i was in awe. i could barely keep my eyes on the game. the president heads back to the court after getting hurt and a basketball game. plus, terror plot foiled. a portland teenager tried to detonate a bomb at a christmas tree lighting ceremony but the fbi intervened at. black friday, part 2, people filling the ball looking for big discounts, but are they purchasing? abc 7 news starts now. good evening. i am pamela brown. the president obama made his first public appearance since getting stitches. he and first lady michelle obama and their daughters attended the how word state ohoward university against oregon state basketball game. i imagine the crowd was surprised to see the president tonight. that is right, they were extremely surprised. even though the secret service survey the school tuesday and brought out metal detectors today, it was still a mystery of the president would attend. three minutes before the game started, the entire first family walked in. like th
my birthday is coming up. show it to us. wow. and the come monday theme we re getting from come common theme we re getting from shoppers and retailers is they re spending more. reporter: even recently opened stores are cashing in. several thousand dollar purchases being made within the same hour. reporter: high-tech items always hot. we came down to get some flees at l. l. bean but when you re next to the apple store you go in there. people are spending more money. seem happy. everybody s good. makes you happy. makes me very happy. reporter: at tyson s corner center, armando trull, 9 news now. while many were at the mall, many took advantage at helping the small business owner during this busy holiday season. residents at grace maryland say it s important to keep spending money locally. there will be needs to go to the big stores, but also as you re going through the process of buying this year, think local first. hometown america is starting to
rushed over. she got hit in the head. they needed help. i go to help. i noticed those people. reporter: people who know them say the chinese couple walked out here every morning. the bicyclist ran right into them and kept on going. i saw the bike man. he was riding fast. he was riding very fast from the street. he was gone. reporter: these incidents may be rare, but in february of 2007, a man was struck and killed by a cyclist while walking across new hampshire avenue near second street northwest. the couple when yesterday s accident was taken to howard university hospital. their son issued a statement saying thank you to the bystanders who helped my parents after the accident. i hope the public will help police find the bicyclist responsible. the guy, the bike guy, i do anything to catch him. because i know those people. they re a nice couple. they don t bother nobody. they say good morning. reporter: in northwest, surae chinn, 9 news now. sue chu was tre
working on stopping the suspect for months. a 19-year-old soli-born.s. citizen. brian moore has that report. eporter: thousands of smiling faces jammed portland s pioneer square friday evening unaware they were the intended targets of a massive car bombing. 19-year-old mohammed osman mo h hammud triggered the bombing. the suspect believed it was a real device. reporter: court documents showed that the sting was in the months in the making. he told them that he had been drinking of a violent jihad since he was 15 years old. the individual that was arrested because he chose portland because it was the place where this stuff doesn t happen. reporter: while the bomb wasn t real, mohammed s intentions were real. he said he wanted whoever is attending that event to leave either dead or injure brian moore, nbc news washington. mohammed is expected to make his first court appearance monday. if convict ted, he faces life i prison. the united states and south koa are still p
fox 5 news at 6:00 starts right now. cold and windy, that about sums up the conditions outside. if you are heading out tonight, be sure to bundle up. will we hit the freezing mark? are those cold temps here to stay? gwen tolbart has the details. you have given very good advice. bundle up definitely. another cold night ahead. it was cold last night. some of the neighborhoods did see overnight lows in the 20s. repeat performance tonight. cert composite, we have sadr composite, we have satellite and radar composite. here is a look at the current wind gust. we had strong wind gusts today. 31 miles per hour gusts at dulles. 28 martinsburg. 20 at national and 22 at baltimore. if you take a look at the current temperatures, you can see we are in the 30s. a couple of 40s in most of the locations pretty much everywhere. 36 at gaithersburg. we have 41 at d.c. 38 baltimore and 38 at dulles. let s put together the winds and temperatures. windchills and right now it feels like 28 de