defense. $450billion over ten years. >> the so the sequester was ugly. >> the cuts start slicing in january 2013 and that gives congress 13 months to undue them. it is unclear if it will. >> if you undue this trigger. automatically, you will increase the deficit of the united states by $1.2 trillion. >> we need to look no further than europe to understand what lies ahead unless we take these issues seriously. >> you can already hear people posturing for the next campaign. a lot of people are going to look at this and say, boy, once again, the politicians just unable to put politics aside and deal with this issue. >> we just heard from the president who said that even though the supercommittee did not do their job, that we're not in any imminent threat right now. he said to congress, there will not be any easy off ramps. you will have to go handle this. i will veto anything that

suggests these automatic cuts will not take effect. >> and kind of the interesting thing here is if they do absolutely nothing. if they don't touch that sequestered money and extend the busch tax bush tax cuts, we're going to get trillions and trillions dollars worth, whether they can do anything, that remains to be seen. >> bruce, back into the studio. lee les lesli, thank you. today hi announced communications director has been reassigned to the director of health. hired pedro rivera to take over that decision. the deputy chief of staff for california congresswoman, zoe. gray also announced he is hiring sheila as deputy chief of staff. the changes are all about communication and again, this is his second major staff change in the last few months. >> now, we know more about the paperwork mixup in prince georges county that resulted in

an accused killer being led free. frederick scott hasn't been seen since he made his bail november 10 and simply walked out of the prince georges county jail. turns out, he got a bail that was meant for someone else. that according to state's attorney, angela alsobrooks. >> and the status hearing, there was no mention of his bond and what happened is there was an erroneous bond for $75,000 that was placed in mr. scott's file by the clerk's office. that paperwork belonged to another defendant and because the issue was not raised, the defendant was subsequently -- he made the bond through a bails bondsman and the jail released him using that bond information. >> now scott and another man face murder and handgun charges for the murder of phillip watson outside a nightclub back in march. now, a warrant has been issued for scott's arrest. last time he was on the run, police found him in vegas. >> an army intelligence

analyst suspected of illegally passing secrets to wikileaks. the hearing on december 16 is to determine whether bradley manning will have to stand trial. manning's attorney says the hearing will be open to the public. manning is accused of passing thousands of classified documents to wikileaks while he served in iraq. he was arrested in may of last year. he is now behind bars. oscar arkansas ortega made his first appearance in a d.c. federal court today. police say one of the nine rounds he fired cracked a window of the first family's living quarters back on november 11. a judge ordered the 21-year-old held without bond and had to undergo a psychological evaluation. ortega's public defender argued there was no probable cause in the case and have not shown the bullet belongs to ortega's

rifle. ortega heads to court next monday. bad news at the university of maryland because of a budget deficit. the school's president decided to cut eight sports teams. peggy fox joins us with news of a fund raising effort that could save some of those programs. tell us about it, peg. >> to save all eight teams, they have a plan where they need to raise $30 million and they need to do it in seven months. it's a daunting task, but the athletic director isn't the only one optimistic. >> it's very disappointing. we are staying positive and we are going to work very hard to raise all the money. we are going to prove them wrong and not giving up. >> jamie burke is one of four members on the acrobatics and tumbling team. she received scholarships, in and out maryland's president has decided it has to go along with swimming, women's water polo, men's track, and men's

tennis. >> i have a responsibility for insuring the financial responsibility of the institution and financial responsibility means that we cannot continue year after year having expenses within our revenues. living beyond our means. >> the president made his decision early. the sports are grouped with title nine gender based equity in mind to save mens and women's swimming. they need $11.6 million. $9.5 for men's track and acrobatic. >> we are paired with men's track. the two of us together have to work together and raise the money. but we are positive and we are crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. >> currently maryland operates 27 teams. now that makes it the third largest department in the acc. if these cuts were to go through, it would bring it down to 19 teams and that would make

it fourth smallest. but the president says that these teams would be more viable and better funded. we'll see what happens with this fund raising effort, however. i'm peggy fox. >> lots of enthusiasm from the students. virginia has started the restart process on the second nuclear reactor at the north anna power plant. right now, unit 2 is running at 7% power. both reactors at the plant shut down after august's earthquake near the plant in louisa county. federal regulators kept them offline until november 11. inspections could be completed. the first unit reached full power on friday. arrested a tsa employee for sexually assaulting a woman while in uniform. 52-year-old harold rodman charged with aggravated sexual battery. dressed in his uniform, they believe rodman performed some sort of patdown on one of the

women and ran away. and police are looking for a man who assaulted a woman. police say the man grabbed the woman from behind, touched her inappropriately, shoved her to the ground. she screamed. they aren't sure exactly what race he was, but they are saying he was wearing a black puffy coat. and coming up at 7:00, is it a crime to steal a kiss? apparently sometimes. why police are investigating what looked more like a schoolyard crush. we'll tell you about it on 9news now at 7:00. >> still to come, a change at one catholic church has parents fighting the role young girls play in math. we'll tell you what they want changed. top. >> kind of sloppy ride home. we'll take you out with the numbers. 64 and 54. mild today. record high, 79. we don't have any 80s until

late february. record low, 18. we'll come back and let you know how many will be wet. the hospital takes a newborn from a mother because of a mixup in test results and that mom is looking at legal action. details when we come back.

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mixup in drug testing. she gave birth to her baby boy in salisbury. two days later, the nurses started limiting her time. the baby's tests showed traces amounts of cocaine and pcp. but webber said that was impossible. >> i demanded that they test me and they tested me. i was negative. when they realized that i was negative and he was positive, when they realized there had to be a mistake. >> staff at the hospital sent the family an apology and explained this mixup happened during a computer outage. the baby never tested positive, but webber is furious and lost valuable bonding time with her newborn. up next, how would you rate your trust for your child's school system? one local school system gave the parents a chance and you'll hear how they came or how they ranked when we come back.

but first, here's a quick look at tonight's cbs evening news. the congressional supercommittee is on the verge of failure in the debt deal talks. we'll tell you what that means for the economy and your wallet tonight on the cbs evening news.

what does fairfax county parents think about the job their public schools are doing? jack says the school district -- the results are back and they are encouraging. >> we want to know if we are effective and efficient and then also meeting customer satisfaction. >> it appears customer satisfaction is high in that district, according to the survey, four out of five parents said teachers are effectively preparing students for the future and four out of five said the county school system is a trustworthy institution and one that respects cultural diversity. >> a mother's fight to keep her daughters active in their church forces her to walk away from their local parish.

delia has more on the battle for women's equality in the catholic church. >> jesus said let the little children come on to me. all the little children, not just the little boys. >> jennifer says little girls are being excluded from exercising their faith at area catholic churches and 50 families protested that as they marched to the arlington diocese yesterday. >> i'm hoping that the bishop will hear us. >> one year after their new pastor came to corpus cristie church. an announcement that boys alone will be trained as alter servers. up until then, little girls could serve, wearing white robes like her daughter did. >> i had to leave mass. >> the family is just one of a dozen families who ended up leaving the church after the announcement. they still keep in touch with some parishers who say less people are involved. >> it has been heartbreaking in terms of our religion.

our faith is strong. >> look out. >> girls who were already serving are grandfathered in, but have seen their duties scaled back and now wear different robes than the boys. in 1994, the pope allowed girls to participate in alter service as a way to correct what he calls a quote, profound inequality, but the diocese left it up to priests to decide. it's been a tough lesson for this catholic and former alter girl to teach her own daughters. >> the people who are making these decisions aren't bad people. they are just making choices that we don't agree with and hurt our sense of community. >> delia, 9news now. >> the church says they are moving to alter boys only so they can use it as a spring board for the priesthood fighting the decreasing number of young men going into the seminary. who could forget this? a weekend of heavy storms flooding out georgetown's washington harbor. despite the mess, some of those

restaurants are now in it for the long haul. according to the georgetown patch, tony and joe's, and nick's river side grill signed new 15 year contracts to stay in washington harbor. the restaurant's owner says the spring flood is an opportunity to start a new. >> ten families in joplin, missouri, got quite a gift in time for the holidays. brand-new houses. all of them had lost their original homes in the deadly tornado back in may, but habitat for humanity helped them rebuild. and they got a turkey and gift cards. missouri southern state offered full scholarships to all the children in each of the ten families. what an incredible gift from that community. and we all remember those tornadoes. they were incredible. >> i mean, it will be years before that city is close to where it was. also hit in '47. >> all right, we are just kind of, you know, drizzle and light rain. heavier activity is getting

closer to us. we'll talk about that. let's first start with live doppler 9,000. light activity and pretty much drizzle everywhere. the roads are wet. you have leaves on the roads. light activity down 95 toward fredericksburg. also up 270 and inbetween baltimore and frederick on 70. but it's all green. all light activity. temperatures are getting cooler. nothing crazy cool. 52 in bethesda. 48 in gaithersburg. 48 in leesburg. still 54 down in fort belvoire and 52 over college park. so, the umbrella is still needed. nothing heavy overnight, but steadier and heavier rain will develop tomorrow afternoon. just in time for the evening rush hour unfortunately. morning rain and showers on wednesday. but a great thanksgiving and really a pretty quiet travel day on wednesday. we'll talk about that in a minute. late tonight, 11:00, just some light showers across, pretty much the metro area from frederick all the way down to manassas and through the

district. by 6:00 in the morning, the roads will be wet again. that's the bad news. good news, it will be light activity. still green, but look what happens. we get into the lunchtime hour, we get some yellows showing up now. it's good rain in frederick and leesburg. we'll put this back into motion and in the evening hours, still some light to moderate activity across the metro area. finally, we see some signs as we get into wednesday morning of it lifting off. just before tomorrow night and into early wednesday, we might see a thunderstorm especially south and east of d.c. and south and east of 95. so for tonight, clear and mild with showers, drizzle, and fog. a one blanket night. lows 45 to 50. tomorrow morning, there will be some rain and showers. grab your umbrella. temperatures in the 40s and 50s and winds easterly at 10. by afternoon, the rain becomes heavier and steadier. keep the umbrella nearby. high temperatures topping out around 55. all right, let's talk about the travel weather on wednesday.

really nice. showers in the pacific northwest and that's it. sunny in the southwest. sunny in the rockies. no snowstorms lurking. we'll have to get rid of showers early on wednesday, but that's it. the rain may linger in northern new england wednesday afternoon. all in all, we are in good shape. all right, next seven days. wednesday, the showers and windy. a little cooler on thanksgiving. not much. 58 we can handle. lock at that. look at the weekend. friday, saturday, sunday, are you kidding me? another weekend in the 60s. a dry weekend. clouds come in on sunday. we'll keep it dry. next chance of showers will be on monday. temperatures still around 60. >> and look at that. those pretty little sunshine balls right there for the turkey day. >> if only we had seen that twinkle. we saw a glimmer, right? >> we did see a glimmer. >> they were going in the right direction. that's good news. it was a beautiful day, but the outcome wasn't that great. and overtime lost to the

cowboys wasn't enough, the hits keep coming. another starter goes down to injury. will trent williams play again this season? and caps coach has benched one of his biggest stars. we'll tell you who coming up next in sports. tonight, watch for your name on 9news now at 11:00 p.m. [ male announcer ] the chicken marinara melt

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well, the redskins were this close to give or take a few, to celebrating their first victory monday in six weeks.

instead, they were breaking down film, trying to put this loss behind them and it somehow focused on their next opponent. one who may have not slept well last night, graham. after winning the coin toes, setting up just 52 beyond all reasonable 52-yard field goal. he pulled it wide right and the skins left with their heads in their hand. not a happy day. very disappointed. just like everybody, you have to perform. you are hoping he performs at a high level. it's a pressure job and always hoping that a guy comes through and if you don't come through enough, you lose your job. just like every other position. >> and it's one thing to get man handled, but another just to give them the win. between his missed field goal and bad coverage and the final drive, the redskins missed some key opportunities to get the w, making this loss harder to swallow. we definitely take the

blame. you know, we know we can play better than that. we will play better. >> i mean, a chance to put the game away a couple of times. it's frustrating, but got to move on. >> and mike shanahan said that the knee injury to left tackle trent williams isn't as serious as first thought. he has a one to two week recovery period. and santana moss will be on the field this week. all right, to the caps. they found themselves in a similar rough patch. they have one victory in their last seven games. alex ovechkin hasn't scored in the last four and the defense is atrocious. ovechkin opted out of today's practice and heading into tonight's game, bruce has benched alex simmons. falling 7-1 to toronto. they presented a challenge for tonight. he decided not to post the lineup.

simply telling them, be ready to play. >> we haven't seen a lineup yet. get ready to play. we don't really know what is going on. >> we just want to mike sure we play as good as we can tonight coming off the heals of what we just played. >> it's time to announce our special high school of the game poll of the week. jr. choices this week include south county at yorktown, liberty at kettle and some other great games for this evening. for friday, i should say. today is monday. >> pay off time. >> that's it for us, have a good night.

>> pelley: tonight, they couldn't get it done. the supercommittee gives up on cutting the deficit. nancy cordes and anthony mason on what happens now to payroll taxes, unemployment benefits, and more. bob orr on