Good morning. By the afternoon, youre not going to need the g, warm jacket. This morning you need it. It is a cold start. Temperatures in the suburbs around 20 degrees right now. Very cold outside, clear skies across the area. Washington coming in at 31 degrees. That is the warm spot. 19 in manassas. 21 in gaithersburg. Our i hi temperatures today, warm warmer than yesterday. Not only are our temperatures warmer, but were going to have more sunshine as well. Mostly to partly sunny skies. High temperature in the district 47 degrees. In 15 minutes back with your travel forecast. Today movie fans are in shock after the star of the fast and furious film franchise is killed in a fiery car crash. Paul walker was a selfproclaimed adren lyselfpr ed a drdr adrenaline junkie. The car slammed into a tree and burst into flames. Walker was the passenger. The driver also died instantly. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Detectives say speed was a factor. Walker best known for his roles in action films. He made his mark starring in fast and furious series. Its a 2 billion franchise. Walker had several projects in the works including the Hurricane Katrina drama called hours and his death comes in the middle of filming fast and furious and he believes behind a daughter. Volunteers renew search efforts for a missing virginia teen who hasnt been seen in almost four months. The group will search the town in Nelson County where 17yearold Alexis Murphy last season august 3rd at a gas station. They also plan to search the area near the home of 48yearold randy taylor, whom bliss have charged in murphys disappearance. Taylor says he was not the last person to be seen with murphy. Also today, friends and family say goodbye to a Prince Georges County postal worker gunned down along his mail route. The funeral is this afternoon in south carolina. Barnett was shot and killed along reed street in fairmont heights. Yesterday, investigators were back on the scene searching for more clues. Police have not arrested anyone. Theres a combined reward of 125,000 for information lead toig aconviction. Healthcare. Gov is temporarily up and running. Heading into the first full day of use after the obama administrations selfimposed deadline for the website. The site revamp has gone well with Faster Response time and the ability to have a higher capacity of people using it at once. Officials warn that users wont see a drastic difference in the site yet. In three hours, a Conference Call is planned to discuss the progress. Happening today, national zoo will announce the name of the giant panda cub. Zookeepers will reveal the name in english and chinese on scrolls hanging from a 12foot arch. More than 123,000 people voted online for the name. In keeping with chinese tradition the zoo is waiting until today, 100th day since the cub was born, to name her. The naming ceremony begins at 1 00 this afteren in. You can watch online. The first weekend of the Holiday Shopping season wraps up today. New numbers show shoppers spent part of their thanksgiving day at the stores on hunt for black friday sales. Spending up more than 2 . Darcy spencer talked with shoppers looking for great deals. Reporter did you shop . I did not shop thanksgiving. To me, thanksgiving is about being with family. Reporter terra may not have headed to the mall after the big turkey dinner but a lot of other americans did. Were losing that special time with our families because of trying to get the deal. Reporter the latest retail numbers show thanksgiving day shoppers gobbled up black friday sales which were down more than 13 . That has many black friday shoppers surprised. All of the parking garages were full, mall literally shufing through people, it was bad. Reporter youre surprised numbers were down . Definitely. Reporter black friday numbers are down, if you look at thursday and friday combined, spending rose 2. 3 from last year. That signals a shift. Americans going from the dinner table to the Shopping Mall to get a head start on the deals. These extra promotions and extra hours may have cut into your dinner time with family but was it gave a good boost for the retailers. Reporter at least a dozen major retailers opened on thanksgiving this year compared to a few last year. Shoppers responded, coming out in record numbers. And, according idm benchmark data, online sales up on thanksgiving by 20 . You didnt have to go out, you still got to be with your family and it was easy. Reporter some arent hitting the stores at all. Theyre just waiting for cybermonday. I might as well skip all of the hecticness and just go ahead, im always on my computer, might as well get all 0 the deals online and skip the headache. Reporter most people we spoke to said they feel thanksgiving should be a time spent at moment with family members but numbers dont lie. More and more people are spending part of their thanksgiving hopping. That appears to be becoming a new thanksgiving tradition. Darcy spencer, news4 today. President obama and the first family also got in on Holiday Shopping this within. They visited a d. C. Bookstore. It is a long list, but some outstanding books. Ive got books for every age group from 5 until 52. The president bought several books at politics and prose in northwest part of Small Business saturday. For the fourth year Small Business owners encouraged shoppers to take a break from Big Box Stores and buy local during the busy shopping weekend. A questionable trip for two d. C. Rappers. Why they travelled to north korea and how they got the money for the trip. Big travel day across the country. Potential for nasty weather could slow you down. Avo the volkswagen sign then drive sales event is back. Which means its never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. It gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. And right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. Sign. Then drive. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. Hurry, this offer ends december 2nd. For details, visit vwdealer. Com today take a look at this. You can see a huge chunk of ice spinning in a river. This is in north dakota. Experts say, its not the work of the aliens or one big giant piece of ice. Instead, several chunks of ice that got caught in an eddy. Thats cool. Started spinning like a disc like a record player. Whats a record player . That was supposed to be a. On, what is that, you spin me right round baby. Who wrote that one . No idea. Hi, amelia. How are things shaping up today . Can you believe the 1st day of december . It is, my gosh. Absolutely right. Right. So meteorologically winter has begun, and what that means for you on average, three coldest months of the year, december, january, and february. And the short term, were looking at a warmup, wait until you see the High Temperature on friday. Right now, though, it is a chilly start. 31 degrees in washington. 26 in college park. 25 rockville. 20 degrees in dulles, clear skies across the area. 19 cole degrees in manassas, with clear skies. As the sun comes up, plenty of sunshine to start off our day today. Overall more sun than we had yesterday paper clo yesterday. A cloudy day especially midday and afternoon. Midday hours low 40s. Upper 40s for the afternoon hours. As we get into the evening hours, it wont cool off quickly. 5 00 will look to find temperatures around 44 degrees. Hard to believe the area ski resorts, a lot of them, opening for the first time this weekend. Here is your ski resort. Liberty mountain, ten trails open wisp ski resort, six trails open winter green know shoe open. Ive posted this on my Facebook Page, you can head there and see how deep the basis. Travel today for the most part, quiet weather across the country. Which is good news if youre flying out of town or driving. I hope you had a nice day while you were here. In the northeast, in upstate new york, northern new england, spotty, light snow showers, rain mixing in, barely any accumulation. For the most part, cool temperatures. Plenty of sbs funshine for new and washington. Spotty showers around the gulf. Mild in the midwest. Biggest concern in the northwest, looking at rain, heavy wind, and mountain snows there. Nighing to the rockies or northwest, some of those flights might be delayed today. Back here at home, tonight, it wont be as cold. Low of 36 in washington. Temperatures outside of the beltway will be in the mid to upper 20s. As we look to tomorrow, warmer. High of 50. And in fact, temperatures warm up a little bit each day for this week. Tuesday, 52. Wednesday, 53. Thursday and friday, mild. High temperature thursday of 57 degrees. Friday, 62. With that, chance of rain. Cooler saturday. High of 48. Chance of showers as well. For the redskins tonight, temperatures for the game around 40 degrees. Light wins there. Heading to the game, it will be cool, it wont be frigid. I would recommend a couple of layers. Again, heading into the coldest three months of the year, at least over the next seven days it isnt going to feel like it. Not a lot of sunshine monday. As we start off the week, everybody heading back to work after the weekend, it will be an okay day. Dry weather. Thats good for travelers for the morning commute. Well check back in with you in a few minutes. We are back in 15 minutes with more of the top stories. Good morning, welcome to reporters fogt bo s notebook. Ite paw lawson muse. With 165vote lead, the democrat mark herring has been declared win of the attorney generals race. On monday the board of elections certified the win over the republican, who is expected to call for a recount. If the results hold up, democrats would control fe statewide offices for the first time in a generation. Dave, would that mean virginias officially no longer purple . The color chart is very difficult to maintain in virginia, very difficult to determine. Many people would think that it currently looks like its purple because of the apparent wins that are going on if herring pulls it awe. If he doesnt, look at they won. On the other hand, when you get past fredericksburg and down in the other part of the state, its still, i think, very, and the people i report on, the 50 report identifying have, indicates its very, very red. And theres factors, did obama care cripple the the roll outof obama care cripple the democrats . Did the Government Shutdown knock off the republicans . There are a certain amount of variables its hard to pin down which way theyre going. I think virginia will remain unpredictble. Joe . I agree. Its because of the geographical makeup of the state. But the reality is that the democrats swept. Yeah. They won it. And 0 so, this will be very interesting to see what happens, i think now, 2014. You have this divide, north and the south. And this is certainly an example of. I think women had a lot to say in this. Yes, especially young, unmarried women. Unmarried women. It was like 64 to 20something. They went totally democratic. I would say this is what youre going to see in 2014, or even 2016. Lets hop over to maryland and talk the governors race there. Republican larry hogan tossed his hat into the ring, and he wants to head off another coronation next november, meaning election of the election of another democrat for governor. When bob ehrick was elected he has a good name, a name of historic historical platform, when his father was running what happen i see here, pat, the fact that issues maryland will dictate that election or those elections, especially the gubernatorial election. When i say issues, samesex marriage, the whole thing about marijuana and other issues that have come to play nationally, really play heavily in maryland. Whats the outlook, i dont know. Do you think a republican has a chance in maryland where democrats outnumber republicans 21 . You just said it, 21. Republicans have always capitalized on democrats mistakes. When theres disarray in the democratic party, republicans look good. When republicans generally weren the ascendancy not only maryland but other areas he did very well. After within term people decided he had enough republicanism for four years and wanted a change. Whether larry hogan can change remains you make a good point. His dad, larry hogan, county executive of Prince Georges County, one of the few republicans who could get elected this that part of the state. Of course that was then. Now may be different. Its continuing to be an uphill drive for any republican to get state wide or in congress or anything else in maryland. I hear what all of you are saying but the reality is, that was a different republican. Yeah. Lets be honest, reagan couldnt get elected in the republican party. The bottom line is that hogan will have to determine, is he a moderate republican or a Tea Party Republican, and it go bazzing baz i back to what jerry said, issues. If hes a Tea Party Republican 21 democrat is going to wipe him out. So its bob ehrlich was not todays republican and thats why he was able to get elected. In Prince Georges County, a group of leaders protest over the name of washingtons football team, they rallied in the shadow of the stadium monday before the 49ers game. They talked about what the concern team name used to mean. And they called on county residents to unite against the name. Another protest here. Is this a growing thing . Is it a growing movement, do you think, dave . Based on my reporting, it seems to be growing. Is it gaining traction . Beg your pardon . Is it gaining traction . Thats what we dont know. What does the average ticket holder, what do they think about the name . Are they really outraged enough about it to turn in their tickets, to get into protests, not show up for games . My reporting indicates to me i convenient much evidence of that. That done mean something isnt bubbling. But it seems to me, until the fan base gets active, nothing much is going to to happen. Because the fan base is the money. And so, therefore, thats what the redskins are going to look at. But you have to remember one thing, its mighty funny how the nfl hasnt said very much publicly on this. And i think if theres going to be a change, i really think the power of change will come from the nfl. Joe, do you think that means . The fact the nfl has not said anything, as an organization, has not responded . There have been meetings. Yes. They are talking privately. We had a major roundtable discussion about this. You have to take into consideration several things. One, Montgomery County executive leggitt has come out, and the owner living in the county, d. C. Council has come out. Now leaders of different walks of sometimes they dont agree with each other, have come out. Prince georges county, and theres one factor that everyone in the nfl is concerned about congress and the bill dealing with trademark. Can you trademark a name that is perceived to be derogatory. Thats the real issue. I think its going to end up in the courts. Weve got to take a break. Well be right back. Showdown over the minimum wage. D. C. Mayor supports a 10 an hour minimum wage but a Council Committee unanimously approved a wage of 11. 50 an hour, which would make d. C. s one of the highest in the nation. Bills sent to full council which could take the first of two votes in december. Gentlemen, everybody seems to agree 8. 25 an hour is not enough. Is there a battle brewing between the mayor and the council over this . There could be. He wants to go a certain distance with the council wants to go farther. If council had votes they could get something passed and an override would be avoided. They tried it before. He stared them down. Vincent orangeelie his has 9 of the 13 members backing the proposal for an increase. Vincent original feels he has the muster to carry it through. Still, pat, ive been saying all the time, this is going to come down to a compromise. Here, the may i moved up to 10. Vincent orange has dropped to 12. 50 gone down to 11. 50. By the time they dance around this circle, it will come down to 10. 50. I hope not. I really do. This is absurd when you think about it. Were arguing over 1. 50 an hour as if thats going to make or break the company. First of all, the mayor has said hes concerned because of businesses. They will oppose this because youve gone from 8. 50 to 9. I hope that the council wins on this one and that the mayor gets off this grandi standing for business and dont have a lot of conniptions over 1. 50. A big deal talking about walmart and other Big Box Stores. Thats right. Its a deal breaker. They objected, said they couldnt afford to hire people or might pull up stakes and leave town. Thats still a factor if it goes up. Theyll explain its too expensive and well have to let people go. Remember the mayors objection was that it applied to a particular business. Right. He wanted it across the board. Now its a cross the board. Now were arguing over 1. 50. Paying to see the National Cathedral. It soon cost you to visit and tour the historic landmark beginning in 2014. Washington National Cathedral will begin charging admission 10 for adults 6 for chirng seniors and members of the military. You wont have to pay to pray or worship weekdays. Weve seen the cathedral undergo major renovations because of the earthquake. I guess it makes sense. You came over a great line, pay to pray. Glad you dont have to pay to pray in the National Cathedral. Theyve got to pay for multimillion dollar repairs caused by the earthquake. Its on the tour. I dont know what else they can do. Many churches do this. When it comes to such the devastation that this earthquake caused to the National Cathedral, thats millions of dollars and that doesnt come out of the collection till. So these churches have got to do that. I know at the monastery they want to charge sometimes for tours because tours is a revenue that comes in from visitors. I can see the cathedral doing what its zbloog doing. Is it a leap to charge the cathedral, maybe well have to pay to visit the washington monument. Times are getting tough, and people are looking for ways to pay money. In regard to the folks in the anglican community, episcopalian folks in washington, theyre not known for gougers. They really would tell you. Most pe