november 7th, 1940, tacoma, washington. it's a bustry day in puget sound, a northwest section of the evergreen state. winds are gusting a little more than 40 miles per hour, causing the tacoma narrow's bridge to really sway. surprising as it looks, the movement doesn't stop cars and pedestrians from crossing it. ever since the bridge's opening four months earlier, residents affectionately call her galluping gertie. because of the way she dances and snakes in the wind. bridges are designed to move a little. but gerty's movements seem a bit extreme. for some residents crossing her is like an adventure. >> it was a thrill. it was like a carnival ride. almost a roller coaster. >> historian and author richard hobbs writes about the bridge in his book "catastrophe to triumph." >> people would come out on a windy day when there was extra bounce in the bridge and walk across. the motion could be fairly dramatic. >> but some find that wave like motion harrowing. >> as you drove across the bridge you could look ahead and the car in f

anderson walked me around a hospital in tacoma, washington.e first things you'll notice here and every e.r. in the state a reminder for patients of restrictions on how much pain medication they can be prescribed. >> not only are we all playing by the same rules, we are also now all communicating with one another. statewide database. it provides a patient's history of visits to the emergency departments in the last five years as well as other vital information. >> in some cases, it might even show care guidelines, like this particular physician has said no narcotics should be issued through the emergency department because they're on a pain management contract. >> if something like this didn't exist, the scenario is somebody could come to one emergency room, possibly get a prescription for pain medication and maybe even the same day go to another emergency room and get a prescription for pain medication. that could happen. >> that's happened for years. >> so pharmacies here also share data. >> we now have a prescription monitoring program throu

red line, single tracking between twin brook and grovner and forest glean and tacoma. everything back to norm a.m. monday morning. >>> polls open from 8:00 to 9:00 tonight. governor o'malley extends through today. and sand ooy forced polling cens to be closed on monday and tuesday. in virginia, wait until tomorrow to wait to vote absentee in person. you have to meet certain criteria that prevent you from going to polls on election day. find list of polling places on our website. >>> time for a last look at weather and traffic. >> a few breaks in the cloud. we're over looking the pa tom accident. sunrise more than a half hour away. breezy and chilly. partly cloudy. chill remains into next week. danella, how is traffic? >> a lot better than yesterday. still seeing delays, outer loop of the beltway. new hampshire avenue. sluggish to i-270. drive will take you 17 minutes. >> that is news 4 today. thank you for starting your day us with. "today" is next. back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic, breaking news. we're back tomorrow -- monday actually. hope to see you then. ha

. >> supporters of maryland's question 4 held a rally on montgomery college's tacoma park today. if it passes, undocumented immigrants would be allowed to pay instate tuition at local community colleges. >> polls open tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. they will be open there and in the district until 8:00 p.m. in virginia the polls will be open from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. you can learn more about all the candidates and the ballot questions at wusa9.com. click on campaign 201. -- 2012. more than a dozen cases of car fires in the last few weeks. >> believed the serial arsonists are responsible for destroying 16 cars. but it was an incident here that they are most interested in. >> that's because they were caught on tape. watch as someone lights a small fire near a car in the darkness. then a near explosion and two arsonists take off running. >> went up in flame. saw two bodies run . >> the 91 acura belonged to him. a neighbor security camera caught the video. most interesting to watch are these shots of a car making u turn and killing headlights before the attack. >> you can't make is no se

line and on the red line single tracking between twin brook and grovener as well as forest glen and tacoma. everything should be back to normal monday morning. >> all right. good to hear. >>> time right now 6:08. good morning everyone. still ahead on news 4 today falling fines. the price of getting caught on d.c.'s speed cameras is going down. find out when the new fines take effect. ♪ >> hurricane sandy, singers coming together to help those in need in a star studded benefit concert. >> and while we're on air we're always online. chat with us on facebook and twitter throughout the show. search for news 4 today. we'll be back in a moment. >>> starting monday big changes are coming to speed camera fines in the district. speeders will pay a little bit less if they're caught but as news 4's tom sherwood reports some say the fines are still too high. >> reporter: d.c. has dozens of speed cameras to catch motorists. fines range from $75 to $250 far higher than any other local jurisdiction. mayor vincent gray friday moved to curb some of the anger over the high fines and complains the city is ju

. >>> a hearing resumes today near tacoma washington for army staff sergeant robert bales.nday, prosecutors used the video link to question afghan witnesses to the attack. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: staff sergeant bales showed no reaction after ten afghans told of the night their two villages were awakened by gunshots. nine of the murder victims were children. the massacre was one of the worst crimes attributed to a u.s. serviceman in decades. a 7-year-old told the court her father was shot right through the throat and chest. the bullet let me in the leg. this 15-year-old, who was shot in both legs, told the court the same story he told us back in his village. >> translator: my uncle, my little cousin, and my grandmother were killed. i was told to put my hands on the wall. >> reporter: his father testified by video that he found four bodies, all shot in the head, including his own mother. i saw her and cried, he said, and i could not look at her face. 39-year-old bales, a married father of two young children, served four tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. he

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and when you have evidence -- i remember this, one of the first exchange programs at tacoma, washington, what they found was the needle exchange program was the principal point of source of recommendations into drug treatment. think about it. people come to a needle exchange program so they can safely use their drugs without getting an infection and spreading it to other people. there is no coercion involved. it is the most important you can have for someone who is a known drug user what that suggests is that when people need to get help, when people are trying to get better, what they most need is to have the opportunity to find their own dignity, their own self, their own worth. having a judge or prosecutor with a hammer over your head saying you better be clear or i'm throwing you in jail. you better give me clean urines or i'm throwing you in jail. that may work for some people but that's no reason to make it a one size fits all model. in fact, huge numbers do seek out treatment whether it's 12 step or anything else, if that treatment is respectful, if it's quality, if it has eviden

here is our first group of semifinalis a high-school social-studies teacher from tacoma, washington.. teacher ts -- from new york, new york... ...and a high-school chemistry teacher from charlottesville, virginia... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. and welcome, everyone. it's the middle of the week, but it's also the first of our three semifinal games. these are sudden-victory games. only the winner gets to come back to play on monday and tuesday of next week for $100,000.

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on the red line single tracking between twin brooke and grovener as well as forest glen and tacoma.ould be back to normal in time for monday morning's commute. >>> more a more bike lanes are popping up in the district but what good are the lanes if there are still cars parked in the spots. >> i admit i am one of those confused at times. news 4's transportation reporter adam todd says it is becoming a big issue for both bikers and drivers. >> reporter: time after time after time cars, trucks, buses parking and driving in the brand new bike lanes on l street in northwest. now to be fair this bike lane project is not completely finished and in some cases the proper signage isn't up. but along certain blocks everything is in place and still people blocking the lanes. the new bike lane on l street stretches from new hampshire avenue down to 12th street and the d.c. department of transportation has had to take about a hundred parking spaces on the north side of l street to make these lanes. talking about the balancing act of taking away parking while opening up a bike lane. >> we do see c

. >>> news that toyota is recalling about 150,000 tacoma pickups.fall from beneath the trucks. these are from the 2001 to 2004 model years. they were sold and registered in 20 cold-weather states. some cases the plate can break, the tire can fall off. dealers will inspect and may replace the plates at no cost. >>> bad news for sony and panasonic. fitch ratings say they're facing weakness in business. sony hasn't turned a profit in four years. panasonic's share price has fallen 46% since march. fitch is downgrading the junk status of both. >>> news on the college hoops player who shattered records on tuesday night with his incredible shooting skills. jack taylor scored 138 points on his own. and that is more than any nba team scored that night. >> reporter: his teammates kept passing him the ball. sophomore jack taylor kept sinking it. again, and again, and again. 138 points against faith baptist bible college, topping the national record that has stood for more than five decades. >> coming in to the game my teammates and my coaches wanted to get me

specifically tacoma and seattle. his knownducted in the early to mid 1970s near the university of washington. he would knock out the girls, drive them outside of to town to the mountains east of the city where he would rape them and them kill them. >> ted was a socio path or psycho path. and the psycho pathic mind looks at interpersonal relationships differently than do the rest of us. all relationships are on a power grid and all you're doing when enaking with other people is get over on them. you're trying to establish you're in control of the situation. >> when you're being manipulated by one of these guys especially if you're unfamiliar with it you make mistakes. one of my earliest mistakes was to be incapable of understanding that bundy not only was a killer, but he really enjoyed being a killer. it was his life. it was the center of his being. and everything else as this developed in his life was put into place to support what he called the entity the part of him that was disordered if you will. ted conceived o

there will be single tracking between twin brook and fwrovner as well as between forest glenn and tacoma. everything back to normal by monday morning. >>> the lights could be back on in manhattan as early as tomorrow. con edison says electricity should be fully restored to a quarter million homes and businesses still in the dark after hurricane sandy by tomorrow. many of those outages, in lower manhattan with the worst of the flooding by some accounts. mayor michael bloomberg says meals and bottled water will be dribted to those hardest hit. >>> the subway commute not expected to be an easy one in new york city. many on limited service due to damage in lower manhattan. many were jammed, leading many to call for more trains and buses. >>> getting around new york by car is no easier. frustrations mounting as lines to get gas stretch back several blocks or even miles. thousands have had to wait in lines for hours to fill up their gas tanks. many stations closed due to lost power or property damage. the few stations that are open are backed up and even rationing gas as people run out of gas,

single tracking between twin brook and grovner and forest glenn and tacoma. >>> social media playing a big role in politics, both are using a site very popular with women to get their message across in pictures. pinterest, the site known for all things beautiful goes political, especially in d.c. >> people talk about hobbies, crafts, things like that but for and a board featuring gorgeous states parks called where romney could drill is a hit. also the golf courses of the obama administration, romney's private jets and pages ran by those close to the candidates. michelle obama and ann romney do their share of pinning. not the biggest driver of traffic, but that's okay. >> we can take little bits of our research, papers, pull out statistics and facts and put them out in a visual way and get them up on pinterest and reach people we may not have reached any other way. >> krafrtcrafts, food and drink, photography. none of the topics are related to politics. we asked e-mail and they say they don't comment on future plans. >> the fact of the matter is, politics part of it. a lot of politica

there will be single tracking between tacoma and forest glen.the blue line there is single tracking between stadium armory and addison road. there is also single tracking between pentagon city and reagad yellow lines but that single tracking is only for today. we'll check your forecast next. stay with us. >>> we are waking up to a cool start. what does the afternoon and the thanksgiving holiday look like? let's get the forecast now from meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning, richard. a good saturday morning everybody. off to a beautiful start today. nice, clear sky overhead. of course the clear skies during the overnight allow temperatures to cool back into the 20s and 30s so that's where we're starting for the most part. 28 now in winchester and front royal. 30 in culpepper, virginia. 32 in gaithersburg and germantown but 42 in annapolis and edgewater, maryland. today not a bad day at all. mostly sunny. high temperatures will reach up into the low and mid 50s. sun goes down just before 5:00 this afternoon and then for tomorrow a little bit

single tracking between twinbrook and grove ner and the forest glen and tacoma stations on the red line. >>> let's talk speed particular. the district is dialing back some of the fines it collect. the move comes after widespread criticism of the program. the new regulations mean violators caught speeding up to 10 miles over the split. will be feigned $50 instead of 75. drivers ticketed going for 11 to 15 miles over will face the fine of $100 rather than 125. but there is a flip side. the fine goes up from $250 to $300 if you are caught going more than 25 miles over the speed limit by one of those cameras. >> in consultation with mpd, g- dot and dmv i make these changes not only with fairness in mind but also considering the threshold for pedestrian and biker safety. what speeds will result in higher chance of injury or fatality and what speeds should result in a lower infraction but still represent a deterrent. >> mayor gray's changes to the policy do not require council approval so they are scheduled to take effect next monday. >>> well, four astronauts and 200 workers gathered at cape

. >>> toyota is recalling about 150,000 mid-sized pickup trucks the tacoma trucks come from the 2001 to 2004 model years. they have a rust problem with the plates and have a danger of tires falling onto the roads. they mainly affect cold-water states. >>> in seven minutes, the new experience being offered at this year's auto show in san francisco, the car that you can actually drive around the building. plus the interesting new option that volvo is now offering. >>> the company involved in last week's deadly oil platform accident needs to improve safety. federal investigators say they found safety violations at properties owned by black elk company. one person was killed and 11 others were injured. >>> the family of former world champion boxer hector camacho is facing a heartbreaking decision on whether he should be removed from life support. the doctors had announced 50- year-old catch macho would survive but now say his condition worsened overnight, saying at one point his heart actually stopped. doctors are waiting for catch macho's mother to decide whether or not he should be tak

a painting by salvador dali shows up in a pile of goodwill donations in a store north of tacoma. sketch has the same artist signature and a certificate of authenticity. the store put it up for auction and the leading bid is already nearly $8,000. >>> tennessee. two snow leopard cubs getting ready to meet their fans at the zoo. no leopard appreciation day is this weekend and it will be the first time they appear in public. they're only six weeks old. that's a fox watch across america. i'm harris faulkner in for shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. the white house says the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called president obama today to update him on the fighting with gaza. the israelis report they've launched more than 600 air strikes in gaza since the military operations began. while hamas has hit israel with nearly 400 rockets, mortars and missiles. israel reporting about a quarter of those landed today alone. the white house reports netanyahu thanked the president for america's investment in israel's iron dom

in pierce county which includes ta tacoma, prosecutor mark linquist said he was dismissing four dozenpossession of marijuana. he said the people have spoken through this initiative, and as a practical matter, i don't think you can sell a simple marijuana case to a jury after this initiative passed. in an interview with "the seattle times," the king county prosecutor said i think when the people voted to change the policy, they weren't focused on when the effective date of the new policy would be. they spoke loudly and clearly that we should not treat small amounts of marijuana as an offense. allison holcomb who was the manager -- campaign manager of the campaign to decriminalize minor marijuana possession said she was "incredibly moved" by satterberg's emotion and said the prosecutor showed "incredible courage." more than 220 marijuana possession cases instantly dismissed. more than 220 lives saved from criminal records. allison holchomb is right. it did say some courage for prosecutors to decide to drop those cases and it took wisdom. the collective wisdom of voters to make that happ

on the red line there will be single tracking between tacoma and forest glen. on the blue line there is single tracking between stadium armory and addison road. there will also be single tracking between pentagon city and reagan national airport on the blue and yellow line. now that single tracking is only for today. >>> some parents in a fast growing school district in our area are unhappy about a potential shuffle of where their kids go to school. rapidly growing loudoun county is proposing to redraw the lines between the school's seven elementary schools so attendance can be more balanced. the final plan could mean 1200 students in the ashburn and dulles north areas could be going to different schools come next fall and that has parents trying to leave things the way they are. >> i can't tell you how many girl scout leaders and all kinds of things that are all tied to that school. we've invested a lot in the school. >> it's more the principle of the back and forth, back and forth. >> parents can sound off at a public hearing coming up on december 3rd. the sc

. >>> students and advocates for the maryland dream act rallyd at montgomery colleges tacoma park silver screen campus today. the group is looking to pass proposition 4, the initiative to allow immigrant children to get in-state tuition, provided they meet several criteria, including paying income taxes. >> they have the ambition, drive, and passion to be positive forces in their communities. passing question forward tomorrow is going to allow them to be positive forces in their communities. >> critics of the bill say if it grants amnesty to illegal immigrants and will cost the state too much money. >>> there were fewer college graduates on the prince georges county school board than any other board in the region. the school system confirmed the report by the washington post. the report said two have bachelor's degrees. a degree is not required to serve on the board. the school system said that the article and the post was porely written. >>> it will be a long two weeks for the redskins and that is as they enter their biweek. scott smith has more. >> reporter: mike shanahan's monday pres

. >> reporter: amanda erhart arrived at tacoma general tuesday to give birth on her own without her husband>> he was the only person that i wanted to hand our healthy son to. >> reporter: matt was out of reach on his third tour of duty in afghanistan. so when the time came, she was wheeled into the hospital room alone. what she didn't know was that a secret mission was happening steps away. >> i knew it meant a lot for her. >> reporter: with the camcorder rolling, matt delivered a big surprise. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> reporter: and a second delivery arrived just 15 minutes later. >> i tried to keep it a surprise because i got her hopes up a couple of times and it didn't happen. >> reporter: it took a month of asking before he received the permission. it took more than a dozen hours of traveling before he was home. >> got here just in time. >> the best mission ever. >> reporter: the best mission ever that brought mom, dad and baby together. >> it's just perfect. it was just really nice he didn't have to miss out on his healthy son being born. that was just -- i don't know, that just re

volunteers from tacoma, olympic, seattle mountain rescue teams and four dog teams from the washingtonearch-and-rescue task force. they dug that little cave. little snow cave for protection. and -- >> reaw resourceful. very loquacious too. >>> light out for the head of utility company blasted for poor recovery effort following super storm sandy. the ceo of the long island power authority, resigned without explanation on tuesday. lipa is under fire from outraged customers, and ape frustra frus governor, cuomo, said the utility is beyond repair. thousand without electricity. >>> deadly plane crash lit up the night sky in jackson, mississippi. three people were killed when their single enjin piper slammed into a home tuesday night. flames shot 50 feet into the air. a mother and son escaped the burning home with minor injuries. the pilot reported an on board emergence just after takeoff. the exact cause of the crash is still under investigation. >>> and a broken walter main is to blame for a goopy, muddy mess in a suburban san francisco neighborhood. >> cars buried in muck up to the wheel

anti-tacoma retirement package that equaled more than $20 million. well, even charles schumer who was normally a big fan of fannie mae was taken aback. schumer comment i think maxwell did a good job at that's enough senate. under johnson, fannie perfected its lobbying. it went around the country financing housing projects in the district of any congressman who might prove useful. the congressman loved posing for pictures in front of those projects and taking credit for bringing money into their districts. at fannie mae was going to need a lot of friends. because there was a political problem to be dealt with. in the late 1980s, thousands of savings and loan institutions had gone bust. largely because they made a lot of crazy loans on real estate. the deposits of those s&l's were insured by uncle sam, so the government ended up with the bill for about $124 billion, and congress felt obliged to look around and see what else might go wrong. at this point they were still regulating fannie and freddie. hud admitted they didn't have the time or expertise t

toyota is recalling some 150,000 tacoma midsize pickup's.any says the spare tire may come loose and fall off. the 2001 through 2004 model year trucks were sold or registered in 20 cold weather states and washington d.c.. the automaker will notify owners of the recall next month. that is the latest from fox business giving you the power to prosper. tracy: it has been a darned good week for the housing market. the recovery is on pretty firm footing. the news that existing home sales jumped 2% from october to september, and home builders sentiment rose to its highest level since 2006. yesterday we had more good news, housing starts, to the highest level since july of 2008. ended drop to a brand new ecord low. the 30-year fixed at 3.31%. with is good news the next guest is a little cautious. tanya, president -- why? >> we have to remember a lot of things. even though there's a lot of money this administration is not pro home ownership. for all the debate and everything would listen to the last several months we did not hear a lot about housing.

. >>> toyota llama a revisión a alrededor de 150 mil camionetas tacoma porque se les puede caer las gomas y su uso más amplio podría ayudar a reducir el nivel de criminalidad. >>> al menos así los indican nuevas investigaciones que señalan que más de un millón de mujeres han sido tratadas por cánceres que nunca amenazaron sus vidas. >>> amigos, lo que debía ser un día de diversión para un niño de 7 años se convirtió en pesadilla porque el menor quedó atrapado en un tobogán, por estar un poquito pasado de peso. >>> creo que lo va a pensar más de dos veces antes de lanzarse por esos desizadores, la buena noticia es que no salió con rasguños. >>> gracias, satcha pretto. >>> muchas gracias. >>> mira, no dijiste nada de nosotros. >>> de los 3 galanes. >>> claro. >>> por cierto, tenemos una gran cantidad de menciones en las redes sociales, felicitaciones por la campaña de navidad de univisión. >>> todo el mundo pide que la volvamos a poner. >>> claro, es histórica, tanto talento en una misma campaña. >>> así es. >>> es momento de presentar al niño prodigio. >>> que también sale en la campaña. >