colder and getting colder, coldest night of the season here and the wind is going to blow the next several hours. um. and warmer by the weekend, though, and doesn t help me now. get inside, mr. gary, see you soon. thank you. a lost us support us your photos. can you upload yours on our website, www.myfoxdc.com. we have a link on our home page. it s finally here, the first primary of the 2012 presidential election takes place. the iowa caucuses get underway at 8:00 our time and the republican candidates spent the day making the final push in the hawkeye state. craig bosswell is live with the details. craig. reporter: good evening to you, brian. it s game time. republican presidential candidates are using every final seconds of the final moments to win over support here in iowa. tonight, it boils down to turnout. it s a political conversation in the hawkeye state. in the final hours, the words can get harsh. iowans are picking the leader they believe is most in line w
to be encountered throughout the evening. back to you on tv hill. thank you, captain mike perry, in sky eye chopper 13. let s go to bern sweet bernadette woods. reporter: well, the scattered showers continue to come down from the northwest. and temperatures are below freezing. this is what we re seeing. a lot of it starting to die down with that sun setting. you can see a few snow showers coming down from the northwest. and then it releases and moves on. we ll see a few more of these in the next few hours before things start to settle. here, the gusty northwest bringing in the cold air right now. and they re also bringing in the snow showers right now. really scattered about, some people seeing nothing at all. some seeing it there. it s down 25 degrees. across the state, we are below freezing. that s why anything falling is laying. when you factor in the winds, it feels like 15 in baltimore. minus 4 in oakland. look at the recent look at the recent swing in our temper
money using a stolen atm card. now police are sending out a strong word of caution. anything that doesn t seem normal to you. kind of moping around. anyone that may be looking like they are staking out a house or out of place, give us a call. this is serious. back out live. take another look at the woman that is being questioned by police. they believe she is somehow linked to this group of burglars that is running around cheverly, ripping people off. police are asking anyone to give them a call. we are live in cheverly. 9news now. thank you ken. police in gaithersburg are hoping you can help find a missing teenager. take a moment to look at this picture. jennifer burago was last seen monday on duval lane. she has been known to hang out at lake forest mall and the london dairy apartments. if you have seen jennifer, call police. an update on the murder of a popular local rapper. the death of franklin is shake fans from his home in white oak, maryland, all the way to
a bigger event will come later this afternoon. the national weather service has issued of flash flood watch for the entire area through this evening. temperatures in the 60 s. here is a look at our futurecast. showing heavy rain on the way as we move into overnight hours. let s get an update on this morning s commute of foggy and wet start. very busy outside particularly for maryland commuters. we have had our share of accidents. the outer loop between connecticut avenue and rockville pike. three lanes are getting by to the left. we ll have more, but now to the news desk. 6:01. a third national guard member died after yesterday s shooting spree at an ihop in carson city, nevada. a man opened fire on national guard soldiers eating breakfast. two other guard members and another person died. authorities still do not know why the gunmen went on that shooting spree. the 32-year-old eduardo sencion shot and killed himself. his family said that he had been dealing with mental
for several days. the ground is saturated. creeks, streams and rivers are on the brink of flooding. let s get to howard with more details. j.c., not just the last few days but the last few hours, the rains have really come down. the skies are opened up. flood warnings are in effect until 2:30 through most of the metro from washington down to fredericksburg up toward baltimore. let me show you the graphic. the dark green area, the flood watches in effect until midnight. the light green areas in charles county, into prince william and fairfax and stafford down to fredericksburg including alexandria and arlington, d.c., prince george s county up through howard, baltimore and carroll counties, all of those places under flash flood warnings until 2:30. the concern is the heavy rains that have been going north. look at the lightning through d.c. and baltimore. the heavy rains keep raining. they re going over the same areas. we ve been seeing rainfall rates of up to two inches an