now joined by my colleague jackie benson joining us from alexandria, jackie? >> hello shomari and my friends, yes, it is snowing here. you can see i'm going to show you the secret to shooting light snow, that is what we call it when you take pictures of it television pictures, you have to get a light there to show it the camera can't see the way your eye does. we promised we would tell you that. we also want to give you information about cancellations for tomorrow. we're told all fairfax county public schools activities are cancel tomorrow. all charles county schools activities are cancelled, prince georges county school activities are delayed until noon. i'm sure people who may be driving tonight want to know we're at duke street in alexandria, the roads look fine, lots of snow plows out, certainly this is the beginning of what we have been talking about all day. back to you in the studio. >> jackie benson, thanks, jacks. the same system dumped several inches of snow, 700 flights cancelled in chicago. snow covered roads in iowa and city of davenport saw six i

jackie benson has our report. >> when you take a look at the damage that was done to this house it is amazing anyone was able to get out alive. a 31-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter escaped with just the clothes on their backs. as a fire that began with the christmas tree, raced through the small home on ashbox road thursday night. but one family member did not survive. >> i was very -- touched by the fact that the little girl had just received a puppy for christmas. i am a dog lover. i have two small peltts. >> danielle goddard is principal of baden. news made community want to help though the 6-year-old its not a student. i sent out one e-mail. asking my parent if they could help with a few extra dollars after the holiday. within minutes i had enormous e-mails. >> the girl's mother. staying with family told news 4 she is profoundly grateful for the outpouring. the home is situated in a rural area. not a lot of neighbors. baden is a close knit community. people here very much want to help this family. jackie benson, news 4. >> a $2,500 reward is offered to help find the per

jackie benson joins us with the old school detective work that led to the bust. jackie? >> reporter: officers could not of course see inside the man's stomach. so how did they figure out what was in there? >> i don't know. >> the training takes years. customs and border patrol agents learn to read the signs. pattern of travel to countries. inconsistent answers to questions. nervous body language. the 61-year-old nigerian man and international arrivals area at dulles airport last thursday had it all they say. >> is nushl questinitial questi seem right? how long were you away for? what did you do? purpose of your visit? what are you bringing back? >> this picture was taken after the man consented to a visit to a local hospital. the heroin packed in 20 condoms weighed one pound with estimated street value of $31,000. >> they did the ex-ray. x-ray showed foreign subsubstan. got to wait to ex-crete it. it came up positive. >> the man whose destination was washington, d.c. is in custody, facing smuggling charges. wendy, doreen, back to you. >> jackie benson. thank you. >> new

jackie benson is live from temple hills. >> reporter: wendy, a big development tonight in today's attack. the car that was taken has been recovered. but first, we want to tell you about an interview, an interview that gives you some perspective on the terror inflicted on these victims. >> my son hasn't been to school all week. his mother's traumatized. >> reporter: by phone from overseas, the bethesda man whose wife and son were terrorized at gunpoint, a crime in which their housekeeper was sexually assaulted, said the victims feared for their lives. this is the man seen using a debit card stolen from the home. >> pushed her around a little bit and basically said, you know other either you give us -- give me the passcode to your debit card or we'll kill you. >> reporter: chilling words repeated this morning at a house on berkeley street in temple hills, maryland. witnesses say at 9:30 a.m., a relative concerned he couldn't reach the occupants by phone drove there and met a woman who lived there holding a puppy. when she indicated there was an intruder behind the door, the suspect said, "

jackie benson has the latest. >> reporter: well, jim, that is a significant development in this investigation and there is a large police presence here in friendly maryland on old fort road. i am joined by julie parker. she is spokesperson for the prince george's county police department. julie, can you tell us what time were officers called here today? what did they find? >> shortly after noon an anonymous caller reported a body in a well in the 11900 block of old fort road in fort washington. homicide investigators responded and we have confirmed there is a body in the well. that well is about 20 feet deep. this is a challenging recovery operation at this point for several reasons. first of all it's dark. we've got to excavate around that well. there is the potential for a well collapse. there may be underground utilities. the well's proximitity to the home is another factor. it's important to note while there are homicide investigators on the scene this is currently a death investigation. >> all right. julie parker, prince george's county police, thank you very much for taking the time out

jackie benson joins us live from burke, virginia with more on this. jackie. >> reporter: aaron, parents know it's usually the other way around. the school system delays, and the federal government starts on time. but that is changing. even though the anticipated bad weather did not materialize as expected, the federal government was widely praised for its decision to err on the side of caution with a two-hour delay to the monday workday. so why ask parents in a local jurisdiction heavily populated with federal workers didn't fairfax public schools follow suit. >> it's ironic how the government had a three, four-hour delay and fairfax county didn't and prince william did. it was a little strange. >> i was a little surprised. i was watching the news early in the morning to see who was delayed and who wasn't, and i kind of -- i think the decision was right in fairfax county, but it did make me wonder with the government delay, why that was. >> reporter: smt disconnect came from the fact under pressure to aavoid another karmageddon the federal government m

norwood's attorney says he plans to appeal the sentence cht reporting live, jackie benson, news 4. >> at dawn, crews will start digging for that body found at the bottom of a well. that discovery came after an anonymous tip to police. police need to preserve evidence and make sure the well doesn't collapse. there's speculation the body could be that of lenny harris who has been missing since september. his car was found in prince george's county in mid october. >>> it usually gets you some help of a crash, but police say on-star directed them right to a pair of meth makers in virginia. it happened on clubhouse drive. >> it's just a damn shame that my brother would do this to his own parents. >> reporter: steven is ashamed his brother and his brother's girlfriend are in jail facing drug charges for allegedly having a portable meth lab. >> they showed up at my parents' house out of the blue. we haven't even heard from him in three or four months. >> leesburg police heard the couple's car was stolen from indiana. >>> police say they walked up to the car, looked in the window, smelled and

jackie benson of the prince george's county police headquarters with more on this. >> reporter: jim, and i c