julie carey, news4. >>> towns near a volcano in center ecuador all on high alert tonight. thousands are leaving their home. the volcano is plowing ash eight miles into the air. four explosions were recorded yesterday. the blast blew windows out of buildings, scientists are concerned because the erussians are becoming more violent eruptions six years ago killed at least four people. >>> cyclone eboni, that storm founded fiji it's the strongest one to hit that side in recent years. popular tourist resorts have been evacuated. search-and-rescue teams from australia and new zealand have been put on standby. so far no reports of anyone being killed. >>> our weather has gloomy, foggy, cold and dreary. doug is trying to brighten things up with the zoo lights display. >> reporter: really an amazing display. the best thing about it, it is a free event. it's going to go on between now and january 1st, which is new year's day. a bit in the way of mist, but the weather is pretty nice. with me is debby jarvis from pepco. pretty amazing stuff. >> zoo lights is powered by pepco. it has b

. >> reporter: in richmond, virginia, julie carey, news4. >>> we have a developing story in the district involving a rescue after a car accident sends two people to the hospital. it happened just before 3:00 in the tinnily circle area. it caused one car to flip over. that person was taken to the hospital in serious condition. the driver of the other car also taken to the hospital, expected to be fine, though. this caused traffic headaches for a short time. >>> 134 4r08 parents have another reason to be on edge after the discovery of a body near a school in the district this morning. the scene surrounds ft. lincoln park in northeast, which is right behind thurgood marshall elementary. pat cottens is there with more on the search for the killer. pad? >> the crime murder, the victim a man who appears to be in his early 50s. a scene a market right behind an elementary school. >> i just hard it on the news and rushed over to pick up my kids. >> reporter: it was behind the school. >> that's why i was really afraid. >> reporter: a case of murder if ft. lincoln park, right behind marshall elemen

but as northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports now not everyone thinks it is a good idea. >> reporter: opponents call the proposed road on this map an outer beltway, vdot calls it the north-south corridor and a rue v-dot is studying designed to connect broken stretches of major roadway in prince william and loudoun county to create a 45-mile corridor making i didn't 95 and prince william with route 7 in loudoun. another goal, providing a new path to dulles airport. >> we are trying to provide a -- easier way to get to work, mobility for goods getting to dulles, easier way to get to jobs ability for businesses to come in and into virginia and have the ability to get there, people to work and an easy way. >> reporter: the route being studied would follow route 234 in prince william county. a new tri-county parkway would run to the west of the manassas battlefield park. taking heavy traffic out of that historic area. another new connection would continue from route 50 to route 7. >> we are looking at a million people coming to the area in the next couple of decades. ter comin

julie carey, news4. >>> a popular figure in the tea party movement is stepping down from congress. senator jim demint of south carolina today announced that he's resigning effective january 1st. he said he's doing it to become president of the heritage foundation. he said he decided to step down at a time when the movement, he said, needs strong leadership. south carolina governor nikki haley will choose an interim successor for demint's seat. >>> the top lawyer will resign effective december 31st. he shared with authorities the e-mails between general john allen and jill kelly during the david petraeus scandal to the pentagon inspeor general. johnson, the general counsel, said for a while he would leave after the president's first term. he plans to get back into private practice. >>> the fbi wants to move its headquarters off pennsylvania avenue in northwest d.c. and now there's a regional battle over where it will go. d.c., prince george's county, and northern virginia all are making a play for the agency to be headquartered there. news4 has learned that the redskins stadium coul

. >> news4's julie carey sat down with the santanas. she'll have more on why they said hosting the president was overwhelming. that's coming up at news4 at 6:00. >>> an effort to end serious violence, civil war moved forward today. secretary of state hillary clinton met with russia's foreign minister and syria's u.n. peace envoy to try to negotiate a peace strategy. they reportedly met for about 40 minutes in dublin to talk about how the start of political transition. this comes after defense secretary leon panetta warned syrian president may be considering using chemical weapons. yesterday reports surfaced that syria is loading chemical weapons into bombs. >>> a longtime face of the conservative movement and a tea party favorite is stepping down from congress. south carolina senator jim demint is stepping down. he's decided to do so at a time when the movement needs strong leadership. republican south carolina governor will select a replacement for that seat. she will not appoint herself. >>> police arrested a school aide of inappropri