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Cameron was found with his behind bleeding and layers of skin missing. Her bond was said to run 150,000. The man she was with when she was arrested is also in custody. In Frederick Stephanie rez, wusa9 news. Details are hard to listen to. A cab driver shot and killed after picking up a passenger in Capitol Heights and police are looking for the gunman. Surae chinn is live in the neighborhood where it happened. Reporter the 29yearold cab driver from ethiopia was found in the 800 block of in Capitol Heights maryland and police are searching for a shooter. The owner of the Company Silver cab of Prince Georges County says khdeir yaya leased his car from them and has been driving for them for two years. He said he was a good guy, a good driver and he had picked someone up after being flagged down at the addison metro station. At 6 00 we talk to the cab company owner, other cab drivers. They say they feel theyve lost a Family Member coming up in the next hour. Prince georges county police made an arrest in a murder in fairmount heights. Alexis henderson is now charged with first degree murder. Its thought henderson got into an argument with the victim Rafael Frazier that ended with frazier being stabbed to death. His body was found inside a home on Wood Hill Court yesterday morning and cops found henderson in the district last night driving a car stolen from fraziers local. Search crews prepare for another full day of recovery in the waters off indonesia. The grim task of identifying bodies of those found so far from air asia flight 8501 is also underway. Craig boswell has the latest. Reporter search teams in indonesia are trying to work around high winds and rough seas to locate more victims of air asia flight 8501, the jetliner was about halfway through its two hour flight from indonesia to singapore when it disappeared from radar sunday. Cbs news has learned indonesian officials believe the pilot attempted a steep climb to get out of the bad weather before the plane went down. Authorities in charge of the investigation, though, cannot confirm that until the so called black boxes are located. The flight data recorders can provide investigators with critical information about the planes altitude, air speed and Engine Performance as well as a recording of the pilots last words. Cbs news confirmed a sonar image believed to be thman fuselage is upside down main fuselage is upside down at the bottom of the java sea. The first of the 162 people on board arrived in surabaya wednesday and now the identification process begins. Victims families are given detailed descriptions of their loved ones along with blood samples for dna matching in hopes of speeding up the identification process. Craig boswell, cbs news. So far searchers have recovered only seven bodies including one of ight attendants. Dramatic new home video of that greece ferry fire nearly 100 people still missing, 13 people confirmed dead according to skynews. Com. The fire happened sunday in the adriatic sea and a ship was carrying 400 people. Investigators are worried the death toll will rise. It looks like d. C. Residents will ring in the new year without streetcars. The trolleys are on the road, on the eighth street corridor but just test runs without passengers. The Gray Administration hoped residents would be enjoying them by now, but safety concerns delayed the launch. Ddot still has to complete a safety report. It was like oh, street cars are going to be going any minute, blah, blah, blah, youll have such great transportation to get to union, blah, blah, blah. People will be upset because we had thought the trolleys were going to be here almost two years ago. The 123 million projects began all the way back in 2008. Mayor gray says ddot will workday and night to get passengers safely riding on those trolleys. As new years eve partiers are in for a chilly night, first alert meteorologist erica grow joins us now. How cold will it get tonight . It will feel like its in the 20s, even upper teens after a really chilly end to the year. We only got up to 39 degrees today, our average high 44. We started the day at 29 degrees. Its going to be even colder today. Youll see that in the feels like forecast. This is when you combine, of course, the air temperature with the wind speed and as youre waking up early tomorrow morning, its going to feel like 20 in frederick, 20 in gaithersburg, 16 in hagerstown, 23 in fredericksburg. So that chill will remain in the air. If youre heading to the nhl winter classic tomorrow, even in the afternoon, its still going to feel like its in the low 30s to mid30s and it wont get any better until we get to the weekend. So that chill will still be in the air even early on friday morning. Overnight tonight if youre heading out for those new years eve celebrations, make sure you have the winter coat of, 20 to 26 degrees, wind chills in the teens and 20s with that west, southwest wind at 10 Miles Per Hour. Well talk about the warmup and the chance for rain coming up in the first alert seven day. Changes are coming to redskins park following another losing season. Today general manager bruce allen announced that defensive coordinator jim haslett is no longer with the organization. Sports anchor Kristen Berset is here with more. Redskins fans have been begging for some major changes to happen in ashburn. Of course, they went to a new owner of the team. Its not going to happen any time soon. They also have been calling for general manager bruce allen to get fired. That doesnt appear to be happening either. In fact, today allen gave his annual Postseason Press Conference to talk about the state of the franchise which is 2852 in his five years as general manager. He s pokeabout 40 minutes. It got pretty testy at times. He promised to reevaluate the program, make some changes, the first which of we now know is a new defensive coordinator. Jim haslett and the redskins agreed to part ways. This was haslets fifth year with the team in. That team the redskins defense collectively finished 29th in total yard and 30th in points allowed. On monday head coach jay gruden said he would recommend the team keep haslett, but two days later thats not the case. Heres bruce allen explaining what happened. Jay and jim have been talking the last few days and this morning when they were talking, they decided it was the best way for both sides and i appreciate coach hasletts work and what hes done for the redskins, but i think it was the right decision. Bruce allen said the team planned on reaching out to other candidates beginning today but wouldnt give any kind of timetable when they plan to make a new hire, but did he say it would eventually be up to jay gruden to pick the new defensive coand who he wanted to work with. It sounded like he wanted to him. He can. Saying he wanted to keep him. He came in when Mike Shanahan and bruce allen came in, but its pretty obvious something needed to change, so a mutually parting of the ways. Were just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. The healing power of hockey, coming up at 5 30 Diane Roberts introduces us to the people who could get the most enjoyment out of tomorrows winter classic. Plus why the liquor board canceled new years eve festivities at a popular d. C. Bar. First alert meteorologist erica grow comes back with a look at your extended forecast. Plus why millions of americans will be getting a ra i know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. 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Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v tonights new years eve celebration at a popular d. C. Bar lab canceled. Mcfadden has been canceled. Mcfaddens Liquor License was suspended because it was claimed there was an imminent danger of the health and safety to the public after five people were stabbed over the weekend. Mcfaddens has 72 hours to appeal the decision. New information on what police call the mob assault of a pizza delivery plan. It happened december 9th on fletcher road in sterling. The Loudoun County Sheriffs Office said the group of bad guys assaulted the victim while another held him. Investigators say the victim was able to get away with only minor injuries. If you think you might recognize who this person is, please call loudoun crime solvers. That number is on your screen, 7037771919. Much of the west will ring in the new year with freezing temperatures, snow and wind. Two people actually were killed including a Harbor Patrol officer during a storm on Santa Catalina island in california. L. A. Authorities say high winds caused several boats to break loose. More than 100 drivers were stranded in about 1 foot of snow in San Bernadino county anicd slk conditions caused heavy backups on the roads to las vegas where revelers planned to ring in the new year. Its making me really nervous. Im telling my friend im going to die because these people cant drive out here and ive seen almost 10 accidents. On vegas crews have sand ready in case it snows on the strip tonight and parts of arizona could see a foot of snow by tomorrow. The Winter Weather is expected to make tomorrows Rose Bowl Parade the coldest one in history. For those of you watching from home you, you can just spend new years with us. Yeah. Where its warm. Its a great way to stay warm because it will be very cold tonight, even by d. C. Standards and by this time of year we are seeing some of the coldest temperatures, but it will feel like its way below freezing even at midnight tonight. Here we go with the michael and son weather cam. You can see it was sunny today. We have lots of blue sky overhead, but that sunshine was deceiving. It was cold and look at how dry it is, too. Right now the temperature is 36, but the dew point is only 6 degrees. So that adds an extra element of dryness to the air that really makes it feel bitingly cold. That will factor in when the wind starts to pick up overnight into tomorrow. So make sure you bundle up for the teens and 20s overnight tonight. Tomorrow morning will be mostly sunny and all day long its going to stay cold, plus the wind chill will be a factor all day. Keep that in mind if youre heading to the nhl winter classic. Friday will be seasonably chilly. Temperatures will start to rebound a bit heading into friday. Now its already below freezing in hagerstown. Its 31 degrees. Its 30 in martinsburg, 36 in culpeper and orange, 36 in washington and 33 at andrews. Just about everyone is going to dip below freezing when that sun sets and heres satellite and radar. Plenty of cloud cover to our south and north but none really over us. High pressure will continue to nudge its way toward us keeping things cold and dry. As we head through the day thursday, that area of High Pressure starts to slide to the east, but we dont have any precipitation in our forecast until the weekend. Some clouds move toward us friday, but no rain and with a little bit of a breeze out of the west and southwest we will start to bump temperatures up. However, saturday here comes our next storm system and by the time we get into saturday evening rain will be falling. At least its not wintery weather. Overnight tonight if we had precipitation, it would be icy. So thank goodness we dont have that in the forecast. At 8 p. M. 33 degrees, 31 at midnight. So already below freezing downtown d. C. Ked downtown d. C. At midnight and it will be mostly clear and cold, overnight lows between 20 and 26 degrees, wind out of the west, southwest continue at 10 Miles Per Hour. Tomorrow morning will be another cold start, temperatures in the 20s and 30s and that wind chill maintains in the 20s as well with winds out of the west, southwest at 10 to 15. Heading into the afternoon mostly sunny skies, a high around 40 degrees, still a little breezy and stillly, winds out of the southwest 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. By friday were back to where we should be this time of year, 48 degrees. So its a couple degrees above our average and then saturday were watching that storm system approach. It will be slow to arrive. Well see dry conditions in the morning changing over to some showers in afternoon and a high of 42 degrees. Timing is everything with this one. Were getting the weather just in time for those temperatures to be above freezing so we arent concerned about wintery weather here in the immediate metro area. In the first alert sevenday forecast sunday is the warmest day with 50 degrees, but its going to be a little breezy and well have on and off rain showers all day and then temperatures plunge back into the 30s as we head back to work and school on monday. In tonights consumer alert not such a great day for the stock market. But it has been a good year overall. Today the dow industrials lost 159 points, the nasdaq dropping 41 points, but for the year the dow gained 7 . Volkswagen beetle, jetta and passat from 2014 and 2015 and the golf in 2015, no injuries have been reported on these recalls. White castle says customers were asking for a meat alternative. I dont know who those people were, but the veggieburger is chockful of vegetables like carrots, zucchini and broccoli and costs 99 cents. White castle said it got rave reviews. No one goes to white castle for a veggie burger. Millions who make minimum wage are getting a raise on new years. Reporter from fast food restaurants to retail stores, millions minimum wage workers are getting a pay bump in the new year including jade anderson. Ive been a cashier 20 plus years, so it will impact me and my family. Reporter at least 23 states will have a higher minimum wage in 2015. In missouri the wage is going up to 7. 65 an hour. In maryland its 8. Workers in washington will get 9. 47 an hour. Add in states with previous wage hikes and 29 will be taking above the federal level of 7. 25 an hour. What do we want . Reporter but many workers want more. Nationwide protests in 2014 called for a 15 an hour federal minimum wage. New jersey garage owner john oconnor pays his entry level employees a state minimum which moves the to 8. 38 an hour. He can hand moves up to 8. 38 an hour. He can handle the increase now, but it will force companies to raise prices. On the small stuff, those prices will have to go up. As my costs go up, i have to pass it on. Reporter many Business Owners and workers will continue to see wages go up. Several states plan to increase the minimum again next year. Both maryland and d. C. Will see increases in the minimum wage this year. Maryland goes up from 7. 25 to 8 appear hour tomorrow. D. C. An hour tomorrow, d. C. Increases from 9. 50 to 10. 50 on july 1st. Reporter it is new years eve in times square. The people are showing up. The last minute its the time of year for making lists. At chevrolet, weve made it onto a few lists ourselves. In fact this year, weve been at the top of more awards lists than any other car company. Now during the chevy year end event put us on yours. Choose a cruze in stock the longest and get cash back for 20 percent of the msrp. Thats over four thousand two hundred fifty dollars on this cruze lt. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Alexandria is celebrating its 20th anniversary of first night alexandria, a Family Friendly way to welcome in the new year. It got underway this afternoon with a scavenger hunt. Carnival games and face in pating will happen tonight and fireworks will burst the Potomac River ed amid at river at midnight. In beijing china thousands of people filled national stadium. The evening was filled with sports demonstrations and art performances. In tokyo, japan, a former broadcasting tower was lit up with a sign welcoming the new year. The party of the year Getting Started already in the heart of manhattan. Miss it. Hundreds of thousands of people streaming in to watch the ball drop over times square and turn the page on a new year. Youve actually been there. I have. Kris van cleave is in the middle of all the action now. I can imagine theres tons of revelers there that have already staked out their seats or i guess their standing positions. Reporter absolutely. They started very, very early this morning. We saw some people here right about dawn and it is as you know very cold on the east coast right now. People are talking about 17 hours standing in the cold to watch the ball drop. As were standing here, were coming to you from the roof of the marriott marquee about 10 shows up. I can see people for blocks stories up. I can see people for blocks. The crowd in new york citys time square started growing early on new years eve despite frigid temperatures. People filled the streets. Some arrived soon after dawn to secure the perfect spot. For this new jersey mother and daughter its an item off their bucket list. This is just so exciting. The energy. Its awesome, so really cant wait. Reporter at the center of block party is the famous crystal ball. Its midnight descent marks the start of 2015. Its a new beginning for me and i figured what a better way to sta

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