it varies, but between 2 inches and 4 inches. with those temperatures in the 40's as the afternoon progresses, we will be seeing all lot of melting. but something else is on the way, too. that could be a mixed bag of snow, ice, and sweet. more on that later. 30 degrees right now in westminster. looking at the eastern shore, generally in the 30's. clouds and sun to run the rest of the afternoon. no showers north and west of us. -- throughout the rest of the afternoon. we should be pretty clear tonight. 42 is where we should be, our normal high. 56 is the record high. in contrast, four degrees is the record low. tonight, mostly things will be clear. but with those clear skies, the temperatures will drop. 21 in the outlying areas, 27 downtown. high pressure will be building in here. we are concerned about friday. there is low pressure in the gulf producing copious amounts of rainfall. all of this energy moving up the mid-atlantic and midwest. it is too early to commit to any storm totals four types of precipitation, but at this point

by 7:00 p.m., about four inches but between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the heaviest snow will bleak falling. that is in the center of the storm and it will move off the cape hatteras coastline and that is when it will deepen and strengthen and get cranking. between 7:00 p.m. at 7:00 a.m., we will say a snowfall rate on the order of 12 inches per hour and maybe more in many locations. by 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, two-feet of snow is looking likely. we are totals a few minutes -- a few minutes ago to a total of 20 inches with some places having a potential of seeing up to 32 inches by the time this is said and done. we are outside the giant and have pictures from yours and one interesting picture -- >> we encourage you to send your pictures in. send them into wjla.com. this is the giant down in glebe road in arlington. there are three rows of pumpernickel but the other bread is gone. is great for us to have your snow tallies endure pictures. go to our website, wjla.com. our best estimate is 20-25 inches of snow by the time it wraps up but 10:00 p.m. on saturday

but between about 1:00 a.m. to about 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. it was a combination of sleet and freezing rain. now back to mostly all snow all across much of virginia and into the panhandle of west virginia and into much of maryland at this hour. now, this is the radar history over the last three hours. and it does show that increase in snow all across the region as colder air is moving back in. now, the closer view of the radar over the last hour showing this flow in the atmosphere coming in from the south and the southeast. it's out ahead of an area of low pressure that's going to be coming through our region as we get into the afternoon hours. as a result, we are going to see tin creasing snow rates as well as yes get into the mid to late morning hos. that's probably going to be the time when we'll see the biggest burst of the snow. right now as we look at the radar in a dferent color mode that gives us an intensity idea, where you see the green there in fairfax county and in southern and parts of central montgery county, it's coming down pre

but between 1929, and 1978, there was a period of stability. what is clear is afghans do have a history of stabilizing their country. there have been recent stable periods. as we look at trying to create a stable afghanistan, we increasingly has mark noted, have afghans with the central government and the local government level doing the bulk of that work. just one thing. we have often thought of over the last eight years there has been a concept of trying to do this from the top down. .. graveyard of empires" you write this. charles from sales, missouri. go ahead with your question for our guest. call code good evening, gentlemen. this has been alluded to before and as long as we throw money at and ew government, iraq and afghanistan, once we throw money at them they're going to go back to the tribal affairs or whatever and here we are -- we wasted all this money. it started during the bush administration. and worse all the persons that have been killed and wounded -- now that's really terrible. just remember and i think one of you alluded to

what matters is how far behind us children are or the poor are but the gaps between us and the distance up and down the social hierarchy that matters. now i will handed over to kate that will talk about the individual relationships but i go come back later. >> good evening. it is special to be here on this particular day and always nice to come back to the states provide live tears 16 years provide found a great wealth i a will have a slide after slide after slide even though the united states is doing badly i'll take you to the individual components mostly to show you the scale of the problem. i will start with levels of trusts. the data come from the world values survey and show the proportion of population that most people can be trusted. can do think other people should be with two-thirds of the population that feel that others can be trusted portugal, singapore, occasio nally we have data and it is less than one-fifth of the population that feel they can be trusted. here is the same pattern from the united states at asks exactly the same question of random samples do think most oth

but between 1929 and 1978, and there was period of stability. so what is clear is that afghans to have a history of stabilizing their country. there have been recent stable periods. i think the issue for us, as we look at trying to create a stable afghanistan, relatively stable afghanistan, is one where we increasingly as mark noted, have afghans both at the central government but also the local government level doing the bulk of that work. if i could just add one thing, you know, we have often thought of and over the last eight years there's been a concept of trying to do this entirely from the top down, from the central government. i would also argue that there is never, ever been a history in afghanistan in rural areas where the central government has provided long-term stability. so we have to remember that we're not dealing with a traditional western state. >> and from "in the graveyard of empires" you write this. a second step is to find a better bounce between top down ever to build a viable central government and bottom-up efforts to sup

battle is going on for the future of afghanistan, not only the united states and the taliban but also between india and pakistan. >> nothing happens in a vacuum. you had a meeting also next week, the first time between india and pakistan since the mumbai massacre, which derailed the peace talks that have been going on between the two-countries. if india and pakistan improved relations, how does that impact the taliban in afghanistan? >> i think it makes life for the taliban much more difficult. because the deployment of pakistan forces now is primarily towards the east that's facing india. the pakistanis still believe india is the long-term strategic threat. that could change and more forces deployed to the west, it would be harder for the taliban providing the pakistanis took the unequivocal step in deciding they were going to cut all ties with the taliban, which they have not yet. >> is it possible then that today's attack was in part designed to create a little more tension between pakistan and india. >> that was certainly one objective. >> then the other objective, i think, would be we've

between the two of them. but i just think meryl streep is always such a chameleon.y the way, for the past couple of years the oscar has gone to attractive women in deglamourized roles like halle barre for "monster's ball" even kate wednesday letn "the reader." so the fact that meryl streep is made to look much dowdier than she is, that may help her win. >> rose: stephanie? take a good look at any of the actresses you want to talk about but certainly meryl streep and sandra bullock. >> well, i actually... i really enjoyed "the blind side." and that movie to me is very... it's very effective, simple, old-fashioned. >> rose: it tells a story because many people i think don't know the story. >> well, sandra bullock is this kind of texas mom who meet this is young student who has come to the school at that her children attend and she realize he is needs to be taken under someone's wing and she destidz do it and he turns out to be this fabulous football player. and so she kind of urges him on it is one of those old-fashioned inspirational stories. but the thing about her

for new comparative of vintages and creating programs to map that but in the mix of this you talk about the challenge of the balance between the government and markets and its pro first have to in the u.s. to do what's worked in the past, period of growth and we had regulated finance etc but also other countries, the capitalist market economies to and thinking of those three big challenges i'm wondering inclosing what you think we are going to see from the obama administration going forward and what you think ought to be done. >> guest: i think the obama administration has made a shift from the bush administration and recognizing there is an important role for government but the question is what that role is and how big that rule ought to be. they all agree they're ought to be able even the financial sector agreed there ought to be a role of bailing them out and getting a lot of money so everyone agrees the government should do something if we are going to give the bank's money but i think most of us think that it should have a broad role and we talked in this conversation a lot about the role in preventing disasters. if y

but it drew no distinction between an image of nudity that is fleeting and an expert to that is fleeting but instead they are all really groups together. they are the same. and not pander or titillate, we will find differently. it probably opened the door to golden gloves but did not have the opportunity to say that nudity is different. it did not. it said this fleeting exposure is different from the other fleeting expletive because here it panderers. so as to say, a spoken bulgaria cannot be analogized -- vulgarity cannot be analogized. whereas here, they do not throw up any distinction of all. >> actually, the decision does draw that distinction. >> because it is moving to the next step and saying if those expletives and footnotes had been pandering, those expletives, although fleeting, may have been problematic. where does it exist in cases involving nudity? >> as i said before, confusion stems from the fact of textual analysis. >> fleeting is relevant in nudity and expletives. >> it is exception, and no further analysis needs to take place. so what we have here -- >> here is what the

is your money scope report i am jeremy hubbard >>> we've dropped the winter storm warning but verified snow between inches that is what you are digging out. linda pointed out higher watt earn content will make for better snowballs. 39 turning partly sunny, snow melt got to deal with fog this morning. tonight we turn back to 24 so refreeze a lot of this stuff and then go to 40 degrees tomorrow with sunshine. next storm major storm and still trying to get a handle on it. snow tries to move in friday afternoon or evening, could be heavy at times the chance to mix in sleet and freezing rain would cut down potential snowfall so it is too early to say how much but ends with snow and could be heavy saturday afternoon back to 27, dry air for super bowl sunday. what is happening back in the roads with kim. >> all lanes open at this time 95 and around 695 we are looking good. side streets is where you will have the most difficulty as they may or may not be plowed. also a crash reported in baltimore city northbound on the jfx at northern parkway. disabled vehicle howard county eastbound route 32. and as we ch

and it was a really profound experience, i saw the divisions, not just between the rich and the poor and the have and have nots buttween washington and a lot of americans out there. washington wants to slow down and take its time on health care reform. there were people at that clinic who don't have time. they are without care. they may not be here a year from now. it is that serious for a number of them. washington treats health care like it's a fiscal problem. let me tell you, it's a moral problem, a moral failing on the part of this country to get it right. and as i said on this broadcast last night, you know, we do a lot of things in this country the correct way, but when it comes to this issue, we have got it wrong. what is killing this country, right snourks not the threat of terrorism and fear, it is selfishness. that is going to be our downfall as a great nation, the selfishness and the absolute corporate greed that just continues on. that's what's tearing us apart in this country that is what is creating the divide between the people in washington. some of this that is sweeping the country can be just rea

for new comparative of vintages and creating programs to map that but in the mix of this you talk about the challenge of the balance betweenthe government and markets and its pro first have to in the u.s. to do what's worked in the past, period of growth and we had regulated finance etc but also other countries, the capitalist market economies to and thinking of those three big challenges i'm wondering inclosing what you think we are going to see from the obama administration going forward and what you think ought to be done. >> guest: i think the obama administration has made a shift from the bush administration and recognizing there is an important role for government but the question is what that role is and how big that rule ought to be. they all agree they're ought to be able even the financial sector agreed there ought to be a role of bailing them out and getting a lot of money so everyone agrees the government should do something if we are going to give the bank's money but i think most of us think that it should have a broad role and we talked in this conversation a lot about the role in preventing disasters. if yo

but between then and the americans came out, and we are now following them to keep our eye on them, andether they will be taken and to see what decision the panel of three prosecutors has taken, because what they in fact were dealing with today was listening and hearing the evidence in the case and deciding whether they will formally charge the americans or whether they decide to release them for lack of evidence, ali. >> all right. so they have not been -- they have not been given a decision that they are free to go, but it is just that that could be pending. >> reporter: i have a seen a media report, but it is only a media report that i am seeing right now, that the decision may be to release some of the americans and to hold others, but i would prefer to get back to you with that in a few minutes when we have that absolutely confirmed. like i said, in a few minutes it will be clearer, but what i can tell you is that when the americans were taken out of the prosecutor's office, they were loaded into white suv and into a blue pickup truck. none of them were speaking to the press. i ask

but we offered -- in a sense we offered him up. he was the lawyer there to talk about it. >> mr. blair, do you think there's a contrast of approach between what frequently happens in government at all levels including to the top. but in forming policy or engage it in legal advice because it made need expression at statute or existing bodies of law you folded the legal advice through the policymaking process and that's one approach. the other is set very clearly what your policy objectives are and they may be in the iraq case high and strategic objectives. and then as it were work around through and with the constraints and opportunities that legal advice then gives? do you see a difference of approach there? >> i think that there could be. but i would say in this situation -- since in a way march 2002 was the time when you set thw first framework for this, the legal advice was one of the key things we asked for. and we got it. and that legal advice -- it's interesting to go back and look at it. it was legal advice that was saying you needed a fresh resolution. and one of the reasons why we went down the path was to give a fresh resolutio

not least at this, what should have been a live tv debate between the two candidates. but refusing to take part. he was called a common coward. a remarkable come back from the old regime. this is gmt from bbc world news with me. the main headlines, the chief executive of toyota has apologized. he says they are setting up a committee to raise control. >> four men facing criminal charges. the second at the hospital and joined on the line now. what is the latest can you tell us? >> we don't yet know how many people are caught up in this second blast which only happened about 25 minutes ago. as you said outside the emergency ward of the main hospital. >> about 40 young men on their way to a major procession. today is a major shia festival. this is precisely what authorities feared would happen. they had to other major cities to protect the processions but bombers were able to get through. >> at the time of the festival, the community would be a potential target? >> yes. only 40 days ago, which is the last major festival, there was another bombing everybody feared this was goin

craft on, almost 3 inches, 4 inches in vienna, and column but 3 inches of snow. so betweenes which is now out of here. maybe a few early morning flurries but for the most part some afternoon peeks of sunshine. there goes the snow. and it is a quick mover and it is out of here. the snow off to the north won't affect us but we could see a few leftover snow showers and eventually the sun will win out. late this afternoon i think we'll see more sunshine and then during the day tomorrow we'll see sun and then we'll talk about what will happen this weekend. temperature right now 34. that's not bad. 28 in gaithersburg. 31 in quantico. afternoon high temperatures in the 40s. so we'll start to melt off some snow. and let's talk about the powerful nor'easter. going to transfer energy to the coastline in friday, friday night and saturday. and this could be another big one. it looks like snow will break out around the washington area. could be a mix at the onset during the late afternoon friday and into friday evening and then maybe snow all day on saturday. so we'll give you more deta

been pretty clear that foreign governments have had a very difficult time stabilizing afghanistan, but between 1929 and 1978, there was a period of stability during the dynasty, so what is clear is that afghans do have a history of stabilizing their country. there have been recent stable. but i think the issue is for us as be looking at trying to create a stable afghanistan, relatively stable afghanistan is one where we increasingly as mark noted, have afghans both in the central government but also the local government level doing the bulk of that work. if i could just add one thing, he know we have often thought of, and over the last eight years there has been the concept of trying to do this entirely from the top-down from the central government. i would also argue that there has never, ever been a history in afghanistan in the rural areas where the central government has provided long-term stability so we have to remember we are not dealing with the traditional western state. >> host: from "in the graveyard of empires" you write this. charles, missouri i believe it is. go ahead with their

but it is not going to make the difference between a functional and dysfunctional pakistan.hat choice of whether pakistan is going to be a functional country is a choice that has to be made by pakistanis. and pakistanis haven't made that choice yet because government after government fails to make the investments that it needs to make. >> montero: still, i asked fatma how she would feel if new u.s. aid money would help to finally fix her school. >> montero: in fact, her school building has just been finished, but the headmaster says it's nowhere near what the government promised. it's still only one room for 300 students. some even have to study on the roof, and the headmaster says the construction is shoddy. >> montero: but fatma says she won't give up. today, she's going to take her final primary school exams. if she passes, she can go on to junior high. and if she survives pakistan's public schools, she may one day help to fix them herself. >> there's more on our web site, where you can watch the program again online. read an extended interview with najibullah quraishi, w

the situation was admittedly different, but between peanuts and pistachios, fda had begun more preventionalso have a food registry which requires companies to let us know of any safety problems with their ingredients before anyone becomes ill, and we're waiting for the senate to pass a major food safety bill. the bill has already passed the senate committee. this bill is really important, because it will provide important new resources to the fda. it will give us the ability to do mandatory recalls, give us routine access to safety records for factories and farms and to make sure the facilities develop and heavier -- and adhere to save processing. these are important to us if we want to regulate rather than just to react. most businesses agree as well. they understand when an outbreak of food borne illness occurs, it is deeply damaging to the food company responsible and can hurt the entire industry. the salmonella outbreak not only killed and sickened people, but it shut down plants, through workers out of their jobs, and led to recalls that cost the food industry about a billion dollars

so why is it in your book on a very pessimistic note of the bomb but that dynamic between reagan and gorbachev suggests there is the alternative mode to address the believe the ball but the militarization? >> i would go with the first part but not the second. it continues and but perfect example of that is the current performance of president obama. saying that we need to get rid of military to a bid -- tribunals and don't ask don't tell but then instantly starting to back off. why do they do that. they have with a huge security apparatus and the people come to him and say we have these thousands of assets out there and it took us a long time to build them up if you cut them loose they will review or reveal the secrets you on the desk down the road. why cut us off at the knees? that is a tremendous pressure on the president the whole thing will crumble and you will crumble with it. when you consider we have more contractors in afghanistan and iraq then military people that means we have a uncontrollable octopus and a president finds himself a victim of his own instruments. that is the

the situations were different but between peanuts and pistachios, the f.d.a.egan toward more prevention. we have a better food registry which you a lows companies to let us know of any problems with their ingredients before anyone becomes ill and we're waiting for the senate to pass a major food safety bill. the bill which has received bipartisan support has already passed the full house and passed through senate committee. this bill is really important because it will provide important new authorities and resources to the f.d.a. for food safety. it will give us the ability to do mandatory recalls of tainted food. give us routine access to food safety records at factories and farms and make sure that facilities develop and adhere to safe manufacturing processes. these are things that are vital for us, especially if he want to prevent major problems rather than simply to react. most businesses agree and support these measures as well. they understand that when an outbreak of food-bjorn illness occurs it is deeply damaging to the food company that is responsible

higher level, or have people -- maybe you hold people harmless till they make $250,000 a year, but between-- just to make sure that the fund overall is solvent. so that would just be one example. that's not the only way of fixing it, but if you made a slight adjustment like that, then social security would be there well into the future and it would be fine. all right? [applause.] okay. it's a woman's turn. anybody -- i'm going to go back here. nobody's got -- these folks haven't had a chance here. hold on one second -- i'm going to let you use my mic. you'll give it back, right? [laughter.] okay. >> my name is peggy -- and i'm a native nevadan, grew up in boulder city. [applause.] there's a few of us here -- known this great guy, harry, all my life. and my question, which is near and dear to my heart, and there's a few of my co-workers watching right now on television, and a few here -- is we want to know what is going to be done for tourism in nevada, particularly airlines. i am a u.s. airways employee who has been furloughed for 17 months. they furloughed over 500 more just on the 14th,

but between the idea and the implementation of the idea, you have all of the realities of life.e main obstacles was to obtain the authorization for sale by the u.s. congress. the previous administration, this is ministration especially -- this administration especially has been extremely helpful. with lobbying in congress, it finally worked. i am very thankful to barney frank and others who helped us going forward. whatÑi can we do looking forwar? i think the idea that the imf has changed -- again, not changing its overriding goals and not changing in terms of what we need to do. but it has adapted to the new reality of the 21st century. it needs to be conveyed. it is not that obvious. you know this because, being here, you are interested in these questions. it is not obvious for not even the man on the street but even highly educated people like u.s. congressman. so you can do that. another thing is to push the idea that i tried to underline in my conclusion, which is to push the idea of multilateralism. it is sad to say that multilateralism is not the most popular idea in the

between now and april yelps the officer. come on, let's go. this portrayal of a bustling but normal day between world war i -- world war i and world war ii at this navy station should suggest to the reader imperialism viewed only as exploitation fails to capture certain essentials qualities of guantanamo. as the following history of the military outpost will the street guantanamo provides a useful prism through which the u.s. cuban relations from the spanish-american war matt to the present. now before i read the excerpt i would like to say that to me by one of the most fascinating developments in recent history has been the initiation of the so-called fence line talks in 1996. a diplomatic initiative that continues to this day. it was originally proposed by the to the military to reduce accidents and fatalities caused by haitian refugees trying to ease get from guantanamo through the surrounding minefields and by cubans trying to get to guantanamo from cuba. this is particularly the problem with would be to the refugees or the united states deciding to repatriate some of the

the treaty is one of the big successes in arms control history between our two countries. butironment. the u.s. just withdrew from the adm treaty and in climate has changed. now we're working on the issue of reducing nuclear weapons. the environment for the u.s. is introducing some capabilities. this particular issue has its own history. we are talking to the obama administration and we find a number of decisions they have made more reassuring and giving more of a sense of predictability. but we are not sure that we fully understand how things will develop. we are yet to learn more what practically is envisaged. reports from bulgaria that there will be a new site in bulgaria. reports from the czech republic, there will be a new site in the czech republic. we are not sure of the stories we are hearing, whether that is the story that will develop in the time span of the treaty, which is 10 years. so we are working with the administration and i'm extremely happy, honored, and delighted as a human being to work with ellen tauscher because it's always a pleasure to talk with such a

so my book is about obama, he is the current president but as far as the tight relationship between corporations and big government george bush's bailouts was the biggest blow in that direction we've ever seen. but i want to tell you some facts about the 2000 election, the 2008 election so you can start to think about obama in a different light than he's presented himself in the mainstream media. goldman sachs, exxonmobil, microsoft, boeing, pfizer and general electric. these companies are the poster children for special-interest. they are huge, well-connected corporations. they have something else in common. employees and executives also gave more, much more, to barack obama and john mccain in 2008. now a caveat. obama three's overall which more than mccain. he raised about twice more for a xp8uguds$s'sbd the history -- since i came-feingold. john mccain raised to under 30,000 so from goldman sachs he also praised obama four through kuhl one. look down the line at the wall street industry, obama raised more than any other candidate in history from microsoft and was 10-1 come google something li

it may snow everywhere or flurry everywhere most of tomorrow night, but in terms of accumulating we think it's going to shut off between 6:00 and 8:00 on saturday night. that said, blizzard conditions tonight, and that's what we're really kind of concerned about. satellite picture, radar combined, there's the area of snow, but notice the area of green here, which is rain in the pink is a mix. we are going to watch this as it starts to move farther to the north. again, the area of low pressure is going to hug that north carolina coast, just to the northeast of wilmington, and until it moves a little further northeast, the winds are going to have more of an easterly component, and that will send a little warm nose right up the bay and often time turn some of that into some sleet and rain, and it may cut down some of your totals as we go through the day. the night, rather, into, say, the wee hours of the morning. eventually colder air wraps back in. around the house, hopefully you've marked your down spouts. i actually did in that december and left them. who knew that it would come in handy a second time. mark your fire h

but dr. ehlers and i have been running between committees. my opening remarks in the record. >> without objection. >> administrator babbitt i know that your hands are probably fall but keep in mind that people are increasingly concerned about flying and that we don't want to see that stop. could you tell me what your review and tails when you repeal the crewmember training, the qualifications in management practices? >> sure. when of the areas that we are very focused on and are actually working with congress in this committee on is to remove the possibility that someone in the hiring process doesn't have or someone who is responsible for the hiring come before the acquisition of a new pilot, that that person, he or she has the complete record of this pilots history and that would include the pilots military history, their history within the faa, their history at the other air carriers. we have realized unfortunately three tragedies that that wasn't always the case and be passed the pilot record improvements act, which gives the carriers that

bankruptcy there were a lot of ways but you had to do it but they did not do anything about that problem. the results is in 2010 we expect between 2.5 million or 3.5 million common more than 2009 and 2008. not like the problem is getting better but in some ways it is worse. some have been restructured even restructuring has raised problems because a lot have added new fees and read that people are more in debt that they can record a profit for the fee but the fact they are more in debt shows up in a problem further down the line prior to foreclosure but that is the problem we have to deal with years down the line. on these two key issues issues, they did something much better than bush. you cannot compare the two but it is not what should have been done. >> host: that is interesting because the other observation is how o obama responded to the crisis in buying the argument about stability and maintaining the same personnel and policy is you don't he is conservative in this sense of the serving the system and relative to how he campaigned as a transformational figure he had not offer the alternative view of capitalism but the goa

and it is often between countries but you see decisions are made within countries and there was a refusaldge the pain that was being inflicted on some, and overall gain in gdp and a change in the distribution and for us, since we are better off with high and stuff to the lower and people being hurt and the result of them not listening to us is the trade is now dead in america. you couldn't get a trade bill through congress. you could if they would have begun to work with us and generally alleviate things. secondly, i am trying very hard to do financial regulation in a coordinated way, but as between the experts, the business community and economists and my constituents who were suspicious, they were right in the experts were wrong about what the banks were doing. i have the guts to tell you to the extent the constituents in my district thought this derivative stuff was contributing, they were more right than not and i will say this and i have one advantage in the area of my greatest legislative responsibility. financial legislation clearly quoc bridges synergist and the parochial sense be

between 95 and bw parkway. that's actually college park, route 1. this is where the accident is blocking some lanes there. but otherwise looking good on the capital belted way, between the two belt ways looking good. derek back to you. >> quick question. as the traffic slows down, does the real-time map shows traffic slowing down because of snow or does it not -- does it -- is it clean and green because there's not many cars? >> that's a great question. usually the green is because they're going at speed. but right now we're seeing green because there's not a lot of cars out there, but the yellow we still see out there, there might be a lot more cars on some stretches than others, but definitely not the typical rush hour we're seeing out there. >> all right, thanks for that. and we'll be right back in a moment. stay with us. seen. as we know the situation has changed and the sun has gone down. we have jenny mccord with the virginia department of transportation on the phone. earlier tonight we knew this was going to happen. the roads would be more treacherous. have your trucks gone in to action now? >> we have

snow starting between about noon and 4:00 p.m. but most of it comes friday night. t still with some light snow. maybe an additional two to four inches for saturday. we get the wind, too. temperatures stay between 25 and 30 degrees going into the first part of next week. at least until about wednesday of next week. real cold. no melting anymore. >>> this is it. the big send-off today for tai shan. tom sherwood is all over this story for "news4 at 5." this was the last view that anybody got of him today. >> yeah. he's been a great tourist attraction for the city for the last five years. he's leaving tomorrow morning. that's going to be in that crate. he'll be heading to china tomorrow morning. if you didn't get to the zoo today, you don't see him again. >> 4 1/2 years. >> 4 1/2 years. the parents might go back at the end of the year if something isn't worked out with china. >> and he goes back with fedex in a crate. >> he'll be in a big crate with a lot of stamps on it, i guess. a lot of people are tearful over this. >> sure. >> they've had their kids come there and s

but the coordination between that and the home office are very strong indeed. we are dealing with international terrorism. the coordination between national agencies and international agencies is growing all the time. you cannot simply -- within britain, we will be best protected against terrorism by taking issue with what is happening in pakistan, yemen, and somalia. we have to take action outside of our borders as well as inside of our borders. international cooperation is very important. >> we understand that the system has been suspended to the number of students coming in. the committee actually agree with you. we hope it will providing template for the future. does it worry you that the number of students coming in under the current system possibly could lead to abuse? does it concern you that we still don't have a figure on the number of colleges and there are in the united kingdom? >> since march 2009, any institution that was to bring students must to go undergo -- must undergo a coordination. those were the lessons are regularly visited and monitors.

the tensions are build between the u.s. and china. >>> butirst, today's trivia question from "the almanac of american politics." where did democratic congressman heath shuler of north carolina play immediately after he left the washington redskins? this is "the daily rundown," only on msnbc. [ female announcer ] crunch time, wheat thins. you and your tasty whole grain. this can only end one way. [ crunch ] wheat thins. toasted. whole grain. crunch. the crunch is calling. and you have a heart attack. that's what happened to me. i'm on an aspirin regimen now. my doctor told me it's the easiest preventative thing you can do. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. see your doctor. simple. >>> well, we know you're still recovering from illinois lieutenant governor politics, we're going to reset the day with a look at the top stories. >> the january unemployment rate is the big story today. it dropped unexpectedly to 9.7%. that's the lowest in five months, but overall the jobs picture is mixed. revise

but has the relationship between the city and the team been so close throughout even through the losingyears? >> well, it has but it has reached full throw theen this season. and i can't tell you what a great public relations situation that the team has created. and it is genuine. this is not a phoney feeling when you hear drew brees, and not just drew brees, it's from the top player, the top echelon down to the 53rd player on this roster. these people, these players genuinely want to win for the city and they understand that what it can mean to the recovery of this area. so it's nothing phony about this when they say that they are doing this for who dat nation and all that stuff. they really genuinely mean it. >> reporter: you know, garland, i was reading an interesting quote from drew brees. he says he's often asked whether it feels like a burden to have the weight of the city on his shoulder. and he said no, but we look at it as a responsibility. what do you think he means? you've been watching this team for a while, what does that mean? >> i am not sure what it means, but i know who

they are part of the blame, but it is a well balanced situation between political failures, between market inefficiencies, and banks mistakes. and that is why we think we should now stop the blame game and we should start looking forward, because at the end, we need strong financial sectors to cover the real issues which are ahead of us -- namely, unemployment. just to mention two numbers, spain has unemployment among young people of 42%. the middle east, over 50%. those of the real issues. secondly, goal -- poverty, global imbalances, many of the things. if you do not have a strong financial sector to support this sort of recovery and to contribute to the prosperity and growth in the real economy on a global scale, if you are making a huge mistake and we will regret that later on. we're saying that this fall word-looking statement should also mean that we now pull our forces together and say kenj," t should be done in order to make the system more stable, more resilient, without jeopardize and the efficiency of the market in the financing of the real economy?" first of all, we very much s

"speed" was very, very good to me but "speed" helped me get a little film made called "hope floats" which i loved. >> rose: can you find a balance between >> sometimes. sometimes. but i couldn't anymore. >> rose: so you quit for two years. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. >> rose: and did what? >> i produced the george lopez show. >> rose: remodeling your home. >> restoring. >> rose: restoring, that's true. not remodeling. restoring. to their grandeur? >> yes, and peeling away the layers. >> rose: you like that? >> i love it. i love it. >> rose: still do it? >> all the time. that's what i wake up thinking about. it's if frustrated architect or... i don't know what it is but i... it's a passion in me that i just... it's... i feel sometimes i'm in the entertainment business to fund that habit. but it's my sculpting. i'm not a sculptor, i'm not a painter but this is where i can put my hands on something. >> rose: what do you do after you restore them? >> find a use for it. i can't let them go but weut a bakery in one, a restaurant in another. lease them out to people who can enjoy them the way they are now and not destroy their integrity. and it's just.

we have celebrated you for it this all these years later, but what is the difference between marryingetry with music? >> i think that working with people, especially richard saul and lenny k, all of the people i work with, was building and keeping and maintaining a sense of improvisation. right from the start, we started working with 3 quarts, -- 3 chords, a little rhythm, and language. "horses" was improvised in the studio, the other albums were improvised in the studio, and i have maintained that right from the beginning to the last record, "trampings," which has a five minute improvisation on radio baghdad, improvised in the studio. i think that is much more credit to my people who are willing to go anywhere with me, and also people who have given me the opportunity to make records thee this that are not structured -- who give me the space to present songs like this that are not structured. they are not smokey robinson's songs. god bless smokey robinson, i don't have his gift. but i have the ability to riff for quite some time and to go out there and hopefully speak to god a little

but i can't imagine i would connect the dots between a trip to haiti and heart disease. i don't think he would take that trip right away, but at some time in the future, i don't think it would be a problem. >> larry: when we come back, we'll ask jane seymour about the emotional effects on the heart. he's held my heart, david letterman's heart, regis' heart in his hands. still ahead, we'll go inside the operating room of dr. wayne isom. more in 60 seconds. mom, can i have the fish? speaking of, what's on friday's menu? friday is fish day. well, maybe it should be tuna helper day. mmmm... fish delish, yes? i'll take it. sold! tuna helper. one tasty meal. >>> jane seymour, it is valentine's day weekend. what do we know about the connection, and i mean this seriously, of broken hearts and heart disease? >> well, they've just had the science on it. i just met with one of the top cardiologists in the country two days ago at your event, larry, and she was telling me there is an actual disease now where people die and the reason they die is the hearts are broken and they've close

but ultimately it was an act against the export towards terrorism. and what happened betweeneriod of time. when we arrived in a country, to start conduct and counterterrorism operations and cannot predict that an insurgency will ensue. perhaps some of the very partners that you make early on in operations really end up being a disadvantage to you later on as an insurgency breaks out and perhaps we can talk about that during the question period. it suffice to say that first period was relatively small force is designed to conduct counterterrorist operations, with the afghanistan regime and the al qaeda threat. underresourced for counterinsurgency for sure and indeed when we started counterinsurgency operations versus woodward and counterterrorist pipes operations is up for debate. the second age, 2006 until 2009 was a period when window was an insurgency appeared were to conduct counterinsurgency operations. every commander who worked in afghanistan during that period of time to what the right thing to do less, but we didn't have the resources to do it. particularly in the sou

i rotate between. butple count on the calorie counters to work off that extra cupcake or helping of mashed potatoes. are you burning as much as they say you are? we asked becky worley to check them out. >> reporter: whether we're running, biking, climbing or ellipticaling. the goal is the same. burn cories. and how handy. the exercise machines have their own calorie counters. how well do they work? to find out, i've come to this lab. we'll use this oxygen analyzer. it's the gold standard to scientifically determine exactly how many calories you burn. the human performance center in san francisco is as state of the art as they get. first height, weight, age. even a body fat assessment. put all that in the computer, then put on the head mount and snorkel. here goes. the stred mill says i've burned 40 calories. the oxygen analyzer says i only burned 33 calories. the exercise machine overestimates my work out by 13%. next up, the bike. lance armstrong, watch out. after 10 minutes, 46 calories lost. the analyze

i doubt it between the two political parties. but it was an important discussion that needed to take place. >> rose: joe califano in new york? >> i guess i think from the president's point of view, it was probably a plus in the sense that it certainly lays the groundwork to position himself as somebody i'm listening, i like to hear it all. but we've got to get on with this thing. and it's the predicate that's needed to really put the heat on the democrats in the house and the senate to move with the bill, to press nancy pelosi, for example, to get enough house votes, to pass the senate course if that's the court they ultimately take. i don't think anybody's mind was changed. i think the differences are truly fundamental, both as donna says in what the role of government is, but also in how you would deal with health care and we can talk about the substantive bill later. but the politics of it, i think for him, a plus in terms of how he positioned himself. >> rose: and for republicans? >> for the republicans, i think you know, they co