For now get your weekend out the door and off to a cool start. Temperatures generally in the 30s but some colder 20s on the map. 26 in martinsburg. 37 fredericksburg. Plenty of sunshine today. Off to a chilly start but abundant sunshine for your saturday afternoon. High around 53 degrees. The maryland terapins hosting Florida State in college park. Its a noon kickoff, nice and sunny. 50 degrees in college park. Want to see your game on tv . Send me a note chuck. Bell nbc. Com and tell me who is playing, when, and where. Ill put on as many as i can in the 9 00 hour. New this morning one person is dead after a double stabbing at a metro station in northwest d. C. It happened just after 1 00 at woodly park station. Police say they found two men stabbed, one in the chest, one in the face. The man with the chest wound died. The knife was found on the metro tracks. Police say they have five people in custody. There is a whole new way to get around today in Northern Virginia. Take a live look
Supply. Today is saturday, november 17th, 2012. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill. Many of you may be in mourning this morning for the twinkie. Or the snowball. Or the ding dong or the hoho. You know, they overlook snowball. That was your snack of choice . And . And, its good. Its like sugarized rubber. The point is it was fun. You havent had these recently until this morning . Not since i was 11. The memory was better. I didnt realize this was chocolate on the inside, actually. The company that made them is going iowa way. It is. A lot of people understandably very upset about that. Not sure whether all the twinkie jokes will have to go away as well. I think they can stay. Later, theres a lot of hard news to cover this morning, including whats happening in the middle east. Rockets are flying between gaza and israel, wi
Strategic reasons. The move was to avoid letting terrorist agencies know they were hot on their trail. He was asked if his resignation at any impact on his testimony, and he said no. Basically, his resignation had nothing to do with the benghazi issue. The attacks still could have and should have been thwarted the staff better protected, some say, and they insist that calls for increased security should have been heeded. They add to our ability to make judgments about what is clearly a failure of intelligence. David petraeus added in telling lawmakers that security was so lax, protesters literally walked in and set fire to the consulate. Thank you. More information on the two women at the center of the petraeus scandal. Apparently they made visits to the white house. Paula broadwell with whom he admitted having an affair, was at the white house twice in 2009 and 2011. And jill kelley, the woman who began the investigation that led to petraeuss investigation, was at the white house. Nei
One thing weve been seeing time and time again is gaza is densely populated. Even when israel tries to carry out precision strikes as it claims, it ends up affecting the civilian population who bears a bankrupt of the air strikes. So people are very much concerned that in the coming days, the situation could worsen. They say that the fact that israel has amass eed thousands soldiers on this territory is an ominous sign a Ground Invasion is imminent. Supplies are dwindling for the population as gaza is still a territory very much under siege. Its difficult to get basic supplies in and out. Nbc news, gaza. Nbc nightly news with Brian Williams will have more on the escalating violence. Team coverage is coming up at 7 00 tonight right after this broadcast. Today, former cia director David Petraeus told lawmakers what he knows about the attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. He said the Intelligence Committee chose not to disclose the al qaeda connection to the attack, in order to avoid
Toll road to springfield. News 4s derrick ward is live near the Leesburg Pike entrance in tysons corner. Good morning. Reporter good morning. What we can tell you and this has to be confirmed by Virginia State police, that it looks like the accidents, at least one, might have been inadvertent into the new express lane based on what we have, the information a car started out on the regular part of the roadway but ended up in the express lanes. Nonetheless, there is still a learning curve now as we get into the new era of having the express lanes. I want to show you some of the video from earlier. These lanes opened up at about 2 00 a. M. This morning now and the design is and the plan is to sort of monitor traffic and manage the traffic in a way so as the planners say your commute should not get under 45 Miles Per Hour even during rush hour. We showed you video, actually adam tusk was out driving yesterday and joining me now is pierce coffee with trans urban the group that operates this