economically. he used the speechl to address gridlock in congress. >> he turned to an economic recovery. steve with more on the address tonight on at capitol hill. >> reporter: thanks. good evening from capitol hill. even his harshest critics admit this is what barack obama does best, and democrats tonight loved the state of the union speech. >> the president of the united states! >> barack obama came to congress pushing his re-election feed that republicans call class warfare. >> we can settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of americans barely get by. or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. >> reporter: he demanded a new rule for the wealthy like him. >> if you make more than a million dollars a year, you

should not pay less than 30% in taxes. >> the president took credit for 3 million new jobs, cutting the deficit 2 trillion and saving gm and chrysler. >> and tonight the american auto industry is back. >> reporter: he promised fairer trade with china, mortgage refis at a lower rate and better policing of wall street. >> it's time to apply the same rules from top to bottom. no bailouts, no handouts and cop-outs. >> reporter: the republican response came from indiana governor mitch daniels. >> the president did not cause the economic and fiscal crises that continue in america tonight, but he was elected on a promise to fix them and he cannot claim the last three years have made things anything but worse. >> back in the capitol retiring congresswoman gabrielle giffords was praised and he cited s.e.a.l. team 6 that got osama bin laden. >> they worked together. imagine what we could accomplish

if we follow their example. >> reporter: build consensus and lower the temperature which will be tough in this election year. >> thanks, steve. a toughing moment tonight before the state of the union. president obama gave congresswoman gabrielle giffords a big hug. tonight is one of giffords' final appearances at congresswoman. she's set to submit her resignation tomorrow so she could concentrate on making a full recovery following the shooting last year in tucson, arizona that killed six other people. now to a developing story in washington county, maryland tonight. a man stuck in a cave for more than four hours is safe. the ordeal began just 5:30 tonight in the clear spring area. rescuers say the man slid down an area of the cave, got stuck in rocks about 200 feet below ground. teams from montgomery, frederick and washington counties were called in to help get him out of there after a long re ceus

operation. they report he's going to be okay. the man accused of shooting at the white house pleaded not guilty today. not guilty to trying to assassinate the president. oscar ortega hernandez accused of firing a rifle at the white house from constitution avenue in november. the president and mrs. obama were not home at the time. he was arrested several days later in pennsylvania. his lawyers said previously that no evidence exists that puts him at the scene on that night. we're joined now, and we welcome nbc anchor brian williams, who has stepped over. >> i like too where the highest ratings are at 11:00. i was in the neighborhood and i'm here. >> we appreciate that, brian. thanks for stopping by. you know, what many of us heard tonight and i think some might agree was constitutionally mandated state of union, but also a man using the bully pulpit to his maximum advantage.

what do you think? >> we always had this yearly conundrum. aid new journalists over today for an every year off the record lunch where you can report on menu items and the president's general view and thinking. this was very much what he talked about privately today, what he had publicly tonight. a kind of reminder. since there's no big legislative calendar out of that chamber this year in the view of most, a kind of reminder that, you know, during a campaign season, 18 debates you hear bad things about america for patriots running for office because of what they view as our failings. he felt the need to say we have each other's backs. we have a great work ethic. look what we built around us. look what we've been able to do. governor daniels had a few points he needed to add from indianapolis tonight. we just interviewed governor romney about his tax release

today, which set the news agenda for a the lot of day. so it goes and the next debate is thursday night. >> i'm curious about your -- you've had a busy, busy week if in florida moderating the gop debate last night and a front row seat for the state of union tonight. your kind of sense of what you've seen in the last couple of nights. >> it's withering for mrs. williams baby boy brian it's a lot to take in. the fact we got offstage last night in tampa at 11:00, and got off the air at 11:00 when you came on the air tonight, you have to keep up. all we can do is kind of be the purveyors of this and hope to ask good questions and hope to provide good analysis and get out of the way. as i always say this time every couple of years, the voters have a funny way of deciding these things for themselves. >> no matter what we say and propose. >> there's so much judgement on

the other side of the tv lens as you know. >> thanks. >> thanks for having me by. thanks. >> we appreciate it. >> anytime you're in town, all right? >> thanks. >> thank you, brian. moving on tonight. >> "occupy d.c." protesters were quiet tonight. it was a different creature stirring around free dpom plaza as shamari stone reports. >> reporter: rats shocked the pine family visiting from canada. >> rats are not something that i really all that favorable with. >> reporter: our cameras captured rodents darting down the sidewalk into bushes raising a red flag health concern. >> rats are not something you want around because of what they can carry. >> reporter: freedom plays. >> is the mayor's alternative spot for the mcpherson square protesters. "occupy d.c." has leaved in tent over the last four months. today there was a hearing asking why "occupy d.c." can camp out

in a public park. u.s. park police have allowed it because of first amendment rights. tourists say that's fine, but they want the rats to leave "occupy d.c." >> there's a number in this incident near the "occupy" site. >> reporter: the mayor plans on talking to the department of health it to tell them about this issue at freedom plaza. back to you. >> thanks. outside tonight it feels a little warmer than you would expect this time of year, but doug's already looking toward our next storm. what? >> our next storm, that's coming in a couple of days doreen. out there right now 39 degrees. it's just beautiful out there across the area. we're at 45 degrees at 10:00. that's one degree above our average high temperature after we retched a high today of 55 degrees. we're watching that next storm. nothing across the region right now or the mid-atlantic, but it's down to the south. look at all this rain through dallas and portions of oklahoma and then snow up towards the

north. these two systems come together and make a big storm as it makes its way in here later on this week. i'll show you when that storm moves in, what you can expect from it and of course what comes after it in my forecast coming up. >> thanks, doug. a driver who took an exit ramp in the wrong direction tonight was killed. it happened in herndon. they say the car hit another vehicle heads on at leesburg pike in mainsville road. the driver going the correct way was injured, but he's expected to be okay. it's not clear why the driver of that first car went in the wrong direction. look at a live picture of the beltway in fairfax county where a major road closure is less than hour aaway now. it's part of the hot lanes project. it will result in all ramps from the beltway to 95 south being closed. jackie bensen is in springfield. here we go again, huh, jackie? >> reporter: that's right, doreen. imts a big detour and happens in

about 15 minutes. the decision to reroute motorists trying to get to i-95. the major north-south traffic artery on the east coast even for a few hours is not taken lightly by virginia transportation officials. >> part of the 495 express lanes, tonight's activity in this area will be the hanging of a sign across the roadway. we have to get it up. >> reporter: in addition the inner loop of the beltway is affected from 9:00 p.m. to midnight, the left lane of-94 west before the springfield interchange will be closed. after md night all lanes will also be closed. all lanes will be re-opened by 5:00 a.m. wednesday. drivers we spoke to say they're learning to live with it. >> i usually look at my phone to see where the construction is, and i avoid it all the time. >> it's so hard to get through. for now if i want to go through

for a seven corner, i have to go to 395 and go around instead of 495. >> reporter: the detours are wellma well-marked, but it would add about half an hour for the trip through here tonight. back to you. >> thank you, jackie. there is a new plan in place to transform tyson's corner from a place where people work into a major city center. it's currently home to 17,000 residents. today the fairfax county board of supervisors aplooproved a 250-page design manual. it outlines ways to make it greener and friendlier to pedestrians. it's designed to take advantage of four new metro stations under construction, and it shows in detail everything from the preferred streetlight design to the type of trash can to be used. officials hope for a city of 100,000 by the year 2015. in northwest washington

tonight residents demand pd an end to a series of armed robes in the tinnily town area. the most recent robe was last night. they usually involve two or three robbers who hold up people out of their cars in the evening. at a meeting tonight d.c. police chief said the crimes are part of bigger trend. >> we always catch these folks. we always do. our goal is to catch them as quick as possible, but the biggest challenge is so many different groups are committing these robberies. >> she's working on to get the fcc to make it impossible for smartphones to be use would after tha befr stolen. a dramatic walkout by d.c. firefighters tonight who are angry about the chief's proposal to change their schedule. it happened as the chief ended his state of the department speech as he prepared to take questions, one firefighter called the others to attention and ordered an about face and

dismissed them. the chief wants to change firefighters' shifts from 24 hours to 12 hours. he says it will save the city tens of millions of dollars a year. firefighters say the change will only disrupt their lives. at the end of the 6:00 news tonight we told you about reports of a shooting near south lakes high school near rest ton. they searched the neighborhood for 30 minutes but found no victims or evidence of a shooting. ahead of the game a new crime fighting app goes live on the college park campus tomorrow. university of maryland computer science professor designed the app. in an emergency users can activate the app that sends live video and audio to the campus police dispatch center and potentially on to officers on the street. it relays the user's location. the developer thinking it will make criminals think twice about coming onto campus. >> this is a video that's

available immediately, so there's an objective nchgs. they can very quickly chapter that and start distributing it. >> the app goes live around noon tomorrow and strabl to students, faculty and staff at university of maryland who have android smartphones. you can download the app from the school's website. coming up tonight, thousands of people wait in the cold for a chance to pay respect to joe paterno, including one of the men in the middle of the scandal that led to the coach's firing. a man arrested in maryland who claimed to be a rockefeller is facing charges in a murder in california. we'll tell you how one

implts. man who lived for years claiming to be a member of rockefeller family will be tried for a murder this fall. they determined he was fit to stand trial. he's accused of killing his landlord's son near los angeles in 1995. in 2008 he was arrested in baltimore under the name clark rockefeller. there was an international manhunt. he's charged with kidnapping his daughter. more than 10,000 people stood in long lines and cold weather today to say good-bye to joe paterno. the former penn state football coach was fired as part of the jerry sandusky scandal. to many people paterno will be remembered not only as a

legendary football coach but as a charitable member of the community. rosemary conners reports. >> we drove two hours to get here just for this, just to say good-bye. >> reporter: they waited for hours huddled close together with one mission, to see the man who lived as a legend even before he died. known for leading buys into manhood in his four decades as head coach, two of paterno's own football players watched over the casket at all times. >> it's a shame people talk about the best parts once you're gone. i hope he knew that the students were there for them when everyone was dragging him through the dirt. >> fired if what would be his final season in the wake of the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal, joe paterno was highly criticized for only telling his superiors and not telling police what he knew of the allegations. at the viewing mike mcqueary who testified he told paterno about the abuse greeted former players and coaches, in spite of the controversy they could only talk

about paterno's life lessons. >> it's really be being a good man and student first here on campus. >> without him i certainly wonl be where i am at today. it's important to be here. >> he hated to waste time, and you only get so much he would say. make the best of it. >> for nose who did not know paterno but lovingly called hi joe joepa, they say he made penn state what it is. >> it's not like losing a family member, but at the same time joe paterno is so engrained in the identity of this school and he's a real part of the school. >> reporter: people say members of the paterno family greeted them inside the viewing, and it was comforting to let them know how much paterno met it the university. a private funeral is set for wednesday afternoon. doug's here with a look at the weather forecast. it was nice while it lasted, huh? >> it was beautiful today. i think we'll see a nice day tomorrow. more in the way of cloud cover, but don't put those umbrellas

away too much, at least too far out of reach because you need them on thursday. tomorrow should be a day we see slight changes as our storm system moves closer to the area. outside at the capitol gorgeous aacross the region tonight. temperatures have been well above average today and really all the way through the rest of the evening hours. currently sitting at 39 degrees with a high temperature today of 55. 11 degrees above average, 14 out of 24 days this month have been above average, and we go back to december. so far we have seen a very much above average winter. as far as the temperatures out there the last couple of days, 34 on saturday, 32 on sunday, well below average there. but then here we go on the steady climb. 44 degrees yesterday, 55 during the day today, and that roller coaster, that temperature swing continues during the winter months here. 39 degrees is the current temperature out there with our calm wind across the region. really a nice evening to get out and about if you think about doing so this evening at this late hour. 41 in martinsburg and 32 in

frederick. a lot of you wake up to temperatures into the upper 20s early tomorrow morning, but that's not too bad for this time of year. sform 4 doppler radar, nothing across the area. there is a developing storm system off to the west. we're watching this closely. it has a ton of moisture. look at all the rain in through dallas and oklahoma, an area of the country that has been very dry over the past year or so. they really need the rain, and that rain will start to make its way our way during the day tomorrow. let's talk about our weather. first off, high pressure was aacross the area today. nice and warm during the afternoon today. high pressure moves in, but look at the cloud cover. we see high clouds throughout much of the afternoon tomorrow, and then we see that storm pull closer to the area. shower activity during the day on thursday. i don't think we're in for a washout on thursday, but in this area of low pressure moves closer, we'll see the heavier rains late thursday night into early on friday morning. speaking of mornings, how about tomorrow morning. mostly clear a nice start and 27 in the cooler suburbs.

tomorrow afternoon we see sunshine early but more clouds late in the day. cooler and mild, 45 to 49 degrees, but i wouldn't be surprised to see some areas move above 50 across the region to the south. 50 degrees on thursday, 52 on saturday -- rather friday, saturday 48 and sunday is the cold day. high up temperature it there of 40 degrees. most of us on sunday stay in the upper 30s, but no real cold air still and no snow. >> we have been very lucky so far this winter. thank you, doug. ovechkin is sitting out but

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i guess flip did his best, huh? >> yeah. it doesn't matter if jon wooden was in there with this team, they're not going to do much better than they have been doing so far. the wizards on a road to nowhere and the president decided it was change for a change. flip saunders fired after two-plus seasons in washington and replaced by assistant coach randy whitman. saunders really didn't have a chance to succeed. the gilbert arenas disaster took this play from playoff contender to lottery regular. this season the wizards 2-15. it's the worst record in the nba. saunders couldn't get any sfars to respond. john wall, nick young and andre all having down years, and as a unit the wizards lack intensity on a nightly basis. the final straw, last night. they were down by 30 in philly at halftime. gr grunfeld felt like he had to make a move. >> i don't know if the players were responding the way we

thought they should have been for the first quarter of the season, and we felt like a different voice was needed to do some things a little different and maybe to play a different style than we have been playing. >> a good man walked out the door today. it's always hard. i didn't come to washington to be the head coach. i came here to help him. if i didn't think that this team had any positive ahead of it, i would have walked, too. we can compete at a higher level more often night in and night out. moving on to hockey, who needs o.v. when you have matthew per row. alex ovechkin serving the first game of his three-game suspension. the controversial suspension made him decide to skip the all start gate. he goes for a hat trick against

the defending stanley cup champions. ovechkin is there against the brewers tonight but there was no need. his replacement was on fire. second period tied at 1-1. 31 is seconds after a goal. per row to semin and back it to per rot. he turns it over and here he is again. to rask, he had the swipe and snipe. he puts the caps up 3-2. again we're tired a 3-3. roman keeps the puck and chucks it on net here, and look who is there. he finds a goal and a hat trick for himself. he's johnny on the spot tonight. his first career hat trick. capitals win 5-3, and they snap that two-game skid.

>> this is a game where the puck was bouncing for me and i found myself in the right spot at the right time. this is one of the best teams in the leagues, and we're missing big parts because o.v. and greeny isn't playing. >> it was a little shaving cream on his face. that's not normal for matthew perreault. >> that's not his normal everyday look. prince fielder not coming to the nationals. gets a nine-year and $214 million contract from the detroit tigers. they were kind of a stealth team in the mix. their big slugger got hurt and tore his acl.

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