rising price of gasoline. it's become a big talking point in the 2012 presidential campaign. president obama is playing defense. he's been[p alternativen2b such as draggingciws dow numb insists there is more drilling going on now than when president bush was in office. brian mohr has our report. >> reporter: skyrocketing gas prices are dragging down president obama's poll numbers and th l2ñ any his energy policy. >> are drilling. under my administration america is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. any time. >> reporter: he is accusing his republican rivals of playing pump politics. >> they start acting like we've got magic wand and we will give you cheap gas forever. ifelect us. >> reporter: newt gingrich is promising 2.50 a gallon gas if he is elected. >> if you have gasoline at 2.50 a gallon you'll create more

american jobs. >> reporter: millions of jobs. and he claims drilling on federal land could reap trillions of dollars for u.s. government. >> we literally pay off the national debt. >> reporter: oil prices are being driven upward by speculation and fear a showdown with iran would choke off supplies. saudi arabia has already promised to step up production. the white house reports the united states and united kingdom have already decided to tap their emergency oil reserves. >> the report of any kind of agreement or timetable associated with agreement, related to a course of action is just wrong. m but there go # looming lastjul h+ todayaó: ' presidentialñ average will go above the all-time high set last july. in washington, brian mohr news 4. today republican presidential candidate mitt romney also blamed president obama for high gas prices but

unlike newt gingrich romney did not promise to bring the prices down to a specific level if he is elected. higher gas prices did not take a toll on wall street. stocks closed higher today for the seventh day in a row. the dow jumped 58 points. the nasdaq 15 points. and the s&p picked up eight points pushing it above the 1400 mark for the first time in three years. >> the other thing everybody is talking about right now, that wonderful warm weather. >> a lot of people are taking advantage of )( tomorrow night. forget it. doug kammerer happened to get a good seat at a place in shirlington earlier. >> and we're still here. as a matter of fact, you mentioned the seating. just take a look behind me. every single seat right now is completely full at this restaurant right here. this is samuel beckett's irish pub which is of course going to be packed this weekend for st. patrick's day and it's packed right now just on a beautiful afternoon here in the month of march. an afternoon where we set a record. we talked about it last night. we forecasted 83. we hit 82 today for a record.

the old record set back in 1990. take a look at the numbers right now. we'll show you where we stand. currently sitting at 78 degrees. that was a temperature last hour. right now 75 degrees with those winds continuing out of the east at about 11 miles an hour but gusting upwards of 20 miles an hour. take a look at temperatures around the region. still on the warm side. some shower activity making its way through. 70 in leesburg montcounty,p there." 81cla 83 in fredericksburg. there is the radar showing where some of the showers are around frederick in through northern portions of montgomery county around clarksburg, over toward damascus and all the showers are moving to weakening. that's the good news.b in colorad prepa thunderstorms in the forecast. i'll talk about that plus the weekend forecast in a minute. >> see you then. blagojevich is in colorado preparing to spend his first

night in prison. the jury convicted blagojevich on 18 counts of corruption including trying to sell president obama's u.s. senate seat. he will in >> sentence a and a minimum security federal prison and will be assigned to a two or four poirnerson jail cell. jeff skilling former ceo and president of enron is also an inmate. a pedestrian accident in rockville is causing major traffic delays.lñ fre kingé#b to a local hospital with injuries that are believed to be life threatening. frederick road southbound is closed at king farm boulevard. a virginia dentist was arrested for illegally prescribing thousands of -ócription emplo and pati he runs a practice on cambridge road in oakton. between 2007 and 2010 police say he called in prescriptions under

the names of employees and patients. prosecutors say he told his patients to return their unused prison pills to him. he is accused of giving the pills to taking explicit pictures of them while they were passed out. he could face 20 years in prison if convicted. a montgomery county woman murdered by her estranged husband who she had a protective order against. tonight we are learning it was a thiskíex push for a second injunction thatñv it kill. pat collins is live at the courthouse in rockville with details. pat?grldeporter:9 did she think agaiher hu gilb he>w1 thre kill- >> reporter: hyheather mcguire want why the judge let her killer last year heatheri

husband,y tue killed8- lqt get judgeé against somebody feayçajhnen protectiv ord in and over? that judge is a disgrace. >> reporter: the judge who let gilberti afraidh r0z expert on protective orders in a law school for the public tv special. now, last thursday, heather mcguire moved in to sam helene's house because she was afraid gilberti was tho he' [#se

broke her down physically. >> reporter: after gilberti was arrested the second time, helene says no one thought he'd be getting out of jail. >> did anyone call her to tell her he was out? >> no. a l >> reporter:alone.níne theway ing gilberti. he sees that gilberti is out of jail and knows that heather mcguire is home alone. trouble is on the way. while sam helene was in court getting the protective order "dz laterí[ phili gilbe kicks in the back door insi inside beats up heather mcguire, drags her out, puts her ki her van, and then takes off. >> minutes later philip gilberti de3ots kensington. laterrockv i, kills himself at a friend's home in rockville. now we tried to talk to the

judge about his decision in this case but so far no response. news 4. man who24-year- woman rñ:d polices county. this happened along commonwealth boulevard in burke, virginia around 10:00 last night. a 24-year-old woman told police someone came up behind her dragged her into the shakin up&r d.c.xca but 4 that anyone with information is asked to call the fairfax county during u there is a new twist in the campaign scandal shaking je who politics. is tos thousand momentof new businessmank÷ forxn! cam involvi the center of a sweeping 1ck jury datinxád;thompson's%6)jter: home and werec s 3#

2003. jeffrey thompson's home and offices were raided by federal agents march 2nd. now two sources directly camekt involved on june" raising 10 himself, theáh2n personally showed up in his campaign headquarters on one day tryings contributions from thompson and his associates. the block of checks came in on june 10th010. the crucial¡y onec sourceshims$2,000 collection handed over on bee$; onegray'sdnmqu contributions the candidate did have them on"l the campaign until then had thought we were going of be lucky to be instead, gray's campaign reported $536,000.

twice thisknow we raisedw@' declined his role with thompson in the surprisingly large block of checks. this was tuesday. >> -- give/yp-inue yo a kocertainly raised money during not somethin6 çg#e thoseon. >> r though allegationroñzr: >> we want to giveit'su forkv1 a comment. lp h of% can minimum on. eporter: sherwood,skr newsqcd:ific b)i]n4, m by gray several ton/2-ls kno it's unusual for a candidate to handle large been of campaign cash because at grayço tob other campaigns. thompson has news 4. still ahead not everyone basking in the r some people had to paddle their way out of flood waters that had

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you guys bring ahea u forr earlier this year. >> so77 to able to the comeáh#c out8qçwrs great heads up on the great weekend that's ahead of us for st. patrick's day and also with march madness kicking off so been able to let people come out here, have a beer after work and relax. you can see their happy faces. >> that's for sure. as far as the incr weather sometimes march can be a servea people=ñz3 bit on the cold side so what does this mean for you to be able early in the season? >> it allows us to increase our capacity on st. patrick's day so that we can serve more people who are coming outheay foodcçkí: in pz"nfgfñ"p>> americaminut talk aboutqt6k nobody the [toá evenwea fantastic we too. that's what i've heard. we've got food coming out in a couple minutes. let's talk about the weather. breakn)5j we'll recordé6 and÷z th ave this of$ yearia 50s it. wefg temperature abt b

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time willomãtr see a better chance of rain and storms during the day tomorrow. right now the best or the area seeing the most significant weather is northern fauquier county, southern portions of loudoun county it will eventually thachan throught$÷.3 east the night easterly flow set of y -them. far as temperatures go through the rest of the night tonight we'll see that chance for showers through the night tonight and in through d rrows onx

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