One out of every five students is out sick. And hand sanitizer, just because a lot of kids are missing. Reporter some hospitals in milwaukee are so overrun, patients being dividered. Weve seen a huge increase in patients coming in. Reporter the sickest are admitted, but doctors say the majority of people should recover on their own. Generally theres not much you can do except give advice on the home remedies. Reporter keep hydrated, rest and quarantine yourself. Dont go to school, dont do to work. Reporter even churches are changing the way they worship. Im an old lady, im a hugger, so i try not to, but it just comes. Reporter for many doctors, faith lies in the flu vaccine, which is Still Available nationwide. Erica edwards, nbc news. Coming up on news4 at 5, Doreen Gentzler will have more on the flu increase here in our area and how to protect yourself. Breaking news on a School Shooting in Southern California. One 16yearold student is in Critical Condition at this hour after allegedly being shot by a fellow classmate right in the middle of the classroom. This unfolded this morning at Taft Union High school in a roethlisberger to rural town they werible to talk that accused shooter down at which point officers took him into custody. Police are just revealing that new information in a new conference a moment ago. You know, if it werent for the teacher and the quick response, we dont know what might have happened. Maybe as many as 20 rounds of shotgun in his pocket, and so we dont know what might have happened. This is a tragedy, but not as bad as we think it might have been. Two other students are also in the hospital this afternoon, one who is suffering hearing problems from a gunshot fired near her head. Another who suffered injuries while trying to dive out of the way, the suspect is only identified right now as a 16yearold student at this point. Police say the suspect engaged in conversation with the victim, who was shot before opening fire. Well bring you more information as it comes into our newsroom. Vice President Joe Biden is meeting with groups that have a big stake in the renewed debate over guns, including the National Rifle association. He says today tha consense is emerging on ways to curb gun violence, and he plans to give his recommendations to the white house by tuesday. Steve handelsman joins us live from capitol hill with more on the Panel Discussions today. Steve . Recommendations that the nra is almost certain to oppose, maybe in their entirety. Its still a very powerful organization here on capitol hill. The question is, has it lost any power or influence or maybe gained it in the way of the massacres in all erroro, at the school in connecticut and todays shotgun killing in california that left a student wounded. Another s. W. A. T. Team at a school, another shooting incident. The images hit the networks as Vice President said hell send to president obama on tuesday a proposal to change u. S. Gun laws. Diminish the probability that what weve seen will okur, and diminish the probability that our children are at risk in their schools. Reporter the nra is expected to recommend a and largecapacity clips, and setting up a stronger background check system. No exceptions for gun shows and the internet market, where 40 of guns get sold in and out without any check to stop sales to criminals or the mentally ill. A mass shooting survivor said changing that is job one. Not removing the Second Amendment from everybody. Thats not what were talking about. Were talking about making sure guns dont get in the wrong hands. How do we do that . Thats a background check. Reporter in the wake of the movie massacre in aurora, colorado. If assault weapons and rifles were not allowed in this country, my son would still be alive. We have an obligation to prevent similar tragedies. Gun rights advocates are pushing back. The best response is to have a good guy with a gun there at the scene, and to do that you need more people who are good guys with guns. Reporter thats what the powerful National Rifle association says. And the nra is claiming a gain of 100,000 new members since the School Shooting in connecticut. Im steve handlesman, news4, capitol hill. Theres a developing story out of the Montgomery County this hour, where police are searching for a missing man who is considered dangerous. 27yearold clayton mullenhoff escaped last night. Police say he suffered from paranoia and hes suicidal. They also report he has a history of violence, that he carries weapons and has extensive martial arts training. After a long search by Law Enforcement and canine units, investigators dont believe hes still in the area. Chris gordon will have the latest on the effort to find him. There are new rules in the mortgage games. They were adopted today. Sdipd to protect consumers from the type of risky mortgages that cricketed to the Housing Market collapse. Until the new rules, fees and points will be limited, loans cant be longer than 30 years. For more borrowers, there will be no more interestonly loans or loans that carry balloon payments. The rules take effect this time next year. A mild day out there. If you think today is on the warm side, just wait, folks. Lets go to veronica johnson. All i have to say is wow. We have one crazy temperature but first today, you have to love today. Questioned sunshine across the area. Temperatures slightly higher than yesterday. A lot of neighborhoods down south. Those are the times of temperatures you would expect to see or feel during early march. We have some clouds marching in after the sunshine today, some high clouds, so for your morning hours, we are talking about a bit of cloud cover, as a weak weather front moves through. For your evening we drop to 50. So call that chili, and take a look at your fast forecast here. Were talking about clouds. Controversial comments led to a pastor being nixed from president obamas inauguration. While local thieves started trading detergent for drugs. A popular sleeping pill, the danger that has regulators calling for the dosage to be cut in half for some people. The government of the people, by the people, for the people. And the nomination are in. Well tell you which still ahead a coupe on the flagpole. Why the d. C. Flag has as y metro today confirmed plans to spare riders from fare hikes over the next year, but its assumed theyll go up again in 2015. The Transit Agency met to figure out how to spend money the next year. Metro will give priority for completion of the sill virile line and aggressively fix the red, orange and blue lines, and replacing the oldest buses in service. Coming up on news4 at 5, transportation reporter adam tuss explains how metro plans to handle the plans for inauguration today. Okay. In case youve forgotten about sunday heartbreaking loss to the seahawks, seattle citys flag is now flying over d. C. City hall. Its part of a big bet. Whoevers city lost the matchup would have to fly the other citys flag. Its only for a day. The seattle flag will be taken down tonight, not a mind too soon. We dont need the reminder. Whats in a name . Coming up on news4, what happened when our own Aaron Gilchrist vipped with president gilchrist from nbc News White House comedy. And woman 3 days of walking to give a break cancer survivor a lifetime thats definitely a fair trade. Whoo you walk with friends, you meet new friends, and you keep those friendships. It was such a beautiful experience. jessica lee and its beautiful undeniable woman why walk 60 miles in the boldest Breast Cancer event in history . Because everyone deserves a lifetime. 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This Youtube Video has been release indeed swissvale pennsylvania, it started after Woodland Hills high school in western pennsylvania took, it took place during students and parents. There was an even bigger fight tuesday. So far two teenagers and one adult have been arrested theyve identified 15 people, looking for more. At the news4 live desk, keith russell. Controversial merchandise for a controversial movie. And singer bobby brown back in court today facing possible jail time for the drunk driving arrest. Time for hollywood headlines, georgia alfredas, with the russpar morning show. How much jail time are we talking about . I think hell get two years. Hes on probation, arrested in october on a dui. There was a string of charges, driving under the influence while under a conviction. He was convicted in march for three years. I dont know who he thinks he is. Lindsay lohan . Hes probably going to jail. Hes suppose to do drive with a monitor device. Either he wasnt in that kind of car or let someone else blow in for him so he could drive. So thats going to be a big problem. I think hell probably see some jail time. Querchten tarantinos new movie, a lot of people are seeing it, its just picked up an oscar nomination, but theres controversy. Well, of course spike lee is upset about the way it depicted slaves. Others are upset with what they think is the excessive use of the n word. Now theres an action figure. Yes, i dont know who in their right mind would buy a slave action figurer or slave master action figure. I cant even imagine what store would be bold enough to carry this toy. Probably only going to be able to get it online, but al sharpton has a boycott going on. A lot of people are upset about the action figure. And we should mention that al sharpton has a show on msnbc. Yes. He may have promised no more, but psy is out with a new version, were going to get to hear it during the super bowl . My gosh, yes. He said he would never do it again, retire gangnam style. Its 2013. Just yesterday or tuesday, he recorded a commercial for a net company. In it hes going to don pill tausche i dont pistachiocolored suit, and its going to be all over our tv. The video has gone viral. Well see displays all over the supermarks. Oh, joy, arent we excited . Thanks for putting that back in our head. At least he says hes going to change the words. Strike while the iron is hot. Thank you, georgia. Speaking of heat. Its really heating up out there. Georgia veronica. If you thought today was mild, wait until the weekend. It will feel like april around here. Take a look at the current temperatures across the area. Were at 534 degrees, 56 in richmond, 62 in bristol, ten seen. Its from points south that our air after tomorrow will start to come from. I dont think theres anything too cold except for whats in pennsylvania. Yes, weve got getting some clouds. We are going to see more clouds, i think well stake partly cloudy. It will be copy there is some rain associated with those clouds. In fact its the weather front pushing into auer area tomorrow and moving through first part of the weekend. Were at 54 degrees, a very light wind out of the north at only 3 miles per hour. Were going to see our temperatures drop off about 35 and 39 degrees. Just as mild as it was this morning. Heres that we are. The warm front will start to push in, and then were going to start to see temperatures really warm up over the weekend, but tomorrow theyll by slightly cooler. We do have a chance of rain. And then by the time we get to the weekend, again warm air really couraging northward. Weve been talking about this for days. Even photographs, tomorrow morning well get up to a high of 48 to 53. Afternoon showers, only expecting somewhere between about a quarter and about a third of an inch of rain. Again, its noon to nine, your wet weather for tomorrow. 40 hans were dry for saturday, dry for sunday, but there will be more clouds moving in the second half of the weekend. Cmon, isnt it crazy 70 degrees on sunday in for a high . Well, spring isnt going to last very long the by the time we get into monday that rain will be sticking around through tuesday. The one thing we need around here is some rain. Just how dry the area is, again, did the prayly needing rain or no. Thanks veronica. Still ahead, the buzz or is weighing in on the center he wands to become. And we this afternoon even president obama is laughing at the handwriting of his latest cabinet pick. Jack lew was nominated, but take a look at the signature. The loopy marks barely resemble his name. If he takes office thats what will appear. So the president today joked that lew would work to make at least one of his letters tim geithner revised his own signature after he took off. Tonight is the premiere the nbcs new show 1600 penn. This sitcom follows president dave gilchrest through press conferences, cabinet meetings, state dinners, as he yesterday we sent our own gilchrist to catch up with president gilchrist. You actually are a gilchrist. My gosh. Did you ever think that that name was a president ial name . Reporter you know it crossed my minute once or twice, but theres a story line to wake up watching morning news and thinks hes got a longlost brother, that might be it. I think so that would be a great story line. I see this story goods on for many, many years to come. You can watch the full interview on nbcwashington. Com, just search pullman 1600 penn. It premiere tonight followed by a second episode at the regular time, 9 30, i think our gilchrist cleaned up to be president. He was in the tie looking very president ial. Im a fan. Coming up next at 4 30, the ugly crime two women committed at a beauty pretty story. Plus the danger that has the fda today saying the dosage of a popular pill should be sliced in half. What meds are you on . Me . None. I used to be on lithium and ser aquill and abill fill. I dont. And next its not your average car theft story. Why please say youll know when welcome back to news4 at 4. Im pat lawsing muse. A 16yard student is in Critical Condition after being shot by a fellow student. Police say a teacher and another faculty member were able to Start Talking to the accused shooter who eventually put down his shotgun, at which point officers took him into custody. A man described by police as dangerous escaped the mental hospital. Tonight investigators are still trying to find 27yearold clayton muttonhoff, who disappeared last night. They dont believe hes still in the area, but they believe he obvious carries weapons and is trained in martial arts. The cdc says this flu season is one of the worth in decades. People are getting sicker due to this years strain. Emergency rooms and doctors offices are flooded with patients. If you havent gotten the flu shot, you should get it as soon as possible, experts say. There are about three months remaining in this years flu season of the. The Food Drug Administration is ordering doctors to drastically reduce the doses for women. Jay gray shows why. The fda advised that current manufacturing or manufacturers should reduce their dose. Cut by one half for female patients. They found they were a little high to imbalance researchers have used driving simulators to study the issue. I remember getting on the highway and then i have no memory. Karen kennedy had am byian in her system, and so did her husband congressman kennedy. After mixing alcohol and ambien, a woman in texas said she had no memory of running over a mom and two young girls. In illinois, 12 hours after hi took four ambien, a driver crashed into a construction site, killing one, injuring three others. Doctors stress the new requirements should serve ago a wakeup call. 6. People should know what the drowse counter effect is and how long it affects. Reporter and understand how serious the effects can be. An update on a story. Now weve learned local in our areas stolen from a grocery story, and then fenced by dealers. Last year rating out of a nail salon in capitol height. Hes coming under fire. In a reporting released yesterday, hes only call it a since. The inaugural Committee Says he didnt know about the sermon. They say they picked him for his work to end human trafficking. The president will be using three bibles. Hell use a bible that belonged to the first ladys grandmother during mondays ceremony at the capitol, the president will use a bible from president lincolns first inauguration, and use a bible once used by dr. Martin luther king jr. The ball gets under way in just over a week. With whats being done to get d. C. Ready for the big crowds for this history occasion. Danielle . People here call it the super bowl of politics. And participates in the festiviti festivities. Guests will receive a look with a spread of other goodies. Were here setting up for it. They expect to be sold out by know. Hotels in the district were at 98 capacity. We run on adrenaline during that time. President obamas inauguration drew a record crowd. This year officials expect to see 600 to 800 thousand people. Attendants which tends to be smaller. In 2005 former president george w. Bush attracted about 400,000 people. A lot of the final planning takes place after the election, to think about planning a wedding in three months. The president will take the oath of office, and Assembly Stands alonged parade route. Several parties are already sold out. Mehmmorabilia is already flying off the shelf. I have an obama mug. I think ill get my son a tshirt. And this line will soon grow. Its only the second time that an inauguration has coincided with the Martin Luther king holiday. That could contribute to the crowds. This weekend organizers will hold a dress rehearsal. And click on our locals guide. Well, some of it has to do with your eyes. Next the facial characteristics that could determine how much people trust you. Pif youre living with moderate to severe crohns disease, and it feels like your life revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. Humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. In clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief, and many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. Blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening Heart Failure have occurred. Before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. Ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. Tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. You should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. Get headed in a new direction. With humira, remission is possible. Right now police are looking for two women who pulled off a robbery monday in glennburnie maryland. One suspect handed a note to the Sally Beauty Supply store. It said she had a bep and was robbing the place. She was seen getting into the passenger side of a dark blue chevy cavalier. The eyes have it when it comes to judging trust worthyness. People with brown eyes are thought to be more trust worthy than those with blue eyes. Researchers in the Czech Republic had more than 2 eye color may not be the only factor here. When researchers digitally swapped the eye colors, then the blue eyes won out. That led researchers to concludes that facial features help as well. I thought we had something going here with the brown the i trust you, you trust me, coming up, a new idea to, the push to punish texting behind the wheel just as severely as drunk driving. Whats your middle name . Whats your middle name . Shoot him, hes an american spy. Also what critics are saying about who could be a winner and whos already a loser after the nomination. Hey, this weather is a winner. Veronica, will it hole . It will hold as far as the temperatures, but we need some rain around here. Over the last 60 days, most of our area, some 26 to 50 below average. We have a chance this week, i know, only one day left, and also next week. woman 3 days of walking to give a break cancer survivor a lifetime thats definitely a fair trade. It was such a beautiful experience. jessica lee and its beautiful woman why walk 60 miles in the boldest Breast Cancer event in history . Because your efforts help komen serve millions of women and men facing Breast Cancer every year. Visit the3day. Org to register or to request more information and receive a free 3day bracelet today. It was 3 days of pure joy. And its beautiful it dont mean a thing if you dont got the swing the late legend chuck brown used to play in a lot of openair theaters. Now a new one will be named in his honor. Vincent grate signed legislation for the pavilion located at langdon park in northeast. It will be constructed of wood and stainless steel and will seat 900. Visitors will also learn the history of the man known as the godfather of gogo. Its said to open this summer. Shed like to see the president being more aggressive for fighting for the district. D. C. Congress Democrat WomanEleanor Holmes norton said she wants the president to play a more proactive role in his second term. This is hi time to do what he did not do before. We wanted more attention from the president. We understand we will not get statehood, not even get budget autonomy, our vote and the rest, if we dont have some greater attention from the white house. You can see the rest of my interview with the congresswoman including her thoughts on the inauguration and chances the redskins could move back to d. C. Coming up on viewpoint this sunday morning. In 2010 alone, more than 3,000 americans died in distracted driving incidents. In many cases offenders got light sentences. Nbcs kate snow has more on why many arent ready to see the crime of texting while driving punished as severely as drunk driving. This is a problem that is on a scale beyond anything we have seen. I remember growing up in the 80s the drunk drivers you looked out for them on holidays, late at night. This is something every minute of every day we have to be on the lookout for that person thats on the phone. Im traveling north, this plaque car this was about a year ago in pennsylvania, anthony was driving with his father when he saw a car hit someone in the oncoming lane of traffic, then to his astonishment, that car suddenly went airborne. Reporter in the air. In milliseconds im watching this car and see the passenger die passenger side drivers side, and i literally remember saying to myself, im done. The car came crashing down on the i felt everything collapse around me. Reporter you were screaming the whole time. The whole time. Reporter it took about 45 minutes to cut him out of the truck. His father suffered severe injuries in the crash including a broken neck. Anthony who ran his over driveway paving business couldnt walk for months, and needed constant care. Despite multiple surgeries anthony will never fully recover. Most of my legs broken, my need completely destroyed, my hip broken, my brains bleeding, i cant see out of my eyes. Here i am a wreckage of myself and, you know, all this was inflicted upon me, because you decided you had to send a text message . You can watch kate snows full report later tonight on rock center with Brian Williams at 10 00 here on nbc4. Were talking rain . A bit of rain tomorrow. Then a very springlike weekend. We of course have had sunshine. Clouds have mofds in, not doing much to hurt or temperatures but most locations still sit in the low to mid 50s. Now at 56 degrees. We will see that mercury drop tonight, about what it was last night. Were going to head on down to the 30s, about you look at that, really no 20s showing up, 30 degrees in manassas, around freezing in leesburg, 36 in gaithersburg, not cold at all, and then just shy of 40 degrees right inside the beltway tomorrow morning. Your high getting into the low 50s across the area. Again were talking about some rain moving into as clouds increase, so the best sunshine will come early in the day. So temperatures will be a tad cooler. Weve been trying to get a handle on compactly where well be around january 20th. It was kennedy back in 1961, the inauguration had 8 inches of fresh snow on the ground, then sunny and cold, the temperature just 22 degrees, so where do we expect to be . Well, spring firs and then winter is expected to head on in. Thats what it looks like, the trend well see progressively get colder and colder, our air, by the time we get to the 20th of january, lightly some frigid air even moving in toward the latter part of the month. So right now at least averages. And theres a high probable of that at 45. Theres your weekend, its dry. Monday and tuesday over an inch of rain, one thing we certainly need around here. We do indeed. Thank, veronica. The movie lincoln rounded up plenty of nominations today, the movie about the 16th president and his battle to ends slavery is up for 12 awards. Nbcs mark barger gives us the school, a few of the major snubs. That government of the people, by the people, for the people. Now lincoln has hatted the most oscar nominations, 12 overall, including best picture, best director, and best actor for daniel daylewis. Among the eight other films vying for best picture of the french love story, the mystical independence hit, the musical, the offbeat romance, and the fantastical survival tale life of pi. Zero dark third is on in the hunt, but its director did not get a best director nomination. Neither did the directors of two other best picture nominees ben affleck and quentin tarantino. Quentin is a directors director in hollywood. That is stunning to me. The field for best actress offers a stark contrast. Emanuel ariva is the oldest in t the category. Theyre both unagainst jennifer lawrence, naomi watts, and Jessica Chastain for zero dark 30. The world is hard enough as it is, guys. Bradley cooper is monl daniel daylewiss competitors. So are hugh jackman, joaquin phoenix, and denzel washington. The Academy Awards will be handed out february 24th. Mark barger, nbc news. Hole wids big week ends with the global globe awards. Tina fay and amy poler cohost the event. Were pumped for that. Up next, how two parents who lost a child in the connecticut School Shooting are wrenching something positive from that tragedy. A lawmakers is already speaking out about the School Shooting in california. And the derecho storm that knocked out power causing the massive outage in virginia, but the news4 iteam found the problem was much more widespread than we thought. And for all your a judge in colorado plans to rule by tomorrow whether accused gunman james holmes will stand trial for that Movie Theater shooting. Right now the judge is considering all of the evidence that prosecutors presented during a preliminary hearing this week. In a surprise move, the defense did not call any witnesses, but lawyers have told the judge that holmes suffers from a mental ilniz. 12 people were killed in the attack last summer. Dozens more were injured. More than three weeks after the tragedy at sandy hook, were hearing from two of the parents who lost their son in that shooting. Despite their unimaginable grief, its put them on a new path to do good for others. David usualry has the story. Every night i put them to bed, lay down, and we have some pillow talk. Just he wanted to stay up. He didnt want to go to bed, like every kid. It was great. It was our special time together. Reporter a visit to chases room certainly tugs at the heart, but also gives the family lie the first visit to the jersey shore. That bad came from one of those pitching cages. They clocked him between a couple pitches, 25 and 29 miles an hour. Reporter three weeks after he chase taken from them, theyre mourning, but they say theyre resolved to look forward. She believes chase came to him in a dream and asked her to be strong and help people heal. They decided the best way to do that is raise funds for a community center. Well do great things in his honor and everybodys honor if they want to join us. In our hearts, they know chase is in a better place. Reporter we dont hear from you a lot of anger or any anger, and you alluded to it earlier, you think family values, this would be a place to promote that. You had a young man who did this, and killed his mother. Have you given thought to that at all . Is there anger there or not . Theres probably anger in there, better what are you going to do . You cant turn back the clock. You cant turn back the clock, so we go forward, like she said. You know, if i get angry refocus. Yeah, if i get angry, evil wins. I cant change time. Im not looking back. Im not getting angry, and im going to focus on the positive. Im going to focus on the good that my son did before he died. And the good that i can do in his honor and in his memory. Dough naz in chases memory can be made can be made at chaseko walskifund. Com. Theres a big mystery unfolding in virginia tonight. Someone is on the run with a very fast car. In a news4 exclusive, were getting an inside look at rg3s knee from a doctor whos operate odd him before and hes a former redskin. Well begin with another example of gun violence in this country. This time a student was shot allegedly by another student at a high school in california. Keith russell joins us from the newsroom with more on why this shooting could have been a whole lot worse. Keith . Wendy and jim, this all unfolded in the Southern California city of taft this morning. Police say a 16yearolds student walked into a classroom at Taft Union High school armed with a shotgun, reportedly shooting a fellow 16yearold student and fired at a Second Opportunity but missed. The teacher there at the time, were told, was able to talk to the accused shooter, and was able to talk the accused shooter into surrendering that shotgun with the help of another faculty member. We want to commend the teacher and a campus supervisor for all they did to bring this to