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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- live and in hd, this is news washington weekly. romney's rivals finally on the offensive, attacking the front runner. >> mitt romney may be this strong frontrunner here in new hampshire. tonight, it was occupy protesters were front and

center. mitt romney fired back at them after his event. caused aresident has aspening recession for 25 million americans being out of work. >> new jersey governor was on the trail of mitt romney anti -- at he pointed the finger president obama. >> your cynicism and your division is causing our country. bring our country together, stop dividing, mr. president. debate, theyght's largely pulled their punches. debate, they's came out swinging. >>, drop a little bit of the baloney tax cuts rick santorum blasted romney as a massachusetts liberal. >> we want someone who will for the conservative principles.

attacks have stopped and to stayas been able above the fray. >> this is a battle for the soul of america. farith mitt romney still ahead in the polls, the real battle is for second place. aboutning us now to talk things politics and the race for 2012. thank you for being with us tonight. starting with these back-to-back debates, they had a debate last night. not that exciting. but they got fired up today. >> it was like playing a double header. on the sunday morning debate, afterere really going mitt romney. was the target. they see as the front-runner and there were not holding back. >> they're releasing to keep hammering home a lot of issues

-- they did not bring anything new to the table. thehey were throwing in kitchen sink. gingrich going back to one his old senate campaigns. the fact that he left the of massachusetts after one term. mitt romney gave as good as he got. went after jon huntsman for as the ambassador of china. they were all in a pretty feisty mood. it drew one of the biggest when he said, remarks like that to have the country divided. >> jon huntsman said, i was serving my country. i will do whatever a president what the party. pretty good line for him. it was surprising that mitt went after him. it is more personal than anything else. those guys really do not like

each other. >> jon huntsman seems to be better in some of the new hampshire polls. recent one has in third place. >> it is possible he could even in second. is how close a second that might be. if mitt romney is winning by 25 points, second does not matter. if it is when -- if it is within muchingle digits, it is a deal. he staked his claim on new hampshire. it is hard to see our rationale continuing his campaign if not do well in new hampshire. >> i want to talk about this new book. it is supposed to come out on tuesday. it is already a very controversial book because it lady in at the first not so flattering light. " the first lady is a touchy subject with the white house. they have never been quite sure with her, how to use

in the public realm. somebody who wanted to raising her two children. are too think they to have any attention focused on her. the story suggested she did not of the white house staff. they never liked it when these out. come >> she has been the democrats weapon.erful her likability factor has already been so high. will it hurt her at all? >> i doubt it. this was seen mostly as inside the beltway chatter. it is the kind of thing most goes on anyway. >> thank you so much for being here with us. completeith us, of the republican primaries. gordon peterson and rebecca cooper are in new hampshire for

this tuesday's primary. look for their report and analysis on air and on mine. back to work, both maryland and virginia general assembly off this week. a leadership battle is expected start almost immediately in virginia senate. democrats and republicans have seats apiece. early sessions will be occupy with debate over the the lieutenant governor. meanwhile, md., the issues there dominate the 90- day session. a possible 10 cents a gas tax to help the state budget. potential budget cuts. the ongoing debate over legalizing gay marriage. >> the trial of a prisoner of aed in the death correctional officer is expected tomorrow in a lap this -- in annapolis. they're accused in the fatal stabbing back in 2006. the case is a death penalty one, despite major changes to the

capital punishment laws. prosecutors say dna does link stevens to the murder. this case could last up to seven weeks. the issuesndecency, supreme court will be week.ering this >> macy's inc. is shutting down two stores in our region. today, low were 50's. down forool things tomorrow. a warm-up is on the way,

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the man accused of trying to up in northwest plane will sentenced this thursday. the so-called under were bomber fall anduilty last prosecutors say he tried to ignite explosives hidden in his underwear. >> the u.s. supreme court will case concerning the communications commission and television and decency. one of the government's current standards are too arbitrary and vague. sonia sotomayor will not be participating. time that the world's largest technology show starts this .eek it kicks off this tuesday and las vegas. gadgets aren on storebefore landing shelves.

the prestigious new york film critics awards is monday. the annual ceremony honors the best in american and international cinema. year's winner include best picture, "the artist." >> the best car and truck of the named at the north international auto show detroit. namedree finalists were in december. 2012, the finalists are the focus, and the volkswagen passat. let's take a look at some of our local sports teams have on this week. the capital start their week the west coast when on the los angeles kings. wednesday whenn

the penguins come to town. to chicagod wednesday, a philadelphia friday. the 76ers' turnaround and come the verizon center on saturday. >> macy's inc. has announced close five of its stores, as well of four bloomingdale's stores nationwide. those nine are in the d.c. area. >> georgia johnson has shopped this mall for decades. >> before i ever lived in this neighborhood. >> the white flint bloomingdale's and macy's are the company's nationwide set to close. >> i shop at macy's quite often. it will be a detriment. >> their closing down. you have to drive out the other

way. >> at the stores are underperforming. the company's ceo said we committed toe maintaining a held the portfolio of stores. it requires us to make some to close decisions longer meet our performance requirements. more than 800 workers will be nearby stores, if possible. >> it is unfortunate that the the points gone to trust ish a large store will be closing down. >> holiday sales were strong. but many shoppers went to the web. >> i did do a lot of shopping online. >> there is more competition. >> when it comes to clothing and shoppingg, people are discount stores. sprang good news for local bargain hunters.

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daytime hours tomorrow. it may be close enough for we see a few showers. you might want to grab an umbrella just in case. all this moves out of here by tuesday. skies began to clear nicely and of sunshine.lot there is our forecast for tonight. daytime highs tomorrow around 45 to 50 degrees. look at extended outlook shows daytime highs in the middle 50's. friday, saturday, sunday. thank you. a little-known danger about driving. >> what a new study is revealing about

all heard about the drinking and driving. >> a new study shows there is a danger that he might not have thought about. driving while sick with a common cold. >> could this be as dangerous as this? -- iny cold equal to four britain, an insurance company boxes toblack thousands of cars. they found normally excellent of ars under the influence cold became dangerous drivers.

>> barre actions were much slower. -- their actions were very much slower. it was almost like having drinks. >> the problem is not attributed medication. culprits, pour sleep caused by a cold. if a cold-related accident holds true, colds caused more than 600,000 accidents and gear. with millions of people are more because they have a cold, should they be taken off the road? what can you do if you are sick to drive to work? kurds do everything you can to are much more attentive. make sure both hands are on the wheel. you allow enough distance between in front of you. >> or just call in sick and the car in the garage.

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