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violence. good morning and thanks for joining us for "news 4 today." i'm eun yang. >> good morning. i'm joe krebs. let's take a live look outside. getting some daylight early on this monday morning. hooray, hooray, thanks to standard time. 46 degrees now. beautiful out there on this monday morning. glow of sunlight out there on the horizon. >> and those of you who did not set your clocks back one hour, you are now living one hour in the future. >> good for you. >> tell us what's happening. we want to know. this morning, yes, the sunrise is an hour earlier. we're happy to see that. the eastern sky now beginning to glow. we haven't seen that in several weeks. right now at reagan national, just down river, you can see the calm waters of the potomac now reflecting that gorgeous sky. it's clear and 41 now at reagan national, which nearly matches the dewpoint. humidity is very high. as a result, we do have patchy dense fog that has formed mostly in the rural areas of west virginia, virginia, and maryland this morning under a clear sky. temperatures are frosty cold as
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well. it is near or below freezing throughout much of the region. prince george's, arlington, fairfax, and montgomery counties into the mid-30s in most locations. sunrise 6:41. by 9:00 we'll be in the upper 40s and the fog should be dissipated by then. by noontime near 60. low 60s midafternoon. we get that early sunset. sunset at 5:02. by then we'll be back down into the 50s. eun and joe. >> thank you very much, tom. 6:01 now. breaking news. eastbound route 50 is closed right now because of a serious accident involving a tractor-trailer. news 4's megan mcgrath is live on the scene with details. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. we actually do have one lane getting by to the right. not completely closed down. the section we're talking about is the eastbound route 50 just after 7:04. they are making some progress trying to clean up the accident here. if you take a look behind me, they were trying to right the truck that was involved. when they did that, they were able to get the truck up onto
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its wheels. the cargo area, the box there, it actually detached from the rest of the truck. it's still lying on its side here on the right-hand side of the roadway in the hov area. they're going to have to clean that up, get that out of the way. the cars that were involved in this accident, they have left the scene here. they're making some progress, but they've still got a little ways to go here. they're hoping to open another lane or two here shortly. they don't have an estimate of when things will get back to normal. we have very, very slow traffic through the area. only getting by the accident scene in the right hand lane. you can imagine what this is doing to traffic this morning. there were three vehicles involved in this accident, two cars and this truck. there were transports to the hospital. no word on the condition of those who were injured. if you've got to travel through this area, definitely give yourself some extra time. it is a crawl here getting by this accident. now with more on traffic, we go to danella. >> thank you. other traffic in our area
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start to go increase. right now if you're traveling virginia, i-66 heading eastbound at the fairfax county parkway, start to go see volume as you make your way towards the beltway. definitely as you get to nutley, pretty slow as you head inside the beltway. traveling 66 east, no accidents to report at this time. on the rails, delays all on the brunswick east lane. train number 870 your delay is five minutes. train 872 your delay is seven minutes. and a very long delay on brunswick east train number 870, your delay is 38 minutes. i'm back in ten minutes with another update on traffic. joe and eun, back to you. this morning a student is behind bars accused of killing another student at frostburg state university. 19-year-old kortneigh mccoy got into a fight with several people in an off campus home on maple street early wednesday morning. when she left, 20-year-old shanee liggins found her outside and stabbed her. mccoy died from her injuries. a memorial service was held for mccoy at her church.
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>> no parent ever expects to have to say good-bye to their children, but sometimes it happens. >> liggins is charged with first and second degree murder. we don't know what started the initial fight. this is second year in a row that an off campus crime ended with the death of a student at frostburg. last april 20-year-old brandon carroll of waldorf was shot after a fight at an off campus party. another student, tyrone hall, was sentenced to five years in prison last november. today in virginia, a key court hearing scheduled in the case of a former university of virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. george hewgley's lawyers will make another attempt to get yardley love's medical records released. police say hewgley killed love last year when he slammed her head against the wall. a medical examiner said she died of blunt trauma to the head. his attorneys say love may have died from an irregular heartbeat partially caused by prescription drugs and alcohol. hewgley's trial is scheduled to
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begin in february. for the fourth time in the past month, there's been an attempted abduction in spotsylvania county. the latest incident happened saturday afternoon in the 6700 block of satterfield court in fredericksburg. an 8-year-old girl said men in a van yelled at her to come closer. she ran away, though. there were four men in a black ford econoline van with red writing that said malroy. she said they were wearing gray big poofy coats and necklaces with crosses. investigators do not think this attempted abduction is connected to others in the county. this morning an 8-year-old autistic boy lost for nearly a week is waking up in his own bed. robert wood jr. was released from the hospital over the weekend. he disappeared for five nights while hiking with his family in north hanover park in hanover county. wood does not speak, which made it harder to find him. eventually, he was found in a fetal position near a rock
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quarry close to the park. today officials in greece will meet to decide who becomes the interim prime minister there. they reached an agreement to ford a temporary government. prime minister george papandreu will not head the temporary government. the new government is expected to be in place three to four months to ensure a new european debt bailout plan will be put in place. >> stock markets on news are down based on the news. they're not sure greece will be able to work out the debt relief. redskins stock are plummeting this morning. they were able to score some points one week after being shutout but shot themselves in the foot too many times. they had three turnovers, including two fumbles. john beck threw for 242 yards, a
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touchdown, and an interception. the 49ers held on 19-11. this is the skins' fourth loss in a row. >> i want to put my foot down and have this stop. we have too many good players on this team. we have good character. we have guys that believe. losing like this shouldn't happen, and i don't want it to happen any longer. coming off the field like this, that's not the situation i want. i'm doing everything i can to win this and get us winning again. >> the loss sends the redskins to 3-5, in last place in the nfc east. remember when we were first place, joe? next week the redskins play at miami. the dolphins just won their first game of the season yesterday. and a thriller in pittsburgh between the steelers and archrival baltimore ravens. the ravens engineered a last second comeback, scoring with just ten seconds left with former maryland terp torrey smith catching the game-winning touchdown.
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the capitol christmas tree is on its way to washington, d.c. this is a video of the tree being cut down in fresno, california. officials chose a 65-foot tall sierra white fir for the capitol tree. now the tree will make the cross country trip from california to d.c., making several stops along the way. it will then be planted in front of the u.s. capitol building. >> that time of the year already. to think about it, it's too quick. >> hard to believe. >> 6:11 now. time for weather and traffic on the ones. let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein in the stormcenter. good morning, tom. >> good morning. frosty cold with patchy fog on this monday morning. temperatures are near or below freezing throughout much of the region, except closer to washington. right at reagan national, it's at 41. near 40 by the bay waters. sunrise an hour earlier. we're happy to see the first
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light of this day. sunrise at 6:41. by 9:00 upper 40s. bright and sunny. by then much of the fog should be gone. by noontime upper 50s. midafternoon, low 60s briefly for an hour or so. back down into the 50s by 5:00. that's when the sun will be setting. 5:02. clear sky tonight. near 50 by midnight. a look at a pleasant week ahead. we'll look at that and the weekend at 6:21. danella, how's traffic? >> good morning. traveling 50 eastbound, i'm still watching this accident at lottsford vista. seeing delays as you head towards the accident. both directions, east and west, here's the view as you're traveling on route 50. very slow. only the right lane slowly gets by the accident. three vehicle crash there. and westbound significant delays as you make your way past the accident. also on the roadway, i-95 making your way out of the occoquan, slow as you head towards dale city. on i-66, slow on centreville and
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your home and auto policies and save. don't worry, tiny people. flo is a gentle giant. bundle home and auto at progressive.com. welcome back at 6:15. we have a traffic alert for drivers inorthern virginia this morning. drivers will notice all fours lanes of the inner loop of the beltway now have a new bridge in tysons corner. plus the route 123 on ramp to the beltway is now open. crews wrapped up the lane shift overnight. it is all part of the hot lanes construction project. new from overnight, she came, and then she went. lindsay lohan is a free woman 6789 just 4 1/2 hours after turning herself in to jail, lohan was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for violating her probation on a necklace theft conviction, but she was released after just a few hours because
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of overcrowding issues at the jail. lohan will still have to finish her community service, though, working at an l.a. morgue. in just a few hours, jurors will resume deliberating the fate of dr. conrad murray. he is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of michael jackson. the jurors deliberated for more than seven hours friday without reaching a verdict. seven men and five women are deciding whether murray was criminally negligent while treating jackson for insomnia with the surgical anesthetic propofol. if convicted, murray faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license. in decision 2012, polls show herman cain losing support after sexual allegations were made against him. the republican candidate finished a new reuters-ipsos poll with a favorable rating of 57%.
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but that's compared to 67% before harassment claims surfaced. three women say he harassed them while he was president of the national restaurant association in the 1990s. cain tried to make it clear he is not talking about that issue anymore. >> don't even go there. >> can i ask my question? >> no. we are getting back on message, end of story. back on message. >> cain's campaign raised $2 million since the allegations surfaced. and ron paul was the big winner in the illinois straw poll over the weekend. the texas congressman finished with 52% of the vote. next up for paul and the rest of the candidates, a debate on wednesday in michigan. today two top penn state university officials are expected to turn themselves in on perjury charge. they stepped down late last night amid allegations of sexual abuse involving a former football assistant coach. news 4's angie goff joins us live from the news room with more on these late night developments. angie, good morning. >> good morning, eun. the two men are expected to
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turn themselves in today. this after an emergency meeting of the university's board of trustees. penn state athletic director tim curley has asked to be placed on administrative leave so he can fight the charges pending the investigation of former assistant coach jerry sandusky. schultz, the former president of finance and business, also stepped down with plans to go into retirement. both are charged with perjury after sandusky was accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over three years. >> he's shaky, as you can expect, being 67 years old and never having faced criminal charges. >> this is a much more serious issue than other schools getting on probation for ncaa violations. we're talking about the law here. >> longtime head coach joe paterno released a statement on the scandal saying, quote, i was informed in 2002 by an assistant
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coach that he had witnessed an incident in our shower room facility. it was obvious the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report." sandusky was retired at the time paterno referred the matter to the university. legally, it doesn't appear paterno will be held accountable with state law putting the responsibility of reporting abuse on the school officials. so sexual abuse advocates are now asking why paterno wasn't more aggressive in reporting the matter. eun? >> angie goff live in our news room for us. angie, thank you. justin bieber says he's going to take a dna test to prove he is not the father of the california woman's 3-month-old son. the pop star will take the test in three weeks when he returns to the united states. he's currently in europe. bieber's attorney says, once the test comes back proving his client's innocence, they will sue mariah. she claims they had sex at the
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staples center last october when he was just 16 years old. today is going to the dogs. as the veterans affairs committee will honor dogs who save lives here and overseas. it's part of capitol hill's tribute to war heroes at both ends of the leash celebration. some of the honorees include sage, who served in iraq, and rose el, a guide dog who led her owner down 75 flights of stairs at the world trade center during 9/11. wow, that is some dog. amazing. nasa says we are in for a close encounter this week chllin. >> right now a 1,300 foot wide asteroid is heading towards the earth and us. nasa says it will miss the earth by some 200,000 miles. to give you some perspective, that is closer than the moon's orbit. the space agency is taking a little opportunity to do some research on the asteroid's shape, surface, and dimensions. this will be the closest an asteroid has come to earth in the last 200 years.
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>> wow. >> so we'll all say phew, that was close. >> let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein, who is here with our forecast. what do you say, tom? good morning. >> that thing is the size of an aircraft carrier. you might feel a little breeze as it comes on by. look at this sunrise. live picture from our skywatcher camera. you can see a little bit of fog draped over northeast washington in the middle distance off on the horizon is prince george's county. the sun coming up in about 20 minutes. under this clear sky, it's cold this morning. frosty cold in many locations. it's near or a little bit below freezing. upper 20s now out in west virginia. just near 30 around the shenandoah valley and blue ridge. even closer to washington, prince george's, montgomery, arlington, fairfax counties right near the freezing mark. right near the bay, it's near 40. sunrise 6:41. we'll have plenty of sunshine today. the upper 40s. by 9:00 the fog should be gone.
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low 50s midafternoon. sunset at 5:02. tomorrow morning near 40. another sunny day and warmer on tuesday, upper 60s. increasing clouds, high near 60. might have a passing shower on thursday. a lot of cloudiness, high near 60. chilly weather for friday. clearing out, sunny on the weekend, high near 60. danella, good morning. how's traffic? couple of problems in maryland. i-270 heading southbound. you cannot get on i-370 because there is significant debris in the roadblocking that exit ramp. in you're traveling eastbound route 50, still have the three vehicle crash blocking most of your lanes. only the right lane will get by as you make your way past lottsford vista. you have problems traveling east and west due to onlookers. outer loop of the beltway starting to significantly slow down. very slow at new hampshire avenue. delays continue to georgia avenue. i'll give you a live look. you can see there is a lot of crowding on the outer loop of the beltway at colesville road. a travel time for you right now, 37 miles per hour in this area. joe and eun, back to you. >> danella, thanks so much.
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the swanky side of london. prince william and princess kate decided to move into kensington palace, the same building where william grew up. it has three stories, 20 rooms, and a walled garden. they will live in princess margaret's old home. it will not be ready until 2013. they have to wait are inform the asbestos to be removed. right now william and kate are living with prince harry, which should be interesting too. >> don't you hate it when your palace isn't ready on time. this morning we know who will play bernie madoff. robert deniro will be the film star. you knew a movie had to be made. hbo bought the rights to the book "truth and consequences," life inside the madoff family. madoff's wife and son helped write the book. bernie madoff is facing a 50-year prison sentence for helping fraud investors out of $50 billion in an elaborate ponzi scheme. >> we're sure deniro will do a great job. that's for sure.
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kortneigh was a peace maker. she emphasized the need for friendship. >> a heart breaking loss this morning. a maryland university community is remembering a student, an active church member killed in a shocking crime. good morning. welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm joe krebs >> and i'm eun yang. let's take a look live outside right now. it's 6:30. the sun is up already at this hour. 45 degree. ni in fact, it was up a while ago. meteorologist tom kierein tells us it's a nice morning, pretty chilly right there. >> here at the surface, we can't see it. the sun has not ridden yet. it will be, though, up in ten minutes. sunrise at 6:41. that's an hour earlier than it was on saturday. by the way, saturday evening there was a spectacular viewing of the international space station as it flew over our region. we're going to have a brief view
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of that this evening between 5:30 and 5:30. it's going to be fairly low on the western horizon. that's what it is, the international space station. a frosty cold morning, low and mid-30s through most of the region. it also is accompanied by some patchy fog this morning. watch out for that. sunrise 6:41. by 9:00 into the upper 40s. by noontime upper 50s. by midafternoon we should peak in the low 60s. and then that sunset, that will be at an early 5:02, getting dark quickly early, as we're now back to eastern standard time. a look at your evening planner. that will be at 6:41. danella, how's the commute now? >> good morning. tough commute this morning. breaking news if you're traveling eastbound, route 50. still have the accident in the roadway. this is at lottsford vista. earlier this morning, this is what the scene looked like. crews are working to clear a tractor-trailer that's on its side. the problem that they're having with the end of the tractor-trailer, it's breaking into pieces. each time they try to load it up, another part falls off. they're working to get that out
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of the roadway. you can see you are delayed traveling eastbound as you make your way towards lottsford vista, as well as westbound because of onlookers. this is the live look because i do want to show you just how the volume is as you travel westbound. cars are hitting the brakes. give yourself extra time if you're taking route 50 at all. as you're traveling 66 east, we have an accident here on the right shoulder lane as you pass sudley road. your delays continue eastbound as you make your way towards the beltway. good news taking i-270. the earlier ramp to i-370 is now reopen. you may take the roadway if that is your commute this morning. on the rails, big delays on the brunswick east. we have a 9, 16, as well as a 43. eun, back to you. 6:32 now. this morning a frostburg university student is behind bars accused of killing another student. kortneigh mccoy was stabbed to death early yesterday morning. this morning there are still plenty of questions about why it
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happened. tracee wilkins is live in frostburg with the latest. tracee, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. students have lots of questions about what led to this fight, and we don't know what led to this fight. we do know it happened. this is an off campus house. i'm standing on campus, so this house is literally located right across the street. there by the sign, you can see a small memorial is already starting here for the student. eun, as you know, i attended frostburg state university, and we have never seen a set like this at the university where there needed to be a memorial here when i was here. memorial service was held yesterday after 19-year-old kortneigh mccoy of baltimore was stabbed outside of an off campus house here in frostburg. mccoy was a sophomore physics major, a residential assistant, and sang in the school's choir. police have arrested and charged another frostburg student with the stabbing. 23-year-old shanee liggins of waldorf is now in custody and facing first and second degree
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murder charges. she was a business major. police say the stabbing happened when a fight spilled out of an off campus house and onto the street. the suspect lived in the home where the fight began, according to police. students who knew the victim are struggling to understand what could have possibly caused this fight. >> kortneigh was a peace maker. she emphasized the need for friendship and to having positive friendships and positive relationships. >> shanee liggins is being held in police custody pending her first appearance in court. i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in frostburg. eun, back to you in the studio. >> tough day for her friends and the entire community at frostburg. tracee, thanks so much. this is the second year in a rona an off campus crime ended with the death of a student at frostburg. last april, 20-year-old brandon carroll was shot after a fight at an off campus party.
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another student, tyrone hall, was sentenced to five years last november. it was also the second death on a maryland college campus in just months. prince george's police say a bowie state university stabbed her roommate to death. 19-year-old alexis simpson killed 18-year-old dominique frazier because of fight over music playing on an ipod. occupy d.c. protesters want police to reopen the investigation looking into an accident involving a group of protesters. a driver hit three of them standing in the street at the intersection of seventh and "k" on friday night. investigators did not charge the drivers because he had a green light. protesters did charge the three protesters with jay walking and obstructing traffic. today occupy protesters will call for a proper police investigation, what they call a proper police investigation during a news conference and protests this afternoon. a 31-year-old woman faces burglary charges after she walked into a stranger's house in the middle of the day and took off her clothes. this happened on the 600 block
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of huntover lane in frederick. police arrested 31-year-old tiare summers. they told "the washington post" she came in through the unlocked door and locked herself in the bathroom. when she came out, she was wearing nothing but a red jacket. it's a device that helps get directions for you when you're lost. police say people can easily abuse gps tracking systems, and they wavent the supreme court t do something about it. the case involving a d.c. nightclub owner. federal agents secretly put a tracking device on anthony jones' car back in 2005 to help reinstate a drug conspiracy conviction. opponents say police should have to get a warrant before attaching a gps device to a person's car. day three of jury deliberations pick up later this morning in the bribery case against maryland state senator ulysses currie.
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he's accused of doing political favors for shopper's warehouse. he stepped down as chairman of the taxation and budget committee when he was indicted last september. currie has represented district 25 in prince george's county since 1987. tomorrow is election day. republicans in virginia are looking to take control of both chambers of the general assembly for only the second type since the civil war. they currently control the house. democrats have a four seat majority in the senate. voter turnout is expected at 30%. 6:37 is our time right now. 6:37 is our time right now. the reeling
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time for weather and traffic on the ones. good morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. live picture from the skywatcher camera. sun just now peeking over the fog in prince george's county. on the horizon, northeast washington in the middle distance. a little fog around from washington's benning neighborhood to forest heights, capitol heights, vienna and potomac. we've got a clear sky.
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it's frosty cold down near the freezing mark in most locations. except near the bay waters and the potomac where it's near 40 degrees. lots of sun today. patchy morning fog through midmorning. during the afternoon, peaking in the low 60s. sunset at 5:02. getting dark early. by then, we'll be down to the low to mid-50s. then tomorrow a bit warmer and a pleasant trend toward the end of the week, maybe some rain thursday. a look at the weekend coming up in ten minutes. danella, how's traffic? >> good morning. if you're traveling eastbound route 50. right now still the right lane is getting by. crews working to clear the three vehicle crash that cleared here. the road should be open soon. if you're traveling westbound, you're slow as you pass lottsford vista. a lot of rubber necking. if you're traveling route 50 at all, please give yourself extra time. and the outer loop at colesville road in maryland, an accident blocking the right lane. i'll give you a travel time if
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george hewgley's attorneys will make another attempt to get yardley love's medical records released. police say hewgley killed love by slamming her head against her apartment wall in may of 2010. his attorney say she may have died from an irregular heartbeat partially caused by prescription drugs and alcohol. a medical examiner said she died of blunt force trauma to the head, though. hewgley's trial is scheduled to begin in february. an 8-year-old autistic boy lost for nearly a week is waking up in his own bed this morning. robert wood jr. was released
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from the hospital over the weekend. he disappeared for five nights while hiking with his family in north anna battlefield park in hanover county. wood does not speak, which made it harder to find him. eventually he was found in the fetal position in a rock quarry close to the park. there's been another attempted abduction in spotsylvania county. that makes four just this past month. the latest incident happened on saturday afternoon in the 6700 block of satterfield court near freddicsburg. an 8-year-old girl told policemen in a van yelled at her and told her to come closer. she ran away. the girl told police that four men are in a black ford econoline van with red writing that said malroy, and they were wearing big gray poofy coats and necklaces with crosses. investigators do not believe this attempted abduction is
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related to several others in the county. investors are hoping wall street likes the latest developments in greece this morning. brian, good morning. wall street and the country in the business world watching developments in greece this morning. we were down triple digits in the dow just about an hour and a half ago. we've steadily improved. we're not yet positive, but it looks like it's trending in that direction. over the weekend, greek prime minister george papandreu sealing a deal with the opposition coalition government. explaining how they're going to form a unity government. the key here is they need to have things organized so they can get the next chunk of money they basically need as a bailout to stay in business. so it looks like things are getting a little bit better. the prime minister of greece. they need to settle back. right now stocks are negative getting a little bit better as we head toward the open. fairfax county church is
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teed off with its backyard neighbor. the evangelical presbyterian church says 2,500 golf balls from the top golf driving range ended up on its property. a grand jury found enough evidence to pursue a misdemeanor charge against the driving range for public nuisance. they could end up with a $25,000 fine if the case goes to trial in january. that's about $10 per ball. a frustrating game for the burgundy as gold and turnovers lead to a loss. washington had three turnovers. quarterback john beck threw an interception, and the skins had two fumbles. in the end, the turnovers came back to haunt them as san francisco held on to win the game 19-11. despite the recent slide, defensive captain london fletcher says the season can still be salvaged. >> at no point in time are we giving up on this season. we know we've got another football game this sunday.
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we'll work hard this week in practice, hopefully carry over on sunday. >> on defense i thought we did some good things. played well enough to win. i thought the intensity was there. i thought our players played extremely hard. when you make those new mistakes, you have turnovers on offense, especially with pretty good field position, against a team that runs the ball extremely well. plays good rush defense. you can't have that many mistakes. >> the skins are 3-5 halfway through the season. they head to miami to play the 1-7 dolphins. that might be a good game. we just have to show you a photo that really sums up what a lot of redskins fans are feeling. this shot of coach shanahan walking off the field is on the cover of "the washington post" this morning with the headline "sour day for shanahan and the redskins." take a look at that face. how would you describe that look? joe said i should probably try to recreate it, but i don't think i can.
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they say a picture is worth a thousand words. what can you say about that? i think there are more than a thousand words, some of which you can't say on tv. >> most of which you can't say on tv. looks like he had a really sour pickle in his mouth. >> if you were the head coach of that team, wouldn't you make that face too? tough, tough day. i'm sure the players had faces like that too. >> it was bad. >> bummer. all right. tom, you are not making a sour face. you have a happy face today. >> look at that. >> hey, we're happy to see the sun an hour earlier. >> we are. right now that's a live picture from our city camera. the sun just above some fog that's showing up there on the eastern horizon. and this fog is going to be around. you can see it's sort of drifting off there to the north. we have a light southerly breeze here this morning. and under this clear sky, it's a cold start. right now at reagan national, 41 degrees. it really matches the dewpoint. we have almost 100% humid iity. as a result, we do have the
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patchy fog around the region this morning under a clear sky, which is clear all the way from new england all the way down to florida. we are right under the middle of it here. here's another view from the sky with the sky watcher camera. you can see the fog over the potomac river and the first light of the sun still hitting beautiful autumn color we have here in northwest washington. right now it is at or below freezing throughout most of west virginia, virginia, and maryland. it's frosty cold as well as the fog, near 40 in washington and by the bay. as the day progresses, our sunset, that's going to be early. 5:02. and before then, with the bright sunny sky, we'll have temperatures climbing into the low 60s by midafternoon. this evening, after our sunset at 5:02. we'll quickly get down into the 50s and near 50 by midnight under a clear sky. during the day tomorrow, bright and sunny and mild. highs reaching upper 60s. on wednesday chillier, as we have clouds closing in ahead of a front that will sweep through on thursday. maybe give us a passing light
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shower, highs near 60. sunny and chilly on friday. sunny over the weekend, saturday and sunday. afternoon highs near 60. danella, how's our traffic? >> good morning. if you're traveling eastbound route 50, the accident is almost completely cleared out of the roadway at lottsford vista. crews out of the roadway. earlier, the right shoulder lane got by. pretty soon, you'll get all of your lanes back. if you're traveling westbound 50, you're slow as you pass the accident. i'm seeing a lot of traffic on route 50. traveling the outer loop of the beltway, had an accident at colesville road. that's now out of the roadway. it's in the right shoulder lane. we're still seeing delays at new hampshire avenue. travel speed in this area, 23 miles per hour as you make your way towards i-270. and traveling 66 east at sudley road on the right-hand side, still see police there on the scene of the accident there. as you travel eastbound to the beltway, that's where you're going to see your delays. joe and eun, back to you. >> danella, thanks very much.
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at 6:52, we have a traffic alert for drivers in northern virginia. this morning drivers will notice all four lanes of the inner loop of the beltway are now on a new bridge over route 123 in tysons corner. plus the route 123 north on ramp to the beltway is also open. crews wrapped up the weekend lane shift overnight. it is all part of the hot lanes construction project. 6:53 is the time. this morning a frostburg state university student is behind bars accuseded of killing another student. tracee wilkins is live in frostburg with the details behind this terrible attack. tracee? >> good morning, joe. the fight happened at this off campus party. i attended frostburg state university. this is my alma mater. this is something we never saw here, a memorial they set up in honor of this young woman who lost her life on this street. this is the second time a frostburg student has died to a violent attack at the hands of
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another student in less than two years. a memorial service was held yesterday after 19-year-old kortneigh mccoy of baltimore was found stabbed to death outside of an off campus house. mccoy was a sophomore physics major, a residential assistant here, and she also sang in the school's choir. police have arrested and charged another frostburg student with the stabbing. 23-year-old shanee liggins of waldorf is now in custody and facing first and second degree murder charges. she was a business major. police say the stabbing happened when the fight spilled out of the house and into the street. the suspect lived in the home where the fight began, according to police. students who knew the victim are struggling to understand what could have possibly caused this fight. shanee liggins is being held without bond pending her first appearance in court. i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in frostburg. back to you in the studio. >> tracee, i understand frostburg is your alma mater,
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and this is the second violent incident in two years. what was the reputation, the feeling at the school when you were there, and what's your reaction to what you're hearing the last couple of years? >> reporter: it's just very unusual, and the alumni here, we have all done what we can to come up to the university and try to reach out to the students, desperately concerned about what's happening here at the university. we think that a lot of this has to just do with kids bringing some of what they've experienced at home here to the university and not being able to make that transition. that's what appears to be the case here. but, again, this is just very unusual activity for this community, a very tight knit school, a medium sized school. all of the students know one another. to say it's unusual, it's just not enough to explain what it's been like over the last two years here. >> i'm sure they'll stay together and try to get through this. thanks very much, tracee wilkins. here's a look at the morning's top stories. today jurors will resume deliberating the fate of dr. conrad murray.
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he is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of g michael jackson and faces four years in prison. to top officials from penn state university plan to turn themselves in to authorities today. they are charged with failing to report information about former assistant football coach jerry sandusky, who is now accused of sexually abusing eight boys at a camp he ran. herman cain dropped seven points in a new reuters ipsos poll, but the camp raised $2 million in the past week. cain is refusing to address allegations from two women who say he sexually harassed them in the 1990s. right now a 1,300 foot wide asteroid is headed towards earth, merely the size of an aircraft carrier. it will, though, miss the earth by 200,000 miles sometime tomorrow. >> is that all, tom? >> good thing it's zipping by. right now frosty cold and patchy fog. sunny later. highs reaching low 60s.
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sunny tomorrow and warmer. might get showers thursday. danella, how's our traffic? >> traveling eastbound route 50 at lottsford vista. earlier lanes taken away. now your lanes almost completely back. traveling westbound, big delays in that area. back to you both. >> thanks very much, danella. mm. hey, hon. hey! hey, baby. [ car starts ] were you eating smoked sausage in here? no! no. could have gotten me one. i did. try the unmistakable flavor of dunkin' donuts new smokehouse breakfast sandwich, with smoked sausage from hillshire farm. america runs on dunkin'. don't miss the bold taste of the new smokehouse sausage sandwich from dunkin' donuts.
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