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the freshman from isreal, roman sorkin. some kind of offensive game. 23 points on 7 of 14 shooting. roman sorkin, they think he he can help them eventually. >> spero: count down to the big one wednesday night in arizona between the ducks and the wildcats. as oregon gets a win and gets to 14-6 on the season. ucla falling to 11-9 they head home 0-2 on this trip. back to wrap it up get some final thoughts from doug on cbs. >> spero: tonight on cbs. only cbs. final score oregon 82, ucla 64 as ducks get to 14-6. now for the rest of our crew our producer and our director, statistician rest of our cbs crew for doug gottlieb and spero dedes so long from eugene. tonight on cbs it's "csi" and "48 hours them is presentation of cbs sports. don't settle for 4g lte coverage that's smaller or less reliable when only one network is america's largest and most reliable 4g lte network: verizon. with xlte, our 4g lte bandwidth has doubled in over 400 cities. and now, save without settling. get 2 lines with 10gb of data for just $110... or 4 lines for just $140. and get a $150 bill credit for each smartphone you switch. hurry! offers end january 31st. only on verizon. . tonight, lots of residents forced into the street by fire, but the red cross, family and friends are now coming to their rescue. hello, everybody. i'm bruce johnson. thank you for joining us. for the second time this week, hoarding conditions make it difficult to fight a fire. early this morning, fire razed through a green belt apartment building, the 8400 block of green belt road. surae chinn is standing by live. >> reporter: bruce, there were storage items, we're told, from prince george's county firefighters packed from top to bottom in this condo. a resident tells me an 87-year- old man crawled out of a window to escape the flames and smoke. some of the debris here outside of his condo right now, just lying here on the ground, just a lot of debris, charred mess, as you can see. prince george's county fire says all that clutter in the condo made it difficult for firefighters to contain this fire. it really hampered efforts this morning. 18 people are now displaced, including the 87-year-old resident. the elderly man was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and minor cuts. the two-alarm fire sent 60 firefighters to the scene around 5:00 this morning. smoke was billowing from the three-story building, as fire ripped through the chelsea wood condominium in green belt. it sent kelly smith rushing outside. >> i looked out the window, saw a million lights. looked like christmas. freaked out, grabbed the dog, ran outside. >> reporter: a few days ago, in arlington county, firefighters performed a dramatic rescue when a three-alarm fire forced the two residents of the home to find refuge on the roof. this happened in the 4500 block of 40th street north. arlington county says hoarding conditions hampered their efforts. now, back in green belt out here live, the red cross is helping and firefighters are still trying to figure out exactly what caused this fire. back to you, bruce. >> surae, thanks for that. we're bracing for a wintry mix, erica? >> bruce, we're just finishing up with one storm system. you can see it pulling away on satellite and radar, but another one is making its approach. this is a pretty strong clipper system. you know alberta clippers usually have more snow than rain. they are usually colder, but they are usually drier as well. this one, though, has quite a bit of moisture with it. what do you need to know? we'll see the showers arrive after dark on sunday. that means the daylight hours are fine. mostly snow. there will be some rain in the beltway and snow is going to fall all day on monday, so we will have to be dealing with this for several hours, maybe even a full day. the highest snow amounts are going to be north and east of the beltway. we'll give you a little bit more detail on what you can expect in your neighborhood. no totals yet. it's just way too up in the air right now, but we'll nail down for you exactly when you can expect the snow to fall in your neighborhood, coming up in the first alert seven-day forecast. bruce, back to you. >> erica, thanks a lot for that. as investigations continue into what happened on january 12th aboard a metro yellow line train, we're taking the time to go for safety on metro trains. one woman was killed. more than 80 passengers injured, when smoke filled the train and tunnel at la -- a metro spokesperson says they should all be easily accessible with the emergency door release located underneath. we checked with some passengers today to see if they know where the emergency exits are. most did, saying it's something they are now paying close attention to. >> i have ridden the subway so long, i guess i should know it. if i don't, it's my responsibility. >> i'm more socially aware of how to do things, because i read about this incident. it make ms. you think about what you would do in that situation. >> but there were some passengers who could not answer some of our safety and emergency questions today. we're going to have more on that and what stephanie ramirez found while riding metro trains, tonight at 11:00. still ahead on wusa 9 this saturday, more than 7000 took a dip in the chesapeake bay today, including a member of the wusa 9news team. we don't know what he did wrong. we'll have hey, i lost my debit card. do you guys do instant replacement? 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>> i come back home from college every year to do it and i wouldn't miss it for the world. >> reporter: but everyone froze just the same, for the same cause, special olympics maryland. >> what's really cool is individuals with intellectual disability has been marginalized. when we have an opportunity to show themselves as athletes on the stage and have interviews, people don't understand who our athletes are. if they get to know them, their lives are further enriched. >> reporter: plungers did more than make a splash. once they dried off, they spent the day celebrating the cause. >> it was amazing, having all of these people here. i feel like everyone's supporting each other. >> it was a little cold! but for a good cause and we'll do it again next year! >> reporter: considering special olympics maryland bases one third of their budget on this very event, c are consider this a big success for the organization, as they raised over a million dollars. nick geovany, wusa 9. keeping a close watch on the weather this weekend and for monday. erica has the latest, when we come b thank you for being a sailor and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military, or their family, see if you're eligible to get an auto insurance quote. ♪ over 20 years 31 million students started college, but didn't complete a degree for lots of reasons. at devry university we believe there are also lots of reasons to finish. so we help you maximize qualifying credits you've already earned. so you can graduate sooner and get on to a great career. because whatever kept you from finishing before... all that matters is your reason to do it now. see more reasons to finish and get started at devry.edu. . welcome back. i'm first alert meteorologist erica grow. we're done with storm number one, but now storm number two is making its approach. 43 degrees. winds have started to gust out of the north-northwest up to 20 miles an hour, bringing in colder, drier air. sunday itself will be fairly pleasant and will be completely dry until after sunset and that's when the snow is going to arrive. but a lot of the snow is going to melt initially because of those milder temperatures we'll have on sunday. the heaviest snow with this approaching clipper system will likely fall during the monday morning commute. then we'll taper that snow off to showers as we head into monday afternoon. so here we are with our satellite and radar. you can see we are clearing out, but on 9 future cast, this is the north american model, depicting the clipper's approach. you can see the cloud cover starting to increase as we head into sunday afternoon. sunday night, the rain and snow mix starts to arrive. it's still just rain in montgomery county at that point. a quick changeover to snow. by the time we get into the monday morning commute, it is all snow, even in the beltway, a little bit of a brief mix in with rain around noon and then back to just snow for the evening commute. and we could be left with even snow showers during that tuesday morning commute. so this is going to be a long- lived event for a clipper. they usually don't last this long. you can expect a mixture of rain and snow through the beltway and into southern maryland, southern prince william, mostly to all-snow in montgomery and northern portions of louden county, frederick county, seeing just a mostly to all-snow event out of this event. overnight, partly cloudy, chilly, 26 to 34. winds out of the west to 10 miles an hour past midnight. seasonably chilly on sunday with temperatures in the 30s, southwest winds at 5 to 15. in the afternoon, not bad, 45 to 50. that's going to help as showers arrive at night. lot of it's going to melt at first, but then we will change over to snow showers on monday. as i mentioned before, very disruptive to the morning commute. it's a yellow alert day. it could still be very disruptive to the evening commute as well. then windy on tuesday, as the storm system pulls away. in the first alert seven-day forecast, we'll stay dry after that until at least thursday, a chance for a shower and highs returning to the 40s by thursday. back to you, . it's a question every team in college basketball is dying to find out this time of year. can we win in hostile territory? the big east is certainly hostile. georgetown starting to cook now, but two of the last three times they have gone on the road, they have been cooked. could they get it done today to milwaukee, we go. interesting stuff here. georgetown's lj peek, but comes down on jabril's ankle. both guys injured. more on that in a second. 40 seconds to go. copeland with the runner. hoyas up three. marquette, 3 seconds to go, up for the win! apparently, yes! but they call it a two. his foot was on the line. going to overtime. extra session, hoyas win over marquette. gw hosting duquesne and the dukes, not putting up much of a fight. exefn larson inside easy. colonials led this game by 22 at the break. lot of reives playing, like paul jorgensen. george washington blows out duquesne 74-59. >> yeah, you know, lot of people call it a trap game. obviously we're playing vcu tuesday on national tv and we all watched them last night. st. louis gave them a great game, but, you know, i told them it won't mean as much unless we win today. >> i think we are playing more focused now, focusing on defense and obviously making more shots. i think our confidence is up. check out this finish. west virginia versus tcu. 5 seconds to go, ladies and gentlemen. dexter miles, jr., there goes my hero! ties it. so we're going to overtime, right? all right. final seconds, tcu's zeigler puts the horned frogs up one. right back the other way. carter blocked at the buzzer! but he was fouled! so he's going to the line. ice water in his veins. he makes two free throws. mountaineers up one. one last heeve for tcu! a heeve, no. west virginia surviving 86-85. wow. that was great stuff. wizards at portland tonight, but the story line is lamarcus aldridge, who is an all-star and a beast, supposed to miss this game and up to eight weeks due to surgery on a torn ligament in his thumb, but he is delaying that and he will play tonight. going to make it really tough for the wizards. the story that just won't end, bill belichick called a press conference to address deflate gate once again. the patriots coach reiterating his team's innocence. and if you're getting annoyed by this story, you got nothing on belichick. listen to this. >> i'm embarrassed to talk about the amount of time that i've put into this. i'm not a scientist. i'm not an expert in footballs. i'm not an expert in football measurements. i would not say that i'm mona lisa vito of the football world as she was in the car expertise area. >> oh, boy. got to love bill. the georgetown guys, we don't know yet. they will get looked at tomorrow and we'll know more. >> do you think belichick is a little tired of this story? >> yes. tonight? >> tonight's going to be fine. it's going to be a little breezy, but then sunday night, a very different story. rain and snow arriving. accumulating snow on monday. we'll see you back here at 11:00. thanks for watching, everybody. bye. how can i avoid maintenance fees? why would you want to avoid them? because i don't want to... you know what? i'm gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you all about it. roddy! 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