. >>> a battle over the symbols of christmas continue in louden county, tonight. a crucified skeleton dressed as santa claus was decapitated this morning in leesburg. the skeleton was decapitated earlier this week. citizens in leesburg say it's offensive, members of the atheist community in northern virginia put up other displays today, calling them a holiday greeting that is festive but not religious. >> we've never asked anyone to alter their christmas plans. we do christmas at our house. this is simply about the separation of church and state. >> i think these folks are trying to ruin the holiday spirit in the name of the first amendment, and they are just very disrespectful of the community. >> last week louden county supervisors debated not allowing any displays at the courthouse but decided against that. >>> one of the country's largest youth sports groups is the latest to zeal with child sex abuse allegations. the amateur athletic union says police are looking into allegations that its president and ceo abused young boys in the '80s. jay gray has more. >> t

. >>> investigators in louden county are trying to figure out who poisoned two dogs in leesburg. the animal services says these two dogs had to be put down today. the pets got very sick on saturday. officials believe that food coated with anti-freeze was dropped in the backyard. the owner says she's worried whoever did this to her pets has done it to others in the neighborhood. an incident similar to this one happened in july of last year. that case also involved food laced with anti-freeze. police are asking anyone with information to call them or the louden county animal control. >>> a man is behind bars after allegedly taking advantage of several people with physical and mental disabilities. police say they fear there could be more victims. erica gonzalez spoke to one of those victims. >> i think it was a human shark looking for easy prey. >> reporter: edward jones has had to learn the hard way. if it's too good to be true, it probably is. jones is disabled and relies on social security to make ends meet. desean terry johnson met jones last may. he promised to get jones a job

louden county down to 26. starting out around 25 degrees around prince william county. very, very cold to start the day tomorrow morning. little cooler than it wasound today. we've had four dry days. now at least four more dry days. that means some super weather as we take on the jets. that's right. 1:00 on sunday. partly sunny sky, between 50 and 53 degrees. our next chance of rain doesn't come until tuesday of next week. have a great weekend. >> great. thanks, veronica. >>> now to medical marijuana. for sale in the district. >> tonight, the news 4 i-team has the list that shows where patients may be able to buy it. tisha thompson joins us now. >> reporter: when it comes to medical marijuana, the d.c. government is handing out two different kinds of licenses. we've already shown you the proposed sites to grow medical marijuana. they're called cultivation centers. now we have a list of dispensary applications or where people will be able to go to buy medical marijuana. if you want medical marijuana in washington, d.c., you will need to get a prescription from a doctor a

it will be a huge problem in montgomery county, maybe extreme northern montgomery county and maybe louden county, but i think the snow is going to come, but could be so brief, because storm will pull away quickly by time the cold air gets in. snowing hard in garrett county. got the pictures up there. they had 3 inches already. snowing in cumberland. will probably get to hagerstown by 9:00 tonight. 43 in mars tinsburg, still 50 downtown. so here is the deal. evening commute a mess. heavy rain until 11:00 for the immediate metro area and points southeast of 95. rain and snow briefly in northwest. maybe you get a period of snow, 45 minutes to an hour, as long as we're going to see it. thursday morning commute -- here's a look at the future cast. 11:00 tonight a changeover in fredrik, the blue and snow, and the pink the between. mainly talking snow or rain here. look what happens. we'll advance this. by 12:15 in an hour, this system pulls away, up near baltimore. so this may be a little too fast, but we talked about this yesterday how it was going to pull out quicker. that's going to be the c

montgomery county north and west, and louden county north and west. the white you see is the winter storm warning for our friend on the other side of the divide. here's a look at the radar. you can see the changeover beginning to occur. all of garrett county is snow and western sections of allegheny county is snow. anybody driving over mountains going to go from an into a whiteout. we still have the moisture. you see that moisture? this is going race up here, and it is going to get heavier before it moves out. believe me. 52 downtown, but 46 in fredrik and 45 in martinsburg. so the story, evening commute a mess. winter weather advisory tonight. rain and snow briefly north and west. the good news -- there is a silver lining, thursday's commute will be fine in terms of weather. no problems at all. tonight snow in fredrik, almost to gaithersburg. put this into motion. by 11:45. it lifts out. it moves. by the time the cold air gets here we won't be left with any moisture. storms depart and cold air moves in. it may be longer than this in 12:30 or 1:00. an

or tuesday but first thing on your saturday morning, temperatures mid-20s across western fairfax, loudennty and montgomery county. 30 in gaithersburg, 29 degrees in waldorf and laplata. this afternoon plenty of sunshi sunshine, temperatures low 40s mid morning, upper 40s to near 50 later on this afternoon, gradually the winds come across the south, allowing tomorrow to be a little bit warmer today. nothing showing up on doppler for us but there are rain shers well back out to our west and yes indeed snow down to the far western part of the oklahoma and texas panhandles. heavy rain so chicago and st. louis it is all come our way but slowly and as a result i don't think we'll have to worry about rain until the tuesday time frame. for today a clear sky to get things started. high level clouds on the increase by later on today and tomorrow. rain chances hold off until late monday or more likely tuesday. here is your saturday forecast, mostly sunny, high clouds coming in later today. a pleasant enough day to be outside. highs today upper 40s and low 50s and tomorrow, a little bit more in the

winter weather advisory going into effect in montgomery and howard counties and frederick county and louden county. northern fauquier and rappahannock and the whole shenandoah valley. in the mountains in garrett county, grant county, that's where you're going to be looking at winter storm warnings where you get the heaviest snows. you have the higher elevations there. the bus stop forecast this morning, well, we've got rain. some of it is heavy, it is mild. 50s and low 60s. sunrise at 7:13. this is going to be an indoor recess with rain all day. mid-50s this morning dropping to the low 50s if not even upper 40s by the time you head home with the 5:00 p.m. temperature. downtown, 51. many areas already in the 40s by then. you can see the rain continuing to stream in across the region. heavy pockets from d.c. down toward charlottesville back toward the mountains of west virginia and even in toward areas farther south and west. moderate rains between hagerstown and cumberland and breezewood, hancock up toward breezewood. a lot of yellow on the map here in the washington region extending down in

expected to remain closed for hours a car is pinned beneath this cement mixing truck route 50, in louden county the road is closed in both directions between wattson and gum spring road crews rescued the driver of the car he is being flown to hospital he is in critical condition we are told the mixer on the truck landed in the woods, near the road. >>> new tonight at 5, a prince georges county school supervisor is facing charges for possessing and distributing child porn. he is supervisor for operations of the school and charged in court. a spokesman tells fox 5 the safety of our students is our number one priority once the allegation was brought to our attention we immediately removed the imemployee from our school district. >>> a military service member is charged with kidnapping and carjacking a taxi cab driver. he is stationed at walter reed national military medical center roberta woman got into the cab in front of the medical center when they got to target the man ordered him to get into the backseat of the taxi and drive around and went into target without paying the $18 fair. >>>

we're one of the wealthiest counties in the country, fairfax and louden county and still one in six childrennia in hunger. their is a tremendous need, a lot of children are going to bed hungry. we serve 2,000 children in the region every day, serve healthy after-school snacks and suppers. we have a lot of kids on our waiting list. >> wow. >> and we need more space, more trucks and more child-friendly foods. >> you know what? we have a bill beg military presence in this area, too. you're telling me we're getting a lot of military asking for help with food, too? >> yes, we started a mobile pantry at one of the military bases in the area. there is significant need there as well. our client comes from all lines of work, and there is need throughout the area. >> unbelievable. well, we want you to remind to you bring your donations here to greenbriar between now and 11:00. we have a ways to go. someone put in two big boxes of naval oranges. they do use produce, but we would prefer your non- perishable items, although they're put to good use and the money donations are very badly needed here. the capi

over the last 12 hours, scattered sprinkles and there are sprinkles in montgomery county, southern loudenwestern fairfax and those will dissipate over the next half hour or so. temperatures around the reasonable under clouds are near 50 degrees. there is sun breaking out in southern maryland into the mid 50s now and that's probably going to be the high for the day today. and then tonight we'll be cloudy and low 40s by dawn. tomorrow light rain in the morning and then passing showers morning midday into wednesday afternoon. that should end then wednesday evening clearing out a bit. sun on thursday morning and another mild day on thursday. might get an evening shower thursday and thursday night and into friday morning. sun back friday afternoon. chillier weather moves in for the christmas weekend on saturday cloudy and highs in the 40s. morning lows upper 30s. may get a shower on saturday night as well as into christmas morning and then some sun back on monday and colder. barbara? >> thank you, tom. and let's get a quick check on midday traffic out there. >> good morning. the incident at l'