Today and january 3rd. That is one in every three americans. Tonight,a a busy, busy night to fly out. Now, you know, it is a pretty good day overall for all three airports. Here we caught up with volunteers who overrer their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. Reporter over their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. We love helping people. They are so grateful. That is the nice thing about this job. We occasionally get hard problems but most of our job is happiness. Reporter travelers flock to jerry and roberta with questions from lost luggage to lost loved ones. We locate a lot of lost grandmothers here. Especially the holiday time. [ laughter ] reporter he is a fixture here for 22 years. Somewhat most of what we do is just [audio connection ] she calls herself with a newcomer with six years of volunteering at the airport. Two problems that happen here as they go to the wrong airport they think there is only one airport in all of washington or they think we are dallas. [ laughter ] yes. The travelers volunteers help passengers get to where they thought they landed. Dallas, texas. They say many had nights booked by International Travel agents. Oh, dear your flight was canceled . Yes. Their flight was canceled and they got us a Hotel Tonight and leaving tomorrow morning. Reporter they were in good spirits. Despite the cancellation of their flight. Getting mad does not help. We saw people upset and mad and did not change anything. Dont you love their attitude . Reporter again, all airports faired well today compared to the rest of the country. According to night aware there were more than 4,000 delays and about 400 cancellations. Reporting live, back to you. Got to keep your patience there for sure. If you have to travel by train, amtrak has a program in place that has been popular with travelers on sell ebgt routes you can bring your small dog or cat select routes you can bring your small doing or cat along. Turning to donald trump, going into the holiday with a solid lead jwhile his closest rival is lashing out at the washington post,. Reporter the washington post, retracted this cartoon depicting ted cruzs children as monkeys, it was based on his political ad that spotlighted the candidates 2 daughters. Dont be attacking 5year old girls. That has no place in pole techs. Reporter the Cruz Campaign quick low turn today it intos fundraising event. Asking supporters for instant emergency contributions totally 1 million in 24 hours. Cruz is enjoying a surge but a new cnm poll shows him at a cnn poll shows him at a distant 2nd. It is turning more and more into a 2man race between donald trump and me. Trump defended his use of a word against hillary clinton. She was favored to win and she got [beep] she lost, she lost. He said it is a word frequently used in pole ticks to say beaten badly. His bluster, bullying are his campaign. Clintons remarks echoed comments she made at a rally on tuesday. It is important to stand up to bullies wherever they are. And why we should not let anybody bully his way into the precedency. Her communication director tweeted the comments are degrading to all women. Meanwhile, ben carson tells the sorb kwraeted press that a shake up in his campaign is coming soon. No details on what it might be Associated Press that a shake up you in his campaign is coming soon. No details on what it might be. Now, a wave of bombing thought the city and elsewhere in iraq killed 15 civilians and left many more wounded. No one is claiming responsibility. Iraqi officials expect isis to blame. The remains of 6 americans killed in afghanistan are due to arrive at new Castle National air base in delaware today. Service members kneeled in front of their photos, guns, helmets during an emotional ceremony. They were killed when the taliban suicide bomber attacked their patrol on monday. Two of them have local ties. The accused gunman in a deadly shooting at a colorado planned Parent Office wants to represent himself. The 57yearold told a Colorado Springs judge that it was his constitutional right to defend himself. The judge recommended that he litch to the advise of his attorney instead and undergo a mental evaluation. Two people were killed, including a Police Officer and several others wounded. Travel was disrupted today. People demonstrated in of the terminal and blocked roads. Many left the planned rally at the mall of america was too disruptive. They were protesting to have the authorities release a video of a black man shot by the mess last month and later died. It was a packed house at an officers memorial blood drive. The officer was part of the Alcohol Task Force trying to stop drunk driving when he was fatally struck by a suspected drunk driver. Many people donated blood to save lives. They do it each year but never this busy. The county police chief was among those who donated. His name noah itself is continuing to save lives. It is phenomenal to see. Look around. You can not park outside. Is an hour wait is. A great way to raise awareness for this time of the year, especially, you know police do not drink and drive, be aware of those officers on the road, and consider giving blood. Does not take much and you could save a life. The chief says he is talking to states attorney about creating a Courtwatch Program that will help hold judges more accountable. Standing room only today at a church for the funeral of a man who died. Hundreds packed the church for the farewell for the 20year old business student. He was killed last week in a headon crash. The other driver was charged with dui and reckless driving. Those charges have been dropped while prosecutors consider more serious charges tonight. A woman accused of crashing her car into crowds of people on the vegas strip appeared in court today. The 24yearold was arraigned on thursday, child abuse, felony hit and run charges. She does not enter a plea and will remain in jail. Her threeyearold daughter was in that car but was not hurt. A lawyer described her as distraught and overwhelmed. The driver of a walmart truck has been charged with manslaughter, vehicular homicide, third degree aggravated assault. The crash on the new jersey turnpike killed one of the vans passengers and left comedian morgan seriously injured. He had not slept for 28 hours before that crash. A shop owner shot while trying to stop a robbery. A 4 1 2yearold missing for five days, how a local family was reunited with their loved one. Up next, Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer fires his weapon. 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Developing in Prince Georges County tonight. A man is in custody following a fight with a county Police Officer. The officer was called to court in Fort Washington for a suspicious car. The officer approached the vehicle and following a fight the officer fired at the suspect. He missed. The man drove off. A few hours later the police found him hiding in the neighborhood. The officer was not hurt and now on routine leave per protocol. The police are searching for a robber who shot a Computer Store owner today. It happenedda at the computer and cellular store off of richmond happened at the computer and cellular store off of the highway. A man walked if inwearg a covering over his face. He showed the two store owners guns and grabbed a laptop and walked out. One of them tried to top him. Fell to the floor and the robber shot him, shot him in the hand. The suspect fled towards richmond highway. Our officers, k9,a patrol, everyone is looking for the suspect right now. The victim was transported with nonlifethreatening injuries. The police have not released a description of that suspect. Coming up next, a virginia discover the world animals, seen those before but sometimes they do it on their own mmm foot wow food for giants oooo no wonder no one has eaten this sandwich kids discover the world with their mouths detergent is harmful if swallowed, so keep laundry pacs up and away from children brought to you by tide busy night for firefighters in Prince Georges County. Fighting 3 house fires within 6 hours late yesterday. One of the cases the Family Living on billings place lost their dog. That fire a peers to have started in the kitchen and caused extensive damage. A fire on balboa avenue and capitol hits started in a utility closet. And a 5. The causes of all three fires have not yet been determined. Prince georges fire tweeted out a photo that tammy ward thanking the firefighters at the west hills station on good luck road by presenting them a holiday basket. Wards home was on 3rd street and seriously damaged by a fire back if october. An early christmas miracle for a family. They just wanted their family together but did not think it would happen after their 4 1 2yearold disaed. Reporter a long day disappeared. Reporter a long day for us. Her dad took their dog to the place to get the dog cleaned up. My dad was checking in and he dropped the leash and the dog got out nothey grew up with him. He is part of our family. Now, jenny and michael had a chip implanted in him for a moment just like this. But it still required [lost audio connection ] Facebook Post was shared thousands of times and then they got desperate. Even paying a doing tracker 1,000 to help. A dog, a golden retriever was able to track mason leaving the store, going across the parkway. Reporter 5 days later a miracle happened. A jogger noticed a golden retriever in the middle of will the jogging path. That jogger remembered an e mail she received from a company asking everyone to be on the lookout for mason. Someone was taking their morning jog at the marina and we got a phone call that a nice woman found him. Reporter and that is how christmas came early for one family. No one knows for sure where mason was for five days but he was found blocks away from where his journey first began. Into now, mason looked tired, dirty, hungry but checked out okay. Doing great today. I am told he received new toys and will be sleeping in his owners bed tonight. That is one lucky dog and one lucky family. Yes. Right . Yes. The dog dad i know, if i lose a dog i better not come home. Awful us with dogs, what lengths would you go to, just like this family, right . Yes. My dog is chipped. Yes, same here, same here, absolutely. That can be the difference between getting your dog back and not. Weatherwise, not the prettiest day at all. A lot of clouds around here. The temperatures around here as warm as they have been. They may get warmer. A a lot of warm air flooding northeast. Incredible amounts actually. Looking at the rain here. The key here, well is lightning showing up southwest of richmond and south of atlantic city. They are moving passed i81. I think it is a couple more hours and we can still see heavier downpours coming through. A little bit of a lull now. Showers returning towards month tkpwopl row and western fairfax. Everything moving to the montgomery and western fairfax. Everything moving to the east. Now, all of this, yellow here, mod rat to heavy rain that are pushing towards fredericksburg. Now, it will be out there in just a few minutes here at 6 34 and washington just passed 7 00. Between 7 00 and 8 00, heavy downpours going down later this evening. The temperatures, 50s, 60s, down to 63. At least 64 and 65. Yes, they keep rising now. Now, out to the valley, winds up tonight. I dont think we will see the fog tonight. Now, tomorrow, we are going to break those records, 65 in baltimore. 69 in d. C. Now, middle 70s thanks to the monster storm all thanks to the tornadic activity. We have had tornadoes hitting the ground. The rain it will continue to come our way. We will have on and off showers here for the next several days. Tonight, lower it to middle 60s, breezy, mild, south winds, 1015. Tomorrow morning in the 60s, a few showers might even get a rumble of that you knower again tomorrow morning, i am being in the afternoon, nower showers, not a yellow alert day. Just for a few more hours this evening. 68 to 76. That is about 30 above average. As we head towards the forecast, a few showers friday, warm, 70, side, cooler. Now, sunday, another record breaker forecasting a high around 74. And then here is cooler, damp weather starting next week. Ed with, finally dry and still above average in the mid wednesday, finally dry and still above averages in the middle 60s. Beginning of the season, no way, now, everyone is on board. Washington is gearing up for saturdays divisionclinching match up against fill fill. Coming up, we will hear from a pro bowler on the big game and get your ears ready for the song stylings of Maryland Athletic Department. Cant afford to let heartburn get in the way . Try nexium 24hr, now the 1 selling brand for frequent heartburn. Get complete protection with the new leader in frequent heartburn. Thats nexium level protection. Iits just a cough. Ur cough, youd see how often you cough all day and so would everyone else. New robitussin 12 hour delivers fast, powerful cough relief that lasts up to twelve hours. New robitussin 12 hour cough relief. Because its never just a cough. Now, wusa9 game on sports. Brought to you by xfinity. Washington team is one, just one game away from clinching the title. Now, they win and they are in but they have on beat the eagles first on saturday night. Lineman, williams is ready to go. Number 71 was selected to his 4th straight pro bowl, the only one from the team. The 4th overall pick of the 2010 is in his 5th season as captain. Two others were selected as alternates. We have more from the practice facility where individual aclaids do not mean so much this year, making the playoffs, does. It is humbling to know that your peers look at you in a certain light. It shows you that the hard work and dedication. Reporter a big honor for williams, 4th Straight Year the left tackle is going it to the pro bowl. He says his focus it this week is not about going to honolulu in a couple of months it is about getting the w against the the eagles. They still have playoff asperations as well. This game is just as big for them as it is for us. A short work woke but the redskins faced the eagles, a victory over philly at fedex field back in october helps them prepare for the eagles. At redskins park, back to you. Stay with us we will have a crew in philadelphia for the huge game on saturday. Frank, by the way. And you can watch the game right here. Coverage begins with a special hourlong saturday Night Edition of game on followed by skins eagles at 8 25. Now, you are near with this. Sports franchises on the professional and College Level taking delight in retelling holiday stories or singing well known songs. Here now for your listening pleasure, university of Maryland Athletic Department laying down tracks to the classic frosty the snowman [singing] [ laughter ] yes. Better on the court or the field or wherever than there. It turned into a rap song or something. They were all doing that. Yes, having a lot of fun with it. Good thing they have athletic skills. [ laughter ] i said it, i said it. Now, a look at the weather. Wet, drier overnight. A shower, a storm, record setting 74. Warm on friday. More records on sunday and back in the 50s above average on monday and tuesday with showers. Wow, can not believe how warm it is. I love that tie, too. Yes. That is for you. Thank you. That is all for us. Cbs evening news is next. We will be back witurh yo its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. Is giving you more. Americas bestselling brand the ford holiday sales event. With 0 financing for 60 months on 2015 f150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. 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