The first licensed dispensaries that opened since friday are almost out of the raw part of the marijuana plant. Maryland wholesale medical Cannabis Trade Association says it will take 90 days before growers can fully meet that supply. While Medicinal Marijuana is now legal in maryland, Michael Quanders shows how there is stigma for some people who use it. Reporter when this opened up over the weekend this lobby was crazy. It was packed. Things are quieting down now. You can see a Security Guard in the lobby. People we talked to yesterday were shy to go on camera. They didnt want to talk about using medical marijuana because of the stigma. Inside these doors today we found a different story. I have been waiting for years. Now it is there. It is fabulous. Reporter for paul, this was a longtime coming. He says his prostate and Tongue Cancer can be hard to deal with. I have to go through an eightweek radiation five days a week. Chemo one day a week. Reporter the 65yearold says medical marijuana will help. Pain, sleep, a lot. Reporter it is a big deal for him and others battling illnesses in maryland. For some there is a sense of shame when it comes to pot, even if it is medical. I would not dare be seen talk about marijuana. I think a lot of people would think, because you are smoking or not smoking or you have a medical condition, you are smoking because you want to get high. I know it is murky for some people. Reporter james is the store manager in maryland. He recognizes this is no california and no colorado more normalized. This is very new. We are very aware of that. Thats where the education comes into play. This may help me get through cancer without going to opioids. Reporter if you are interested in medical marijuana you cannot just walk right in. First you have to be diagnosed with a qualifying condition. Then your doctor has to recommend that you actually use medical marijuana. Last step, you have to register with the state to get a card. Reporting in bethesda tonight Michael Quander wusa 9. 16 million american women use some kind of birth control. A new large, danish study says, like the older pills, hormonal contraceptives raise the risk of Breast Cancer. Women under 50 who recently used hormonal contraceptives have a 20 higher risk of Breast Cancer compared to women who never ushe the longer the contraceptives were in use. Some people taking the hormonal contraceptives may worry if they should stop. Just talk to your doctor. The flu season is gaining speed across the u. S. Cdc says flu activity is higher than usual in georgia, louisiana, massachusetts and oklahoma report widespread activity. Five children died. 560 people ended up in the hospital. In our area flu activity in virginia and washington, d. C. Is sporadic. It hasnt increased. In maryland the flu level is local. Which means it increased. Hundreds of metro workers were protesting nine bus routes in virginia. For the first time in metros 40 year history private manager and operate existing metro bus routes from the new cinder road facility. The union says privatization lead to relaxed standards. Moving in that direction is bad for the publics safety. Winner of the bid to operate will be able to set standards for safety, wages and work rule. We are workers we are workers listen to us. Let us have a voice in the work that we do. Georgetown graduate students rallied on campus after the university refused to recognize a labor union. The policy applies to them because they are workers. The school says that policy their activities Like Research and teaching which is educational. Still ahead on wusa 9, the number of Homeless People in the u. S. Is up for the first time in seven years. See the area where the problem is so bad folks are living in rvs on major streets. Should Sleeping Beauty be banned . Why one mother is calling for the movie to be removed from school. A little bit colder tonight downtown. Low temperatures stay above freezing. Everybody else is below freezing. 28 frederick. Stay with us. Well be right back. There is a mother who is concerned about the disney movie Sleeping Beauty. She lives in england. She is calling for the movie to be banned from her 6year old sons school. She said it includes inappropriate sexual behavior. Before you think she is nuts look at it and reconsider. She has a point. She believes the story is promoting Sexual Misconduct when the prince kisses an unconscious princess. She asked what it is teaching our kids. She said if we dont change narrative like this, we are never going to change attitudes towards sexual behavior. There is a weird christmas trend popping up on social media. It is called the upside down christmas tree. A tree at all i would be fine with. Some people want to know what the deal is. It turns out upside down trees are not a new thing. According to design website the spruce, upside down trees go back to the middle ages to celebrate the holy trinity. Target and lowes are promoting the trend to save floor space and make you dizzy. How do you water it . I mean they are not real. It cant be. It has to be the fake stuff. Maybe somebody has a real upside down tree. If you do facebook us and show us what you got. E passengers in holiday sweaters board early. December14th Alaska Airlines is celebrating ugly sweater day. Theyll let customers in festive sweaters board early. National ugly christmas sweater day is a thing. Especially around here. Dont we have a party . We are celebrating it on that thursday instead of a friday. We are getting a jump on it. We are trend setters here. It is celebrated each year on the third friday of december. Do you have your sweater . No. Well work on that. I have mine. It is not that ugly but i would not wear it any where. A College Professor is living in her car to avoid the high cost of rent. She is not the only one. Well take you inside the housing crisis in Silicon Valley up next. See how a virginia as a person who loves the finer things, this Holiday Season, ive asked for a luxurious new buick suv. fingers crossed. ring in the holidays with buick. Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats almost 7,400 on this Buick Enclave leather. Experience the new buick this Holiday Season for remaining 2017s. Crews in colorado rushed to rescue a teen trapped in an old mine shaft. I happened in golden. The teen was climbing in the shaft when his rope slipped and he fell down. Crews got him out after three hours. The teen has a leg injury. For the First Time Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, the u. S. Homeless population is growing. A government census earlier this year counted 554,000 Homeless People. It is so bad in Silicon Valley, people are living in rvs on major streets. We see how the high cost of housing is fueling the crisis. Reporter english professor penny is the kind of teachers whose job goes far beyond simple classroom instructions. I love it. I love my students. They drive me nuts. I love them. This is essay one. Reporter her campus at San Jose State University is located in the middle of Silicon Valley. Tech giants like google, facebook and apple have helped drive housing prices sky high. The housing takes up three quarters of my monthly income. I have to live in a car to teach here. Reporter three nights a week this is her routine. After her classes end she sets up camp in a Church Parking lot near campus. Her 65yearold husband, jim, cant work because of a back injury. When it comes time to grade papers her office is a 2004 volvo. Being homeless and trying to teach here is almost impossible. We are seeing people forced eater to move out of the area completely, fall into homelessness or find some way to make life work for them. Reporter tom myers runs a social Services Agency in mountain view. The home of google and the town at last count there are 300 rvs on the streets of mountain view. Some estimate there are a thousand all over Silicon Valley. Ten years ago we served 3,000 people. Today we are serving close to 10,000 people. Reporter housing experts say it is a problem of supply and demand. California officials estimate the state needs to build 180,000 new Housing Units each year to keep up with population growth. On average developers are building less than 80,000 per year. The result is a current gap of one and a half Million Units between families who need housing and rentals they can afford. Ellen has tried unsuccessfully to get teaching jobs elsewhere in the country. Even if she gets one picking up and moving wont be easy. Closer to home we are talking about snow. You are telling people to calm down. Dont use the salt yet. You probably wont see a yellow weather alert. If you are getting a tree on saturday, do it. When you are forecasting snow you have to figure out how cold is it above us . Once you nail that down, in this case it will fall as snow. How cold is the surface . Well, it is going to be warm. Lets start with the two models. American model on the left. European model on the right. It is like a heavyweight bought. Notice both models have shades of contour on top of us. That means little bit of snow. In the case of the euro, this has been the most aggressive all week. It was in the camp offshore. Then it came back. Again, these models were as if every flake counted. That would be great. I love that. But this is the first snow of the season. Ground temperatures are well above freezing. Surface temperatures will never get below freezing. There is not going to be much of accumulation. Heres our snowfall potential. This is the american model in greater detail. Again, i would not Pay Attention to the mums. Numbers. Will tell you it will snow but melt all day. Im not going to monkey around at that point. I think primarily well have snow in st. Marys county and charles county. The atmosphere is cold. Surface not so much. 4 right now. 46 right now. Winds southwest at 9. Theyll become northwest tonight. Heres all the moisture. Looks impressive when you see this. From the gulf of mexico. For the most part, this moisture trains off the coast. Then trains parallel to the coast. It gives us a glancing blow. A shift west and a time change to the snow. Two changes since we last saw you. Now it is further west. That means the snow will go further west. Leesburg to gaithersburg. You folks werent going to see anything yesterday. Critical times 4 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. On saturday. Date night is safe. Again, the surface temperatures above 32. Little or no accumulation. Temperatures will stay below average for a while. 44 tomorrow. 40 on saturday. 36 on sunday. Back to the mid 40s on monday. Low 40s on tuesday. 10 00 p. M. 36 gaithersburg. 42 downtown. By morning a lot of clouds to the south. 29 to start in hagerstown. In the mid 30s downtown. The clouds increase tomorrow. Day planner, mid 30s. 36 by 9 00. 38 by 11 00. 41 at 1 00. Saturday we have light snow. Temperatures are 40. 36 on sunday. Colder with flurries. More arctic air on wednesday. Upper 20s. Flurries tuesday, wednesday and thursday. What is in a name . For the burgandy and gold the real name some people say it is pain and racism. Well, this weekend an organization fighting for a name change will take petitions to ash burn. We sent Diane Roberts to find out where you fall on on the issue including fans on facebook live. I have called them their name all that time. I try hard not to because the native American Community, much of the native American Community said it is offensive to them. I wonder what you think of the well, i think it is offensive. I think they should change it. Im a season ticketholder. I have been going since i was ten years old. I do feel funny a lot when they start to sing the song. Sometime i sing and sometime i say you should not be singing this. The redskins is an icon of something that is beautiful. The native Indigenous Peoples of america, it is a celebration and a praise to them as who they are. Thats very interesting, your perspective is different than what i have heard. If we were to ask should they change their name . No. Mike says no. Should they change their name . Kim wilson, no. Here is the press release. Rebrand change the name to washington football headquarters. Thats this saturday. This is first december our rebrand washington football has delivered petitions to Team Headquarters since its founding in 2015. They have gathered over 5300 signatures in favor of changing the name. Trudy miller said if the name is offensive to native americans then yes. Do you think they should change the name . It is a racist issue. It is not appropriate. Coming up next, we are learning more about the gang members arrested in a series of raids across the d. C. Area. Up next, a virginia couple say the dogs they discovered were shot twice. Do you have a story or something you want us to verify . Tell us about it by emailing verify at wusa9. Com. Reporter after a day of black friday shopping jennifer and kyle came home to find something they didnt expect. As we were bringing in the bags they husband pointed out he saw a dog that was unattended. Reporter as he got closer thats when they noticed. She was done. Reporter the dog wasnt in good shape. Right away we noticed blood on the neck and head. She was shaking. It was 32 degrees. Reporter they took care of her until animal control was able to get involved. The dog saw an emergency vet. They later found the wounds were worse than they thought. They didnt find out she was shot twice until two days ago when the lumps were not going down. Reporter the 4yearold dog has a successful surgery. Now the couple wants to find out who did this and why. All they know is a chip traced the dog back to florida. Even that didnt help much. Never updated. Reporter the chip i. D. s her as shadow, the wounded dog. This black friday their best find found them. My husband is in love. I love her. She is a good dog. She has great life in her. So much spirit and so much life. Now the couple was picking the dog up from the Norfolk Animal Care Center today. Theyll continue to look for the owners. If no one comes forward they plan on keeping her. We begin with breaking news on capitol hill. On the same day senator al franken announced his resignation virginia senator tim cane is pressing for detail on the number and costs of Sexual Harassment claims against lawmakers and staffers and he expects to get it. Reporter good evening. We broke the news 20 minutes ago that we are going to know the total number of sexual harame each member of the United States senate in just a few days from now. That information is coming from u. S. Senator tim kaine of virginia. He told us the information in an interview. Well play a soundbite from the conversation an hour ago. You have to know three things, senator tim kaine wrote a letter to the office of compliance that referees the claims and watches these claims for the past few years now. Tim kaine wants to know three things. He wants to know how many claims have been filed against each member of the u. S. Senate, how many claims have been filed against each senators staff. He wants to know how much of our taxpayer money has been spent settling these claims . These claims are not settled by their own money. We, the taxpayers, pay up to settle the claims. Listen to our conversation a few minutes ago. You do anticipate these numbers to come out for the house. Would you be surprised if they dont me out. Im a u. S. Senator. Im entitled to the information. Im going to make sure the public gets it. Reporter he said that information matter of factly. He sent a letter to the office of compliance on capitol hill. He wanted to know the information. We started off our day going to the Office Asking when do you expect to get the information and what is the procedure for it to become public. He said he is not sure of the time frame on when well get the numbers of all the complaints filed against each senator at on capitol hill. He said that information is going to come out. It will be Public Information probably by the end of the year. Thats the latest reporting live on capitol hill. Thank you very much. A wave of