the presidential candidates are on a mad dash across iowa today. with a whole of host in his favor, all eyes are on mitt romney. tahman bradley is tracking the latest for us from washington. tahman, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, sunny and dan. this weekend is the final push for the republicans in iowa. there will be plenty of campaign events and plenty of negative ads. all while mitt romney, the new front-runner in iowa, tries to come up with a strong finish. the republican presidential candidates will spend new year s weekend hunting for votes. hoping their campaign pops champagne in iowa. mitt romney is riding high. i feel like breaking into 76 trombones. i will not do that right now. i m not that good of a singer. reporter: the latest gallup poll shows the former massachusetts governor leads the polls nationally. newt gingrich is following in four points. since early december, romney is up 5%. gingrich, rying to close t romney s trying to close t
thank you. laney lebeau sacks said she expected schaefer to spend another day or two in the hospital before being released. we ll have more coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. a teenager is charged as an adult with a violent attack on his own grandmother. 14-year-old hassani garrett is charged with assault. the victim, shirley garrett, is in critical condition. investigators say the teen struck his grandmother several times with the hammer while she slept because he was angry over the way she treated him. police were called. and he confessed. he is being held without bail. highway tragedy. two young people killed while watching an illegal street race in baltimore. mike hellgren has the latest from the baltimore county courthouse. the defendant, donnell rayburn has scars from the accident. he has took the stand this morning. he said he had no recognition of the incident that could land him behind bars for years. reporter: the deadly scene unfolded near the park and ride. prosecu
party. it s our big royal exclusive. and double trouble. the babbling of the babies this morning. good morning, america. boy, you know, we ve been giving sam a hard time all week long about this storm coming and now it s just about here. sam is not here, he got out of here because we re giving him a hard time. does not feel like the last day of march at all. also, a case of bad sportsmanship. a tennis pro player s meltdown. he aimed the ball in the stands aimed at a crying baby in the stands. i love this story out of california. one romeo to serenade his potential prom date in class. the storm headed for the northeast. sam is down in atlanta and has the latest this morning. good morning, sam. hey, robin. yeah, we re down in atlanta for great stuff. let s get to the boards. there s one or two things going on for the mid-atlantic or the northeast, this is a snowmaker. already eight states have gone to warnings this morning. there will be more than 6 inches, in som
fur we are expecting a lot of clouds and rain to return. a few leftover showers aross the area. you can see the green there into southern new jersey and eastern delaware. it is generally out of here. later today, we ll see some of the showers redevelop as the system will be very slow to exit over the next couple of days. other story, temperatures, it is cool out there. 38 at reagan national. 36 at dulles. 34 in hagerstown. so cold in winchester, we re not getting a number. 46degrees your daytime high. another day where we re socked in the clouds. i ll have more in a minute. an opening day commute anterior letter. getting to and from the washington nationals game today on metro will be just a little bit crowded. metro is predicting standing room only on green line trains. expect heavier crowds at the west entrance from the navy yard station because it is one block from the stadium. tony perkins and dave ross will join us live coverage from nationals park beginning in our 6
virginia. winter weather advisory until about 10:00. but at the surface, road temperatures are above freezing. around the bay, lower eastern shore, virginia, tidewater in the low to mid-40s this morning. so a bit milder. steady rain has moved off to the north and east and behind that, lingering drizzle and fog. but we ll have another area of low pressure forming that will likely give us more rain later this afternoon. there is the light fog over cherry blossoms still at peak. patchy drizzle that may affect the game at nationals. i ll have your first pitch forecast and we ll look at your night planner. more changes on the way. that will be at 6:11. authorities are dealing with an accident on the inner loop of the beltway just before you get to new hampshire left side of the roadway is tied up and now you can see on the inner loop there are delays beginning just after university boulevard. again the accident inner loop. northern virginia along 395, no worries so far. just vol