tonight. >> reporter: brian, the details of this story are chilling and tonight the victim's neighbors here are calling on police to get this serial rapist off the street. the 68-year-old victim attacked in her bed in the middle of the night says this just released composite sketch closely resembles the man who raped her described as 16 to 25 years old breaking into the woman's ground floor apartment, a second time now here at germantown's beaconfield terrace. >> it's sad. hopefully he'll get caught. maybe one day he'll crawl into the wrong window. right now while he's out there this community is not going to rest. >> the unique part of this crime is that the 68-year-old resident told us that this was the same suspect who had raped her this past june last summer at the same address. >> reporter: that attack was followed two months later by the sexual assault of an 86- year-old woman in her apartment at the churchill senior living center directly across father hurl boulevard. the in -- hurley boulevard, the intruder entered through a ground for that window. police believe this same man committed all three attacks. >> kind of scary. it's terrible. we all keep an eye out, but we don't know what to do. i mean a sick individual, needs to be caught. >> reporter: the suspect is described as being about 5' 10 tall, weighing roughly 145 pounds with no facial hair wearing a dark shirt and dark pants during this latest attack. >> i can tell you right now i don't think investigators believe that it's a coincidence. i don't know why he would target the same person twice, but they believe that he came back for a reason. >> reporter: this community understandably on edge. >> because as long as he's allowed to go in and do whatever he's doing and get away with it, he'll continue to do it. >> reporter: now if detectives were able to collect dna evidence here today, they're not saying and so far tonight we've seen no sign of extra police patrolling this community, brian. a developing story out of prince george's county tonight. the police officer was not on duty. the man was hit in the 8800 block of walker mill road. the victim was badly hurt and is expected to survive. the officer is being checked out to make sure he's not hurt. the road was unlit and very dark at the time we're told. new tonight a special panel created by a montgomery county executive asked for the public to weigh in on pepco's reliability. will thomas was there. >> you heard from two sides, pepco, top executives and the public. pepco said we're making improvements, talked about a five year plan at a cost of 256 million. the public laid out their complaints. >> what were the complaints? >> what they're saying is blue skies, the blizzard of february last year, summer storms. they're saying no matter what pepco is simply not reliable. here's more. long days and even longer nights in the dark. the blizzard of 2010 left more than 104,000 pepco customers without power, the majority about 81,000 in montgomery county alone. >> a plan needs to be developed soon. >> reporter: nearly a year later pepco is getting an earful from people in montgomery county. >> we've put together two surveys. a work group was created to investigate pepco's service. the utility's regional president promised improvements and says the work has already begun. >> we've completed tree trimming on 150 main line feeders which represents about 775 miles of tree trimming in montgomery county. >> i'm not satisfied with future outage responses by pep course i'm going to call the chairman at -- pepco, i'm going to call the chairman at home. if i'm going to be inconvenienced, so will you. >> reporter: to say he's frustrated doesn't begin to describe how this 30 year montgomery county resident feels. >> it's just been years of neglect that finally caught up and pepco has proven they aren't going to do anything. >> reporter: candace charleston a mother of 3 and 6-year-old daughters spoke before the work group. outside the meeting we put her together with pepco's president. >> can trees and electricity co- exist? it happens all the time. >> they can co-exist, but what we're trying to promote is the right tree in the right place. >> it's almost like pepco is saying that's going to teach you to complain. we're going to come in and lop the trees off and that will teach you. >> reporter: what would you say to that? >> trying to strike a gentle balance between the environment and service reliability. >> reporter: pepco can't really put a finger on why montgomery county seems to suffer more than other areas. it's certainly a story we report a lot. they often point to weather patterns and the trees that come down into the lines. >> we know the president mentioned vegetation management. what exactly does that mean? >> reporter: i guess a fancy term talking about trimming back all those trees. they do it in public areas themselves and work with communities, homeowners like you and me to do it ourselves. over the next five years pepco says they're going to put about $35 million into trimming back all those trees, vegetation management. >> interesting name for it. will thomas, thank you. wssc set a brand-new record for broken water mains last month thanks to old pipes and bitter cold temperatures. crews repaired 647 water mains in december breaking the previous record of 608 set in january of 2009. officials say the company is working to get more funding to replace the aging water mains more quickly. i now have this gavel and the sacred trust that goes with it. i give it to the new speaker. >> with that the transfer of power in the house of representatives today was complete. the 112th congress now in session, all members today taking the oath of office taking off a new era of divided government. republicans control the house. the democrats have a narrow control of the senate. laura evans has what we can expect from this congress. >> there's one of the largest freshmen classes in a couple of decades in this congress. at least 35 have never held elected office before and while it was all smiles today, you can bet the battles will begin soon. >> the honorable john a. boehner is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. >> reporter: the new gop controlled house overwhelmly elects john boehner speaker, the man who has a reputation for crying wiped away tears even before deliver iting his opening day speech. >> the people voted to end business as usual and today we begin to carry out their instructions. >> reporter: republicans control the house with 242 seats. democrats hold 193. beforehanding over the gavel outgoing speaker nancy pelosi reflected on legislative achievements saying particular healthcare reform. >> our seniors are paying less for their medical prescriptions. taken together it will save taxpayers $1.3 trillion. >> reporter: the gop leaders have already scheduled a vote next week to repeal the new healthcare law. on the senate side 16 of the 31 senators sworn in today are brand new. vice president joe biden administered the oath of office. >> new water flows in replacing the old and continually renewing the river. the senate is the same, mr. president. >> reporter: democrats remain in control of the senate, a narrow lead 51 seats, two independents and 47 republicans. >> when the national debt threatens the american dream itself, when sovereignty of the social safety net is threatened, we must come together. >> reporter: one of the first acts of the new republican controlled house aside from healthcare legislation repealing that will be to strip voting rights of six delegates including d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton. the gop decision is the predictable outcome of a long time party divide here. >> as you mentioned, the new congress will bring some changes including a significant one for the way washington is represented. we welcome in mark block, political commentator. we're referring to delegate eleanor holmes norton having her vote stripped away. why weren't the republicans ever -- won't the republicans ever let this go? >> ted kennedy said it much better than i do. d.c. suffers from the four toos, too liberal, too urban and probably the most distinctive disadvantage is we're too democratic. 76% of the registered voters in d.c. are democrats and finally not insignificantly we're too black. this is a political power equation. they feel that d.c. would elect one representative that's a democrat and then two very liberal democrats in the senate and they don't want to see that happen. it's that simple and that clear. >> let's talk about white house press secretary robert gibbs. he's leaving his post. we both know it's a high burnout job defending any president on live tv. given the midterm turnout and these last two years where a lot of people have a lot of concerns especially on the liberal side of the aisle on whether obama has the fortitude to make it into another term, can he be adequately replaced to defend this president for two years? >> i think the press secretary who does this daily briefing, robert gibbs i don't think helped or aided barack obama, nor did he really hurt him. barack obama has to make his own case. barack obama is the face of the obama administration. robert gibbs is just the messenger. he seemed to really rely heavily on just the people who were from the major networks and he says he's going to do other things. what he's going to do, brian, is cash out. he's going to get speaking fees and he's going to do political consulting and he's going to make a lot of money by virtue of being a constant presence, but, you know, robert gibbs was not pierre salinger or jim haggerty. don't killed yourself. >> my last question -- kid yourself. >> my last question, republicans swept into power. the first priorities are to read the constitution and try to repeal obama care without the votes to overturn a veto. is this really what the voters wanted? >> i think you're onto something. they have to be very careful that they don't repeat what newt gingrich did when the republicans took over in 1994. he was very soon looked as an a serbic vindictive petty small minded -- have i run out of terrible adjectives? and they can go to the extreme. i think they have to realize that in the end the country wants solutions to problems and if the republican party who gained the house and gained seats in the senate is viewed as crassly partisan, they'll be hurt in 2012. >> some would say it's an inauspicious start. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. maryland senator barbara mikulski made history today. after taking her oath of office the 74-year-old democrat became the longest serving female senator in congress serving 24 years on capitol hill. >> to me it's not how long you serve but how well you serve. i've accomplished many things during my time here, whether it was fighting for jobs in maryland or fighting for women's healthcare for the nation and i'm looking forward to this fifth term. how we can promote jobs and how we can promote working together. >> senator mikulski was the first woman ever appointed to a senate committee. first it was birds falling from the sky. now it's millions of dead fish floating in the chesapeake bay, what scientists believe caused this massive fish kill. more mysterious bird deaths now in western kentucky. officials with the kentucky department of fish and wildlife tests on the birds ruled out disease or poisons. results show the deaths could have been caused by weather or another natural event. new year's eve fireworks are to blame for the deaths of thousands of black birds in central arkansas. hundreds of dead birds have also turned up in louisiana. here in maryland another mystery, 2 million fish washed ashore dead. fox 5's beth parker has more from the chesapeake where test results are preliminary, but there's a theory behind what's killing the water life. >> reporter: now i'm standing at the edge of the chesapeake bay. take a look. there's the bay bridge right over there. you know, you really have to watch where you're walking out here right now. look down here, dozens of dead fish. at age 90 helen copper has seen a lot of waves lap against the shore here at the kentmoor restaurant in queen anne's county, a lot of seafood lunches. >> possibly once a week. >> reporter: but this lunch with her brother jacob is different. >> i remarked to him something about all the seagulls and it dawned on me they're here because of the fish. >> reporter: in fact, it's a fish kill that makes this view look more like an alfred hitchcock movie than a postcard from the chesapeake bay. >> this were hundreds of seagulls. i've never seen that many gathered down here before. >> reporter: at the beach mike schindler looks in disbelief. he may not know what happened here, but mike knows his fish. >> that's definitely a spot right there. >> reporter: the maryland department of the environment estimates most of the roughly 2 million fish that have died are spots. >> i've never seen this happen. >> reporter: they're young fish between 3 and 6 inches long. the state says preliminary tests show the water quality is fine. a spokesperson for the maryland department of the environment said they have a pretty solid theory. while adult spot move to warmer waters for the winter, young spots spend the winter here, but december's surface water temperatures in the bay are the coldest in 25 years of monitoring. that combined with a healthy population of spots means lots of young fish competing for a place to stay warm. >> there's a lot of people that like to fish for these fish. it's definitely going to hurt that year when these will be big enough to catch. >> reporter: so what you're looking at here, all these dead fish, is unusual, but it's certainly not unprecedented. back in 1976 maryland had a similar fish kill. remember they're saying this is about 2 million dead fish this time. back then in '76 it was 15 million. along the chesapeake bay, beth parker, fox 5 news. new tonight the british medical journal is calling a 1998 study that linked autism to a triple vaccine an elaborate fraud. the study was retracted last year for conflict of interest and unethical treatment of patients. the british medical journal is taking things a step further by calling the paper a crafted attempt to deceive. the study created a major health scare and caused many parents to boycott the vaccines. now to a story seen only on fox 5, a 6th grade girl claims she's afraid to go back to school in beltsville because she was beaten and bullied. tonight the principal said the girl's mother is out of control and ordered the mother to stay away. fox 5's karen gray houston reports. >> reporter: when we arrived at the student's home, the school security officer from beltsville academy was already there. we found the victim tyeice fields nursing a black eye, her mother terribly upset. >> i'm really, really upset. i'm not angry. i'm hurt. i'm hurt because i sent my daughter to school where she's supposed to be protected at and that did not take place. >> reporter: the family moved to the neighborhood a couple weeks ago and thought the academy was one of the best in prince george's county, but monday tyeice came home claiming some girls were bothering her, one in particular. >> they said they didn't like me and this girl said she's the queen bee of the school and she's not going to let a newbie get in the way. >> reporter: so her mom went to -- a new beget in the way. >> reporter: so her mom went -- new bee in the way. >> reporter: so her mom went to school with her. >> she threw me on the ground and pulled my hair and started just kicking me in my face, in my stomach and everybody just watched her do that. they didn't even tell her to stop. >> reporter: the school security guard we ran into had delivered a letter to the family from the principal telling sheniqua that she is denied access to the school because her behavior earlier in the week was threatening and she couldn't come back unless accompanied by a responsible adult. >> now i'm going to have to go through all the emotional things my daughter needs. she's going to need therapy. this is not going to be an easy road for me at all. >> reporter: we contacted the prince george's county school system. a spokesman tells us there are procedures in place at the school for dealing with bullying and harassment and school administrators followed those correct procedures. i'm karen gray houston in the fox 5 newsroom. a troubling and violent start to the new year in one local county, five people killed in just the first five days. four people were shot in one night. find out what police think is behind all the violence. 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[ male announcer ] imagine what a business degree can do for you. with four northern virginia locations, one is closer than you think. a troubling start to the year in prince george's county county. five people have been murdered and tonight the interim police chief is speaking out about it. fox 5's paul wagner has the story. >> reporter: since january first five people all adult males have had their lives taken at the hands of another. in three cases police say drugs were involved. in another the motive appears to be robbery. whatever the case chief mark magaw says he intends to get out in front of the violence and put a stop to it. >> this is not an unknown phenomenon. we've had spikes in homicides before. the main thing the community is looking for us, i believe, is a steady hand that we're on top of it, that we're fully engaged and we are. >> reporter: the worst of the violence came yesterday when a 42-year-old laurel man was found shot to death outside the upscale ballroom in suitland, a killing quickly followed by the murder of a man inside an oxon hill townhouse and the discovery of a body on tucker road. then late last night four adult males were shot in what police are describing as an attempted robbery on norcross street in marleau heights. a 19-year-old was killed. >> these homicides do not appear to be random acts. in almost every case these victims were likely targeted. in the five homicide place only the crawford place and tucker road appear to be related. >> reporter: if the homicides captured the attention of the police department, they have certainly grabbed the community's attention. >> i think they're doing all they can with what they have, but it's going to take the people, all us people out here, to stand up and say you know, hey, this has got to stop. i am scared for my grandson to go outside sometimes. >> it's really sad. it's a tragedy that so much is happening now. so yes, i am concerned. >> it concerns me, but i mean if you have corruption in the police department and it works its way down, what can you do? as a citizen, i hope things do improve. we pay our tax dollars for better services and hopefully that will be forthcoming. >> reporter: chief magaw says he's counting on the community to assist the police in a unified effort to end this cycle of violence. >> in addition to stepping up patrols, the chief says he's also putting additional undercover officers in the communities where the murders happened. so far no arrests have been made in any of the killings. a rash of burglaries has cops in prince williams county virginia is asking for the public's help. the burglars force their way into homes in the middle of the day. their main target, jewelry. they've gotten away with about $100,000 worth. >> since these are occurring during the day, we know there are people home, people driving in the area. don't always assume that someone else is going to call the police if you see something suspicious. be the first to call because we'd rather go out and do nothing than get another burglary. >> police remind you to lock your doors including the deadbolt and set your alarm if you have one. a fox 5 investigation, hundreds of thousands of dollars paid out to just a few d.c. firefighters working massive amounts of overtime. at the same time d.c. police chopping its overtime budget. the chief tells us how she's keeping spending in check next. our fox 5 investigation into overtime being dished out in d.c. continues tonight. first a tale of two departments and what it costs you. in the d.c. fire department our investigation uncovered a couple cases where the o.t. is skyrocketing and taxpayers are footing the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars. now to the numbers. from 2009 to 2010 the overtime budget for d.c. fire increased 45%, a much different story, though, in the d.c. police department pulling back on overtime with a 13% decrease for the same period saving $2.6 million. fox 5's roby chavez is here with more on his investigation. >> clearly these are two different departments and have totally different manpower needs and different budgets. this, however, is about management. for years both have been plagued with overtime and scandalous headlines. d.c. police, though, is working to get out of the overtime hole. captain lanier says she's improving it can be done. the nation's capital has seen the lowest crime rate in 20 years, but it's not the only statistic d.c. police chief cathy lanier is proud of. >> since 2007 we have reduced locally funded overtime by 43%. $12.6million we saved and that's just in overtime. >> reporter: here's the numbers. since 2007 overtime costs have dropped from 29 million to 17 million for mpd. lanier's done it without reducing police and without budget increases. >> every agency is different. i can only tell you what worked for me. what worked for me is you really have to break things down in great detail and do some analysis and then you got to hold your managers accountable. >> reporter: here's how she's done it, by reducing court overtime and eliminating officers sitting around waiting for a trial. the department also now puts out schedules 14 days in advance. the chief personally reviews all of the overtime every two weeks. >> there has been a core of that many years overtime was unlimited and it's not anymore. we can't afford it. we have be responsible. there are a lot of ways to reduce overtime. we don't have to be operating by crisis and constantly react. we're much better if we're proactive and it's cheaper. >> reporter: the all hans on deck has been cheaper than the old crime -- hands on deck has been cheaper than the old crime emergencies, but when you cut into overtime it comes at a cost of police pay. there has been pushbacks, but the chief is proud of making tough choices and keeping the city safe at the same time. >> i feel good that we've been a good steward of the public's money and we're efficient. if we can bring crime down and reach do us overtime, i think that's something to feel good about. >> reporter: it is moving in the right direction. now lanier admits overtime will never be eliminated entirely because of unexpected emergencies and she says at some point decreasing the overtime budget will get even more tougher and will get tougher rather with the current staff she has. still city leaders call it an improvement and a significant accomplishment. >> are there any other major differences in these two when it comes to who gets overtime? >> in d.c. fire they allow their top brass to get overtime. however, in the police department no one with a rank of captain or higher gets any overtime or comp time. that's a lot of money. these are the ones that work the most hours and get paid the most. a navy captain's own commanders will likely be questioned over a lewd video that the captain showed on board a ship. defense officials say captain owen honors' superior officers will probably be asked if they knew honors was making or planning to show that video on the uss enterprise. he was second in command in '06 and '07 when the video was shown featuring slurs again gay people and sexual content. captain honors has been relieved of duty. everyone is wondering who is holding the two winning mega millions tickets. we have details about one of the winners. first what would you buy with $400,000? how about a giant fish. fox's adam shapiro has details in tonight's business report. >> good news in the jobs market, payroll company adt saying the private sector adding nearly 300,000 jobs last month. small and medium size business is expanding the most. government releases the big december jobs report before the market opens friday, but b.j.'s wholesale club is cutting nearly 500 jobs. it's closing 500 underperforming stores by the end of the month. online shopping soaring internet sales topping $32 billion during the holiday season up 12% from last year. more people also flocking to the stores. foot traffic rising more than 4% last week. to wall street the dow rising 31 points now at its highest level since august, 2008 and this is no fish story. a giant tuna selling for nearly 400,000 bucks in a tokyo auction. that's a record. two sushi restaurants teaming up to buy the 750-pound fish. that's business. i'm adam shapiro. tr rtiontui the jackpot in the mega millions drawing wound up being even bigger than expected. it jumped from 355 million to 380 million. now the washington state lottery says one of the winners plans to claim his share tomorrow. they say he's retired and a man but so far that's all we know. the idaho winner has not come forward, but this were a lot of winners of smaller prizes, too. >> all lotteries have security and integrity of the games at the forefront of our work each day. we encourage all players to check their numbers very carefully since there were lots of winners from last night, over 12,000 in idaho alone. >> the two towns where the big winning tickets were bought, only 125 miles apart. we're down in the newsroom now with melanie alnwick. you covered today a lot of people are talking about, american airlines travel listings no longer on many of the popular online travel sites. >> that's right. we're talking about orbitz, expedia and hotwire and tripadvisor.com. american airlines is in dispute with these websites and they want to cut out the middle man. they're trying to save money on fees and trying to drive travel agencies and customers direct i had to their websites -- directly to their websites. right now airlines pay a fee to a global distribution service which collects flight data and makes it available to ticket sellers. airlines also pay a fee to the travel agents on the online booking sites. now american wants to save some of that money by getting ticket sellers to get the information directly from them. airlines could generate more revenue from tickets on their own sites and could collect information about those buying the tickets to sell more successful advertising. so the industry analysts don't see airlines abandoning the online booking sites altogether. >> they do both need each other. airlines need the larger distribution channel and online travel agencies need the fees that they collect. so there's going to have to be some renegotiation. they'll have to reach a middle ground ground and i think this is just the start of an evolution -- ground and i think this is just a of an evolution online travel -- just the start of an evolution of the online travel model. >> however, the other airlines are definitely watching this to see what happens. we have saw this happen with the baggage fees and the other unbundlings. this is really a battle over who gets to control the results you see when you search for an air fare. >> i can tell you the consumers are watching because we're wondering what's going to happen. what will be impact on all of us? >> in the short term it probably means not much for consumers except if you're someone who flies american a lot you'll have to go around a little bit to search for those. in the long term there is some question. if the airlines are the ones who control this search information that you see instead of just going to one site where you can see route and price, perhaps maybe you're not going to have access to the best offer and you might have some trouble comparing the offers if one airline is offering a particular type of bundle and another airline is something else. could be some difficulty to watch ahead. >> dig a little bit deeper, be patient. >> yes. >> melanie, thank you. brian, back upstairs to you. a former white house staffer found dead in a landfill and now a twist in the investigation. tonight on the news edge what police have learned from this unusual video. plus we take you inside the largest electronics show in the world, a look at the tech toys coming to store shelves this year at 11:00. 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being with us tonight. many people find the n word and the term injun offensive. why shouldn't we delete them from huck finn and tom sawyer? >> well, the use of these words is part of the way twain is teaching the racism of the society. we have this racist language coming out of unracist huck finn's mouth and that's part of the sapphire and it's pretty powerful -- satire and it's pretty powerful. i'm not against the editing of this text. >> you see this both ways. mr. garretts, where do you stand on deleting -- garrett, where do you stand on deleting these offensive words out of an american classic? >> you have a book that's been around coming on a century and we look at the text for what it is and it really speaks of the historical context of what's happening during those times and as the author penned this particular novel that has become part of american literature around the globe, we need to maintain the original context so folks can really understand what is transpiring during those times. >> i have to ask you ms. noble brought up a good point. the person who started this movement to get these words deleted basically the point being if we take them out, they will get into the hands of more young people who need to be reading these book. otherwise sometimes when they're turning the pages, they find them offensive and don't want to read them. playing devil's advocate. can you understand taking these words out might actually allow it more into the school system? >> well, shawn, this book has been banned by school districts and individuals for years. this is not new. what's new in this particular case is someone making the decision in, this case the publisher, saying we're going to change the actual original text. i don't believe anyone should have the authority to go in and change someone else's work long after mark twine dwyane is off the scene to make -- twain is off the scene to make it comfortable for a modern day reader. the reality is children need to learn from that context to make sure history does not repeat itself and by changing the text they will have no context to know exactly what would transpire and why one would even pen and use the n word during that time frame. >> do you think we should start taking out every offensive reference out of books? isn't that sort of we start to ban books and different things like that? >> no, no, definitely not, but actually the n word is an unusually powerful word. i'm not sure there's another like it actually in english. let me tell you a story about this that i think is powerful for me. a bunch of years ago i was teaching this novel and i taught it along with an essay by an african american critic named julius lester and he talked about how he read this novel in high school, yeah, and anyway they -- >> tell you. what i've just been told we are running out of time. save that thought. hopefully we'll get back around to it. i want to thank you both for coming in tonight, marianne noble and byron garrett. we should mention this edited edition of huckleberry finn and tom sawyer will be released in it one volume next month. thanks for coming -- released in one volume next month. thanks for coming in. the 62 students who are winners of the full tuition scholarships from posse, d.c. where outstanding students are prepared for the transition to college and sent to school in teams. more than half of these students will be the first in their families to attend a four- year college and will have each other for support increasing their chances of getting a degree. >> a wonderful story. >> that sure is. >> so we have some winter weather moving this way. >> winter break continues for college kids and the winter cold will continue for us. toll not terrible. it will be half cold -- tomorrow not terrible. it will be half cold, but super cold for the weekend. >> full cold. >> the full cold is coming. we won't be cutting it in half looking towards the weekend and maybe flurries in between. we'll talk more about that in a moment, but tone it's chilly. we'll likely head -- tonight it's chilly. we'll likely head for the low 20s and mid-teens in some spots. we have fairly clear skies. a weak front passed through earlier today. thing are somewhat settled. as we look at our weather headlines to see what's going on around the region the next 36 hours, definitely talking about a chilly day tomorrow, not brutally cold. a clipperlike system is coming and that might produce a round of light snow early friday morning and then maybe again late friday into early saturday. we aren't talking about a lot, but something to keep an eye on because some of it might time out with the morning rush hour. it also looks like the same clipper system that brings us light rounds of snow, will turn into a bigger storm off the coast and pull in colder air on the weekend. we're talking about a big cold shot, a lot colder than what you're seeing here, 43 today at reagan, dulles and bwi at 40. frederick down to 19, manassas 21. those are usually the two coldest spots on the map at this hour. baltimore 28 degrees, d.c. 32, warm by comparison in quantico at 33 degrees, but definitely a chill in the air tonight with a few clouds trying to float through later. we'll drop to 27 in the district, teens and low 20s in the suburbs. not a lot of sunshine tomorrow morning, but the skies the afte we climb to about 41 degrees as winds change directions. plan on more clouds and sun at 8:00 in the morning. we touch 30 degrees. by noon some sun and 39 and by 5:00 some sun and 38. so thursday definitely a settled day, not much going on. we'll talk about the futurecast here because i want you to see that we'll be watching a little band of light snow. it doesn't appear as though it wants to do too much to us on friday morning, but we'll continue to watch this because we're never quite sure what's going to happen when these clipperlike systems come across the mountain. it looks like a better shot for light snow in northeastern maryland at 6:00 in the morning. by the noon hour skies brighten a little but maybe another little before us tries to run through in the evening hours and into the 10:00 hour, perhaps with a small accumulation down here, not too far from fredericksburg. even going into saturday it's possible we could still have a few flurries because our big cold wave is going to be coming into town then. let's talk about that. the big headline for the weekend is that it does look like we've had real cold air coming and it may be the beginning of a series of waves of cold air that come plunging out of the arctic. so these doors are kind of opening and thursday we'll see this front not getting into town, but watch what happens as we take our model data and put the front on. we keep this running into friday and even saturday and these are what we think the high temperatures will be saturday, 10 degrees below 0 in fargo, 7 degrees below 0 in international falls for the high, d.c.'s high 32 degrees saturday maybe with some flurries, cincinnati's high about 20. so that's a first cold shot. we think we'll keep those coming as we head on into the next week or two of january. so some cold days ahead for us. here is how the weekend is looking. sunday will be more sunshine but still cold and maybe a little bit breezy saturday but not as windy as it looked like it might be yesterday. so tomorrow looks warm in comparison and then we bring on the full cold for friday, saturday and sunday. we'll have to watch the flurries. i think the timing will be a lot clearer to us tomorrow night, but any time you have a chance of flurries or light snow on a friday morning commute, we have to pay attention to that. we'll be doing that in the weather center. people living in the flood ravaged areas of australia are bracing for floodwaters to peak. heavy rains have left much of the northeastern part of the country under muddy water. the fritz roy river is expected to reach 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