also with us, anita kay, former sex crimes prosecutor. john, we have violent sex offender that is can't get within a thousand feet of day cares and schools and this guy can examine young, sick kids. >> absolutely, mike. if you look at a letter up on the website of the tennessee board of probation and parole, they give you a listing of all the things that you can't do as the fall of 2009 coming up on halloween. if you take a look at everything on the page, it is all about not being around children at all so there's a lack of consistency. now, i realize that the guy pled guilty and got a misdemeanor but that's not what this letter says. just for being on the registered sex offender list, you have to comply with. this how is it around halloween you can't be around kids but they allow you to have kids in an examination room by themselves? lack of consistency and a dangerous policy. >> anita kay, help us out with the law here. what does the law say that allows this guy to practice? >> mike, the issue is here in tennessee what the medical board

>> reporter: we're hanging in there, anita. we really are. topper talks about the bands of snow. we're feeling sheets. sheets of snow just kind of big clumps coming down. you can kind of see them. it reminds me of my mother. she grew up in wisconsin and she used to show us the pictures of their big snowstorms when they would build snow men higher than their rooftops. i expect we'll be able to do that. i am not holding a ski. this is part of a bumper. and there have been about 2300 accidents across virginia today and about -- no. 2300 incidents where police had to respond and about 1,000 accidents, traffic accidents. so i guess it's a good thing people have stayed home. otherwise there would be more than that. and it looks like we have about five inches of snow right here in the parking lot of the silver diner. it's very heavy and this little bit is heavy. out in about, there are very few people, except for those of us who have to work. this man is out tonight because he has to work the morning shift. >> i have to be in in the morning so i'm staying here. >> reporter: steve cox is

host: when he decides to bring anita dunn into the fold, the strategy she takes up running his fund -the exchange there, the strategy she comes up with it for e-mail addresses. guest: in the early 2006, the 2005 period, there was a pac called hope fund, and obama interviewed and eventually hired anita dun to run that pac. even when he was still a candidate for the senate in 2004, he was able to raise money for democratic senators. it was clear that he was going to when in a landslide, and he was doing fund-raising events for tom national and other senators. he was an incredible fundraising -- fund-raising events for tom daschle and other senators. he was an incredible fundraising source. he would turn out huge crowds. we knew that obama was traveling around and raising money, but i don't think until we wrote the book that we had a clear sense. we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separa

i apologize, anita.we'll be hearing from members of the senate on this jobs bill in a moment. but before we get to them, let me ask you, one of those lessons, this jobs bill, has it been passed because it was broken down into something smaller as opposed to trying to do one large piece of reform, as we've seen with health care reform? >> well, it's very difficult to compare the two because the reality is the components of a jobs bill are much easier to break apart. the large insurance reforms that are critical for health reform, making insurance companies take everybody, and not letting them deny people with pre-existing conditions, not letting them cap, really are hard to do piecemeal. you know, obviously, the insurance companies don't want to just get stuck with only the people with horrible health care problems. they need to spread the risk around. we understand that. so i don't think it's analogous. but i think what the jobs bill in the senate does show is that if you have people who are willing to s

. >>> good morning, everybody, i'm anita brikman. welcome to 9 news now week in review. it is not yet march but the winds roared in at the end of this week with lion like force. that may be the reason for an accident at a d.c. construction site. two workers fell from scaffolding. >> they told us to get down and the gust of wind came through and that was it. >> reporter: a witness said the wind caused at least one of the men to lose his footing and fall. >> the boards moved enough that he went down. that was on the one end. oddly enough his brother was working on the other end of the scaffold, and i don't know what happened down there. i didn't see, but he fell , too. >> reporter: a supervisor with road super advisors said they were laying brick when they pell. >> they were working three stories up, 30 feet or so above ground. >> reporter: d.c. fire and ems said the man fell into a shallow ditch. >> they brought down with them some other construction materials and debris and they actually needed to be extricated. >> reporter: he said both men were taken to the hospital wi

he starts at the conference with his advisers run buy not one of the three so-called suits but by anita done who becomes the white house communications director. so there is a proportion of barack obama here and again it's not all flattering. it is a true story of what happened and people have said there isn't much about barack obama or the stuff about barack obama is written by the sources who are the winners and therefore it's not as full portrait as the others. >> host: on barack obama's strategy, john heilemann, early on when he decides to bring anita dunn into the fold and the strategy she takes up by running the fund and speeches he's giving a around the country helping raise money for other candidates that exchange the strategy she comes up with for e-mail addresses. >> guest: this is in the early 2006, late 2005 period. barack obama mccaul politicians have a pact called hope fond, and obama invited, interviewed negative kenneda dunn to hire the pack. he was an extraordinarily unusual candidate in this respect. even before obama was elected national office when he was still a can

anita, back to you. >>> okay. let's take a look outside and see what is happening right now. over in virginia snow blanketing a highway. in northwest dc, a live look at constitution avenue and 20th street looking pretty good. roads pretty clear and a little snow on the sidewalks. 9news now surae chinn has been driving all over our region this evening from virginia to maryland. she continues our team coverage. surae. >> reporter: anita, we took a 50-60-mile drive today from alexandria virginia to maryland which is 15 miles outside of baltimore. the first part of the trip was okay. but then things started to deteriorate some as the snow started to fall and also the roads became snow covered. you also see the secondary roads are going to be a little bit covered as well. maybe a little worse. but this is what you'll see. a little bit of snow packed. and if you can just imagine five or six hours from now for the morning commute, it might get a lot worse. plus the snowplows hopefully will get a chance to do one pass over. joe, darcy here just got off of work. he drives a mustang th

[applause] >> we are so proud of anita moncreif.ne. if he did not follow her, you need to. she tells a lot of interesting and smart things every day. to my far right, and it is hard to get far of my right, i would like to introduce the john fund from the "wall street jr. -- "wall street journal." >> he is anç author and editor. he has written a number of books. john fund has done more to chronicle the problems of vote fraud and stealing elections in this country than anyone and we are honored to have him with us today. [applause] ok>> with no further ado, i like to start the panel. i know you know we are running late. we will not have time for questions, however i will tell you how you can e-mail questions to the republican lawyers association. >> thank you. i want to thank all of you for that warm welcome for anita moncreif. she told me last night that she was a little apprehensive. she is new to the cause. she is a brave, brave lady. you have made her feel very, very welcome. thank you. [applause] >> we decided just about one yea

andrea. >> anita. late this afternoon, a montgomery county school system delivered two letters of apology. one from roberto, the other from the teacher involved in the case. and this note went home from every student. >> an american flag flies outside the middle school. but when a 13-year-old student refused to stand before it during the pledge of allegiance, a teacher called school security. >> i'm heartsick that we don't care that much about our country anymore. >> the school system sent home this letter, it was the teacher, not the student who broke the law. students were told no one will be permitted to embarrass you if you choose not to participate. >> i think you should stand. i think everybody should respect that. >> for seventh grader, cody smith and his mother, stephanie, this is an important topic of discussion. >> i think they should apologize and they did the right thing by apologizing. i believe when you stand up for the pledge, it's a sign of respect to america. >> i feel like we are in a

anita vogel's live in las vegas with more. did the ser have to say about an apparent slump he's experiencing in his numbers? >> reporter: hi there, martha. i did have a chance to talk with him yesterday, and we chatted about the polls. he seems relatively unfazed at this point. he knows there are polls out there that show him anywhere from four to eight points down behind some relatively unknown gop challengers. also with unfavorable ratings above 50%, but he points out that poll is coming from the local newspaper that he says doesn't like him very much. he says his own internal polls show something else. >> a poll from a newspaper here that's not been supportive of me ever that i can remember at least. i'm going to continue being who i am. the people know me, those that don't i'm going to do my very best to make sure that they do understand my background. >> reporter: and the local newspaper he's talking about is "the las vegas review journal." however, they used a mason dixon poll which by all accounts is an independent poll

lesli, anita, back to you. >> all right, stay with 9news now for the latest on our next winter storm.e'll have continuing coverage of our website, wusa9.com and we will be on the air all day tomorrow morning beginning at 4:30 a.m. with wall to wall storm alert safety coverage. we'll be right back. >>> well, it's a super celebration in the big easy. it's quiet on our video. oh my goodness. we are looking live at a parade celebration. it's about to begin. thousands of fans are lining the parade route to see their favorite players on borrowed marti gras floats. the saints went over four decades before they got to the super bowl, where they beat the indianapolis colts on sunday, 31-17. now that is more like it. big parade. >> that's right. you and good will ambassador is in haiti this week. today, she met with the representative of the recovery mission, the jolie, pitt foundation donated $1 million to the organization, doctors without borders to provide emergency care to the earthquake survivors. >>> an update on the death of nancy kerrigan's father. the figure skater's 70-year-old dad su

[applause] >> we are so proud of anita moncreif. and it is hard to get far of my right, i would like to introduce the john fund from the "wall street jr. -- "wall street journal." >> he is anç author and editor. he has written a number of books. john fund has done more to chronicle the problems of vote fraud and stealing elections in this country than anyone and we are honored to have him with us today. [applause] ok>> with no further ado, i like to start the panel. i know you know we are running late. we will not have time for questions, however i will tell you how you can e-mail questions to the republican lawyers association. >> thank you. i want to thank all of you for that warm welcome for anita moncreif. she told me last night that she was a little apprehensive. she is new to the cause. she is a brave, brave lady. you have made her feel very, very welcome. thank you. [applause] >> we decided just about one year ago at the republican the lawyers association that we were going to get into what acorn was all about. we hired a pr

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anita. >> topper, thank you. >>> here is the look at the very latest. the federal government will be closed again tomorrow marking the third day in a row it will be off because of winter weather. vdot has enough salt despite earlier reports of a critical shortage. the maryland state highway association is facing a dwindling supply of salt and said they won't be using as much. >>> and the power companies have been working around the clock trying to get customer's heat and light back on. here is a look at the latest on the outage. according to pepco, they still have 11,000 customers without power. dominion only has 600 and gbe is reporting 205 customers out. the high wind and the heavy wet snow make for a deadly combination, especially when it comes to the trees. in fact, all day long, crews have been chopping up trees, casualties of the winter weather. brittany morehouse joins us with tree safety tips. brittany. >> reporter: that's right, derek. you look behind me and you see there is a bunch of evergreen trees. they are planted very close together. and

back to you, anita. >> where do you fall on the barometer? are you civics the winter weather, can't get enough? our bruce leshan is in bethesda where he found plenty of people saying bring it on. bruce, come on, really? >> reporter: yeah, really but i'm thinking that the folks who shoveled all all the walks here at defend gate elementary school are among the sick of -- at wind gate elementary school are among the sick of it crowd. i've shown you my worn out snow shovel before. i think i've taken about two inches off it and it looks like there's the potential by this time next week i will have worn this thing down to nothing. are you sick of this yet? >> no! >> of course not. >> reporter: on the sledding hill at closed for the snow stone ridge school you will find plenty of kids looking forward to a storm that could make the overnight snowfall look like a little bump in the track. would you like to have more snow on friday? >> yes. >> reporter: would you like to have more snow next week? >> yes. >> reporter: how much snow do you want? >> yes.

anita, back to you. >> if you can't believe it we certainly can't believe it over here. >>> the supersnowstorm is becoming more dangerous by the hour. let's look at the latest information. as dangerous as the super storm is expected to be there is not a prettier picture than seeing washington landmarks embraced with snow. >> joel brown is joining us live from captiol hill with more on what could be a record- breaking storm here in dc. hey, joel. >> reporter: we came up to captiol hill, no place prettier to watch the snowfall in washington, but we know because of the sheer magnitude of the storm it is going to get ugly. the blast of snow falling on washington could make history. >> we're going to be right up against the most snow that this city has ever seen. >> reporter: the storm could blanket the mid-atlantic region, from new jersey to north carolina. but dc's expected to take a direct hit. even the weathermen here have a hard time believing. >> again the totals we are talking about, i know, 20 to 30 inches. >> reporter: the city's largest employer, the federal government shut down

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and shelly drobny, shelly anita drobny who started air america read it and said bingo and called me up picked it up somewhere? >> it was published in common dreams and then it got picket up by which the website on and a bunch of other ones, picked it up and it got around and... >> called you and said what? >> you know i like to talk to you. can you come over to chicago and lets kicks around some ideas. >> where were you then? >> in vermont. >> doing what? >> well at that time i was just writing and kind of retired from having the ad agency but a few months after that i thought "maybe i should put my money where my mouth is, you know try this out and" so we found a radio station in burlington, vermont that was willing to give me two hours on a saturday morning after the tractor swap. half our calls were "is that john deere 301 still available" and >> give it to you? >> yes like well he let me do two hours on the radio. he say try a liberal talk radio lets see what happens. >> just free. >> yes i didn't pay for it and he didn't pay me. >> did you have calls right away? >> yes actually ot

anita you spoke with senator reid yesterday with what did he say about his latest poll numbers?i did have a chance to sit down with senator reid and we did chat about those poll numbers. at this point he seems unfazed. he knows he has polls showing unfavorable ratings of above 50%. but he insists those polls are coming from one local newspaper that doesn't like him have much. he suggests he has his own internal polls that say something else. >> we are look at a poll from a group that has never been supportive of me. i'm going to continue to be who i am. the people know me. those that don't i will do my best to make sure they understand my background. >> and that poll is actually in the local newspaper here is a mason dixon poll. it's an independent poll that newspapers around the country use. let's talk about the candidates running against him on the gop side. there are three relatively unknown candidates that are all leading him in the polls. we have danny tartanian. he's a local businessman. also sue lowden, a former news anchor, and sharon angle, a former gop assembly woman.

and anita vogel joins us from phoenix and why is he challenging him at this time?reporter: well, hi there, j.d. hayworth is set to make this is announcement en a couple of hours and i talked to him a while ago and asked him, why he was challenging john mccain and he said, simple, he believes john mccain is a flip-flopper on major issues, like illegal immigration and taxes, and he believes arizona residents want a more consistent, conservative voice, and that john mccain is really more of a moderate than a maverick and we'll hear from j.d. hayworth a little bit later this morning and, first, we want to get reaction from john mccain himself. i spoke to him this morning and he said he's always up for a good fight. >> i take every race seriously and i have taken every race seriously in the past. i have been through a couple of pretty tough races in the presidential campaign. and, getting the nomination of my party so i'm pretty well used to tough races and i'm confident we'll do fine, but i take every race seriously and i know i have to earn the vote of every citizen.

host: anita springs, florida. connie on our republican line. good morning. caller: good morning.blican, of course i think that we should start health care reform on a clean sheet and start with what everyone agrees on and fix the actual problems rather than having the government take over the whole system and socialize our health care. as far as bipartisanship, there's no bipartisanship on principle. bipartisanship for little details around the edges. but yeah, to some degree while as an american stin, i would prefer congress to work -- citizen, i would prefer congress to work on this issue. with a fresh sheet of paper, from the beginning and not to have the bill and say let the trojans give a couple of little ideas. but yeah. but just keep in mind the hypocrisy when the rens have full control of house and senate and the presidency. if they would promise to, you know, keep the rules the same, the next time the republicans are in charge, that would be one thing. but a couple of things. so yeah. from one standpoint on principle, if the democrats believe socialism is the way to go f