Its the idea of giving any president unfettered power to kill an american without checks and balances that is to troubling. Reporter brennan defended the policy. President has insisted that any actions we take will be legally grounded. Reporter brennan was up for cia director in 2009, but withdrew his name from consideration after questions arose about his role in the war on terror. Brennan was a cia executive when the Bush Administration used harsh interrogation techniques like water boarding but he denies any involvement. Water boarding is reprehensible and its something that should not be done. [ people chanting ] reporter human Rights Groups oppose brennans nomination. We are killing children. Reporter protester toby had to be removed from the hearing, she says drone strikes also kill innocent civilians. This is not the american way. Reporter the Senate Committee will review the hearing testimony and vote on brennans confirmation later this month. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, capitol hill. Just about 4 listen 32 now. The 4 32 now. The serial groper has struck again in springfield, virginia. This was on wednesday and then he took off. Now the woman wasnt hurt. But police now looking though for that white, possibly hispanic man, 56 to 58 inches tall and belows he weighs about 180 pounds. Today investigators are expected to return to a trash transfer site in anne arundel county. Theyre going to look for the body of 2yearold kassidey booth. Her mom chelsea booth is charged with her murder. Police say booth killed the toddler earlier this week and tossed her body in the trash. They believe it ended up in a Waste Management facility on brick ridge road in jessup. Well, well have to wait a little longer to find out what happened during the recent Court Hearings involved the man who killed chandra levy. A judge brought convicted killer Ingmar Guandique from alabama. The hearing focused on a problem with the governments case against guandique years ago. The judge also turned lawyers for the media who are demanding Public Access to the media. All we know is that theres some of issue with the witness at the trial two years ago. Is it a way to save the environment and put some cash into your pocket or an invitation to thieves to steal your cell phones and tablets . A company that buys and resells cell phones in the middle of a disagreement with cathy lanier, Gary Nurenberg has more right now. Reporter its called an ecoatm offers you instant money for a cell phone. People love the instantaneous cash right off the bat. Reporter do you have the device with you . Lots of devices out there. Theres over 300 million unrecycled phones in the United States that are no longer being used. Reporter ecoatm protects the environment and your local community. D. C. Police chief cathy lanier said on thursday many of the stoles are stolen phones are stolen. We have a difference of opinion. Reporter the machines dont make it easy for thieves. To sell a device you must be 18 years of age. Present a valid government issued photo id and provide a thumbprint. Your id will be verified remotely by a human and your device will be matched against the stolen device data base. Reporter one works in fair oaks mall. My view is if youre dumb enough to steal something and then put your thumbprint and your id next up to it you just deserve to be caught. Reporter ecoatm doesnt see many stolen phones. Nationwide theres about about one reported stolen phone for about every 4,000 to 5,000 transactions. Reporter of the 7,000 knowns recycled in the d. C. Area, ecoatm says only four or five stolen ones. Three of which weve been able to return to their rightful owners within the past two weeks and a fourth is still pending. Reporter the chief is working with the company and they have been cooperative but i thinks the not a good system. Im sure its increasing the problem. The company says it takes seriously the chiefs concerns. But cites those statistics to support its belief that it is not contributing to the problem. Gary nuremberg, wusa9. It is 4 35. Heres a lookout other things make at other things making news right now. D. C. Council member jim graham broke the code of conduct when he intervened in a lottery conduct. Thats the finding of an investigation. But the board says its not pursuing the matter any further because it has no authority to punish graham. The Council Member strongly denies any wrongdoing. Boeing can begin test flights on its 787 dreamliner planes now. The federal Aviation Administration says the test flights will have some restrictions though and also be flown in limited air space over unpopulated areas. Boeing is asking for permission to conduct the test flights so they can continue to investigate the batteries on the planes. The problems with the batteries last month led to the grounding of every single dreamliner airplane. Virginia has the second richest powerball ever. I have some friends in virginia. 217million Winning Ticket came from a Lottery Machine at Richmond International airport. Wow. A ticket sold wednesday matched all five numbers as well as the powerball. The winner has 180 days to come forward and they can take the full jackpot and 30 annual payments or they can opt for a onetime payout of 136. 4 million before taxes. Talk about finally friday. Imagine that. Huh . I like that. Wow. Thats pretty cool. We are in for a cold wet friday. Coming up howard is going to let you know what to expect before you head out the door for friday. A Popular Online professional networking site has a good day on wall street. People are spending less on valentines day this year. Well tell you why. Wusa9 returns in two minutes with your weather first. We love you. Welcome back. 4 39. Your weather first. Rain in many areas but west and northwest of town some wet snow falling this morning especially out to areas in culpeper and Loudoun County. Frederick county, maryland. And west to the shenandoah valley. We have some rain here in d. C. It will be 38 and raining this morning. By noon, 41. This afternoon, well taper off to showers, maybe even a peek of sunshine before the day is over. But highs only between 40 and 45. Back in a few minutes with more on the big monster storm in the northeast and your weekend forecast. Right now heres monika with timesaver traffic. Well, despite the fact its just mainly wet Road Conditions we have a lot of slipping and sliding going on. First of all vehicle into the guardrail route 301 at cruise station road in upper marlboro. Then on the outer loop of the beltway a vehicle into the guardrail outer loop after connecticut avenue. Ill be back with more details coming up in a few minutes. Back to you guys. 4 40 and time for the first your money segment of the morning. Happy friday jess. A happy friday for linkedin which is of course that professional Service Network that so many people use online. Profits saturday past wall street soared past wall street estimates last quarter. The service has reported better than expected earnings each quarter since going public in may of 2011. Linkedins stock has nearly tripled from its ipo price of 45 and that could be a highlight in trading Arron Afflalo really a lackluster day for in trading after really a lackluster day on wall street. Checking the numbers for you. The dow industrial fell 42 points in trading yesterday. The nasdaq slipped by 3 and the s p 500 down by almost 3. Americans took out more student and auto loans in december but they also cut back sharply on their credit card use. The drop may reflect consumers worries about tax increases which took effect this year. The Federal Reserve says total consumer borrowing rose to 2. 78 trillion. Thats actually the highest level on record. Thetive rest is cracking down on irs is cracking down on id theft and tax fraud. Last month the agency identified nearly 400 theft suspects including 109 who were arrested. Florida tops the nation in Identity Theft complaints. High risk cities include miami and tampa. Something to keep in mind. Americans are getting a little stingy when it comes to buying for their sweetheart this year. A new survey found 62 of shoppers plan to spend up to 100 on valentines day. This is a lot. But thats actually a decrease from 68 last year. 69 plan to buy gifts from a store. More than a third will spend money on a nice night out. Everything is nice. Its the thought that counts. It is. Good hugs will do. But we love jewelry. Yeah. Well. Never say no to that. Thats right. Thank you jess. Remember that. Yeah, yeah. 4 42. A local School System pulls a controversial classroom video which included a discussion about turning gay people straight. Are you stressed out . The answer is likely yes for most of us. Coming up well give you some ways you can stop stress before it happens. Wusa9 will have more on those stories and a lot more plus your weather first in two hello and welcome back to wusa9. It is finally friday. We have made it. Its 4 44 and howard says we have dodged a bullet here in our part of the midatlantic. Oh, yeah. Were just going to get some rain and a little bit of wet snow this morning west and northwest. Then he said sun later today possibly. Some peeks of sunshine before the day is out in the afternoon. But up north wow theyre getting hammered from michigan to new england and even philly is going to get severallisms of snow. And several inches of snow. And Loudoun County. Two hour delay there for loudoun and a few more delays this morning and were hearing reports of unofficial waiting on a picture of this one. 3 inches though on the culpeper and madison border there. Of virginia from one of my facebook friends. With garrett in maryland, would that be in a part of the stretch that might get it . Garrett is probably going to get some but the bulk of the storm one goes north of garrett and the bulk of storm two goes east of garrett. Show you that in just a moment. The day planner though for this finally friday around here. Weve got wet weather outside in the district. Temperatures will be climbing up into the 40degree range. Low 40s this afternoon and then this evening, or late this afternoon, were going if get some breaks to get some breaks in the overcast and see a peek of sunshine and still a couple of showers this afternoon but becoming windy. We could have winds 20, 25 miles an hour by the end of the day gusting to 40 miles an hour tonight. So the bulk of the rain this morning. All sorts of warnings and advisories, Winter Weather advisories here. The white are winter storm warnings through northeastern pennsylvania all the way up to New Hampshire and vermont. But the orange from new york all of long island, connecticut, rhode island, eastern massachusetts and eastern New Hampshire lower maine, blizzard warnings when you see the orange blizzard warnings in effect. They can get a foot to 2 feet of snow with winds 40, 50, 60 and potentially up to 70 miles an hour places like oh nantucket, cape cod and marthas vineyard. Around here, howard, montgomery, loudoun, points west and north under the Winter Weather advisories until 10 00 a. M. And weve got a report of some snow and sleet mixing in from ijamsville out to winchester. This is the first storm i was just talking about. The bulk of that is going to head north and some of the rain the going to head is going to head to garrett county. But this storm is going more that way so the bulk of that storm is going to stay east. And when the western fringe of this first storm, weve got some snow falling you see it now moving up toward frederick, across areas in toward Loudoun County and western Loudoun County round hill and an unofficial report of a couple of inches there on the ground. And just a dusting to maybe half an inch across many areas in the i81 corridor this morning as you zoom in. Western montgomery, northern montgomery, places like clarksburg, damascus, dickerson probably seeing a little bit of that snow sleet rain mix and you get west down route 15, were seeing some snow there. Also into northern Fauquier County with marshall and the plains. And in Southern Maryland i want opponent down in fredericksburg to point down in fredericksburg, this is rain coming up from richmond and those areas, it is going to be a very welt mortage here wet morning around here. The bands now approaching newland this morning coming in from the south. Temperatures boy theyre critical. 33 in rockville and 32 in leesburg and lovettsville where the snow is falling this morning. Also at dulles its 33 in alexandria. Waldorf 32. So borderline temps a little sleet and freezing rain in spots. And look at the rain drops on the lens this morning. Its a wet morning at national. 34 feeling like 29 with a north northeast wind at 6. So heres storm one. Theres storm two. Both these guys are cranking up and they are going to explode up to our north and east. Around here the snow this morning and the mix this morning, here we are by noon and look were already seeing just the showers here with the heavy stuff east and there goes the storm which is going to pound areas to our north with lots of snow. My inlaws on long island i called them to expect a foot, maybe 2 on the north shore. Theyre hunkering down. 43degrees this afternoon. A. M. Rain. The snow northwest. A couple of showers this afternoon becoming windy. A windy day tomorrow. 39. After starting out around 30. On sunday, milder, 46. More wet weather on monday, 54 and then maybe rain or snow wednesday but that system looks like its going to slide to the south. Monika . Well, you know its friday morning light. But with what howard just told us it means that were not going to have a very nice rush hour. Its going to be a little heavy. And slow because of the rain coming in so keep that in mind for your travel plans. And if youre coming in from Southern Maryland theres an Accident Route 301 at courtroom station road. Thats because of a car that hit the guardrail slipped off the road there. Route 301 at croom station road heading into upper marlboro. Out of brandy wine route 5 looks like. 210 looks okay out of accokeek and oxon hill and across the bridge. In oxon hill at route 210 again just wet Road Conditions and actually things look pretty good across the wilson bridge into alexandria right now. Back to the maps this time heading from 95 northbound from triangle to dumfries into wood bridge youre okay. Well take a look at the 14th street bridge, no issues to report as you head into the downtown area traveling across the potomac or Anacostia River crossings. But chances are, at some point today you will be stuck in traffic or waiting on a bus or train. Wishing you could just get to the destination. Its just a fact of life living in the district. Well tomorrow you have a chance to do something about the congestion and bad streets. For the first time, ddot is asking real drivers and passengers to make a wish list of improvements at the move d. C. Idea exchange. Now everyone is welcome to attend and youll be able to give your ideas, directly to the people who are involved in making changes. The fair is tomorrow from 9 30 to 3 00 p. M. At the Martin Luther king jr. Library in northwest d. C. Its free with fun activities for the kids too so take them along. For more information, check out our website, wusa9. Com. Or wemoved. C. Org. Back to you guys. Thanks monika. Now the Prince Georges CountySchool System has pulled an antibullying video. According to the Washington City paper the School System pulled the video because it includes a discussion about turning gay people straight. The paper says the video was shown to a handsful of seventh grade Health Classes and it was pulled this week after the city paper made some inquiries about it. Heres a clip of the video. We want to warn you though it does talk about sex. We have dreams of being basically intimate with a woman. I was full of anxiety. All i wanted was for someone to help me. I couldnt imagine telling anyone that i was sexually attracted to girls. Now the city paper quotes a spokesman for Prince Georges County schools saying the state education regulators actually approved the video. And you most of your neighbors are overwhelmed by stress. A new survey by the American Psychological association finds money, work and the economy, this is the wrong video. Are the top triggers. Relationship struggles and Health Problems can also be brought on by too much stress. The good news is, the apa says most americans recognize the link between managing stress and continuing to lead a healthy lifestyle. Individually, having their regular exercise regimen is one of the best things people can do to help manage their stress. Study after study has shown that but also relaxation techniques such as mindfulness meditation very easy technique to learn. Very effective in reducing the stress levels. One mayor challenge to control major challenge to controlling stress can be having the will power to change bad habits. 4 52 this friday morning. Lets look at the question of the morning 40 of you. Thats an interesting question. Log on to the Facebook Fan Page and we love to hear what you think. We will have the answ welcome back. Your weather first here at 4 55. Weve got rain in d. C. Nearly 4 inches of snow in reva virginia. On the couple pepper madison border. Well be pushing 40 here by 9 00 but not much more than that. Only in the low 40s today and most of the rain this morning with even some sunny breaks this afternoon and a stray shower or two. But watch out west. Weve got some snow falling in some areas especially west of route 15. Monika . Well, on the northbound side of i95, heres what it looks like in springfield. And pretty light but wet Road Conditions you want to watch out for that especially as the rush hour progresses heading up toward 395 and the 14th street bridge. Youre going to be okay at this time. Back to you andrea and mike. All right changing gears talking sports. For years people have complained the Washington Redskins should change its name. But now a serious discussion is building. Surae chinn attended the symposium where supporters and opponents about the name spoke out. Reporter with rg3 star power and a winning streak, could momentum be shifting on a possible name change . Washington post sports columnist mike wine. I think when people say redskins around washington we hear cup or bedspread. When you go to the same place like the Pine Ridge Reservation in south dakota, a person tells you that name is equivalent to the animal. Reporter wise is a panelist at todays forum. Its a very simple fix the people werent so tethered to their traditions about it. Reporter the nations Robert Holden says that burgundy and gold name is hurtful. Not to us. Reporter its name and logo were part of a 17 year court battle. In 2009 the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. Through the decades, College Football teams have done away with native american references. But will one of the most visible professional teams follow suit . No, absolutely not change their name. No way. Theyre still going to be my team. The Washington Redskins. The washington chili bowls. The washington whatever they are. As their rival we want to keep it the same. Cowboys versus the redskins. Its tradition. You got the keep it like that. Reporter mayor gray avoided calling the washingtons franchise by name in a state of the district speech this week. For our washington football team. Reporter mike wise has a solution. I dont understand why they dont just calm them the warriors, get rid of the indian imagery and take the indian logo off the helmet and put a veteran on there. Take 10 of the new Merchandise Sales and dedicate it to the Wounded Warriors fund. Dan snyder will be a hero. Reporter he says it will take more than todays pow wow to get it done. Meantime a new lawsuit will be heard next month to try to get the redskins to change its name. In washington, surae chinn, wusa9. Well, as the week comes to andrea we want the leave an end we want to leave you with some of our best moments. We hope they make you smile. Weve had a great week. Take a look. They did it. They held on until the bitter end. So we got to get the heart pumping. Are you all ready . You all ready to get up. Exercise into one. All right. Montgomery blare high school you are proud of your high school. I am. Woohoo wizards no longer the worst record in the nba. Do you know what that means right . Youre reading the rest of the show. Okay go ahead and enjoy. And after that i want to say call me maybe. I love that song. Good morning, thank you for watching wusa9 at 5 00 a. M. Im andrea roane. You are welcome to our home here. And it is friday. So how bad is that right . Im mike hydeck, thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning howard. Right over the shoulder. Howard bernstein has a lot to talk about this morning. Watch the screen. Watch the screen right now. Just got a picture emailed to me from Melissa Jones out of virginia. She said hey we had 3 inches of snow