Road. Buses traveling the new express lanes and those lanes are essentially on the other side of the jersey barrier there. The express lane stretched 29 miles from garrisonville road in Stafford County all the way north to edsel road. Now just of edsel road, we are told the express lanes turn into. So listen to this. If you are not traveling with three or more people in the car, you have to hop off the express lanes at that point north of edsel road because it turns into hov at that point. Let this be a warning state police are watching. First offense 125. Second 250 with points. The drivers dont understand between switching the flex pass from mode to toll mode and realizing once it is on mode you have to have at least three occupants in your vehicle to get a tollfree ride. Reporter so there is an ez pass and an ez pass flex. The flex allows you to flip a switch, rather and travel on the without any tolls or fines. But if you find yourself traveling the lanes, we are told, by accident, because all of this is really brand new and you find yourself traveling the express lanes or by accident, we are told you will get a pass. But only for the first time. If you contact the folks who operate the tolls, they will give you a pass and you will not have to pay. But if you do it again, make that mistake a second time, you are on your own. So coming up at 6 30, could folks be sacrificing some of their privacy when they are traveling some express lanes . That is a controversy that drivers are concerned about and well have more on that side of the story coming up in the next half hour. Several countries are taking part in the search for a plane that went missing. Flight 8501 disappeared on its way from indonesia to singapore. The pilot had asked to climb to a liar altitude to avoid bad weather but the request was denied due to heavy air traffic. This morning a cargo ship with 49 survivors of a ferry that caught fire in the adriatic sea has arrived from an italian port. They are the first group of survivors to reach the land. 316 people have been evacuated from that burning ferry. More than 160 passengers and crew are still strand ad board the smoke filled ship. One person is confirmed dead in it. Fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire inside a texas senior Apartment Building. Five people died in the fire. Don champion explains. Reporter thick smoke billowed into the Early Morning sky sunday, as firefighters arrived to the wedgewood apartments outside of san antonio. By the time the fire was put out, five people were dead. Crews were called to the Senior LivingApartment Building around 6 00 a. M. More than 200 people live in the building. Firefighters had to help some res dents out on ladders. Others hardly had time to grab belongings i cant a lot of people left without socks. Not even a coat on. I ran back to my apartment and grabbed my purse. Reporter the cause of the fire is still under investigation. It appears it may have started on the third floor of the build. After looking at the floor, it is amazing we did not have more loss of life. The third floor hallway is gutted. The doors were charred. Reporter displaced residents are staying in hotels or with family members. Don champion cbs news, new york. Dc police are investigating a murder scene near United Medical center in southeast washington. Officers found two people with gunshot wounds along southern avenue just before 10 00 last night. Police kept the 1300 block of southern avenue shut down. Police have identified a suspect in the Christmas Eve murder of ffxa woman in northwest washington. A warrant is out for 35year old marvin lopez. He is on your screen right now. He is charged in the death of 39yearold yall leak arroyo. There is a makeshift memorial at the scene of the crime. She was one of four people murdered in the district on Christmas Eve. A wake is going to be held this afternoon for a teachers aide who was stabbed to death. The 19yearold granddaughter of lily bell morris is charged in her death. She was found dying in front of her home on burkettsville lane in washington. Services will be today and this evening in Jackson ChapelUnited Methodist church. A viewing will take place today for an officer killed in a crash last week jamaal congratulateett was headed home from his overnight shift when he lost control of his car and hit a tree. The funeral is tomorrow morning. Those sony email hacks have led to a new racial controversy over who would be the next actor to play james bond. Coming up, Arianna Thompson is here. Plus allison is back with welcome back. It is 60 00. Looking at doppler 9000, we have some rain south of 66. South of the beltway. That is where it is going to really linger for the rest of the Morning Hours and all the way through the southern dell marva south of dover through ocean city. That is where the showers are going to linger throughout the rest of the morning. Taking a closer look though, the beltway is dry through 270 and 70 dry as well. A couple of clouds and drizzle spots out there temperatures in the mid40s this afternoon areas forth of the metro. Clouds will be the main story. Temperatures start to fall off later on tonight if a cold end to 2014. 66 is still lacking good. As you say the rain is headed their way. Right now it looks like not doing too bad on this monday morning, although folks are headed back to work. We do have a disabled vehicle just before the beltway, but it is off to the right shoulder. Elsewhere our live look sudden, seventh and frontage, no issues on the southwest freeway this morning. Looks like we are looking decent on the inner and outer loops. Again you can is he the volume building but everyone still moving at speed. What is in the entertainment buzz this morning . A lot of new challenges in theaters. But it just cant match the hobbit. It cant. It is steam rolling right ahead. Five or six Christmas Day releases coming up i cant it says a lot because it is the third installment i cant right this is a decade long franchise of Peter Jackson taking on the hobbit stuff. Like i said, there was some stiff competition. Happening lenas latest effort unbroken, a huge musical. Meryl streep. Right and into the woods came in third place. Hobbit is rolling right along. I think it has made 170 million since opening the week before. Just insanity. That was it though for the series . This is the final movie ever. Have you ever seen any of the hobbit movies nick . Reporter i have seen nothing i cant there is some kind of loyalty to this franchise. Peter jackson has done an excellent job. It is a hollywood at this point. Who is going to be the next james bond . Potentially through the sony hack attack. If i would get to pick i would watch him read the phone book on screen. For years the buzz was he would be the next bond. He always tells us to calm down. Last week Rush Limbaugh being Rush Limbaugh said james bond has to be white. He is british, he is handsome, suave, everything. He went on twitter and said wait i thought james bonded with was supposed to be handsome . I think he has a few mirrors in his house. Well played. So clearly he is being a little cheeky. Does this mean we are writing the emtaft for daniel craig . Reporter what is funnily about the franchise, it is almost lake the happy couple can never be happen pay. Happy. One family has been in control of the franchise for years. If you get people talking about a movie that is not even going to be out if a few years, bravo to you. Lets take another look at the question of the morning on our Facebook Fan Page. It is 6 13 if you are justify waking up. 1. 2billion candy canes are made each year. How many are sold during the holidays . 90 , 60 or 40 . Bill said as i buy ten boxes every year, i would say 60 . Well go over some more responses and have the correct the Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Hurry in to the sign then drive event and get a fivehundred dollar new years bonus on select new volkswagen models. Offer ends january 2nd. A new report says australian planes have spotted objects in the sea as they search for the airasia plane that vanished on its way from indonesia to singapore. The team says based on the coordinates, they believe the plane is at the bottom of the sea. And a cargo ship filled with 49 survivors of a ferry that caught fire in the adriatic sea has arrived at a port. They are the first group of survivors to reach land. Passengers and crew remain stranded in the smoking vessel between italy and al bania. Reporter and im delia goncalves. Live off 395 and edsel road. If you are traveling the new express lanes here in Northern Virginia you have to make sure this account is up to date. You have to have your ez pass on you, because the lanes will begin charging tolls this morning. You have to account for the wet roads out there, starting to dry up yet . Reporter some areas dry. Areas south, light rain continuing. It is pretty light rain. Doppler 9000, really is kind of lingering, that is where it is going to linger for most of the morning. Some areas could even see just southwest of dc, could see a couple of light showers push on through. This whole chunk of rain is pushing off to the east, as we speak. But we are going to see a couple of showers come on through as it continues to push on now. Drier weather will head over to frederick to baltimore. But the light rain continuing. Clouds are going to stay regardless. As you head north, frederick, westminister, through hagerstown, no sun possible the farther south you go. Futurecast does an okay job of showing that. It continues farther south through the i 65 corridor. We see clouds remain but we will see drier weather remain after lunch time by 6 30 tomorrow morning, a couple of discrepancies here on the computer models. A couple of snow flurries, south of 66 a couple of showers and snow showers coming through pretty pfaff. No accumulations possible. By the afternoon, High Pressure returns. Stick with us for the rest of 2014 and into 2015. 42 to 49 degrees. Rain will continue farther south. Cloudy skies, with the help of northeast winds, it will stay into the 40s. 49 degrees, well have the slight chance of a snow or rainshower pushing on through. New years day looks great. 41 degrees the winter classic will be cold. We get warm for saturday and sunday, but we see another good chance of rain, especially on sunday. We are still doing really good if a monday. Light volume for major roadways. As delia mentioned at the top of the block, express lanes are open on 95. You will need an ez pass. Right now again, free and clear of any incidence or accidents for you. No major delays this morning. No reports of any issues there you can see the sign for the express lane. Looking pretty decent for your drive this morning, lets look at our maryland cameras as well. No issues taking 95 through Prince Georges County. We are doing good elsewhere. 495 the top side of the beltway, no issues there 66 at 50 and the bw parkway. Thanks for waking up at 9news. Well be right here you go. Wow thanks get a free beverage in any size for enrolling in dd perks, and start earning points towards more rewards with every purchase. Join today for a free beverage on us. America runs on dunkin. People of the coffeedrinking world, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right, for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. New information this morning on the missing airasia jet. More than 24 hours after its disappearance, the search continues for yet another flight that vanished in southeast asia. The head of indonesia search and rescue agency says the plane could be on the sea floor. Mark . Reporter australian search planes have spotted objects in the java sea where an airasia plane disappeared. Investigators do not yet know if it is wreckage from flight 8501. Help coming in from singapore, malaysia and australia, indonesian Officials Say it is likely the plane is at the bottom of the sea. The flight, carrying 162 people, including 17 children, took off for singapore sunday morning. Shortly after, one of the pilots asked to change the route because of bad weather. The request was denied due to bad weather. The airplanes data recorders will reveal what happened next. We have life, if you will, in the battery for the next 30 days, maybe, depending upon when these batteries were put into this aircraft. As long as each 90 days. Reporter indonesia promise a safety review of airasia, something the Budget Airlines ceo Tony Fernandez says is a top priority. Relatives still wait for any news, holding on to hope at a Crisis Center where the missing plane took off. Markable for cbs news. The most recent loss of the airasia plane comes on top of the still unexplained disappearance of flight 370 back in march. Gaithersburg residents turned out to support ken game mel and his young daughter era bell. His wife and their two young sons were killed when a small plane crashed into their home. A Company Called pump it up hosted a fundraiser for the family people donated gift cards and books for game mel and his daughter dc police have shut down a bar where five emwere stabbed. It happened in mcfadens restaurant. So far no arrests had been made. We are told the victims suffered serious injuries. Police chief cathy lanier ordered mcfadens closed for 96 hours. The Closure Order is set to expire on new years eve. The tension continues to rise in new york city between the Police Department and the mayor. Police commissioner bill bratton and former mayor Rudy Guiliani took to the sunday news talk shows to weigh in on what is causing the problem. Hundreds of uniformed officers turned their backs on mayor bill deblasio. This is a man that cares deeply about new york city officers, deeply about the divide in the city at this time and is working working very hard to heel this device. It is a terrible thing. Im sure mayor deblasios heart is broken over these Police Officers. Im giving this device advice. Mayor deblasio please say you are sorry to them for having created a false impression. Both Police Commissioner bratton and former mayor Rudy Guiliani denounced the Police Officers who turned their backs on deblasio calling the action inappropriate and disrespectful. Protests of a different sort outside fedex field sunday. The redskins playing their final game. Demonstrators wanted to make their point about the teams name. Does Zenaida Gonzalez of people called on redskins owner dan snyder, once again, to change the teams name. They say the ongoing use of the redskins is a slur to native americans. Members of the National Congress of American Indians, the National Coalition against racism and sports media and the American Indian movement. 6 27 now. A washington landmark has served its last donut. Hellers bakery closed its doors sunday after more than 80 years in business. A german immigrant started in the 1920s. Hellerss owner said they could no longer afford the rent in the mt. Pleasant location. Temperatures in the mid40s outside. You can see the Lincoln Memorial there. Things are going to get a little bit better. It is 45 degrees. Temperatures arent too bad. It does feel a little chilly out here. We do see still some rain farther south. We have light showers from richmond over to the bay. That is where the rain is going to linger today. Areas around the metro are going to dry out for the most part. A few spotty showers left over for this morning. Here a a view of the satellite and radar. Clouds today, so that is better. As far as sunshine, hard to find. Areas off to the north and west. Might see a little bit more sunshine than areas farther south. 41 for chevy chase. 40 for arlington. Temperatures get to the mid to upper 40s today. Temperatures about average. Allison this is probably the best monday ever on the roads this morning. No issues incidents or accidents. If you are just leaving the house, all lanes are open. No issues on 270. Should be decent for you, lets take a live look outside. No issues for you on the beltway. New hampshire avenue. No reports of any troubles. Inner lap also looking fantastic. No troubles for you on the beltway, south of 50 through Prince Georges County. All lanes open. A decent ride on monday. No more free rides mike haiduk. The i95 express lane tolls go into effect. Grab that ez pass if you want to take advantage of the extra lanes though. They clock more than just the money coming off your ez pass transresponder. Delia goncalves is live with what you need to know. Reporter good morning mike and nick. Certainly no easy drive for folks here. You need the ez pass and not a free ride. For folks traveling in Northern Virginia, you need to reup that account before you head out the door. And look at the traffic patterns. A number of folks are traveling the express lanes so far. They are stretching 29 miles from garrisonville road to edsel road in fairfax county. Now just north of edsel road, we can tell you the express lanes turning back into hov. You do need to hop off before you continue on, because state police are watching. The first offense for being on the hov without three or more people in your car, 125. The second offense 250, with two points on your record. These white panels in my vehicle are the reader. As you can driving by a vehicle you can tell if they have a flex pass or an ez pass, their number, account number and it will also tell whether they have it in mode or not. Reporter this new system certainly very helpful to state police, who are monitoring your activity on these lanes. But a lot of drivers are concerned because of the surveillance system. It is a 24 24 7 surveillance system. So some people concerned about their security, but a lot of folks happy that they now have a convenient and hopefully faster way to get to their final destination. Back to you in the studio. Talking about virginia and roadways, gas prices are down across the region. But the prices are expected to head back up soon for drivers in virginia. They are expected to rise . 5 per gallon because of the increase in wholesale gas prices. If you look back former governor been mcdonell helped pay for a 6 billion funding package. Combat in afghanistan is officially over. A ceremony at hilt headquarters in kabul. Reporter the end of combat doesnt necessarily mean the end of war. Reporter the flag of the u. S. Led International Force was lowered in a ceremony in kabul. American general John Campbell rolled up the flag, symbolically transferring leadership to the afghan forces. We cannot fail working together. Reporter todays ceremony works a milestone for our country. For more than 13 years ever since innocent lives were taken from us on nine eleven our nation has been at war in afghanistan. The end of the combat mission does not mean the end of the war. From a peak of 100,000 troops in afghanistan there are now 10600. It has taken the lives of 2300 american servicemen and women. They will be facing a ferocious enemy. Attacks by the taliban are surging. President obama recently authorized Counterterrorism Operations against the taliban in addition to al died. Well merry Christmas Everybody. Reporter earlier in his vacation on Christmas Day, president obama visited Marine Corps Base hawaii to deliver his thanks in person. The greatest Christmas Present we had is the finest military the worlds ever known. A mint that in smaller numbers will be in harms way in afghanistan for at least another two years. The situation is one of serial the president will address when the president returns to washington. Striking trash workers in Montgomery County plan to be back on the picket line. Officials say we do have a back up plan in place. If today is your trash day, get your trash out as usual. That means if you are scheduled for pick up have it on the curb by 7 00 a. M. 20,000 homes are affected by this strike. Workers from unity disposal and recycling took to the picket lines friday. Brenda kendrick from martinsburg, West Virginia, she gets up one hour early just to watch w us a9. Love wusa 9, always have, always will. This weeks womenners get four all day lift tickets that can be used at liberty round top and white tail resorts. Go to our Facebook Fan Page and fill welcome back. Im meteorologist allison ray. We are looking at rain here farther south for i64 and along 81 south of harrisonburg. Most of our area is going to be dry. A few lingering light showers west of la plata. You can see on our radar loop, we have a couple of drizzle spots left over. Count on the clouds hanging around. Germantown, even more over to baltimore, slivers of sunshine this afternoon. 40 degrees right now for rockville. We will track the rain this afternoon and also tomorrow. First. Allison the Police Activity is ongoing in southeast dc. Southern avenue between wheeler road. This was an overnight homicide and it looks like they will certainly have the road closed there at least until daylight per ppt. The beltway looks good through Prince Georges County. Heres a live look at our traffic lane south of 50, no issues reported there. If you are going to head toward alexandria this morning, looking really good. Root over the Woodrow Wilson bridge. New Technology Meets the new testament in israel. A company is changing the way some people can read the bible, and it does require some high tech equipment. Reporter the original bible was probably written like this, painfully indescribed by hand. A process that took years, if not centuries. Think muscle citi rooms, candlelight. Scroll ahead a thousand years ago and think lab coats and lasers. To get into this a hightech company is engraving what they hope guinness will certify as the worlds smallest bible. It is to keep the items, not the people from being infected. The manufacturing process for the aptly named nano bible is something akin it a religious mystery for anyone but a techies. Each square is one single project. Reporter to put that in perspective. We have here the new testament printed. And here is the nano new testament. Reporter to read it you need a microscope that will magnify it 1000 times. And since it is in ancient greek, you also need the Language Skills of jjack pastor of israels r and mcollege. I can attest it is a true and faithful copy of the accepted greek version of the new test. Reporter it is also jewelry, which explains why an Israeli Company is making a product that has no market. Christian tourists. 14 minus three days away from ringing in the new year. This years winter classic right here in washington and it sure does not feel like winter outside. But the nhl, no problems. They are putting the final touches all in time for the game on new years day. The puck drops between the washington caps and the chicago blackhawks. This time last year we were just hours away from mike shanahan, getting fired as coach of the redskins. Jay gruden expected to be safe. But jets owner Woody Johnson is expected it fire both his general manager and head coach rex ryan. Rumors are swirling around the raiders, falcons and bears. Jim harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers have parted ways. He actually has been on that post for four years now. The reason for the split is believed to be clashes with team management. Harbaugh is expected to be announced as the new head coach of the university of michigan later this week. This it is time now to answer the question of the morning. Of the 1. 2 billion candy canes made each year, how many are sold during the holidays . 90 , 60 or 40 . One of our webuyanycar. Com has helped thousands of people let go of all the hassle that comes with selling or trading in. We make selling your car truck or suv fast, safe and fair with three simple steps one get your free online valuation. Two drive to your local carbuying center. Three walk out with a check in as little as thirty minutes. Buying cars is all we do. All makes and models and no dealership pressure well even settle your loan or lease. So, dont wait. Get your free online valuation now at webuyanycar. Com. Time now to see what our partners at cbs are covering. Nora odonnell is live in new york. Reporter good morning to you. We are tracking the possible sighting of debris from airasia flight 8501. We are going to talk with former ntsb chairman debra hers man, and then. Robots are revolutionizing business. Can they do the same thing for our lives . Well tell you if they can help you with the dishes. Well see you guys at 7 00. Creepy the way he blinks. Slowly like that. A little weird. Take care guys. All right, so looking ahead. Cold, rainy, but not for long. In certain parts. Yeah it is kind of two different forecasts, depending on where you are. Areas south still cold and rainy and cloudy. To the north not as rainy, still cloudy, but maybe not for long. If you are traveling south you are going to run into the rain. If you are headed to richmond, you are going to run into pretty heavy rainfall. Closer to the area, we have light drizzle hanging around through the metro area. This is going toiling foreawhile. To linger, for awhile. The rain is going to linger off to the south. If you have been with us, i have been tracking the rain, staying to the south. But now i switched computer models to show you the discrepancies through tomorrow. Clouds will remain. Temperatures are going to drop and we do see a couple of snow flurries out there through the West Virginia area. This model likes to bring a little snow through the area, south of 66, even a rain snow mix east of i 95. Some models saying not a chance. We are going to leave it in the forecast for now. It does move out pretty mast. Well see pretty fast. Well see High Pressure return and sunshine stick around wednesday and thursday. Today will be the warmest day of the work week or holiday week. 42 to 49, rain for the south, mostly cloudy skies. Tomorrow a slight chance of the snow and rainshower. Anything that would develop, no accumulations possible. By wednesday looking at sunshine, it sticks around for thursday. Well get to 44 by friday. Warmer this weekend with rain again. Allison, this morning, things are looking really great for a monday. Not too many troubles on the beltway. We still have a new report rather of an incident of a car disabled, center lane 210 northbound between palmer road. As you can see, here again the beltway through Prince Georges County not too much of a problem. That is only going to be an issue for you this morning, well look at sky 9. They are looking at the drive on the new express lanes on 95. Everything looks fantastic there, very light volume on this monday. Dont forget to bring your ez pass or bring a few friends. You have to qualify for hov 3. Elsewhere no reports of troubles, 395 headed into town via the 14th street bridge. Thank you so much for waking up with us on this here you go. Wow thanks get a free beverage in any size for enrolling in dd perks, and start earning points towards more rewards with every purchase. Join today for a free beverage on us. America runs on dunkin. People of the coffeedrinking world, dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right, for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. In the news right now, dc police are investigating a shooting this morning. Two men are dead. It happened just before 10 00 last night in the 1300 block of southern avenue southeast near United Medical center. Police say they found two men, one inside a car and one outside. Both fatally shot. Both victims were pronounced dead on the scene. Today a wake will be held for a teacher aide who was stabbed to death. The 1yearold granddaughter of lily dale morris is charged. Services will be held at gary rollins funeral home today, then at Jackson ChapelUnited Methodist church. Several countries are taking part in a search if a plane that went missing. Airasia flight 8501 disappeared on its way from indonesia to singapore with 162 people on board. The pilot asked to climb to a higher altitude to avoid bad weather. The request was denied due to heavy air traffic. The plane is likely at the bottom of the sea. Five people are reported dead from a fire on board a greek ferry off the coast of al bania. One greek man died sunday after becoming trap in a lifeboat chute. 31 have been rescued so far. The fire started on the car deck of the Norman Atlantic as it traveled from greece early sunday. Back in the u. S. , several people remain hospitalized after a deadly fire at a Senior Living pardon me in san antonio, texas. Firefighters used ladders to rescue dozens of elderly residents to rescue residents. Some are being housed in a makeshift shelter. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Lava from a volcano on hawaiis big island is moving another 10 yards closer to a populated shopping center. Island volcano Officials Say the lava flow is about 60 yards from the about hoe amarket place, but it does not, at this point, pose an immediate threat to residents or businesses. The interview is expected to make 2. 8 million at the 331 independently owned theaters that have been showing it and online sales. Tracking some of the rain farther south. Elsewhere very light rain, just drizzle really and clouds will stick around. Highs today mid to upper 40s. Tomorrow a couple of showers possible, even snow farther south. 39 degrees. Wednesday and thursday, sunny but very cold to bring in the new year. The next chance for rain arrives next weekend but warmer. The hockey game is on new years day. That will be fun ys. Want to remind you the express lanes are open today and tolling does begin. You need your ez pass and a few friends to take the ride northbound 95 from stafford toward 395 today. Sky 9 has a live picture, im sorry, no sky 9 today. But they were tracking the drive northbound for you. Heres the outer loop of the beltway near New Hampshire avenue. No issues there for you. Free and clear everybody moving at speed this morning. If you are going to take the new express lanes on 95, make sure you have your ez pass. And a friend. Cbs this morning is coming up next. They are going to tell us why several pakistani officials are eitherring upset about homeland. Have a great day, everybody. Happy monday. If you want it go out and get it good morning. It is monday december 29th 2014. Welcome to cbs this morning. New includeclues in the search of flight 8501. Deborah hirshman takes us inside the investigation. Targeting l. A. Police officers on patrol. Plus a scathing review on the hit series homeland from the pakistani government. Why theyre so upset. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Crews spotted debris in the water off in