we may have a little dusting of light snow. keep that in mind. could beessing up our friy morning commute. buthis morning, the radar, no precipitatiolocally. but therere a few flurries showing up inhe central shenandoah valle to the west of frt royal getting a few flurries there as well as farther to the south, just east of harrisonburg around t region. just near 30 near waington. arlington, fairfax, montgomery county, right near the chesapeake bay. temperatures in the upper 20s. farther to the west,eens out of the mountains of west virginia a westernmarynd. lower eastern shore in the mid20s this morning. th cloud cover that's coming over us, this is a mostly cloudy morningoming from a weak area of pressure sprading rain across the carolinas. to t north of that just a few scattered flurries. temperatures todaylimbing just to near 4 by midafternoon. and as we do get into theate afternoon urs, though, we'll be clouding up. and by this time tomorrow morning, yes, w could have a dusting of light snow and untreated surface could be a ttle slick by this time friday morning. now let's check out our traffic. it's looking prettyood right now. look at this. this is the left-hand side, your northbound lanes o 95 making thei way through springfield transitioning oo 395 and it's moving. and they are picking up all tt lane construction along the inner loop and outer loop of the beltway. if youe traveling in the next to 15 minutes i think you're going to be fine. certainly well beyondthat. going to maryland, the american region, traffic wel between meryl d virginia andhe same ing at the woodrow wilson brid. >> ali, thank you. >> thanksery much. a violent streak in prince geor's county continues this morning. another manho has been found shot to death. this tim it happened inside an apartment building of south view drive in oxon hill. it i already the sixthurder the county this year. ws 4's tracee wilkins joins us live from police headquarters with more good morning, tracee. >> reporr: good morning, joe. yes we are looking at the sixth murder in six days here in prce george's county in the new year. this is a county that's given a new couy executive, also a new interi police chief and an unusuallhigh number of homicides here in prince george's county. a man was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds lt night in the hallway of an oxon hill apartmentbuilding. this follo five otherurders since new year's, including two that iolve the vtims being duct tad. now all of the murders have happened in the oxon hill area. police say that's where they're going to be targeting their reurces to try and deal with this spate of increased violence here in prince george's county. unusually high. especially csidering that over e last two years, violence has been down in prince george's county. yesterday, t police chief held a press conference where he addresd these issues andaid that, again, all of the department's resources will be focusing on dealing with these increased homicides, specifically by loong into the oxon hill area a trying to prevent these crimes before they happen. i'm tracee wilkins live this rning in palmer park. back to you inhe studio. a maryland man is in the hospital this morning after beinstruck by a police cruise perp it happened last night on lker mill road in capital heights. th officer was not on the way to car when the accident happened. the man who was hituffered seous injuries. police say this stretch of road has no street lights and no cros walks. police have discovered the driver of a hit and run crash in rt washington. it happenedalong indian head highway sometime early monda morning. prince george's county police say the woman thought she hit a deer. she's now cperating with police and has n been charged. investigators are still trying to identify the woman who was killed. this morning we are seeing what m be the last images of a former pentagon official who was found dead in a delaware landfill. police released this surveillance video ofohn wheeler inside an office building in downtown wilmington lastthursday, a day beforeis body was found. the video shows him appeari to be a little dishevelled and confused. a shirtuard and pking attendant says he spoke wh wheeleand say he refused offers of help. >> he tolds that he had bn robbed. also, the guy had dirt all down the ght side of his pants. >> he told me, thate took my briefcase. who a when and where, he didn't specify anything. >> the 66-year-old wheeler served as a presidential aide in three administrations. police believee was killed but they have not said how or why. the army corps of engineers will meet with the media tod to talk about its plans to destroy world war i explosives discovered in northwes washington. the weapons, some of which contain arsenic, were found several months ago in the spring valley neighborhood near american universi. to avoid movinghe weapons the army will use a controlle detonation cmber to destroy th. today experts will discuss exactly how tha will happen. neighbors have expressed concerns about the dangers volved in destring those weons on site. >> well today, ohio representati john boehner wakes up wh a title held b only 60 others in the history of the united stat. that is speaker of t house of representatives. nancy pelosiassed the gavel to ehner, transferrg the powers to the ohio congressman to convene the 112th congress with more than new members sworn in. today the house will read the entire u.s. constitution. the first time that's ever been done on the floor of t house. meanwhile, in the senate, vice president joe biden swore in new senators, but most ofhe attention was on the new speaker of the house. >> no longer can we kick the can down the road. e peopl voted to end business as usual, and today, we begin to carry out their instructions. >> and the112th congress will be quitebusy. theepublicans want to start off by attempting to repeal president obama's health care reform law. they've alread passed new rules making it easier to cut spending. president obama is expected to name his new chief of staff soon, replacing rahm emanuel, who is running for mayor of chicago. and now he h yet another position to fill. press secretary robert gibbs annound he is leaving his position within a month, most likelyfter the president's state of the union. bu he won't be gng far, as he will be joining senior adviser david axelrod to head up the presidens run for re-election in 201 several fed-up pepco customers voed their concerns at a public hearing. about two dozen people tesfied about the slow restoraon of power following summer and fall storms. the preside of petc listened to the complaints at last night' hearing in rocklle. he said they're working on puttinmore lines underground, and installing new technology. mogomery county leaders are putting to the a full rert on pepco compints. it's expected to be finished by spring. it is now 4:37. 30 degrees. ahead on "news 4 today," where police are invesgating a spree of break-ins. also, tom has the latest our chance of snow. weather and traffic after the break. >> and xt, new dails emerging about t winners of the mega millions jackpot. and where t near-mysticate in virginia was s ring ring. prresso. i look great in mwedding dress with the help of your azing light soups. now we're adding even bigger pieces of white meat chien. oh, so when's the big day? oh, we got married years ago. but the point is, is,i fit in it! well good for you! [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. ¿qué sisamos tacos más your esta. welcome back. we could gethe answer did t the question everyone in the country is asking, who is the lucky winner of thisweek's mega millions ckpot? one of the two winners is expected to come forrd today and that wningicket was sold in central washington state. the other about125 milesaway in idaho. each ticket is wth about $190 million. e ticket matching five mbers, but not the mega ball, was sold near richnd, virginia. oh,o close. >> congrulations to all of those people. hope they enjoy it. make their life beer. >> i'm sure it will. at least in the beginning. >> craig nielsen tells me it's big foot. >> the one inashington state. >> a we'll get to see him for the first time. >> that would be good. >> well this morning, big foot is hopefully dressedp with several layers, because we have another cold start. around our region, as well, we've got a f flurries trying to reach the ground there i the central shenandoah valley near front yal. farther to the south around charloesville they maye getting a few flurries. justlouds coming over. right now in the l 20 around the region to near 30 in shington and by the bay. and later today, just mostly cloudy with highs only reaching near 40. then after midnig tonight, it still looks like we're on track for perhaps some light snow, maybe a dting by this time tomorrow morning, which is enough to certainly stick on untreated surfaces. we could have some slick spots tomorrow morning for the morning commute. by the end of friday, maybe up to an inch in a few scattered asias from passing snow showe coming through rather vigorously and temperatures only reaching mid 30s. then windy and cold on saturday afternoon into sunday. night have a few passing snow shows on saturday, as well. look at monday, tuesday, wednday will be coming up in ten minutes. let's have a check on traffic now, with jim ross joining us no >> tom that is correct. good morning. and wee in pretty good shape out there. looking at beltway traffic at the american lion brie where thingsre running very nicel so far. the belay around the area, overnight construction, i the ocess of being picked up,f not cleared already. let's go to springfield, this is 95 northbound. delays are nonexistent heading up to e beltway. head lights in the express lanes arriving in the beltway. 66nd so does the dulles toll road. >> back to you. >> thanks, jim very much. our time is 4:42. still tocome, rewriting a literary classic. the uproar over a plan to tweak the work of mark twain. >> plus why the navy is n done instigating who knew about those lewd, crude videos starri a navy officer. and next, why the family involved in the service dog dispute is set to ead its case again today. (announcer) while there are some home disaers you can't avoid, the is one you can septic system breakdowns affect 1.2 million homes each year. septic backups can cost about six thousand dollars in expense, and countless hours ofepair. rid-x. help save yourself from disaster. good morng and welcome ba. irfax county will try to convince the county school board to allow the family's young son to bring his service dog into the classroom. the stevens family will makets case at tonit's school board meeting. as of now 12-year-old andrew stevens is allowed to bring his service dog to the elementary school on a trial sis, with the conditionhat one parent be present the classroom. andrew suffers from epilepsynd his doctor rommends that he take his german shepherd, which is trained at detecting seizures. the school, though, is ccerned about o would take care of and handle theog in the classroom. montgomery county pole are doing everything they can to find out who killed a suburban hospital employee. the body of roosevelt rockington was found in the boiler room stabbed to death. police spent about 15 minutes canvsing people going in and out of the hospitalooking for mo information onhe attack. so far police have not made any arrests. a federal grand jury indicted an arlington man for threening to bomb the metro. 25-year-old yun made the threats on faceok. federa investigators say he threatened to plant bombs on metro tras and in georgetown. police arrested him back in november. if convicted h faces up to fe years in prison. crime alert in prince william county. burglars are targeting hes in a specific area. rglars hit at least a dozen homes in the lak ridge area in the past three weeks. police say burglarsave stole about $60,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables. they say most of the burglaries happened ding the day when no one was home. no arrests he been made. >> well, two peoplere dead and one person is recoveri after a school shooting in oma. police say 17-year-old robert butler walked in to the millard southigh school and oned fire, shooting the principalnd the vice principal. the vi principal later died from her injuries while the incipal is in stable condition this morning. but there was later found dead in his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. was the son of a police detectiv no word on whhe might have opened fire. there could be ather massive oil spill. that's the final word from the presidential panel investigang bp oil well disaster. it found the incident could happen againf significant changes are t made. the associated press obtained a 48age excpt of the final report. the panel found decisions by indury management led to the disaster. they say decisions by dp, hal burton and trancean did not take into consideration the risk. and if they did, the blowout would have been prented. e investigato are now looking to questn captain owen honors' superior officers who worked with him while he was making tho lewd videos aboard a navy aircraft carrier. the navy relievedonors of his command of the "uss enterprise" this week just days aer those vios surfaced. in the videos, which were made five years ago, hons can be se making crude and homophobic joke now, defense officia say that investigators may question two more of the "enterprise's" top commanders from006 and 2007. honors h been reassied to on-shore ainistrative duty. the broady stunt man w suffered maj injuries during a production of "spiedman" has improved dramically. he was walking out of a rehab center. christopher tierney fell 3 feet last month, fracturing his skull and cracking multipleert bay. hes wearing a back brace and will contie to undergo physical therapy. t he was in high spirits, even wearing a spider-man had to show his supportor the show. >> my movement is limited to a new certain aspect of my li, then i'll find -- try to find the most poignant, beautiful way to move inside those limitaons. >> tierney is the fourth member of the cast and crew to be injured during the preview of this broadway show. well, will your kids be reading huck finn in school any time soon? they might be reading a quite different version of mark twn's classic than you did when you were younger. an auburnniversity english professor is releasi a new version of the book. itreplaces the "n" wd with the word slave. the "n" word is used more than 0 timesn the origin. and that's one of the reasons it's often on the arican library asciation's list of most frequently banned or challenged american clsics. the new version of huck finn, though, is also controversial. >> as things stand now, many students do not read any mark twain in tir public school education. and this book mig rectify that. >> how onarth are we going to have an open andandid discussion about race if you can't read books that have the words that reflect the antagonism. >> the new version of huck finn also changes inju joe to indian joe andhalf-breed to ha-blood. we want to know what you thi about his new version of mark twain's classic. logon to our facook page, "news 4 today," and post your comments. federal prosecutors in new york cy are looking into allegations that city workers sabotaged cleanup ding last week's blizzard. nearly 2 inches of snow fell throughout the cy and some streets in brooklyn and queens weren't plowed fordays. some residen say that when the trucks finally did reach their street the plows were in the up positions. one city councilman says workers told him they coordinated a slowdown to protest budget cuts d recent demotions. >> that will make a lot of folks quite angry. >>nd now we're hearing about a little bit more snow for new york? >> well, yes. the syste that tomorrow may give us a little bit of a dusting to aninch, well it begino pact them, as well as hartford, providenc and boston. on fridayight into saturday. sohey could be dealing with more snow the. but here this morning, well, on radar snning the sky, no sno locall we are getting a few flurries oks like trying to reach the ground theren the shenaoah valley, as wel as near charlottesville. these are drifting east and tending to dispate and it' cold. right now, just nr 30 in washington and rig by the bay. southern maryland, only in the mid 20s. right now low 2s in prince george's, arngton, air fax, montgomery county even teens in loudoun county, right outside of nchester. this is the airport temrature but only in the teens to near 20 in the rural areas of the shenandoah valley a around the chesapeake bay, southern part of the bay, low part of the eastern shore, a cd morning there, as well temperatures down into the 20s. t of the mountains only in the teenand over the last2 hours weak area of low pressure passing to our sou spreading in in the carolinas. the northern extent of that providing a few of the flurries to our west and southwest thi morning, as this day progresses we'll ve temperatures climbing to near 40 by midafternoon as maybe a little peek of sun now and then. overall mostly cloudy then overnit tonight, cloudy and moving down below freezing by late evening in the upper 20s dawn tomorrow. an it does appear we'llave some light snow developing morrow morning, and maybe a dusting onhe ground. at's enough to create slick sps on untreated surfaces. so we could have some slippery going on t friday morning commute. tomorrow morning we'll have perhaps a dusting to maybe a passing snow shower could lay down a quick inch of snow during the day on friday. afternoon hhs climbg to the mid 30s. the chances of snow diminish then friday afternoon. another disrbance coming through on saturday, upper level trough of low pressur deepenin could give us some passing snow showers and it will be windy and cold, too. high only the low 30s. mid 30s, with gustyinds on sunday. here's a loo intoext week. remaining cold. highs only in the 30s each day. could t some accumulating snow on tuesday. stay tuned we'll keep you posted. >> jim ross, good rning, how's traffic? >> not too bad so far, tom. e beltway heading toward the wilson bridge, this is the inner loop, the brake lights going downoward the bridge span from austin hill. actually thi is 95 northbound in wington. here w find the traffic in pretty good shape. no construction to contend with coming out o woodbridge. now let's go over to the camera to wilson bridge and show you the inner loopsooking pretty go as you take the trip out of ox hill to alexandria. college park to silver ring, 270, 66 t toll road all into the beltway looking good so far. accidents and no delays. joe, eun? >> peter angelos who owns the baltimore oriol may soon own the rosecroft racetrack in prince george's county. the washington examiner is reportg that angelos has offered $17 million to buy the bankrupt facility. he's also offered an additional $5 million if slot machines are allowed the by december 1st of 2012. that would require a constitutional amendment approved bvoters. some of the nation's best colleges for their value are in virginia and maryland. kiplinger's personal finance magane just released its annual list of best values in public colleges. the university of virginia ranked third out of100 schools. william and mary rankedfourth and universit of maryland at college park came in fifth. colles were chosen based on academic quality, graduation ras, financial aid, and of course, tuition. >> and with the current economy the way it is lot of people are looking for state schools to save money and still get a great education. >> exactly. >> no wonder the enllment is going up. >> keepll those schools in mind. >>ll right. it is now 4:54. 31 degrees. coming up the big change starbus is making to your c of coffee. >> plus, next a remarkable story of a homeless man whose golden pipes have given him a second chance. 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