Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20121209

Today as they prepare for the battle of the beltways. The burgundy and gold take on their heated rivalry, the baltimore ravens. Theres more than just pride on the line in todays game. News 4s derrick ward is joining us from fedex field. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its a gray day. At least the rain has let up for a while. Thats good. Of course, we know about the importance of this game for the redskins. Should they win today and the giants lose, the redskins will be tied for first place in the nfc east. But seeing were playing a team right up 295 this game results in a lot of regional rivalries as well. There are some bets from the county executives of Howard County and Prince Georges County. Howard county executive ken almon said he would pick up trash on Prince Georges County and singing and wearing an rg3 jersey. If ravens prevail, baker will have to wear number 92 jersey, defensive tackle and declare next friday purple day in Prince Georges County. The teams arent division rivalries. Theyve only played four times in regular season since ravens have been existence and ravens have actually prevailed. We have to be louder than them, make them be quiet and go back up to baltimore with a loss. Reporter this say regional rivalry, not much of a division rivalry, is it . It is. Were all for it. Were ready to hit it. Lets get ready, redskins. Thats all i got to say. Reporter of course, we found a couple of those rivalries within the same family, but thats to be expected, again, with two teams so close. Game gets under way at 1 00. Were live outside fedex field. Back to you. Hopefully the fans play nice. Well see about that. They never do. Speaking about travel f youre planning to head to the game or anywhere else in the city, if you plan on using metro, give yourself extra time because you can expect an hour delay on metro, five metro stations are closed. The agency is doing track work on all of lines, tacoma, silver spring, forest glenn, wheaton, glennmont on red line are closed. Free shuttle buss will be available. Shuttles will replace trains between archives and waterfront on the green line. And no Yellow Line Service between ft. Totten and archives. And single tracking on the orange and blue lines to remember as well. Another traffic alert. Now the jingle all the way 8k race has several streets closed. Race began just a few minutes ago. This is a look at the course, parts of pennsylvania avenue in northwest are closed. Independence avenue in southwest along other streets are also closed until noon today. Dallas cowboys defensive tackle josh brent will appear in court facing possible manslaughter charges after crashing his car and killing his teammate, jerry brown. Brent released a statement to his agent that said, quote,my devastated and filled with grief for the loss of my close friend and teammate jerry brown. I will live with this horrific and tragic loss every day for the rest of my life, end quote. Police say Early Saturday Morning brent was driving when flipped the car. Officers say the car was on fire and brent was pulling brown from the vehicle. He died a short time later at at hospital. Brown was a linebacker on the practice squad. More protests expected in egypt. Morsi said yesterday hes anulling a controversial decree that gave him complete power over the countrys judges. However, he said that a referendum on a draft constitution will go as planned next weekend. Demonstrators say the constitution does not protect religious rights or the rights of women. The controversy surrounding egypts constitution sparked dozens of people marched from the white house to Egyptian Embassy yesterday. They say they want a separation of church and state and the people of all religions should feel safe in egypt. He has drafted a constitution for his people and for himself and were here to protest against that. We want a constitution for everybody in egypt. We want a constitution for the muslims, for the christians and every single citizen in egypt. Many of those that attended that protest say theyre not even from the d. C. Area. A lot of this was generated on social media so people came from as far away as new york and new jersey. American and Afghan Forces rescued a doctor. Top of commander of u. S. Forces in afghanistan said joint forces planned, rehearsed and successfully recovered dr. Joseph in eastern afghanistan. He was abducted outside the afghan capital. Dr. Allen says joseph will soon be rejoining his family and loved ones. Forme31an joint forceses carried out the operation his intelligence showed the doctor was in imminent danger. Hugo chavez will head back to cuba for cancer treatment. He announced his cancer has returned and said he would undergo treatment in havana. For the first time he said if his Health Worsens his successor should be vice president. Chavez was elected to a third term in october. The 58yearold already had two operations. Hes had chemotherapy and radiation treatment as well. Today the white house will join in celebrating hanukkah. The National Menorah Lighting Ceremony is later today. The second night of the jewish festival of lights. The u. S. Air force band is also going to be there and todays event is free. Fyi. But you need tickets to attend and you can get the tickets by going to our website, nbcwashington. Com, and search natural menorah. Hopefully the weather wont be too bad. Fingers crossed but you better take an umbrella. Coming up, why doctors say whats making the flu bug spread earlier than usual this year. Also backlash over the that canceled new york marathon. Why some runners are saying, Race Organizers are sending some mixed messages. Plus, a coach interrupted. See what stopped his press conferencetwitter, he we do it all here. News 4 today on social media. A deadly typhoon is expected to make a second landfall in the philippines. It has already killed nearly 600 people in the southern part of that country. The storm went out to sea but made a uturn and forcing the countrys northwest. It could bring heavy rains, strong winds and possible landslides in the mountains. A popular website is coming under fire for reselling tickets to the sold out 121212 concert benefiting those affected by hurricane sandy. So stub hub is reselling tickets. The roling stones, alicia keys and other top bands are slated to play. Proceeds will benefit the robin hood foundation. Some people are upset scalpers ra raising prices to make a buck. Stub hub says it will donate 100 of service fees and commissions for this event to the Robin Hood Relief Fund and goes on to say sellers listing tickets have the option to donate their proceeds to the fund among other charities. Also backlash from the new York City Marathon which organizers canceled because of sandy. When the race was called off in november, organizers had guaranteed runners a spot in next years race. However, a message posted on the marathons Facebook Page says, this years race does not does count on the point system, which will help runners clinch a slot in 2013. Theres also no mention of a guarantee this time. Uhoh. Were dealing with gloomy conditions in our region. Lets take you live right now, you want to be careful on the roads. Look at that. Weve already got traffic buildinging up there but the streets are slick. Up next, chucks forecast and what hes calling for for the rest of the work week. Plus, the unlikely fan at last nights big boxing match in vegas if the politicians in washington negotiate a bad deal on the budget and deficit, what do you think will happen to medicare and medicaid benefits . And to our coverage . Cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from medicare and medicaid will short change the people who need it the most. So if you dont want seniors to come up empty. Call sen. Warner and tell him dont make a bad deal that cuts our care. Brand new Learning Center opening in our region. Youre watching news 4 today. Good morning. If youre just joining us, in a few days the brand new National Childrens museum will open doors to public and Prince Georges County. Joining to us talk about the work to open this building is jay willard witson, the museums president. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. This is more than just a big open playground for kids. Youre hoping to spark some fire under these kids and inspire them. Our mission is to inspire children to care about and improve the world. While thats a serious mission, the way we execute that and engage audiences through play. Were dedicated to the fact that play is not a luxury. That sits critical to the development of every healthy individual and a right. We created this wonderful participator to playground we like to say brings the world to families with children in the capitol region. The original concept looks different than something that is now going to be open to the public in a few days because theres always setbacks, right . I wouldnt call them setbacks. I would say a shut in focus. What weve done is taken the focus away from the building and put our resources and attention into the programs and the exhibits. Yes, in part its a result of economic reality but in terms of what visitors will experience it will have the same rich mix of wonderful play experiences. Whatever could this beautiful new attraction have anything in common with u. S. Congress . Well, one thing in particular, the thematic overview of the museum, we call it our world. We bring the world to our audience. Every day is election day at National Childrens museum. Were all about kid empowerment and self actualization and learning how to create your own narrative. Part of that is political responsibility. We take a lighthearted approach to it but there are candidates. We have Campaign Headquarters and kids can literally participate in an election and learn the way Congress Works or occasionally doesnt work. See, you said that. I didnt say it. o05 an museum z way. You are calling this the Museum Without walls. Museum withoell, we have dur period we are original Capital Museum and back in 2004. Weve been developing the new museum during the eight years and during that time we functioned as a Museum Without a building. We worked in the community, we didding at the white house easter egg roll, the marine corps marathon, so on. We did distance learning, teacher Training Programs in 14 different states around the country. Again, in part, the fact we are the National Childrens museum. We have a big opening day coming up pretty soon. If you want tickets to this, 10 will get you in. Will get you in, absolutely. The museum is open from 10 a. M. To 5 p. M. Opens at national harbor. You want to be there on opening day, a friday. It will be a party. Thank you so much, mr mr. Witson. It will be a party today at the football stadium. Lets send it over to meteorologist chuck bell for the forecast. Thanks, erika. I think the team with the back ground game is probably going to win today because its awfully cha00÷vc and 8u temperatures are means on the relatively mild side for december. Upper 40s and inched back up to 52 degrees. This northeasterly wind spells trouble for us. That means low clouds, mist and rain and fogs will persist. That means these temperatures are going a whole lot of nowhere. Upper 40s and low 50s for now. Might tick up 1 or 2 degrees and pretty much level the remainder of the day. Chilly and wet for most of the day. Soggy and foggy most of the morning. Another chance for a round of rain around 7 00, 8 00 tonight. If youre headed out to the game, 4851. Cloudy and wet. You cant bring your umbrella into the stadium but you can have your ponchos and slickers and have something dry to sit on. The heavier showers we had earlier this morning are lifting up into parts of southern pennsylvania. Theres more rain across parts of the shenandoah valley. These raindrops across parts of kentucky and tennessee, these are also moving in our direction. Theyre about 12 hours away. Those rain showers will be arriving here around 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 tonight. Thats why rain remains in the forecast. Not just for today but coming up overnight tonight. A rainy start. Most of our afternoon will just be cloudy and damp and drizzly as we wait for the next patch of rain showers to come through. Tomorrow, wet and cloudy but more coming in tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night is the actual weather front comes through. Once is clears the area, sunshine will start to come back out. Well be chilly for the upcoming week but a chance to dry out. Today, a rainy start. Staying chilly. A strong southwesterly breeze ahead of the cold front. Periods of rain, breezy as well. Your sevenday forecast, 50s to 60s. Wednesday, thursday, friday look very decemberlike. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Lows in the upper 20s and low 30s. I know you guys already know this address, on twitt twitter chuckbell4, ill tweet out updates, radar images and anything to stay ahead of the weather on your sunday. Flu season is after to a very early and strong start. Children are the most vulnerable. They are among them. Five kids have already died from the flu. Cdc reports flu activity in every state. Eight states reported widespread activity. Doctors say young kids are spreading the virus rapidly. When you have all the kids getting together, they pass the virus back and forth, get sick in the school and bring it home into the community. Health care workers say everyone over six months old should get a flu shot. Its not too late to vaccinate. If you havent, do so. Title fights in boxing usually bring out some of the biggest names in entertainment but the latest fight between manual, and romney met pacquiao, whos a native politician in philippines. Pacquiao lost to marquez, getting knocked out in the sixth round. Every time we mention this story, its like pouring salt on an open wound. Youll be fine. It wasnt you that got knocked out. Its like i took the blow when i was watching. It was bad. History for the heisman trophy. This is one you like. Yes, i do. The wizards start a new streak theyre not too proud of. Carol maloney has it all in this mornings Sports Minute. Good sunday morning, everyone. Im Carol Maloney and your Sports Minute starts with football. Redskins, very much in the playoff picture after reeling off three nfc east wins in a row. The team sits at 66, staring down a mraf jot spot. But veteran Barry Cofield knows this team has to take it one game at a time and today thats the ravens. You have to give every opponent their due. Were playing another tough opponent. If we look past them at all, well surely come up short. Seems like were driving under the must win situation. I think guys are taking it to heart. And, you know, i think we can keep playing the way were playing, we can beat anybody. Heisman trophy given out last night in new york and your winner is johnny maziel. Beale seconds at the free throw line, misses it, grabs the rebound but hope your sunday is a good one. Thank you, much. Well, it is common courtesy to not check your phone during an important conversation, right . What happens if someone gives you a call, you know . You know, because hold on one second. Hello . Louisville head coach rick pitinos Postgame Press conference was interrupted. Nice ringer, by the way. The phone belonged to one of the reporters covering the press conference. The caller actually asked pitino if he wanted to join him for drinks afterwards but he politely declined. What happens a lot of times in those people put their phone up there to record whats being said so thats what happened. Then it starts ringing. Vibrate, put it on the vibrate feature. Up next, special delivery headed to arlington in fim for the holidays. And a grinch who stole christmas. Why several [ boy 1 ] hey thats the last crescent. Oh, did you want it . Yea well split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. Thats half thats not half guys, i have more thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. Everything has to be just right. Perfection is in the details. 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This holiday deal ends soon. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities go to verizon. Com greatdeal today. At 8009746006 tty v. Thats verizon. Com greatdeal. And see why millions have chosen fios over cable. Chucks going to be back with good morning. Welcome to news 4 today. Its sunday, december 9, 2012. Lets go to mr. Professional himself. You didnt think you were coming to me when you said mr. Professional. Outside the raindrops from earlier, that first batch of rain is lifting out. Still an area of showers out to the west of fredericksburg, moving in our national direction. I95 and interstate 71 will remain rainsoaked. For now its in the northern part of fredericksburg heading into southern parts of pennsylvania. Thanks to the cloud and fog, visibility is 1 to 2 miles across most of Northern Virginia into parts of west virginia. A little better visibility across parts of southern maryland. Mount airy, maryland, dont imagine the sun, that just lets you know its daytime and will be raining in mt. Airy all day long. For the rest of us, a gloomy day. Perfect for soup and football. Thanks, chuck. New this morning, a u. S. Drone strike killed at least four people including a top al qaeda commander in the western part of pakistan. Military Intelligence Officers say the drone struck a home in north waziristan. This is the Second Attack in four days to kill an al qaeda leader in afghanistan. Nelson mandela is resting comfortably in the hospital. Jacob zuma says he visit with him and hes doing okay. 94yearold mandela was admitted to the hospital for routine tests. A spokesperson says he needs routine medical attention because of his age. Former george h. W. Bush is waking up in a texas hospital. The hospital specs person says the 88yearold continues improving but will not be released this weekend. Another update is expected tomorrow. The nations 41st president has been in the hospital for more than two weeks, undergoing treatment for a bronchitisrelated cough. No word on when the former president will be released from the hospital. Were learning more about the nurse who took her own life following a prank call. Police released a photo of 46yearold jacintha, the mother of two School Children worked at the hospital where the duchess was being treated for severe morning sick. She was the first to answer the call from a pair of radio deejays, pretending to be the queen and prince charles. She transferred the call to a nurse looking after the duchess. I suppose the standard of what is too far might be the Old Fashioned standard of, would you want somebody to do this to you . The chairman of the king edward vii hospital said the prank was extremely foolish. The radio hosts have been taken off the air. History in washington state, the first samesex couples are officially tying the knot today. Hundreds of couples picked up marriage licenses add midnight on thursday but the threeday waiting period means today is the first day they can get married. Some county courthouses opened at midnight and several local judges are donating their time to help happy Couples Exchange views. Police are looking for two men who shot and killed a 21yearold man in Montgomery County. They say jesse compos died in his apartment in july drive in white oak friday afternoon. They say two men forced their way into the apartment. They forced him to allow them to enter and once inside they shot and killed mr. Campos and fled. If have you any information on this case, youre asked to call Montgomery County police. Police are looking for two people who attacked a cab driver in the district early yesterday morning in the 900 block of euclid street northwest. More than 400,000 wreaths are on their convey to Locations Nationwide as part of the Wreaths Across America campaign. Around 100,000 are headed right here on Arlington National cemetery. Started 20 years ago when a Wreath Company in maine had 5,000 extra wreaths and couldnt sell them. The companys owner decided to ship them to arlington. Its just grown into a nationwide event. A different kind of cold case in maine as police hunt for a real grinch. A supermarket puts a Christmas Tree outside with a tag representing a child who needs a christmas gift. Surveillance video shows someone carried the tree to the truck and drove off. Everybody in found cant believe it, shocked that i mean, they stole the tree, not the gifts. The gifts are in here so why steal the tree when can you go out and get one or cut it down. Good point. Store employees put up a sign with a picture of the vehicle hoping someone can help find the tree thief. Give this thief a hand, will you . Pun intended. Surveillance video from a home in baltimore showed a man stealing arms off frosty the snowman lawn other thanment. Come on. Earlier this week this grinch had a change of heart and returned the arms to the homeowner. Despite the giving spirit, neighbors are up in arms and want to bring this thief to justice. I ask, who write this is stuff . I know exactly who wrote this story. You have to read it. Thanks. You probably got home and the arm was like, what am i going to do with this . What possesses someone to do that in the first place . Youre going to steal the we were skipping stones and letting go over the river and down the road [ female announcer ] at Nature Valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. Thats why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. Perfect combinations of natures delicious ingredients, from Nature Valley. I was thinking that i hope this never ends [ female announcer ] Nature Valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. Ol [ children laughing ] [ female announcer ] sometimes, if you wish hard enough, you get exactly what you want for christmas. Welcome to Christmas Town a Busch Gardens celebration. Discover the wonder at christmastown. Com. Spirit to Service Members and their children. The president s upcoming Public Appeal and the influence it could have on budget negotiations on the hill. Last week our own Barbara Harrison hosted the sixth annual Adoption Foundation hosted by freddie mac. She got a chance to answer questions and help those waiting for permanent families. Reporter the ball room was packed with people, many who said they first got interested because of wednesdays child. You planted the seed for us to think about adoption so we adopted our first son because of the show. We wanted to come here and see whats here and so we can adopt, working on adopting the second child. Reporter freddie mac created the expo to help potential adoption parents learn about adoption. Youre foundation has been working very hard to find adoptive homes for children in foster homes. There are plenty more children that need homes so well keep that the as long as they can. Reporter some people came because they said they might like to adopt some day. Its been my little dream. Weve been passionate about adoption but its something were looking at down the road. But we saw some advertisements and we thought, hey, lets stop by. Reporter this little boy was born to parents matthew and karen who are thinking about adopting next time around. We think we have an idea what to do. Reporter how did he become part of your family . Through the grace of adoption. We had to wait about a year and a half. Reporter robert and eric say dakota was worth the wait. You want to have more . Thats why3b reporter Barbara Harrison, news 4 for wednesdays child. If you have room in your heart and in your home for a child who is waiting, please call our special line. 18820adoptme or go to nbcwashington. Com and search wednesdays child. Local groups are spreading holiday spirit in fairfax. Easter seals along with American Legion held the annual party for Service Members and children with disabilities, including arts and crafts, gifts and a visit from santa themselves. They say the event means a lot to their families. This is going to be a highlight of the day until christmas. Theyll be speak being this for quite some time. The children are so excited to see santa and the children are building friendships with helps connect families of children with with disabilities. They say the goal is to offer them a stressfree day during the holidays. Well, snow for a lot of other states, not for us. Our temperatures have been in. The closest well get to snow is have you to watch sunday night football because the game did you get chips for the party . Nope. Cheese plate . Cheese plate. Nope. I made something better. You used the oven . Boom [ male announcer ] pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin. Heres a better idea. Pillsbury grands flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. Pillsbury grands biscuits let the making begin. Tonight. If you want snow around here, ack. The bears may give birth soon. Thats a picture of billie jean, an andean bear. Shes pregnant with two small cubs. She built a nest and staying inside more and eating less. Necessity say thats the same way she acted last time she gave birth to two healthy cubs in 2010. Andean bears are on the limited species list and only 200 left in the natural habitat. Billie jean says the bear in the cage nex to him says theyre your kids, no, theyre not. Remember the were full of zingers today. I cant believe they have sonograms at the zoo. Who wouldnt like two bear cubs. Media sensation the minute they come out. For us. Kind of bearlike weather outside. You need a thick fur coat to stay on the inside because not going to be a pretty day to be outside at all. That being said, good football weather, no doubt about that. Outside, theres the look at how the day appears now. Thats how it looked when the sun came up and thats pretty much how its going to look when the sun goes down. Gray and wet and kind of a sloppy day to be outside today. Had a pretty good round of showers around the area first thing this morning. Those are lifting out but well be stuck with the cloud cover for the remainder of the day. Northeasterly wind at 10 miles per hour. Thats going to keep those temperatures pretty muchw for drizzle and fog around for much of the afternoon as well. Current temperatures, mid40s in hagerstown and winchester. A little milder down across central virginia. They made it into the middle and upper 60s yesterday. Even theyll be stuck in the 50s today. Theres your sunday day planner. Chilly, wet, foggy and soggy for almost all of your sunday. The same story out at redskins ravens game today. Kickoff is at 1 00. Cloudy and wet outside. So4t hd06county,l the stadium, do a little tailgating, have west gear ready to go. You can see it on storm 4 radar. The heaviest and steadiest of the showers, frederick county, carroll county, those raindrops are outbound. These raindrops west of fredericksburg, culpepper, madison and orange. 11 a. M. To 2 p. M. , a break in the action coming our way. It will still be cloudy and drizzly outside but the steadier rains will be gone for at least a little while. This next batch of rain down across kentucky and tennessee, thats about 12 hours away. If it stays on track and on pace. So, we have more rain chances coming in for after sundown tonight. You can see the rain lifting out for now. A rainy morning will turn into a cloudy and drizzly afternoon today. Warm front just down to our south. It startss8 surgecxugh the5 dar tonight. Vt wk as it comes through, it will follow the heavier band of rain showers out. Youll notice temperature may start to rise overnight tonight and into tomorrow, temperatures will surge into the 60s tomorrow. Off and on shower chances through much of your monday but i think well frontload it. Rain chances early in the 07ig evening time frame. Then a weather front, cold front comes through here. That will finally turn off our rain chances. Sunshine and chilly dry decemberlike weather returns tuesday night and sticks around for the rest of the week. Today our rainy start, wleleft h a chilly and foggy day. Cloudy mild, periods of rain. One shot in the morning, another shot in the afternoon. But it might be a relatively dry middle part of the day. Much, much warmer tomorrow. Into the middle and upper 60s. And then with the weather front coming by, temperatures will start to trend downward tuesday afternoon. And then chilly december and friday. Highs very close to average. Our average high now ch degrees. Well be within a snowfl or two of average for the second half of the week. Stay ahead of the forecast by following me chuckbell4. After the green bay game well watch the snowflakes in green bay and ill wish we had them here. Right. Thank you, chuck. I need a snowman. I havent made a snowman in three years. Dont steal a here you go little man. [ humming ] [ babbling ] the cheerios bandit got you again . [ both laugh ] the one and only, cheerios. And now. You [ giggles ] the one and only, cheerios this just in from delta airlines. Blizzard conditions in north m the airline to cancel up to 90 flights. c5t 5 oun d operations at minneapolis st. Paul international airport. More than 3,000 people took advantage of Community Shred in prince and pnc county. The nbc 4 pnc bank shred took place yesterday and those who came said it was a great way to protect your personal information, especially occurring the holiday season. Nbc 4 and pnc bank team up regularly to do these shredathons of personal documents. Nbc is your place for politics. Coming up next is the Chris Matthews show, following that is meet the press with david gregory. Good morning, washington. Coming up at 10 00 on the Chris Matthews show, will the final deal on the fiscal cliff be the grand bargain that puts the debt issue to bed or just enough to get past the cliff . Or could the president get big concessions from john boehner and force liberals to sign off ao a big inteelgtsment change . Much more talk the past week about Hillary Clinton gearing up to run for president. In a New Washington post poll, her numbers like like they would give her a quick route to the nomination. And a strong chance to win the white house for a clinton third term. Join me and david ignatius, john harris, Michele Caruso ka fwrar cabrera for a great round table. Heres whats coming up on meet the press. Ma,n0ot5 behind . N00o thisu this morning ill go inside negotiations with two lawmakers close to them, dick durbin of illinois and congressman, one of boehners top advisers. I spent time on capitol hill this week. One question im dealing with this morning, what has actually changed since last summers debt debacle . My sense is we may be closer to a deal than some of all the publicr7o w leads to you believe. Well talk about that. With our political round table as fpdu8 sant two ond q the,x tc hill8 futureaz former speaker newt beginnigin gingrich he be odonnell. And its comingm meet the press. My press pass conversation with president ial candidate rick well see06i[ . Harris, in the commonwealth, virginia  africanamerican running the party for the3in[06 will committee elected chranel harris, replacing brian moran who announced hes not seeking another term.  a look at the week ahead. President obama will travel to michigan tomorrow to push his plan for avoiding tax tax on middle class americans. Hell speak at the daimler Detroit Diesel plant. The president launched his Public Appeal on fiscal cliff negotiations and included a meeting with a family in arlington, virginia. Also tomorrow, the Manassas City Council will vote on whether to demonthly lish a 100yearold house on prescott avenue. They say theyve worked with the owner for years to bring the house up to code. The Property Owner is in her 80s and she says she hopes the house is not torn down. Rolling stone, Paul Mccartney and others will host a benefit concert for those affected by hurricane sandy. The concert is completely sold out and all the money will benefit the robin hood foundation. Of course, a big game in the day ahead. The redskins and the ravens face off in the battle of the beltways with a win today. The burgundy and gold could be tied atop the nfc east. Kickoff is at 1 00. Well have all the highlights on news 4 at 6 00 and 11 00 and expect twitter to be abuzz. On fire. Ravens are mad after they got beat by the steelers last week so theyre going to be fighting mad for this one. Well see about that. Got a lot of bets on the line, all the county executives. Thats some Serious Business there. When people show up for that 1 00 kickoff, they have to dry off their seats . I think you should have a 100 h 1 ch that tha been raining out. It rained already at fedex field and will continue to be drizzly and damp, 100 chance of rain. 80 chance you need the umbrellas again tomorrow and a 50 50 shot on tuesday. That means 50 chance for rain. The bulk is in Tuesday Morning time frame. By tuesday lunchtime, recess, things will start to improve. Feeling and looking more like december around here after that. Be on the lookout. If you have a lot of fallen leaves around the storm drain, may want to clean [ singing Christmas Carols in background ] aunt sallys singing again. Its a tradition, honey. [ singing Christmas Carols ] mmmm. 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