kristin fisher, abc news, washington. >> kristin, thank you. >>> we knew it was too good to be true. the heavy winter coats will make a return to new york. >> jim dickey has the forecast. good morning, jim. >> good morning, john and diand. still seeing some soaking rainfall here today. this all as much colder air is moving in out of the north and west, running into the record warmth in place through the week end. as those air masses collide, rain will stretch from boston into new york city, d.c., philadelphia. we're going to see more freezing rain across portions of new england. that rain stretches further south ward, along the eastern seaboard, all the way down into the gulf of mexico. john and diana, back to you. >> jim, thank you. >>> the other major story this morning. there are reports that credit cards with the stolen numbers of target customers are now showing up on the black market. the retailers' across-the-board deals this weekend not enough. >> and now limits on how much some customers are spend at target. abc's aditi roy has the story. >> reporter: it's the busiest shoppi

>> scott howgen and zach stenzer and kristine winser. >> scott howge, owner of cal insurance on 33rd, and we are right on the metro line. and first, i would like to thank the mta for meeting with the small business commission. and secondly, i would like to thank the commission to convening this meeting. some of us in this room were involved in the creation of a commission, going back to 1985. and at the time, we created the mission, the commission, to give the small business a voice and that has been our montra for 30 years now that we want the small business not to be the only voice, but when the decisions are made, that impact us, we want to be a voice in the discussions. it is important and i also want to thank, director executive director reiskin for meeting with us over the last few months. i think that it is important for the board to understand that decisions made by the mta, effect our livelihood, and they effect our employees, and there is steven cornel said we have a passion about that. and we want to be good people, good citizen and promote the interest and we want to promo

> still ahead just family drama, that and more in tonight's hollywood high life. >> reporter: i'm kristinisher outside st. paul's lutheran church in northwest where someone stole 15 credit cards from members of a well known choir while they gave a charity concert, the latest on the investigation coming up. >> you are watching wusa9 news at 5 z a subaru... ...are the hands that do good things for the whole community: the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. that's why we created the share the love event. by the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. you get a great deal on a new subaru. we'll donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. it feels good to be a helping hand. >>> check up on tonight's top stories a judge orders a d.c. cop accused of pimping out children held without bond. an anonymous caller tipped off internal affairs about linwood barnhill two years ago and now some people want to know if there was a thorough enough investigation. >> republican virginia attorney general candidate mark obenshain conceded

. >> why not recap o have a refresher with super famous actress, kristin stewart. >> i'm here to tellarted in 1942 when columbo sailed the ocean blue. >> her version is a little different than what you might know. starring former tv star columbo. and ships a little different than what your history book says. >> the n ina, p ina, santa maria, and the mayflower. the pilgrims and indians had a big feast. they didn't even charge for the food. they gifd it. and then they said thanks. >> so when you gived something to somebody, and they say thanks, that's why the thanksgiving came together. >> that's when captain john and popehonortas also performed for the first time singing "colors of wind". >> they sang that at the very first thanksgiving. >> oh. >> apparently. i had no idea. >> that's how disney got it. >> obviously a video from the very political youtube channel. and some of the traditions that we have on thanksgiving today, can be traced back to the first thanksgiving. >> they decided to eat turkey and stuffing on the first thanksgiving. turkey contains a chemical that makes you tired

kristin powers, great to have you both here with us. >> let me start with you. you agree with charles krauthammer that the president is a hostage to obama care and that it eclipses everything else and he can't get anything else done? >> it seems hard for him to get a head of it. it seems like every time he has partially solved a problem another problem comes up. partially solved and the problems never actually get completely solved. and i think that this is going to continue to go on for sometime. and who even knows what other new system coming out about it. we can't predict that. it seems like every time we break out the newspaper. it is obama care. and so as long as that is going on it is an albatrosz around the president's neck. >> the numbers are proving it. let's put a number of them on the air, when asked about the handling of obama care a scant 34 percent approve. and schopercent and as to the president himself, 42 percent approve of his job performance. and 55 percent disapprove. i would imagine that those numbers. he said of barbara walters. when you ar

back to you, kristin. >> thank you so much. erica.done locally in the fight against aids on

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. >> zach stender, kristine winser those are the last people that i have speaker cards for. >> hello, my name is zach and i am co-owner of hukle berry bicycles. and we are proud to be there and we are really happy to be in the middle of a very exciting time in central market it seems, and while, a lot of improvements are happening to the city scape, we want to see, more biking improvements. and obviously, i run a bike shop and so i have motives here, but increasingly my customers are business professionals, they are business executive and they are financial workers and tech workers. and who are hop on bikes to get to work, and not because they have to, cycling is no longer an alternative means of transportation, it is a means of transportation. and it is if anything, becoming you know, people are almost bragging that they are actually choosing to take a bike, we are selling nice and her nicer bikes, and you know the people that would drive a nice car or take a nicer means of transportation are getting really nice bikes and they are getting out there and finding traffic despite the num

>> kristin, live in washington. thank you so much. >>> new this morning, a diplomatic breakthrough in japan over the fate of a u.s. marine base on okinawa. the local governor has signed off on the relocation of the base from a congested part of the city to a remote area, ending a simmering dispute between the u.s. and japan. the deal will help the pentagon better line american forces across the asia-pacific region. >>> a snowboarder has died after he triggered an avalanche. this happened in the back country near jackson hole, wyoming, a popular place for skiers and snowboarders. 29-year-old michael cazangi was the first to go down the slope. he was immediately buried in the avalanche. rescuers, including a doctor, tried to revive him. but he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> police in phoenix say the man who scaled an airport fence and started hitting a plane that had just arrived was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. the surveillance video shows the man striking a southwest airlines plane before officer

let's bring back our thursday gaggle ana palmer, angela rye and kristin soltis.nt to talk about an issue that came out in politico today how they're being couns counsell counselled, and something that's very difficult and in the last go around and todd aikens and what are they being counciled to do? >> there are at least ten incumbent republicans that will get faced with challengers. >> i think the republicans will try to get ahead of it this time where it will royal the entire races across the nation so they're saying, this is how you should talk to women and have women's forms in terms of women's issues and things like that. >> kristin, you're a republican and have a woman. you need to avoid the social, of that magnitude which i assume a 40-foot pole and talk about family values and talk about fiscally conservative economic issues. >> i think you to talk about why the ideas you have for the country will make someone better. folks on our side, i'm encouraged by the idea that we're training our candidates and being better candidates. where a male candidate is run

mainly to beth and to tom, but, kristin, if you have an opinion, feel free to jump in.but i, i'm sure those on the panel know, many in the room know the general mood in d.c. is that, you know, this isn't a conflict that we should be involved in. there's nothing we could do to really affect the course of it. and i want to talk about that move specifically with reference to this foreign funding issue. i think a number of people will hear, beth, and read your report and hear what you're saying, and they'll say, well, look, i mean, the united states could have done all it wanted to to fill this vacuum and provide assistance in syria, and these folks in kuwait would have still raised the same amount of money, still have been sending it there. and even if we wanted to do something about it, tom, that there's not really anything you can do. i mean, if you talk to u.s. officials, and i have in the past although i understand there's a bit of a change of attitude now, but in the past you talk to u.s. officials, they're just like what can you do, it's just such a messy problem. we

. >> reporter: kyle and kristin ultimately left the store without a ring, and a salesperson called them and said come back. >> a lady came out holding a bag and simply said here's your ring, and i think both of hour mouths dropped. >> reporter: someone spent $9,000 to get kristin the ring she wanted. >> i think after a couple of minutes of shell shock i finally said well how? who bought it, and she just smiled at me and said it was better not to say. >> reporter: they saved the gift reseptember and suspected walker was behind the incredible gift and then saw our story yesterday when one of the jewelry store sales people came forward to tell the story. their suspicions were confirmed. >> we hand down the ring through the generations, and there will always be a story to tell. >> his real life speaks volumes of his character. he really did put his money where his mouth is and made sure he did good for this world. >> reporter: in victorville, i'm tom waits. >> meanwhile, investigators are still looking into the crash that killed walker and his friend over the weekend. autopsies are underway

on the exact same day as the raid happened, erica had just started a new job working for kristin sinima. she has eligible immigrant work status. on the day she started working there they came for her mom and brother. now she is having to leave her job. she is returning home to arizona now to help fight her mother's deportation. in a letter sent to her colleagues, she says the politically-charged immigration debate has always been personal for me and, and, in many ways, my life symbolizes the most controversial flashpoints of the debate. i have lost members of my community and family to deportations. i was awarded deferred action, and jan brewer took away my right to a drivers license. family separation by deportation. erica's mother's case is expected to come up for we view just after the new year in january. it will decide whether or not she is allow todd stay in this country with her kids. joining us now is erica who is cofounder of the arizona dream act coalition and a former outreach director for arizona senator kristin sinema. >> can you tell me about this decision to leave the job

kristin has his story. >> reporter: iron's best-known director has been circling the globe to promote latest film. it is set in paris, but like everything he does, the past is very much a product of his homeland. an iranian man played by iranian actor returns to france to divorce his estranged french wife. while the drama is personal, not political, their relationship serves as a metaphor for east-west relations. >> translator: there is a world of misunderstanding between them. perhaps we can't really call it their differences. in the opening scene we see them placed on two sides of a glass pane. they see each other and talk to each other, but it seems they don't hear each other. >> reporter: when he released his last movie, it made more than $7 million at american box offices, and earned iran its first-ever oscar in the best foreign feature category. the win was celebrated on iranian television. according to film expert, making an award-winning film under iran's censorship codes is nothing short of a miracle. >> he is quite adept in navigating through the treacherous waters of the ir

kristine that carniva and laura farr? you each have two minutes. p >> good evening, everyone, cristina, or canaveral, either way is fine, please ex-excuse my super stylish wardrobe. i am here to talk about athrough g, and we are excited to see this move forward. and temporarily, we are glad this is not permanent, what is key is what happens after tonight? >> we know that in the past four years there was not a physical plan and so now we have the opportunity to develop that fiscal plan and we have the opportunity with a, through, g and with common core and with lcff and everything that is coming down the road, we have almost like, as bill puts it a perfect storm and an opportunity to really look at how we can reshape our children he education and so that we take advantage that have particularly in the next two years to make sure that the next class, 2016, 2017 and beyond, they are not getting reactive measure to catch up, but they are already there and graduating with honors and going on to college, thank you. >> thank you, for picking us. and i'm t

. >> i hope you'll join us, i will be at the event along with kristin zee. tickets are still available. just look under see it on tv. >> great event. >> so much fun. >> you can't imagine. they stop and talk to kids. >> great. >> all right. that is going to do it for us. world news is next. >>> welcome to world news tonight, in the frozen zone, a massive ice storm in the heart of the country. drivers out of control, winter weather from new mexico to maine. hundreds of thousands without power, temperatures drop. >>> celebration of the life of nelson mandela, leaders around the world going to south africa to bid him farewell. >>> made in america. clothes made in america again. and tonight, you can trace your jeans to the farmer who grew the cotton. make it a merry christmas for american jobs. >>> good evening to you on this chilly night. they are calling it ice friday, the freezing storm stretching 2,000 miles

our kristin fisher brings us the story at 5:30. top? >> a very mild day, kind of a harbinger of what's in store. we'll show you temperatures now in the 50s, 55 downtown, gaithersburg, 54 in leesburg, 52 in manassas. it's still 61 in culpeper. we'll come back, talk about the weekend weather, some record highs and weather for the redskins game and the ravens game. >> reporter: if you like my red wusa9 jacket, i know you'll really love this blue jacket. why am i wearing it and why am i and why is it so cold in here? all of that when we come back. >> then right after the break royally peeved, a british tabloid newspaper accused of hacking into prince william's voicemail. >>> the tabloid's phone hacking trial in england is now focusing on the royal family. >> it is the first time rupert murdoch's news of the world has been accused of targeting the royals, transcripts of affectionate voicemails from prince william to then girl friend kate middleton were read to the london jury. in one he of refers to -- in one he refers to kate as babykins. s

chanel has a new face for the 2014 campaign and it is kristin stewart best known for her somber expressions leading the country western themed prefall collection. a smart move some saying if they're looking for the young "twilight" good-smelling vampire crowd, right? >> she disappeared off the radar for a minute. >> only for a minute. >>> on the cusp of her las vegas residency the new album for britney spears debuted. brgs britney jean." it was the weakest opening of her premiere. her las vegas show. >> i didn't hear any buzz about this album at all. las vegas, planet hollywood. >>> spotify has gotten the led out and added led zeppelin to their portfolio. lots of folks going to be listening to that on spodify. >>> "12 years a slave" has the lead in the movie category. from the s.a.g. awards. "breaking bad" has the most nominations in the television category. >>> why did oprah never have children? she says because, quote, my children would hate me. the tv mogul admitted she didn't think she could balance having kids and hosting a tv show at the same time. >>> and youtube's top trending video

. >> i'm kristin fisher and i'm outside the germantown home of a private tutor and coach who was arrested this morning and charged with sexually abusing one of his students, a teenage girl. his name is daniel, he is 30 years old and he first got on their radar last month of a montgomery county school official notified police. he was never a school employee. he was a private tutor and coach, hired by parents. he live ed at this home. for now, detectives say they only know of one victim, but worried there may with more. >> certainly given the number of years and the number of high school students that he has come in contact with, we consider that a possibility. >> i tried to talk to the one person at this home when we pulled up, he said he didn't want to talk about it and sped off. in germantown, wusa9. >> still ahead, the washington nationals are a big hit as they spread some holiday cheer to youngsters at georgetown hospital. >>> plus, the holidays are in full swing at the white house. we'll tell you about the big operation behind a massive >>> the founder and chairman of lumulemon is ste

i did one a couple of years ago with chris bodie and kristin chenoweth and i really enjoyed making theserrangements that we know so well and playing on them and doing some unusual types of things. my mother is jewish so i grew up celebrating everything this time of year. it is an unusual christmas album, but i loved making it. tavis: can you mix all of those traditions. check number 15 is called " holiday confusion." >> all of these friends i've known and some people that i've always wanted to play with, like chicory a, but -- like chick korea -- like chick correa. confusion" has this mixed background then these comedians like victor borge and mixing in "how the negev" with christmas songs that might offend a couple of people. [laughter] and then the idea the whole album is the joy of making music and that is what i did at home this christmas time. when i was growing up, we all played music and it is a submission. this: i find myself asking question over the years to those who have put his or her talents to a christmas project. but you are a little different because you are playing the v

kristin dahlgren is joining me from times times square with more on that.k going by with some crews dumping salt and sand onto the roads to keep those from getting too long slick. things expected to get a little bit heavier as we go through the day here in new york. col see up to 4 inches or so. but so far, not a whole lot has been sticking. and retailers probably loving this and putting everybody in the holiday shopping spirit. this is the second to last shopping weekend before christmas, and so a lot of people out here in times square and nobody seemed to mind the snow. take a listen. >> we're from connecticut. we're used to the snow and we love it. >> i grew up in central pennsylvania so always snow boared and everything. it's always been fun, kids sliding and everything so -- >> so not really causing too many problems yet to the north and west of the city. there could be much more significant snow totals. even going up into maine, some 14 inches or so, some parts of new york and vermont and new hampshire may see upwards of a foot of snow. that could cau

here's nbc's kristin welker.>ist master of my fate. >> reporter: some of the students here at howard university were not even born when nelson mandela spoke on their campus in 1994, a few years after their release from prison. >> it is with gratitude that we remember the ways in which our university embraced and supported the liberation struggle in south africa. >> reporter: today, the young men and women at this historically black college say those words and then mandela's legacy still resonate. >> he taught that no one is born hating anyone. you're taught that. and if you can be taught to hate, you can be taught to love. >> he wanted love. it was his most powerful message. >> i think the most important lesson is just, never give up and just never allow yourself to be defeated. >> reporter: so as people pay tribute to the larger than life leader in south africa and all across the united states today, here at howard, they have come to this exhibit on campus set up a month ago to reflect. >> what word do you assoc

december twenty fourteen the minute you hit forty ministry said that there were discussions with kristin comic his eye over the biometric security engagement on his seat at the us is losing his sight to sign. if you would like to know. let the bac was discussed. the concept of active units. it was discussed. because indiana done is done the odd destinies identify and then abang as i see the bac. as in prague and five the stability and security of pop dots experts in any of the affected sites visit to india is fortunate as by max the security of the men between the boys and washington state then. please visit this concern. it has to be seeing the context of developments taking place for them to make it two things are going up on this time next year are gone to the gun to his bidding talking because the vatican security agreement has to be discussed i need some serious differences have cropped up between karzai and washington dc. but the vbac is critical of the same time. it's a sensitive issue of this that he shows which often feels authentic and hops be kicked out of the required the cos

and kristin, maybe you can help me here. i believe there are long standing historical ties between sort of support for less bo -- hezbollah that coup tapped in the networks. i've seen lot of reports of, you know, sunni and cute waities going there to fight. i don't have anything confirmed i can tell you. >> i don't have any specifics on what is happening now. it is interesting the where the community in kuwait was also a real center for especially across the gulf. you had some activists that came from iraq and setted in kuwait and set base there and had influence in the national network throughout the entire goal and some linking in to syria as well. and those who are parlayed as well to business context on another side. there's activist communities and you have at the higher level business that are working with the syrian government. the syrian crisis is really -- it's really struck a chord with people. and that's because it's such a terrible conflict humanitarian wise. it's a visual conflict. we're seeing -- people feel ve

. >> reporter: kristin estimates she'll save more than $1,000 in college tuition for her three daughters she plans to open a business downtown like dozens of other people executive director janice brown said because of enrollment more teacher jobs were created and 70% of promised students enrolled in two local schools. both saw big jump in tuition revenue. >> $30 million in our communities swirling around that wasn't there before. >> reporter: dr. brown is the only one who knows the identities of the anonymous donors behind the promise, and she's not telling but she does say they've already paid $50 million to send children to trade schools around the state and pledge to do so forever. >> anyone who could do that could live anywhere in the world, and they live in this small unique funky vibey little place with the weird name called kalamazoo. >> reporter: 30 similar programs have popped up around the country, and dozens more in the works. >> pittsburgh's public schools has 26,000 students, twice as many as kalamazoo. they estimate they need $250 million endowment to honor promises made t

. >>> now, game on with kristin berset live from the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> watching the capitals bounce back from a four-game losing streak by winning their next two. oose been a roller coaster of a season and it looked like they were back on track. however, it was all they could muster before adding another l in the loss column. at the verizon center, in the second, carolina already up 1-0 after the long flat pass, jeff skinner takes it, fires it and scores, makes it look too easy. the hurricane scored three times in the second period. capitals get blown out 4-1, the final. >>> and we have our first chance to shout out at the newest member of the washington nationals. he's coming to dc to bolster the nationals' roster and is hoping for big things from his new team. >> it's exciting for me knowing the team i'm going to be playing with this year, knowing the coaches and everybody involved, it's a big league ball club that's right on the right track to being in the ball season. i'm excited to be part of it and hopefully that's exactly where we take it this year. >>> pink floyd, liz

kristin, if you have an opinion, feel free to jump in.i am sure those on the panel now and many in the room know that the general mood in d.c. is that this is not a conflict that we should be involved in. there is nothing we can do to really affect the course of it. i want to talk about that move specifically with reference to this foreign funding issue. i think a number of people will read your report, beth, and say, well, look, the united states could have done everything to fill this vacuum and provide assistance in syria and these folks in kuwait would have still raised the same amount of money and would still be sending it there. and even if we wanted to do something about it, there not really anything you can do. if you talk to u.s. officials, and i have in the past, although i understand there has been a change of attitude, but in the past officials would say -- what can you do? it is just such a messy problem. we do not really have the leverage to do anything. i wonder if you can address that? >> [laughs] >> let me give you the eu

reporting live in walnut creek, kristin ayers, kpix5. >>> take a close look at this video.ice are trying to figure out who this woman is and whether she's okay. an ac transit camera captured a man dragging her away screaming from a bus stop in mill pete -- last night. it happened here on calaveras -- milpitas last night. it happened here on cal veras boulevard. >>> the third day of an exhaustive search across snow covered mountains in the idaho wilderness ended with. >> sign of the smith family or their small plane. the executive left with his son and daughter. they ran into engine trouble and never arrived in montana. tonight at his congregation in san jose where you would normally find smith leading a youth group there's a real void. >> we're not focusing on the discouragement. obviously as each day passes it's getting more difficult and we're obviously more worried, but we're trying to focus on the hope. >> reporter: today the search ramped up with more planes and hi-tech tools and more people including family member brad norton. >> no results yet. we haven't been able t

kristin winkler has a blog focusing on education and teblg nolg. kristen, you're up first. your question for sal. go for it. >> sal, so with the obvious for the s.t.e.m. subjects, there's increasing group of educators who want to add the a standing for the arts to that and call it s.t.e.a.m. sometime back you brought in the founders of s.m.a.r.t. history into khan academy. do you think expanding into other subject matters anytime soon and maybe second half my question, do you think you would have been equally as successful, say, if you would have started off creating french lessons and creative videos? >> yeah. so as you mentioned about two and a half years we brought in beth harris and stephen zuker, these amazing art historians to make art history videos. the whole point there was to make sure that we are looking at the whole human being, not just the right or left brain. obviously, the core focus of khan academy continues to be primarily mathematics and math-related fields in the sciences. our hope is it really can be kind of addressing the whole human being, and that's

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. >>> game on with kristin berset live from the wusa 9 cadillac sports desk. >> i think it's fair to say the washington capitals and the philadelphia flyers don't like each other very much. they rallied back from a three- goal deficit to send the flyers home in shock. remember this on november 1, an all-out brawl that included the two goalies. tonight, more attention in the second period, hits braden shin who went head first into the board. a nasty hit that got the 19- year-old penalized for charging and in obvious pain, had problems getting up and didn't return. it went down hill after that. flyers win big tonight, 5-2, the final. >>> the redskins' locker room at fedex field was turned into santa's workshop this afternoon. they helped over 1100 children pick out toys for christmas. they say this is a much appreciated break from the chaos they've been dealing with the past few weeks. >> kids always keep you grounded. they always -- kids say the darnedest things and do the darnedest things, so they always keep you happy. >> i'm excited though. even though we didn't win last game, we'v