoming a bell weather? >> for to reasons. one is the black population is growing and the hispanic population is growing. because they're work neglect agricultural business and coming in -- >> and thom tillis is -- if it's an antiincumbent, the republicans have not picked if more than two incumbents in one election since 1980. we're talking about the possibility of seven. >> incredible. i want to talk big picture. right now there's no super majority for the democrats in the senate. no super majo

that's a coating to an inch in parts of the area. 1 to 3, including around the gainesville area, leesburghersbu gaithersburg, damascus, mt. airy and frederick. and 3 to 6 around luray, front royal, the i-81 corridor off towards charlestown and martinsburg. more as you go back towards the west and that's what we'll continue to see. that's why our impact forecast tomorrow will be on the high side for sure. because of that travel. and just about everywhere tomorrow, we fall below freezing. so that means we could see some icy roadways early thursday morning. thanksgiving, 39 degrees. looking good there. 37 on friday. so just staying on the cold side. saturday and sunday, temperatures warming back into the upper 50s by sunday. so not bad after that. >>> thanks, doug. >>> that grand jury in ferguson -- near ferguson finished its work, but a federal case against police officer darren wilson is still possible. tonight we're going in depth about the next possible step in the legal process. >> reporter: a passionate plea from charlottesville's police chief after disturbing allegations of sexual ass

a real slow go for eastbound travelers trying to make your way east from gainesville, first manassas on into center, that's a real hot spot. 95 and 395 slowdowns leaving the beltway up towards edcell with the lanes open. more election results, the >>> voters in vermont will have to wait until january to find out who won that governor's race. the race between incumbent governor peter shumlin and his republican challenger scott milne is too close to call. under vermont law, a gubernatorial candidate must win a minimum of 50% to be elected directly or the state legislature picks the winner. >>> one of the local maryland congressional races is finally shaping up after being behind for much of the night, it appears the democrat john delaney has won a second term as the district 6 representative. delaney now leads republican dan bongino, a little more than 1% with a little more than 2000 votes. >>> howard. >> looks like a pretty decent day, lots of clouds, could be a sprinkle today up towards hagerstown and martinsburg, but a better chance of rain tonight into thursday. yellow alert tomorr

i don't know how many of you have ever been in gainesville, florida, but it's a college town surrounded by cow pastures. and the interesting feature of these cow pastures is that there's cow shit in the cow pastures, and in that cow shit grows mushrooms. so it was quite possible to wander out on campus, and in an afternoon pluck a bunch of mushrooms and dose yourself with them and have an experience. well, some people did it for recreation. i never understood that. but i and the people i knew were doing it very intentionally because we thought it was revelatory, that we'd learn stuff from doing it. and one experience i had always stuck in my mind. i was, as the mushrooms started to take effect, i started to feel, you know, very acutely all these anxieties and fears that had been kind of rumbling around my head forever, and some of them were about things that were happening that day, you know, interrelationships i was having, and some of them were long-term fears about life in general. and the more i became sort of into the drug experience, the heavier all these anxieties and feelings se

in restaurants after the ball game, you drive up and down interstate in florida after a game in gainesville the cracker barrel is full every saturday night. and that's what's going on. you know. >> sounds like we need better restaurant choices. i'm kidding. >> look at this real quick talking about the academic program. the thing about tcu, seven or eight years ago our s.a.t. was what it was. all of a sudden the rise of the chancellor and our football coach, perfect storm, now 10 years later we have 20,000 for those 1600 spots. we are the media, we are the brand of our institution. our s.a.t. and a.c.t. have gone through the roof. the quality of student has gone through the roof because the exposure has brought -- there's a president that dropped sports in the big ten years ago long-time member. and 25 years after, 30 years after the fact, he said the biggest mistake was leaving the big ten. mainstream kids love college athletics. they love -- the alums love it. we're packed every game. it's a wonderful experience. we win, lose, or draw, it has become the fiber of our institution and become

i was down in gainesville and there was a vague grant who assaulted me and i had three hemorrhages in my brain. i spent two weeks in intensive care and 18 months with amnesia. i was one of the lucky ones, i got my memory back. most people who experience what a lot of us have experienced aren't that lucky. i went on to do a degree, ph.d. in neuroscience and focus on research. most of my clinical and basic research over the last 17 years has been focused on traumatic brain injury. recently i've put the last five years more focus into concussions and mild traumatic brain injury. to give you a little background, after what causes a concussion is the brain sort of slings forward, is accelerated and it's going to hit against the inner skull on the frontal part of the brain and then it's going to be kicked back the other way and it's going to go through this sort of acceleration deceleration rattling inside the skull. a lot of people think the brain is only damaged by hitting the inner part of the skull. but actually the brain is sort of like jell-o and it stretches the accelerating portion

gainesville, near the prince williams parkway, accident activities been cleared from the right side ofoadway, but they are cautiously still closing the right lane. have got some big changes coming in the next six hours the foggy conditions that they will continue to keep an eye on. west,lity to the improving inside the beltway, we are expecting temperatures to fall this afternoon with temperatures in the upper 60's the lower 50's this morning, falling into the low 50's by tonight. only upper 40's by thursday. we will stay in the chill through the rest of the week. see you back here for more local news 7:56 . >>> want me to get it started ? >> yeah. >> i'll get it started. snoelts ♪ ♪ >> now, i am not one to make fun of anyone's dancing. who can forget elaine on "seinfeld," setting all kinds of record for awkward. turns out it may not have been her fault. scientists now say that bad dancing is just something you might be born with. and you might not even know it. clearly she didn't know it at that time. we're going to get into it in a little bit. >> that's just living in bliss. >> and t

people sitting in restaurants game, i mean, you drive up and down interstate in after a game in gainesvillend the cracker barrel is full, you know, every saturday night. and that's -- that's what's -- that's what's going on. >> sounds like they need better restaurant choices. i'm kidding. >> you look at this real quick. you talk about the academic going.ment, where we're the thing about t.c.u. eight years ago, our s.a.t. was where it was. 4,000 applicants for 1600 spots. sudden, the football coach and perfect storm. we have 20,000 for 1600 spots. we are the brand of our institution. for our s.a.t. has gone through the roof. quality of student has gone because of thef exposure of intercollegiate athletics. that droppedsident sports in the big ten years ago. long-time member and he said the i made wasstake leaving the big ten. collegeam kids love athletics. alums love it. you come to a game, we're packed every game. it's a wonderful experience. we win, lose or draw. it has become the fiber of our marketingn and the brand, good, bad or indifferent. for bad, it's great. for bad, it's bad. but w

these delays should ease. 66 eastbound has also been very slow from gainesville heading into route 50 a one-hour ride but all of the lanes are open from the earlier accident. cold for the foreseeable long future. >> temperatures are about 20 degrees colder than yesterday. a lot of 30's in the suburbs. 43 degrees and d.c.. i do think we will see the freezing mark towards the end of the week. clouds are on the increase throughout the day today. late this afternoon we could get late showers. this will clear out overnight and not be terribly impactful. >> thank you, and thank you for watching. we will see you back here at 7:56 a.m. for another local news update. ♪ there it is... this is where i met your grandpa. right under this tree. ♪ (man) some things are worth holding onto. they're hugging the tree. (man) that's why we got a subaru. or was it that tree? (man) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> daddy, i'm so happy. >> you're so happy? ♪ >> got to love those happy tears. we see them all the time. >> you get a car! you get a car! >> it s

speaker, during this time, i'd like to yield five minutes to the gentleman from gainesville, georgia, the gentleman from judiciary committee, congressman collins. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for five minutes. mr. collins: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the chairman of the rules committee. i rise in strong support of this rule and the underlying legislation h.r. 5682, to authorize the construction of the keystone pipeline. it's not every day i come back and we've been gone for a while from debating while we've been out campaigning and listening to the american people and the american people spoke rather laudly -- loudly last week. it's good to come back and begin to put into practice what they said. in fact, it is amazing to me how debates that went on so far here in coming to the floor, in fact, from people that normally we never disagree on, i'm bringing to the floor a bipartisan -- little bit of bipartisan shitch here. i know that some could think of no better argument for the pipeline, there's no better one i've heard than one i read in the pa

in first color is a democrat gainesville. caller: thank you. host: which party should control congress? i think the country should give another chance to finish president obama to finish his agenda. since he lost the house, he has had nothing but objection and tough objection from the republicans. they don't want him to succeed. the polls are very close. 2006 and 2010 midterms, the margins are very small. nobody can tell who has the edge. the "wall street journal" poll says it is a slight edge. they need to pick up six and that could be enough to get them there in some of these states. beler: the polls may not counting the black and minority votes correctly. the turnout might be different. i would to .1 more thing it? in november of 2008 against 2014, the country was collapsing. obama managed to bring the country to this point. we are a lot better today. , unlike thehing late 90's and the bush times, the prosperity we saw in the 1990's was a.com bubble. there was a housing bubble under george bush. people should not forget that. host: take a lo

eddie is from a gainesville texas. hello. thing i am main interested in seeing is somebody besides a democrat or a republican run for president. we need someone who cares about the people. they both care about the rich. they can say other things, but that is the way it is. host: do you mean an independent party? caller: yes. somebody he was just out there for the people. is for thea said he people, but look at the policies he has done. host: if you believe that somebody should run for the people, what is a personal motivation? what policy should they talk about? isler: the main policy stopping the war against the american people. there are no results except they are breaking up families and destroying the country. that's just ridiculous. stop the war against the people and stop wars around the world that we are involved in. furnish them arms if you want but not our blood. host: david is in tampa, florida. caller: i have been dying to get on c-span. you are doing a great job. honest,, just be an honest person. what i want to s

gainesville, virginia. good morning to you. go ahead. republicann the next president gets in there he will cut taxes in half by executive order, and what will everyone do? the president has been said. i cannot wait -- the precedent has been set. i cannot wait. what are you going to do about it, dumb masses. host: mary. caller: i am calling -- nobody has mentioned minimum wage. i walk three miles to my job and it is only part time and three miles home. i live in a poor area and there is no bus system. i am making $7.25 an hour and i adult children at home because there is no work. if they would raise it to $10 an hour, people would have -- be able to get off programs, and when they do raise it, the president has to put a freeze on prices, like richard nixon did in the 1970's. i also believe there should be time assertions for bills. the q4 your time. host: ok -- thank you for your time. host: ok, mary. gt. independent. caller: i wanted to address what senator ron johnson talked about in the analysis of the keystone pipeline. he did not me

i was in gainesville, florida a week and a half ago where 50,000 students on campus on the universitye voting had been eliminated. what is that going to do when we talk about voting lines? i think this is the top being that we're going to have to unpack much more further. it's an opportunity for us to have a conversation of yes, it was definitely your usual mid term, white republican older voters that went out to vote but it was the first time you didn't have the voting rights act in effect. >> reverend? >> i think you're going to have any number of factors, but the first thing is we should not be in denial. we lost tonight. there was a wave. now, why i think we will have to unpack, as maria said. i think the voting rights act is a part i think, that a lot of the running away from the president is a part i think a lot of the economy is a part. because none of these races in my opinion, the critical ones were that huge a gap in terms of the vote that you couldn't factor in a lot of things. they were very close races for the most part. i think a couple of them were huge gaps or big gaps