for more than a century, five generations of busches owned anheuser-busch, the brewers of budweiser. nbc's john yang has the latest tale of intrigue. >> reporter: the busch family name casts a long shadow over st. louis. it's on city's baseball stadium, as well as on the historic brewery, a major employer. so the 911 call from the gated mansion two sundays ago was sure to get attention. >> emergency 911. >> yeah, we need an ambulance. >> okay, what's the problem? >> this girl is just not waking up. >> reporter: paramedics found 27-year-old adrienne nicole marten, dead. an official cause won't be known until toxicology results come back, which could take weeks. in a statement, busch's lawyer said there was absolutely no indication of any suspicious circumstances. martin and the 46-year-old busch, both divorced, had been dating for about a year. >> according to her family, august busch was the love of her life. >> reporter: it's the latest chapter in the saga of this prominent but troubled family. there have been personal scandals. one of busch's half uncles shot shot a friend and plea

anheuser-busch had everything gold plated.here was a lot of fat to cut essentially. >> when you go into a world where the choice is employment and prosperity through problem solving or profit through people elimination, it is very hard to -- you can't do both at the same time. >> i think a middle road could have been struck if anheuser-busch had run itself a little better. as many people as we saw in terms of layoffs, it wouldn't have been as bad. >> jack, if you were to look at the fundamental mathematics, the science of job creation, the new businesses, the new ideas where jobs are created, how central is the connection to the formation of new business period and new solutions? >> oh, i think it's a major part. one of the reasons that we've had so much fortune out here in silicon valley is that we have this huge network of mentors and technology that help us get started and we can start with one idea immediately start creating it, immediately put it in front of people and get others to participate and attract them to working

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his name is august busch iv.on that coming up. >>> plus, why some say your cell phone could be threatening the pristine habitat of giraffes and other animals. let's begin with the big story, the blizzard of 2010. nbc's peter alexander is in new jersey for us this morning. peter, good morning. >> reporter: to give you a better sense of exactly what drivers are dealing with, we got out on the roads right now, we're strapped in and bringing the camera out the snow roof today you can get a sense of what it looks like right now. it's really the unforgiving drifts that's been the problem. the houses and cars paralyzed. they are totally buried by snow. the luxury for the people here is that this main road is safe to drive, a plow going through here within the last 15 minutes, but a lot of these side streets are really impassable. snow up to your waist in some places, driving through new york city and parts of new jersey for the last several hours, we've literally seen cars abandoned in intersections. that's not always t

busch was never charged. a medical examiner's report on exactly what killed adrienne martin could take six weeks. for "good morning america," clayton sandell, abc news, los angeles. >> a lot of folks want to know what took so long to make that call to 911. >>> we're going to have much more on the blizzard of 2010 coming up. >>> also, the big game show goof, did you hear about this couple that could be out $800,000 even though they got the right answer? we're going to talk to them live when we come back. them live. or maybe skewers of tender, wood-grilled shrimp. or your choice of shrimp paired with wood-grilled chicken. all served with unlimited, freshly-baked cheddar bay biscuits. seafood lunches starting at just $6.99 that fit into your budget and your lunch hour. only at red lobster. ♪ man: whoa! mom just caught air. not that she'll describe it that way to her book club. she'll probably say something like "everyone had a wonderful time. / the food was great. it was good to get away." but let's be honest...

that took anheuser-busch over. behind the whole thing. there are brazilians in st. louis now calling the shots. >> what is the strategy -- >> hold on. >> that's wrong. that's wrong. >> buchanan's going to write a book -- >> right up his alley. >> -- with mexicans and it's gone south. man -- >> his next book, "i told you so." >> by the way -- >> buchanan drinks bud. when he goes down in the basement. >> eve noun he can't. it's not american any more. >> he should know the truth. >> what do we have now? what's the largest american brewery now? don't tell me sam adams is not brewed up in boston by big guys with tattoos on them? >> even coors with molson -- >> oh, my god. >> this is symbolic of where this country is going now. i'm serious. >> they're telling me they use an iraqi mountain water for coors but it's rocky mountain -- i don't know. i got my geography right. east coast? i don't know. hold on a second. so coors -- >> uh-huh. >> the canadians. the canadians -- >> they run it together. >> i think -- >> are there

heir august busch iv when her apparently unresponse i have body was found last saturday. reported 40 minutes before anyone called an ambulance. the just-released 911 recording by a busch employee sheds little light whether martin was dead or alive when her body was found. >> okay. what's the problem? >> this girl is just not waking up. can't get her to -- >> is she breathing? >> we don't know. it's dark back there. >> eyebrows raised saying what would take you 40 minutes to make the phone call? it's possible this gentleman simply panicked and didn't know what to do. >> five generations later it couldn't be more proud to be america's favorite bill. >> reporter: the 46-year-old had been a public face for the budweiser brand. there were no signs of any trouble in his year-long relationship with the former hooter's waits re, but there was trouble in mr. busch's own past. >> in college at the university of arizona he left a bar with a young woman. he was driving his corvette. it wrecked. he got injured. she was ejected from the vehicle and killed. he fled the scene. >> he tend

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.ver the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> the redskins are finding new ways to lose, but it's getting very old for players, especially vets like santana moss in his sixth year in the burgundy and gold, but he's been part of only two teams with winning records here and this year he won't have one either. >> week in, week out you see people come and go and year in, year out you see people come and go. so, you know, when the opportunity -- when you keep the opportunities and you're saying wow, we're blessed, we're staying with the opportunities, but what's opportunity when you don't come through? >> it's dallas week, folks. next up at dallas. doesn't have quite the luster, does it? i'm dave feldman. have a good night. >> thank you for watching sports xtra brought to you by your washington area nissan dealer.

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welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.ver the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> you are watching abc 7 news at 6:00, on your side. >>> it is time to begin a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan. it is according to president obama. >> he released his latest strategy for the war today and hundreds of protesters voiced their displeasure outside the white house. natasha barrett has details. ♪ >> anti-war protesters chained themselves to the white house fence. 500 people showed up in lafayette park for the rally. inside, the president released his a review on afghanistan. he expects to reduce our forces next july. >> thanks to the extraordinary service of our troops and civilians on the ground, we are on track to achieve our goals. >> the new annual government report on operations in afghanistan and pakistan says that the increased success in recruiting of afghan forces and it has been crucial in the war's gains. >> in terms of what that war looks like beyond july, 2011, the answer is we do not know. >> the campaign in southern a

el "dream act" el secretario de educación se sentó junto al ex gobernador republicano de la florida buschqueda crítica el actual esfuerzo. >> lo que se hace es que no cumplir con el control de la frontera primero y quieren hacer sabiendo que no va a pasar porque ganar puntos políticos. >> no se interesa la política estoy interesado en ver que jóvenes tengan la oportunidad de hacer el tremendo potencial académico y social. >> lo más pronto que podrá comenzar a debo tiros será el lunes pero ante esta objeción se necesitarán 60 votos para para que la medida pueda avanzar y aunque los 58 demócratas voten a favor necesitan por lo menos a dos republicanos el leeds gol demócrata presentó una versión más estricta de la medio pida conseguir votos republicanos. >> por lo menos intentando buscarlos, ahora viendo la carta que mandaron ahora esperamos que tengan se fleed apoyar cualquier proyecto de ley. >> entre otros puntos descal fcó... y aumentó el estatus migratorio condicional y no clasifican para subs diosa para reforma de salud y penaliza darle tarifas estatales. >> estamos bien colocando si a

you think this is typical of summer time earlier this year a pilot covered one hundred kilometers in busch tyria. he took off from here first healing dynamic current waiting for the arrival of thermal and then it lifted him to an altitude of want or even more and then from that point he embarked on the route. alexei radios another member of the expedition to tell him he is cleared to take off. approaches. greet him both pilots begin soaring. all right now we start soaring. every now and then we go up or down with the wind field of beauty and comfort of the flight there is a little turbulence because of the smoke see that's what i'm talking about. let's go to the right it's safer there. well the third member of the expedition on the ground has been desperately trying to raise the wing stabilize it and take off but all of his attempts have been in vain the instructor decides to touch down and fly with nicholai in time the. flying is little different why it's a lie from a bird when flying you look at that you feel are still you are looking at things through the eyes of a bird as if you had wi

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>> y el seno senado va a analizar si extiende la reducción de impuestos creados en el gobierno de buschs ya aprobó la medida pero sin extender beneficios a los más ricos. >> el gobierno mexicano anunció la captura de un niño sicario, sospechoso de haber cometido terribles crímenes aún cuando estaba más chico, con frialdad confesó actividades ante cámaras. >> edgar con el informe desde la ciudad de méxico. >> el ejército mexicano capitán ró al marco sicario más joven de méxico con apenas 14 años de edad. edgar giménez "el ponchis", quién se sospecha que participó por así lo dicen videos en ejecuciones ordenadas por el cartel del pacífico sur en el estado de morelos. >> a cuántos ejecutaste dices?. >> a cuatro. >> cómo?. >> los degollé. >> y ap azotando a una víctima, el cartel del pacífico sur capturado a té grants rivales para y secues traba a gente para extorsiónarla. >> y dice que empezó a los a un ce año de edad. >> tienes miedo? >>> no. >> no tienes tiene?ed. >> sabe los que va a paso ñar. >> sí. >> la hermana de pon chis elizabeth era novia de jesús ramírez r el negro, líder de la

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house lawmakers cleared the final hurdle last night, sending a sweeping bipartisan bill to extend busch era tax cuts for all americans to the president's desk before they expire january 1st. tracie potts joins us from washington with those details and more. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. a lot going on here on capitol hill, including a final vote on that tax deal. the house voted late last night just before midnight 277-148 with both democrats and republicans supporting this bill. so now it goes to the president's desk for his signature. this will keep our current tax rates with no january 1st hike. unemployment will be extended for 13 months. a 2% payroll tax cut next year and business tax credits in addition to that estate tax that democrats did not like. don't ask, don't tell, which has passed the house, will be voted on in the senate perhaps today or tomorrow. it will take 51 votes to pass, but 60 votes are preferred and as of late, we understand that there are 61 senators who are willing to support that measure. government spending still up in the air. a tem

george busch took six years to burn through the political capital and president barack obama did it in two years and suffered through the collapse of the majority in the house. >> best politician. >> chris christie of new jersey, shopping budgets left and right, and 50% support and wanted by republicans to come and speak for them all over america. and may be a vice presidential nominee. >> el floor? >> john bohner. ben in the congress since 1990 part of the gingrich revolution, slipping and sliding and he has inherited the speakership and so far he has done a pretty good job, incorporating the new red hot tea party people, with the corporate republicans. >> monica? >> i will give it to the entire republican party. which was left for dead and called a desiccated relic after the 2008 elections but they have since made like obama care to tax increases. >> i will give it to bill clinton. looking better and better for his legacy and if he was out there selling obama's programs the last year, i think obama would have done better. >> the best politician of 2010, scott brown, a republican who

suggest is reaching disturbing levels but before that we have a look at the business news with daniel busch. business the price of oil hit a fresh two year high on monday a combination of an opec production freeze and blizzards in the us pushed brant over ninety four dollars a barrel this morning before edging back in the past few hours light sweet is also shedding what remains just over ninety one dollars. on the stock markets now frankfurt is edging lower driven by carmakers volkswagen and b.m.w. of the top three losers on the backs of the china are the world's biggest car market raised interest rates raising fears that economic growth will slow the footsie is closed monday for a holiday. russian indices are also slipping further in afternoon trade here after the central bank increase the interest rate charged on ruble rates but trading is extremely light with many investors away for the holiday season let's have a look at a few stocks at the moment after the carmaker is losing around three percent as the federal anti monopoly service has not yet seen any evidence that severstal is over c

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration. discover the wonder at christmastown.com. on the most advanced 4g network in the world. >>> good morning. we are looking at areas of cloudiness this morning, 29 degrees, we do have light winds. by noon 34. we will be above freezing. here's a look at the satellite and radar picture. we are seeing some of the light gray, and cloudiness this friday morning. right now cold out there. 26 at reagan international, 22 degrees in reston. highs 36 at reagan national. the most areas above freezing, in fact culpepper, look at you. >>> looking at headlines before you go. prince georges county officials should know what was in a batch of brownies that sickened a half dozen high school students. officials have ruled out food poisoning. >>> taxes will not be going up for millions of americans starting next year. the house approved a bill renewing all the bush era tax cuts. it extends unemployment benefits for millions. the measure was opposed by many liberals. >>> julian assange is out on bail. a british judge released the wikileaks founder

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.cover the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> goat out your pen and paper. it is once again time to run through our major closings and delays this morning. >> the federal government is opening on time. in virginia where the following schools are closed today, caroline, culpepper, fred ricksburg city, king george, orange, page, prince william, than endoa, stafford county schools. >>> lowdon opening two hours late. >>> howard montgomery and prince georges counties are on a two hour delay. these following counties in west virginia are on a two hour delay as well. berkeley, grant, hardy, jefferson, mineral and morgan counties, schools in ham pshire county, west virginia, closed. they are running throughout the morning at the bottom of your screen, too. >>> and annie is in for howard bernstein, who had a busy long day yesterday. good morning. welcome to our morning show. >> reporter: good morning to you guys, yes, happy friday. we are talking about very cold conditions kicking off your friday

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.cover the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> ate shooting at a school board meeting is making headlines this morning. a horrifying confrontation is caught on camera and we do have to warn you that the video is graphic. 56-year-old clay duke spray painted a v inside a circumstance olympic a wall and pulled out a gun and started shooting. nobody was hit. one board member hit him on the arm with her purse to try to distract him. a security guard shot the man and he then eventually turned the gun on himself scientist wooden boat smashed into rock and sank off an island near indonesia. a large number of those on board were killed. the conditions off christmas island were very rough at the time. a rescue operation is still ongoing. in las vegas, a man way gun and wearing a motorcycle helmet made off with a million and a half dollars all in casino chips. he is shown running through the bellagio casino. he jumped on his motorcycle. those chips cannot be used as cash. at some point, they do have

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.cover the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> coming up on 6:30, thanks for starting your day with us. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. howard bernstein on the weather terrace. this is a live look at union station this morning. goodness gracious, cold once again. we're in the 20s. colder in the suburbs. howard, are you bundled up out there? >> i am. the one key, the winds are much lighter. even though it is very cold. low 20s here. teens in the suburbs. you have the gloves, the earmuffs, it is not so bad. we have wind gusts 30 miles per hour. snow is on the way. little red on the horizon. as they say, road in the morning tweeness -- red in the morning means a warning. by midday, we're going to have snow. in fact through the afternoon and early evening it will be snowing. several inches of accumulation, highs are only going to make the upper 20s to possibly 30 south. here is the snow we're watching. it is moving in from west to east. snowing now almost to stanton. craigsville west of

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.ver the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> we are back at 6:2k-9 this wednesday morning -- 6:29 this wednesday morning. this is always the place to get your weather first. in is a live look at damascus, maryland. 19 degrees there in upper montgomery county. feels warm saying that, right? >> toasty, right? thanks for starting your day with us. i'm mike hydeck. both angie and jessica are off today. >>> before we get to howard's forecast we have school closings stand delays to pass a- - and delays to pass along. >> rapahannock county in virginia is closed. mountain ridge district only is closed. >>> these school districts are on a two-hour delay. again all starting two hours late this morning. you can get the entire list at wusa9.com. >>> now over to howard. >> another cold one. until like yesterday morning in damascus, the ground is dry. we don't have the snow showers around. 32 degrees late other this afternoon. this will be our high. later this evening we have clear skies. by 9:00 we're

as we always have been referring to these at as the busch era tax cuts, do these now becomeç the obamara tax cuts? >> they do now, thomas. although this is an extension of the bush tax cuts, this is pushed by the obama administration as well as republicans. the real problem with the bill is so much of the tax cuts go to the very wealthy, and very wealthy people don't spend very much of the extra income they get. that's what it means to be wealthy. you have most of what you need. >> when we talk about president obama and also reflecting on his first two years in office, what has he done right with the economy? what has he done wrong? we can't look over the fact that he inherited the economy in shambles, so to speak. but what has he done right? >> there's a will the of controversy about this. i would say that the bailout of wall street was the right thing to do. but he shouldn't put conditions on that bailout. if you want all this money, then, for example, you have to help homeowners who are behind in mortgage payments. you have to make sure small businesses get the money. you have to pu

welcome to christmas town -- a busch gardens celebration.the wonder at christmastown.com. >>> real shocker coming out of baseball free agency and the news is that -- not that great for the nationals. the phillies have reportedly landed pitcher cliff see, said to be the prize of free agency. there was a report of a five year deal in the neighborhood of $500 million. he spent part of the 2009 with the phillies and helped them get to the world series. and we're seeing a trend here. or they could go to the yankees who are ready to throw big money and offered him more money and a longer contract. but with the phillies he joins 2010 winner roy halladay and hopefully jayson werth can give the nationals help. >>> redskins out of the playoffs now. landry out for the season. the safety now put on injured reserve. and the skins trying out some kickers today. not because graham gano missed the kicks but because he got hurt. mike shanahan said that gano's job is safe for now. for all of the coverage of d.c. area sports from pros to college to high school

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busch tangles with sarah palin. live now from capitol hill. and who is winning this tussle?riauna? >> are you surprised? it's george bush. when you put the former president against the former governor from alaska, in terms of book, he wins. he is number one right now on the new york types hard cover fiction list. his book just came out. hers is "america by heart." she's number two. she tweeted he has a good book, so i guess there's no hard feelings there. let talk about another story on the ticker, this is about the debt commission and it's very -- presidential debt commission, very controversial plan to trim 4 trillion dollars in federal debt. it's getting strong bipartisan support. 11 of the 18 bipartisan panel members at this point. throwing support behind it. they need 14 out of 18 to give an official recommendation from congress. but fiscal experts say the more support they have. even if they don't get the 14 more impact they're going to have on congress. especially next congressman they start dealing with deficit issues. those jobs numbers out. talking about this all m