and put a new pipe in place. >> reporter: in neighboring arinda they clogged a culver and opened up a sinkhole about four feet deep meanwhile city councilors are looking for money for repairs. >> we are exploring the fema funds as an emergency. we are looking at getting this area and other areas in uh rine do -- in arinda by a state, and it will give as you chance to get some of the money reimbursed. >> so far there is no estimated price on the damage left behind by these storms. but the replacement of this culvert alone will be several million dollars. alan wang, abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. and we will have more on the fog that is moving in later in the weather segment. tune into the abc7 morning news starting at 4:30 to see how the fog will affect your commute whether you are driving or flying. >>> a dispute of the price of crab is keeping fishermen on the ground. before thanksgiving they were earning $3 a pound, but prices took a dive after the holiday. according to the san francisco chronicle fish brokers are paying as little as $1.80 a pound. last yore crab fishermen were on

several utility lines were snapped after debris clogged the culvers and floodwaters rushed under thethey were working to restore the gas line and the power and were ensuring a temporary sewer line was in place. >> reporter: this morning's rains hampered crews and began laying rocks in the creek beds to stop the runoff from eroding it any further. >> and with that in position you can begin to actually replace the culver and put a new pipe in place. >> reporter: in neighboring arinda they clogged a culver and opened up a sinkhole about four feet deep meanwhile city councilors are looking for money for repairs. >> we are exploring the fema funds as an emergency. we are looking at getting this area and other areas in uh rine do -- in arinda by a state, and it will give as you chance to get some of the money reimbursed. >> so far there is no estimated price on the damage left behind by these storms. but the replacement of this culvert alone will be several million dollars. alan wang, abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. and we will have more on the fog that is moving in later in the weather seg

several utility lines were snapped after debris clogged the culvers and floodwaters rushed under the road. >> they were working to restore the gas line and the power and were ensuring a temporary sewer line was in place. >> reporter: this morning's rains hampered crews and began laying rocks in the creek beds to stop the runoff from eroding it any further. >> and with that in position you can begin to actually replace the culver and put a new pipe in place. >> reporter: in neighboring arinda they clogged a culver and opened up a sinkhole about four feet deep meanwhile city councilors are looking for money for repairs. >> we are exploring the fema funds as an emergency. we are looking at getting this -- in arinda by aas in uh state, and it will give as you chance to get some of the money reimbursed. >> so far there is no estimated price on the damage left behind by these storms. but the replacement of this culvert alone will be several million dollars. alan wang, abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. and we will have more on the fog that is moving in later in the weather segment. tune into t

for now, i'm david culver, news4. >>> we'll see you at 5:00, david. thank you. >>> there is a lot at stake, only three days to go before the fiscal cliff when tax heights and spending cuts kick in. president obama and congressional leaders are meeting at the white house right now trying to figure out a way to avoid it. negotiation have been under way for about an hour. steve handelsman joins us. so far no deal? >> i'm checking. so far the meeting continues, which could be a bad sign, can it? sources here on the hill say in today's meeting president obama planned to be kind of tough, figuring that he has gotten the advantage back to the extent anybody has the advantage this close to the cliff and that he'll push hi original demand, the tack rates rise on income over a quarter million dollars. it's a positive sign, the first meeting since mid-november of the four congressional leaders, democrats and republicans at the white house. called by president obama, house speaker jane boehner, the key figure. >> the fact that he's come back and the four of them

i'm david culver, news4. >>> thank you, david. >> and i agree. >> and you agree? >> yes. no major power outages. >> but we've got some stormy weather coming. >> it's going to be much of a nuisance storm. i don't think you need to get out there right away and figure out what you're going to do. maybe a total inch, but for some of you it will be a very pretty storm. if you saw snow on wednesday and it remained all snow for you, this will most likely remain all no once again. if you're in an area that you saw snow change over to rain, you're most likely in for the same thing again. that includes us right here. let's show you how things are right now. we're actually in a bit of a clear spot, so clear skies, that's allowing temperatures to go down. temperatures sitting at 38 degrees form the windchill down to 38 degrees. it's a capitol hilly friday evening, but a nice friday evening. if you want any night of the week to be nice to go out, it's probably a friday night. as far as temperatures are concerned, 36 in martins burg, 41 down towards fret ricks burg and annapolis coming

and according to culver hide wallace is named as in.they only talk about truman or douglas as possibilities. so if wallace had gotten the nomination, he might be running the dying man who did not want him on the ticket. so. >> guest: i have a very different rating having been through every piece of that information for a long time. >> host: on the biographies. >> guest: that is a valid perspective on this. roosevelt in 1944 was getting very ill. the party bosses knew that he was feeble and there was almost no chance he would survive another term. they decided that they were going to firewall is off the ticket. it was run by bob hannigan the national chairman who ran the st. louis machine that got chairman rehab acted in 1940 and ed pauly. at holly was the kolshorn yet oil millionaire who said i went into politics when i realize it was cheaper to elect a new congressman to buy the old one. he leaders going to get indicted for good reason. >> host: his name is on the -- >> guest: the build alien -- the pavilion, exact way. they decided th

clogged culvers may have contributed to the problem. 3,000 motorists use this road everyday as a shortcut to south santa cruz county. now been -- now residents have been told to use alternate roads. county workers say it could take several months before vine hill road is fixed that one remaining lane could reopen this afternoon. lilian kim, abc7 news. >>> stay with abc7 news for continuing storm watch coverage you can track the storm any time with live doppler 7 hd on abc7news.com. when the weather hits your area we want to see it, send your photos to ureport. >>> a wheelchair bound woman in the hospital after getting aren't over by a muni streetcar near market and church around 5:30 yesterday. a passenger shot this video of the rescue efforts from his apartment moments after leaving the train he heard a man pounding on the outside of the streetcar yelling for the operator to stop. the woman was rushed to the hospital. police are investigating whether she leaned forward into the train or fell out of her chair. >>> we have to wait to find out details on a person arrested after a missing te

let's strt with the culver legislation here, senator dianne feinstein is putting forward something thatooks very familiar to you which is the assault weapons ban which he supported when you were in congress back in 1994. what are your thoughts? >> i think it certainly understandable, predictable that the first focuses on the instruments of this tragedy, the instruments of war, and those of the firearms and the guns. i think, and i hear reread to pinpoint. this is a game changer. i heard the same language upper columbine and virginia tech and the or shootings. we hear it again. unless we take a far more comprehensive look at the root causes of some of this violence, a single piece of legislation is going to do very little. it may do some and have some impact on reducing the risk of further tragedy such as this, but the effect will be limited. we have to talk about other rights and challenges, the right to privacy, mental health record i do think in spite of the disagreement that i have put some people that the corrosive impact of the violence, particularly on those troubled with mental h

noticeably culver out there. -- colder out there. >> it was brittle. the winds have died down.hat is the good news. temperatures have cooled down as well. 30 degrees is our temperature at reagan national. that is always the exception rather than the rule. take a look at temperatures across the region. for the most part, we are in the '20s. i am thinking that annapolis is incorrect. the temperature at frederick, 30 degrees. 21 in manassas. 21 degrees in culpeper. we're about 10-15 degrees colder than we were this time yesterday. while the winds calmed down there is enough of a breeze that there is a touch of a wind chill factor. it feels like 20 at the lows. when charles r., 18 and 21 in hagerstown. -- wind chills are feeling like 21 in hagerstown. our average today is 44 for the highs and 29 for our low. we will be right within the ballpark for our afternoon high. we have a little bit of clotting is pushing and from the west. you can see there is a little bit of an area trying to make its way in now. that will clear out. you'll see more sunshine than anything else this morning.

northern virginia bureau reporter david culver joins us from vdot's headquarters in leesburg. >> reporter: officials say their crews will have to prepare for what's going to be a really long night. they've taken a break from that for now. they'll reconvene at midnight at several locations across northern virginia. >>> dean tripplett picked up a few essentials, salt and an ice scraper. >> you never can tell what will come by. >> >> reporter: inside the store manager says they're fully stocked now, but what happened when they open up tomorrow morning at 7:00? >> the guys that are plowing, they'll really stock up. >> this would be the third snow event this week. wednesday roads proved treacherous. >> some of the back roads, like 15, those tend to be backed up, because people are trying to get to places. >> i'll probably spend a day packing, getting ready, watch the weather. i'll get updated on my travel plans. >> this ash burn harris teeter is not packed, but travelers are worried about the forecast and what it could mean for the weekend plans. >> we do have a day planned with my brother dow

. >> david culver, a georgetown law professor said, we've tolerated this intolerable situation because black and latino young men are largely the victims of this situation. and it's part of the landscape versus what happened in newtown. both of them are egregious, but why does one get accepted as the price of doing business in america, and the other seen as an outrage that needs to change public policy? >> i'm not quite sure. on the one side, there's austin and lundale, on the south side, there's rosendale. these places from 55% of unemployment. a sense of hopelessness. i went to the cook county jail on christmas day morning. and about a thousand young men and women and asked, how many of you have been shot. about three quarters stood up. i asked them to engage with me in our organization, since they know where the guns are coming from, they know where the purchases are, to help us stop the gun flow, because they can only be in jail or they can only be in the graveyard. so we must use every thing available to us. but they have been trying very diligently, governor emanuel, very diligen

>> gordon greg culver placed the prison on lockdown confining every inmate to his cell. >> lock down. we are under a lockdown. >> all right, lockdown, gentlemen. take it in, let's go! >> several days later, the victim was released from the hospital and recovered in the prison's medical unit. >> we tried to get interviews with both the victim of the stabbing as well as the perpetrator of the stabbing. the victim was an adamant no. he did not want to participate in the documentary. eventually, the assailant said he would talk to us. >> our interview with the stabber, terry moore, gave insight into how little it takes to prompt a potentially deadly attack in prison. >> what happened? >> i had an assault on an inmate. >> why? >> why? because he had stole my shoes. >> actually, this was not a surprise to me. in prison, you have very few possessions. your resources are limited, and if somebody comes and takes one of your possessions, two things happen -- "a," you lose something that could very well be useful to you, and "b," you will be perceived as a weaker person if you don't retaliate. >

yesterday, it was carson and culver. today former governor haley barbour, here's what he said. i as a republican would take raising rates on the two top brackets if we had tax reform and some other things he wanted. but he wants the rate to go up on the top two brackets. as soon as the republicans accept reality and guarantee middle clats families their taxes won't go up, i'm confident an agreement will be reached. >> the last few years, you -- some republicans are saying that this is restricting the amendment process and part of the reason why they're -- that they are threaten -- threatening to filibuster. why have you chose ton purr suze those practices. >> i've explained this before. we have to spend eight to 10 days, senate days, that's a couple of weeks, to get on a bill. because they virtually oppose every time we try to get a bill. that wastes 10 days. if we didn't have to do that, we could be on a bill, there could be amendments, we arrive at a point when we don't have time to do that when you do that hundreds of times each congress. we've done it hundreds of times in t