heather and heather back to you. >>> dan springer reporting for us.ou, dan. >> before you leave the house this morning let's get the first degree weather update with janice dean. >> much of the country remains quiet with exception to the west coast where we have a series of storm systems that will bring inches of rain, 20 inches of rain. flash flooding is possible for much of northern central california up towards oregon. we could see wind gusts in excess of 70 miles per hour. this will be an event that lasts well into the weekend and into next week. the other big story is the warm-up across the plains where we see temperatures 10-30 degrees above average. beautiful for the end of november into december. and one last thing, ladies, i want to focus on hawaii. our 50th state something we don't tend to do enough. we need to see the love for hawaii. look at that. 80 degrees for all of the islands and if you want to see weather in your neighborhood tweet me janice dean fox. >> your personal weather woman. >> alaska yesterday, hawaii today. >> now it is tim

not just those who attained it. >> chris: dan springer reporting live from las vegas.nk you for that. >> waiting to speak to saxby chambliss. we know the closed hearing on the libya situation ended and we hope to speak to him in a few moments. first, grapevine. you may have to pay more to eat out. thanks to obamacare. what makes the sleep number store different? we have so much tenology in our store toeally show the customers what's going on with their bodies. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting and allow the bed to contour to your individual shape. oh, wow. that feels really good. during our semi-annual sleep sale, save $500 on our classic series special edition bed set. plus special financing on selected beds final days. sale ends sunday. exclusively at a sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. >> chris: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the u.s. postal service says its necessary loss last year grow to $15.9 billion. almost $1 billion more than projected. they lost $5 billion the year before. they

dan springer with the news. is he live in our seattle newsroom. dan? >> yeah, trace.outh sports are sadly moving away from being just about kids having fun or getting more professionalized all the time. networks now broadcasting high school games, football and basketball especially. in allen, texas, they built an 18,000 seat, 60-million-dollar high school stadium, that is more than $700 per resident. but that is nothing compared to what parents are paying. a club volleyball team here in seattle cost $9,000. premier soccer teams can run that much when you add in all the travel costs. baseball ask s. a year around sport. aau basketball has auto thousand teams playing all over the country can w. kids as young as 8 years old and coaches making money. >> certainly they are being professionalized. when you bring in paid coaches. paying a lot of money for your son or daughter to play in these sports. there is an aspect of professionalization about it. >> and how about paying $300 for a bat that lasts one year or specialized training. more parents are doing it in hopes of get

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fox's dan springer has the story from tucson, arizona. >> jared loughner was sentenced today to multiple terms of life in prison. this sentence assures that will never be released from custody. >> reporter: the 24-year-old convicted killer will never be a free man again. loughner sat quietly in the tucson courtroom thursday refusing to make any statement but listening to the shooting victims and family members affected by his crimes. >> then i turned to mr. loughner and said i hold you -- hold no hatred for you, but i am very, very angry and sick of heart about what you did and the hurt you have imposed on all of us. >> reporter: loughner was handed seven life sentences. six people were killed during his shooting rampage back in january of 2011 and 13 other people were wounded. many victims see this day as a way to close the book including daniel hernandez, credited with saving gabby giffords' life. >> while we may not be able to bring back any of the people who lost their lives or give back the people who have been injured and heal all of their physical and mental scars, we are able to

jenna: dan springer live for us in tucson today. dan, thank you. jon: well there could be big change in store for the president's cabinet. we just told you about attorney general eric holder's remarks in baltimore telling a law school audience he doesn't know if he will stay in his job. says he needs to talk to his family and the president. the other big names who might be leaving the obama administration. coming up. i gave birth to my daughter on may 18th, five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. jenna: well, you may want to stay inside if you spot something like this, a brown bear looking for something to eat. folks didn't even bother to call the police, they just let him or her just kind of hang out. look, just visiting. jon: he's doing a balance beam routine. [laughter] jenna: cute little guy, right? i mean, as long as you're not too c

dan springer with a look in the legal and professional weeds. >> when voters in washington state andorado legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults, pot advocates party. the buzz could be short-lived. we may be -- weed may be legal to smoke at home but show up to work with it in your system and you can still be fired. attorney jim shore won a state supreme court case for a business that canned worker over medical marijuana. the ruling still applies and so should federal law. >> system of dual sovereignty, regardless of what washington or any state does to legalize marijuana the federal government treats marijuana illegal for all purposes. >> union workers may have a different set of rules to set up another fight between labor. >> we'd vigorous defen our members rights to engage in legal conduct out of work. the burden is on the employer to show impact on the job. >> medical experts say the marijuana high lasts two to three hours but traces remain in the body for up to a week. how long is person is impaired is up for debate. but it's longer than alcohol. >> it is dangerous

and dan springer is there live. hi, dan. >> reporter: hey, gregg.re are 30 governors now across the country that are republicans. they actually added to their ranks in this last election. that is the most they have had since 2000. it is interesting, because 11 of those gop positives are in states that voted for president obama in the last election. you see how different the election might have turned out had ohio, florida, nevada, colorado, some of those states gone for mitt romney. they're talking about the economy. they're talking the unemployment rate is 1% lower in those states that have gop governors. louisiana governor bobby jindal yesterday talked about the economy and the success the gop governors are having. >> you look at what other governors are doing to lower their unemployment rates. for example, john kasich in ohio and rick scott in florida, they're improving the private sector economies. republican governors have great experience when they pursue tough policies and tough choices not for austerity sake. it is a prosperity agenda. >> re

dan springer, fox news, tucson, arizona. >>> new york is still digging out from that nor'easter that dumped more than sexismes of snow, including areas recovering from superstorm sandy and let's turn things over to gary. >> reporter: the storm is really still there in the northeast and that is moving along, though. again, i can't reiterate this enough. d models have done a wonderful job tracking the storm and keep in mind, it's been just a little over a week since sandy pummeled the area and some of those folks who got their lights on with the lights back out, and everything is now covered in snow. rick leventhal has the latest from staten island. >> reporter: recovery efforts across the northeast slowing to a crawl. as snowfall and additional power outages continue to trouble areas affected by sandy. state officials suffering sticker shock after seeing the first estimates of overall damages. >> and this storm will cost the region $50 million in damage and economic loss. the state of new york, about $33 million in damage and economic loss. that is a staggering number. >> reporter: ne

jon: dan springer, thank you. jenna: well, if you consider the posted speed limit as more of a suggestion than a rule here is a cautionary tale for you. a new program in seattle is catching 6,000 speeders in less than a month. cameras near just four schools in the city nabbing folks driving faster than 20 miles an hour in those school zones. and now that the tickets are going into the mail. all those lead foots will be facing a fine of $189. and because so many tickets have to go out, officials say they're extending citation period for more but they mean business in seattle. no speeding in school zone. jon: i hate those cameras. i do. jenna: why, jon? you always drive the speed limit. jon: i do. new york city has them and various places. i hate them. jenna: tell us how you really feel, jon scott. jon: brand new findings from a far away planet. we're talking about mercury. in a little while nasa will reveal new details what its spacecraft messenger is finding as it orbits that little planet. >>> rescuers on mount h

dan springer live in las vegas tonight. dan? >> that's right, shep.ut even a conservative columnist here says nevada is leaning obama and governor romney is down to his final strike early voting heavily favored the president. 48,000 more democrats voted over the two week period than republicans. that is a big hill to climb on tuesday. especially when you consider it's estimated 70% of all the voters have been cast. republicans know they need a big turn out in the rural parts of the state and a decisive win among independence. not impossible but about as likely, perhaps, as pulling an inside straight that is the latest from nevada. we'll have more coming up from other battleground states on "the fox report." , suspension and agility. the only trail capable side-by sides, featuring the ultimate value, r 570. the only 4-passenge sport machines, led by the all-new rzr xp 4 and the undisputed king of high performance, rzr xp. razor sharp performance. only from polaris. get huge rebates on 2012's and low financing on all models during the polaris holiday sa

dan springer live in tucson tonight. what do we know about how loughner acted in court today?yeah, shep. loughner didn't show any emotion. did he not address the court nor did he speak to his victims. but he did tell the judge what he understood what was going on and then he heard directly from some of his victims. gabriel giffords did not speak but she stood next to her husband while he told loughner he had changed their lives forever. mark kelly said gabby struggles to speak. has trouble walking and one arm is paralyzed. but then he told loughner that while he put a bullet through gabby's head he did not dent her spirit. congressman rob barber a former giffords staff also spoke with the tragedy. >> i will never forget seeing one of my dearest colleagues die at my side. a young man i work closely with every single day for more than five years. >> among the six people murdered, a former federal judge, a 9-year-old girl and giffords staff. shep? >> shepard: we heard from a number of victims as i understand it today. >> that's right. a lot of them talked about the gun laws here,

dan springer is live at the heller elects -- heller election headquarters in las vegas. what do we know at this hour? >> jaime, it is empty here because the republicans all wept home. went home. this was supposed to be a battle ground state. it didn't turn out that way. president obama carried nevada by over 6%. a lot of people split their vote today. we just got word that dean heller who is the republican who was running for the senate has won his race against shelly berkeley. this was his first try for the senate because he was the incumbent that was appointed when john enson had to resign in disgrace from a sex scandal. heller retains his seat. he wins his first election. this was not supposed to be as close as it was. it was only a point and a half separating the two, about 12,000 votes. but it was very close because as you just mentioned we saw a huge minority population, a huge young people vote here. hispanics came out in big numbers. we saw a huge get out the vote effort. we saw people at a polling place going through -- union people going through and match willi

dan springer is standing by in seattle with more. >> what a buzz hill.rs in washington state and colorado are in for a rude awakening. they can smoke legally in their homes but get fired if they failed drug test. marijuana is still classified as an illegal drug under federal law and courts have upheld the rights of businesses to have a drug-free work place. still, business owners are worried they feel this will make it harder to hire workers and drive up their legal bills when they fire mployees. medical experts say the high from smoking pot last two to three hours but the drug can be detected in the system for up to 0 week. one of the gray areas is how long a person stays impaired. reaction times can be slowed for a 24 hours. it could be a major liability for business owners. >> put a small business owner in the middle of a vise of government requires you to do this, state law requires that and you are stuck in the middle. >> and of course the issue of union workers playing by different set of rules and everyone else. union lawyers say pot should be tre

dan springer is live in seattle with more on this. dan, what is happening?rning, there. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, bill. what a buzz kill, huh? pot smokers in washington state and colorado want marijuana to be treated just like alcohol but there is obviously a huge difference. pot is still an illegal drug under federal law and the courts have upheld and employer's right to have a drug-free workplace. the issue has come up in states with medical marijuana. there was a washington supreme court ruling that said while the worker was doing a legal thing off-duty having a trace of marijuana in the system violated the company's zero tolerance drug policy. medical experts say the high from marijuana lasts two to three hours but you can still fail a drug test a full week later. business owners are worried about getting sued and a spike in accidents. >> number one for us is safety. and we can't have anybody out there who has got a halfway hangover from pot. my guys drive big drilling rigs on these freeways. >> reporter: many companies also worry that it will be

mark kelly among those who addressed loughner directly in court telling him to pay attention and dan springerucson, arizona with that report. >> reporter: court just just adjourned and it was emotional and powerful as the victims of that horrific shooting spree in january of 2012 got to speak directly to that killer jarrod loughner. he showed no emotion or reaction. but his parents sitting in court cried. the last victim to speak was mark kelly. she stood next to him as he told loughner that gabby would trade her own life for any of the six who were murdered. she was shot in the head and part of her brain was removed. giffords was an inspiration when she came back to the house floor to cast a vote and at the democratic convention when she led the pledge of allegiance. but today her husband said every day is a struggle. every sentence is difficult. so is walking. he said loughner may have put a bullet through her head but he did not don't her spirit. he concluded by saying from this moment on gabby and i are done thinking about you. he told loughner he attacked democracy that day. a federal ju