i'm diane roberts. >> we'll have much more on the skins/eagles prep and the latest on the injury front coming up later in sports. >> this is 9news now. >> there's only one way to solve these challenges and that is to do it together. >> president obama holds his first press conference since the election and tries to set the stage to avoid the looming fiscal cliff. as emily reports, he was pelted with questions not only with that but the sex scandal. >> i hear you have questions for me. >> at a press conference where president obama want today focus on plans for his next four years, the first question arose for the past few days. >> general patraeus had an extraordinary career. >> his resignation following the exposure of an affair was based on a personal decision. >> i have no evidence at this point from what i've seen that classified information was disclosed that in anyway would have had a negative impact on our national security. >> next topic, the fiscal cliff where tax hikes kick in. >> i'm open to new ideas. >> while holding his ground on one of the biggest sticking points. >>> we

diane roberts has the story. >> reporter: they have it. they want it. they don't want to give it back. it is this bell. the prize up for grabs in tonight's bell rivalry game between stewart and falls church high schools. a match-up that dates back 50- plus years. >> don't lose the bell. when i got hired, that was the only thing the principal asked of me. don't lose the bell. >> reporter: the story goes the bell came from the u.s.s. jeb stewart and became the center piece of this decades- old rivalry. the winner gets to keep it all yearlong. these players prarring for a contest that began in 1960 when the falls church assistant principal left to become principal of the newly opened jeb stewart high school and suggested the friendly football competition. >> this is something great tore play for at the end, something to look forward to. >> reporter: falls church junior did he on dupont is hoping for his first bell rivalry victory but not the first for members of his family. >> my brother played in it, my cousin played in it. they always won the be. >> repo

for 9 sports i'm diane roberts. >> gonzaga faces dematha in the playoffs tomorrow. you can bet devin and his brother will there be. >>> coming up on 9 news now in flight university of maryland students look to set a new human powered helicopter record and at the same time claim a quarter million dollar prize. >> band of brothers, a disabled veteran is saluting his fallen comrades this weekend. we'll tell you more about that. >> plus gay marriage, it may be new to maryland, but a baltimore company has been helping same sex couples tie the knot for years. their story is coming up, too. >>> this election day maryland became one of the first three states to pass same sex marriage by popular vote. the first weddings will take place this coming january with the help of a growing same sex wedding industry, but as kristin fisher reports, one local company has been planning these kind of nuptials the last 13 years. >> reporter: same sex weddings may be new to maryland but not to katherine hamm. >> my website is gayweddings.com. we are a comprehensive planning resource for sa

for 9 sports, i'm diane roberts. >> the jags play at orchard in the first round of the regionals. >>> from now until the end of the season, we're giving away free jerseys to our facebook fans. all you gotta do is go to us and "like" us on our facebook page. this week is the jersey of all jerseys, rg3! this can be yours, no. 10. all you gotta do is go to our facebook page and "like" us. tell us why you deserve to win. we'll announce the randomly selected winner tomorrow night. game on at 7:00. hey, rg3 jersey, doesn't get any better than that. >> and it gets even more valuable if he throws for like 800 yards on sunday. >> there you go. >>> still ahead, the clock is ticking on capitol hill. they need to reach a deal on those mandatory budget cuts. coming up. >>> a little later, the potential impacts of no deal on the air travel industry. >>> but first, a variation of west nile virus could lead to more serious trouble for your brain. we'll talk about it, next. >>> this has been a very active year for west nile. new and disturbing concerns the virus is getting more powerful. experts say t

robert mull letter. they wanted to make sure the director was aware of the affair and possible national security breach but the chairwomen of the senate intelligence committee, diane feinstein, had no advance notice there was an investigation into the director of the c.i.a. and she plans to investigate why her committee was out of the loop. the white house says the president was not notified of the investigation until this week but peter king finds that hard to believe. >> if they were investigating for three or four months, the first thing -- if they found it out, they should have immediately brought it to the president's attention. it's the news crews have been outside the charlotte home paula broadwell shares with her husband and two young sons. nobody's been home for the last 36 hours but there's a message in chalk on the driveway that says dad hearts mom before all eyes fell on the quiet block in north carolina. >> some questions about how involved broadwell is in the thing. eric cantor releasing information and statements about his contact with the whole situation and the f.b.i. still developing. we're on it. thanks. >>> of course petraeus's resignation comi

diane and george. >> franklin roosevelt, you talk about the communities electric for president obama. one of them right near here in harlem. abc's deborah robertss there, the same place she was four years ago, another celebration, deborah. >> hey, george, i got to tell you this doesn't even seem like the same room i stepped into five hours ago. when we arrived here people were somber. they were sick to their stomach with worry thinking it would be a very long night. one woman -- with the president feeling disappointed and -- tonight she said it's all a given. they are here for the president tonight, george. there's one gentleman said to me it's almost like a couple renewing their wedding vows. maybe they're not as giddy as they were on their honeymoon but at the end of the day they can still love each other. i think you see this love is still here for the president. these people are beside themselves. right? >> i love it. loving it. four more years. >> somber, you said. not with what we're seeing. we can barely hear you and let's head out to josh elliott who is out in times square. josh. >> reporter: a raucous times square, diane, the cheers re

diane who i have known since i was a child and all our kids. right here. [applause] caroline, robertson, and julienne, simply the best kids a father could ask for. thank you to all of you here. i will be glad to finally get off the road and spend more time here. [applause] now that this race is over, you'll see me back here teaching at the university, working with the sheriff's department, and continuing to work with businesses. i have been blessed in my life by all of the amazing people i have got to work with and serve with and most of all by the country i was born in. only in this country it is possible to go from a high school dropout to the surgeon general in one generation. [cheers and applause] that is because we have an infrastructure of opportunity that allows a high school dropout to join the army, serve his country, and then go to college and medical school. [applause] we did not win tonight but when you look at the result, it is pretty clear arizona is moving toward moderation. [cheers and applause] when this campaign started, some people thought i was delusional. "he is

diane feinstein. panetta said they had to look why the intelligence committees were not informed. there's a difference of opinion here in washington about whether the f.b.i. needed to -- and whether the justice department and robert ended up. >> steve: it's ended up on the front page of the paper. thank you very much. let's dial in laura ingraham. she joinses from washington, d.c., scandal central. are you buying the whole business, laura, the president didn't know about it until two days after the election? >> before i answer that question, can we just talk about the fact that we have maybe 70, i believe, last count, insider attack deaths in afghanistan and we apparently have the commanding general in afghanistan with so much time on his hands that he's able to send thousands of e-mails? i mean, how do these individuals -- i'm not talking about the private lives of them, but how do these individuals in positions of such authority where they have the lives of thousands of americans, c.i.a. agents, imbedded agents and now in marines and soldiers, lives in their hands, they have so much time that they can do all these other extracurricular activities and then they can think it's all fine and nobody will learn about

diane and george. >> franklin roosevelt, you talk about the communities electric for president obama. one of them right near here in harlem. abc's deborah robertslebration, deborah. >> hey, george, i got to tell you this doesn't even seem like the same room i stepped into five hours ago. when we arrived here people were somber. they were sick to their stomach with worry thinking it would be a very long night. one woman -- with the president feeling disappointed and -- tonight she said it's all a given. they are here for the president tonight, george. there's one gentleman said to me it's almost like a couple renewing their wedding vows. maybe they're not as giddy as they were on their honeymoon but at the end of the day they can still love each other. i think you see this love is still here for the president. these people are beside themselves. right? >> i love it. loving it. four more years. >> somber, you said. not with what we're seeing. we can barely hear you and let's head out to josh elliott who is out in tes square. josh. >> reporter: a raucous times square, diane, the cheers really gathering and now it is complete pandemonium down here,