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he was found not guilty by reason of insanity when he shot and wounded regan in 1981.octors say his mental illness has been in remission for years. >> tucker was talking about severe weather in the south a couple minutes ago while we deal with icy conditions people in parts of arkansas are waking up to the aftermath of a possible tornado, the storm brought hail, strong winds as it moved through several other states including illinois and kentucky. no injuries were reported today, damaging winds will continue across parts of tennessee, and mississippi with severe weather now as tucker said in alabama. >>> all right 33 degrees on this monday morning. it is now 7:20 a.m. as we roll on. coming up next virginia lawmakers making at a changing school disciplinary policy >> time to lace up the skates hit the ice, annie yu is live at tucker road ice rink, upper particularlyboro. later she -- marboro, later she will explain what this is all about. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] combine a pnc cashbuilder visa credit card with a pnc performance select checking account and get up to 1.75%

we are on the cool side 34 regan national, humidity up rain on the way winds out of the north and east, 6, pressure 3.30 inches, rain arrives by afternoon, 1, 2, around for the evening rush hour. more details on the forecast headed downward with a thermometer details coming up tony back to you. >>> all right tucker. we should mention tucker has been running lately that is why he says he feels old. >> is that why? >>> yeah. votes are counted romney is winner. >> the first ever non-incouple want republican to win -- incumbent to republican to win ohio and new hampshire. rounding out the top three was john huntsman who spent most of his time in new hampshire, romney reiterated last night why he is in this race. >> this election is a choice between two very different destinies, president obama wants to fundamentally transform america we want to transform it to the founding principals that made it great. >>> now, mitt romney and the candidates are headed to south carolina after a big night in new hampshire. political editor at the human events newspaper was in new hampshire for all the acti

regan national before remember we only had a trace amount yesterday, 6/10ths of an inch regan nationalable snow. >> all right. >> big chunky snow. >> really was. >> big snow. >> yeah, impressive to see. >> it was. >> and worrisome if you are a weather person. >>> temperatures across the region, 30s for the most part, 32 degrees in washington, 34 annapolis, 34 quantico, 30 dulles, 32 baltimore however we have 20s. 28 gaithersburg here is a look at the map for the mid-atlantic and northeast, temperatures consistent although warmer, more mild i will say in north carolina, raleigh 44, cape hatteras, 46 degrees here is a look at radar and sat rad first we will start with radar, nothing to see we have clouds, fog but nothing showing up on the radar your big storm system across the south, and southern plains lower mississippi river valley this is the system that will move into our region and right now we will bring steady rain to us friday night, into thursday morning. here is your five day forecast, today, 52, morning clouds, morning fog. plenty of sunshine, tomorrow 48, clouds build in, rai

all right temperatures, area airports, milder than it has been, 46 regan national, 42 dulles, 48 bwi marshall, plenty of clouds around there may be some sun here and there looking for highs to range from the mid- 50s to our north, 55 frederick, to upper 50s. 58 degrees, low 60s to our south, 62 in frederiksburg that is a look at what is happening with weather now an update on traffic for that we go to julie right. >> all right tony, serious tie ups on the top stretch of the belt way outer loop approaching 355 where i had the accident activity callers tell me only one lane to the left is getting by. outer loop of the belt way, before you commit to 270, at 355 only one left lane is getting by. it is bumper to bumper slow as you work your way around from college park. wall to wall traffic, as tony was doing weather i saw another fire truck and police officer heading around this outer loop to assist. big delays on the outer loop slowing from i-95, your average speed here down to 20 miles for hour as you travel in towards 270, that is a check of your on time traffic. >>> our big story new

we look back to nixon, regan, bush as you mentioned. even mccain.he fact is that romney has been on the ballot before. so has dr. paul. we have the first and second place people who have already been on the republican ballot. known commodities and they seem to be going into the election doing pretty well. mentioning ron paul the fact is that he is bringing people into the party that, you know, are first-time republicans essentially. so he will have an influence going down the line. >> chris: we have to take a break here. we we come back, the economy is a campaign issue. with jobless numbers improving how will republicans push back against the president who now says his policies are working. you've felt like this before, right? 2:30 in the afternoon, a lot to do, and you've hit the wall. but you got to get stuff done. so take 5-hour energy. just open it up, knock it back, and roll up your sleeves. 5-hour energy is faster and easier than coffee. man, does it work. you'll get that alert, energized feeling you need to get stuff done. a lot of stuff. wow

temperature at regan national 25 degrees, lots of teens around the area as well. 18 baltimore, 18 win chester, 17 dulles, ocean city getting in on the cold 18 for you down at the board walk again. very very frigid start to your day but with sunshine and warmer temperatures on the way it should feel better this afternoon. >> looking at our satellite radar, just satellite, generally sunshine to start your day clouds out of the west will move in later this afternoon and tonight. mostly sunny day and then should get some rain back in the forecast tonight and for your morning commute tomorrow. changes in the way some rain showers returning overnight there you go sunshine warmer this afternoon. 42 close to where we should be temperature wise this time of year. more details in just a minute. lauren demarco is in and has your very latest. >>> we've got reports of a new issue on the belt way, prince georges county outer loop, 450 and bw parkway report of a car fire everybody getting by single file to the left, quickly stacking up a live look from traffic land as you travel the outer loop, head

we look back to nixon, regan, bush as you mentioned. even mccain. the fact is that romney has been on the ballot before. so has dr. paul. we have the first and second place people who have already been on the republican ballot. known commodities and they seem to be going into the election doing pretty well. mentioning ron paul the fact is that he is bringing people into the party that, you know, are first-time republicans essentially. so he will have an influence going down the line. >> chris: we have to take a break here. we we come back, the economy is a campaign issue. with jobless numbers improving how will republicans push back against the president who now says his policies are working. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. and then treats day after day... well that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid wi prilosec otc. and don

still cold, 25 regan national, 20 baltimore, 16 winchester, much of the area in the teens overnight. 21 hagerstown and ocean city, good morning 20 degrees for you. waking up with sunshine, generally clear skies across the region, as we get into the afternoon some clouds you see out to the south and west will start to sneak in here won't be a perfectly sunny day mostly sunny, changes later tonight and tomorrow as we have more showers in the forecast, i will have details coming up for today, generalrily a nice monday -- generally a nice monday, low 40s. 42 washington 44 the hot spot frederiksburg. more details on the forecast back to you. >>> tucker thank you. >>> and big story we are following this morning,. >>> a baby found abandoned in front of a home in northeast dc has died a man found the baby girl wrapped up lying on the steps in front of a home chaning street northeast 3.5 miles away from children's national medical center that is where the little girl was take season later pronounced dead. wisdom mar -- taken and later pronounced dead. wisdom martin, sad ending. >> it is a ver

. >>> hearing for the man who shot president ronald regan expected to last the rest of the week he is asking for longer visits with his mother in virginia in hopes of transitioning out of a mental institution. yesterday a secret service agent testified he visited a bookstore and became fixated on books about presidential assassinations. >>> u.s. marine sergeant will be sentenced this morning in california, after pleading guilty to dereliction of duty. the 31-year-old was originally charged with killing 24 unarmed iraqi is he villains during a raid -- is he villains during a raid in 2005. yesterday he pled guilty to the lesser charge overdear election of duty which carries -- of dereliction of duty which carries a maximum of 3 months in prison. >>> cia officer from arlington facing 30 years in prison. he leaked the names of covert officers to report uhs and identified one -- reporters and identified one as taking part in the water boarding of an al qaeda operative. his client will plead not guilty. >>> police won't be able the put a gps on vehicles without a warrant. that is the new ru

helped with regan's initiative. ticked off the legislative agenda.ve to decide, do they want someone with that kind of experience that can shake up washington, not just republicans, but democrats too. or do they want someone with less experience? i think that they should pick someone with experience. >> and newt will be newt. >>> it is crunch time in new hampshire with two debates scheduled the next 48 hours followed by the actual voting of course on tuesday. so where do we go from here? bill burton is former white house deputy press secretary and founder of the super pac prioritiespr. bill burton, good numbers today. can you keep it going? you heard what republicans today say about it. it is better but not good enough. >> joebs numbers are great news for the president politically but also for the country, economically. it means a lot to the american people. but it is interesting to watch what mitt romney has it say about this. he sides with the most extreme sides that are rooting for the american economy to fail. he is a guy who benefitted financial

temperature right now regan national currently 40s. we are 44 degrees now regan national humidity 89%, winds out of the south and west, 6 miles per hour your forecast today, lots of clouds around again very mild temperatures ahead of a cold front, highs later this afternoon, upper 50s. low 60s. enjoy more details on the forecast, cold weekend ahead. >>> big story this morning disturbing new video that hit the web. >> prompted an investigation and search for four u.s. marines, stacey cohappen is in the the news -- cohan is in the newsroom with more. >> reporter: it popped up on youtube tuesday night one look you will see why this is sparking such a strong reaction across all branches of the military and how the pentagon is investigating. we've blurred out a large portion of this video because of its content but you can see, there are four people that appear to be marines in combat gear, urinating on what appears to be the dead bodies of taliban fighters in this video, you can hear one of the men saying have a great day buddy and then yo

current conditions no problems out there at the moment temperatures in the 30s. 39 regan national, parts area at the freezing mark. 32 frederiksburg, 33 win chester, 33 ocean city, clouds win out here, this afternoon and can't rule out the possibility of a couple showers there is your frontal system, leading edge towards cincinnati and ohio. shower activity, possibility of a few showers i think will move in to 3, 5 this afternoon and that will usher in the cooler air. 56 your daytime high another mild one today, scattered showers late this afternoon more details in the forecast more on the cold coming up. >>> thanks so much see you later. >>> well, you don't want to miss this next thing. movie reviewer, kevin mccarthy sits down with steven spielberg and talks about his new movie war horse. plus kevin will give us his top films of 2011. we will be right back with that  >>> steven spielberg's new movie war horse opened christmas day. it tell it is story of a boy forced to give up the horse he raised because it is needed for the cavalry. kevin mccarthy talked to steven spielberg. kevin cal

. >> i am in fact the legitimate heir of the regan movement. >>> ron paul moved on to maine over the weekend rick santorum had to leave florida to tend to his ailing daughter she is recovering now from pneumonia, her father is on his way to minnesota today. looking at a race that may not end any time soon. >> the fact is once you get beyond florida these are all proportional representation states he is not going to be any where near a majority by april this will go on all the way to the convention. >>> gingrich certainly isn't alone in thinking that ron paul and rick sante also indicated they are in this for the long haul but alison, you pretty much have to say that if you are running right now >> i would thing you would have to. thank you doug from the hill. >>> busy day ahead for president obama, the president is set to answer questions about his state of the union address in an interview with youtube and google plus. before that the president will welcome the president of former soviet republic of georgia. >>> obama administration will announce today a new plan to help support mil

. >>> all right let's push on nice looking tuesday, and a warmer tuesday as well. 44 right now regan national, how about afternoon high temperatures mid-50s. yeah, hard to believe. winds out of the west 6 miles per hour. cold front coming through, sunshine here shortly, sunrise this morning 7:21 a.m. and then off and running with a nice afternoon, dry afternoon as well as we've got high pressure building from the west. early clouds, afternoon sun. 55 your daytime high. more details on the forecast in just a couple minutes, let's get to traffic and you know who has that julie. >> all right tucker again the fog definitely not helping our commute this morning, really socked in on us causing tie ups especially coming southbound along 270, working your way out offerer banana. average speed down -- verbana average speed, down 280. 66 coming in from the west, you will find lanes are open no incidents to report but again your speeds have dropped considerably out of manassas. down to 39 miles an hour 38 for those headed in towards centerville. inner loop of the belt way, that is where i have

to be another hour or two to warm things up we should be off and running shortly 40 washington reganl, 45 frederiksburg and let's see, 41 at last look in winchester again, expecting a nice warm up temperatures should quickly jump, cloud deck, working through, that is the warmer air starting to move in and once that gets east of us we should deal with or look at mostly sunny afternoon and again winds have shifted out of the south and west that will allow unseasonable warm air, 20 to 25 degrees above normal, lots of sunshine unseasonably warm i give you permission to go out and enjoy it, 66 degrees tony does too. >>> i love these days you are right everybody goes out for lunch and eats outside. >> everybody is in a good mood. >> thank you sir. >> all right. >> so is julie wright we believe about the weather can't tell you about the traffic. >> definitely big smile on my face to see all three of you and temperatures like this. looking forward to it on the roads stop and go slow, especially virginia, inner loop of the belt way, average speed, 22 miles per hour check out the ride 395 as y

and she has a ronald regan aircraft carrier hat. it gets better and better.e, tries to go out and visit the ronald regan aircraft carrier every time it comes back to home port. now let me take the example about reagan. i first met with ronald regan in 1974. i was a candidate for congress. he came to georgia. i was allowed it take him to the airport because they were so grateful anybody would run as a republican in georgia in 1974. his plane was late. we chatted for a little while. he finally got bored listening to me and said how would you like to see how i give speeches? i thought, this would be good. and it was. i was on his side in the panama canal fight. i helped develop supply side economics. i worked with the campaign and actually put together the first capital steps in history in september of 1980. i worked with him as a member of congress for eight years. in 1995, at the gold water institute, nancy reagan said that ronald regan's torch had been passed to me as speaker of the house and that i was carrying out the values that he believed in. >> newt gin

working with ronald regan in the early '80s we had a very simple formula. sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more american energy, and actually praise people who create jobs. that formula led by august of 1983 to 1 million 300,000 jobs being created in one month. six times the number they'll create this month. >> he went on "the today show" right after he was inaugurated. if i can't turn this economy around i'll be looking for a one-term proposition. we're here to collect. we're here to collect. we're taking it back. >> governor romney has boasted of his record about turning around companies. he's staking his campaign on the contrast as he sees it between his performance as an executive and president obama's record as a chief executive. >> i don't think he's a bad guy, i don't think he has a clue. having never worked in the private sector, never having had a real job, it's not a surprise he doesn't know how to create a real job. i happen to think that if you want to create jobs, it helps to have had a job. and i have. >> i went off on my own and start

today but overnight tonight and during the day tomorrow things will get rather unsettled temperature regan national, 37 degrees, 32 frederiksburg, 34 hagerstown and 32 in ocean city, your forecast today, good one early sunshine afternoon clouds move in still mild this time of year 48 your daytime high. more details on the forecast of course i mentioned the rain we will have that in the 5 day coming up alison back to you. >>> thanks tuck the president delivered his final state of the union address before the general election in november. >> much of the speech focused on economy and job creation. >> stacey good morning. >> the hour long speech contained a lot of themes he touched briefly on foreign policy, addressed the fact osama bin laden was now gone troops were home from iraq clearly the message was economy is job one and he outlined his plan to narrow the gap between the rich and poor. when he first entered the chamber one person he took a moment to recognize personally was congress woman gabrielle giffords she sus shot and is recovering -- gunshot -- shot and is recovering from that gu

. >>> i am vastly closer to regan in that period the governor was an independent business person 92 hewas voting for congress, in 94 running against teddy kennedy he said i don't want to go back to the regan bush era. >> newt gingrich takes aim at romney for not being a conservative republican. last night the former speaker of the house got the endorsement of herman cain how will this play out for tuesday's florida primary? fox news sunday it is thes down with gingrich. chris wallace joins me with a preview. >> good morning melanie. >> big stakes in florida, i was in central florida this weekend and boy the air waves are heating up with those negative ads. >> it is interesting i haven't been down in florida but was in new hampshire and iowa if you are not there you have no idea just the barrage of ads between every segment of a news show, a sports show, whatever it is you are watching there will be ad after ad after ad ads but candidates, by the super pack, some positive some negative it really is quite a barrage. >>> so one of the big talkers in the newsroom here is newt gingrich gett

it's 15 to 20 sustained and gusting to 28 in regan -- reagan. a few showers, quite breezy. tomorrow will be much cooler again. we'll talk about that, our next storm and when this warms up yet again. it's all coming up. >>> this has been four days since an italian crouse ship ran aground off the coast of tuscany but rescuers are looking for 20 people. the number known dead is at 11. meanwhile, the captain of the ship was released from jail to be con fined under house arrest. we have more and a new tape that reveals a phone call. >> reporter: after blasting their way in rescue workers found five more bodies in the lower decks. about two dozen passengerrings are missing. among them a 5-year-old girl and her father and retirees jerry and barbara heil of minnesota. those who survived talked of chaos. >> we kept going to life boats and they were already full and people were pushing, shoving and screaming. there were some jumping on the life boat even though it was full. >> reporter: while helicopters were taking these infrared pictures of passengers climbing down the ship the cap

we've clearly begun to describe the gap between a massachusetts moderate and a regan conservative. >>reporter: all candidates are in new hampshire for one last day of campaigning except for rick perry who remains in south carolina. t.j. winick, abc news, manchester. >>> 4:46. millions of popular pills are being pulled off shelves. a mistake could mean you would get the wrong medication. >> the rare appearance from wound wound arizona congresswoman gabby giffords one year after the shooting in tucson. >>> northern california connection to the dramatic rescue of some iranian sailors by americans. h@h@h@h@h@h@h@h@h@u >>> welcome back. cooler weather winter starting to take back most of the country warmest along the gulf coast 60s and 70s phoenix 67 everybody else in the 40s and low 50s. a lot of rain mid south back to texas could be delays there right now all major airports and regional ones in california on time. use our flight tracker abc7news.com at the bottom. >>> 4:49. arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords made a rare public appearance marking the with one year anniversary at a m

gerald ford beat ronald regan but lost to jimmy carter in november.nly two nonincumbents have ever won the caucuses and gone on to win the presidency. george w. bush in two thousand, and barack obama in 2008. john mccain in 2008 actually came in 4th in the iowa caucus. mike huckabee was the surprise winner. >> and august 27th, the republican national convention will begin. republican upon delegates will nominate the presidential and vice presidential candidates. the november 6th is the general election, and we find out if a republican candidate can unseat barack obama as president. >>> fog is expected once again overnight. but it's not expected to be as dense. we will see the bay areas with fog, but it won't persist as long either. temperatures in the 40 for the most part to start the day. warmer temperatures for the bay shores will be in the 60s. >> let's take a look at temperatures for tomorrow afternoon. 66 in san jose, 66 in mountain view, 63 in redwood city. this is certainly an improvement because the fog really clinged onto the afternoon. 60 al

let me show you your highs yesterday only in the 30s. 35 degrees was your high at regan national airporti marshall only got to 31 degrees yesterday. current temperatures are these temperatures your highs yesterday, 34 degrees here in washington dulles at 30, bwi marshall is at 30 degrees, 32 quantico, manassas, 27, gaithersburg 28 and our friends in leonard town at 3 degrees this hour -- 32 degrees this hour. temperatures consistent across the area if this is where we are starting we will be in great company later on highs moving to the 40s where they should be satellite radar composite let's look, yesterday, last night, overnight nurlies here and there officially a trace -- flurries here and there officially a trace amount of snow all of that has dissipated we have some cloud but that cloud cover breaking up, off into the western skies that will make its way east ward, i see a good amount of sunshine during the course of the day today, after morning cloud. still the forecast today reads like this. plenty of sunshine a little warmer, you know, almost 10 degrees warmer we will take that,

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reagan, quite frankly, had a hand in the removal of my bees, the guy that hired me, don regan.worked on it and worked on it. >> he was chief of staff. after that secretary of the treasury. >> exactly. but let me say this about michelle obama. she's a good mother, a strong woman, and i think she's been an excellent first lady. she's done a fine job. >> here here. and i think the problem that people have with the back, or that mrs. obama has with the book is that the -- they pretend that they get inside her head and i think she recents that. but the friction between the east wing and the west wing is normal. nancy reagan is topic a, and hillary clinton as well. i çthink that michelle obama h had difficulties with some of the staff decisions that were made, and i think she probably handled it a lot more diplomaticallily than nancy reagan or hillary clinton did, but she was an unhappy, reluctant camper when she first came to washington. >> dawn anything about the story of when -- >> she's come around. she's all in now that it's the election. >> do you remember when she went to spa

patrick regan. steve craviel. >> supervisors, jeff pillar. i am here on behalf of employees employed in the waste hauling, parking industry, theatrical industry, janitorial industry. as supervisor wiener said, attempting to address some significant holes that are in the existing ordinances that have been around since at least 1999. as you have heard, one of the primary changes is the change to make what has now been a prevailing wage ordinance which the city has attempted, city departments have struggled to apply to situations involving non-employees, independent contractors, to require anyone bidding on any of these contracts to have a employer- employee relationship. the reason for that, one cannot apply a prevailing wage ordinance to people who do not earn wages. it is not an apples to apples comparison, by any means. what was noted to earlier by mr. levin was the sludge contract came up last year, the before. frankly, that is a good example -- not the only example, but an example of the problems that exist in this field, where you have a

. >>> another big story we are following tonight the man who shot president ronald regan once again looking for more freedom. lawyers say he should be allowed to visit with his mother in virginia, for at least more weeks at a time but prosecutors argued against that. paul wagner is live outside the u.s. district court with more. paul. >> reporter: laura, what we are seeing is the government's case allowing john hinckly to spend more time with his mother, weeks at a time in williamsburg. back in november, and december, he and his attorney put on their own case arguing for it. today the government put on two secret service agents as well as a clerk, from barnes and noble in williams burg who all say they saw him looking at book titles, that had to deal with presidential assassinations. he told the court, he helped him look for a book about the kennedy assassination, in the late summer, early fall of last year. more specifically, the clerk at barnes and noble thought it was in august during evening hours between 6 and 10:00 p.m. he said he didn't recognize him at the time but remembered the en

. >> our highs yesterday, that was not a sincere right. 52 degrees your high yesterday regan nationals airport, 51 bwi marshall current temperatures around the region, 35 washington, 37 annapolis, 30 baltimore we are coming up in these temperatures 30 gaithersburg 29 dulles and 27 in manassas. all right here is a look at sentinel satellite radar a little blip of precipitation this radar i can tell you for sure is over playing it every other image we have we don't see this. this is capturing moisture in the atmosphere we have rain showers southeastern virginia and precipitation that will make its way across virginia we could see presip later on today in southern portions of the viewing area. meanwhile the forecast today, for the rest of us looks like this, mostly cloudy skies, a few showers, best chance of that from washington to points south, 44 degrees, for your high today. and for tonight partly cloudy skies, chilly overnight once again your lows mid-30s some of you will see your lows 20s. tomorrow i think a nice day 52, good amount of sunshine clouds roll in for wednesday see showe

wendy regan reports. >> reporter: it was surreal. a plane had crashed into the potomac river, a 737. what was more surreal was the shattered ice, no plane, just debris and people, survivors, five of them, brought to this awful moment by a series of tragic errors. january 13th, 1982 it had been snowing all day. national airport had to be closed for more than an hour to clean the runway. air florida flight 90 was heading to tampa. it was deiced but it sat for almost an hour, snow and ice building on the wings. the pilot, larry wheaton, had never flown in snow. he takes off without inspecting his plane. as it rolls down the runway, the gauges tell them something is terribly wrong. his co-pilot, roger pettitte, wants to abort. the pilot continues. at liftoff the plane begins to shake violently. >> i don't think i'll ever forget the vibration of the aircraft. >> air florida flight 90 hits the 14th street bridge, smashing cars and killing four people. it then plunges head first into the icy potomac. >> people were screaming and then it got

here is a look at temperature into the course of today, highs 49 degrees, regan national airport, 48shall airport, 48 degrees for a high today, temperatures above the seasonal average 5 degrees winds gusting 23 dulles, 21 manassas. 18 baltimore, 20 fredericks, burg, 17-mile per hour wind gusts cumberland wind advisory in effect, high land, mineral, grant, out here to the northwest expecting winds to be gusting up to 50 miles an hour that was in effect until 4:00 p.m. this afternoon it expires 10:00 p.m. tonight they will get improvement as far as that is concerned temperature wise 43 dulles, same manassas, 46 to the south frederiksburg cumberland 41 degrees 42 hagerstown, dc 45, 44 baltimore and 43 to the south at leonard town, so, we haven't done too badly overall for the course of the day as i was mentioning but we have this really fast moving clipper system that will slide its way through, and you can see now, the precipitation associated with it, from the upper midwest pushing its way down now into parts of pennsylvania we anticipate to see that heading across our area and leavin

with misses bang right in to look at them and some reporters were badgering him -- he went with mr.s regan and it will badgering him about eliminating the new deal, and he wrote in his diaries it was never his goal to eliminate the new deal but to limit the great society. >> you mentioned particularly in the 1930's and 1920's that there was a lack of national confidence, there was no single national purpose, and you say in the book that it had all been held together with compromise, which is an interesting, these days, a loaded word, and it was after pearl harbor, it was compelling -- i think the word you used was compelled. how do you read that in today's world? >> the differences are clear. the country was more homogeneous than. and so, to become a unified -- >> we say that, but is it true? the north was quite different from the south. >> factionalism -- in one regard. but in another regard it was more homogeneous. there was not the "diversity" we have in our culture. everybody spoke one language in 1941 or in the 1930's. everybody wants the same movies and read the same books and newspa

the '83 social security reform, i love ronald regan. he got snookerred in the '83 reform because what happened in '83 was he got a bunch of tax increases that tip o'neal and greenspan and the folks who -- this was the greenspan commission. they got a bunch of tax increases immediately, what you were talking about, and the rate went way up. it went up to -- social security went up to 12.4%. they did get some benefit cuts and they did it in a very smart way. the benefit cuts didn't come for a long, long time. in fact, i suspect i was at a town hall meeting in brentwood, someone was talking about social security and i talked about some of the things we're going to have to do to change the social security system. i asked what's the eligibility age right now for social security? anybody know? >> 67. >> it's 66 and a month or two. it's going to go to 67. when did that happen? in 1983. and they didn't start changing it. it was 65 back then. and they changed it in 1983 under ronald regan, but it didn't take effect for 20 years. so none of you p

cooler than yesterday, not a bad looking start. 38 right now, regan national, 36 dulles, we've got temperatures in the 20s down towards cull pepper, 32 frederiksburg and ocean city, nice bounce back for you you are now 36 degrees. you are starting to warm up, looking at satellite radar, sunshine we will see clouds move in later this afternoon you can see those starting to develop off to the south and west eastern kentucky and west virginia. mostly cloudy for our evening commute we should be dry for wednesday high temperatures upper 40s should be a nice comfortable afternoon yesterday we were mid- to upper 50s not a bad looking forecast for the end of january. here is your forecast today, sunshine start your day clouds by afternoon high temperatures upper 40s to 50 in frederiksburg. rain in the forecast tomorrow details coming up, and let's do some traffic julie wright has your latest. >> good morning tucker unfortunately problems, the crew in sky fox live over the scene of this multivehicle accident which occurred, half a mile north of 123, traffic, squeezing by to the right, fire and rescue, a

. >> i have had a long record as a very hard hitting regan conservative.t record would be deliberately falsified by a massachusetts moderate using money from wall street from the very companies who have been getting money from the federal government is really about as big an outrage as i have had in my career. i look forward to the next couple of weeks. this debate is going to go on. >> mr. speaker your trouble is florida is not because the audience is too quiet or loud or because you have moderators that are too tough. the problem is that you worked for freddy. you are accelling influence in washington at a time when we needed people to stand up for the truth in washington. >> reporter: and last night, of course, newt gingrich got the endorsement of former candidate former rival herman cain. romney today had on stage with him both former senator and current congressman connie mack. in florida that is a family with a lot of name recognition. romney is looking for a huge win here. a barrage of polls, many showing a double digit lead. clicked the real clear

. >> reporter: halfway through ronald regan's first term, the economy was sour.nemployment hit nearly 11%. >> what must guard against are those who will make or try to make a political football out of this cruel fate for so many of our people and this bad news. >> reporter: but that strikingly high jobless rate started to tick down, to a little more than 7%, just before the election. reagan won in a landslide. so now, look at midway through barack obama's term, a high of 9.8%, which has been ticking down, as well. will it continue to election day? even conservative commentators see trouble. >> if it improves one tenth of one percent, one tenth of one percent between now and september, it will be at 7.6%. in the right direction. you could have obama in very good shape. >> reporter: that's why you'll hear the president talk about jobs. he's hoping to maintain the momentum from that jobs report just last week. and next week, he's inviting business leaders here to the white house who have brought jobs back to america. he calls it insourcing american jobs. david? >> d