i'm jim rosenfield. travel bans lifted in connecticut, rhode island and massachusetts. drivers being told to stay off the roads so plows can clear the snow out. as for air travel, logan airport in boston opening one runway. flights have resumed at new york's major airports and more than 100 sunday flights are canceled on top of the 5,000 already wiped out by the storm. amtrak says it will have limited service from new york to boston tomorrow, but still more than 550,000 people without power at this hour. and the weather tonight is being blamed for at least ten deaths. jay gray with more on the impact of this massive storm. >> reporter: the wind and snow has finally stopped and across new england, the focus has turned to what will be a difficult recovery. >> the state police and the national guard have been out in force and working in tandem. >> reporter: but these are the most important teams right now,

i'm jim rosenfield. travel bans have been allow to do expire. some airports are back up and running as several states begin the progress of digging out. almost the entire state of connecticut paralyzed with snow totals from 20 to almost 40 inches. five people have died in that state. the and i want near hartford is still closed. boston another area among those hardest hit. the public transit system still closed and will be until monday. here's jay gray live in boston with the latest. >> reporter: good evening form the park here took almost 2 feet of snow, but today it became a gathering place, even if just for the dozens who braved the elements to get out after the storm. finally across the northeast, early signs that concern may be starting to melt away after a long different deep freeze. >> me and my husband just walked a couple blocks from our house. we live for this stuff. >> reporter: today as the storm

jim rosenfield talks to a fan that says he was tricked by the same woman. >> she is was a fan, i was a fan. >> reporter: he says it was their common interest that prompted him to connect on like with the name red ridin' hood. here are direct messages to his cell phone. >> started following her in 2009. she followed me back. >> reporter: he noticed that red riding hood also followed redskin players on twitter, and seemed possibly in direct conversations as well. >> she told me that she knew one guy on the 2009 roster. >> reporter: according to nfl.com, which broke the story, her actions prompted a warning from team management in december to stay away from her, that she had been using doctored photos of a porn star as herself. redskins player development director phillip daniels is quoted as saying, i think it was all about attention. it was just about being able to talk to players. it was never a situation where guys were giving money or anything like that. no doubt that red ridin' hood is a skins fan and even -- which tweeted its embarrassment, after inviting her on a podcast. >> it'

as jim rosenfield reports, the move could create some major changes to privacy laws on facebook. >> hisarents say 15-year-old eric rash of southern virginia's nodaway county gave no clue that something was troubling him. >> he did his homework. he kissed his mom good night that night. >> but before dawn the next morning, ricky rash had killed himself. including as matter of routine, a check of activity on social media sites, like his facebook page. >> we didn't know who he had friended or defriended or who had friended him. >> but the rashes soon discovered they were locked out of eric's account. federal privacy laws shield even parents from accounts set up by children even as young as 13 after their death. so the family has turned to virginia lawmakers for help. >> a bill passed to the state senate and headed to the house for a final approve would give parents access to their child's account so they could look for clues as well as closure. >> we were horrified that the internet industry and the social media industry could take our rights away to even look for something. >> a facebook s

i'm jim rosenfield. super bowl sunday. it means big business for restaurants and bars and, of course, pizza and wings on almost everyone's menu. darcy spence ser live in northwest d.c. with some people who are very busy tonight. hey, darcy. >> reporter: they certainly are. i have to admit, you can see i'm wearing my purple. having made that disclosure we're live at pete's pizza. this is an extremely busy place. we can feel the heat coming off the ovens. they expect to to sell some 600 pizzas just tonight. people needing to stock up on booze for super bowl parties could for the first time buy liquor on sunday in the district thanks to a new law. some got their licenses to sell spirits just in time for game day. >> i guess i was one of the first. that's what i'm being told, but, you know, i got my license in as soon as we could because i wanted to try to be open by super bowl sunday. >> reporter: and what's a super bowl party without pizza? here at pete's pizza in northwest washington, they're expecting a surge in takeout or

jim rosenfield is live at the basilica of the national shrine with more on the story. >> doreen, some candid talk from the pulpit here during evening mass where leaders are as curious as followers about the future of the catholic church on a day that started with some wondering is this some sort of joke? at the basilica's evening mass tonight, the impending changing of the guard at the vatican top of mind for a pop krlly connected sell brant. >> when i woke up this morning and heard this report on the news that pope benedict xvi had resigned, i thought, this must be from some joke news service like the onion. >> of course it was no joke. the stunning word from the pontiff also seen as a teaching moment. >> none of us is irreplaceable. >> reporter: for parishioners -- >> just really shocked and didn't know what to think. >> reporter: time to look forward. >> even jesus christ made a strategic retreat once. >> reporter: what do they hope to see in the next leader? >> someone focused on christ and bringing the church to a deeper relationship with jesus and with deeper love of people and

. >> jim rosenfield has reaction from the pope's news from the spiritual leaders of washington's catholics. jim? >> reporter: cardinal wuehrl expressing surprise. he got the call telling him the pope plans to abdicate coming up just a a little over two weeks from today i want my first reaction. was it's very startling, totally unprepared for it. the second reaction was, we're going to have to now think a little differently. this will be the first time in modern history that we've had a pope resign. how do we work with all of that? >> reporter: but the cardinal says despite all this news experience of having a pope retired, the work of the church remains the same. interesting insight into his view on the pope's health, which is said to be okay, but is a subject on people's minds. he spent the month of october in rome working with the pope and said he presided over meeting after meeting, made remarks without the use of notes and spoke with great wisdom and clarity. the karl knead, interesting to note, one of ten american cardinals of age to take part in the conclave to elect or select a succ

jim rosenfield, news4. >>> many d.c. firefighters notably absent from tonight's annual state of the department address. last year firefighters symbolically turned their backs on chief keith ellerbe. the heads of the department's two labors union were no-shows. he's aware the changes are not popular but will continue his plans to modernize the department. >>> the passengers aboard the crippled cruise ships, why some say it's too little too late. >>> rogue taxis charging almost $100 for a three-mile ride. the four things you can do to make sure you don't get duped. >>> bad news for fans of lady gaga. we'll tell you what it means (vo) they were married for... 53 years. she was his everything. he can't live alone anymore. but we don't have the room. so, we talked to suntrust... looked at our options... remodeled... for family, you make it work. switching to suntrust's award-winning service. he taught me that.people how can we help you shine today? >>> a carnival cruise that's turned into a nightmare for passengers is finally

i'm jim rosenfield. we begin with a 4-year-old child in critical condition tonight after being rescued from a house fire. that fire broke out in the 2600 block of 33rd street in southeast this morning, and adding to the chaos, a man was arrested at the scene. news4's derrick ward explains the charges he's facing. >> reporter: two adults and two children were in the wood frame house at the time of the fire. one of the children, a 4-year-old girl, had to be rescued from an jaup stairs bodily harm. >> with cp r in progress, transported to the hospital. >> reporter: authorities said that child arrived at the hospital in critical condition. police say one person was arrested at the scene. an adult male. initially charges included simple assault and making threats. police say those charges stem from an argument wlt another adult in the house during the fire. others were treated for exposure to smoke. investigators collected evidence while others combed through the burned out remains. >> fire started in the bas

i'm jim rosenfield. those stories in a moment. first, a murder investigation under way tonight in prince george's county. the victim a 71-year-old woman apparently attacked inside her home. darcy spencer is live in capitol heights tonight where police were canvassing the neighborhood this afternoon. >> reporter: i was able to talk to several maybes here in this community today. they all tell me that the victim was a nice woman. she was a kind woman. she lived right here in this house. she had trouble walking so she used a ramp here, and all these neighbors are struggling to understand how and why someone could kill her. >> we all look out for each other here in this neighborhood. i have been here ten years, and i have never heard anything like this happening before. >> reporter: this woman brought to tears as she talked about the death of her neighbor, geraldine joyce mcintyre. the disabled woman lived for 71 years. that life came to a tragic end saturday. that's when police found her hurt in her capitol heights home. she died at

the federal government has spend $26 million just to house people in new jersey, but jim rosenfield found some who say they came very close to being left out in the cold. since sandy hit, it's been home to flooded-out refugees. including her 14-month-old son. >> i'm so stressed out every day. fema pays for booker's stay under a temporary program slated to end any day now. the agency says some 1500 people are still in the program in new jersey, down from a high of 5,000 when sandy first hit. >> they want people on a more permanent situation, but it's not easy. >> why? >> because you have hundreds of people applying -- you see one ad, and by the time you get to see the place, it's already taken. >> reporter: so many lives in a holding pattern, people waiting for word from insurance companies and the federal government. >> down the hall. >> new arrival grateful for girl scout gift bags for her family of five. was it heated? >> no, we used space heaters. >> you way she felt through the cracks, i'm not sure if there's others. >> the general manager helps storm-weary guests navigate a sea of re

. >>> tonight jim rosenfield takes us back to some of the areas he visited right after sandy hit. >>joins us with a look at the slow rebuilding effort. >> our first stop we go back to coa coastal new jersey, a state that saw $30 billion in damage. we wanted to see the progress, or lack thereof in the recovery. some towns like this one on the jersey shore are just this week allowing residents to move back into their homes if they have homes to go to. we revisit keenesburg, new jersey. we saw this area slammed by sandy. we found the owner determined to get the place open, at least partially by spring. he admits he is leveraged to the hilt. >> it's a broad leap of faith we're doing the right thing. there's no federal money, there's no state money, there's no local money here. >> common complaint we heard about the slow pace of help in a stays of 40,000 still unable to move home. you'll hear from some of those people on our special report at 11:00. jim and wendy? >> thanks. >>> the northeast could see more rough weather the end of this week. >> that storm that's going to move through our

. >> jim rosenfield, news 4. >>> more ethics problems and april new call for a council member in the district to resign. >>> a man shot and dropped off at a firehouse. police are now investigating a murder. >>> i'm jackie bensen in charles county, maryland. a revolutionary program aimed at putting cops in school. not quite what you think. i'll have the story coming up. >>> and coming up in sport, g.w. gets ready to battle the butler bulldogs. wizards hoping to put a beat-down on brooklyn. >>> after the caps get pummeled in pittsburgh, their gm talks abou >>> there's a lot of conversation these days about school safety and one local area getting a lot of attention for efforts. jackie bensen has a report on what schools are doing to keep students safe in charles county, maryland. >> ha does that say about you as a society now? >> discussing a quote from russian literature is all in a day's work for the corporal at the sheriff's department. he's the school resource officer at mcdone oaf high school in maryland. in the complicated world of teenagers, he's an approachable adult. with advi