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erve is. their sur >> that sounds like a lot of fun. thank you, ava. it is a wonderful program.ot a lot happening at the time. we don't expect any precipitation. 45 in annapolis. upper 20's in the northern suburbs. much colder in the pennsylvania line. clouds at night keep the temperatures warmer. that was the case in the northern suburbs. we are watching a system in the carolinas. it could give us a couple of sprinkles. the best chance would be in southern maryland. it will be a chilly day. highs expected between 47 and 52 degrees. the average high temperature is 57 degrees. the record high for today is 79 . we will keep a slight chance for a sprinkle in the forecast early. mostly sunny skies tomorrow and still below average with a high near 54. it should stay dry saturday and sunday. there is a storm off the coast. i will say 30% chance for showers on monday, tuesday, and wednesday. >> 5:51. 39 degrees at the airport. jim johnson had a great year for the orioles. >> keith mills says who takes home the award. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. h

when you look at this, you get aggress erv, names like aeropostal and a company like new york and coach, spending two years on figuring out how to discount right. >> ed, how do the lux injure are retailers do? >> clearly this is the morning for the value price retailers action though we saw tremendous traffic at nordstrom. frankly the store was jammed. we thinks companies like nordstrom are well positioned. >> who is not well positioned. >> it kind of levels of expectations here. retailing world has to prices here by look who doesn't have that right now, some of the neighbors are like an express, which is more aggressive. that's a warning sign here you should not be seeing that. >> ed, you're watching not just today, but this weekend, which i feel is a better barometer of how the shopping season will go. who do you expect to do well, and who are you looking to be weak in season? >> one company we saul with good follow-through into this morning was abercrombie & fitch. one of the things they do is reduce the levels of promotion through the weekend. it will be important to watch that traf

i think they're called ervs right? emergency response vehicles? how did those do in snowy situations? >> they are very good. there are some places it's hard for them to get to but it's actually easier for them to get through snow rather than a lot of water. >> we can see the trucks behind you, people who are not familiar with these vehicles, what's on board and what will you be doing when you get to west virginia? >> yes, sir, we have two volunteers to go with each vehicle and they provide basic needs to everybody that they go see. they have basic foods, snacks, they have cambros, large containers for coffee you know hot tea. and you know just basic things that they can take out to the large amounts of people that are being sheltered already out in west virginia. >> now often times when we think of red cross we think of help getting shelter. will you be coordinating those efforts as swell in addition to the emergency -- as well in addition to the emergency response vehicles? >> we are actually sheltering over 200 people that we know of and actuall

. >> we are all here, this administration and those who have been elected to congress, to erve the iraqieople. to suggest that we should, now that the election is over, stop talking to them about these vital issues i think is bad advice. >> republicans also planted a little campaigning themselves. house republicans we will visit local small-business is to emphasize that threat to jobs posed by congressional democrats small business tax hike. gerri: thank you for that. we will watch out for those naked people on the hill. >> reporte that's right. be careful. gerri: thank you. with the fiscal cliff limning, the spotlight is not on the 90 percent of americans facing attacks it or the recession it might trigger but grover norquist, a frequent guest year. the nti-tax pledge many republicans signed. with more on this republican senator mike lee of uth. always good to see you. thank you for coming on. a growing number of republican senators who are dissing themselves from grover. take aook at this. the list goes on and on. will you back away from grov and his pledge? >> the plege i made regardi

there's no doubt in a americans are have generous, they will give, and their only sol encriminality erv is not the deduction, we agree, but no doubt and our studies show if you cap the charitable deduction it will affect nonprofits. that amount equates to the amount of giving for some of our largest charitable orbization. so at united way we're very concerned about what this kind of cap could mean. nonprofits of not only serving the most vulnerable, we're also big employers in this country as well and we're very concerned about any kind of cap affecting how giving goes in this country units that's what troubled me. you've had a lot of trouble down through the year with the united way, a lot of fraud, a lot of corruption. my pal lane chow, one of those guys was in jail before they passed away. it's like big business. lenny, i talked to some people today from the cato institute, they say charitable giving is always 2%, and they say furthermore, take the reagan years, the tax rate went way down. the valuable went way down, right? well, guess what, we had record-breaking charitable contribu

when you have a low-cost structure, you're able to compete in the marketplace more erve effectively. that's what mark hurd offered. i disagree with the growth. if you look at their server business, pc business, they're growing under mark hurd. they're growing high single digit, low double digit. now they're declining. >> the eds deal, that's important to bring up, herb. that was called expensive. the deal was not looked at positively by analysts. what are you going say about the stock price performance, herb? i mean, under mark hurd, that stock soared. he leaves, the sympttock plumme. >> it soared because he was trying to do what wall street wanted rather than what was good for the company. what tech company cuts rnd? he was cutting rnd left and right. what was he trying to create out of this company? what happened to eds? i wouldn't say that was great deal in retrospect. so, look, he knew how to pull the levers. but he was really fighting a very difficult fight and on the surface it looked great. >> what about that, shaw? rnd, that is very important. any technology company that want

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without gw erving n moore, we will not have the violence against women's act put forward the way it is. there's gwen right there. jackie speier working hard with so many members of our caucus. loretta sanchez to protect women in the military. [applause] we're so very, very proud of the chair of the democratics national committee, debbie wasserman schultz. [applause] i could go around here and talk about the leadership. certainly susan davis, women in the military, has been her issue for a long time. but in any event, the point is that if america is going to reach its full fulfillment as a nation, we must have the further empowerment of women. women in the military. if he want to be our strongest, we must give -- if we want to be our strongest, we must give women a chance to hold every job so they can attain the top job. we want women in business. how could it be there are fortune 500 and further than 20 c.e.o.'s in the fortune 500. if we want our economy to flourish and grow, we must uplift women leadership in our economy. very important. women in the academic world, women in health ca