big game this weekend on wusa 9.s happened just four times before these two meeting, but this time there's a lot more at stake. both teams have their eyes on the playoff. >>> plus, army-navy >>> the baltimore ravens will clinch a playoff spot with a win. the redskins clawing their way to the postseason and a victory gives them a boost. this weekend's game is going to be a true test for both defenses. the redskins ranked fourth in defending the run but will still need to shut down ray rice. on the other hand the ravens once tough defense has struggled all season. they got beat last week by a third string quarterback and now have to figure out how to stop a rookie of the year candidate. >> ray rice is a very dynamic player who is low to the ground, hard to tackle, strong, as good a receiver as he is a retainer. >> we're going to have our hands full with robert griffin and those athletes, with santana moss and gar sornings hankerson, and that running game. once again they got a good coach in coach shanahan. >> you can s

be sure to tune in to wusa 9 for game on overtime after 9 news at 11:00.ong time eagles head coast eagle reid is out in philadelphia, one of seven head coaches fired on blackmon day, the day nfl coaches get the axe. reid coached the eagles for 14 seasons and led them to six division titles and five nfc championship games in that time. >>> it's new year's eve and we're winding down to the top d.c. sports moments. we're at number two. if you think playoff baseball is in the mix, you're right. >> three balls two, strikes. the pitch. swing, and a long hit, deep left field, going, going, going! >> who in the world can forget this walk-off home run in game four of the nlds. that homer extended the nats postseason for just another day. >>> no news in the hockey lockout. the capitals captain alexander ovechkin is making news. he and russian tennis player maria kirby kirilinko are engaged. >>> we're because at 6:00 with your only local newscast. we're always on wusa9.com. have a great night.

redskins and ravens are playing at 1:00 right here on wusa. and upper 60s with potentialley a shower or storm on monday. >> thank you, howard. >>> jessica has had all the fun being secret santa. joining me is a registered dietician and she's our secret santa with stocking ideas for the food lovers on your holiday list. good morning. >> good morning. >> the stocking stuffers sometimes are the hardest things to figure out but you have some great ideas. >> they're all $20 or less which is nice. first i'd like to start with this stainless steel microplain grater which has a protective cover which slides off, slides on the back side. you can grate your cheese and it catches it and measures it right there. >> you know if you have a cup or half a cup or whatever. this one, i've lost a lot of fingernails and pieces of flesh. under $20. >> that's $17. >> very good. i like this. all in one tool. this is probably my favorite. the mini veggie chop. instead of pulling out a cumbersome food processor or plugging anything in or using batteries, you just take

by the way, you can watch that game here on wusa at 1:00.to monika at 5:49 with timesaver traffic. >>> you like pineapples? >> i love pine ams -- pineapples. >> this truck was carrying pineapples. what a waste. it happened around 1:00, 2:30 this morning on the outer loop where this truck carrying pineapples overturned right after the exit for 270. this is a live picture from our sky 9. the activity still there along the right side of the roadway. luckily as you can see on the right side of your screen it's not affecting your exit to northbound 270. it will affect your ride if you're traveling on the westbound side of 495 trying to get past that. keep that in mind for your travel plans. the left side of the road is open but the truck remains there. >>> let's go to 395 on the northbound side. this accident on the right shoulder was blocking all but the left shoulder for a while now. all lanes are open but look at that delay on the northbound side of 395. all of your lanes are open. we'll go to springfield and see if it's affecting your drive.

you can also watch it right here on wusa at 1:00 sunday. a mild morning. chance of storms.urning cooler on tuesday and wednesday. it's petline thursday. this is angela robinson from the oldies but goodies cocker spaniel rescue. this is lulu celebrating the holidays. >> she's forward some snow. she has a little hat and scarf on here. >> she's beautiful now but when you got her, she was kind of a mess. >> she was a stray. she came to us matted, filthy and with 40 ticks on her. she's tested negative for lyme disease which was a relief considering how many ticks were on her. >> i thought lyme disease just affected people. >> no. you get it from ticks. >> i know you get it from ticks. >> dogs get it too. she gives us all signs she's lifd in a house before. she's house -- lived in a house before. she's house broken. she plays with toys. she'll be at the springfield petsmart. if you go to cockerspanielrescue.com, you can go to the adoption events and fight out where we'll be. you can also have your pet taken with santa that day. >> we're running out of time. if people can't make i

stay with wusa 9 for the cbs evening news next. then at 7:00 derek is here with the area's only local newscast. have a great night.

this is a live shot from on top of the wusa building. 48 degrees right now, dew point is also at 48. we have fog out there. the visibility is reduced. we'll burn off the fog pretty quickly as we head into the mid- morning hours because of a southerly breeze helping to scour out that moisture. a chance for thunderstorms late in the day tomorrow behind that frontal system, a cool down in your forecast. four days to the north. 48 in d.c. and andrews. that's about as warm as it's going to get, but with the fog in place, temperatures, they are not going to get much cooler overnight tonight. the fog helps them from dropping. right now zero in manassas, andrews, culpepper. one mile visibility in martinsburg to baltimore. a really bad night to be out on the roads. so keep in mind it's that monday morning commute that might be tough because of the foggy areas. the cold front is on the way. we won't see much of this activity helping to time out the arrival of more of these showers. that will be near hagerstown around lunchtime. the cold front will start to move through right around dinner time

. >>> in the mailbag tonight the wusa facebook page blowing one answers to the question will we avoid the fiscal cliff. joe says no. >> i'm sure mr. obama would probably argue it's the gop that's not negotiating, not to mention the fact that speaker boehner's caucus seems to be doing whatever it wants to do. still, jerry blames the president. the decision was made at the polls in november. obama has the upper hand and he wants all taxes to go up so he can spend and run this country in the ground. but gary points out, the president wants more taxes only on the well to do. so taxing the rich will not get all some may want but that does not mean they should not pay what they ought to pay, and that is what they paid in 1999. okay then, okay now. you want to pay down the national debt? put everyone to work. that was doing it 15 years ago, and that can do it now. >>> that is our broadcast for tonight. we'll hope you will be around for our broadcast at 1 1:00. i will be here with erica. we'll see you then. have a great evening. bye-bye. >>> from cheating to fist fighting to a drug overdose,

. >>> it's going to be a big football weekend on wusa 9.ch the inarm-navy game, "game on" follows, then on sunday redskins versus ravens, the showdown at 1:00. stay tuned, we'll have >>> the pressure to have a proper holiday celebration is weighing on a family who by no fault of their own has been left heart broken and in need of cheer. >> the unexpected death of the mom during childbirth has left her three dindz care of her friend. that friend is scrambling to make ends meet so she can save christmas for the entire family. ken molestina joins us with an emotional story. >> angela mackly out of hyattsville is fulfilling a promise she made to her best friend. she's raising her three children. now she's reaching out because she needs some help keeping that promise. >> when she passed away i felt it was like part of me that's gone. >> that night when she passed away, we just went to try to get the baby some stuff. >> the pain is still raw. their mother died in october soon after giving birth to her third child. >> they did an emergency c secti

our wusa 9 team snapped these on the ground. >> teddy bears for each of the children that was killed. it's hard. the hardest part for me was seeing other people sad. >> gave a good long hug with my kids. i think the thing that really, really i remember the most was probably because i had to be in the thick of it, was just the mass media presence. >> seeing the birth dates of all the victims. people were born in '06 should not die. >> reporter: these pictures, these memories will never leave. we met so many in their saddest hour. >> i was there that morning. my staff and i left 5 minutes before this occurred. and we all wish we could have been there, so we could have done something. >> grace and dillon and the rest of them will watch over all of us. >> to come across that absolutely horrific scene, it had to be devastating. >> reporter: after the live trucks, after the funerals, after the holidays, we will never forget the huge hearts we met and the simple town that became ground zero. >> i can't believe we're the center of media attention worldwide, the second worst massacre in u.s. h

so with all precincts reporting, wusa can now confirm the redskins are the next playoff recipient. >>hink about great experiences you've had or bad memories, because you want to take advantage of these opportunities. they don't come around every day. >> the stakes are high. emotions are going to be high. i mean, we've just got to come out. we have to basically be perfect if we want to win this game. >> no doubt about that. ed reed can't get a break, the league fining him 55 g's for this hit. i didn't think it was that wad. last month he was suspended for a hit in the steelers game. it was later overturned although he still had to pay $50,000. >>> the best gifts are the ones you don't expect, and boy was that ever reenforced in the dmv this summer. with all the attention on high- profile olympic swimmers like phelps and loche, katie from stone ridge high school is the number four sports moment of the year. she was the youngest u.s. olympian at the games. wasn't even considered a favorite to win the 100-meter freestyle. after all, she qualified third, and she was only 15. in the finals,

right here on wusa. it all starts on saturday. army-navy game at 3:00. we'll have a complete wrapup at 7:00. game on. then this sunday you can watch the skins welcome the ravens to fed ex field. very important game. playoff implications there. it will be followed by a special game after that. putle dear prize winner journalist george lardner reminded us that the skins fight song nearly didn't happen. in 1959 the men who aimed at bringing the dallas cowboys to dallas, the cowboys to dallas, bought the rights of hail to the redskins out from under the team. and he said he would only give the song back if redskins owner george preston marshall would lift his veto on n.f.l. expansion to dallas. thus the cowboys were born and they were in dallas and d.c. got the song back. lardner calls it basically legal extortion. >> yes, it was perfectly legal. >> reporter: it's just business. >> yes. they bought the rights. they had the rights. they threatened to gettage -- get an injunction if the redskins played that song again. >> imagine if it was not happening. right

you can watch superbowl xlvii right here on wusa 9 and if the redskins are fortunate, they might evenere. who knows? >> that would be fantastic. i might tune in just to see beyonce. i love her. >> i would be tuned in for a lot more than that. >> all right. i would love to sce the redskins in the -- to see the redskins in the superbowl as well, of course. >>> i've been looking forward to the snow. we've been talking about it forever. but the snow is finally starting to make its way toward the d.c. metro area. taking a look outside right now with our camera at reagan national airport, this is the michael & son live weather cam, and it is 38 degrees outside with a dew point of 27. so the dew point is still below freezing, as our storm system approaches. right now in our weatherren headlines, we do have -- weather headlines we have the snow and wintery mix making its way toward us. most will fall during the morning hours saturday. after it's said and done, we'll have snow north and west of the beltway. a mix to rain south and east of the beltway. the precipitation ends in the afternoon. b

. >>> we're gearing up for a huge weekend of football here at wusa. it starts saturday with the army-navy game at 3:00 p.m. we'll have a complete wrapup at 7:00 on "game on." >> just go get the wings, beer, soda and sit down and have a good weekend. then on sunday you can watch as the skins bring the ravens to tonight at fed ex fields. that is going to be a fantastic game. >>> when we come back, holiday shopping. >> we'll take a look at some food gifts from some local small businesses. our food blogger will be back with us in just a bit. >>> i'm meteorologist olga breese. starting off with cloudy skies. maybe a peek of sunshine this afternoon but expect scattered showers throughout the day. temperatures only making the middle range 50s. >>> an accident being cleared up from the intersection of seven locks road and montrose road in rockville. expect to follow just a bit of police direction through the area. not much delay getting by. i'll have more traffic coming up in a few minutes at 6:18. andrea, back to you. >> thank you, monika. >>> she's made no

just go to the app store on ipad and click it and search wusa9 or wusa. search that. and you'll come up right here with the ability to click free because that's what it is. it's absolutely free and this is going to be your one stop shop for local news on the ipad. you will click free and then you are going to install the app. >> all right now you mentioned one stop shop for local news. that sounds very cool. explain. >> this is your home page on the ipad app. you're going to see a really nice layout and at the top you have news, weather, sports and video. so to start with video we're going to click on that. and several specifically our top viewed video stories are going to appear. so you want to watch doyle fields from earlier today. he's at home off work and you missed it. just click on play and it will start streaming for you right there. >> wow. >> really great stuff. so the next thing we're going to go to is the weather aspect of this app. now if you click on weather, you're going to have the ability to see this map that all of our meteorologists see. your forecas

. >>> if you have questions log on to our website, wusa9.com, or our wusa 9 facebook page. linda will help answer some of your questions coming up on 9news at 6:00. derek. >>> matt, four people were taken to the hospital this morning after the driver of a stolen car smashed into a metro bus while fleeing the cops. it happened right on the d.c./maryland line at wheeler and southern avenue. kristin fisher has more from the scene. >> reporter: what happened was, police spotted three people driving inside a stolen car a mile from here. police tried to pull them over but they didn't stop, they sped off, and police chose not to pursue them because this is a very busy road. wheeler road. a busy time of day at 9:00 a.m. but that didn't stop these suspects. they were zigging and zagging in and out of traffic, very dangerous. then when they tried to turn here on southern avenue they spun out of control and slammed into a metro bus. a head-on crash that september the metro bus driver and one passenger to the hospital with minor injuries. two of the suspects in the stopple car were als

. >> until recently their iden rema wusa mystery.rived the year michelle miller introduced us to them and took them to times square for a trip down memory lane. >> reporter: it is one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century, a moment filled with such spontaneous euphoria it seemed to last forever. >> it was the moment. you come back and finally the war ends. >> reporter: 89-year-old george mendoza says he's the sailor in the photograph that would come to symbolize the end of world war ii and greta freeman, the nurse in white. the photographer snapped a picture. ten seconds is all it took. we took them to the spot of their kiss for the second time since that day in 1945. >> i did not see him approaching. before i knew it i was in this tight grip. >> reporter: how long did you kiss her? >> not long. >> reporter: greta was a dental assistant on break. george a first-class sailor in the naerch was on a date with another woman when he heard the news at radio city music hall and they stopped the shore and said the war is over the j