That is scary information. Thank you. 59yearold Ruthanne Lodato had a strong faith and a love for music. Surae chinn joins us live at the Catholic Church where she was a long time member. Reporter music was her life and a lot of it played out here at the blessed sacrament Catholic Church and its school. Ruthanne lodato and her husband were planning a 60th Birthday Party together. They were friends in high school and married some time after that. Her Church Family is mourning the loss of their friend and their teacher. Lord, we have come together as a community to pray for your beloved parishioners and others. Reporter the boys and girls at blessed Sacrament School pray for Ruthanne Lodato and her family at their catholic parish this afternoon. Lord, we also offer you our prayers as a sign of our hope. Reporter some of these middle and grade schoolers know ruthanne as their piano teacher. Our hearts are broken. Ruth ann was the gentlest, kindest, most peaceful person you would ever want to meet and to think that she had such violence, its very hard. She was a wonderful, wonderful woman full of music, full of life. Reporter Ruthanne Lodato is a long time member of blessed sacrament Catholic Church thats only a few blocks from her home. She played organ during sunday mass. She once taught free school and was music teach early at the catholic school. She would always be seen at the organize ann, piano. She often organ, piano. She often accompanied us with the little children. Reporter family members ask for privacy and wrote a statement a neighbor read to us. She was a family rock. We will not be the same without her. Ruthanne enjoyed giving her beautiful gift of music to countless children over the last 40 years. Reporter the community is struggling with how ruthanne low day tomorrows life came to such a violent end lay dough take he is life came to such a lodatos life came to such a violent end. While many of these students both passed and present who went here went to her home to learn how to play piano which is just a few blocks away from here, i will tell you that ruthanne comes from a very prominent family of judges, attorneys and doctors. Her late father was a prominent judge in alexandria. Shes one of five children, all of them living in or around the Northern Virginia area and she and her husband have three daughters and all of them will greatly miss her and so will the rest of the community. Back to you. Sounds like she was just a jewel in the community and obviously to her family, of course. Weve got new information in the death of Virginia Police captain kevin quick. Just a short time ago we learned a body found yesterday in goochland county, virginia was kevin quick. Three more suspects have also been charged now in connection with the death of him. Two of them are from our area. Anthony stokes, jr. , halisiuhuru and leslie castelow were arrested last night. Two siblings, Daniel Mathis and Mercedes Shelton were charged with grand larson in connection with the officers stolen vehicle. Another sister was arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant and taken into custody at a hotel in alexandria. Quick disappeared last friday night after leaving his mothers home in afton, virginia. He was a captain with the Waynesboro PoliceDepartment Reserve unit. Someone tried to hijack a flight to sochi today. A ukrainian citizen demanded it take him to the home of the Winter Olympics. A passenger on board took this cell phone video. Screens in the cabin were darkened and this would be hijacker was tricked into believing he was landing in sochi. The plane touched down in istanbul instead. No bomb was found. Russian news reports say the man who made the threat was very drunk. The white house was placed on lockdown today after a man carrying two bags tried to jump the fence. That suspect was caught. Police checked the bags and issued an all clear. A followup now to those Power Outages in frederick. They could really use some lights and heat after this weeks ice storm. Utility crews in maryland expect to have most of the juice back on in the county by this evening. Potomac edison says scattered outages will remain through tomorrow. Lets get a quick check of what we can expect weatherwise tonight. First alert meteorologist topper shutt joins us now. Top, gosh, we really hope we get some warmer temperatures, especially for the folks without power for days. The good news is not super cold tonight, but the bad news, its going to be below freezing again. Right now 41 downtown, 36 gaithersburg, manassas, 37 in leesburg and frederick. Not much wind, so no wind chill. Keep your plans tonight, no worries even though the clouds have arrived. We see some snow and sleet in dallas again and rain down in louisiana, but this system will kind of scoot to the east and pass to the south of us, but dont look now. There are not 1, but two more systems behind that one. Well tell you what that means for the prospects of snow saturday and again sunday. The government says the economy added just 113,000 jobs last month, far weaker than the 178,000 expected. Still the Unemployment Rate is 6. 6 , its lowest level in more than five years. President obama traveled to Michigan State today to sign the just passed farm bill. The ceremony in east lansing kept a nearly three year congressional struggle to keep the nearly 400 million legislation. Wusa9 is on pothole patrol. Viewer ken madden wrote to us about a stretch of north harrison street in arlington and he said he and others have reported it to the county and the potholes are still there. We is not Debra Alfarone to hold Arlington County to the task and turns out were responding quicker than they are. Reporter it took us less than 12 hours, but lets see how long it takes for arlington to fix them. Its going to be tough getting out here, danielle. Reporter maybe thats why they havent fixed north harrison street by 22nd street. A perforated pass of potholes greets you coming and a deep dark crater seems you going. Reporter anyone coming . Lets be sees you going. Reporter anyone coming . Lets be quick about this. This one 37 inches. North harrison street is so rough for so long its hard to pick just one pothole. This is what i look like when im not in the pothole and this is how short i am when im in the pothole. What are we on, 22nd street and north harrison street . This one is a job for the county. That was a couple days ago. I checked in today. They say their system is so new in Arlington County it has a couple of holes in it. They took my report today and promised affix in five to seven work days. If you have a pothole you think needs fix going to tellwusa9. Com. Debra alfarone, wusa9. Dont get gobbled up there, deb. Remind this one in Prince Georges County . Viewer josh de la rosa drives on civil hill road between st. Barn bus and suitland roads every day and he today wusa9 th so deb and he told wusa9 this is a killer. So debra reported it to the Highway Administration tuesday and they told us they try to go out within a day, investigate complaints and 95 of the time fill the hole. Three days later that pothole is still there chomping at the tires. So we called the administration for an update, but we are still waiting to hear back from them. If you have a pothole or any other commuter pet peeve you want us to investigate, go to tellwusa9 and we will work to get you answers. There was tight security and lots of celebration as the Olympic Games finally kicked off in russia today. Organizers high fived americans arriving on day one of the Winter Olympics in sochi. Performers kept crowds entertained on the streets and these tourists from canada say the olympic atmosphere is overwhelming. We were calling it disney world on steroids. It was so huge and its stunning. Officials in sochi have taken a lot of heat in recent weeks for not being prepared for the games. While venues may be Ready Construction outside the Olympic Village is ongoing, but some fans waiting in line for tickets say theyre pretty impressed with the russian hospitality so far. Now that the Olympic Games are underway in sochi, we want to be able to bring results to those of you who want them but not spoil the games for those who want to watch it at night. Before any results are given for the events that have not yet aired, you will see and hear this. [ warning bell sound ] that will be your queue to take a one minute cue to take a one minute break from the news cast. Many of our fans told us they dont want results in our news feed. So we will post stories that say there is a winner, but you wont get the results unless you click on the story, but if youre on twitter, all bets are off. Well post results throughout the day. So if yo dont want to know, i guess you. You dont wanton, i guess you need to stay off wanton, i guess you need to stay off want to know, i guess you need to stay off twitter the next few weeks. It could be one of the most dangerous allergies for kids and adults, after the break a new treatment to upon further review, a rod Alex Rodriguez has decided to drop his lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the players union. The move would seem to signal rodriguez prepared to accept his year long suspension for reportedly using performance enhancing drugs. Now a travel alert, westbound lee highway between north buchanan street and North Columbus street is shut down during the evening rush because of that water main break in the High View Park area of arlington and a detour is in place now. 15 people out of their homes after a fire at a garden style apartment this afternoon on little patuxent parkway in columbia. Firefighters rescued several people trapped inside. One person was treated for smoke inhalation. Sentencing day for a d. C. Man who killed his girl friends 4yearold son, investigators say peter hendy admitted to punching kamari zavon taylor multiple times in the stomach after the child disobeyed him in august last year. Today a judge sentenced hendy to 20 years in prison for Second Degree murder. We are learning more about the capture of a fugitive in Prince William county. Police say 20yearold earl Patrick Mitchell took off during a traffic stop in manassas yesterday and that spurred an intense policeman hunt. Mitchell hid in the basement of a home on Mineral Springs drive. Two men in the house tried to calm him down for hours before running away. Police say mitchell was armed with a handgun when he was finally arrested last night. Hes wanted in connection with a homicide in pennsylvania, but now he faces additional charges in virginia. Three people are being treated for injuries received when an suv slammed into a baltimore cvs around 11 00 this morning at the store on light and lombard street. We are told one of the victims was an elderly woman on clutches, still unclear why the driver lost control of the vehicle. Always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. We are in for some conversational snow over the weekend. We have two chances of snow. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, a very nice evening, temperaturewise very nice, too 41, winds south at 7, not much breeze all day, very comfortable. Believe it or not, today was golfable really. Satellite picture radar combined, a lot of rain in the west, which is good news for central and northern california, probably not going to make it into southern california. This will kind of feed our systems over the next few days. This system will pass to our south overnight and early tomorrow morning, again a little snow and sleet on the periphery of the precipitation but primarily a cold rain through east texas and louisiana. We do have high and midlevel clouds tonight. Keep your plans tonight, going to stay dry, just cold with temperatures below freezing everywhere. Heres a better look at radar, a little sleet pulling out of dallas, a little mixture around shreveport and a little snow in southeastern oklahoma, looks kind of impressive, but its not going to grab any of the gulf of mexico or atlantic moisture and will pass to our south. Temps pretty nice, 38 in rockville, 39 in reston and fairfax, 40 in arlington, 41 college park and 41 in waldorf. Cold again tonight and dry. Mainly afternoon light snow or snow showers tomorrow and by evening dont see any problems. Keep your plans tomorrow night as well. Some afternoon evening snow showers possible sunday, in fact, a better chance sunday night. Id keep your plans as well. Another chance into monday. We might see some of these snow showers linger into monday. Monday morning may be the worst of the bunch. Right now weve not issued any yellow alerts. Tonight mostly cloudy, cold, low temps in the 20s, light winds, not too bad. Break it down, early in the morning right around 30, 31, 32 by 9 00 and 11 00 and 33 by 1 00, maybe some flakes by 1 p. M. Next three days got a chance tomorrow, again in the afternoon and evening at the time frame for that. Get a break sunday morning. Ull be fine for church and some afternoon or evening snow showers. They may linger into monday, only 34. Next seven days wish i was more confident with this sevenday forecast, models are all over the place. Well just say cold and dry tuesday. Wednesday okay, clouds coming in late, chance for snow thursday and well keep it cold again friday with highs in the low to mid30s. So we did get the memo. You may have noticed that we are all rocking the red today and there is a reason because today is go red for womens day. It is a day where we take a stand for womens heart health. Heart disease is the no. 1 killer of women in this country. So its important on this day and really every day to remind everybody about the potential risks. One of the things you can do is start by learning your body mass index, Blood Pressure rate, cholesterol and blood sugar levels. If those numb berms are high, they can raise numbers are high, they can raise your risk for heart disease. Most women dont understand the symptoms of a heart attack, so it goes unnoticed and its known as the silent killer. Mound please join us at the marriott on monday please join us at the Marriott Park hotel for the 66th annual luncheon and fashion show. For tickets call or visit affairoftheheart. Com. In tonights health alert an experimental new treatment to fight peanut allergies. Its a patch containing peanut protein. This 8yearold will wear it every day for at least the next 2 1 2 years. Researchers want to know if repeated exposure to peanuts can actually desensitize children. This protein gets into the outer surface of the skin, is taken up by specialized cells that then take it to the inner parts of the immune system. Doctors say the initial goal is for children to just build up a resistance. Oral therapies are also effective, but doctors say there are side effects. Researchers hope going through the skin with the patch will mean fewer problems. Is your commute killing you . Coming up the stressful impact traffic can have on us no matter if youre in the bus, car or train. And Real Estate Agents take to the skies to hock their houses. And as we head into break this friday eke, a giant panda playing in evening, a giant panda playing in the snow at the toronto zoo. Were back after this. For some Real Estate Agents the sky is the limit when it comes to marketing a 1 million listing. Theyre now using drones to move their merchandise, but as Jessica Doyle explains, the idea might not be ready to take off just yet. Reporter this house will soon go on the market for nearly 1. 5 million. To justify that sky high price tag a new Marketing Strategy that could be poised to take off. You get the scale. You get the feeling of the actual home. You can see hey, this thing is on an acre. This is what it looks like. Reporter realtor Randy Churchill hired a commercial Drone Company to produce aerial video of the home. Hell post the footage online to market the 1 million view of this San Francisco suburb. Between social media, if twitter, you name it they will see media, twitter, you name it they will see the video before they contact their own realtor. Reporter the operator of the drone doesnt want you to see his face because he knows the faa has prohibited the commercial use of drones. Eventually theyll be regulated. Its something thats going to continue to grow. Theres more and more Companies Using it. This will be something we do now on every home that were marketing in this price point. Reporter at a cost of 500 the drone video is actually cheap are than the photos that local chyle cheaper than the photos that local realtor Chris Jeffries has shot for his 1 million listing. He says realtors can easily drop 2,500 or more on high profile marketing. Elsewhere in the nation the commercial drone business is expected to bring in billions of dollars within a few years. There is a big risk with running a business that breaks the law. In 2011 the faa slapped a commercial photographer with a 10,000 fine for using a drone to. The a video of the university of via to shoot a video of