what is new year s witho a million of your close friends to celebrate with. that s about how man people packed newark s times square to watch the ballrop at midnigh millions more around the world watched it on tv. crews workedround the clock leading up to the drop to reve more than 20 inch of snow from last ekend s blizzard. it was all worth it to see the ball lit with over 32,000 l.e.d. lights. perhaps mst amazing part cleanup crews will havell that confetti up by now. check out las vegas. seven separate casinos shot off fireworks at the stroke of midnight and an eight minute show illinated the strip. celebrities enteained the crowd. around the world hong kong celebrated the first day of 2011 by trying toreak a world record for the larst lion dance organizs sd 00 people dressed up in costumes for this prayed. singapore hds the current record for a lion dance with 353 participants back in qute. the new year, of course, wasn t all about celebrations. police in d.c., mary
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right? no, it s not in the teens. it s still pretty cold by december stand no howling wind. just plain cold. we ll be able to deal with this pretty effectively. not much in the way of sunshine. tperatures to get your saturday morning under way, mostly in the 20s this morning as you look live over washington, sky that s becoming increasingly cloudy first thing this morning. downtown temperature 25 degrees. i stand corrected. there are some teens on the map this morning. they are just not here in town. 25 in washington. 18 now in prince george s county. necessary numbers have body out in the last hour or o. nobody below20 degrees t hours ago. 16 in culpeper. 10 in manassas. you folksin prince william and fauquier counties, very chilly start. there s a couple of snowflakes. there s achance to see some snow flurries. nothing in the way of accumulation. people get nervous when they see snowflakes on the radar. not a big deal but enough to whitened the ground primarily south of w
down. breaking news out of d.c. this morning. a deadly ending to a house party overnight. lice say shots that were fired left one man dead and four others hurt. that shooting happened on 14th street near s street in southeast. we go live now the scene where derrick ward joins us. we understand that an suv may be a part of tis investigation? reporter: indeed it was. it s just been towed away from the scene a short time ago. i want to step out of the way and let you take a look. thiss the scene of the shooting where five people, one fatally earlier this morning. now it was about 2:34his morning police say when shots ra out here near the intersection of 14th street and ridge place in soueast. three people were struck in an suv at least three people were struck in an suv possibly four. that truck, again, has since been towed away. now the victims were found near or in the car and the victim who died was found in the vehicle as well. poli say it stemmed from a house party that
and streets slic with rain. most locations above freezing and low to mid 40s in the mountain regions, as well as the bay. and southeastern virginia over the last 12 hours, the rain system moving in. coming in out of the north and west. and other areas of in in ohio, indiana, down throu illinois and parts of michigan. and if you are heading into western pennsylvania toward pittsburgh, may run into slee maybe even wet ow at the higher elevations east of pittsburgh. for us, looks like a wet morning. sprinkles, a few passing showers, and over the next couple of hours, sleet mixing in west and north of washington, by noon time, 50 degrees. hover near 50 through the afternoon. cloudy for the thanksgiving afternoon and through the evening, upper 40s and cloudy. by dawn tomorrow, starting off on friday, t again. a look at friday, saturday, sunday, in ten nutes. a little road spray kicking up in clarksburg. volumewise, light to morate around the area. no big deals to report. over in v