Postal employees to deliver mail after dark, she wrote. Afghan president , karzai, is refusing to sign a Security Agreement that would keep about 8,000 u. S. Troops in afghanistan after the official pullout next year. If the agreement isnt signs properly, we would be compelled to have to begin to plan for the prospect that we will not be able to keep our troops here. Teachers and classmates knew right away, something wasnt right with the student. Seems very lethargic. Very bloodshot eyes. According to police reports, grandmother and great aunt, peggy, admitted smoking marijuana in the presence of the fouryearold while he was getting ready for school. Okay, its the big fancy animation with all the music and alerts. You know what that means. It means we are declaring today and tomorrow those yellow alert days. Chief meteorologist is in the Weather Center with a look at what it really means. Thats if you have to get on the road for the holidays. It incompasses the eastern sea board. The good news along the corridor, it is rain, but to the west, it will be snow. Lets start first with video down into south western virginia. And this is just south of blacksburg, they had a coating of ice today. A little bit of sleet and freezing rain. Now their temperatures are above freezing and heavy rain down there is headed up here for tonight. Okay. Heres a wide view of the radar and theres no shortage of moisture here. This storm system itself is just now entering the united states. Its coming out of the gulf of mexico. So, got a ways to go. Heaviest rain is in southWest Virginia and into north carolina. We still have, you know, steady rain, light to occasional rain and notice everything is green. Theres a couple areas that are magenta. We dont have any real problems in terms of icing on trees, even you folks in West Virginia will see temperatures go up tonight before they go back tomorrow. There is a winter storm warning in effect for Garrett County and for our friends in the valley. Primarily for snow, but not until tomorrow morning and all day tomorrow and tomorrow night. Look at the temperatures, they are as warm as they have been all day. 36 in gaithersburg. 36 in manassas. 36 also in leesburg. So, what im concerned about is not so much icing, its rain. We could see 2 inches of rain downtown by 11 00 tomorrow morning. Well talk about that and talk about some of that rain. All right, thank you, top. They estimate 43 Million People will be making their way over the river and through the woods to grandmas house. And the size of this mammoth storm, thats making some problems for them. In pittsburgh, slick roads sent one car off the road this morning, nobody hurt there. And the ripple effects are starting to be felt at airports just about everywhere. Im peggy fox at Reagan National airport where travelers are keeping their fingers crossed hoping Winter Weather north and west of here wont cancel their flights. Im going to my grandparents house. Yes, you are, caroline, but because of the weather, your smart parents have decided instead of driving all the way to massachusetts, you get to fly. We are leaving today. We just bought the tickets last night. We didnt want to drive. You just bought last night . How expensive was that . It was painful. As for the airlines, they are not running scared just yet. A storm this lanch throughout the east coast is going to have some effect on the flight system. But looks like the airlines are going to tough it out and not precancel flights like they would before a winter storm. Some airlines have liberal rebooking policies and will let you make a change due to the weather. That wont be easy this weekend. You should try to stick out the flight youve got. Even if its a little delayed. At national airport, peggy fox, wusa9. Now if you are the one of the 39 million americans expected to travel by car, you might want to fill up today. According to aaa fuel gauge report, the National Average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is 3. 29 today. Thats up a penny since yesterday and 8 cents since last week. You can always find the best prices at the pump by logging on to wusa9. Com or just down load our ipad app. Supreme court agreed to referee another dispute over the president s healthcare law. At issue this time, whether a business can refuse to provide Birth Control coverage for employees for religious reasons. Now companies filed dozens of lawsuits over this particular insurance mandate and the lower court is divided over it. You can expect the Supreme Court decision this coming june. Probably no surprise tonight, the man not certified as the winner in one of the closest elections in virginia history wants a recount. He will make a formal request with the board of elections tomorrow. That body certified a 165 vote margin of victory for mark herring yesterday. The family of miriam carey is asking them to investigate her death. You might remember this wild scene last month. U. S. Capitol police and secret Service Officers shot carey near the Capital Building after she hit a police car, led officers o on a chase and refused to stop. Police used excessive force. The d. C. Police department is investigating the use of deadly force, which is Standard Practice involving the police. A bizarre fire in ocean city killed one person and left two others in the hospital. Police tell us someone on fire walked into the Church Rectory screaming, please help me. The whole building caught fire. The reverend is one of the people who was hurt and his injuries are reported to be life threatening. Tonight, the Montgomery County council appears poised. Its not clear which of the proposals on the table will win. Raising the rate to 11. 50. County executive supports that same amount, but over a five year period. The lone holdout was anders. Employees at three local walmarts walked off the job. They are protesting the companys aggressive efforts to keep them quiet. Those employees say they make less than 25,000 a year and they think the nations largest employer should pay them more. The 13th amendment abolished slavery back in 1865. Apparently word may not have reached georgia quite yet. This is a copy of the online questionnaire for jurors in dekalb county. It includes slaves as one of the options for an occupation. The Administration Says its based on an internal list, but hes not sure if the options has always been part of the document. The word was removed within an hour of it being discovered, but it will take longer to figure out how it got there in the first place. Still ahead tonight, proving that it is certainly takes a village to make a difference these days. The redskins not the only ones to lose something at fedex last night, well explain yn the d. C. Fire department is hiring nine new paramedics. They start monday. The department is trying to address a shortage of paramedics and the deputy mayor for Public Safety says these new hires are filling an immediate need. Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened at fedex field this morning. A couple concession stand workers were stuck up by thugs armed with a stun gun. It was about 12 30 in the morning down here on the 100 level about an hour after the game ended. The two vendors were here in one of the concession stands, counting the days proceeds. Two guys dressed all in black with black ski masks approached. They demanded money, took out a stun gun, actually stunned both of these vendors and then escaped with a still undetermined amount of cash. Police make the point this was a stun gun, not a taser. A taser actually fires two darts up to a distance of 15 feet. A stun gun is widely available at places like united gun shops here in rockville. With the stun gun, you actually have to touch somebody to knock them down. Surveillance cameras all over the stadium and detectives are right now going through that video at fedex field. Bruce leshan, wusa9. And speaking of it, oh my goodness, what was that last night . If youre a redskins fan, you have little to cheer about. Well talk about where the team goes next. Thats coming your way. The pain started up the back of my head and wrapped around to the front. I couldnt play my bassoon because of the pressure that i felt throughout my whole head. The blistering and the rash was moving down towards my eye. The doctors at the emergency room recommended that i have it checked out by an eye doctor. There was concern about my eyesight. When i had shingles the music stopped. Hundreds of people used to struggling to find every meal were treated to white table cloths this afternoon. Catholic charities of washington served a traditional thanksgiving meal. And 100 volunteers helped to serve that meal. This time of year, we learn just how much families are struggling out there. People who arent accustomed to asking for help are showing up for free dinners and give aways. When a family finds itself homeless, well thats when the stress really sets in. Youve heard the expression, it takes a village. Bruce johnson has the story tonight. This is jas, shes an 11th grader at Duke Ellington school of the art. The dance major. The star performer in the upcoming nativity production next month. She has incredible potential. Jazz and her family, they are homeless and its no longer rare at ellington. As a Public School institution, we are committed and supportive of our students and have done, you know, what we can in terms of providing for transportation, you know, doing things for the family. But the needs are significant and great. Jazzs father, petro, pat turned to a stranger when he lost his job and he could no longer afford rent. What made you decide that . Because they went into trying to get places and they were being turned away. They couldnt come in as a whole family. The former adviser neighborhood commissioner for the area. But for the past several weeks, he allowed them to live in his condo in southeast. The family with no dress includes a set of threeyear old triplets. These are your triplets here. And you have three other kids. Three girls. And theres a wife, and you, and you dont have a home. Youre homeless. Jazz is a straight a student here at Duke Ellington and her mother graduated from the school, like the daughter, shes a dancer. The father also graduated from Duke Ellington, hes an artist. Jazz was getting ready for the schools big holiday production. Her dad was one of 3500 people in southeast who showed up today for a free turkey, compliments of the councilman, marion barry. You need a job. Doing what . Landscaping. Anything. You can help him with a job, hes an artist who has done some landscaping work. Try to hold on to his daughters dream. Bruce johnson, wusa9. Wow. 8 people in his condo, that is what we call generosity. Lets hope, we have a lot of generous viewers out there. Maybe someone will be able to help that family even more. All right top, so, the weather is not causing problems trying to get somewhere for thanksgiving, but a little parade thing in new york, that could be impacted. It could, now not by rain or snow, but by wind. You cant have a sustained wind of more than 23 miles per hour. Its going to be very close to that thresh hold on thanksgiving. I think it will be just under. Its going to be breezy. All right, lets take a live look outside. Our yellow alert continues today and yes, tomorrow. Right now, 39. Thats as high as its been all day and temperatures will remain steady or they will rise overnight. The winds out of the northeast at 10. They will become northwesterly. All right, its just now pulling out of the gulf of mexico. Rain from florida, jacksonville, through georgia, the carolinas, and snow up into new york state and North Western p. A. Just rain for us, steady rain right now. Were looking at heavier pockets of rain to the south and west of us and that will roll in tonight and early tomorrow morning. Were looking at flooding is possible. Thats what im mainly concerned about. Why . Temperatures are going up. 35 in bethesda. 35 in germantown. 36 in fairfax and 37 in college park. Up to 38 now in waldorf. So, freezing is not a problem. Heavy rain tonight is going to be the problem. Yellow alert again on wednesday. Why . Well, we have a morning commute that will feature rain and showers and we have an evening commute that could feature snow showers. That will be the last of this storm tomorrow evening. Look at the orange. Thats heavy rain. 10 30 tonight on our future cast. Put this into motion. Heavy rain again between midnight and 1 30. Heavy rain again to the north toward baltimore. And still pretty good rain right on through the rush hour on wednesday and perhaps with each snow rolling through late in the day as colder air moves in and a little bit of moisture is still left over. Well break it down. We have 40s with rain across the board. Should taper off by 1 00 downtown. Next three days, cold, breezy on thanksgiving. Maybe a flurry. 38. And still cold on friday, low 40s. At least they will be dry. So low 40s on saturday. Still cold. Near 50 on sunday. Redskins play again sunday night. Chilly. And low to mid 50s on monday and tuesday. Right now, we will keep monday and tuesday dry. All right thankses, top. We have breaking news, a stabbing on a metro platform. This happened just before 5 00 at the station along the red line. There was an altercation between two people. An adult man was stabbed in the left side. He was apparently conscious and alert and taken to an area hospital. Right now, police are looking for a suspect described as a woman in her 20s. And jan jeffcoat has a look at what is coming your way in your only local news at 7 00. Hi, derek, the white house is working on the next phase of talks that would end not just delay, but Irans Nuclear program. Meanwhile, the Administration Just completed temporary deal with iran to continue to draw fire. So were going to talk to former United Nations ambassador, thomas, and will join us live during your only local news at 7 00. And dont forget, we have three ways for you to give joy to some local families this holiday season. Again, all you have to do is log on to wusa9. Com to give a donation or just send a card in our virtual toy drive and derek, we are already starting to get speed back on this. Cat tc sends us a message that reads, i love, love, love this. I purchased a few items a couple days ago and will do a couple more on my next payday. Thank you so much, we love you and derek and lesli, looking forward to seeing these other people. Theres a lot of other cats out there who are getting involved. Thats why its so great. Love it. Not such a holiday joyous message from redskins coach, Mike Shanahan today. Coming up, shany says everybodys job is on the line. Yn i started parttime, now im a manager. N. My employer matches my charitable giving. Really. I get bonuses even working parttime. Where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. Healthcare starting under 40 a month. I got education benefits. I work at walmart. Im a pharmacist. Sales associate. I manage produce. I work in logistics. Theres more to walmart than you think. Vo opportunity. Thats the real walmart. Local toyota dealers. Now, game on with kristen berset. Live from the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. Well, we learned a few things last night, there will be no push for the washington redskins. What we saw in last nights embarrassing loss to san francisco, this team is just bad and its not just rg3, yes, he and the rest of the offense look awful. The defense made people forget that Colin Kaepernick is having a bad year as well. One that Mike Shanahan says should have everyone on alert. Everybody is playing for their jobs, you know. Thats the nature of our business. I dont care if its players, coaches, support staff, you know, the nature of this game is to find a way to win. And if you dont win, everybody is accountable. Each man has to look at himself better. What can i do to get this thing turned around . Nobody is happy sitting here at 3 and 8. This is unacceptable. Obviously players and coaches are frustrated. Nothing they do seems to be working. Rumors are circulating and after losing three in a row, no surprise the guys are getting tired of answering the same questions over and over. Last night, Robert Griffin iii got a little snippy in his post game press conference. What am i supposed to do . Come up here and talk about how bad we are . Thats not my job. My job is to answer my questions and get better. You know, i love my job. I will go to war with them every day. If we play a game like we did today, we go to the next, we choose to get better. Thats what we have to do. More bad news, defensive end will miss the rest of the season, bowen injured his tcl a few weeks ago. Now apierce he had cartilage damage and may undergo surgery. The wizards hit with a big injury. Bradley will miss at least two weeks for the stress fracture in his right leg. Thats the same leg that caused him to miss the last eight games last season. Sorry i have no good news for you this morning. Mike shanahan talk about anybody playing for his job . Oh, he knows its on the line. He and his son. He said everybodys job. The way this is going. Thats it for us, the cbs evening news is next. And ill be back with jan at 7 00. Wusa9. Com is always on. Pelley tonight, as millions head out for the holiday, a major storm moves in making travel difficult and dangerous. Manuel bojorquez and jeff pegues on the problems in the air and on the road. Meteorologist eric fisher has the the forecast. Anna werner on a challenge to obamacare. Can a private employer refuse to cover contraceptives . The Supreme Court will decide. The syrian dictator is accused of using ai÷o new weapon against civilians starvation. Clarissa ward reports many of the victims are whic children. And seth doane goes undercover to expose chinese counterfeiters specializing in art. No artist wants to find that someone has taken their stuff and is passing it off as their own. Captioning sponsory