hello again, it s 6:00 and a cold commute for this wednesday, december 8th. sharon s watching the roads and it s bernadette woods in for marty bass. load up on your gear before heading out this morning. this is what you re dealing with. temperatures in the 20s for most of us and teens in the mountains. you ll see teens down to the ocean. this ranges from 22 degrees in westminster and 28 in rock hall. this is what we have throughout the day. we re tapping out at 34 degrees. the wind will be in this afternoon. we ll be in and out of the clouds. the windchill feels like the 20s for most of the afternoon. however, we ll finally see the weather pattern breaking towards the weekend. that will be coming up. any problems on the pavement? here s sharon. we have some problems we started the morning out with. that s an accident on 95. still there. not a major one, single vehicle involved. meantime, 70 westbound is closed down and watch for that blocking all of the lanes. lingering
of the water main breaks that plague our area this time of year. the cold shoulder. one day after being sworn in to the prince george s county council, leslie johnson facing a shortage of friendly faces on the job. and the view from inside. only on 9, never before seen video from inside the discovery channel building during last september s standoff. i m lindsey mastis in silver spring. there is never-before seen surveillance video of james lee, the shooter who took over the discovery building. this is surveillance video from inside discovery channel. police says that james jay lee in the corning, putting on a vest he created with pipe bombs. montgomery county police shared this with other security experts during a workplace violence seminar in silver spring. police say the hostages used hand gestures to devise a plan to escape. this shows what happened at that moment. lee was killed by police in pocket was a thumb drive with two videos. they are of lee testing his pipe
so much traic, i will you have right here. i can t get anywhere. reporter: then onward avenue in kensington, another water main ruptured in a neighborhood. the sposmen say these two of the more than water mains they re repairing in montgomery and prince george s county. terrible. we need to do bett maintenance on the pipes. reporter: overnight in d.c., crews worked to repair pipes that burst in northwest avenue. the same work was happeng in annandale, virginia. crews worked to repair an eight-inch water main break. there it ruptured in the southbound lanes. they cut water to places including this volunteer fire partment. the thing to remember about breaks, if they re happening in your neighborhoods, the pines in your homes need protecting as well. we tell people to know where their main water valve is so they can turn the water off quickly. we recommend, special when i this holiday season coming up, if you are going out of town, don t turn your heat off. keep it at
it could be your saving grace. reporter: 9news now. john edwards and children were at elizabeth s side we understand at her chapel hill home. a family friend said just yesterday she was making the announcement the cancer treatment was not going to be continue. elizabeth edwards has died. we have other breaking news from the white house where president obama held a late afternoon news conference trying to convince democrats to get on board with his plan to end the gridlock over tax cuts. joel brown joins us with more on the deal the president struck with republicans. joel, this is going to be a hard sell for members of his party? reporter: the white house knew it had a sales job on its hands with democrats. by this afternoon the president decided he was going to make the case for his tax cut deal with republicans. president obama called reporters together so he could send a message to capitol hill. it is time to put politics aside. my number one priority is for jobs
youudon t see this veryyoften. mother nature s pretty powerful. seeing it in he flesh ann blood, t s pretty lively. . ocean city is preparing to %-holiday weekend. the long one person had the wrong idea during the storm. he s a surfer who decided to go outtinto the wavessduring the hurricann. well, that violated restrictions on swimming and surfing during the storm. the man received two $300 citttions. ii thh meantime hurricane earl is moving away from us toward new england. now the sky is already gray up -here and the winds are picking up as well. %-the hardest as the hurricanet people there are already boarding up theer houses and storefronts, but many will stick we re not leaving. why not? myylife, and we re used to itt i think we ll be ine. we re inland. would feel pretty confident in i -y residu residence. still, parts of the cape ave already lost power. where is earl right now and are we in the clear? meteorrlogist emily grace is here with the latest on