. >> the d.c. bureau chief has a look at the big changes, next at 6:00. >> the fine is adjusted at $60. tonight, mayor gray said he was cutting the number of cameras. he will use the money these fine spring in to hire 100 new police officers -- these fines bring in to hire 100 new police officers. >> he likes the idea of selling -- of hiring police, but the fines are too high. >> this is certainly in the right direction. >> pc brought in $85 million from -- d.c. brought in $85 million from so-called automated enforcement. one of the mayor's the biggest critics says there's only one reason the mayor is doing anything. >> there is a public black -- \. -- backlash. >> that does not help the motorists at all. >> it is not enough of a difference. >> i do not think cutting it is ok. >> as for the council's bill, the police chief today. >> i do not think a $50 fine is a deterrent. >> they complained that it would cost $35 million in revenue. abc7 news. >> up next, a final move for the space shuttle atlantis. whe

. >> as d.c. bureau chief reports now that president obama has been assured a second term things are starting to come together. >> at the capital workers are once again building the platform and stage where once again barack obama will be sworn in as president as he was four years ago when some 1.8 million people packed the national mall to witness the moment. a day after the election are people getting ready? >> i already have friends who have called dibs on beds in my house so they're coming. >> so the same as last time. >> the same for hotels. >> since the morning phones have been ringing off the hook. we will definitely be sold out over those dates and that's why there's a four night minimum. >> they even have a four day three couple presidential suite package for just $70,000. >> to meet obama? >> do not get to meet obama. >> the city's tour promotor destination d.c. already put up links. >> go to washington.org and find out what hotels have availability and what things are happening in the city tha

he joins us from our washington d.c. bureau. what do you make of today's stock sell-off? election related? >> so, stew, is what we saw today in the stock market, with the selloff, the reaction to status quo. >> no. i think that is an overstatement. i think it is more of a reaction to what happened in europe, where the e.u. central banker said that germany was not looking so hot. >> so instead of reacting to the election, it was europe in your analysis. let's talk about the economy here, though, with the fiscal clip. you heard john boehner willing to accept new revenue. heaharry reid in the senate, saying you can't push us around anymore. is this language that begins compromise. >> it will begin compromise, but it may be far more horrowing. it may be it takes place next year, rather than this year. the problem is john boehner himself has one more election. he wants to be re-elected as speaker of the house. that does not take place until january 3, 2013. if he cuts a deal with barack obama, he faces a serious revolt in his own caucus. >> tom: is your caution then don't expe

. >> darren gersh is with us tonight from our washington, d.c. bureau, where a week after election day here. was there any progress made by the staffs of the political players during the campaign season? where do we stand? >> the staff is always looking at this as a giant chess game and trying to figure out how they can give their bosses their best move, so the staff have been working. we had a lot of commissions and a lot of efforts to try to solve the budget problems. there is a lot of work done behind the scenes and on paper. a deal could come together pretty quickly. the problem is the principals, the leaders, the people who were elected, they have to come back and decide what they're going to do. they're talking about getting an agreement, but nobody knows how to get that agreement right now. >> tom: it pays to parse language when we're at this point in negotiations for politicians. we're hearing about tax rates and tax revenue. they say no increase on tax rates, but they're willing to accept higher tax revenues. what's the difference? >> if you're

we've been covering this from our d.c. bureau also here from moscow but for now let's let's shift gears here and r.t. and address what's going on actually in greece at the moment. standing by there for us as we know that more austerity measures are in the play athens again the scene of protests by greek sangria new austerity measures certainly they are making their presence being felt ahead in the capital there just ahead of fresh cuts again being demanded by international lenders the strikes and demonstrations against the builder brought the nation to a standstill artie's pitter all of a filed this report. midway through the forty eight hour general strike here in greece the greek people have been making their anger towards the next round of austerity measures clear they were out in their thousands here on syntagma square on tuesday and they're going to be back later on wednesday they are upset at what they say are unfair measure is this going to be imposed upon them should prime minister some modest this latest round he says th

scott mcfarland reports from our washington d.c. bureau that our story generated a tidal wave of responses. >> this story has created so much outrage. we also discovered congress was fired up about these pat-downs long before one of their colleagues had relative humiliated. tsa documents say she was a student traveling with a youth group from southwest christian school in texas wearing a loose fitting sundress when is the was pull aid side for a pat down. we're told the dress slipped, revealing her breast. our review found a complaint issue bade member of congress wasn't the first with cutdowns three other representatives have done the same within the last few months. one complained about three-year- olds bag patted down. another cited a man who had just undergone hip surgery who reported painful touching of his incision. and a public hearing will be held here thursday to review aviation security, pat-downs included. our investigation in the polite of a 17-year-old girl have become talk radioed toker this week. >> we've heard horror storie

. >> the usda tells our d.c. bureau the new rules will make poultry safer to eat. >>> president obama continued a white house tradition, pardoning two turkeys who might otherwise have been on the dinner table this evening. in a rose garden ceremony, president obama absolved the turkeys, named cobbler and gobbler. and the president told them they would have a good life. >> from here, these two lucky birds will be swept up in a whirlwind of fame and fortune that will ultimately lead them to mount vernon, where they will spend their twilight years in the storied home of george washington. >> and in washington, where everything is highly -- >>> the secretary of the interior came out from washington today for a visit. and a decision is expected soon on whether to preserve a unique marine wilderness or dozens of jobs. >> reporter: clear, cold water, and thousands of oysters. >> there's no chemical use whatsoever. it's truly the best example we have anywhere of sustainable food production. >> reporter: this is drakes bay oyste

and also in washington, david sheppardson, the d.c. bureau chief of the detroit news. welcome to you both inside "the war room." >> thanks, governor. >> thanks for having me. >> jennifer: amy let me start with you. the actual number of electric plug-in cars sold here as a percentage of the overall sales is very small. but talk about whether it is considered at least rapidly growing. >> i think it is all relative and it is growing. and it is growing substantially from where it was in say 2011 to where it is poised to be in 2012 after the next month when we see the final sales in december. it went from 2.23% in 2011, total car sales to right now it is at 3.3%. so it is going up. still a very small piece of the pie. i think that's what you need to remember that you need to keep this in perspective. one interesting dynamic is that a lot of the competition among the electric cars and the hybrids are actually each other. as opposed to traditional gasoline cars. >> jennifer: that's an important fact. and i think that a lot of that has to do with the number of factors. david,

. >> joining us now is lynn sweet, d.c. bureauef for "the chicago sun-times" and john than capehart, an msnbc contributor. welcome to both of you. john, that was tom ricks, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist. do you get the impression that the tent that houses the ben z benghazi truthers is getting a little smaller and by the way, if i don't like your response, i will end the segment early. >> clearly they didn't like it. that interview lasted all of a minute 20 seconds. time ritom ricks is a first rat report er reporter. when you watch the clip in its entirety he takes a couple shots at fox news and he does it with confidence and an air of authority that the anchor just couldn't puncture. i think that's why they cut the interview very short. >> yes. the poor chap was struggling to give a response when mr. ricks made that comment about if the journalists knew anything of the numbers who had been killed in that sort of setting prior and outside of the actual attacks on that day. he just didn't know what to say. >> yeah. i mean, to

msnbc contributor jimy williams joins us from our d.c. bureau with more. good to have you with me.s this press event signal to all the parties involved the type of tone that the president really wants to strike today to those people that he's trying to get the votes from, that basically the american people support this? this is what he ran on and got re-elected. >> we know by the exit polling and other post election polling that in fact the american people are on board with this theory of economic fairness. now, the question becomes what's the president going to do about it? well, we're about to find out. he's going straight to the american people and actually pulling a great page out of the bill clinton and the ronald reagan playbook, which is to take his case straight to the american people. to think that we thought the election was over. apparently it is not, because he is out there making this populist message about tax fairness. he's going to have a presser now with average, real americans behind him, and he's going to go out and sell his plan, just like clinton did, just like

she's in our washington, d.c. bureau. good morning, jill. >> hello, soledad. well, this is it. both sides are going to be there. they're looking at the tone. they're looking at the president, what kind of tone will he set? you have to say that they're coming in both sides with their essential positions intact. all, both sides are saying that there is some room for a compromise. so, the essential thing is how do you compromise? if you look at the positions, let's say, of the republicans, and it's most strongly, as i say, relayed by senator mitch mcconnell, he does not, and they do not, want any tax increases. so let's listen to him first. >> and let's be clear, an opening bid of $1.6 trillion of new taxes just isn't serious. it's more than simpson-bowles or any other bipartisan commission has called for. it's been unanimously rejected in the house and senate, it's twice as much as the white house seemed ready to agree to during last summer's debt ceiling talks and look at it in the context of the spending cuts that are yet to be enacted from the president's other proposal, it am

lanny davis, from the d.c. bureau. forever former white house counsel for the clinton administration and fox news contributor. ed, excellent chance mitt romney has. what say you? >> i think ed rollins has it right on everything but his prediction. let's start with undeniable fact, even though i'm a democrat already voted for barack obama. mitt romney deserves a lot of credit for closing a gap by the end of september looked like would be a landslide victory for barack obama. to imagine that obama is actually in some polls in a tie vote in pennsylvania, which was 15 points lead, as recently as 30-days ago, you have to give credit to the surge of mitt romney that started with the first debate but has leveled off. jenna: lanny, why isn't it enough? >> it has leveled off because of two reasons. first of all obama did much better in the second two debates. reminded his base why they supported him. he did get a big boost from the latest democratic governor of new jersey, chris christie, who in his own way gave barack obama i'

james rosen live for us in our d.c. bureauather and rick, happy thanksgiving to you it's an unusual situation when walmart seeks protection from the national labor relations board. that agency was only handed this case last friday. federal investigators have been deposing witnesses and reviewing documents in advance of a ruling on whether the picketing tomorrow at walmart stores should go forward or not. actions again walmart began in october with an apparent collaboration with the union and disaffected employees who call themselves our walmart. walmart filed an unfair labor practices claim on the grounds union is effectively trying to unionize walmart's workforce. unfair labor ... >> if the employer fees you are worth more you will get more. for a lot of people complaining about their working conditions they are perfectly free 0 go out and find another job or start a company of their own. that's how the premarket works and should work. rick: the labor relations board is comprised of one republican and three democrats. heather

d.c. tonight, it's our bureau chief, darren gersh. >> reporter: thanks, tom. >> tom: still ahead, the new york city marathon is cancelled. what it means for advertisers of this world class event. that encouraging employment report didn't do much for stocks on wall street. stocks opened higher, but sellers took over. the dow closed down 139 points, the nasdaq lost almost 38 points, the s&p closed off 13. for the week, the dow fell 0.1%. the nasdaq was down 0.2%. the s&p gained 0.2% this week. we'll talk more about the markets a little later in the program with our friday market monitor guest. he's duncan richardson at eaton vance. an update on the aftermath of hurricane sandy now. with temperatures dropping, tempers are flaring in some areas struggling with no power and dwindling food and clean water. >> this is staten island. four days after hurricane sandy brought her destructive winds and devastating storm surge of atlantic seawater. across the hudson river from new york, some new jersey neighborhoods remain inundated with flood waters. low temperatures this weekend are forecast to be c

i must tell you on my way over here, coming in to report to our d.c. bureau, as i passed by here, you could hear horns blowing and people yelling, four more years. and we also were able to talk to a couple of people, several people throughout this crowd. let's give you a sample what they have been talking about, since the announcement of the barack obama re-election. >> a victory for tolerance. this is a victory for reasonableness and level-headedness over the disappear intimination. >> this is not about individuals. we are all in this together. >> once-in-a-life've time experience. >> of course, we had doubts. we didn't take it for granted. we are very thrilled. >> they didn't take it for granted. an 18-year-old who voted for the first time. this is something, a first for me. i am talking to patricia mcdougal from belize. she became a citizen three years ago, have you voted for the first time tonight. >> absolutely. i tell you, i stood in line for an hour and-a-half in virginia. it was something else for him to win today. and i had to make my way over here t

d.c. area. it has been a busy day. the northern virginia bureau chief julie carey is live in richmond and tonight all eyes are on the battleground states. julie? >> reporter: well, especially virginia. virginia is considered the state to watch because the polls close at 7:00 so we'll start getting an earlier idea what's happening in the presidential could be he is the. and because it simply could that be a tighter race here. mitt romney and barack obama dead locked in nearly all the polls leading up to election day. whomever wins northern virginia could be the winner of the commonwealth. prince william county. one of the battlegrounds within the battleground virginia. it was a key to president obama's victory in 2008. but in 2012, the romney campaign also has its sights set on the northern virginia outer suburbs. at this polling place in wood bridge, gigi said it has been a difficult four years and a struggle to decide who to vote for. an obama voter in 2008, she was leaning toward romney this time. >> i would have probably voted for romney if he

census bureau data released in september shows one in five d.c. residents are living below the poverty line almost one hundred ten thousand people in fact poverty in the district is at its highest level in thirty years data also shows unemployment rates have more than doubled in the last five years jumping from ten percent in two thousand and seven to twenty five percent at the end of two thousand and eleven but despite those numbers this community will still be left out both president obama and governor romney have been silent on issues of race and poverty in this campaign election cycle and the presidential election is the only election d.c. residents are eligible to vote in that's exactly what resident william riley says is the problem the crest of our dilemma and me for asked to be subject to so many taxes rules and regulations as a city. they were faced with restrictions as they stated that most states are they still don't have a representation unfortunately for this community being inside of the capital isn't quite enough it's taxation witho

bureau? >> you're kind of hearing mixed things out of people in d.c. y as head of the financial protection bureau she was pro consumer. >> so antagonistic? >> yes. and clearly you're until uncertainty right now and bank stocks in general tend not to like uncertainty. >> somebody wrote this morning that -- and this was a joke, obviously, on twitter that she's in a room somewhere with a voodoo doll and sticking pins in it repeatedly. if you're a banker, are you looking at not just a lower return of equity in the next few years, your engine of earnings in a lower gear, you have to assume some sort of revved up dodd/frank. now in bigger positions of power. i'm just looking for positives here, jason. >> and a couple of points. you look at the third quarter results and we covered the top 25 or so bank. and in excess of 15% and that's despite record low interest rates. so while that's the lower than they have been historically, not all that bad covering the costs of capital. with respect to dodd frank, our view that it's not going to get worse. there is some h

bureau chief tracee wilkins will have more on that. >>> 20 public schools could soon be closed in the district. d.c. public schools' chancellor kaya henderson announced the plan this morning. the schools will be closed in every ward except wards 1 and 3. most of the schools closings are in wards 5 and 7. the name of the schools are being announced at a news conference right now. chris gordon will have a full report with all the details coming up at 5:00. >>> take a i halive look outsid. we are about to get our coldest weather in nearly a week. >> dig sweaters and the coats out. that comes after a messy morning commute. the problem wasn't just the rain. veronica johnson has the latest. veronica? >> that's right. we had some wind, too, this morning and even some sleet in a couple of neighborhoods. outside, we do have sunshine with us. as the clear skies came in very quickly behind the weather front this morning. we had pockets of sleet right there. the front was moving out. the last of the cold air rushing in. not only is he surface but especially aloft right there in ellicott city. yesterday, we had

d.c. where it's fate was decided. in 1834 congress settled the disbute by declaring that sat ten island belonged to new york. it has the smallest population of the five bureaust still means that it has more people than new orleans and it is a big piece of america. overshadowed by bigger pieces called brooklyn, queens and man h man tan. to see all of it would be to rewrite new york city. it is the place where wild deer run across roadways. it is a place apart five miles on the ferry from manhattan and it might as well be a world away. it has almost everything that the rest of new york city has expect skyscrapers but it has much more. where ever you live in america staten island has a street that looks like a street in your town. rich streets with mansions, small town streets with han handsohand some homes. if you get lost in the middle of stat ten it is easy to forget about it. and it is very for new yorkers in the other bureaus to forget about staten island. i know countless new yorkers who have never been there and never seen it. and that is fine most of the type. it doesn't rely on tourism for any of its vitality. it welcomes tourists to see the sights lik

d.c. at a government affairs conference is to change the system. stuart: what system? >> the credit bureausting system. stuart: what's wrong with it? >> everything is wrong with it. stuart: three company; right? -- three companies; right? what's wrong with them. >> they are for profit companies, not government agencies. stuart: and you're not? >> i am, but also don't control the lives of 300 million people. you have three repositories that collect the data on all of us as consumers. then you have is a separate company that generates our credit scores. the government consistently tries to put their thumb on monopolies in this country, but yet they overlook the one company, there's only one that generates the credit scores for 300 million people. why is that? stuart: if you think it is fixed and it is a monopoly and the government has its thumb on it, what system would you put in place? real fast. >> i would probably follow the guidelines of the consumer financial protection bureau, and what they are doing is they are going to try and come up with a better system. i'm the first person to agre

d.c. off guard. chris clackum, nbc news. >> petraeus has been married to his wife holly for 37 years. she serves on the white house's consumer protection bureau. they have two children together, one lieutenant steven petraeus recently returned from a stint in afghanistan. >> the man set to run lockheed martin also resigned from his post because of an inappropriate relationship. he admitted to having a relationship with a subordinate employee. he was supposed to take over as ceo for the bethesda based company in january but the company instead asked him to resign immediately. >>> the week ahead is all about the fiscalff cli and how to get washington to work together to avoid plunging right over the edge. president obama will host several important meetings at the white house next week to try to resolve the issue. on wednesday president obama will meet with business leaders to get their perspective on what needs to be done. then he is going to meet with congressional leaders from both parties on friday. it's clear, however, that there is still a lot of ground to make up to reach a deal. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm comm

d.c. off guard. chris clackum, nbc news. >> petraeus has been married to his wife holly for 37 years. she serves on the white house consumer finance protection bureau. the two have two children together. one of them lieutenant steven petraeus recently returned from a stint in afghanistan. >>> the man set to run lockheed martin also resigned from his post because of an inappropriate relationship. he admitted to having a relationship with a subordinate employee. he was supposed to take over as ceo for the bethesda based company in january but the company asked him to resign immediately. >>> in the week ahead bipartisanship is the goal for lawmakers as they work to avoid the looming fiscal cliff. here's a live look at the white house where president obama will meet with business and congressional leaders this week to try to work out a deal. the president said yesterday during a press conference that he is open to compromise but he wants a balanced approach, which could include raising taxes on the rich. this morning on the "today" show republican senator bob corker of tennessee said his side of the aisle is ready to work together. >> i actually see a

the washington bureau chief with the loss angeles times will look at demographic changes in the electorate. live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. congress returns to washington d.c. next week for a lame duck session. a couple new members will be sworn in. after they're sworn in, the second session of the 112 will have three vacancies. the house gavels in on tuesday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the senate also returns tuesday. increasing access for hunting and fishing. the streamlined financing for homeowners. as always, live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2. >> i need some help over here. >> sergeant robert gates today, we ended up following him after this ride for many months. he ended up injuring himself -- entering himself into an innovative program where they used acupuncture, meditation, other techniques to wean them off of all of the drugs he was gone. he was able to walk out on his own feet. i want to commend the military for allowing us to tell the story, both the good and bad. and for recognizing his problem. by recognizing there is a problem of over medication end they are looking for ideas of how to fix it. that is really the thesis