Basically, there will be a storm system along the east coast this weekend. It will stay to the east of us. Important tonight, the temperatures, and if anything is falling from the sky, we look at sentinel radar right now. You see a little bit of green out there in the central sections now or southern central sections, still between annapolis. Everybody else appears to be dry. Theres just a couple of spots of freezing drizzle here or there. Again, temperatures are critical. Were holding at 34 here in dc. We have been 34 for the last five hours. I doubt were going to get any colder than that. If we do, probably 33 degrees or so. Dulles is 32. The coldest temperatures are to the north and the west, with the exception of leonard town, you guys are at 32 right now. Winter weather advisory in place overnight tonight in the district. It was added a little while ago by the National Weather service. So just keep that in mind, and we may have a couple of pockets of freezing drizzle or light freezing rain overnight tonight. Brian, those untreated places could perhaps have a spot of black ice on them early tomorrow morning. Weekend forecast is coming up. Gary mcgrady tonight. New this evening, police are asking for public help after reports of vandalism in bethesda. Detectives are investigating a series event in the overnight hours on february 16 and 17 in woodhaven. They found a marked ncp canine car vandalized with black spray paint, in addition to profanity. There was also racial comments on the vehicle. Last weekend, in the Early Morning hours of february 17th, one of the victims of the vandalism contacted the police down there at approximately 3 00 in the morning to report that a piece of property as well as her vehicle had been vandalized with black spray paint. A cash reward of up to two grand available for information leading to an arrest. A metrobus driver recovering at home after getting hit in the bus with pepper spray by two teenagers. It happened on the b 2 bus early this morning at the intersection of minnesota and pennsylvania avenue. Audrey barnes has more in the newsroom. It happens far too often, bus drivers cussed at and spit on, it happened more than 72 times last year. Police are helping bus cam video will help identify the suspect who sprayed that driver in the face. Every day, more than two dozen Armed Metro Police officers in plain clothes ride the busses, to try and keep drivers and passengers safe, but they cant be everywhere. Early this morning, two teens took their frustrations out on an unsuspecting driver on the b 2 bus, just trying to do his job. They wanted to get off the bus and they got into an altercation with the bus operator. They werent very happy with that, and when they exited the bus, the bus operator pulled over at the next stop. One of the two sprayed the operator in the head with pepper spray. They ran off northbound on pennsylvania avenue. The driver was treated by medics at the scene. The passengers were put on another bus to continue their trip while police looked for the suspects. They conducted a canvas of the area with negative results. We have cameras on the bus, so were reviewing that footage and making an attempt to identify the suspect. Reporter passenger Audrey Butler says passengers are often sitting ducks for criminals. I see a lot, the abous they take on the bus. Reporter in fact, there were 74 assaults on bus drivers last year. You see in any given month there are a handful of them. In some cases, theyre serious. The bus drivers getting punched. We have Bus Operators who in certain parts of town have rocks thrown at the bus. In one case last year coming through the window and striking a female bus operator in the head. Reporter the metro board has just authorized two dozen more transit Police Officers just for the busses. At the request of the drivers union, more of them will be in uniform. And theyll be deployed depending on crime hot spots. When you attack a bus operator, youre not only attacking the bus operator, which is bad enough in and of itself, but youre putting every other passenger at risk also. Reporter those additional transit Police Officers are being trained at Police Academies in dc, maryland and virginia right now. They are expected to be on the busses later this summer. Thank you. A developing story were following this evening. We now know the names of the victims in a deadly house fire that claimed the lives of a father and his two little girls. Fire Officials Say an electrical problem caused the problem. Darrell price jr. , his eightyearold daughter tannia and fouryearold patrice were killed in the blaze. The house didnt have any smoke alarms on the first floor and Officials Say the family had an evacuation plan. She was telling me she was able to make it out because she had a family evacuation plan, and had family fire drills and knew how to exit the house under emergency situations. The 11yearold daughter remains in critical condition. The 33yearold mother and an eightyearold girl, a twin of one of the victims remains hospitalized with smoke inhalation and other injuries. The edge on dc where the former director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for the district has pled guilty to tax fraud. Milson west is the fifth person to plead guilty to crimes connected to harry thomas. Weve come together to talk about what were going to do. Reporter milison west had a very high profile job as she led the districts Homeland Security and Emergency Management agency. She was a point person that the city was on alert. Certainly we want to make sure folks get home safely. Reporter to find the crime, you have to go back to the first inauguration of president obama. It was an inaugural event organized by former Council Member harry harry thomas jr. , whos now in jail for stealing money meant for kids. Today, i want to apologize to those ive let down, including my constituents. Reporter thomas organized an inaugural ball at the Wilson Building that was a flop. Tickets did not sell and thomas needed 110,000 to pay for the ball. Thomas told west the ball was meant for kids. Prosecutors say west helped channel funds from a program meant to keep kids off drugs to help pay for the ball. Meanwhile, after the hearing, us attorney ronald maychen issued a statement saying millicent west was by all accounts a dedicated Public Servant who was truly committed to the mission of serving young people in the district of columbia. Unfortunately as we have seen too many times, she agreed to break the law to appease a crooked public official who was intent on carrying out a public scheme. Shell be back in court in three months when a judge will sentence her. It is possible she could serve time in prison. In the newsroom, matt ackland, fox 5 news. An arlington resident says someone broke into her kitchen and stole her dinner. She says the burglar stole her chicken from the crock pot as it was cooking. It happened on tuesday in an apartment on south carlin springs road. Arlington police arent sure how the chicken disappeared. But whoever took it left the vegetables behind. As if new york residents didnt have enough problems after Hurricane Sandy. Theyre dealing with rodents. Some are as big as cats and city leaders have a new plan to get rid of them. Check out the rundown when we come back. Dinners ready. [ female announcer ] hamburger helper stroganoff. Beefy. Creamy. Stroganoffy. Helpers. Forty dishes, all delicious. I just finished a bowl of your light Chicken Pot Pie soup and it was so rich and creamy. Is it really 100 calories . Let me put you on webcan. Lean roasted chicken. And a creamy broth mmm i can still see you. [ male announcer ] progresso. You gotta taste this soup. Resident vs one more pesky problem to deal with after superstorm sandy. The storm seems to have flushed out a rat problem. People have seen rats as big as cats. The city wants to take action. Foxs dan bowen has more. Reporter they are feasting on trash, even stealing slices of pizza as they scurry through the streets. Theyre disgusting. You know, the neighborhood. Reporter rats are easy to spot near the hamilton Madison Housing complex in manhattans lower east side. Theres so many of them that they flood you, you know, they surround you and what not. Its definitely worse now than it was before the hurricane, because were literally two blocks from the east river. Reporter it has gotten so bad recently, vicky mammell has decided to move from her office inside. Cat sized rats with humongous tails. Cat sized rats with humongous tails. Ive been doing it for 23 years. Have you ever seen it like this . No. Reporter exterminator eddy marco believes when the superstorm rolled in last october, it may have flushed out the vermin. Since october, november, december, theres been rats all over the place. Reporter its unclear if Hurricane Sandy is the reason, but complaints to 311 about rodents are up this fall and winter. In hurricane impacted areas, there were 121 calls in the last three months. That is a 21 increase from years before. Other neighborhoods, like lower manhattan, greenpoint, coney island and the west village have also seen increases. People were really reporting an alarming increase in neighborhoods that had been hit by the storm. Reporter Council WomanJessica Lapin wants the city to hire more pest control officers to catch and kill the rodents. Its a health issue that the sooner we tackle the better. Reporter the Health Department says overall in the five burroughs, rat complaints are down. Christine quin supports his plan. If rats are listening, you should pack your little furry bags and leave, because we will be coming for you with increased resources very soon. Dan bowens reporting. A popular breakfast food is being recalled, and gun control laws may change in maryland. Shawn yancy has your fox 5 top 5. Were starting off tonight with a recall that could affect your breakfast plans this weekend. Number 5, check the fridge. Smithfield Packaging Company is recalling 38,000 pounds of sausage. The meat may contain small pieces of plastic. It was sold in several states including dc and maryland. Number 4, drinking a cup of tea may help you keep and stay mentally sharp as you get older. Researchers analyze studies of the effects of caffeinating drinks on the memory. They found brain functions stayed sharper in tea drinkers than nontea drinkers. They think the benefits have more to do with a chemical in the plant than the caffeine. Number 3, the pain at the pump gets worse day by day. The largest gas increase in three years. President obama wants to lower prices by using less oil. The National Average for a gallon of regular is 3. 78. How about this one ndc, its 4. 3. 78 in maryland and 3. 70 in virginia. Number 2, building energy. Maryland lawmakers approved a plan to bring an off shore wind farm to the state. Governor omaly says the project would create jobs, promote green energy and lock in prices for 25 years. The wind farm would be built off the coast of ocean city with about 40 wind turbines. Number 1 tonight, a Maryland SenateCommittee Approved a change to a sweeping gun control measure. The amendment would prohibit anyone from owning a hand gun if that person has been involuntarily committed for Mental Health reasons. Governor Martin Omalley supports the measure. Brian, thats tonights fox 5 top 5. We got a Little Something overnight, i guess. Yes, got to really keep an eye on the temperatures overnight tonight, and keep an eye on the radar too, to hopefully see that theres not going to be any real rain or freezing drizzle out there. We have had some of it overnight or some of it this evening and parts of that will last overnight, but it really looks like in terms of the light rain or the light drizzle, its going to be very, very widespread. Doesnt look like well have a lot of it. 34 here in town and its holding. 30 for gaithersburg, dulles is 32. Culpepper 36, and fredricksburg 35. Winter town, i want you to see is sitting at 32 degrees. Thats the only temperature that far south i see thats right around freezing. Dont think the temperatures will fall off much more, if any, overnight tonight. It looks like pretty much where they are now is where theyre going to stay. Winter weather advisory has been posted though and pushed farther to the south into the metro area. This will go until 6 00. The counties north and west of us will go until 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. The threat here is potentially a little bit of freezing rain, a little bit of freezing drizzle in spots, and especially where that temperature is below 32 degrees. Thats where there could be a problem. But it doesnt look like were expecting much in the way of precipitation overnight tonight. Theres still a lot of rain down to the south. Theres some showers coming up into north carolina, southwestern virginia. They may try and push up into the area, and thats probably why that Winter Weather advisory was posted a little bit farther down to the south. But all of this rain is going to collect itself off the coast tomorrow. A storm system is brewing there, and it will be getting stronger as we progress through the day. But it will be far enough off shore that its not like were going to have to worry about a lot of rain. The heaviest of the rain is going to be well to the east of us. Were going to have some showers tomorrow coming up from time to time along i95. Well have a few in the morning. Well have some in the day and by tomorrow evening, it looks like this storm system will take that package of rain and shower activity and move it off into the north and the northeast. So not a perfect day tomorrow, but its not going to be a rainout. Its not going to be a washout. 34 down here in the city. 32 gaithersburg, 31 for frederick, and you notice again with the freezing temperatures, mainly to the north and the west. Thats where well need to worry about freezing rain or freezing drizzle overnight tonight. 44 for a high tomorrow so its going to be a little bit warmer, and again, were going to have showers moving through. Again, with the warmer temperatures tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon, we dont have to worry about any of this being in the frozen form, so we dont have to deal with that again tomorrow. A few showers tomorrow morning, noon time showers, and a spotty shower left in the afternoon. Sunnier on sunday and warmer too. Temperature approaching 50 degrees. But not only is it going to be sunnier, its going to be breezy. 1525 mileperhour winds on sunday, and hovering around that 4950 degree mark as we progress through the last few days on the sevenday forecast. Have a great weekend. Going over to lindsay for a look at some sports. Gary, i want 75 and sunny. Me too. Then we can be friends again. The wizards are 109 since john wall returned to the lineup. Tonight, wall was trying to bounce back from one of his worst performances ever. In tuesdays loss to toronto, he scored nine points but was one of 12 shooting. In the early going, john wall getting fancy behind the back, finds trevor booker, and somehow some way that circus shot falls. They were tied at the half at 64. 4th quarter, the wizards once had an 18point lead. He would tie bradley beil with team highs of 17 points. The nuggets rally late. Heres denver on the fast break, the pump fake, and beil goes up. And what goes up must come down hard. Take another look. Beil momentarily down and out. He would leave and reenter the game and said nothing hurt. Hes a tough kid. Wizards lead is down to 2. But john wall makes sure thats close as the nuggets get. The wizards hold on for the 119113 win. At nats spring training, zimmerman is making strides as he recovers from offseason shoulder surgery. He took the field the first time today and looked like the silver slugger that he is. Davy johnson says hell have him dh for the first couple of games of spring. The other big nats news again centers around gonzalez who received word from the Major League BaseballPlayers Association that his tests came back clean. No perform of performance enhancing drugs. Gio was tested two days after reports surfaced he was linked to a clinic in miami. They have not officially absolved him but that 50game suspension that would come with any proof that he used, bought or distributed illegal substances has gone away. Coming up, pc was back in the ring in dc. Was he a knock out tonight . Fight highlights are next. [ male announcer ] so theres lots of people out there who arent happy with their internet. [ spokesman ] are you lindsay . Yes. Did you say, my internets so slow its like a car with no gas . Yes. [ male announcer ] well youre about to get verizon fios quantum, americas fastest, most reliable internet. So thats what you used to have. Okay. And thats fios. 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The orange, they lead the alltime series but the teams have split the last four meetings. This one shaping up to be something pretty special. Its mental. I mean, its no secret about that. You know, this is what this game, this series has meant to both institutions, and has meant to our conference. You know, there are a lot of more storied moments of the big east conference associated with georgetownsyracuse games and a lot of those have been in the dome. So last time playing up there as members of the same conference so hopefully well play well. Its definitely an honor to be playing in this game. You grow up watching these games and you see how heated the battles get. But its the talk of the town right now. Its all over the place. But at the end of the day, weve got to go play the game. Whatever team shows up is going to be the victor. The ibf junior welter weight champ and dcs own la Mont Peterson back in the ring after 14 months. After a slow start, la mont got things cranked up. Down goes holt for the first time in this fight, but peterson would knock down holt in the sixth round and finish things in the eighth, after a barrage of unanswered punches. Would leave him no other choice but to step in and stop this fight. Peterson maintains his belt at his home town. He said he would like the shot at fellow title holder garcia. Thats a look at sports but the news edge will be right back. Dad, id put that down. Ah. 4g, huh . Verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, endtoend, pure lte build. The most consistent speeds indoors or out. And, obviously, astonishing throughput. Obviously. You know how fast our home wifi is . Yeah. This is basically just as fast. Oh. And verizons got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. So its better. Yes. Oh, why didnt you just say that . Huh what is he doing . So we created the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. 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