will go to stacy know from arlington, virginia for independents. stacy, you are on "washington journal." i think washington should focus on the basics. it has been for now since we have seen a budget. i will take a lot of the turbulence out of everything. it doesn't matter which party you are from. you need to be working for america. you need to be doing what is best for america. it doesn't seem like some people are. congress should probably be measured on quality not quantity. when you stand up in front of the american people and say i haven't read the bill, but once we get it passed we will figure out what it is, that is not quality. that is working towards quantity to get to the six or 700 number that is being talked about. i agree with a lot of the other people. we need to look at the laws that are already in place. mightrepealing some laws be a metric that would be good to measure congress on. we talked about tax reform. there's a whole bunch we could work on that would be great. maybe we ought to look at some of those things like health care

i had met her through her children 20 years before in arlington virginia when i was a playground director and i knew at that moment in the context of all of the iconic civil rights paraphernalia at the king center this is a story that needed to be told so i decided at that moment to go home and start interviewing my friend and find out about. >> did you recognize her in the picture and had she already talked about this experience and sit in? >> i recognized her in the photograph because the children had a total out on occasion and said my mother is a famous photograph, so why didn't really understand how significant that photograph was until i saw the context. >> and what did you learn about the civil rights movement that you hadn't known before? >> what is interesting about this story is that she is a southern white woman who came to see her family and for her involvement in the civil rights movement. she told me so much of her story and about courage and about perseverance. and through her i got really interested in the entire story in the movement and so the broad story including [inau

i had met her through her children 20 years before in arlington, virginia, when i was a playground director, and her kids came to the playground. and i knew at that moment when i saw the photograph in the context of all the iconic civil rights paraphernalia at the king center that this was a story that needed to be told and hadn't been really amplified. so i decided at that moment to go home and start interviewing my friend joan and find out more about it. >> host: so did you recognize her in the picture when you first saw it, or had she already talked to you about this experience? >> reporter: >> guest: , well, i recognized the photo, but i really didn't understand how significant that photo was until i saw in context at the king center. >> host: and what had you, what did you learn from her about the civil rights movement that you hadn't known before? >> guest: well, what was interesting about joan's story is that she's a southern white woman who really risked it all to, you know, her family disowned her, there for her involvement in the civil rights movement. she's taught me so much and

. >>> and a congregation sent running out of a church in arlington, virginia when the ceiling collapsed in the middle of a service. >> i'm chris gordon. first, a flood watch will be in effect for the washington region overnight. we're expecting more rain and a cooldown to start the holiday week. amelia segal is tracking it all now. >> well, a flood watch will go into effect at midnight for the d.c. metro area, southern maryland, and the northern neck. all of the areas in green as we head to graphics. again, this flood watch goes into effect midnight and it will run through tomorrow afternoon. during this time period, expect 1 to 3 inches of rain if you live in the watch area. yaareas in the west will be expected up to an inch. throughout tonight and the day tomorrow, you want to be careful for hydroplaning, water collecting on roads. we could see flooding near streams and creeks in the watch area and reduced visibilities as well. starting future weather off at 11:00 p.m. because for the rest of the evening hours, just scattered showers, but activity becomes wide spread around 11:00 p.m.

. >> reporter: wyatt andrews, cbs news, arlington, virginia. >>> well, coming up after your local news," more on the new changes announced in the federal health care law. bill plante has the latest from the white house. >>> plus, dale earnhardt's legendary number 3 car will be returning to nascar. sprint cup series. we'll meet the new driver behind the wheel. >>> and former nba star chris herron shares his "note to self." that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> good morning. it's friday, december 20. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm still brian hackney. frank's still off. it's 4:30, isn't it? >> it is. what does that mean? time to check weather and traffic. >> that's what time it is. >> it's friday, too! glad to be here today. got a great day ahead. going to see a whole lot of sunshine. a very cold start in parts of the bay area. concord 32. 30 santa rosa. 39 san jose. your weekend forecast is coming up. >> we still have a high

some of the other cities that we researched included chicago, new york, arlington, virginia, houston, philadelphia, arizona, and each of these cities had tried to address this problem in the past and what we learned is that when we looked at the different best practices, when they tried to address the problem with enforcement only, they found that they really couldn't make a substantive change to the problem to increase access to parking for people with disabilities. and in looking at the different best practice policies what we also did was review interviews with disability advocates in those cities, people who had experienced the parking environment both before and after policy changes. and what we heard from those advocates was that it is pretty clear that all successful programs took an approach that had three key elements: provide more blue zones, in other words increasing the supply, conduct sufficient enforcement on placard use and blue zones and charge placards at meters. we learned the cities that implemented only one or two of those key elements were not successful. this nex

. >> reporter: wyatt andrews, cbs news, arlington, virginia. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening newsl of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh ac >>> tonight identities at risk, ducking for cover and a view from the top. >> your only local news at 7:00 begins with a look at the most important stories in your world in 90 seconds. >> news of a widespread security breach affecting nearly all target stores nationwide which may have compromised 40 million shoppers' credit and debit card information. >> in leonardtown the courthouse was locked down

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. >> october 1st, 2013, arlington, virginia. >> they are headed into the first day.y young people will go back to the 3rd day and 4th day hoping it will be better than today. the staff of generation opportunity gathered to watch healthcare rollout. >> evan is generation opportunity's president. >> we completely expected the obama administration given all of the tech savvy individuals in the past did better. young people are used to technology working to see such a huge failure from government. >> as the days go on we continue to voice our message. >> six months of educating young americans about their healthcare. >> arch emphatic promise was getting ready to haunt the president. >> if you have healthcare you can keep your health insurance. if you like your plan teep your plan. if you like your doctor you will be able to keep your doctor period, end of story. >> they told them they could keep their healthcare plan. at the sri les the administration knew many people who lose their policies. >> she had to find a new insurance plan but powers figured she would get better

. >> we are in arlington virginia, just enough snow to cover the grass before [ bleep ] rain and drizzletarted to fall. >> and we are [ bleep ] soaking wet and [ bleep ] and endorphines going. back to you in the warm studio. i want to see you on [ bleep ] again. >> the president was [ bleep ] a couple months ago. >> of 173 have signed on from the congress to tell the president, [ bleep ] off on this one. >> [ bleep ] animals, and that's my gosh, i am just, i am shocked. >> look at my [ bleep ]. ha-ha. >> of ♪ ♪ ♪ what i know >> well for far too long here in washington, d.c. [ bleep ] has been considered a dirty word. >> name an occupation a woman may have where she would write off a [ bleep ] job as a business expense? >> stripper. >> stripper. >> rudolph with your nose so bright won't you [ bleep ] my [ bleep ] tonight? >> it would be an honor, sir. ho-ho-ho. ho-ho-ho. >> jimmy: we'll take a break. when we come back -- i am going to assist santa by hooking a child to a lie detector to find out if she has been naughty or nice. yes, i am. >> jimmy: we've also got carey mulligan, scott fol

. >> october 1, 2013, arlington, virginia. >> there have been glitches in the first day.any young people will go back the second or third day, hoping it will be better than today? >> the staff of generation opportunity gathered to watch president obama's health carrollout. >> they can't get the exchanges even to work, so the people that tried to sign up can't. pretty funny. >> evan is generation opportunity's president. >> we completely expected that the obama administration, given all the tech savvy individuals they had worked with in the past do better. i think it really did disillusion a lot of young people who are used to technology working. 'cause he's such a huge -- to see a huge failure. >> as this continues to have bugs, we continue to be able to voice our message. >> six months of educating young americans about their health care. >> meanwhile, an emphatic promise was coming back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you will keep your health insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep yo

arlington, virginia. >> they're having glitches the first day?ow many young people will go back the second, third and fourth day hoping it's better than today? >> the staff of opportunity gathered to watch president obama's health care rollout. >> they can't even get exchanges to work so the people who are signing up can. it's pretty funny. >> evan feinberg is generation opportunity's president. >> we completely expected that the obama administration given all the tech-savvy individuals they had worked with in the past to do better. i think it did disillusion people. they were used to technology working to see such a huge failure from the government. >> as this continues to have bugs, we continue to voice our message. >> here's to six months to educating young americans about their health care. >> meanwhile, an emphatic promise was coming back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you will keep your health insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.

. >> october 1st, 2013, arlington, virginia. >> they're having glitches the first day, how many youngeople will go back the second, third and fourth day hoping it will be better than today. >> the staff of generation opportunity gathered to watch president obama's health care rollout. >> they try to get people who quork to sign up but can't. kind of funny. >> i think it did disillusion a lot of young people used to technology working to see such a huge failure from government. >> as the days do on and this thing continues to have bugs we continue to enforce our message. >> six months of educating young americans about their health car care. >> meanwhile, an emphatic promise was come back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you can keep your insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your doctor, keep your doctor, period end of story. >> according to a fox news poll, half of all voters believe president obama knowing loy lied when he told americans they could keep their health care plan. 59% said at the very least his administration knew many

help centers like this onen arlington, virginia were swamped with people trying to beat the clock. this man was confused by the changes. >> wasn't sure what is the date. today is the last day. >> reporter: new enrollers need to get on today but need the extra 24 hours. >> because we had such a big crush of visitors, we wanted to make sure people trying to sign up today were able to get covered by january 1 and wanted to add a cushion on the back end. >>> a staffer signed up president obama this weekend, a symbolic move because he's covered by the military. under the act, people with chronic or catastrophic illnesses can no longer be denied. >> if we don't get the young, healthy people into the system, it can cause problems for everybody else buying insurance. 4 million americans lost coverage when their policies lost coverage. >> let me make something very, very, very clear. i'm for repealing, completely, this law. it can never be fixed. >> reporter: whatever the prognosis, obamacare is here for now. love it or hate it, the government expects 1.5 million people to sign up for a hea

arlington, virginia. >> they're having glitches the first day?ow many young people will go back the second, third and fourth day hoping it's better than today? >> reporter: the staff of opportunity gathered to watch the obamacare rollout. >> they can't even get exchanges to work so the people who are signing up can. it's pretty funny. >> we completely expected that the obama administration given all the tech-savvy individuals they had worked with in the past did better. they were used to technology working to see such a huge failure from the government. >> as this continues to have bugs, we continue to voice our message. >> here's to six months to educating young americans about their health care. >> reporter: meanwhile, an emphatic promise was coming back to haunt the president. >> if you already have health care, you will keep your health insurance. if you like your plan, keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. end of story. >> reporter: according to a fox news poll, half of all voters believe pres

leaders and at the tomb of the unknowns in arlington, virginia. the organization says its mission is to remember, honor and teach. >>> major shakeup of the white house says the administration names a new point person to handle its relations, or lack thereof, with congress. katy burn fallon will take over as legislative affairs office director in january. her appointment coming amid a rocky year for the president over obamacare, for an affairs, you name it, as republicans gear up for a battle in november's midterm elections. joining me, kristy, president of new heights communications, former spokesperson for former of vermont governor. tammy bruce joins us, fox news contributor. good to see you both. >> think there. >> tammy, is this a sign that the white house and the president both are finally realizing that he's losing senate democrats and this is a real crisis? >> i think so. i think that just the dynamic that vulnerable democrats are in with the election next year have been very hurt by obamacare. that's undeniable. the interesting thing is i

area in arlington, virginia.made of gold and that's four times as much as the median home price in the united states. for a bus stop, hard to understand these decisions. >> one heck of a bus stop. they spent -- wasted $4 million because they misprinted 100-dollar bills. a $19.5 million in a cattle study. then the golf cart factory at 3 8,000. the cattle size study, they're concerned about global warming or climate change and the effect that cattle are having, and $19.5 million to look into that. that's interesting. >> it's really a lot here. i think so too. certainly we have to remember in the united states, with such a large executive branch to our government, these decisions are made outside of the realm of the taxpayers, and even outside of the rem of lawmakers. congress doesn't have oversight when it comes to these decisions, and congress isn't looking -- >> congress hasn't done anything in many years. crystal glasses, $5 million. if you have embassy around the world you need to have great crystal glasses in

we're just sending it to them and $1 million to build a bus stop in arlington, virginia. i want to go to that bus stop when it's completed. this next one, this next one really got my attention. federal government is allocating $17.5 million in the form of tax breaks for legalized brothels in nevada. workers can deduct breast implants, costumes, and special equipment. this special treatment has been given because the brothels apparently help the local economy in nevada. joining us now from sparks, perhaps apply named, owner of the moonlight bunny ranch. >> hi, bill. >> all right, dennis. you have taken the 17.5 million. you don't get it all. you and your co-brothel people get it. do you understand why some taxpayers may feel this a frivolous waste of taxpayer money? >> i think this is tom coburn being a grandstander and media host to the tea party. what he's trying to do is attack the tax code by eliminating exemptions no different than if the avon lady couldn't write off makeup or gasoline to get to your house. >> coburn, by the way, is the senator from oklahoma who put o

i had met her through her children 20 years before in arlington virginia when i was the playground director and her kids came to the playground and i knew at that moment when i saw the photograph in the context of all of the iconic civil rights at the king center that this was a story that needed to be told so i decided at that moment to go home and start interviewing my friend and find out more about. >> did you recognize her in the picture or had she already talked about this experience? >> averitt goodbye stir in the photograph because they pulled the photograph out on occasion and said my mom is in a famous photograph so i didn't really understand how significant that was until i saw it in context. >> and what did you learn from her about the civil rights movement that you hadn't known before? >> what was interesting about this will be

i had met her through her children 20 years ago in arlington, virginia when i was the playground director and her kids came to the playground. i knew at that moment when i saw the photograph and the context of all the iconic siflt right -- civil rights paraphernalia at the king center was a story that needed to be told and hasn't been amplified. i decided to go home and start interviewing my friend joan and find out more. >> did you recognize her in the picture when you first saw it? had she already talked to you about the experience in the sit-in. >> i recognized her because the children would hold the case and my mom is say in a famous photograph. i didn't understand how significant it was until i saw in con technical at the king center. >> and what had you -- what did you learn from her about civil rights movement that you had to know before? >> what was interesting about joan's story is that -- who -- through her i deposit interested in the entire story. so i'm able to leave her story in to a much broader story including unfortunately the assassination. [inaudible] -- what brought me

a memorial service for the victims being held at the national cemetery in arlington, virginia. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. >> reporter: it was this day in 1988 that pan am flight 103 exploded in the sky less than one hour after taking off from london enroute to new york. today attorney general eric holder told victims' families and friends at a ceremony at arlington national cemetery that no amount of time or distance can erase the loss after what he called, quote, a heinous and cowardly act of terror. >> we will always remember the heartache, devastation, and the pain that was etched into our collective memory on the 21st of december, 1988. but we also recall as we gather each year the tremendous generosity of the scottish people, particularly the people of lockerbie who despite their own losses, opened their homes to the victims' families. >> reporter: there was a remembrance ceremony for all the people who died on board the flight and 11 people killed on the ground. one mother of an american college student on the pan am 103 flight spoke about why she at

susan mcginnis, cbs news, arlington, virginia. >>> hundreds of airline flights are already being cancelled for today. the most troubled airports right now are philadelphia international and regan national near washington. >>> president obama is making a long trip from washington to south africa to honor civil rights legend nelson mandela. tomorrows memorial service will serve as a rare reunion of nearly all of the living american presidents. kpix5 is in the news room now and the number of dig any tar its i imagine is giving south african police quite a security challenge. >> reporter: yes, frank. more than 80,000 mourners are expected to attend the memorial and thousands of police officers will be on hand and right now a memorial outside nelson mandela's former home is growing as well as a crowd of south africans who have come together since his death. >> police are preparing today for a memorial service for nelson mandela at a soccer stadium tomorrow. president obama leaves this morning for south africa where he will attend the massive public memorial. former presidents bush, clinton and

want to go to arlington, virginia, inside the beltway where athena jones is standing by. maybe you can tell me how bad it is and if it was worth it to shut down the government for this? >> hi, ashleigh. as you can see it is still snowing here. it's snowing a little harder i think than it was last hour and yes, the federal government is closed. that means we've seen a lot less traffic on the roadways. of course they're trying to avoid these huge traffic jams we've seen in the past when you had these freeways ending up looking like parking lots as people try to get around in this snowstorm. some good news for folks who don't work for the federal government, maybe folks who did have to go to work, not too long ago, the national weather service issued a weather calling a winter weather advisory. they've canceled the winter storm warning. they have a winter weather advisory in place until 2:00. you can see that it's still snowing here but that gives us some indication of when they expect things to begin to get a little better. i can tell you that we're here outside of d.c. rea

claud is joining us from arlington, virginia. >> good morning. i had a disease when i was a child that had never been diagnosed and in 1959 i went to nih and they kept me alive for the next 30 years with more test and interesting thing is i live closer to nih than many of the people that work there so a problem comes up and i was over there. and 30 years ago, i was taken care of. and in 1989 i had a heart transplant and here i am 54 years later and the fact i am alive is owed to nih and some of the doctors over there. >> wow, claud, that is an amazing story. i get to hear similar ones from people that come to the clinical center. this is the largest research hospital in the world. a few steps away from where i am. 240 beds but all of the patients are on research protocols. we consider this to be the house of hope because people come here when medical practice failed to find an answer for them and they come to see if research can offer something. amazing things have been done here and your story sounds like one of them. we have still many people w

joining us from arlington virginia. caller: good morning. i want to tell you that i had a disease. child, add never been diagnosed. and nih i went into nih kept me alive for the next 30 years with more tests. i lived closer to nih and many of the people that work there. if a problem came up, i was over there. their 30ing care of years ago. -- i had a heart transplant. live -- alivei am , i cannot say enough about nih. host: that is an amazing story. that isstory --guest: amazing story. it is a story i get to hear every day. this is the largest research hospital in the world. a few steps away from where i am right now, two hundred 40 beds, but all of the patients who come protocols. research this is the house of hope. this is where people come when medical practices fail to find an answer for them and they come here to find out whether research can offer them something. amazing things have been done here. we also have, because you mentioned how difficult it was to come to a diagnosis, many people are out there after many years of medical valuations and still have not arrived at a di

our next call comes from arlington, virginia. mark is on the line for independents.ast disagree with call. i think the judge made the proper decision. the evidence is supported in the first world trade center bombing and the group of people who successfully detonated a device at the world trade center, but were not successful in taking it down. they forced that to go to trial in new york. was of the evidence given that they had cell phone .vidence from the perpetrators as soon as they mention that, every cell phone in the middle east or somebody up to do this country harm went dead. we had an easy way of tapping into their intelligence and gaining information. there are several examples of this. we have set up intelligence gathering situations and somebody opens his mouth like this edward snowden guy and that intelligence is lost. we have to escalate to a different level. this is a different world than what it was a decade or 2 decades ago. we are losing our rights and our privileges in the worst possible way to do to these people. to these people. att: a tweet from

tina in arlington, virginia.ler: i want to say this obama nominated chuck hagel to become secretary of defense, and although he party, thehis own republican party, voted against him. i would also like to say the hatred among some of the republican party members is an indication of the hatred in america in general. in alexandria, virginia. democratic caller. agree with a few of the previous colors -- callers. the last callers and the one before. feeling that in , when all the technology and everything -- america needs to relax and understand that president obama is trying to do something for the country, and everything he tries to do is thwarted by the republicans. in a few years time, it will look bad for them. have continued this process since clinton. they are apparently on steroids because of the technology. host: we are talking about your top six for new story of the year in 2013. here is the pew research center at with 13 data milestones. 51% of the public now favors same-sex marriage, while 42% are opposed.

virginia today. moran is a former arlington county prosecutor, delegate from alexandria and democratic party of virginia chairman. moran is a former rival of mcauliffe. the two competed for the democratic nomination in the 2009 virginia governor's race. that nomination went to state senator creigh deeds. >> i looked from that person to be positive and look ahead and over the last four years i've fully supported governor elect mcauliffe, so i really look forward the next four years working with him as a team. >> mcauliffe named karen jackson as his secretary of technology and matthew rodriguez as second of administration. >>> coming up from chinese food to big macs, wait till you see what russ at h.h. gregg's countdown to christmas sale you'll save up to 25% on appliances, electronics, furne iturand more. 32-inch led tvs. now $179. 55-inch led tvs. $499. save 1000 dollars on stainless steel samsung french door refrigerators. and android tablets start at just 49 dollars! get the gifts you want... ... from the brands you trust at the h.h. gregg countdown toch ristmas sale >>> here's a quick look at some of

wolf's district includes a large part of northern virginia, including arlington, fairfax, and other counties. so are republicans in danger of losing the seat? we spoke to larry sabato earlier this evening. >> i suspect that it will go the way of this election generally. if this turns out to be a republican year, then republicans are probably going to win that district. if democrats do better than expected in this mid-term election, then i think they might be able to take it. >> sabato says there have been rumors for quite some time for the last few terms that wolf was considering not running for re-election. >>> to a tug of war that stretches from one side of the potomac to the other. two sides hoping to land fbi headquarters and all the jobs and businesses it brings. tonight, maryland lawmakers stood united urging the feds to build in green belt across the river. others endorsed springfield for the new headquarters. the fbi says it has outgrown its offices at the j.edgar hoofer building in dc. the decision will be made by the fbi and the general services administration. >>> it all began wit

joining us from arlington virginia. caller: good morning. i want to tell you that i had a disease. child, add never been diagnosed. and nih i went into nih kept me alive for the next 30 years with more tests. i lived closer to nih and many of the people that work there. if a problem came up, i was over there. their 30ing care of years ago. -- i had a heart transplant. live -- alivei am , i cannot say enough about nih. host: that is an amazing story. that isstory --guest: amazing story. it is a story i get to hear every day. this is the largest research hospital in the world. a few steps away from where i am right now, two hundred 40 beds, but all of the patients who come protocols. research this is the house of hope. this is where people come when medical practices fail to find an answer for them and they come here to find out whether research can offer them something. amazing things have been done here. we also have, because you mentioned how difficult it was to come to a diagnosis, many people are out there after many years of medical valuations and still have not arrived at a di

. >>> in northern virginia, the arlington county school board is considering putting a $50 cap on the gifts a teacher can receive. parents like to give teachers cash or gifts during the holidays to show their appreciation. they say $50 is too low and want it raised to $100 per teacher. >>> wonder how much money your neighbors are making? we have the list of wealthiest counties in america. falls church and loudoun county are on the top of the list. howard and fairfax county. stafford, nine, montgomery and prince william county missed the top ten. >>> a major medical credit card with surprise costs. plus -- >> i'm liz crenshaw. what are things to watch out for buying gift cards this holiday season? that's the question. the answer >>> prince george's county police are joining forces with the law enforcement to help families in need this holiday season. police will be giving away food baskets to families throughout the county. they will be stationed on new hampshire avenue from 6:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon. this event is open to the public. last year, more than 1,000 famil

in northern virginia, the arlington cemetery station is closed this weekend. you can take a free shuttle bus and you can only get to arlington cemetery on a bus leaving the pentagon city station. you may have to wait as much as 20 minutes between the trains on all five lines. >>> this morning you have a new transit option if you're coming to or leaving d.c. starting today, you have the brand new option of using marc's trains on the weekend. let's say you want to visit baltimore's inner harbor or get to bwi but don't want to deal with all the traffic on the belt way. here's what you can do. you can board a train at union station and that service is now running nine round trips a day. that could get you from this area to pen station and midtown baltimore and anywhere in between. for a quick day trip, keep in mind you can get from d.c. to baltimore for about $7 and if you plan on catching a plane and flying, getting to the airport is a $6 trip and traveling is going to cost $5. if you have a weekly or monthly pass, we're good to go. all of this information is at

. >> i remember having an apartment in the state of virginia in arlington, the state of virginia allowsa fee not to have auto insurance. sort of sam idea here. you pay a penalty. and let's just say i had reasons why my auto insurance was a little bit high. it was cheaper not to pay. and i remember i forked out the money, it was easier i'm thinking i just -- you you know, so what if i crash. and that's been the issue that they know -- >> except to the person that you crash into. >> there will actually be 51 billion uninsured, he said end 30, part of it is because states have not xand x. banded medicaid. but the actual number of uninsured is much larger. it will be 51 million. >> by the way that reagan quote is nine words, not seven. >> senator, i wanted to push back a little bit on your comment about the costs or the unexpected costs to people. because first of all, it's about affordable health care, not free health care. and i would think that both parties would agree at some point in this country nothing comes for free. but do we want to continue doing the way we're doing it where ever

winter storm watch in effect all these counties in color northern virginia, the district, prince geor george's, montgomery, fairfax, arlington, falls church in effect until 10:00 this morning. temperatures right now are below freezing. south and east it is generally just a couple of degrees above freezi freezing. there's national airport now where it's at 34 with icing in the suburbs. we'll have that with us through 8:00. by noontime the mid-30s and just some light rain in the upper 30s and cloudy. the rain ending by early afternoon should be in the upper 30s by mid to late afternoon. >>> and now, maynard edwards, how are the roadways? >>> an outer loop crash, 495 at chain bridge road k. only the left lane getting by. another outer loop crash at vandorn. it's closing the right shoulder lane at this point. a live look at the crash scene. crews work iing on that one. westbound i-270 we have a crash that has been reported in the last few minutes and some slick conditions in that area. and then we have another downed tree, this one outside manassas. those are likely going to increase as the morning goes. aaron and eun, back to y

arlington is cracking down on gifts that parents buy for teachers. there is a $100 limit. brianne carter reports that there are a couple exceptions to the new rule. some virginia students and their families will only be able to dig so deep into their pockets to pick a present. >> these teachers work hard. >> last night, the arlington county school board approved the problem see -- the policy to limit the amount to $100 a year. parents will be able to pool their money to buy bigger gifts. >> we can appreciate our teachers collectively rather than individually. i think that is what matters. thehe new rule is to curb potential for favoritism. it would not apply to classroom supplies, baked goods, or other supplies. don't know how they're going to track how much money these parents are spending because you could do $100 in one go or you can sneak in $20, 30.gif throughout the year. >> the teacher would be keeping -- responsible for keeping a tally. anything over must be returned. this is a happy story -- a local math teacher got a big surprise this morning. students asto his mr. bell and was named d.c.'s teacher of the year. mayor vincent gray made the announcemen

guest: frank rowlett was operating out of a former girls' school in the northern virginia suburbs of washington called arlington hall. he operated with a very small group of people. i can't imagine they made a great deal of money. they worked for the army as cryptographers, but they were very dedicated. and their--their breakthrough was really a significant advance for us. one of the things that they--they--they enabled us to do--by breaking the japanese codes, we also were able to find out german intent. how did that come about? because the japanese had an ambassador posted to berlin. his name was oshima. oshima was a rabid pro-nazi. consequently, he won the confidence of adolf hitler. hitler would bring in oshima and say, 'mr. ambassador, i'm going to send you to inspect the atlantic wall. i want you to see what i'm erecting to repel an allied invasion of the continent,' or he would say to oshima, 'i'm going to tell you how many divisions i have deployed in norway, denmark, in belgium,' most importantly in--in france. and then he would say to oshima, upon these--these rather critical revelations, 'and i don't

arlington and 37 in frederick. a are starting to climb little bit, up to 37 degrees at reagan national, 40 degrees in norfolk, virginiahe cold air back up into canada. we are going to see moderating temperatures over the next several days before the next weather system moves in. temperatures today between 5:00 and -- between 5 and 10 degrees warmer than they were yesterday, 40 degrees higher in syracuse, new york, 17 degrees milder in burlington, vermont. here is our satellite radar. we have this week weather system sliding through, not brought us -- and that brought us the snow flurries. clouds may begin to build and and any precipitation mainly along the north of the mason dixon line. area of high an pressure will build in and i will bring milder temperatures to end the work we can take it to the first half of the weekend. middle 40's, and the winds will pick up out of the north and west. tonight, clear and cold, 19 to 29 at the wind began to diminish. tomorrow, sunny and feasible, high temperatures in the middle 40's with a light southerly wind. i want to take you through the next seven days because on 46, 50 degre

virginia construction zone. the changes involve i-395 and columbia pike in arlington. drivers heading north on 395 will have to turn left, not right, at the south quinn street signal to get on to columbia pike. there are signs pointed to the new dedicated left turn lane. drivers heading south on 395 will go straight through the light and access the ramp to columbia pike as usual. this is part of the multimillion dollar project to replace the bridge over columbia pike. >>> a bizarre accident with a staple gun leaves a police officer to not work. he retired at the age of 29. chris from our affiliate has more on the staple gun snafu that could cost taxpayers millions. >> reporter: even this retired police officer says the decision to classify him as totally disabled looks ridiculous. he accidentally stapled his own hand. doctors said it would impede him from firing his service weapon. guess what we found him doing? this is retired new jersey transit cop. he's been classified as totally and permanently disabled. one doctor said he could no longer pull a gun. another said a

virginia. this is at burke lane at ox road. 66 moves nicely from manassas to the beltway. those are going to be your problem spots, bridges, overpasses. in arlington, a beautiful shot with light traffic at glebe road. pass along more school information. prince william county, you are in a two-hour delay, joining fairfax and loudoun. closer to the holidays, one man who is not lying to himself about his job. he is not who you expect to see along the side of the road. he is out there with a message. >> police in wyoming hope that one of dr. seuss' most iconic characters will help people obey the law or in holidays. >> the grinch brought his trusty gun, -- trusty dog, max with them. remind drivers to be safe while they're out this holiday season. >>

arlington. novec is working to get the lights on for about 2500 customers in northern, virginia. pepco says 23 customers are without power. about 186 bge customers are without power. and potted tomac edison says ju about 11 without power. >>> julie kerry is live in vienna, hey, julie? >> reporter: i'm ending the day where i started the day alongside maple avenue in vienna. take a look at this roadway right now. it is just wet. that is a big improvement from the slushy mess we saw this morning. good thing was, a lot of people seemed to heed the warnings this morning. at the peak of the snowfall, they stayed home, kept their cars in the garage. for the kids who stayed home from school, this was a snow to celebrate. in sled-worthy snow we've seen in some time. >> one, two, three. whoo! >> reporter: we didn't have to go very far into the neighborhoods in vienna to see families either sledding or building snou men. this vienna family only had to step out their front door to their sleep driveway and they had their own to be bog gan run. these three kids were loving it. for the youngest

wroeth on the many headstones in arlington national cemetery and happening in more than 800 locations all over the world today. among those volunteers today in virginia, we are proud to tell you the grandmother of our producer a listia conly and her friends driving down to washington and from maine to help out. new details about a retired fbi agent. miss nothing iran seven years now and fox news confirmed that robert leavenson worked for the cia and collecting intel jeops at the time he disa pored. the white house claimed he was not a government employee at that time. here's more on the story from washington. >> hi, jamie, the white house responding to at this time news about robert leavenson with what we heard in the past. they say he was not a u.s. government. o at the time. and they don't have indication of his wheres about are now? >> i will not fact check the story. it was highly irresponsible to publish and strongly urged the outlet not to publish out of concerns for his safety. >> after the associated press released the report that the missing former agent was working as a cia agent in iran. several analyst have been involved in the past and i

. >> in arlington county deputy accused of killing a man taking the stand in his own defense today. >> northern virginia the road chief jeff goldberg was in the courtroom for the intense testimony. >> a few times while talking on the stand, he choked up. members, family members, they were often shaking their head saying that he did not want to kill him. the prosecutor say that argument is no defense. ex-wife, pastor, and son after he took the stand in his own defense. he testified that on may 21 he went for a walk around midnight thomas something he did often. he left carrying his bat and weapon, not uncommon. one pointe court at he was approached by julian dawkins who asked to re-was and what he was doing in the neighborhood. he identified himself as an officer and an argument followed. he said, i live here and i will be back to which he replied, i told you not to come back around here. he pulled a knife and chased him. i'm in danger. i'm afraid. he's going to stab me. he went to his car to get handcuffs to make an arrest and he returned where he saw him trying to hide. he fired his weapon with one sho

. >>> in northern virginia right now, water main breaks are starting to tear up the roads, especially in parts of arlington. south arlington mill drive was closed between south taylor and south randolph street. there was a second main break on south monroe street hours later. the first was reported around 4:00 this morning. residents woke up with no water. an elementary school was closed because of the breaks. >>> at this hour, there are still more questions than answers in sunday's deadly train derailment that killed four people in new york. andrew cuomo said he wants to know why the train was going three times the speed limit. the state is now requiring all metro transit employees to take part in safety briefings. we'll have the search to find out if mechanical or human error led to it. >>> in prince george's county, police are asking for the public's help in identifying this woman dressed in pink, all pink. she robbed a bank in landover. it happened at the capital one bank on 65th avenue. is suspect passed a note to the teller. the teller complied, gave her the money and the suspect got away. this woman

arlington deputy chair riff charged with murder. prosecutors were expecting to rest their case. that didn't happen. northern virginia reporter david cover explains why. >> a parade of witnesses called by the prosecution in court today, 23 in all. they're making the case that after the altercation between craig patterson and dawkins, patterson went home, got his gun and returned determined to shoot and kill dawkins. among the witnesses who testified today, ter reek erbie and eric taylor. during a court recess we caught up with them. both men stated on the same step they were on the early morning on the 22nd of may. both men testified they heard yelling that night and then watched patterson pass in front of them once and then walk back. >> about right here we noticed him fumbling around with his clothes tucking the weapon. moments later they heard the gunshot. today a medical examiner testified that dawkins had a .15 blood alcohol level and a low amount of marijuana in his system. dawkins' girlfriend also testified she told the court she was on the phone and texting with dawkins several times that night. she said that

arlington national cemetery. this is the 22nd year that wreaths across america has organized the event. and it is the biggest one yet. similar ceremonies were held today ate1 veterans cemeteries across the country. >>> in northern virginiao the cullpepper county jail after the building had to be evacuated due to a fire. 81 inmates were taken to a nearby courthouse after flames laundry room. investigators say one of the dryers caught fire just after w3 9:È in the morning. a guard who tried to extinguish the fire was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. no one else was injured. >>> snow, rain and falling temperatures. what's the biggest threatt( tonight and how long does it last? chuck's back with the full >>> nelson mandmk&a'si] body arrived in his hometown today. an enormous convoy escorted the hearse to the family compound. peopleÑi lined the root ande1 s and we want. mandela will be buried tomorrow. weÑi learned thatjf desmond tut will attend the funeral. he originally said he was not invited by the south african feel welcome. >>> and with justfá hours until mandela's funeral, many in sout1 africa have turned their attention to what happensfá nex. some are t(hopeful, butçó other concerned. ìáhp &h% mander9 mad

virginia. 30 in cumberland. 34 in town. 44 ocean city and a quick look locally. we have temps west. fairfax at 30 still 31 in white oak. it's 31 rockville. 31 in arlington.e it a few hours. maybe if you can go in a little late today, you'll be in much better shape. reld alert day -- red alert day from the earlier freezing rain and rain showers. some snow d.c. north and west but light snow, wet snow, some grassy accumulations i think will happen on the grassy services, minor consume layings. wednesday 36. by thursday breezy, cold, 31. a little bit better on friday and some late rain saturday leading to some snow showers for sunday. here's monika now timesaver traffic. while the interstates are fine, monika, i had a delay at father hurley coming in. >> that was from 8:30 last night what howard is talking about is that there was a truck on fire at father hurley boulevard in germantown at 8:30 last night and they're still there cleaning up the remains of that truck fire along the left side of the roadway so be aware of that. also by now you may have heard of our premium traffic feature on our ipad app which you can get information even down to your street ab