. >>> bob macdonald unveiled a transportation plan today. his plan is to allocate a small percentage of northern virginia 's sales tax for northern virginia and roads -- for northern virginia's roads. he also wants to sell -- to take of the proceeds from liquor stores and put them to highways. and he wants to raise the speed limit to 70 miles per hour on some roads. >>> the two men can't come to an agreement on other debates. he does not like the proposal that he sent him in response. the first debate is saturday. >>> the governor martin o'malley has outlined his plans to make up part of the $700 million shortfall. it will save $75 million, and the state will cut 18 million from the university of maryland's utilities fund. cuts will be made the stem cell research and state lottery advertising. some state jobs will be cut, but he plans to avoid large layoffs. >>> results of a driver's steady. -- study. why they are just now being revealed. >> the national -- he made his washington debut today. coming up later in sports. ...or if you're alread

republican bob macdonald challenged his opponent deeds to attend debates. deeds has answered the call but the times and dates have not been released. mcdonald announced he has a transportation plan if he's elected. calling for more tolls and he would boost the speed limit on some stretches of open road to 70 miles per hour. meantime maryland state government is 700 million bucks in the red and now the governor has outlined his plan to close some of that budget gap. o'malley says $75 million will come by way of extra medicaid money from the feds, cutbacks at the university of maryland will free up 18 million and the state will eliminate about 60 jobs. >>> president obama says critics are working from a familiar washington script that we've seen many times before. favor politics over policy. his opponents favor insurance companies over consumers and are trying to slow health care changes in hoping that it fails. democrats are catching heat over this plan. here is some of the exchange from senator ben cardin's health care forum last night in largo. >> are you

bob macdonald's office said today they have not announced any events. >> if you were at yankee stadium and you were sent back to the minor leagues, you want to get back to the big leagues pretty fast. >> the fbi today announced there is no sarah palin investigation today. nobody has a firm idea of what she is planning. one staffer says her world is her oyster. >>> that is all now for abc7 news at 5:00. at 6:00, a bizarre twist in the accusations against marion y. a series of shootings across the district this weekend. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> here is the latest. it is a battle o he said, she said. >> the former mayor said he was not stalking his former girlfriend. sam ford it is live with more. >>>

the republican candidate for governor bob macdonald has plans to fix transportation problems in northern virginia. coming up at 6:00, what a sales tax at liquor stores will play in his master plan. we will have that for you. >>> he did not say whether or not they were happy to find out it was not going to rain. >> it would be nice to cool things off. if you walk up the steps here up to the mezzanine, it is about 10 of 15 degrees cooler there. bu have been watching theudhe cs ild here, we see these very small downpours. there is a liteownpour and some lightning just northeast of buoyou moving across the line into howard co.offo thetheo, s'g to the northeast. most will stay to the rest -- to e thweue othgef blid r. watertoidts po s willpol a brief little shower like we're seeing t b alet's checktouhe temperatures. degrees reported in manassas. in fact, we will see a push of tropical moisture, the upper level winds will create showers and thunderstorms, and it will be hit and miss tomorrow. we will have a better chance of showers and storms on tuesday. on wednesday, look for skies to be par