forgetful burglar who jumped out of a window to escape but left his cell phone plugged into a wall. good evening. i m jim vance. and i m doreen gentzler. it s easy to make light of the story now if but if that clerk had forgotten his phone ten families might have never recovered. darcy spencer joins us from the police substation in wheaton maryland, maryland, with the story. darcy? reporter: doreen, police are saying that this suspect is responsible for many, many burglaries here in montgomery county and he may have continued to get away with these crimes if it weren t for a power outage. i felt cold air coming through and there was glass all around down here. reporter: when this silver spring man came home from work last friday afternoon, he apparently startled a burglar who was upstairs in his mother s bedroom. he heard a crashing sound. the loud ruckus was him opening up my mom s bedroom window and jumping a good 17 feet, but which landed on ten inches of snow so
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his 15 minutes of game and get, we can only assume, some money. albert did not assault this man and looks forward to his day in court to refute these ridiculous allegations, end quote. the redskins are gathering information and will not comment further. we ll have team coverage tonight on news4 at 5:00. late developments now in the crisis in egypt. tens of thousands of anti-government protesters filled cairo s main square again today, demanding reform. the streets were mostly peaceful with only scattered clashes with pro government forces. in the international community, the calls for president hosni mubarak to step down are becoming more intense. the future of egypt will be determined by its people. it s also clear that there needs to be a transition process that begins now. the transition must initiate a process that respects the universal rights of the egyptian people, and that leads to free and fair elections. more now from nbc s richard engel in cairo. reporter:
police say he left his cell phone in a house he was robbing. officials say the homeowner came home and surprised cody wilkins. cody took off, allegedly didn t have time to grab the cell phone that was plugged in, charging. so now he s charged in ten burglaries. so we were just talking about the snow in the midwest, but they re not the only ones who got slammed. the northeast is dealing with snow fatigue. in fact, i would call it exhaustion. check out this mess caught on camera. i mean, this is a worry for a lot of people. if you ve got a foot, two feet of snow on your roof, it weighs a lot. plus, more trouble for actress lindsay lohan, and this time it doesn t involve drugs nor alcohol. hot on the web today, in one of the hottest topics on google, a mystery ufo in jerusalem. the mystery ball of light drops below the rocks and then shoots off. an american tourist wasn t really that impressed.
a huge drop from yesterday afternoon. those winds continuing to whip up out of the northwest bringing in the cold weather and the windchills in the teens right now. and over the last 12 hours, a few high clouds drifting over us. we ll have sunshine today in it and out and we will have temperatures climbing above freezing by late morning and by then the winds should diminish and during the afternoon reach the mid-30s and we ll have our s sunrise at 7:30 and sunsets getting later. spring must be coming. overnight, a few clouds but right back down below freezing so so watch out for more ice. starting off tomorw morning with temperatures in the low 20s. a look into the weekend at 6:11. how is traffic? we re jamming up very quickly big time now. live pictures of i-95 northbound as you had come up from at least route 123 and going to be in jammed up traffic as we reported. authorities with your reporting an extent 95 northbound involving a dump truck near the enter change at rout