northbound ritchie highway. consider 97 as your alternate. we start with debris on northbound 95 approaching moravia road. charles tree at lanvale st., watch for an accident -- charles street. 35 beginning at 795. a slow go eastbound on 70 towards 29. this is 97 at 100. this is a much better bet if you normally take ritchie highway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. we check in live with ava marie. she has the justling thing down. -- has the juggling things down. >> i'm trying out different jobs this week. we're talking about learning circus skills -- and stance, juggling -- handstands. you have some experience with burlesque and some acrobatics. >> i had taken a class that is no longer in baltimore. i have been performing for a while but wanted to add new sets of skills. >> we have me on the video on the tight wire. i had no idea that these skills could be a good workout. >> having to hold your body weight for minutes at a time or somebody else's is intense workout. >> we're talking about how the offer someone different dance classes w

and also, of course, as secretary ritchie had mentioned, we have state leadership plans that include senior chapman. and thinking about how to advance civic education and specifically how to get more schools to be aware of the free resources that are we're offering to help teachers teach this subject matter in a more engaging and fun way. i'm sorry that i can't share with you some of the visuals of the games and i would be very happy to speak with any of you individually or to show you some of the games i have asked individually. i wanted to thank you you all for what each of you is going to advance democracy at large and also democratic education and how young people are learning to become citizens, and not only citizens, but smart, engaged and active citizens. thank you. >> thank you mr. wolfe. >> i know there'll be a few questions and i wan to say in minnesota, our chief supreme court justice has been one of the drivers of this. and the international association of corporate councils has weighed in. we know it can be used for very wide range of our young leaders and young citizens

secretary schultz and secretary ritchie. it was quite a way to spend caucus day this year. we called on teacher all across the state and promoted it to every high school, we said when the whole country, if not the world, is thinking about elections let's use this moment to prepare students to participate in it as well. so we provided free resources on that day to run mock caucuses, they happen at over 25 schools across the sat of iowa and secretary schultz and i got to guest host the mock caucus and we had over 600 students and 350 media outlets showed up to live stream and record and and candidates running for office showed you up. it was fun for us, but that day was incredibly special for those students we are still getting thank you notes and letters from the students and parents saying this is the most incredible day of my life. this was so cool, thank you so much. but i promise those young people will be voting this november and most likely be voting for the rest of their lives. so thank you for your partnership. we are a nonpartisan organization dedicated to engaging

. >> people have referred to me as the ritchie cunningham candidate.ng. but contrasting that with what's going on out there, a little bit of ritchie wouldn't be a bad thing for our society now. >> reporter: melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >> can't get too mad if you get a speeding ticket when you're speeding. >> some d.c. drivers got one when their car was in park and we have the pictures and story to prove it.   >>> even if you are in the wrong, getting a speeding ticket isn't wrong. hurts the wallet a bit. >> especially these days. imagine getting a ticket when your car is not even on the road, it's parked. happened on 16th street in northwest. beth parker has the story. >> reporter: in a flash you can catch someone speeding on 16th street. >> we have had incidents are people were getting hurt. >> reporter: so they thought it was a fine idea to put the camera in front of their synagogue. until someone got a speeding ticket for a car that wasn't moving at all. >>> it does sound funny. >> reporter: look at the photos sent along with the

ritchie's report? >> from nancy and the recycle water program, and catherine howard. >> i am here to enthusiastically support the staff report in setting the recycled water plant. i would like to review a little history for you, so you feel as good about this as i do. in 1975, the voters overwhelmingly supported the position -- the decision to build a brand new sewage treatment plant and water treatment plant. they did this knowing it would take some of these inland away, but in regard to the importance of that, it was supported. one of the statement made in the conflict by the city was the administrative officer as was the mayor said, the existing treatment plant and golden gate park next to the windmill can be abandoned once the new plant south of the zoo is completed, and 5 acres of land and put back into park use. today is the day i am hearing that we're going honor what was told to the voters in 1975, to please let us return this park land. it doesn't look like a park in that particular 5 acres, b

with us, jon ritchie, andrea mitchell, and howard fineman. the presidential campaigns reveal what makes a candidate tick. republicans believe that mitt romney's mistake on not focusing on the country's very poor, not as much as a mirror. will the country be less willing to resort to a figure so removed from the average joe or jane? some very rich presidents were in touch with the average person like teddy roosevelt and jack kennedy. they had under gone leveling experiences. other rich politicians never did seem to know how regular americans left like nelson rockefeller and george h.w. bush. remember when bush was discovering the wonders of a smrkt scanner? he had never seen one before. republican leaders are tear tied he is in the same category. he put his electricityability in question this week. -- his electability in question this week. are they worried is in this guy a good politician? >> absolutely. people on the left think conservatism is a monolithic thing, but there are gradations of it. if he is the nominee, it doesn't really matter.

ritchie described. so, generally an overall modest change. in looking at the authorized positions, similarly pretty flat. look at the changes. not a lot to address their. here is my overall organizational structure. you see, from the boxes of activity, you can see where our operating funds are falling within the organization. you can see where the position loading is. notice the box on the extreme left. energy infrastructure planning and development is where we implement energy efficiency and the renewables project. not a lot of operating budget there for 21 positions, but that is where a large part of our capital program dollars go, with energy efficiency investments, renewables investments, including go solar. we are sticking with our focus for priorities on providing high-quality service, planning for the future, and meeting those green and sustainable objectives that we have been talking about in our climate action plan and our strategic sustainability plant and the various policy directives that we have discussed with you over the years.

ritchie highway and hammonds lane, another accident. delays behind it. one is being cleared in parkton. you can see the delays on southbound 8383 stretching back towards york road. north and south and j.f.x. filling up quickly. live view of traffic in the area of 83 in padonia road. over to a live view of traffic in the white marsh area, where we are looking at the typical backup. >> at least there is nothing going on weather-wise. temperatures of managed to drop into the 20s. 27 in taneytown. a 30 degrees at the airport. 30% chance for a couple of rain showers this afternoon. it is going to warm up nicely. maybe a new 60 on thursday. struggle front goes through. -- strong cold front goes through. temperatures in the 40's over the weekend. the weekend. >>> 8:00 now on a tuesday morning. it's the 21st day of february 2012 as we say a warm hello to our new friends in rockefeller plaza. it's a chilly morning. i think it's 33 degrees, if i can read that thermometer correctly. among those faces we may recognize this guy. he's a young man who

bill press discusses 2012 presidential politics and his new book "the obama hate machine " and rob ritchie outlines what he sees as problems and suggestions to change the political process. >> in his weekly address today, president obama called on congress to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of the year. up next, the president's address followed by the republican followed by the republican response from

but we are seeing pretty heavy traffic in the southbound direction from ritchie highway to 295. as abouty drive on 29 -- busy drive on 29 to burtonsville and same on i-95 southbound approaching the beltway from this point at white march are shall. i will updating all your traffic conditions on twitter. now over to you. >> thanks. >>> abc2 news is working for you this morning to make sure that the doctors you see are taking care of you and they are fit for the job. tonight, abc2 news investigator joce sterman brings you a look at the second part of a 3-part series on bad medicine. >> reporter: it took a tragedy to get a baltimore county family to start asking those questions. they lost a mother and a wife following her plastic surgery. and in the years after her death, learned some shocking information about her surgeon. last night we brought outfirst part of our three-part look into bad medicine in maryland. introducing you to the hannan family dealing with heartache and anger. janet died three days after the plastic surgery in 2005. but it took years for the doctor who operated

. >>> a 60-year-old is under arrest for allegedly touching a woman at a lowes on ritchie highway. samuel garris was found across from the stouter. victim i doctor. garis who is now in jail. >>> another evaluation for the man accused of killing a fellow patient at a state mental hospital was ordered from a judge. they say andre mayo is competent but it focused it be on a particular -- on a particular point in time. >>> the hospital where the patient stayed workers there are now calling for a budget boost. a rally will be held at 2:30 this afternoon calling for legislators to boost the budget to improve safety at the hospital. union members and hospital leaders will be at that rally recommending that the hospital also include other things. sock doctors are saying that if you take antibiotics to treat a sinus infection, it may not work. after comparing two groups one with antibiotics and otherswithout, the drugs didn't make that much of a difference. the study appears in the journal of the american medical association. author suggest hot steam and eucalyptus oil is the best treatment

go along with what iran sees as western economic bullying but jihan news agency chief abdul hamid ritchie says auntie iran hysteria harms the entire region. it will be a very important headache for turkey because turkey is part of nato and because of that turkey has certain responsibilities but iran very important neighbor that two countries iran and turkey did not have war for centuries it's very difficult to get a settlement it is foolish and by attacking iran which is more than eighty million population big country but as far as i know the current israeli government are not helping to find. a peaceful. diplomatic solution to the crisis. in terms of the internal political interests i i i see that unfortunately it helps the tension helps and for the world it is just this sponsibility to be seen and to push really diplomatic means as far as possible in order to get rid of the possibility that we have another war in the middle east which would be detrimental for all of us i mean while israel is continuing to point the finger of blame at iran terrorism back to thailand says tuesday's explos

. >> second ritchie? >> thank you, i'm interested in the section 8 because addition to administering the database. most of us are candidates and we have to buy lists, and you do not want to waste a lot of money and time and most of us at some point have called someone and after asking for someone having a long pause and knowing what is coming next that that person has been someone's loved one lost and you get a an appropriately fairly sharp response and hang up the phone. but what i do not understand, if there's only been one, is there a context that we all could use that information to help leverage the people who would determine if there was money, for example, let's say we want to accelerate our removal of people who have died instead of having to go through the social security death registerty, we could have a midnight exchange of public death records and that would accelerate the policy. we need more than one case to take that to those that control the laws to be able to leverage, especially on the t

and also, of course, as secretary ritchie mentioned we have state leadership teams that include secretary chapman, i encourage you to join our i'm as we, and think about how to advance civic education and get more schools to be aware of the free resources that help teachers teach this subject matter in a more engaging and fun way. again, i'm sorry i cannot share with you visuals of the game. i would be happy to show you the games individually. i have brought some with me. or answer questions later on. thank you for all that you are doing to advance democracy and the education and how young people are learning to be citizens and not just citizens but smart, engaged and active citizens. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wu. >> i know there will be a few questions and i just want to say in minnesota our chief justice of our supreme court has been one of the drivers. it's been true in other states as well. the international association of council has weighed in and become active. and we have teachers up from third grade to college making use of these, so we know it can be used for a wide range of

"vultures' picnic" that chapter called the ritchie's smelled funny because the third in the jungle. how do they get the oil? they come down with a helicopter and they explained it all in spanish to the families who did not speak spanish. [laughter] here are some trinkets in she's and they said the cheese smelled five days of a third in the jungle. the rainforest that is how they got the oil. but it also brought them the sole. of course, they say what you do with this? rub it on your body and year your ailments. what about this document? this is from someone who calls himself the president. the president of the texaco unit is ordering three items. his workers and executives to remove all documents related to the dumping of the oil and oil waste in the amazon from the main offices and in the location worksites. all of those documents are to me. [speaking spanish] what does that mean? destroyed. destroyed. my interpretation is it means a felony hard time obstruction of justice. what do you think? that is why we occupy. we occupy four chico santo i was then the publisher said we are out

ritchie highway and jones station road in a on old facility, and that accident.orthbound 295. 23 minutes is your drive time on the outer loop west side. 19 minutes to get you to the outer loop stretch. here is pickwick live looked at traffic. pretty heavy. let's switch over to a the live view of traffic on 295 and 175. southbound traffic going away from us. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. tony has a check on your forecast. >> elizabeth cloud cover, and it should stay that way for most of the morning -- a little bit of cloud cover and it should stay that way for most of the morning. we have snow showing up in the mountains and that will cross over the ridge tops in the next couple of hours. it will start late this morning and last into early the afternoon. on your way home from work and on your way home from work and school today, a little like brad and jill in accounting? crazy! coffee and chocolate. mocha. ooh! who's mocha? for the perfect blend of coffee and chocolate, try a mocha coffee or latte today. >>> we're back now. 8:00 on a wednesday morning. i

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travel in prince george's county, a live look at central avenue and ritchie road. back to you. >> 5:31. republican lawmakers on capitol hill are gearing up for a fight with the white house over birth control. a mandate requires religious affiliated groups to cover the concepts in health care. brian mooar joins us live with a debasement brian, good morning. >> it's already become a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. rick santorum and mitt romney weighing in on what they would do. but house republicans and their senate counterparts are threatening to take action. the white house says the policy is not anti-religion. they say it's pro women. it's about giving women and health services in medicine they need. senate democrats are vowing to stand beside the president but house republicans are saying the president has gone too far and they say they're going to take action. house speaker john boehner says the white house policy is an attack on religious freedom. >> this attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and w

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with us, jon ritchie, andrea mitchell, and howard fineman. the presidential campaigns reveal what makes a candidate tick. republicans believe that mitt romney's mistake on not focusing on the country's very poor, not as much as a mirror. will the country be less willing to resort to a figure so removed from the average joe or jane? some very rich presidents were in touch with the average person like teddy roosevelt and jack kennedy. they had under gone leveling experiences. other rich politicians never did seem to know how regular americans left like nelson rockefeller and george h.w. bush. remember when bush was discovering the wonders of a smrkt scanner? he had never seen one before. republican leaders are tear tied he is in the same category. he put his electricityability in question this week. -- his electability in question this week. are they worried is in this guy a good politician? >> absolutely. people on the left think conservatism is a monolithic thing, but there are gradations of it. if he is the nominee, it doesn't really matter.

singer lionel ritchie says, "i am devastated by the loss of whitney. we have lost a true angel.ayers, my heart goes out to her family. we have lost an extraordinary voice to the world." >> stay with news 4 and nbcwashington.com for continuing coverage on the death of whitney houston. we'll have a live report from los angeles on the passing of the 48-year-old music icon coming up later in this hour. and tune in for a special edition of "dateline nbc" tonight, looking back at whitney houston's life and career. it airs tonight at 7:00 p.m. right here on nbc 4. >>> and our other big story of the morning, we're following a lot this morning, folks, and the weather, it is what some people call stupid cold. >> stupid cold! >> i think i stole that from tom kierein. >> that's all right. it's sort of an unusual switch this winter because we've been so mild. february, up through yesterday, was seven degrees warmer than average following a january that was plus five and a december that was plus five. so, we really have not had any seriously cold weather this winter. that's not the case today

ritchie rich versus a president with a record he'd rather not talk about. >> there's an article thatds into this narrative. of course, frank takes that, but it's interesting when you parallel the connection issues and the empathy issues with the president. that's a conversation we can have later, but on this, steve rattner, you've been over the past couple of weeks fairly defensive about mitt romney's work at bain and how it's been characterized in the media, yet you do have a piece in "politico" where you talked about how he has to an extent pushed the envelope on his taxes given the different ways he's handled using the perks that come his way. >> it's really quite extraordinary when you dig into mitt romney's taxes as to what he's found to do. he's got more loopholes than a swiss cheese in there. he's found ways to save taxes than i think most of us know exist. his i.r.a. from $20 million to $100 million. >> willie's got one. >> oh, awkward. >> when you're only allowed to give $10 million in your lifetime to your kids, how do you get $100 million to a trust for your kids so you do

i mean, you know people have referred to me as the ritchie cunningham candidate.w what? contrasting that with what's going on out there in the popular culture, a little bit of ritchie cunningham wouldn't be a bad thing for our society right now. >> welcome back to "morning joe." top of the hour. a live look at the white house. jon meacham and jim cramer still with us. and joining the table, columnist for the "wall street journal" peggy noonan. great to have have you back on the show. and in washington, columnist for the washington post e.j. dionne. great table we have. >> good to be with you. >> great to have you all around. let's dive right in. yesterday we were on "meet the press" talking about -- by the way, tom brokaw's mike's on. >> he's on deck. >> we could listen to his -- >> we want to save tom from -- the call to his bookky. anyway, e.j., with business taken care of. i still hear that low baritone voice, take tom's mike down. e.j., let's now after the second attempt move to what we were talking about yesterday and that is something you wrote a column abou

this is the beltway live in collisionecause of a loop atuter pennsylvania avenue on your way to ritchieture that is 395, the only delay at the 14th street bridge. >> it is a beautiful day. 50'sll be back in the afternoon and 44 degrees downtown right now. cooler northwest town. 40 degrees in quantico and 45 in lexington park. mid 50's this afternoon and tomorrow we will see areas of rain and it will clear friday. >> thanks for watching and we will be back at noon. "live! with kelly" is next. ♪ [ kareem ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes since i was a kid. [ mike ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines. we lift people up off the ground to 35 thousand feet. these engines are built by hand with vevery precise assembly techniques. [ mike ] it's gonna fly people around the world. safely and better than it's ever done before. it would be a real treat to hear this monster fire up. [ jaronda ] i think a lot of people, when they look at a jet engine, they see a big hunk of metal. but when i look at it, i see seth, mark, tom, and people

those of you traveling in on route 2 rich ritchie highway a busy intersection. especially heading into downtown on the jfx. southbound 83 slows down as you approach ruxton road from the beltway. all the way to past cold spring lane where you see delays. from annapolis u.s. 50 at i-97. 97 moving well from 50 up to the beltway. and on 695, some usual slowdowns on north side here at 146 dulaney valley road. we be back with another update in 25 minutes. now new york for more good morning america. ♪ you've got my heart beat running away ♪ >>> what is it, lara? boom bah doom boom boom? >> dan had it going there. >> dan was singing nicki minaj. >> nicki minaj and ricky martin, both here live. we're thrilled to have two big superstars here this morning. they're joining forces for a very special cause. they'll tell us all about it in minutes. >>> we're also going to take to america's next big music superstar. there she is right there, denise in that target ad. she's here in our studio this morning. ♪ my heart inside of your hand >> i cannot wait. >>> ki cannot wait for t

southbound route 2, ritchie highway, watch for an accident there.king your way down from crain highway. live look at traffic, here is what it looks like it baltimore national pike. let's switch over to a life of traffic in the area of the j.f.x. coming towards us. you can see a it is pretty heavy from the beltway to its 28th street. >> we are off to a nice, quiet start. a few clouds left over from the storm system that came over yesterday. 43 at the airport, 38 in columbia, 39 degrees at westminster. average high temperature is 45. we are pretty close to that right now. we're going to be above average this afternoon. the clouds will break up and will turn mostly sunny as well. another strong will come in quickly. a chance for rainshowers on thursday. dry on friday and saturday. computer models developing a coastal storm. high-temperature around 38 >>> 8:00 now on a wednesday morning. it's the 15th day of february, 2012. got a drizzle in the air in new york city. the temperature is pretty mild. so it's not bad. 44 degrees. we get a chance to say hi t

ritchie highway, of mardell corporation road, watch for an accident there. 20 minutes on the outer loopve you a live view of traffic. here is what 895 looks like. stop again in the southbound direction. disabled vehicle in the tunnel. looking at a big backup there. take for mckendree as your alternate. we will switch to a live view and the the area of old court. looking at a delay on the west side. toady as a check of the forecast -- tony as a check of the forecast. >> we don't expect precipitation. 38 degrees in jarrettsville. temperatures jump about 20 degrees this afternoon. we will make it to the upper 50s. slight chance for rain shower in the forecast. kind of like yesterday. remember how the sprinkles came in. by the time we had the weekend, low 40's at on satu 8:00 now on a wednesday morning. it's the 22nd of february 2012. we're stepping out to greet everyone gathered in rockefeller plaza. we have a nice crowd, young people included. we're glad to see them. meantime i'm ann curry alongside carl quintanilla in for matt this morning and, of course, al roker. you know it's warm eno

further south and west on 100 and ritchie highway, another accident.n. let's give you a quick live look at traffic. delays on the west side. sun glare contributing to that. york road, 83, looking a lot better. still some delays close to mount carmel. tony has a check on your forecast. >> we had active stuff over the weekend. lot of sunshine out there right now. 25 at the airport, 26 in catonsville. forecast for today, mostly sunny skies. high temperatures range between 40 and 45. we might turn breezy later on this afternoon. 30% chance for rain tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. if you are going out for valentines, it does not look like a big deal there. >> we will have another update at 8:55. hi. welcome to carmax. hi. i was on carmax dot com and i think i found the one. great car. and i think, it's right over there... (sighes)... finding your perfect car is easy at carmax because we carry only the highest quality used vehicles. and at carmax dot com, you can choose from nearly 30 thousand cars with most available for transfer to the store neare

next up, port ritchie, florida, democrat, you're on. >> caller: yeah, good morning. i believe a woman can do the same thing a man can do in any aspect. i love to watch basketball games. i love to watch some boxing. but we're the kind of people who loved our women. i wouldn't want to see them hurt in war, you know? i always loved them, protected their women. and the way the politicians are today, they don't care who they send. >> thank you so much. one side and then the other in your argument this morning. mexico makes seizure of pure meth. they seized 15 tons found in pure powder form at a ranch outside of guadalajara. about 13 million doses worth $4 billion more than double the size of all meth seizures at the mexican border in 2011. this story about "the washington post." a grim warning inside mexico. the state department advised americans this week to do the third nonessential travel to vast stretches of mexico warning that 14 of the country's 31 states are so dangerous that visitors should avoid them if at all possible. for four other states it counseled caution

ritchie, had already been prepared with a bullet proof vest in his classroom, which he had put on andetting other students into the room as well. but i think everybody knew what they had to get done and did it as fast as they could. >> tell me a little bit about him. >> he was a quiet kid in the past like three years. back in middle school he was always really nice and funny. he was like one of us, one of the guys. he was a normal kid. and we all liked him. >> you know that, as you know, steve, is what you often hear in these kinds of cases. horrifying horrific tragedies. they seemed quiet, relatively nice. only later or even in court looking backwards do you start to recognize some warning signs. what do you look for in your students? >> well, one of the things you look for in regards to boys in particular is that they're withdrawn. boys can sometimes be quiet in middle and high school but withdrawn means that you just can't engage them. that's a telltale sign. another is in their writings. many of these children will on facebook and other social networks, they'll say some things tha