. >>> he is back with us, r&b singer carl thomas out with a new album and he's here to perform.ood morning, i'm alison seymour. >> i'm audrey barnes in for tony perkins. thank you for sticking with us. >> tucker barnes is downstairs. weather won't be too bad today and the weekend. >> a lot of sunshine, allison. all systems go for outdoor activities, as we'll have a nice warming trend saturday and sunday. chilly to start your day. numbers in washington now, 43 degrees. most of the area, or much of the area in the upper 30s at the moment. humidity 49%. also breezy. wind out of the north and north and east at 14, gusting close to 20. we'll have a breeze today. chilly today. high temperatures topping out in the upper 50s for daytime highs. even with bright sunshine. there's your satellite radar. traveling later today, no problems on most area roadways. get into the carolinas, some rain showers and soaking rain towards the outer banks. otherwise, sunshine around here and kind of a quiet weather pattern with a warming trend as mentioned by saturday and sunday. here's your forecast, qu

. >> also r&b singer, carl thomas is in the studio.as just dropped and he's going to perform a song for us. stay with us.  >>> right now at 9:00, a family plea to find a killer. >> whoever done this, whoever knows something about it, we really appreciate it. [inaudible] >> a mother of four found strangled to death in her prince george's county apartment. the latest on the investigation in a live report. >>> also, marion barry in the spotlight this morning. coming up, his controversial comments that caused uproar

thomas, good to have you back. >> good to be here, carl.s is another chapter in the evolution of natural gas in this country. how important is it? >> well, it's a game-changer, no question. it's going to affect a lot of things. it's going to affect the production of electricity. we're going to move from coal to natural gas over the next decade. many companies are doing that now. their coal plants have been shut down all through the mid-atlantic, central part of the united states. combination of epa regulations and low gas prices have put a lot of pressure on coal plants. and right now, gas prices are extremely low. i think unsustainably low. they need to be a little bit higher because the producers are stopping drilling in conventional gas plays and they're moving to the liquid plays because they're getting -- that piece of the gas stream is priced off of oil, which is obviously much higher. so, need to have a little bit higher gas price to get drilling back. >> what's a little bit? i mean, $2.05? >> i think closer to $3 would be a more sus

carl stanley. it was very important to me because geraldine ferraro was a mentor to me to have don vaccaro and thomas occurred to me. [applause] so i'm about to tell you something henry kissinger wouldn't. where to begin with? trajectory of hillary clinton's career stunned and i am pleased to have known her and i worked with her throughout much of it. while this isn't a retirement dinner, here that hillary? or retirement dinner. tonight we honor you for the entire arch of your career from sure of the legal services corporation during the carter administration, a white house were hillary and i served to first lady of arkansas and first lady of the united states to u.s. senator from new york and of course secretary of state. i was in beijing in 1995 and part of this small delegation on when and when first lady hillary clinton had erred the iconic rally cry for eval quality. you just heard it in our film. that same year, the formation of the council and the only organization for women who had countries and that has 47 members and just last year we located where else? to the wilson center. with strong su