i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. the d.c. council formally censured marion barry today

doreen has the night off. >>> bricks have been hurled through windows, a gasoline cut and vulgar phone threats. there were acts of vandali that appear to be politically motivated all across the country, from virginia to arizona. craig melvin joins us live on capitol hill with more on this. >> reporter: you probably remember those health care town hall meetings that frequently deinvolved into screaming matches. this past weekend several law makers say protestors spat on them and shouted racial epithets. they say they have been getting their cues from law makers who long ago abandoned civility. a tea party activist posted what they thought was virginia congressman tom perrillo's house, but it turned out to be his brother and they wt and kutd a propane tank line. someone destroyed this congressional ofls door in arizona. michigan representative bart stupak released some of the vulgar voice mails he's received. >> congressman stupak, you baby-killing [ bleep ]. >> reporter: wednesday house majority leader steny hoyer said the democratic leadership was genuinely concerned. >> i think we had

doreen is off tonight. the disgraced wizards star will have to serve 30 days in a halfway house, 400 hours of community service will pay a $500,000 fine and be suspended 18 months. dan hellie is in our news room and he'll have team reaction on this. we begin with jackie benson with more on how people in our community are reacting. >> reporter: there is strong community reaction tonight. gilbert arenas can be assigned to serve his 30-day sentence in the halfway house in the district or virginia where he lives. neither arenas or his defense attorney spoke to reporters as they left through the ar exit of the courthouse. >> we are really excited and happy. thank you. >> reporter: the sentence capped months of drama. arenas pleads guilty to bringing four unloaded guns to the verizon center on december 21st. he said it was to play a joke on teammate crittenton. arenas was charged with a felony after he made conflicting statements. what kept him out of jail after prosecutors strongly urged incarceration? the suspe

dori doreen gentzler is off today. democrat steny hoyer said at least ten democrats have been threatened. steve handelsman has more on capitol hill. >> reporter: wendy, thank. good evening. for many around here and america passions incited by his health care reform debate have not cooled. as the senate debated, police reports piled up. a brick thrown through the window of denies slaughter'sous in buffalo. and a door smashed at democrat gabriel gifford's off in tucson. in virginia, a tea party blog posted democrat tom pierello's home. in fact, it was his brother's home. roughly ten democrats have been threatened. members are to be on alert. >> to take precautions so they do not subject themselves or their families to physical harm. >> reporter: democrats want health kerosene as a done deal. but what house democrats passed it sunday, they also passed a set of changes, higher taxes on the well off. lower taxes on union health plan that senate democrats hope to okay this week. but republicans are objecting. >> more taxes a

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doreen gentzler is off tonight. several months after that dispute, arenas now knows what his

. >> you doreen againstler, "news4 today." >> some doctors are working to add the new disorders to the book used by physicians to treat all mental health problems. we are working on several new stories for this afternoon. for news4 at 4:00 and 5:00. first at 4:00, howrivate is your phone number, even if you have it on the do not call list. the new way people are scheming to get your number and how much trouble you can face when it happens. then tonight at 5:00, we'll introduce you to a brand-new wiz affords player trying to resurrect his career after a devastating injury starting on news4 at 4:00. let's see if we can see the cherry blossoms. there they are down on the tidal basin. let's talk about the weather. it's kind of chilly out there right now. it's 58 here in washington. tom's been telling us we can expects a warmup beginning maybe later this afternoon. at least we don't have the rain. if you're planning to head out, what can we expect this afternoon? >> just a beautiful scene at the tidal basin now. >> a bit of a wind but those blossoms are hanging. temperatures right around 60

right now doreen gentzler rally around the district we're looking at 50 degrees. head further inland west, we're looking at the low 40s and south and virginia piedmont upper 30s. along the chesapeake bay, feeling the influence of the relative warm waters. that's keeping the morning low temperatures up in the 50s. by the afternoon that bay breeze will kick in and that will be the cool spot. let's compare temperatures to 24 hours ago across the east. you can see a lot of positive numbers. that's the core of the warmest as we're warmer than yesterday. raleigh, north carolina, 12 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. that's because of that area of clear skies, high pressure allowing the warm air to continue across the mid-atlantic and southeast but the clouds not too far off to our southwest already moving into virginia. so we'll see a steady stream of clouds lower and thicken as that low pressure system over arkansas ramps up and slowly move to northeast. it will be a slow mover so that's good news if you have outdoor plan today because we'll make it through the day on a