lawmakers on capitol hill joined over who is to blame and how hard the state's defense industry will be hit. tom fitzgerald has more and there is a lot of fingerpoints and no answers. >> reporter: why i's -- it's in puzzling when you consider this is the first full working day the senate and house have been in session since february 15th. virginia's particularly vulnerable due to the combination of military installing as, defense companies and the pentagon itself and virginia's democratic and republican lawmakers disagree on how to solve the crisis, there isboroing acknowledgment there might be no solution before friday. >> reporter: as president obama rallied, virginia's republican congressman questioned his holding a campaign-style southwest rage event whole no new talks are underway to prevent it from happening. >> the question i leave to you is to ask this, who the

president can fix sequestration in the shipyard in virginia. if he can, i wish he would have been there a year ago so we wouldn't have to have this unstable situation. >> reporter: the virginiava congressmen are both members of the house armed services committee and both warn the axe will haunt virginia's economy and the nation's defense. >> it affects our readiness. the military chiefs don't have the ability to place the cuts thoughtfully and methodically across the defense budget. they have to go through and cut across the board. >> reporter: the damage could be significant. a white house briefing paper warns 90,000 civilian defense department jobs will be furloughed, which removes $648 million in paychecks from virginia's economy. the army base operations will take a $146 million cut. air force operations by 8 million the navy will cancel

the maintenance on 11 ships. >> this was set up to be the stupidest option possible. if we don't act, we're going walk into that stupid this week. >> and ond this, mark warner is working on a bill to freeze the sequester and split the $110 billion calls between spending cuts and tax increases. >> i don't think that people realize as much as they have read, they don't know that some of the cuts will actually cost more money than savings. we'll have to break long-term contracts. >> reporter: and the gop has its own bill and to give the president wilder authority to shield them from the military and traffic control and security screening with though new taxes. so far, democrats are not supporting the republican plan and the republicans are not supporting the democrats' plan. and except for one brief phone call over the weekend -- weekend, there have been no negotiations between the president and republican

leaders mitch mcconnell and john boehner. they will be all together in the capitol tomorrow and there is no indication at this point there is a meaning between the president and republican on sequestration. the district is bracing for sequestration, especially local businesses and federal workers, leaders set aside $60 million for education, homeland security, health and housing and that is money that should be coming from the federal government. the district has no plans to lay anyone off. the looming budget cuts called for the homeland of security to head to immigration. several hundred cases were have rue -- reviewed and are on what i.c.e. calls a more cost effective storm of release. serious criminals remain jailed. a developing story, the senate confirmed chuck hagueel to be the next secretary of defense. it ended an ongoing debate over

the president's choice for thing does. republican leaders cited his past comments on israel and iran. and he will succeed leon panetta who is stepping down. a wicked winter storm still hitting -- hitting the u.s. in some places, the thick snow brought cities to a standstill and cutting power, making trouble nearly impossible and we're getting windy, wet weather in our region tonight. >> and we have a few more hours to go. the road spray is tough to deal with and wins gusting close to 40 miles per hour and that is not easy on the roads but it's still liquid and not frozen. we have had a touch of frozen precip in the mountains but they have been allowed to

expire and with a small amount. the sled watch is cancelled and we're not getting flooding rains but pockets of moderate rain like around gainesville and that is from south to northeast and expect that, oh, in the germantown area here the next little while as the rounds of rain continue and we think into the early morning hours, before it pulls on out, the bigger picture shows you that, once again, we have some frozen stuff in the mountains. little of significance. it's gusting to 38 in baltimore; 38 -- dulles and gaithersburg and d.c. a lot of changes are on the way for tomorrow. i will be able to warm up with that forecast in just a thank you minutes. to the edge on maryland now, the prince georges county where the council is fighting to end gun violence. six high school students died in a matter of months and all a victim of gun violence. today, the council voted unanimously to establish a workgroup to address the spike

in youth violence and homicides. paul wagner has more. >> reporter: this workgroup will be made up of leaders in the county, including members of the clergy and the members of the county couple. they gave -- council. they gave themselves until the end of september to come up with some solutions they hope will hurt. >> reporter: all nine members voted in favor of pulling together a group of leaders in the county who would work with social services, the school system, and the clergiy to come up with fresh ideas on reducing youth violence. since last august, six high school students have been killed in a variety of violent confronting as. at least two were attempted robbery. in all but two of the murders were solved by police. the council chair said that the group will ultimately look for solutions that can be legislated and do it in time to make recommending as needed.

>> we're looking to see if there is something legislative. that is all we can do and so if it's a legislative matter, something -- and if we need stronger laws, we need to be able to present that to our delegation and ask them to help us. and we're going to ask that they, you know, pass that piece of legislation and that would help whatever it is. it depends on what comes out of the report at the end. >> reporter: and the couple chair, brian, told me that everything in the report will be made a public record. paul wagner, fox 5 news. and littlers in virginia discuss the importance of the state's now transportation bail. -- bill. it interviews's now toe .5% hole sale gas tax, including a 6% levee on d.c.el fuel. the state's sales tax will increase from 5 to 5.3%, and drivers of hybrid cars have to pay a $100 registration fee.

she announced a high-tech traffic management system. the atm will stretch from i-66 to northern virginia and gainesville. he will see now electronic signs. the construction on the $34 million system begins to spring and will be completed by between the 15. are you relate -- guilty, a push to get slow drivers out of the fast line. hear what vower his to say about the new proposal and how an oscar win can help former hostages in iran build their case. >> and with the cavs on the ice and face form teammate, moc timmons. the critical comments about the former cap straight ahead in the sports edge. stay with us. [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare

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boost their quest for reparations. it tells the story of six hostages who were able to escape the canadian embassy but 452 hostages held for 442 days. they were released in 1991. and in an agreement, the hostages can't sue for damages. the group is pushing congress for an alternative. >> you believe this story? osama bin laden? >> yeah. >> the senate intelligence committee closed its investigation into the movie zero dark thirty. it depicts the 10-year mano hunt for osama bin laden and some claim the use of torture is inaccurate. and the d.c. commission on the art comes humanities is discusses will -- arts of humanity is discussing the history of the lincoln theater. the new operator will have to take control of programming, marketing and management. just ahead, it was the highway patrol of their vacation and ended in tragedy. a hot air balloon talls 1,000 fight from -- falls 1,000 feet

from the sky. and later, drivers might be ticketed for driving too slow. >> the sealion no scaredy cat. it delivered a smack down to the croc dial and showed the croc who is boss. who is boss.

a midair tragedy with deadly results, a hot air balloon speeded in egypt, sending 21 people plunging to the ground. fox news correspondent leland iter has details from jerusalem. >> reporter: a deadly disaster a thousand feet in the sky and a hot air plop falling over -- flying over luxor caught fire and crashed j. the balloon was landing and some workers were holding the balloon ropes. one rope cut off the helium

tank and it caught fire. nobody was able to control the plop. one of the tourists jumped as the balloon was flying up. >> the mangled wreckage of the balloon spread across the sugar plane field with the chartered remains of the victims. at least no one foreign surist -- tourists were kills. one eyewitness said he jump premiuming to this deaths whola fire and it jumped from the basket before slamming into the group. the gas line goes from the tank to the burner snapped sparking the explosion that set the balloon on fore and strikes's now blow to egypt's tourism industry, which has been uprising that continues today. one traveler changeed plans after hearing news about the crash. >> i was planning on going to the same balloon trip. after what happened, i

cancelled it. >> reporter: the tourist cancellation is now a might point as egypt --amoot point, as they ground all hot air balloons to determine what caused the crash and prevent another one in the future. in jerusalem, leland iter, fox news. and we have all been there struck behind a slow driver in the fast lane. the drivers could linger on the left lane in pd traffic. the bill getting a bunch of buzz. >> they can do on the right side issue 55, 60, 75, 70, 75. >> the smelt is 70. whatever congests traffic. sixty? could be 75. if you're to the -- not speeding the speed limit. >> and there is a law in georgia but many argue this new bill would make enforcemen easier. we asked our friends in facebook if they would be in favor of a similar law.

lewis rights on sherry lewis said yes, yes, yes. it's not only a hind raps but canegerrous as well and -- and josh thomas said it's dangerous and that impedes other drivers. join in in the conversation. go to myfox d.c. and two words in support of that. >> yeah? >> river road. >> yeah. >> and someone slow in the left. >> a lot of rain. >> and that is difficult driving for the evening commute and that is going to take extra time. we're not worried about flooding but this is lingering until 2 in the morning and that will be gone with one exception, and getting light rain in the morning. the rest of us have to deal

with not just the rain but some gusty wins. later on, if the wind dies down, the fog might be a concern and we start with your evening planner. we do expect to youers to continue. 42 degrees at 7:00, and makes it feel like it's in the 30s and the temperature at 9:00, about 42 degrees and that is not budging. by 11:00, more rain showers with a temperature of 41 degrees and you that we would talk about the next few days and there could be a shower later in the day, again, very early in the morning if you live long the nation dixon line. we have an upper level low pressure system swinging on through and it won't be carting the kind of moisture we're getting today. we have patches of heavy rain and we were looking at the moisture closer to gainesville and this is into loudoun county

and the district here and some extra pounding andways of rain tonight and at times, it will be moderate in intensity and that is a cancelled flood watch and that is going to miss us to the south and east and this is snowing in detroit and chicago, cleveland's getting rain and some mixing may happen there later and the snow is into. >> >>. so, it's been a very important storm and it had an effect on much of the country. meanwhile, below average. we hit this 6: zero. b -- bw e-thur god national willie, to and not a pleasant night to be out. hard to walk the dog in this kind of weather, for sure, and i mentioned some gusts close to 40 miles per hour and to 30. tonight, we drop to 41 and some chilly rain, and some fog once

the winds lighten up and tomorrow is a warmer day. bright skies and times -- kinds of clouds as well and still on the breezy side, although that breeze is a little warmer out of the southwest and that is to 10 to 25 miles per hour. the fox 5 accuweather seven-day forecast, the 57 should feel good tomorrow. thursday's 52, not bad earth. as we head into friday and saturday, dry days, we continue the dry pattern into sunday, monday, and tuesday. the weekend looks like a chilly side, brian. >> thank you, sure. -- sow. georgetown peaking at the wrong time which is a scheduler. you heard, a massachusetts teenager is the first girl to ever win a state wrestling toilet. she's the best in or 1 lawyer swiss-pound weight class and

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scott smith coming to you from the verizon center. the caps wrap up a three-game home stand against the carolina hurricanes. and they hopeful to have back strom and chow mera on the -- chmurra and it will be the first time for them to take on semon, one of the top goal scorers in the history of the -- history of the franchise. the right wing earned a reputation as a spew sioux peoplely talented player who didn't always give maximum effort. the outseason, 7 and the caps parted ways and with that deal

to caroline a. troy brower was a straight shooter when asked about semon's tenure in d.c. >> it was tough to lose him. all in all, i think who have about have been doing well without them. >> so nice, you didn't know if he was going to come to the ring. it's -- it's tough to play longside guys like those. you don't know what you're going to get out of them. >> and how do you feel going into a game where you have that bulletin board material? >> and he's highly skilled. i am sure he's going to come on out pretty hard and show whoever made comments that he can pray, and we'll be ready for him. >> and the first in the big east over the weekend. a nice win over sera cows and that is their 10th consecutive way and tomorrow night, they

visit uconn. georgetown started slowly and rallied behind the jr.. he carried the team and 35 hits -- heights over the orange. a satisfying wind is a trip to the big east. georgetown is number seven in the country the seventh straight year the hoyas made one appearance in the top 10. is it something that john thompson 3 takes pride in? judge absolutely. there is no doubt about that and it shows you we have been consistent, you know, we're been consistent and found a way, different groups to come together and figure out how to win. >> and we know it was not going to be easy and wohere every day going hard at each other and making each other better and it's paying off.

>> and to that cooling hardwood, george mason hosting towson and the nats drop one, 1- 5 and fred davis, the tight end, he's cleared to start running and is expected to be 100% by the time the otas come around. back to you. >> and thank you. now for a look at what is coming up at 10 in. >> this is the question. what edge should your child take sex ed classes in how about children in kindergarten? we'll bring down their controversial planned. a virginia man was ambushed and killed. the victim's friends tell us what happened. plus the developments as the deadline nears. >> and when is that rain getting out of here? >> going to be a while, brian, two, three in the morning and may linger for those of you living long the mason-dixon line there and we'll have the

batches of rain and occasionally -- occasionally, in the yellow is moderate rain and there is some sleet in the mountains. but all winter weather advisories dropped out and there are some storm warnings, for the highest elevations and not in the region. 57 degrees tomorrow and a much warmer day. we can't rule out a couple of showers and some times of clouds with some upper level energy swinging on through. brian? >> thank you, sue. now you have the news edge. of course, the news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. back here at 10 on news edge.

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