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bill: they are being called thelma and louise democrats. growing number are saying they are willing to go over that cliff. will they make a deal impossible? alan colmes sets the debate next. >> this is the thelma and louise crowd who want to dream about higher taxes and bigger government. obster's crabfest ends soon. hurry in and try five succulent entrees, like ourender snow crab paired with savory garlic shrimp. just $12.99. come into red lobster and sea food differently. and introducing 7 lunch choices for just $7.99. you can stay in and share something... or you can get out there and actually share something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on. this is the pursuit of perfection. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find o

. >> an arrest warrant was issued for thelma jared. she remains at large. >> i thought it was crazy. i do not know if it is true or not. >> is she a good principle? >> she is a good principal. >> students knew nothing about the fate of their principal accused of assaulting a third woman who used to work at the school. desalted woman's husband spoke off-camera saying they beat and kicked his wife after the homecoming football game and his wife was scared for her life. school authorities say they put jarrett on administrative leave. warrants were issued for the rest. two of them turned themselves in. the principal was still at large. no indication that the warrants in the absence of the principal affected operations here. the alleged victim's has been said that their 11-year-old son witnessed the whole thing and the principal told the staffers to get her after which they began to beat and kicked his wife. the staffers are in police custody. the principle has not yet turned herself in. she remains at large. >> 7 is on your side with a maj

a warrant has been issued for the arrest of thelma jarrett. she and two other staffers accused at a football game back on november 2. the two other suspects of turn themselves into the police. >> george washington university has lost its place on the annual best colleges list. it went from 52 to unranked after they revealed they inflated data for more than a decade. the status will stay in place until they publish their 2014 best rankings and that will not happen until next fall. >> a toll hike takes effect and it will rise from $1.50 to $1.75. polls will jump from 75 cents to $1. in 2014 it will cost $50 since to travel. -- $2.50 to travel. >> a class to help drivers out on the road. tom roussey has the details. >> just a few miles away, people were asking questions about the new toll lanes that are supposed to help the blow by the bad traffic. many questions we heard center around ec pass and a car pulling. if you have three or more people the toland's are free. >> if you have three or more people, do you have to have an ezpass? >> a device

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won the oscar for her first screen play 20 years ago, she had no idea that the heroes of her film, thelma and louise were going to become political role models. >> white house is continue to warn of dire consequences for the middle class. >> on friday, he'll return to the stumps. >> he's back on the campaign trail. >> the campaign style tour. >> trying to drum up public support for his budget priorities. >> seems like just another fight in washington. >> there are really two issues there. >> a revenue side, yes. >> where is that revenue going to come from? >> increasing tax rates is going to harm economic growth. >> warren buffett was out this morning talking about tacking the wealthy. >> time to make the tax rates more progressive. >> that's just silly. >> grover norquist, he wanted ground government in the bathtub. i hope he slips in there with it. >> medicaid, social security. >> this is not part of the conversation. we're not going to raid social security. just another fight in washington. >> there's going to be blood and hair and eyeballs all over the floor. >> i'm more positive than

you might call this thelma and louise economics. right off the cliff. ♪ >> joining me now, senator feldma. >> great to talk to you. >> senator, you've been the leader on how the democrats should be approaching the so-called off the cliff drama and i just want to play something you said on july 16th at the brookings institute. let's listen to that. >> we can't get a good deal, a balanced deal that calls on the wealthy to pay their fair share, when i will absolutely continue this debate into 2013. >> after that, senator mcconnell called that thelma and louise economics. tell us why this cliff is not as disastrous a cliff to go off? >> first of all, no one wants to go off any cliff or hill or slope. there is a responsible way to revolve this. but if we take a bad deal and say that all of the nation's fiscal problems are to be balanced on the back of middle class families and the wealthy don't participate, that's a bad deal we cannot and should not live within this country. >> shortly before your public comments about this this past sum

there was an arrest warrant out for thelma jarrett. she is accused of beating up a four to play with two other women -- former employee in with two other women. bp has agreed to pay $4.5 billion for the oil spill to the dual years ago in the gulf of mexico and plead guilty for lying to congress about how much oil was pouring down of the well. several also face manslaughter charges for the 11 people died in the explosion. new developments into the investigation into the deadly attacks in libya. secretary of state henry clinton will appear in front of congress. hearings began -- hillary clinton will appear in front of congress. hearings began this morning. the house intelligence committee had a closed door hearing this morning. president obama is on the ground in new york city looking at recovery efforts following hurricane sandy. this is video from the president departing this morning. 16 days after the storm thousands are still without power. the president scheduled to meet with families responders and local leaders. the hurricane is b

the bump of various height. >> it's going to sell that fiscal cliff. >>> thelma and louise might need to make room in the car for the president of the united states. at the white house today, senior obama administration officials met with liberal leaders and union officials. "the washington post" reports that one told him after the meeting, quote, would the white house go off the cliff if it's between that and compromising their core principles? i was left with the impression that they would. illinois democratic senator dick durbin spoke today at the liberal center for american progress where he said this about the possibility of going off the cliff which fears of this show know is is really more of a curb than a cliff. >> some have called let's go over the cliff and watch what happens. we know if we're not careful, it will in fact stop economic growth and hurt everyone through every income category, particularly those most vulnerable. >> what he did not say is he must not go off the cliff. because the cliff is is president obama's and the congressional democrats leverage over republi

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thelma jarrett pleaded not guilty to simple assault today. she was released on her own recognizance. a former employee claimed jarrett and three other women attacked her at a football game early career this month. jarrett remains on administrative leave. >>> we're hearing the 911 calls made after a student at bowie state university was murdered. a feud between roommates ended in the death of dominique frazier. the jury found her roommate not guilty last night. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins with more on the tragedy on the campus. >> reporter: the voice you hear on this 911 call is that of alexis simpson. simpson walked out of the prince george's county courthouse last night a free woman, after a jury cleared her of all seven charges related to the stabbing death of her former bowie state university roommate, dominique frazier. on these 911 calls, you can hear simpson explaining herself, to people who are standing by. >> reporter: frazier and simpson had an argument in their on-campus apartment over loud music coming from a

. >> do you think of yourself more as a thelma or a louise? >> well i've got the red hair. it is a noble thing to go off a cliff some time, but maybe it's not the perfect imagery. it's one of those things, i feel like the thing we need to get across to people as lovely as it is to say going off the cliff or whatever, this is a principled stand to make. this is not going off the cliff, you know, wiely e. coyote, it's trying to get the republican party to do the right thing. >> i believe they voted for higher top income tax rates, the obama position. the other piece of this cliff is a big spending cut that's built in that was written in there by the congress and republicans in congress and they're now afraid of what they wrote. >> they're afraid of being held accountable to anything. the people that lost are the people who we held accountable. held accountable for what they had to say and the bad decisions that they made. the guy that lost the election is the guy that lowered the taxes for the high income people. i don't know where their idea that the president isn't going so

a little grass on the children's playground has greatly expanded. few people know that the movie "thelma and louise" is a highly fictionalized account of lizzy and mine's adventures. [ applause ] >> most of it is overstated except for the driving off the cliff part. we have done that more than once. [ laughter ] the so yay lizzy. [ applause ] where is tan? he won't come up here, but there is tan hiding in the back. [ applause ] of the chinese town community development center. tan is one of the hardest working neighborhood activists and one of the smartest political operatives that i know. i learn something every time i talk to him and we have really used his help on this project. tina of the russian river neighbors wasn't able to be here, but her colleagues were and we thank the russian hill neighbors for standing by us, our sister organizations, all of our schools. nester from the telegraph center. we're honored by the number of people who have stood by us on this project. a special shutout to our families, to the spouses and the children that have had to work around and make due for s

thelma jarrett was in d.c. court earlier this afternoon. her lawyer claims it's just a case of sour grapes. >> what we know is the complainant was disruptive and caused a problem and had been terminated from that school. what this appears to be is someone with a clear ax to grind taking her revenge out on people who were just simply doing their job. >> jarrett was released on her own ring so distance but was -- own recognizance but was ordered to stay 100 feet away. >>> former general petraeus testified on capitol hill today. he said he believed all along the terrorists carried out the attack that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. >> the original report -- [indiscernible] >> lawmakers also wanted to know why u.n. ambassador susan rice called the attack the result of a spontaneous protest five days after it happened. democrats say rice was simply using talking points signed off on by the entire intelligence community. petraeus meantime insisted his resignation was the result of his affair with paula broadwell and had

questions there, scott, that if congress and the white house can't come together and we do a full thelma & louise off the cliff you can the fed doesn't have in its quiver enough arrows to undo the harm and that would drive it almost certain fly another recession. >> i thought that was the most interesting portion of the last part of the q & a, wit fed chairman said we will do our best to add help to the recovery. we have certain tools but's not infinite. we have used our easiest ones but he did say i don't think the fed can offset a recession if we can go off the fiscal cliff. >> he absolutely did. he said the easy tools have already been played. our best cards have been played. so the amount of ammunition that's left there in the magazine is not quite as great as it once was. scott, we are being told to go now to kate kelly, who has the latest details on an arrest aeit federal prosecutors say might be the biggest insider trading scheme ever. kate? >> they are describing it as the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever with ill-got gains nearly a quarter billion dollars, actually lit

her name is thelma jarrett. she was released from jail today. she is the principal at coolidge high school in the district. a former school employee claims jarrett and three other women attacked her, at a football game, this month. the victim says she was punched and kicked in the school's parking lot. jarrett is on leave now for the length of that investigation. >> we have an update on a triple shooting that landed two men and a woman in the hospital. police arrested 27-year-old christopher mcrae, and charged him with assault, with intent to kill. the shooting happened tuesday night at a bp station on bening road in northeast. police think shots were fired inside the convenience store and ran of. in just a couple hours, the new lanes will be open to traffic on the beltway. this is a live look at virginia's new beltway express lanes where crews are doing their final preparations. the stretch between the dallas toll road opens at 2:00 a.m. drivers promised speeds of 45 miles an hour. the ride fries foris free for c three or more people. everyone

the 28-foot tree blocked the part of thelma avenue near saratoga sunnyvale avenue. it also took out power lines. crews were called in to take care of those power lines and clear the tree out of the roadway. >> and folks in daly city are keeping a close eye on that hillside that came down during that big water main break earlier this month. crews have covered the exposed ground with mesh and hay to keep it from sliding again during the storm. city officials say they have already spent nearly a half million dollars just trying to replace the soil and the vegetation on that hill. >>> the storm means some massive delays at sfo. >> roberta gonzales is at the airport for us now with more. how long are we talking? >> reporter: right now the rain has stopped. we have a little reprieve but winds have been problematic gusting up to 37 miles an hour. behind me is an empty runway. this is something that you should not be seeing at this time of the day. it should be filled with arriving and departure flights. right now we have one cancellation of an international plane but we ha

in saratoga, this 28-foot section shut down traffic on thelma avenue and knocked out power to 200 homes. same story in pacifica. seven outages this morning left 1200 homes and businesses in the dark for hours. >> we're the first guys to get the winds. it comes right off the ocean. usually it's a little more gusty than what you'd get over the hill or even in san francisco. we're like the front line as far as that's concerned. >> reporter: in san francisco, large pools of water forced public works to shut down a stretch of the great highway. if you were flying out of sfo today, ouch! delays of up to three hours and dozens of arrivals and departures were cancelled. in concord, people kept their feet to the ground. or sand. they loaded up on sandbags. >> we have this station available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which is new for the city. >> reporter: but there was a light at the end of this soggy tunnel. a rainbow in san jose, signaling round one was done. marin county typically gets hit the hardest during one of these big storms. now people who live in this area and across the bay

. >>> thelma jarrett is the principal at coolidge high school in d.c. police say jarrett and two other school employees attacked a woman during a high school football game earlier this month. the victim's husband says he has no idea what led to that attack. >> she don't know why she was attacked. she was punched, blind sided. and kicked after that. i just want justice, outrage. >> right now jarrett is on administrative leave from her job at coolidge as the investigation continues. >>> police need help finding the man in this photo. they say he recently assaulted a teenage fwigirl in the bathroom a public library. last week police say he watched a 17-year-old girl who was studying at the jefferson library in falls church. when she tried to hide in the ladies room, police say he followed her in and assaulted her. if you see this man, you're asked to call fairfax county police. >>> parents are joining a loud chorus of people pushing to keep 20 schools open in the district. d.c. chancellor kaya henderson proposed closing the schools this week. henderson sai

you know her as the lovable thelma mama harper on "mama's family." >> you are really nuts. >> nuts?aren't playing with a pole dead unit. i think somebody blew your pilot light out. >> please welcome the woman funny enough to be our dodo bird, vicki lawrence! [cheers and applause] >> you can always tell when you're pregnant, right? >> it won't be long. once that thing gets out of my butt. [laughter] >> you're used to dressing up like this because you love halloween and you love -- >> well, i don't dress up at halloween because i feel like i've spent my whole life dressing up. but our house when the kids were little it was the place. the dads would get a cocktail. take the kids trick or treating. we would man the doors. we would decorate to death. my husband would fix a cocktail, put all his makeup out on the kitchen and he would do makeup on us. >> because he was a makeup artist. >> he was the head of cbs makeup. >> wow! [cheers and applause] >> you guys actually met on the set of "the carol burnett show" right? >> we did. i'm sorry. it's very hard to turn your head. and then your ea

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her name is thelma jarrett. and two other school employees, police say, attacked a woman during a high school football game. the victim is not talking about it, but her husband says she's devastated. >> my wife was attacked, you know, by three women, and i just want justice. it's outrage. >> reporter: jarrett is due in court tomorrow. she remains on administrative leave from coolidge high school as this investigation continues. >>> police just released a picture of a man who assaulted a student in a public library. the 17-year-old victim says the man was stalking her inside the jefferson library in falls church last week. she fried to get away by running into the bathroom but claims he followed her abd assaulted her there. >>> concern over several armed robberies prompted some officers to meet with community members tonight. people live in an apartment complex across from the morgan boulevard station are concerned about their safety. there have been two armed robberies in that area in the past week. one woman te

pg&e officials say this 28-foot section shut down traffic on thelma avenue and knocked out power to about 200 homes in the neighborhood. pg&e crews hope to have the electricity here restored b 7:00. 7 outages darkened 1200 homes and businesses. >> we are the first to get the wind off the ocean. so usually it's more gusty than what you get maybe over the hill or even in san francisco. we are like the front line as far as that is concerned. >> reporter: some small business owners had no choice but to shut down their stores in pacifica. >> hardware is all rusted and wind blowing made it move around so it broke clear and hanging by a tap and slapped the wire together which knocked out power. >> reporter: pg&e fixed the problems and pacifica got its power back around 1:00. in san francisco, heavy rain forced the department of public works to shut down a stretch of the great highway. large pools of water made it dangerous for drivers to navigate the roadway. there was more than a foot of water in the deepest part of this flooded intersection. san francisco city officials say they don't know whe

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republicans are calling democrats like you "thelma and louise" democrats because you've expressed a willingness to go off the fiscal cliff. >> i'm willing to take a very tough stand and say to those on the other side that we are not going to accept an unfair deal that hurts middle-class america today and protect the wealthiest americans. period. >> reporter: in the house, at least 42 liberal democrats have signed on to a bill requiring that any deal aimed at staving off the fiscal cliff contain no medicare, medicaid, and social security benefit cuts. it puts them at odds with the president who has said everything should be on the table, including entitlements, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. >> we want to save these programs and i understand the dilemma the president and the majority leader have. their hard left doesn't want to change anything ever. >> reporter: but the top senate democrat harry reid says republicans are the ones dragging their heels. there's been little progress with the republicans, which is a disappointment to me. they've talked some happy talk about doing revenues

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she claims was two staff members and the principal thelma jarrett. >> the principal? physically hit her? >> yes. >> the police report says one suspect said, "get her." she was hit in the face with a closed fist. she delta the groundout of three women kicked her. they called the father. it >> you need to come back. somebody just punched a mommy. >> the school parent-teacher coordinator is crying foul. >> when we came onms. jarrett was trying to break up the confrontation. >> there refuted the claims against the principle. >> i never saw her kick, punch or any assault at all. "she was hurt. what the evidence have been interviewed by police. -- >> at the evidence has been interviewed. there were allegations and they are looking into taking the appropriate action. the priority is insuring the staff stays focused at the coolidge rose forward. we will be covering this has the story begins to develop. jennifer donelan, live off from northwest, abc 7. >> the prince george's county firefighter is investigating a large warehouse fire. it erupted this afternoon in the 8300 block