Eastern shore, northern neck. Generally in the upper 30s, low 40s. Farther west in montgomery county, arlington, fairfax and prince georges in the mid and upper 30s. Much colder shenandoah. 7 00 a. M. Mid30s around the metro area. A little sun. Hour by hour throughout the day. Light wind. Highs reaching near 50 midafternoon. Ill be back with a hometown forecast in 10 minutes. Good morning. Still watching the delays grow on i95 northbound. Because of the crash at 123. Blocking the left side of the roadway. Youre getting by on the right. Chopper 4 signaled from them. As they make their way towards the exit, 51 minutes from quantico to the beltway. Lets talk about i66. Unusual delays in this area. Not terrible. But stop and go, especially around the bypass. Heavy on the brakes in that area. As you get closer you are slowing down just a bit as you make your way towards the beltway. Aaron, over to you. Breaking news. Overnight, a rocket attack from the gaza strip in israel. Israel launched an offensive killing the hill dear commander of hamas yesterday. 11 palestinians have been killed, 100 injured in the past two days now egypt is asking the United States to push israel to stop the offensive against hamas. Lawmakers will begin getting more answers about septembers deadly attack on in benghazi, libya. House and Senate Intelligence committees will hold hearings about the attack which killed four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. Republicans have been criticizing the Obama Administration for not responding quickly enough to the violence outside the consulate. Michael morrel is expected to testify today. We will wait until tomorrow to hear from former cia director David Petraeus. It was unclear until yesterday whether he would still answer questions after his sudden resignation late last week. He will not discuss the sex scandal that cost him his job during that closed hearing. President obama telling republicans to come after him, not his cabinet for his administrations response to the attack in benghazi. He lashed out against republicans who have been critical of u. N. Ambassador susan rice. They blasted her for saying it was sparked by an antiislam film despite evidence that it was a coordinated terror attack. The president says she was just giving her best answer based on the intelligence she had been provided. Senator john mccain is even trying to block threatening to block rice from becoming secretary of state if the president chooses her to succeed hillary clinton. Quickly approaching fiscal cliff is already giving investors on wall street a scare. Dow closed down 185 points yesterday, third triple digit loss in a week. Nasdaq is down 10 from september. The fear of grid lock on capitol hill is driving the tailspain. President obama says there is room for agreement. As ive said before, im open to compromise and im open to new ideas. And ive been encouraged to hear republican after republican agree on the need for more revenue from the wealthiest americans as part of our a arithmetic if were serious about reducing the deficit. The president did say he would not accept continued tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 of americans. Mitt romney is offering a frank analysis of why he lost the election to president obama. He said gifts offered by the president to minority voters pushed hispanics, blacks and young people to vote for him again. Like the passage of obama care, forgiveness of college tuition. Today the president is scheduled to visit Staten Island where he will meet with First Responders and evaluate recovery efforts. It is the first time he has toured the damaged zone since two weeks ago when he visited parts of the jersey shore with governor Chris Christie days after the storm made landfall. Two of new yorks Major Power Companies are under investigation for how they responded to superstorm sandy. Con edison and long island power received subpoenas yesterday. Yesterday requesting records on restoring power and communicating with customers. The storm left 2 million in new york in the dark for days. It is unclear why a man pulled a began on a sheriffs deputy. He was trying to serve a peace order, similar to a protective order. A woman answered the door, let the deputy in. Then a man came out from another room with a gun. The deputy fired his weapon, killing the man. Neighbors were surprised to hear the deadly shooting in that home. What really happened, i dont know. But still. Somebody in our neighborhood is dead dont because of something. And its so not good. The sheriffs deputy is on administrative leave which is standard procedure during an investigation like this. Police need your help identifying the man in these surveillance pictures. He robbed a walmart on route 198 and shot a store manager. The manager followed the gunman outside to the parking lot. Rescuers took him to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. 6 07. Serious Health Concerns for something millions of americans drink to get through the day. Tom kierein will tell us if theres an end in sight. Emergency room doctor involved in a violent crash. What police found that has her welcome back. A suspected drunk driver is caught on video crashing into a car in massachusetts. The Traffic Camera shows the 56yearold emergency room doctor speeding through a store parking lot, jumping the curb and over the sidewalk, look right there, and crashing into a stopped car at a red light. The man in the car spent a few days in the hospital with cracked ribs. Police arrested the doctor on the scene. She was wearing her scrubs at the time. Shes facing a dui charge. Another chilly day, thursday morning, we want to check in with tom kierein for our forecast and see how long this cold is going to last. Tom . Live view there. Weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 11. A lot of cloudiness over the region. A little bit of warmth from yesterday. It is above freezing. But elsewhere, farther west and north, it is below freezing. And later today hometown forecast, by 8 00 a. M. Cloudiness in the 30s. Mid40s with sunshine breaking out during the afternoon. Heres the hourbyhour forecast. Up around 50 midafternoon. By then, a little sun breaking out. Thankfully a light wind today. Sevenday outlook in 10 minutes. Good morning. A live look from chopper 4, tom. The earlier crash has you make your way northbound at 123. Thats out of the roadway. It was blocking the left lanes. Youre heavy on the brakes. Still delayed here from quantico to the beltway. It will take 15 minutes to make that trip. 29 in burtonsville. Southbound 29 right here at 198, just on the right shoulder lane. Aaron and eun. 6 12. New reason to have hope in the fight against alzheimers. How the suspect in the colorado movie welcome back at 6 14. The man charged in the deadly mass shooting at a colorado theater has reportedly been trying to kill himself in jail. James holmes rammed his head into a jail cell wall. He was due in court today but the judge delayed the hearing. He killed 12 and injured 52 others during a screening of the Dark Knight Rises over the summer. The Prime Minister of belize is asking founder john mcafee to stop hiding and talk to police about his neighbors murder. Mcafee is wanted for questioning in the death of his american neighbor last weekend in belize. In a telephone interview with the Associated Press mcafee says hes hiding unarmed accompanied by a young woman and constantly moving to stay ahead of police. To trust myself in their hands is menacing. I really do. Beat me and then execute me. And i did not kill him. I cant ever see myself doing anything like that. The 67yearold admits he had differences with him and his dogs were poisoned by his neighbors or government agents. Deepwater horizon exploded and killed 12 workers. Any Settlement Agreement subject to Court Approval a laptop containing sensitive nasa information has been stolen potentially putting thousands of workers at risk. The computer was taken from a locked car. It canned personal information, including Social Security numbers for thousands of employees and contractors. Nasas administrator banned anyone from taking unen crypted information. Poverty is on the rise. According to new numbers from the census bureau, 49. 7 Million People are living some poverty, up from 49 million in 2010. Medical expenses, higher living costs and more limited access to Government Programs for immigrants are all considered factors in the rise. The states with the highest poverty rates, d. C. Ranks second, california tops the list. Scientists say they have discovered a gene mutation that triples the chance of a person contracting alzheimers. It is uncommon, showing up in less than 1 of people. This discovery is important because it may yield new clues about the causes of alzheimers and how to treat it 45 million americans are smokers. Today is the day to try to quit. Today is the 37th annual Great American smokeout, encouraging an end to smoking. According to the american cancer society, tobacco use is responsible for one in five deaths. Today George WashingtonUniversity President steven nenn will announce a plan to make its campuses completely smoke free by next fall. 17 after the hour. Hope solo and stevens got married hours after a fight over where the couple would live over their tuesday wedding. Officers responded to the the home in seattle said she had a cut on her elbow. They arrested stevens on suspicion of assault. Solo was not commenting on what happened. In Court Tuesday a judge released stevens saying there was no probable cause for the assault. The couple got married just hours later. Hope solos u. S. Soccer teammate tweeted she was, quote, happy to witness such an amazing celebration of love. Speaking of for retail employees who have to head to work as stores open on thanksgiving. On change. Org to target ceo has received more than 200,000 signatures from people opposed to the store opening thanksgiving night. A target associate started the petition after target, walmart, toys r us opened its doors on thanksgiving morning, meaning employees will have to report to work instead spending time with their families. Target said theyre just keeping up with customer demand. We are two weeks into the season and wizards still dont have a win. 107101 loss to the Dallas Mavericks last night. The last team in the League Without a win. This is the second worst start in franchise history. The worst start was last season when the wizards lost their first eight games. The nats wont be winning every postseason award this year. Gonzalez finished third in the race for the cy young award. Mets dickey won that award which goes to the best pitcher. Its been a good week for the nats. Harper named rookie of the year. Johnson won manager of the year on tuesday. This morning a glimmer of hope as people clean up the mess sandy left behind in new jersey. Donna found a military jacket belonging to a world war ii hero while sifting through debris. At first she thought the jacket was a costume. Then she noticed the name degarve written by hand. He died in 1993 but his 98yearold widow is still alive and living in virginia. The governor september the jacket to west point to be cleaned and then it will be september to his widow. Its awesome that history is constantly teaching us something. I want to say thanks for the invitation to julius west middle school. Went out and talked to the b. O. S. S. Club, brotherhood of superstars. They had questions about television and news and we talked about life in general. A lot of really good questions came from the kids. So i appreciate the invitation. And also want to say thanks for the great tshirt that they gave me from the julius west jaguars. I want to know what the student asked you. He had questions just about words of encouragement for young people who are trying to get into this line of work, journalism and such. He got my car. Hes going to email me more questions. Very cool. All right. 6 21. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Good morning. Off to another cold start. Cloudiness streaming from the south. A disturbance over the carolinas. Rain will stay to our south. A lot of cloudiness. Farther west, the cloud cover breaks up in maryland, west virginia, central Shenandoah Valley where it is coldest. At or below freezing there. Closer to washington, above freezing around montgomery, arlington, fairfax. Generally the mid30s. Near 40 degrees. Also, much of Southern Maryland, eastern shore, 40s there. And the fourday forecast showing this unusual chill continuing. It does look like we will remain colder than average into the weekend. Cloudiness today. Sunny saturday. Right now the latest on the coastal storm. It will be farther out to sea. And it may not affect us at all with any precipitation. Stay tuned. Chilly mid week. Ill be back in 10 minutes. Good morning. Good morning. Kicking off our first traffic report first with the rails. Glen mont, a track problem there. So youre seeing tracking on the red line between wheaton and glen mont. Over to the roadways, i270 southbound germantown picking up volume. Out of frederick, you are pretty much jammed. Very sluggish towards clarksburg in tt area. 66, usual delays as you wake your way past 70 east bound. Your travel lanes are open. Youre starting to slow down a bit to the beltway. Under speed. That drive will take you 12 minutes. Eun, back over to you. 6 22. The spray that will supposedly keep your man faithful. A spray . I dont know. The new proposal to lower taxes for homeowners in our area. Say it aint so. Why you might not be able to eat a energy drink drama. Of government is now taking a closer look at potential changes for the 5hour energy, the dangers of 5hour energy drink after the food and Drug Administration received 13 death reports since 2008 that mentioned the highly calf feeted drink. There is no proof that it contributed to the deaths. Cases call for more studies. A hormone could help men with wandering eyes stay faithful. A group of men were given the socalled love hormone oxytocin in the form of nasal spray. Another group got a placebo. They kept a greater distance when approached by attractive women. We were talking about this earlier. Can you prove that the ones who did not go near the attractive women who approached them were just doing it because theyre good men who know better. Or they have been well traepbd by their women. Like fear of death . Exactly. 6 27 is our time right now. The local university kicked off the list of best colleges. And a local College Student accused of killing her roommate. I may not be what police say is. Off to another cool start. Meteorologist tom kierein will let you know if a warmup is anywhere in si good morning. Im meteorologist tom 6 30. The death toll is rising. New plan being put together to stop 20 schools from closing in d. C. The president s response to the concern that the petraeus affair may have leaked government secrets as the former cia director reveals why he decided to testify on capitol hill. Welcome back to news 4 today. Im eun yang. As we were Packing Lunch this morning you may soon be living in a twinkieless world. What may force hostess to stop production for good. No more twinkies forever and ever. First we want to talk about the weather. Taking a look at the Current Conditions right now. It is cold out there. Tom kierein knows that. He is outside on our weather deck. You need a puffy coat, your warmest winter coat. Gloves on both. All bundled up, layered up. It is a cold morning. Its above freeze. Temperatures throughout the region in the mid30s. Cloudiness passing from the south. Mountain region its even colder. Temperatures there into the low 20s. Locally into montgomery, fairfax, its in the mid30s. All throughout the west of virginia. A wind blowing 10, 15 miles per hour. Its a light wind but enough to penetrate. Well stay cloudy through the noon hour. By midafternoon, a little sun breaking out with highs around 50. Sunrise, 6 51. Sunset, 4 54. Im back in 10 minutes with the hometown forecast. Good morning, tom. Checking delays in the area. If youre traveling i95, a slow trip. A live look from chopper 4 traveling or just sluggish. Check your travel speed out of quantico. 52 minutes to get to the beltway. The outer loop starting to hit the brakes New Hampshire avenue. I 5. Sluggish to georgia avenue. If youre trying to get to i270, under speed at 36 miles per ur. Over to 50 inbound. Heavy on the brakes at 4 10. These delays continue as you you make your way to kenworth avenue. Melissa ma lay is at the live desk. The death toll on the gaza strip has list tone 14, and four of the dead are children. Overnight three were killed in rocket fire from the gaza strip. They launched an offensive. Hamas has launched 700 rocket attacks since theeginning of the year. Some feel the attacks will lead to an allout war. Washington university no longer ranked one of the top universities in the country. Gw removed from the coveted list. The University Says it mistakenly inflated the High School Standings ofncoming students by 20 the past decade. Gw had been ranked 51st. The school will remain unranked until the 2014 best colleges bubble indication is released. He said he regrets the error and is making insurance to make sure it does not happen again. The parents of d. C. Schoolchildren can weigh in on a plan to close as many as 20 schools. The goal is to close under performing schools. No schools would close in 1 and 3. The meeting is this afternoon. Another meeting on monday. D. C. Council member wants to lower how much the district increases property taxes. D. C. Council finance and revenue chairman evans says he wants legislation to limit home owner property tax incree toss 5 a year. Right now the current limit is 10 . Evans said the city is seeing the benefits from two decades of aggressive redevelopment and wants longtime homeowners to stay in their home. A connec