baby girl. but we do know this. when this baby girl was found here she had no clothes on. when this baby girl was found here it was cold, so cold that the people who found her say her skin was beginning to change color. >> i still can't get it into my head i was seeing what i was seeing. my mind was still trying to tell me that i didn't see what i see because i can't -- i have two kids of my own and i can't even picture that happening. >> reporter: that's emanuel douger. last night he saw something he will not soon forget. he was on his way home from the store. it was after 11:00 and it was cold, in the 20s. here on this concrete step he saw little baby girl. she was just wrapped in a towel. >> seen the child on the concrete steps. they didn't place it on the porch and ring the bell or ring

the bell and run. they left the child where it couldn't be found until possibly the next day. >> reporter: emanuel ran a couple doors down the street and got his father. they called 911 and tried to revive that baby. >> she was cold but we were hoping for life in her. we just -- just were hoping for the best but she never gained consciousness. >> reporter: the baby, taken to children's hospital and pronounced dead. detectives from the special victims unit in the neighborhood trying to locate the mother. >> we believe the child is about a week old so we would be asking anyone who notices somebody they knew was pregnant or recently gave birth to a child and the child is no longer around, with no reasonable explanation to please give us a call. >> reporter: this tragic death has brought a great sense of sorrow to the neighborhood. ian mill lives on channing street. the baby was found on the steps

leading to his house. he said he didn't know about it until the neighbors knocked on his door. >> we're just heart broken. i mean, we have two kids and, yeah. you just wonder, you know, what -- there is a mom that's pretty desperate and doesn't have a lot of support so, you know, that's difficult to -- yeah, it's difficult to take in. >> reporter: the district has a safe haven law if a parent doesn't want a child. they can take it to a fire station or a police station without any consequences. pat, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you, pat. we are learning more today about the checkered past of a man suspected in a series of home invasion robberies in montgomery and prince george's county. over the weekend police tracked him down to the outer banks. news 4's darcy spencer joins us live from police headquarters in palmer park. darcy?

>> reporter: wendy we looked up kevin ray's criminal past online and he has quite a violent past dating back more than ten years. in fact, one of the cases you can see online involved a homicide that happened right here in prince george's county in 1995. today the police chief says what he's accused of doing is nothing short of evil. police say 33-year-old kevin ray had an accomplice when he committed a home invasion robbery and sexually assaulted a housekeeper in a bathroom on barr barton road in bethesda last wednesday. the suspect has not been arrested so far the second suspect didn't go in immediately. he went in after some period of time and joined the first suspect in the house. >> reporter: ray is charged in three home invasion robberies and two sexual assaults that happened in wheaton, bethesda, and temple hills from tuesday to friday of last week. in the friday attack, he tied up six residents, including a 7-year-old, and sexually assaulted a woman in the home. >> as you look at the cases, they continue to escalate.

and it was very, very important to us that we stop him before someone got hurt or killed. >> reporter: police say ray used some of the victims' credit and debit cards. the photo of him using one of those cards led to him being identified and tracked down to kitty hawk, north carolina where he was arrested saturday morning. police in prince george's county say they executed a search warrant at a home here on dallas drive in temple hills where ray had been staying and recovered evidence linking him to the crimes. >> there were several hand guns recovered, several items of clothing, wigs, masks. >> he was staying right here. >> he was very quiet about it. he didn't hear or know anything about it. >> reporter: ray was put on maryland's sex offender registry after he was convicted of third-degree sex offense in 2005. records show he also pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a case dating back to 1995. >> he spent several years in

prison and then got out and then in 2005 was the next time we ran into him in reference to the sex offense. >> reporter: now, kevin ray is currently being held without bond in montgomery county. he has a court appearance scheduled for tomorrow. at that press conference today, a woman who says that she is his aunt showed up today and said that the family is also being punished throughout this process. we're going to have her interview coming up on news 4 at 6:00. for now i'm darcy spencer reporting live from palmer park. news 4. back to you. >> thank you, darcy. turning now to the weather we could be adding some cold, some rain to the cold. >> ooh. >> storm 4's meteorologist doug kammerer is going to fill us in on that. what's ahead? rain to the cold. you can say that. we have the cold temperatures that are out there and any time you have that rain, that chilly rain, kind of the worst weather i think if it's going to be cold might as well snow but in this case it's not what's going to happen. out there right now currently sitting at 40 degrees across the area. temperatures have gone up over

the last couple hours. winds out of the south at 14 miles per hour but that gives us a wind chill right now of 32. so still a very chilly afternoon. temperatures in the 30s all across the area. 37 at gaithersburg. 39 in leesburg. 45 though down to the south in culpepper and we are starting to see that warmer air move in ahead of the moisture. you can see the moisture right there. it's located just off to the west. most of this falling as rain but there is also some sleet mixed in especially out toward portions of west virginia and western maryland. that should be about it but the rest of us will just see some shower activity throughout the rest of the night tonight. temperatures going up through the night tonight right on through tomorrow morning. waking up to a temperature of about 40 to 42 degrees and yes we will see rain likely during the day, during the overnight tonight into the day tomorrow. temperatures tomorrow? will they be cold? will they stay cold? i've got the answer and i'll tell you in my full forecast. >> all right. thank you, doug. police in prince george's county are looking for three people who they say robbed an armored car in bowie just after

8:00 this morning. investigators say three suspects wearing masks robbed the truck at a shopping center on crane highway. police s the suspects took off with an undisclosed amount of money. no word at this point if the officers have a good description of the suspects. moments of terror and confusion. that's how several american tourists onboard a sinking italian cruise ship described the harrowing ordeal. tonight two americans remain missing and six people are now confirmed dead in the accident. meanwhile, crews continue to search around the clock using dive equipment to check every single room and every cabin on the massive ship. erika edwards reports. >> reporter: the sight is shocking. a 950-foot-long cruise ship on its side in the mediterranean just several hundred feet off the italian coast. on friday just hours after setting sail the italian cruise liner costa concordia ran aground. the hull of the ship ripped apart by an under water rocky ledge. immediately those onboard knew

something was wrong. >> we were in the dining room and there was this grinding, large sound and a crash sound. >> reporter: but it was the hours after the impact that passengers say were the most terrifying. they say the captain and crew seemed ill prepared to evacuate the ship. >> it took an hour and a half waiting on the side of the ship while it kept going down and down and tilting more for them to pretty much say anything. >> i don't think they knew what they were really doing and they were flustered because they didn't hear anything. >> so disgusted and saddened by how they handled this horrific event. >> reporter: caught in the chaos, children separated from their parents. fighting for spots on the life boats. to see that people would push children out of the way so they could save themselves and that just -- i was distraught and i remember yelling and saying if the children go first. >> reporter: six people are known to have died with 16 still missing including jerry and barbara heil of white bear lake,

minnesota. >> hopefully the good lord takes care and brings them back to us. >> reporter: back in italy the search for jerry, barbara, and 14 others continues. erica edwards, nbc news. and the family of a virginia man is relieved after learning that he and his girlfriend are safe following that accident. rick langlan and his girlfriend karen were onboard the ship on an italian vacation and were able to escape on one of the emergency life boats and immediately called home. rick's family hadn't even heard about what happened when they got the call. >> and he said, mother, i am safe. i said, safe from what? didn't you hear about the costa going down? then it dawned on me. >> the family knows costa cruise lines very well. they've taken more than 20 trips onboard costa cruise lines. the couple is now in new york. no word on when they plan to go home. with saturday's primary in

south carolina five days away there is a shakeup among the republican presidential candidates. jon huntsman has dropped out of the campaign and plans to throw his support behind front-runner mitt romney. the former utah governor made the announcement this morning in south carolina saying romney is the gop's best chance. >> good morning everyone. i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> huntsman's decision comes just days after he ended up in a disappointing third place in new hampshire's primary. meanwhile, gop candidate rick santorum criticizing his rivals' ad campaigns now airing in south carolina. santorum claims a political action committee that supports mitt romney is running ads that lie about santorum's record.

this morning he said romney should tell the pac to edit or remove those ads before saturday's primary. santorum also complained bitterly about ron paul's ads saying they also contained misleading information about him on camera. i mean in the campaign. a pac is airing ads for santorum in south carolina but they apparently do not attack his rivals. the race for virginia's senate took a new turn today. delegate bob marshall has announced he is running for the republican nomination for the seat being vacated by democrat jim webb. the prince william county conservative joins a crowded field on the june 12th gop ballot including former senator george allen and the tea party organizer jamie radke along with two others. marshall says despite the number of competitors it is not too late to get into the race. >> we don't have a republican presidential nominee. john warner who became i think a 24-year senator in virginia

didn't get the nomination until august 15 or 20th of 1978 and ten weeks later was elected united states senator. it's not too late. >> the fight for the democratic nomination includes tim cain the former governor and chair of the democratic national committee and courtney lynch of fairfax. still ahead on news 4 at 5:00 an 8-year-old is run over and killed while standing on a sidewalk. police will tell us what the driver was up to before the crash. also tonight, what gas prices this month could mean for your wallet for the rest of the year. an auto maker recalls a popular car following reports that they're going up in flames. and the unusual influence of the baby of stars beyonce and jay-z on california's medical

it's a day of remembrance and service for slain civil rights leader martin luther king jr. his dream and legacy are being honored with charities, parades, and for the first time at the martin luther king memorial on the mall. tom sherwood is there now with more. >> reporter: wendy, here down at the new king memorial down by the tidal basin, it's been a day of celebration all over the washington area.

from a parade in southeast washington that was revived after several years' absence. to the president and first lady helping out a d.c. public school as part of the annual hands on d.c. cares community project. >> and whether you're 7 or 6 or whether you're 76, you can find opportunities to make an enormous difference in your community. >> reporter: groups and individuals throughout washington, maryland, virginia, and the nation, celebrated the king holiday monday. >> we were actually just talking it's great to not only come to see td monument for the first time ourselves but to see other people seeing the monument. >> i remember king as a little guy, 10 years old with the march on washington. i stood in front of the reflection pool. it brings back a lot of memories and fondness ♪ all around the world i'm gonna

let it shine ♪ >> a washington area a capella group called song rise was singing old civil rights songs. ♪ all around d.c. i'm going to let it shine ♪ >> reporter: this is the first martin luther king holiday since the memorial opened along the tidal basin last october drawing tens of thousands of visitors especially on this day. >> we're so distracted today by our technology, by our jobs, by just trying to get more out of life. and i feel like the message of martin luther king is to just slow down and pay more attention to how we treat each other. >> reporter: now crowds are expected to come here to the memorial well into the night as long as the weather holds up. there's ban stead been a steady people here all day. i'm tom sherwood live at the king memorial. back to you. >> what a beautiful day it was for this. thank you. it was a lovely day. as the nation marks the martin luther king jr. holiday today,

the king center in atlanta is honoring his legacy online for the first time. the center is allowing some 200,000 mlk documents to be available online. those documents reveal the scholar, the father, and the pastor. there are even notes about the ending of king's iconic "i have a dream" speech. view those documents at the king center.org. and it was indeed a lovely day for this, a cold day though. >> it was chilly but as long as you bundled up we had the sunshine. not bad at all and a little wind. the wind from the south is going to warm us up in a big way. you know, a lot of people saying, hey. if it's going to be cold i want some snow but then you get a system that comes in right now and unfortunately that's going to bring in warm air and it's not going to be snow. it's going to be all rain once again across our area. maybe light sleet in parts of the region as we make our way through the rest of the evening hours. there is some snow in toward virginia. i'll show you where in a minute. right now 40 degrees the current temperature out there with the winds out of the south at 14 miles an hour so we do have a

little wind chill. current wind chill in the d.c. area right now 32. look at the numbers. everybody is into the 30s to the north. 40s to the south. 45 culpepper. 43 fredericksburg. temperatures may actually rise overnight tonight as the system makes its way in. 39 in martinsburg. 37 right now in frederick. but look at the wind chill. you cool down to 30 degrees in frederick. 28 in hagerstown. 32 in washington. and in manassas down toward fredericksburg wind chill at 37. so still on the chilly side. you still need to bundle up from time to time if you are heading out. right now the rain back to the west. we're not just talking about rain here but also about some sleet in some areas and also some snow. the snow is around hot springs right around the border of virginia and west virginia is reporting a little bit in the way of light snow. also some sleet and winter weather advisory for allegheny county and parts of west virginia but most of our area this is going to be all rain as we are seeing warmer and warmer temperatures continue to filter on in here. tomorrow temperatures are going to get warm and it's all because of this area of high pressure

and that low pressure to the west. we have the shower activity across our region later this evening. watch what happens tomorrow morning. here's 8:00 tomorrow morning. most of the rain right around the washington, d.c. area so i do expect rush hour tomorrow to be a little bit on the wet side but as we go through the afternoon we'll see some breaks in those clouds and with the high to the south low pressure up to the north we'll get quite windy during the day. it's going to be a very warm wind and i think some areas could be close to 60 degrees once again tomorrow out ahead of this frontal boundary. so we were in the 30s all day yesterday. most of us in the 30s today. tomorrow, you can climb another 20, maybe 30 degrees from where we were just a couple days ago. that front though will move through. another chance of some shower activity during the afternoon tomorrow. then on wednesday, just breezy and cool. we'll see some sunshine during the day wednesday but it's going to be on the breezy side. wind chills all day wednesday could be in the low to mid 30s so we're looking at a very cool afternoon after a very warm day tomorrow with that wind. clouds on the increase throughout the evening tonight. showers moving on in. breezy.

35 to 40 degrees. once again, some areas could start as light sleet in some areas so just know that if you're stepping outdoors tonight. showers likely tomorrow morning. breezy and not as cold. 36 to 42 degrees. we'll see winds tomorrow morning gusting upwards of 20 miles per hour. those winds as i mentioned will usher in some much warmer temperatures tomorrow. rain likely early. heaviest rain will be to the north. then mild, windy conditions with some clearing to the south. 57 to 63 degrees. winds gusting to 40 miles an hour later tomorrow afternoon. that will bring in the warmer temperatures and we get cooler as we end the week. could even be a chance for some flurries on thursday but once again no real big chance for snow in the near forecast. >> been quite a rollercoaster ride. >> it sure has. this is going to be another one. down today, up tomorrow, then right back down. >> thanks. still ahead, o.j. simpson gets some bad news behind bars. >> liz crenshaw reports on some things you should do before you sign up for a gym membership. >> and a popular website that is

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rescue teams in lebanon racing to find residents trapped under the wreckage of this collapsed apartment building in beirut. the five-story collapsed last

night and this morning paramedics pulled one body from the rubble. that brings the death toll to 11. 12 people were injured. officials not clear on what caused the building to collapse. more trouble for o.j. simpson who is now serving time in a nevada prison for kidnapping and other charges. a bank is foreclosuring on his house in florida. simpson bought the house in 2000 for $575,000. court records in miami show the bank filed for foreclosure in september. simpson's lawyers are fighting it. the football star and actor is serving a 9 to 33-year sentence for charges stemming from that confrontation he had with sports memorabilia dealers at a las vegas casino five years ago. a recall tonight affecting more than 90,000 cars. bmw says it is recalling several models of the mini couper because of a problem with water pumps that could cause a fire. the recall affects mini coupers built between 2006 and 2011. the company says it has 81 reports of water pump failures,

four reports of the failure causing a fire. so far no injuries. still to come on news 4 at 5:00 a driver charged after running into a mother and her 8-year-old killing the child. what police say was going on behind the wheel. also tonight a battle over gun control laws in the virginia general assembly. why things could change this year. >> and a local business now trying to fill 1500 jobs. we'll tell you what skills

fast 4 ward through the headlines. authorities looking for the mother of a young baby girl found abandoned on a sidewalk in sub freezing weather in northeast d.c. two men who discovered the child tried to save her. it was too late. police are on the scene today looking for clues to the mother's identity. neighbors say they can't believe such a thing could happen in their community. >> rescue operations continue today off the coast of italy. at least a dozen people including two americans remain unaccounted for after a giant cruise ship capsized just offshore on friday. six people are now confirmed dead after the accident. the cruise ship company has said it believes human error was the reason for the accident. the ship's captain was arrested and is being held in an italian prison. >> jon huntsman has dropped out of the gop presidential race. he is endorsing mitt romney now saying he is the man who, quote, is best equipped to defeat barack obama in the fall. huntsman also urged the other candidates to stop attacking

each other. now let's fast forward to the weather. doug? a little bit of a cool day today. temperatures in the upper 30s in many locations. down to the south in the low 40s. we have moisture moving in across the area. take a look at storm 4 doppler radar. you can see shower activity making its way across our region. most of this right now not quite reaching the ground in through northern virginia and in toward maryland around frederick but just some sprinkle activity. it could start off as light sleet especially well to the north and west around winchester, martinsburg, frederick. watch out in those areas. i don't expect any problems on the roadways. everybody will see this change over to all rain by the time you wake up tomorrow morning. my complete forecast coming up in just a few minutes. >> thanks, doug. there was an arrest today after a deadly crash that claimed the life of an 8-year-old and left his mother in the hospital. it happened on duke street near i-395 and alexandria yesterday. news 4 is live now on the scene with more details. shomari? >> reporter: this is so sad.

here you have a mother walking with her 8-year-old son. all of a sudden their walk ends with tragedy right over there which you were mentioning. duke street leading to i-395. now i'll show you a picture of the suspect in this case. police say 22-year-old victor aldona from fairfax county drove his car on sunday afternoon around 2:30 and ran off the road, hit a 31-year-old mother and her 8-year-old son, brian hernandez chavez. the child died on the scene. his mother was transported to the hospital. she has nonlife threatening injuries. the driver in this case as we told you, investigators say he stayed at the scene and he was arrested. >> victor aldona 22 from the alexandria section of fair tax county was charged with dui manslaughter, dui maiming, wreckless driving and driving without an operator's license. >> reporter: now in case you're wondering i asked alexandria police what was his alleged blood alcohol level. they say they cannot release that information right now because this is still under investigation. live in alexandria, shomari

stone, back to you in the studio. today hundreds of gun owners rallied in richmond. they're lobbying lawmakers for expanded gun rights. opponents also demonstrated. julie carey has more from richmond where she talked to people on both sides of this debate. >> reporter: they come to richmond with their guns at their sides. their guns save lives stickers on, and a list of bills designed to relax gun restrictions. >> i think the one we're really pushing this year is 139, which is constitutional carry. >> reporter: gun owners have been coming to lobby day for years but now the republican governor, house, and senate, there is growing optimism more of their bills will win passage. gun owners outlined their issues at a rally. they want the right to drop the requirement to get a permit in order to carry a concealed weapon. fredericksburg delegate mark kohl is the bill sponsor. >> it does not expand who can carry a gun or anything like that but just says if you can legally own and carry a gun you can do it either openly or

concealed, with or without a permit. >> reporter: activists will also push for repeal of the law that limits them to one hand gun purchase a month. and prince william county delegate bob marshall wants college faculty who have gun permits to be able to carry a concealed weapon on campus and into the classroom. >> if you can trust a professor to teach your children and many virginians do here in virginia why not trust them to protect their lives should that circumstance come up? >> reporter: gun control proponents held their own rally led by virginia tech shooting survivor colin godard and his father. they hope to block any attempt to allow guns on campus. >> it disturbs me. i don't think guns belong in the classroom setting. >> godard and like-minded lawmakers say they'll fight the effort to lift permit rules for concealed weapons. in richmond, virginia, julie carey, news 4. coming up at 6:00 julie looks at the top legislative priority for gun control activists. the employment center for maryland's soon-to-be largest casino began taking applications

today. maryland live says it needs to fill more than 1500 positions for its new location next to arundel mills mall. there are both full-time and part-time jobs available in all departments and all shifts. the employment center located in hanover will be open monday through friday from 10:00 to 7:00. you can also apply online. >> we'll be hiring positions in security, food, beverage, i.t., legal, finance, and the jobs will range all the way from, you know, hourly tip positions, all the way to six figure executive positions. >> reporter: the employment center will remain open until june when the casino is scheduled to open. >> some troubling news about gasoline prices. there's been no easing of prices this month like we traditionally see in january. triple-a says both gasoline and crude oil prices are at historic highs for this time of year. a barrel of oil hovering about a hundred bucks. >> usually what we see is that prices are low at the beginning of the year and inch up during the spring. but with them starting off high

at the beginning of the year, they'll continue to inch up during the spring. so we're just looking at a couple months' worth of high gas prices. >> the price of the gallon of gas rose again last week to $3.39. that's up 11 cents for the month. triple-a says analysts believe this will be a tumultuous year for gas prices. when news 4 at 5:00 continues the big winners from the golden globes and what that means for hollywood's next big awards show. >> it's technology to the rescue after a doctor tries to track a thief. also the newborn baby of beyonce and jay-z becomes an unwilling sponsor. we'll

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if you buy shoes from the online retailer zappos.com you should know the company website has been hacked. the shoe seller says the personal information of up to 24 million customers may be affected. zappos says customer credit card and payment information was not stolen but other information including names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mails, and the last four digits from credit cards. all of that was accessed. zappos is urging customers to change the pass words to their accounts. beyonce and jay-z's baby continues to make headlines today. according to the website tmz week-old blue ivy has a strain of marijuana named after her.

several dispensaries in los angeles are selling the strain which is called oh, gee blue ivy. tmz reports the power couple haven't signed off on the idea but also don't have a trademark for their daughter's name so there isn't a whole lot they can do about it. there were plenty of winners at last night's golden globe awards. george clooney and meryl streep proved they are still power players in hollywood. clooney's "the descendants" won for best drama and clooney won the best actor. meryl streep took home best actress honors for her role in "the iron lady." >> oh, i'm going to have to remember my speech. >> so you just abandoned the speech? >> i hadn't -- yeah. and i had everybody's name, all these incredible actresses. >> but instead the "s" word came out. >> yeah. >> what happened? >> i forgot my glasses.

>> we all know what that's like. the civil rights era movie "the help" claimed best supporting actress awards for newcomer octavia spencer who played a maid in the movie and quoted dr. martin luther king in her acceptance speech saying, all labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance. what a night. still ahead on news 4 at 5:00 how not to regret getting that gym membership. >> i'm liz crenshaw. looking to join a gym? coming up four ways to make sure you get a fair deal and don't pay more than you bargained for. and in sports it's more on this weekend's exciting games in

if you're constantly craving fatty foods, you may be able to blame your taste buds. researchers at washington

university in st. louis say people with a particular variant of the cd-36 gene may be more sensitive to fat in foods. they looked at 21 obese people according to the study those with less cd-36 were less sensitive to fatty foods. researchers say better understanding of that gene could help in the fight against obesity. this is a popular time of year to join a gym and there are a lot of deals being advertised but unless you know exactly what you are signing up for, you can end up paying more than you planned. >> liz crenshaw is here with a warning and some ways that you can protect yourself so you can get a fair deal. >> a good idea this time of year to think about it right? >> yeah. >> watch your pocketbook. there is no need to break a sweat when choosing a health club but you need to know the rules or you may end up paying more than you bargained for. >> after a couple months i realized i just wasn't going and i thought it was pointless to keep paying for it. >> reporter: it happens to the best of us. you join a gym and don't use it.

so melanie moses decided to cancel her gym membership. that was back in july, 2005. fast forward six years later to 2011. >> i discovered that the gym was still taking money out of my account. >> reporter: every month. >> every month. i said, there's no way that this membership could still be open. i canceled it years ago. >> reporter: moses estimates the gym took out more than $5,000 from her checking account, small charges each month that she didn't notice mixed in with all her other debit charges. she says she had canceled her membership and never returned to the gym. >> you had to submit a letter in writing stating you wanted to cancel your membership as of this date. you had to also physically hand in your membership card. and that was about it. >> and you did that. >> i did that.

>> reporter: moses says her copy of the cancellation letter she wrote is long gone. her contract says she has the right to cancel with written notice. moses agrade to a 12-month membership that started in july, 2005, and reads no end date. so each year her membership rolled over for another 12 months. >> i'm angry. you get such a run around. i spoke to customer service i don't know how many times and it was always just some tap dance. >> reporter: washington consumers checkbook offers tips to help protect consumers when choosing a place to exercise. it compared more than 100 area health clubs. rule number one, avoid signing a contract if you can go month to month and know the rules of cancellation. what happens when you change your mind, move, get hurt? can you get your money back or freeze your membership? rule number two, did you know you can haggle the price? >> press them on price. you may find that they have a

special price just for you. >> reporter: you can negotiate the price. >> you can negotiate. >> reporter: third, shop and save. for example, checkbook found two popular area health clubs had more than a $500 difference between them for a one-year membership with full access to equipment and classes at both places. rule number four, try before you buy. >> try out the facilities. talk to the other members. >> reporter: so exercise your consumer rights so you don't end up in melanie's gym shoes. >> i will never join another gym again, never, never. >> reporter: okay. if you don't feel like melanie and are thinking about joining a gym washington consumers checkbook is offering viewers free access to its local health club ratings for the next two weeks. find the link at nbc washington.com. just search for health clubs. but this idea of taking money out every single month, people give people access to their checking accounts, debit accounts, and the problem is it is sometimes hard to yank it back. >> right. >> so follow the rules and do the best you can to keep your

eye on your accounts. >> yeah. right. thanks, liz. >> you're welcome. well, doug is here with a final check on our weather. doug? >> oh, yeah. right now looking at a very cool evening out there and we're starting to see at least some showers and sprinkles that are making their way into the area. no real heavy rain. take a look outside and you can see what i'm talking about. temperaturewise on the cool side, 40 degrees with winds oust the south at 14. it feels like 32 degrees. that is the current wind chill. speaking of wind chills 33 degrees. the current wind chill in gaithersburg. feels like 30 in frederick. 28 in hagerstown and 32 in manassas. the rain still coming in on storm 4 doppler radar. you also see the areas of pink back toward the mountains. we are going to see some areas of light sleet maybe even mixing with light snow early but i do expect temperatures to rise overnight tonight so everybody will see primarily rain from this event and especially rain by early tomorrow morning. overnight tonight, temperatures around 38 degrees in washington, 36 in gaithersburg. 35 in leesburg. that's probably right around midnight tonight.

temperatures will rise after that and you'll actually wake up to temperatures in the low 40s in many locations. look at the high temperatures tomorrow. upper 50s to around 60 degrees. some areas could be in the low 60s tomorrow. expect rain early during the morning tomorrow and then i think a little bit of a break in the afternoon. a few more showers likely so you don't want to leave without the umbrella as you step out the door tomorrow but you may, just may be able to leave the coats at home. extended forecast once again coming up at 6:00. >> all right. thanks, doug. exciting slate of nfl playoff games. >> dan is here to wrap it all up. >> the championship games are set. i say one of the most exciting games in recent memory has to be that saints/49ers game. unbelievable. and here to break it down trevor price. 14-year nfl veteran and a veteran of quite a few of these playoff games. i know you watched this. >> a bunch. >> wasn't that unbelievable? >> you know, that's what you call raising a play during the playoffs. everybody talks about that.

can you raise your play? can you play how fast the game is going? it gets faster and better. usually i don't believe that but this is the one time watching it as a fan is a hundred percent right. the game raised up. the game played fast. great football game. >> unbelievable. the 49ers took the lead twice in the final three minutes of the game. vernon davis, dunbar high school here in d.c. of course went to the university of maryland. he set a record, seven catches for 180 yards. the most ever by a tight end in a playoff game. what makes this guy so dangerous? >> you know what? the easiest thing is he runs like a wide-out but honestly makes cuts inside and catches like a wide jout. a lot of tight ends catch to the body and like a basketball player would get a rebound but he catches like a wide receiver. and he can run like one and cries like one too in terrell owens. >> that was kind of a cool move. he was so emotional after the game. just all these, you know, it wasn't that long ago we remember seeing him on the sideline with mike singletary.

>> getting chewed out. >> yeah. >> you know, a change of leadership will change everything. it changes the attitude. changes the team's attitude. changes the fans' attitude. changes my attitude. i mean, these kids really want to win. they really want to win for jim harbaugh and they're doing it the way they're supposed to do it. >> one of the best stories in the nfl this season. then he had the broncos and patriots. 45-10 the final. right after you hop on the tebow train, it's tom brady stealing the show from tebow mania. brady, he ties an nfl playoff record with six touchdown passes. you played against him. what makes it so good? >> because he's angry. that's what makes a guy so good. if you watch brady play, forget the way he plays. watch him on the sideline. look at the look in his eye. i mean, a lot of guys can do that. he stands in the pocket. watch what he does on the sideline. that look in his eye. he looks like a man possessed. i say that in a good way because he is angry. he doesn't want to beat people. he wants to embarrass people. look at this. i mean, he just won a playoff game. he could care less about wanting

to score 150. that's what he's thinking. 45-10. the coach said something to him. he didn't say anything. just watch the way he carries himself, handles himself. that makes tom brady that look right there. he is angry, going to embarrass people. >> you can sense that confidence. >> it's not even confidence. it's an anger, an anger like i'm tired of not winning the super bowl. and i think even if he does win it he's going to act the same way. i played with ray lewis. i played with bill romanowski. nobody has an attitude like tom brady. he is the angriest man in football and a quarterback. >> that is so interesting to hear you talk about tom brady being angry. you just don't get that from the ugs commercials. >> very good. >> let's move on to sunday. ravens and the texans your former team does it with defense. certainly they didn't do it with offense because this offense doesn't really scare anybody. your buddy ray lewis and then you had ed reid the old-timers really stepping up on this one. >> they had no choice. it wasn't them it would be nobody. they had to make the kind of plays that win this game because the rest of that team looked old

and slow. i hate saying that because i'm not old and not slow. even the young guys looked old. there was something really missing from that. the thing to beat the ravens, you have to deal with two people. one of them is not ed reid. you have to block terrell sugds and limit ray. everybody else is just a guy. in a playoff game. >> you said you don't think the ravens have a chance against the patriots. tom brady says he thinks the ravens are the best team they played this year. >> you going to believe him? okay. >> angry people algs speak the truth. >> they do. and this thing in the back of his mind i'm going to put up 200 points if i can. that's exactly what he is thinking. trust me. all right. final game giants 37, packers 20. >> wow. >> the giants beat the best team in football. my son says, daddy, how does the best team in football lose to a team they're better than? i said, son, that's why you play the game. >> it was pretty generic. here is the reason. tell your boy this. you can't keep turning battalion over and win football games.

you cannot find a way to block four defensive ends that are rushing at you and not win a football game. those sacks, sacks really don't matter all the time because the play dies on a sack. what happens is when aaron rogers is running around running for his life he throws picks. they get interceptions. they look so sloppy. i will preface it with this. they had a bigger thing going on with the offensive coordinator's son and if i was the packers i would have said, you know what? you go take care of your family. he came back and he coached that game. >> right. >> they played with heavy hearts. i had forgotten about that but that does make a big difference because i've been through situations like that where family things are going on and you try to play a football game. but in the back it does weigh onnon it weighed on them. you could tell. >> you have the nfc championship giants and niners, ravens and the patriots. trevor price going to be back later in the week to break those championship games down. >> i'll give you my picks. >> ladies? >> thanks, guys. coming up tonight at 6:00 the search continues for victims of the deadly cruise ship

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bad guys beware. today's technology can help hunt you down. a woman recently used her ipad to track down her iphone, which had been stolen. scott gordon explains how this happened. >> set up for my first patient. >> reporter: dent aal hi generalist susan rucker was just starting her daily routine and didn't discover the problem until later. >> i noticed my normal setup, my phone was missing. >> reporter: she quickly figured out it was stolen but she had a plan to find it. >> i had my ipad because he did not take that and there is an app on there that find your iphone. >> reporter: she showed us how she loggedon, found her iphone on the map. >> it's picking up my iphone right where we are. >> reporter: and called police. >> her phone was on the move literally. >> reporter: an officer followed along as her co-worker gave him updates. >> just watched the cell phone move around on the map.

>> reporter: finally it stopped at a hotel parking lot. >> the cell phone was just right there in that parking spot sitting right there. that was the lobby. >> i heard him go in and he said, empty your pockets and then the next thing you hear is, put your hands on your head. i was like, yeah. they got him. >> we want to surprise the criminals. we want to take them to jail. the officers love taking bad guys to jail. that's what we do. >> reporter: officers arrested the suspected thief, 50-year-old kevin smith. they returned her cell phone and her boss's which was also stolen. >> pretty cool. >> case solved. >> all thanks to quick police work and modern technology. >> we recommend the use of these programs just for this reason. i mean, it's not just for iphones but all smart phones. there's programs for android out there, you know, anything that you want to find you can install this program. actually use it myself on my phone. >> it was amazing like tv. you know? this couldn't possibly be going on. but it was great. >> that was scott gordon reporting. that's it for news 4 at 5:00.

news 4 at 6:00 starts right now. a baby dumped on someone's door step and left to die in the cold. tonight we'll hear from the men who desperately tried to save the little girl as d.c. police step up their search for the person responsible. >> and then there were five. another republican presidential candidate drops out of the race to shore up support for front-runner mitt romney. >> remembering the dream. from coast to coast the nation pays tribute to legendary civil rights leader dr. martin luther king. good evening everyone. i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm wendy rieger. jim and doreen have the night off. we'll begin with the deadly cruise ship disaster in italy. six people killed when the ship ran aground friday night and the search continues for 16 others still missing. among those an american couple from minnesota. the ship's captain remains in jail on