move in the roofing, the siding, the patio furniture. home depot and lowe's plan to hire 110,000 seasonal workers between them. americans are buying more this warm weather. >> you could do more home improvements on your home. repair the roof that you would have waited until spring. >> reporter: it didn't take us long to spot the bags. from those home stores. spring shopping? >> yes. >> reporter: but it's only march. >> i know. but the sun is here. so, we're shopping. >> reporter: a little organizing? >> i'm organizing right now. and this is another bit of organizing stuff. >> reporter: and you have your sunglasses on in march. >> of course. >> reporter: it's far bigger than just one shopping bag. look at construction. 52,000 jobs in the last 2 months, after seeing 32,000 new jobs in construction all of last year. alex sent me this video today. zoomed in on the sign. just hired to build that home. in a tough economy, where is the spunding money coming from? part of it, the money saved in heat. we asked this economics professor to do the ma

we will announce the winner friday at 5:00. >> pretty good. >> it would be nice to sit on the patio and enjoy the weather. >> tonight it will get chilly. frost advisory north and west of the city. wake up in the morning 34-44 degrees. we may see some showers late at night. probably over nine and into saturday morning, the best chance of showers. more showers and mild temperatures early next week. keep up-to-date with changing weather around the clock at wjla.com. [ baby coughing labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] washington can'tgnore the facts. more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to fightingforair.org and tell washington: don't weaken clean air protections. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 m

i can tell you where the to beins first landed that invited me to the patio in the house glass of whiskyegard in luminous in the long twilight. if you drive east on the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not the place. so next day driving along the route each village seemed a station on the journey of return. kiely's cross i pursued the paper trail, unwound the breed of names through census and baptism each generation christening the last until it was language on the tongue and the trail trailed to the mists of the unrecorded. now i was tracing a highway to ore gin the potatoes struck black with blight. metals and we was their faces swollen with fever. stench rising from the evicted burrowed. men like dogs scoured the fields. i saw in one cottage a royal of rats feasting on an infant. no one where i witnessed anything like it not in calcutta. the voiceless children silenced by hunger the bodies burned at night leaving i don't trace. descending the

. >> any chance to run outside and jump in the patio, immediately dives in the dirt and rolls aroundn the dirt. i do vacuum my cat like this. he loves it. lays there and purse. doesn't mind the noise of a vacuum. >> that's how you clean a cat the french way or nick calderon way. >> that's purrrfect. >> engines worked on by a mechanic. in poland, you tie them to a tree. >> he must have just needed to change the hood oil. >> looks like a volkswagen on a tree, rammed it in reverse. >> kind of like people pull their own teeth with a string and a door, except this was an engine and tree and car. >> this is like combat, just rips the heart out of the car. >> i don't understand what their goal is other than maybe a good viral video and a good laugh. >> sounds about the right reaction. >> i'm shocked how effective that was. did they prep the car in any way? >> if you listen, i think they really just put the pedal to the metal. i didn't know trees could be such good mechanics. >> the tree could put it back in. >> cat on a hand. >>> why just drink a beer when you can have a beer bomb. he own t

make sure you but the patio furniture away, get the wet gear out for kids. it's going to become widespread, breezy at times. mostly gray skies, winds picking up, anywhere from 10-15 miles per hour around the area. 56 san jose, 56 oakland. cooling down. 56 liver mor and 56 concord, low 50s nap pa. we're look agent rain beginning to move closer. it's been stationed to the north all day. 65 miles out, looks like from where we are before we may begin to see rain. closer to midnight and the overnight hours, we expect it to arrive in the north bay. it will be in time for the morning drive. this is for sure. i'm going to pick it up around 7:00. the north bay is already getting wet. the drive is soggy to the south. by the afternoon, it's very widespread. then it kind of stalls out right over us. we're now to wednesday morning, finally beginning to shift. it's 8:00 north bay beginning to dry out. another wet slippery drive for part of the bay area. by the afternoon, we get a break. scattered showers in the forecast wednesday. the next system rolls in thursday. by wee

if they are having a band on the patio, unless we hear from a neighbor complaining, it is likely look the other way. in all fairness to all the people that come up for a license -- what is the definition of private party? >> that is a valuable question. as far as looking the other way, it is not true. we spend a lot of time, whether it be an underground party at a warehouse or a venue -- we work with mission station, a central station to find these kind of events and educate. as far as the definition of a private party, if it looks like a duck, chances are it is a duck. people try to use the private party definition all the time, but if there is money changing hands, if there is entertainment, if there is amplification, it is a duck. let's be honest here. how'd you get on the guest list? e-mail. that is open to the public. we are asking for a five dillard -- $5 donation at the door, that is an entrance fee. >> if you could get on the guest list, commissioner, it is not a private party. >> is there a band playing? i am not saying that you are not doing your job. you are only one person

the patio is great. we will be tonight as well. >> does it make a big difference to have the patio open? >> it is huge. it's a relief for the inside specifically coming up on st. patrick's day when we'll be swelling inside with the crowd so having the extra room is fantastic. >> i know they look forward to st. patrick's day. the forecast looking very good, too, mark. i wish you the best there. you gave me -- you already said the fish and chips are the best. >> absolutely. >> we'll try those a little later on. maybe at 6:00, guys. i want to show you what's going on right now. the winds have shifted a little bit in parts of the area. now a little gusty out of the east about 10 to 20 miles per hour. take a look at the temperatures right now. 78 currently at the airport with that wind out of the east at ten miles per hour but gusting over 20 right now across portions of the region. temperatures down to the south? a little bit warmer. look at 85 in fredericksburg. 85 in la plata. culpepper after a shower earl

. >> you can see them crawling, you know, in the different square corners of the patio. >> i mean, they'ree cats can't even catch them. >> reporter: the d.c. rodent control office says it responds to dozen of calls a month. one easy solution, to keep food out of the reach of the rats. >>> some of america's heroes took to the court tonight at american university over at the arena. this was their third annual armed forces wheelchair basketball game. wounded veterans from walter reed faced off with representatives from the national rehabilitation hospital. the fraternity pi kappa phi hopes to raise $5,000 from the game to help both soldiers and civilians with disabilities. >>> tomorrow morning marks the end of an era. joe krebs, who might well be called the father of washington morning news, is going to anchor his final show here at news 4. it will be 32 years to the day when he first stepped foot in these studios. >> they came for fun, for entertainment, and for many for thrills. >> problems on the beltway are congestion and speed. >> sending the waves crashing into the sea wall. >> barbara

. >> what i noticed is everybody getting the patio furniture out and cleaning it up at the restaurantsk long mild nights and very warm days, more like may. so enjoy your definite -- it doesn't feel like a spring preview. i think spring is here now. we'll have a nice long run of this and very mild tonight, our temperatures still 66 degrees. let's check out the temperature trend. average is 54 for this time of year. 76 degrees tomorrow, probably not as pretty as today. there will be a few showers in the morning. there might be a few more in the afternoon and maybe a rumble of thunder on tuesday. wednesday looks dry and warm, 78 degrees. south of d.c. would not be surprised to find some of you hitting 80 degrees for the first time in 2012. thursday 76 degrees, another warm one. clouds might increase later in the day, maybe a couple showers into the overnight and friday at 73 might also feature a couple showers here and there, but nothing widespread. temperature-wise wow, still so mild when you think that 54 is average and we're still in the mid-60s in many spots, 56 for annapolis, and 54

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. >> the patio door here came in on me. and i'm knocked back to here. d grab ahold of this. >> reporter: all of a sudden, the windows blew out. and the tornado started to suck her grandson outside. >> when he got up here, he went airborne. >> reporter: and came all the way -- >> and came all the way over here. and hit the coffee table and screamed. and rich reached out to the scream and caught him. >> reporter: michael's grandfather barely saved him. the family dog went flying out the window but survived. >> none of this matters. mike's okay. we didn't lose our grandson. all this can be replaced. >> what a story, clayton. how is michael tonight? >> reporter: michael, we are told, is fine. he is with his parents. and his grandmother says he had no idea the kind of danger he was in. just how close a call he had. his grandparents' house, like nearly half the homes here in harveyville, is completely destroyed. but the people here are very thankful, beyond thankful, that even though about a dozen people were injured, no one was killed, diane. >> all right. cl

what it has in stock, move out the shovels, the portable heaters, move in the roofing, the siding, the patiorniture. home depot and lowe's plan to hire 110,000 seasonal workers between them. americans are buying more during this warm weather. >> you could do more home improvements on your home, repair the roof you that would have waited till spring. >> reporter: look at construction. 52,000 new jobs in just the last two months after seeing just 32,000 new jobs in construction for all of last year. "world news" viewer alex teperi sending me this video. zoom in on the sign. "just hired" to build that home. in a tough economy where is the spending money coming from? part of it the money saved in heat. we asked economics professor austan goolsbee to do the math. >> in a typical year the ave family pays a little under $900 for their heat. but this year it looks like they're only going to have to pay around $650. so it's really a tax cut of about $250. >> reporter: and in new england, where winter is more extreme, the savings more extreme too. >> because this year's been so mild i realized a savin

instead of in your bedroom, put them in your garage or put them outside on the patio if the weather andyour house to see them. >> la pd said go with your gut which you have to do do. if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. >> this is following months of our own reporting that there are deaths tied to this particular crime. >> this is not an instance of personal ads. a man was killed for putting a wedding ring and diamond ring for sale. would-be thieves showed up and robbed him and killed him. a sad trend that we are seeing as more and more people turn on line to sell's things. >> casey stegal thank you very much >> we are following breaking news tonight. former vice-president cheney is in intensive care with a heart transplant. an update, stay with us. sky hook ! guys, check it out. household bleach. no. nah, it looks good ! i know, right ! i'll tell you what saves gas money. my kids hitchhiking to school. ( guys ) great call, oh yeah. no, no, no, no, no. don't lift with your knees, lift with your back. feel the difference ? yeah ! you know where surgery is dirt cheap ? so ver

. >> most restaurants had to offer insight seating during the lunch crunch because the patio's were packed. >> it is remarkable. we are going shorts shopping. you cannot be in this weather in jeans and long sleeves. >> the washington. it's a record-breaking today. they hit 84 degrees at dulles airport today. the old record was 82 degrees in 1990. >> it is great. >> we swung by the cherry blossoms to check on the progress. there are some parts that are being, but the true blooming. will start this weekend with a peak bloom production from the 20th to the 23rd. we also found a couple getting married. >> to just want to be outside more. >> the biggest change is not how it feels outside, it is how people are feeling. no more winter blues. switching from jackets to flip- flops is putting people in a good mood. >> it definitely feels nice to be outside. you do not feel like you are stuck in your cubicle all day. >> one thing to keep in mind if you are heading out to see the cherry blossoms, metro has traveled just about everywhere. >> looking good out there. but it will be a busy weekend in the

out on the patio, within seconds, we just barely made it into the sis tern. >> reporter: the damage is everywhere. trees and power lines toppled. emergency crews searched through the night for survivors. the tornadoes were quick. the devastation will be felt for a long time. the only thing left of this house is the front door. >> describe what you see or have heard? >> unreal. unreal. i mean, it -- it's a tragedy, that's for sure. >> reporter: kentucky governor steve bashear will visit this norng assess damage himself. >>> first south, tornadoes hit across alabama. hitting the same area where 250 people were killed nearly one year ago. steve osunsami is there with more. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. two homes on this same street that were ruined by two separate tornadoes in less than a year. this one belonged to jim and judy hodges. the tornado destroyed the home in april of last year. and then yesterday, another storm. took it away. the family is devastated. they hid in a shelter. they were married here. he was born in this home. and now, like so many other fam lirks they have to

i just hung out on the patio. >> did you take the cats for a walk. >> yes, they like to walk. >> let's right to the rain showers. they are moving through at the moment. very light rain moving through overnight but a big change in air mass. as mentioned, the cooler air is here to stay for friday. showers across southern maryland, lower eastern shore as well. out towards cambridge and some light shower activity. here in washington, i think we're generally done with it. speaking of cloud cover, you can see it is hanging off to the north and west. so we'll probably wake up with clouds around and then the sun should gradually start to break out by mid-morning. you can see that is a well defined cold front. stretching from boston right down through the mid-atlantic and down into the south. this will fade off to the south and east. out behind it or off not north and west, some blustery conditions, some windy conditions and that will be upon us again later today. remember yesterday, the wind were out of the south and southwest. today, they've shifted and they will be out of the northwest and t

we need warmer weather to enjoy the patio furniture. >> you need a space heater to go along with it. ees colder this morning than yesterday at this time. it does not last long. in the '70s again tomorrow. something to look forward to. tilly on this tuesday morning. if temperatures are in the 30's in the district. actually at reagan national. -=--- chilly on this tuesday morning. it is 33 degrees at takoma park, maryland. in fairfax is one degree above freezing with the wind really not much of a problem. temperatures across the board 33 in martinsburg 32 in winchester, 34 in orange. in terms of the freeze morning temperatures will hover around the freezing mark. there is warning continues until 9:00 this morning, includes the district. calvert and st. mary's counties are not included. the chesapeake bay waters and potomac waters will keep temperatures well above freezing. skies will begin to climb up a little bit as we move through the day tomorrow. but a cold front arrives late tomorrow afternoon into the evening. that will give us a chance of a few embedded thunderstorms and a few sh

. >> you can see them crawling in the different squares, corners of the patio. >> they're big. the cats can't even catch them. >> the d.c. rodent control office says they are responding to dozens of calls every month but people should do their part by keeping food out of reach. >> you think you've seen a big snake? check this guy out. it is a prehistoric snake. the length of a school bus. they called this thing tetenobua. the museum of natural history is opening an exhibit featuring a life sized rem calf the prehistoric creature tomorrow. a fossil of the world's largest snake was found several years ago in a coal mine in colombia. when it was alive this snake weighed 2500 pounds. it was 48 feet long. >> it was to squeeze you, it would have the equal force to one and a half times of the weight of the brooklyn bridge on your chest. this is one big monster. >> bad dude. the exhibit will be on display through next january. >> he is snacking on an alligator which is kind of cruel in its own gross way. >> so, dan, what are we looking at today? >> hoping the capitals can edge their way

it is not going to be solved over any type of libation you could have on the patio. that's going to happen, how much can the president get involved in the bigger conversation to talk about the fact that there is not this -- the healing between the racial divide? >> right, well, i think -- i don't want obama, especially with the ongoing investigation by the attorney general, i think he's absolutely right to pull back. he doesn't need to be involved in something like that. similarly, with the gates situation -- and he got assailed for those comments. but i think -- so the president doesn't have to weigh in on every specific case that's going on. it is the larger comments where he can be helpful. even with the gates situation, what i was interested that the president mentioned was that he talked about the larger issue of racial profiling. it's the systematic things the president can help us work through. i don't want him to be another al sharpton or jesse jackson. but i think he can help us tell with the larger, con ttextual racial issues in america. talk about some of t

instead of in your bedroom, put them in your garage or put them outside on the patio if the weather andhey don't go in your house to see them. >> la pd said go with your gut which you have to do do. if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. >> this is following months of our own reporting that there are deaths tied to this particular crime. >> this is not an instance of personal ads. a man was killed for putting a wedding ring and diamond ring for sale. would-be thieves showed up and robbed him and killed him. a sad trend that we are seeing as more and more people turn on line to sell's things. >> casey stegal thank you very much >> we are following breaking news tonight. former vice-president cheney is in intensive care with a heart transplant. an update, stay with us. ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small sinesses that want to

stepped out on the patio. but just within seconds, we just barely made it into the cistern. >> reporter: the damage is everywhere. trees and power lines toppled. emergency crews searched through the night for survivors. the twisters were quick. the devastation they left behind will be felt for a long time. the only thing left of this house is the front door. >> describe what you see or have heard? >> unreal. unreal. i mean, it -- it's a tragedy, that's for sure. >> reporter: kentucky governor steve beshear will visit this morning to assess damage himself. bianna? >> all right, kendall, thank you. >>> and further south, the same system spawned tornadoes across alabama. hitting the same area where 250 people were killed nearly one year ago. steve osunsami is there with more. good morning to you, steve. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. we have found two homes on this same street that were ruined by two separate tornadoes in less than a year. this one belonged to jim and judy hodges. a tornado, of course, destroy

. >> the prize is patio furniture from offenbacher's. ay on abc 7 news of 5:00. >> if i win the power ball tonight, $100 for each of you. >> you are all heart. >> let's take a look at the forecast through the evening. low 40's. in the morning, amid 30's in the suburbs. a bit cooler straight through the weekend. bob ryan at 11:00 with a lot more. [ baby coughing labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] washington can't ignore the facts. more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to fightingforair.org and tell washington: don't weaken clean airrotections. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learni

with some cooler air moving in and i can still feel all the pollen on the patio table out here. didn't get that much -- enough rain to clean things up. here's a look at the area anyway. here's a look at the day planner, sunny day today and temperatures falling into the mid 50s here over the next few hours. winds picking up out of the northwest. that will keep us on the cool side. upper 50s by noon with highs in the low to mid-60s and a drive home temp of 62. your weekend forecast in just a few minutes. right now beverly farmer's in with a look at timesaver traffic. >>> howard a word of caution northbound route 1 dale city into wood spring you're blocked. northbound -- woodbridge you're blocked. northbound lanes blocked. police on the scene of that crash. traveling south 270 a tough merge past 109 and the truck scales, all lanes open into the beltway. your next check of timesaver traffic at 5:48. jessica? >>> thank you beverly. we've been combing through the day's daily deal e-mails and retailer websites and here's the favorites today. want a smart phone but don't want the big pri

we got to the basement, stepped out on the patio within seconds and barely made it in. >> and when it got closed, i went to the basement and all i could hear was the wind and-- and just some popping, i don't know what the popping was. >> he we was trying to get to the basement and didn't make it and she got crushed. >> how. >> with her son, her son was right with her, he tried to dig them out and he couldn't do it. >> and emergency crews, rescue crews are now on the ground, searching kentucky's hardest hit areas for possible victims. tornados also touching down in parts of ohio. the storm claiming at least two lives, including a lowle cal council member found dead in her home. the tornados so powerful, they actually ripped buildings from their foundations and then, in tennessee, tractor-trailers tossed like toys. at least 29 people were injured, and more than ten counties across the state. >> a fox news alert. if it sounded like the spans of these storms is huge, it just got bigger. two new tornado warnings, maria molina is tracking all of them in the fox news extreme weather center w

. >> then around 9ish or 10:00 you can see them crawling in the different square corners of the pat patio. >> reporter: the 40-foot alley in georgetown near the intersection of wisconsin and p are a pretty good example of how serious this problem has really gotten for residents here. in just this alley there are three bait boxes and a handful of poison packs. >> this one today was huge. he barely fit in the trap. he was really hungry i guess because most of him was still out of the trap. >> though the rats may seem larger than they have in the past girard brown with d.c. rodent control says rats generally don't weigh more than one pound but puff up if they feel threatened. the team responds to dozens of calls every month putting down traps or poison. >> they can eat, you know, a lot of different things from pet food, pet waste, to human food. >> reporter: several pest control companies we spoke with agree. this has been one of their busiest years on record. >> very bad. we get calls every day for it. >> reporter: of course alleys like the one here in northwest this evening literally are b

what it has in stock, move out the shovels, the portable heaters, move in the roofing, the siding, the patio furniture. home depot and lowe's plan to hire 110,000 seasonal workers between them. americans are buying more during this warm weather. >> you could do more home improvements on your home, repair the roof you that would have waited till spring. >> reporter: look at construction. 52,000 new jobs in just the last two months after seeing just 32,000 new jobs in construction for all of last year. "world news" viewer alex teperi sending me this video. zoom in on the sign. "just hired" to build that home. where is the spending money coming from? part of it the money saved in heat. we asked economics professor austan goolsbee to do the math. >> a typical year the average family pays a little under $900 to their heat. but this year it looks like they're only going to have to pay around $650. so it's really a tax cut of about $250. >> reporter: and in new england, where winter is more extreme, the savings more extreme too. >> because this year's been so mild i realized a savings of at least $

then we saw it slide across the patio and i said get in the bathroom. >> by the time it hit i was backng her to get her in the bathroom. i wanted her in here and protected. >> reporter: they say the, they heard the sirens. more than 110 homes as you see here damaged or destroyed. they call dexter tree city, u.s.a. many of those trees are scattered about along with power lines. the storm brought severe flooding to parts of michigan. local stores are allowing people store their food and allowing them to have freshwater. no fatalities so far. they are still checking the outlying areas. march tornado outbreaks in michigan are rare. that state has had 13 of them since 1960 which means they occur once every five years. michigan has had five deadly twisters since 1990. last year 11 tornadoes were reported there. that's a total of 1,900 nationwide. now we are on pace for an epic year of deadly twisters. meteorologist janice dean has more on that from our fox weather center. >> look at probability. it's incredible that we saw a tornado we think of ef-3 strength. and that is certainly a rarity t

get a law firm and attack it in the patio. i might even help you. but i have looked at that and i don't think it is as easy as you said. you could argue that it is a proportionate. it is a different approach and i am actually looking for because we have at the moment several cases in front of the appellate body which will hopefully bring some results on what and obstacle to international trade means and the clove cigarette case, the united states is more known than europe because you have prohibited clove cigarettes and that could be an interesting case where we can all see what it means. what we have suggested to the wto as a mechanism which you deal with these non-tariff barriers in a kind of mediation form and you go as you are allowed the companies to complain about non-tariff issues to go and take a kind of mediation case, not binding on the parties but helping to understand what is the problem. we can go to settlement and it takes two or three years which i think is a relatively short time. very often, my company says this is too much. we have

. >> we got to the basement and stepped out on the patio and within just seconds we barely made it inwas beating around our heads. thank god bemade it. >> the air ja mass been declared as marshall law and we are asking everyone to stay out. it is a dangerous area. >> i got up and looked out the window and saw wood everywhere. and i really didn't realize what it was. and then i came downstairs and opened my front door and saw both the houses on both sides of me were gone. >> gregg: heart break in the midwest as severe weather leaves dozens dead. hundreds injured. homes and lives shattered. i'm gregg jarrett. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> heather: i'm heather childers. at least 38 people are now dead. many more missing as we said. and today we are watching out for even more storms. >> gregg: take a look at the type of fury we are talking about. that is a twister caught on videotape as it approaches a gas station in a hard-hit henryville, indiana as quickly as it appears it disappears. and this is what is left of the community. we are are still learni

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more than 1,000 people voted to overturn the law that bans smoking within 20 feet of patios. petition organizers say the ban will force people to go in the street or dark parking lots to smoke, which they say could be dangerous. >> the rush ramble is over. rush limbaugh could face a criminal charge after calling a college student a slut on his national radio show. under a florida law passed in 1883, the law makes it a misdemeanor to question a woman's chastity. the law is on the way to state prosecutors in florida. limbaugh made the remarks about student sandra fluke last week after she testified in support of birth control products. >>> people in japan are preparing to mark the first anniversary of the massive earthquake that triggered the tsunami and devastated the country's northeast coast. the death toll stands at 15,000. 4,000, though, are still unaccounted for, and a year later, much of the wreckage has been cleared. former towns have become barren wastelands. that's the equivalent of 19 year's worth of trash in the worst effected areas. on sunday, join us for "disaster

. >> the winner will receive outdoor patio furniture worth $3,500. the congratulations goes to scott miller. a giveaway that everyone will want for next week. go to wjla.com/facebook for a chance to win a new ipad. >> coming up tonight on abc prime time, how young is too young to dress up in sexy clothes? >> what is the response to that question? it is tonight at "what would you do?" be sure to be back here for abc 7 is at 11:00. >> i can tell you right now the answer to that question is whether or not you are a father. you know what your father would say. >> i do know that. still ahead, a health warning for women. see why only one drink may be increasing your chances for breast cancer. >> a man is nearly attacked by a mountain lion during a walk through the woods. >> residents are upset t >> it is a big day for the medical marijuana movement in the district. >>wwe grow opened this morning. we also know which six businesses will be the first to grow for medicinal use in the city. >> that is right. they did open their center today and it will be a litt