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. >> susie: twitter is uand running again aftea major service inrruption this morning. the micro-blogng site fell victim to hacker attack. in what's caed a "denial of servic" thhackers allegedly disrupted the site by ensting millions of computers to acss it simultaneously experts consider thitype of cyber attacko be relatively unsophisticated. twitter currently has more tn 30 million users-- that'up fromess than two million over a year ago. >> paul: susie, users ofocial networkingiant "facebook" also hasome problems this morning. but things were back to rmal by the afterno. now let's ke a look at our ocks in the news tonight. >> susie: more now of r interviewith christina romer, the presidens chief economist. today,he defended the obama administration's smulus package, sayg it's saved half a million jo. given thhefty price of the recovery plan,ashington bureau chief darren gersh askedomer whether such a big packageas producing the number ojobs she expected >> it's also a numr that is reflect in a lot of the prate forecasters getting the same kd of number. you knot i ver

how aftea search and a 250,000 dollar payment, he is back in the driver's seat.sold the to the person for $2,000 all those years ago. >> i guess he really wants it back. >> amazing. >> he is giving free pizzas to say to anyone who owns a camaro. that is good. >> in the camaro is out on the roads? >> if they are, they are stopped in traffic. there is an accident and only one lane is getting by to the right. slow traffic as you can see. we will take you to virginia and show you 234 south of the way to 66. i cannot get the chopper to work. this is on the way to 66. it looks good and clean. >> it is a nice day. a lot of sunshine. high pressure in control. water -- warmer with added humidity. we will cool down tomorrow. a shower is possible late in the day, especially west of the metro area. a chance of rain throughout the day from friday through sunday with cooler temperatures. maybe mid 80's for highs. my two granddaughters are my life. they always ask me, grandma, take me here, grandma, take me there. but with my occasional irregularity i wasn't always up to it. un

two wrsorer wkeju ereindor aftea real rdk stcaheanoc train -- two workers suffered minor injuries.metro is now investigating. >> it is back to school, and d.c.'s schools are reporting an increase in enrollment. school officials said the increase is due to a normal amount of light of rivals and an influx in paperwork. >> new tonight, a local school superintendent says he is sorry for a scheduling problem that has kept thousands of prince george's county students out of glass ford four days. -- out of class for four days. but the superintendent is making a promise to students and parents that they will all have schedules come monday morning, one week after the start of school. he says progress is being made. du val high school is a good example here today. they had 350 students without schedules and that number has been cut in half because the work is being done by hand. >> cross the nies class to be viewed as something of a success story this week. students are not waiting for schedules in the cafeteria or the library and the gymnasium is being used for this said -- for physical edu

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