Star studded cast to light the National Christmas tree, highlights from tonights pageant of peace. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im will thomas. Im shawn yancy. We begin with a frightening of George Washington university. Someone tried to sexually assault a woman in a restroom. Police have their hands full with several burglaries all within the last 36 hours. Fox 5s Audrey Barnes has tonights news alert. Those burglaries happened in the ivory Tower Residence Hall this afternoon. Around the corner in rice hall a female employee was attacked in a third floor bathroom on tuesday. The incidents have triggered a flurry of security alerts across the downtown campus. Theres a guard posted at front desk rice hall on i street now after someone tried to sexually assault a female employee in a third floor bathroom. When she walked in, the suspect turned the light out and jumped her. She fought back and he fled. From now on no one can get in or out of the building without a g world card or escort
off. duarte geraldino is in washington with more. reporter: mitt romney and ron paul clearly in the lead right now in iowa and hoping that position doesn t backfire on them like it did for rick perry and newt gingrich. mitt romney s bus pulled into a packed warehouse in iowa trying to rev your voters. he attacked president obama suggesting he was out of touch with struggling americans and even comparing him to infamous french queen maria antoinette. i watched the french president and he said it could be worse. that goes down to let them eat cake. the idea that mitt romney can lose to barack obama is false. reporter: rick santorum is hoping to capitalize on his growing support which has other contenders taking notice. rick perry released this ad slamming santorum. michele bachmann is denying rumors her campaign is in disarray after losing not one, but two, key staffers. thursday, she lost her political director a day after iowa campaign chairman kent sorenson defending
be detoured through the strip mall there it s just going to slow you down a bit. they are directing traffic through that area on the westbound side of route 7. no problems on 395 or 66 inside the beltway. in fact let s go to the roosevelt bridge on the inbound side. nice and quiet here. really the length of 66 inside and outside the beltway this morning. no troubles to report. back over to the maps and this time we ll head over to the west side of town at the american legion bridge. 270 looks good coming in from frederick. let s take a live look at the bridge span whether you re leaving the corner or heading southbound out of bethesda you will be just fine as you can see. just a bit of volume but no delays to talk about. coming up in my next report, virginia at 6:10. mike? there s one member of the occupy movement here in washington still on a hunger strike. his goal is getting the district to vote in congress. today protestors want to open a new chapter in their fight. jes
american legion bridge. more to come in a little while with newschopper 7. back to you. thank you. we began this morning with breaking news from afghanistan. police in kabul say that insurgents are firing rockets at the u.s. embassy right now. so far, no word of casualties. we will bring more details as we get them. tropical storm katia lee is gone, but the damage is still with us tropical storm katia lee. several fairfax rose are still damaged and closed. it could cost $10 million to fix the damage from lee. parts of sunrise valley drive, a hillside road as its avenue, miller road, hunter mill road, and walker road are still closed. run off from last week s storms is making a mess of the chesapeake bay. experts have found a yoga matt, a truck tires and a toilet seat all floating in the maryland waterway. that is in addition to the settlement sewage, fertilizer that is also spilling into the bay. scientists say the pollutants could threaten the grasses as wallace
harpers ferry 65, 57 in cumberland. in my southwesterly winds today. partly cloudy tomorrow with a few late-day and thunderstorms. highs) and 90 degrees tomorrow. highs around 90 degrees tomorrow. metro rail has first trains out on normal service. interstate travel is normal. 270 at 109. that this picture. traffic moving nicely out of frederick. now to news. new this morning prince george s county police investigating a homicide in landover. the body of a man was found on the street last night in the 8100 block of manson street. the victim had trauma to the upper body. there s no word on how the man died or any suspect in the case. investigators are searching for the gunman who shot a woman in columbia. or county police say a woman was shot at 10:00 last night in 87 and above lane. is hospitalized in critical condition. the woman s car was found in the area but it s not clear why she was there. the 9/11 anniversary and the reported terror plot had the nation on h