as kristin fisher reports, their actions likely save maurine's life. >> two years ago, maurine was thehman on the varsity valley ball team. >> after practice, i would hurt a lot. >> her doctors told the 14- year-old that it was growing pains, but then, her high school's trainer got a look at her aching right knee. >> never thought it would be cancer, but i had noticed that her patella was offset and something didn't seem right. >> two years later, that trainer is getting a kiss from congressman jim moran. >> thank you. you see, turns out that aching knee was cancer. bone cancer. rare and rapidly spreading. >> i was pretty shocked. i never broken a bone. i've never really been sick. so it was a shock. >> after 20 weeks of chemotherapy and a full knee replacement surgery, maurine isn't just back at langly high school, she's back playing volleyball. >> just come in and go for it. >> but her family says equally impressive was the school support. >> we had never had it before. you helped us. >> the successful lobbied congressman moran to recognize the schools in virginia's congressional rec

throughout her chemotherapy, maurine stayed in school, she even had a 3.8 grade point average.graduate on time may 2013. >>> the valentines are back at walkersville elementary. the assistant principal says students can exchange valentine's tomorrow with restrictions. kids must have one for every student in the class and they can include food or candy. walkersville elementary banned valentine's last year and the school principal says romance between students had no place in elementary school. should the school have reversed that or romance between 6 to 10- year-olds over the top? send them to mailbag@wusa9.com. you know, valentines with little kids, that can be humiliating thing when you don't get one. that's why you have to have one for everybody. >> uncomfortable. >> a little weird, i hear you. 50 today. not as cold as over the weekend. cold air over the weekend. >> saturday night was -- >> i tell you what, just like every cold snap, it lasts a day and a half and it's gone. >> only two more weeks left of february. >> actually, i went back and went over numbers. i'm looking for

i'm maurine. >> protesters were told to leave their tents after officers moved in. at least eight people have been arrested and one officer is in the hospital. fox 5 is live in northwest at mcpherson square tonight. >> there is still a heavy police presence here at mcpherson square. take a look. d.c. police and u.s. park police here, although it may be a little more quiet than it's been for a while, since this protest began in october. most of the protesters are out of the park tonight, at least for now. now take a look at video we shot earlier. this is what it looks like now after this morning's predawn raid. a muddy mess. some of the tents only partially standing. trash and containers everywhere. u.s. park police still in riot gear, going through the park inch by inch. presumably still inspecting it and keeping an eye on the protesters who have returned to one section of the park that is open. they won't have to comply with the no sleeping in the park rule. and others are vowing that they will come back, too. >> it was devastating and hurting, literally. there was

maurine. >> reporter: el khalifl was in court today. he was calm, almost defiant in his disposition. he was wearing a t-shirt and sat in a military style with his hands collapsed behind his c

and will and maurine, one final note about that smoke alarm situation. we're told that building inspectors will be back to make sure both the audible fire alarm and the blinking warning lights are indeed working. >> good idea, audrey barnes, thank you for that. >> a news alert from d.c. now where police have released a sketch of the man who sexually assaulted a juvenile girl. take a look at the sketch. the victim says a man who looks like this approached her in northeast last month. he assaulted her at gunpoint. he was last seen wearing an all gray sweat suit. >> fox 5 is monitoring metro tonight. the south entrance to the dupont circle metro stop is closed and stay that way for the next eight months so crews can replace three major escalators. sherry lee explains what that means for you if you ride through there. >> with the dupont south entrance closed, riders will have to walk around the circle to the north entrance or all the way down here. one way or another, it's a longer walk. metro calls the escalators at the dupont south entrance some of the wor

. >> reporter: maurine, exactly what was going on when this arrest took place. keep in mind, both houses were in session here working on the extension of the payroll tax cut. many of the congressman and senators we talked to about this incident said they were unaware of exactly what was going on. we have video of the garage on capitol hill where this arrest took place. now al khalifl came to this garage, under the pretents of meeting al-qaeda operatives. what he did not know is the people he was dealing with for nearly a year were in fact under cover agents from the fbi's washington field office. the part of this investigation we are told, el khalifl accepted an explosive vest which was rigged to not operate. also, he took possession of a fake automatic weapon. again, provided to him by under cover fbi agents, which again, was not operational. fbi agents we observed in their time here were very matter of fact, very business-like. he was put into one of the official federal department vans and sped away in front of a group of waiting journalists as we observed hi

. >> hi will and maurine. we're keeping a close eye on things.hings are starting to slowly come together. let's take a look at our map and show you what we're talking about. clouds here right now across the area. to the south is really where the action is. we have this low pressure system that has a huge amount of precipitation with it and that is going to move its way up the mid atlantic and bring the winter weather up the coastal region. the question is, how will this system track. how far to the east or west will it go? there's warnings in effect, but i want to tell you the winter storm watch has been pulled back, it's more now to the south and to the west of the d.c. metro area than it has been previously over the last course of tonight as well as yesterday. that's a change. winter storm warning in effect for southeastern, west virginia, allegheny, blue ridge, 4 to 8 8 inches in the warning area. they could see 3 to 5 inches and where the advisory is, they could see 1 to 3 inches in the higher elevations. we are watching this closely. looks l