Abdicate in 600 years. For him to retire like that, you know, to me its like losing a father. Reporter the 85yearold cited fading health, saying in a statement i have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of my ministry. Vice President Biden is a practicing catholic. This is a man of great integrity and looking out for what he believes is the best interests of our church. I admire him for it. Reporter benedict used twitter, but had visibly slowed down as the papacy became more demanding, thanks in part to energetic predecessor john paul ii. New Yorks Cardinal Timothy Dolan on benedicts reaction. Almost, i dont know if im up to this, but with gods grace and mercy ill give it my best shot, and hes done it well for almost eight years. That is a man in the full possession of his physical powers is going to be needed. Reporter the college of cardinals will choose, a heavy responsibility says cardinal don dolan. Ill await instructions like everyone else. Reporter Pope Benedict says he steps down february 28th. Reporter theyll elect a new pope who will face something new, a living former pope looking over his shoulder. Isteve handelsman, news4. Thanks, steve. The archbishop of washington is one of the ten american cardinals who will vote on benedicts sikzor. Even can cardinal wuehrl was surprised. Reporter as you mentioned, among those caught offguard, the leader of catholic right here in the d. C. Area. None more surprised than Cardinal Donald wurl as he worked on his upcoming Ash Wednesday homily. I think its a sign of the great humility of this pope, and his love of the church an his courage. Reporter at this afternoons mass, the site of pope ben dibs visit in 2008, parishioners shared their reaction. I think the pope has done well and done what he should have done for us as long as he was in in these last eight years. I would hope his successor continues the same. I know that hes being led by the holy spirit. I know whatever hes doing, hes doing prayerfully with a lot of guidance from god. Reporter so cue the speculation. Vatican watchers already have a list of eight po stench 58 successors being circulated, names that include cardinals from africa to brazil. Stay tuned. Live in northeast, jim rolenfield, back to you. Theres no clear frontrunner to replace Pope Benedict. Peter turk sene is from ghana, the top candy from the african continent now the head of the vatican justice and peace bureau. Were told another candidate is matt litt. There are web sites up already placing odds on where people can bet on who the next pope will be. We have continuing coverage as Pope Benedict pretears to step down. We have reaction in about 15 anyones. Hesss just 14 years old, but tonight a month gopry county boy is charged as an adult. Police say he killed his 7 moral sister. He was baby sitting her. Tonight a warning you may find the details of this story to be upsetting. News4s pat collins is at the scene in white oak. Reporter doreen, its a case of murder. The victim a 7monthold baby girl, the suspect her teenage brother. Even prosecutor is moved. I think any parent whos ever had a child, or in my case grandchildren, knows how they things are tough, but as always, what will govern this case and where were going to go will be the affects. Reporter behind this apartment door, a 7monthold baby girl killed, charged as an adult in the murder, her 14yearold brother. According to court documents, the teenager confessed to beating the baby with hands, elbows and a belt. The teenager told police after the beating the baby was crying, so he placed his hand on the victims nose and mouth until she stopped. The baby was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Doctors got suspicious and called the police. They say the mother of the baby had her 14yearold son watch the baby and his 3yearold sister while she went off to work an overnight shift cleaning an office building. When she got home, they say, she found the baby unconscious and called 911 for help. According to court documents, they found suspiciouslooking injuries on the babys back and chest. They turned out to be bug bites inflicted after the little girl died. This particular apartment was infested with bugs. And the bugs attacked this child after she died. By law you can babysit when youre 12 in maryland, but people who live in this complex think 14 is too young. Dont leave your children with teenagers. Getting somebody responsible. Theres enough neighbors around that have kids your age, the babys age, to babysit for you. A kid watching a kid is ridiculous. This case could end up in juvenile court. There will be a hearing to determine that. Live in white oak, pat collins, news4. Tonight Police Closed an Entertainment Club in Prince Georges County. The Police Department shut down the stardust lounge, officers say the club was operating without a proper permit. There was also a shooting at the club last week. The lounges will remain closed until a hearing is held. Snowplows and shovels working overtight after that big storm. Several feet of snow dumped in some areas. This was the scene in fair field, connecticut today. Some of the residential streets are seeing a plow for the First Time Since the storm hit. Drivers fossed to maneuver through the walls of snow and ice. Walking is no picnic, either. Some vehicles will likely be buried under all that snow for days to come. Weve been spared so far this wind of any significant snow. We might see some later on this week. Doug, is that right . We might see some. We are talking about that snow. They saw more snow in one hour than most of us have seen all winter long. Its tike we start to see our chances increase, at least a little bit. Temperatures at 53 degrees, 61 in winchester, 6 p in nauertens burg. Theres a cold front moving through later tonight. Tomorrow morning youll wake up to rather gusty conditions. 50mileanhour wind gusts back toward the west. Thats why the area is under a wind advisories, does not include the d. C. Metro area. Our windchills tomorrow morning will be in the 20s during the morning hours. Lets head down towards alexandria. As we cross the potomac. 42 by 11 00, waking up to a number around 37. Once against windchills in the upper 20s. That is one of two that were going to talk about. Ill have it in a minute. President obama is gearing up for his state of the Union Address tomorrow night. A White House Administration official tells nbc news that the speech will outline a plan to grow sxwrobs and grow the middle class. And continues to push for gun control, clean energy and immigration reform. New benefits for samesex partners in the hill tear. Today defense secretary Leone Panetta approved commissary Legal Assistance and other benefits to samesex couples. Those changes should take effect by august. There are still dozens of other benefits. They include onbase housing and burial at Arlington National cemetery. For the first time, the pentagon is considering scaling back on the massive buildup of drones. The military uses those Unmanned Aircraft to go after terror suspects. The controversy erupted last week with where targets could include suspected american terrorists overangels. Leaders at the Defense Department are evaluating whether theres enough drones already patrolling the skies and theyll try to determine whether changing security threats call for different resources. Still ahead on news4 at 6, tornadoes rip through the south. Well take a tour from the sky to survey the damage. Police in delaware revealing a possible motive behind a shootout inside a courthouse today. Wouldnt it be awful to be stuck on a cruise ship with the toilets not work distill awares top Prosecutor Says a longstanding custody dispute led to a deadly shootout. Police say a man walked into the lobby of the courthouse and opened fired. Killed in the exchange, two women and the gunman himself. Two officers were wounded, but are expected to be okay. At this time state police are not identifying the gunman or the victims. The former Los Angeles Police officers whog still on the run today was officially charged with murdering a police officers. That charge could bring the death penalty. Christopher dorner is wanted for three murders. He was also charged today with attempted murder for firing on three other officers last thursday during the manhunt theres not a 1 million reward offered. A 30minute warning this tornado was coming likely saved lives in southern mississippi. The twister tore through hattiesburg sunday evening. There were injuries, but no deaths. More rain today hampered the cleanup efforts. Reporter aerial views confirmed it stayed on the ground for some 75 miles. Which Officials Say actually gave people in its path plenty of time to seek safety. I tell anybody, when you hear them siren warnings, you know its for real. Reporter mississippis governor said the warning kept serious casualties to a minimum. 30 minutes may not seem like a long time, but when a tornado is bearing down, it gives you the opportunity to respond to get to a place of safety within your home. Reporter of more than 80 people hurt, only two were critical injured. Hattiesburg was especially heart hit by the twister, which was caught on camera tearing through downtown shortly before sunset, where it wasnt very crowded because most businesses were closed. Still, dozens of buildings were left mangled, includes offices of the local red cross. Theyre devastated. The people are really devastated. Theyre not knowing where theyre going. Reporter hundreds of homes, some historic, fell victim too, all of which brought out the curious, prompting a warning from the governor. Do not become a sightseer. This is not an amusement park. This is a scene of a disaster, and we will treat you as such. Reporter hampering cleanup here was another line of storms monday that dumped more rain on already saturated ground. 75 miles on the ground, that doesnt happy very often . Not at all. It actually was two states, it hit mississippi and alabama, ef4 rated tornado. The top end of the scale is ef5. So that is a very dangerous tornado. Thank goodness nobody was killed. Over 100 injuries, but nobody killed from that storm. Very good news there. For us weve seen a pretty nice day. We are in the middle of two storms. This is how our day ended. This a sunset over rockville. Talking about this nice sunset. The clouds beginning to clear just in time across the region. That is the first day so far this month that weve seen temperatures above the 50 degree mark. Well above average. Were going to be seize mile temperatures, 40s by 9 00, clear and cool, clearing by 11 00 temperatures around 46. Then well start to see the winds pick up. Were see those winds form right now culpepper at, some areas into the upper 60s where not only they saw the sunshine, but warmer temperatures from those winds. Speaking of the winds, theyll be shifting to the west. A wind advisories is in effect for all of our viewers out to the west of the blue ridge, especially in the higher tops of the mustnt. Not in the d. C. Metro area, but we could still see 30 to 40mileanhour winds, and then we should calm down tomorrow afternoon. Right now on the radar, nothing to talk about. As you widen out, showing the storm system that brought us the rain earlier, and our next storm system is wait hout in colorado. S now just seeing some pretty heavy rain. An area that needs the as far as the weather is concerned, theyve got the cloud cover thats been across the region. It will be rather breezy tomorrow, winds all day, so breezy. Winds should calm down tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a pretty nice day. Wednesday morning, were fine, under partly cloudy skies, but wednesday evenings rush hour, around 5 00, here comes the rain snow mix. Thats what its going to be. By 10 45 in the evening, just about everybody trying to transfer over to snow. Some computer models giving us quite a bit of snow, others not giving us anything at all. Still watching the system very, very closely. The best chance of accumulation will be around the i95 corridor, at least som chance here, best chance to the north and west. You have the best chance of seeing at least an inch out of this storm. Well talk much more about the accumulation over the next day or so. Nod bat, 49 to 55 degrees, wednesday, theres our rain snow chance. 48 on thursday, 47 on friday, then it gets just cold this weekend. Saturday and sunday, another chance for snow most likely, temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Right now it doesnt look like that big of a storm, but for right now, all eyes on the day on d. Changing to snow near the p. M. Rush, thats where we could see some problems. Of course the best chance for accumulation will stay to the north and west. This is one of those that will ride right up the i95 core do. When you have 48 hours to hone in on the forecast to get this exactly right for you folks at home. No other way would do. Thats right. Exactly. An arm sergeant he risked his life to retrieve the bodies of his comrades. It is the nations highest military award. President obama placed it on clinton romesha. In october of 2009, 50 soldiers at a remote outpost were ambushed by the taliban, outgunned and outnumbered. The sergeant refused to allow them to fall into the hands of the enemy. Clint robesha lives the soldiers decree i will never leave a comrade. He and his team started charging as enemy fire kem pouring down. They kept charging, ultimately 100meter run through a hail of bullets. They reached their fallen friends and they brought them home. The family of those kid that day attended the ceremony. Staff Sergeant Romesha now works in the oiled fields of north dakota. A tugboat is on the way to help a stranded cruise ship. Named carnival triumph was adrift on the Southern Coast of the yucatan. It left the ship without power and it had to operate using emergency generators. There are 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members on this ship. Another cruise ship transferred food and water. Back here at home, Pope Benedicts decision to step down has some catholics unsure about the future of the church, buts david culver found out, there is also some optimism about whats ahead. Reporter we call the up with churchgoers here, now some of those we caught up with today had mixed feels about the popes abdication. While at the same time excited about what could come. He is the father of the church, so he comes out and helps guide us in all the Big Decisions that we have. I love the old pope, Pope Benedict xiv. Hes been wonderful, but im curious to see where were going next. Reporter next is on the mind of most practices catholics. Many flock to daily mass today to pray for the future of the Roman Catholic church, the current pope finding a lot of supporters in this Northern Virginia community. I think hes doing what he believes is in the best interests of the church. Obviously we support him. I think hes just doing whats right, whats in his heart and what the holy spirit is bringing him to. So just pray for the new pope. Reporter how much will a new pope affect an average practices catholic. In this social media age there will be greater connection with rome. We are able to be informed of his decisions, of his addresses to is, his homilies immediately. Before we could never do that. The bishop feels good about whats to come for the church. Im confident this is the next step for gods care of the church. In arlington, david culver, news4. Moore controversial red light cameras coming up. Well tell you where they are. Officers went door to door today searching for clues in the murder of a 71yearold woman in her home. Im julie carey in fairfax county, where governor mcdonald makes another stump, his sits point this time how to keep the tolls down here. Coming up in sports, georgetown hoping to keep streaking against marquette. The wizards hoping their defense is ready for a road test. Plus pitchers and catchers report tomorrow, one national showed up a little early for the party, all that as news tickets from red light cameras in rockville are up 100 . Thats thanks to new hightech cameras. They use video to catch drivers and hit them with a 75 fine. Transportation reporter adam tuss tells us house the numb cameras work and where youll find them form. Reporter want to keep 75 in your pocket . Youll definitely want to stay behind the lines. The city has using new red light cameras. They can detect whether or not your car is completely over the white line our if youre making a white on red without coming to a complete stop. Its a 12second video where you can watch the video in progress. Sensors can also determine how fast a car is approaches an intersection. If a car is making a right turn faster than 13 miles an hour, the camera flashes, but some see the devices as unfair. Heres the great irony of it. If you go through the light on yellow or the light turns to red while youre going through the intersection, you dont get a ticket, but if you stop s. But stop behind the white line, you get a ticket. Reporter some drivers are just learning about the toll. Its a Human Element taken out of it when you start replacing and news4 has learned the city will be expanding the cameras. Here in the new locations West Jefferson street at west montgomery, the camera continues to flag here at the intersection. Again every ticket is reviewed by an officer in the city, and the city says you have to be completely over the white line, not partially, to get a ticket. Adam tuss, news4. There is surprise around the world at the unconventional decision from the conservative leader of the worlds 1 bill chron catholics. Pope benedict xiv announced today he will step down. Its the first time in almost 600 years that a pope has decided on abdicate rather than die in office. The pentagon today announced new benefits are on the way for samesex couples in the military. By august of this year, gale Serv