in the spring of two thousand and seven governor bill ritter signed one of the new colorado bills it changed the makeup of the state commission that regulates the industry the ceremony was attended by some of the residents of garfield county island boy. these may have. been. spilled thirty forty one maybe one of the most significant things that we accomplished in this legislative session to reorganize the current oil and gas cuts of fish commission we believe it brings a better balance to the commission so that's not dominated by any one interest group but we're every responsible as we move forward going to be mindful of the impact is the number of drilling applications climb as the number of effect plates climb as well. half of the state of colorado or more. sits above the gas bearings and on. and so. this is an issue that will be with us for many many years to come in the decisions that we make today are going to define. how this will all. transpire over the next twenty years. the fact that today we have close to five thousand wells have been drilled in the northwestern area and if

in an eight in spite of protests from governor ritter and colorado legislators could be your rule of land management went ahead with a federal auction of leases on the rhone plateau. the entire top of the plateau fifty five thousand acres it was leased nearly fifteen thousand citizens sent protest letters but the bureau found the protests to be without merit and issued the leases anyway our goal is ciro incidents and zero impact on the environment and that. we're not there obviously. we do have injuries we do have. but we try and programs and already the best that we can sign a more dangerous than off across the road and where i mean you know it's not how it's not a more dangerous it's natural gas we're not out on oil or oil spills or some natural gas well some are dangerous. today's hearing will examine loopholes in federal health and environmental protections that are exploited by the oil and gas industry as children we all learned about basic fairness and we know that it's not just not fair would someone has to play by different rules than the rest of us but as we will learn today

at a press conference last week, on the road, on facebook and ritter, and in his weekly address. -- twitter and in his weekly address. the bill will cut petrol taxes come to extend unemployment benefits give companies tax credits for hiring and providing money to keep public workers on the job and reinvestments in the building schools and roads. it would start in 2013. the political stakes for obama is high. no president since roosevelt has been elected with an unemployment rate above 8%. chances are slim that the entire package will pass in this political climate. even if it survives the senate, it faces a tough road in the house. >> we do not think a doubling down our policies, which have already proven to fail, is the right way to go. >> republicans say it will do little to create jobs. >> he is doing the same thing he did before and expects to have the same outcome. >> wheat want to help small businesses grow. getting certainty on our -- we want to help small businesses grow and get certainty. >> some of the bill's provisions like the payroll tax for employers with at jobs. how many is

tennis now where patrick ritter has worn the end of season double championships in a symbol following a three said victory over victoria twenty one year old check that of edging a tight open a seven five but twenty two year old the russian opponent stormed back in the second to take a sixty four and forty decider the third set there was to belong to wimbledon champ and put a world record up the tournament on a six three spline i also ensuring that this isn't bring back or a high number two and. i. vetiver will now lead the czech republic team in their third cup final against russia next weekend very scenario of finding out first hand in istanbul what could it or the can do on the court as she lost to the wimbledon champion in straight sets in the group stages r.t. caught up with a russian head of moscow's mess of showdown. when it comes to the. emotions they're special and you could never experience that when you play individual competition and definitely that then in motion will bring a lot of determination a lot of desire hopefully we can create great competition czech republic is v

and are even spreading to asia artist chris ritter explains why people in india are preparing to join the occupied a gatherer club that energy that's happening in new york city and across the united states is definitely spread here to asia and actually the youth movement here has mobilized on facebook and on twitter and they're planning an actual occupy type a whole hong kong mumbai jakarta even if lama baad so the movement in asia is growing there's a lot of support for and here in india you know and there are a lot of similarities between the goals and the mass ijaz of the people in the united states and here in india we saw a massive anti-corruption movement here in india recently that was fronted by i know hugs are a worth thousands of young people showed up to support his fast against the government so many of those people are said to come out to this movement as well and many people compare that corruption movement here in india to the arab spring and now people are saying it's a very it has very close ties to what's going on on occupy wall street people here are a little bit su

. >> joining me now is stewart ritter from t.owe price to teach your children more about money management. what to think about the financial policy? >> i think there are some excellent tips that parents can use to help set up that environment for their kids and tell them about the family values and how they should be making decisions about money. >> let's talk about who are the kids you think would be held by this. >> we did a survey of parents and one thing we found is about half of parents give their kids and laos. that provides them with an opportunity to talk about setting financial goals and saving and spending wisely. at the same time, half of families don't have they're taking the events of the other tools available. kids are coming into money from losing a 22 birth that money to jobs they have. those teachable moments are opportunities for parents to talk about the kind of decisions that people can make. >> you don't have to be an expert? >> we are not experts in gear ratios of transmissions that we can still teach our te

john ritter remembers one student in particular. >> this student banker used a thousand dollars that he saved up during this program and he went home to his home country of ghana and he bought a plot of land for his hometown. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: the students say they will all be bankers. >> the field of broadcasting. >> you want to take my job. >> yeah. >> reporter: whatever they do, they'll be ready. you can count on it. >> great experience. >>> are you still planning to try to plan out your dinner menu for tonight? why not add some seafood to the list. detail of an effort to help the region's seafood industry. >> fits, your top stories plus weather and traffic. stay with us. back right after this. sou >>> welcome back to fox 5 morning news. things are just about stirring. people getting moving this tuesday morning. thank you for being with us. >> tony is back with us with a look a forecast j sounded like you were going to go into the christmas poem, people are stirring. >> nothing was stirring, not even a mouse. >> holidays on the mind. it got

jay ritter is the office manager partner of the baltimore office. he would like all 5,000 runners to go in front of them, and throughout the course of the race, for every runner he passes, he will raise $2 for charity. he is the only one in this race that wants to be dead last. he doesn't want to finish dead last, but he wants to start last. >> i liked starting in the back. it made me feel great as i moved forward. all i got was a sense of pride. he's getting $2 for charity for each person that he passes today. a good cause. >> he will doubt plenty of runners today -- he will no doubt pass plenty of runners today. there is a lot of energy. the first 3 1/2 miles are up little. >> at mile three, there is a treat. it is brand new this year. after mile three, they will go in the ravens gate and enter the maryland zoo of baltimore. the race officials believe this is the only major marathon in the country that runs through a zoo. there are lions, tigers and bears -- oh, my! you are supposed to a "oh, my!" the cheatia at the zoo can run 70 miles per hour.

john colbert and jason ritter will also be on tonight's show.e sure to stick around for news 4 at 11 afterwards. >> let's get to the weather. tom, how are we looking so far? >>> quite a bit of cloudiness but no rain. it's chilly. down into the 40s and 50s through much of the region. right now 56 at reagan national. it's in the low 50s in much of montgomery, arlington, fairfax, and prince george's county. you'll need a light jacket or a sweater before you head off to work and school on this tuesday morning. right now quite a bit of cloudiness rolling in along a stalled front that will be with us throughout the day. sunrise at 7:20. we'll be in the 60s in midmorning and near 70 by early afternoon. back down into the upper 60s by late afternoon. little sunshine in and out. here's your evening planner. we'll cloud up this evening. it will be cool down into the low 60s by midnight. and by this time tomorrow morning, rain likely. we'll look at that, the rest of the week and the weekend, at 5:21. here's a look at traffic. good morning, danella. >> good

the satellite and ritter showing that it will be to the north.wing that this system will be pushing to the north with fog in the a.m.. this will spread into the north bay. this will be into the south bay until 11:00 a.m. until the press is back into the coast. a five- year degree " down expected. 70's for the south bay. 78 in morgan hill, cupertino. and also in the valleys are looking great. with upper 80s today, tomorrow. 80 expected in danville. cooling also for the east bay shore. 80s today, tomorrow, 70's. 71 in hayward. also '60s and '70s for the peninsula and closer to the coast a big drop. with low 60s, tomorrow afternoon in pacifica. to the north bay, also dropped in with the 70's for the most part. rohnert park, santa rosa and a look a your extended forecast that cooling trend continues towards wednesday. temperatures only in the low 70's inland on wednesday but a nice rebound. to average areas of 80s and perhaps a bit above average in some of the inland areas but no bit much an uncomfortable area shred >>catherine: the u.s. investigatio

. >>> here is andrea ritter's backyard. she is in pennsylvania, north of allentown. i'm dreaming of a white halloween, i don't know. >> heather: on to another story, rescue crews temporarily suspended their search after three people missing after an explosion of a grain elevator in eastern kansas. they are waiting on specialized equipment. the blast killed three people, severely injured to more. it could be seen from miles away. >> gregg: at least ten people are dead following a weekend of renewed violence between israeli and gaza militants. latest incident involving an israeli air strike on several militants in retaliation for an earlier attack, a deadly exchange, now jeopardizing any hopes of a possible cease-fire. leland vitter has more. >> the violence continued in sunday night. we had rocket fire out of gaza strip but israeli strikes. residents are still cleaning up for nearly 40 rockets that were fired on saturday evening. it all begin on wednesday with a power struggle between hamas and islamic jihad and had the possibility of spinning out of control. >> the r

bill ritter has been saying in recent days it's going to be an uphill climb for the president. as you laid all it out the president had the stars aligned for him in 2008 with the democratic convention in denver. now it's going to be very, very difficult, that is why he's spending so much time here. we were here a couple of weeks ago. he spoke at a hispanic high school in the denver area hispanic voters can be critical in this case. the president as you noted signed the stimulus here, very early on, the first hundred days in 2009. i just came back from the spot where the president signed that stimulus, the denver museum of nature and science. talked to a lot of voters outside the museum, how they feel two and a half years later. some say look, his fans say bottom line is if he had not signed the stimulus we might have got into aggression. there are others who criticize it, say it was not as good as advertised. one voter said, all that is in the past, more importantly is what is going on right now. the voter said he's concerned about the president doing an end run around congress