my name is doug johnson. i'm a senior planner at the metropolitan transportation commission overseeing our programs in land use and social equity. i'm also very fortunate to be a member of the transatlantic cities network, which is a project of the german marshall fund you'll be hearing from ellen. it is a network of 25 cities, 12 in the u.s., 13 in europe, and oakland is one of those cities, but i, of course, wearing my regional hat, have looked to expand what i have been learning through the network and the opportunities that present themselves to the network and to expand that. and where better to bring a cycling delegation than to the city of san francisco, a city very much on the verge of, i think, turning the tide in favor of cycling where there are 40-some-odd, 43-plus projects waiting in the wings for the environmental lawsuits to come to a close. so it is very exciting to have the opportunity for the delegation to come here, and i think the timely honkly, could not be -- honestly, could not be better

>> thanks, doug. here's the deal. all the news copy says that donovan mcnabb was benched. he wasn't benched, he was effectively fired and they did it ugly. it was really ugly. lindsay is here n. that's my take. what's your take? >> i'm scared to talk to you about the situation. here's my take. my take is that just like i sa about jason campbell, it's good for him that it happens now. let it go. make that in your mind and go to arizona,right? mike shanahan made the decision when the redskins were officially eliminated from the post-season that he wants to see what rex grossman can do in a starting role. shanahan wt so far to say to mcnabb he couldn't guarantee he would keep him on the roster nt season. also shanahan has see enough of mcnabb to see if he wants him next season, and he wants to know if rex can play better. >> there is nothing he's played in the last 13 games that would influence me. i was proud o that last play, 35 yards for a touchdown. could have put us in a position to win that football game, but right now i've got to do what i think is in the best interest

>> doug, thanks chl. it was a year ago this week that a nor'easter dumped a lot of snow in this area. john shiffer in alexandria now. john? >> for tomorrow's snowstorm, on a level of 1 to 5 with being the worst, it has the level of preparedness of about a level 2 with mobilization of crews out on the road. but at any moment, officials say they can make a call and boost that up to a level 3 or 4, sending more crews out on the road. because the key this year is not to be caught unprepared. are you ready forsnow again? >> no. not really. but, you know, you have to do whatou have to do. >> after last winter, snow snowmaddon that left most of our area paralyzed, most of the residents are ready for the snow. >> last year i had a snowmobile, this year i have a 4x4. >> i think i'll buy a shovel in adnce. >> he certainly won't be the only one. >> when you do shovel, try shoveling to the right. >> the virginia department of transportation tried toxplain to residents what they're doing dierent this year, especially

doug hill, we appreciate that. thank you. >>> let's look at the roads. you will have a lot to cover. >> we sure do. the roads are clear and dry right now. trouble inbound on route 7. an accident at sterling and centreville. expect to see heavy traffic. you cannot get across the potomac whi by the potomacte ferry -- by the way of white ferry this morning. highet's town, germantown, 66, 95 -- a little bit heavier than normal. >>> sarah palin speaks out and gives exclusive access to robin roberts. it is sarah palin as you have not seen her tomorrow on "good morning america of" on abc. >>> it is the end of the era for larry king. >> he is signing off tonight after 25 years on air. his final show will feature barbra streisand and other guests. he will have specials on cnn every year. triggers a quick last check of the traffic and weather. -- >>> a quick last check of the traffic and weather. >> let's go to the map. whites ferry is closed because of ice on the potomac. we have an accident on route 7 tying up the left side of the roadway. >>> we're expecting an

let's get more from doug. >> hi, doug. you. >> talk about some of the worst types of weather that we see here, you know we have the blizzards like we had last season. but we never really had any extremely cold air, even thgh we did have the blizzards, we were around average. today was 20 degrees below average. some of the coldest numbers we have seen in early december in many, many years. i've been looking at the last six years, i could not find a day colder than this one as far as the windchill was concerned can. out there right now, we're looking at partly cloudy skies. windchill 11. sustained at 20iles an hour. look right now at our curre temperatures, 20 in hagerstown, 21 in sterling and 21 down toward manassas. you add in the wnd and this is what you get, you get the windchills. 41 mile an hour wind gusts in sterling, and 32 down toward la plata. extremely windy today. that's why we've been seeing the windchills at 4 degrees. 8 in frederick, 8 in sterling toward ashburn, resten, herndon. over toward falls church, curr

doug kammerer joins us live with the latest. >> i wou love to tell you there's some relief out there. unfortunately, i don't see it. and, yes, there is snow in the forecast. let's show you what's going on out there right now. temperatures have ayed in the 20s all day long. 26 degrees the current temperature out there. windchill right now 12 degrees. that's t way it feels out there on the exposed in. 12, look at the numbers. 23 in sterling, and 25 out towardndrews air force base. look at hagerstown, a windchill of 4 right now, 7 in sterling, 9 in clinton. out there toward the air force base. we're going to be seng some areas with windchills below zero tonight. the wind advisory has been extended through 10:00 tonight. it's just about our entire aea for the potential of wind guts over 45 miles an hour tonight. that will put our windchills into the dangerous area. that's why we have a winhill advisory to the north and west. this doesn't include northern falkeer county and portions of northern virginia. windchills could be between minus 10 and minus 5 overnight tonight. a very cold nit in

we're -- doug can you tell, it's 50/50 or 50/45 nation.there's 2,000 news talk stations in the country, and 1940 of them are all right wing all the time 24/7 and 60 progressive radio stations, none in this market i must add, they pulled the plug and made that another sports station. i'm on every 60 station in the country that i can get, but there's not enough platforms for progressives and centrist voices that don't really exist on talk radio anymore. it's not because liberals can't talk. god knows, we can talk. [laughter] it's not because we can't make money and get ratings. look at portland, oregon, chicago, st. paul, new york, where progressive radio is on the air, making money, getting good ratings and sometimes beat rush head-to-head. the real problem is ownership. most of the stations are owned by conservative and controlled companies that started back in the days of richard nixon. they were smart and did nothing illegal. they bought radio stations, hired their talent, trained them, and today they dominate the air waves, and the fcc

we go back to chief meteorologist doug hill. we have snow flurries on the way tomorrow. >> it looks like midday tomorrow into the afternoon, early- evening hours, we could pick up a trace to 1 1/2 inches. reagan national airport is showing 23 degrees. the wind chill is at 12 degrees. that is an improvement. 80 degrees in leesburg. clarksburg is at 20 degrees. 17 in warrenton. these numbers are cold. yesterday, at this time, everybody was in the single digits as far as windchills. tomorrow, cloudiness moves in from the south in response to a low-pressure center moving toward virginia. it will set up the possibility of snow. it is not a big deal. portions south of a t washington may south ofrace to -- areas south of washington may pick up a trace to 1 1/2 inches. most areas will be in the 30's for the highs tomorrow. we have the possibility of something brewing over the weekend. the more we looked at the computer model, the less sure we were. we will check out the seven day in a couple of minutes. >> thank you, doug. >>> let's go

jim baker is on the list somewhere there. >> yeah, he is. >> doug, mr.to doug on this question. what's the problem with this? why are you questioning it? >> i think a number of those republican officials that you mentioned also raise questions about the treaty. the treaty establishes a link, what they call an interrelationship between offensive force reduction and missile defense. this is something the russians have been asking for for years. they tried it when i helped negotiate the predecessor treaty. the bush administration said, no, that's harmful to the united states, bullet the obama administration said yes. the other thing, the treaty has counting rules. complex counting rules that have the effect of imposing penalties on the united states if we want to convert long-range nuclear systems into long-range conventional systems. >> the pentagon says it's better to create new rockets. if you're going to use it for conventional purposes. mr. eagleburger, isn't that the case there isn't a problem here because the pentagon preferred to create new weapons?

we begin our storm watch was chief meteorologist doug hill. >> we can report the snow is pretty much over for most of the area, with the exception of southern maryland. you can see the core of the system is to the south. the snow has ended across the area. -- the core of the system has ended. remington, 2 inches. dameron over 3 inches. that is what we thought would happen with this storm. our concerns which is to temperatures. we are in the low 20's in areas outside of the city. in the overnight hours, i see ce spots abound. lower 20's in the morning. a sneak peak in a moment. >> shenandoah, spotsylvania, stafford, and culpeper county is closed tomorrow. manassas city and jefferson county are on a two-hour delay. the closings and delays throughout the evening. people have to go to work. >>> in the heart of the city, snow made gettingn around difficult. >> winter makes everything more difficult. but here in the district, where traffic is tight and were walking is a major form of transportation, snow slowed things down. snow, slush and traffic seems worse crammed into a small space. d.

conditions they have to show up to work. >>> tonight we are on storm watch. >> which brings us to doug hill with more on the winter weather. >> we are almost to the one-year anniversary of our first big snowstorm. we will have some snow tomorrow. the closer you get to richmond, that is where the heaviest amounts will be. the official numbers at reagan national airport, 34 and 21. look at the averages. we should still be near 47. everywhere we look 30 degrees at reagan national. 23 in hagerstown. plenty of cold air. we have a winter weather advisory that is not for the district, but southern maryland, stafford, and areas to the south and west. there is a large area under a winter storm warning which will have a more substantial snowfall. parts of ohio and west virginia. the reason it is configure that way is because the storm will pass to our south. it is over kansas and oklahoma now. some snow showers wrapping around the north side. we will call for increasing cloudiness. they snow is expected at 8:00 in the morning. it will move up to the northeast. the evening drive will be a differe

chief meteorologist doug hill is in the weather center with details on the frigid evening ahead. >> we have wind chills in the teens. a wind chill advisory in effect until 7:00 p.m. west of the blue ridge. we also have a wind advisory until 7:00 a.m. temperatures are definitely cold. 27 in the district. factor in the wind, and it feels as though it is eight at dollars and 14 downtown. it will be very cold for a few more days. there may be a few more snowflakes before the week is out of. gordon? >>> following a developing story out of richmond. a federal judge has the villard a -- delivered a blow to the health care law. he is the first to render it unconstitutional. the legal battle is just beginning. >> a judge's decision in the virginia could but the president's signature program on life support. >> this is not about health insurance or health care. this is about liberty. the judge said as much in his order. >> judge henry hudson role the federal government mandate forcing individuals to buy health insurance unconstitutional. >> if we cross this line, this on constitutional line wher

let's go to doug hill. it is a good day in your household parent >>> absolutely, or closed. delayed a beautiful sunrise is under way. within the merina area, there are patches of ice and snow on some of the docks. it will be a cold day but the sunshine should help to melt snow as temperatures are starting out in the teens and 20's. 26 degrees in the district. it is widespread cold. for the weekend, this shows precipitation potentially. there'll be nothing tomorrow but sunday it gets interesting. there is a coastal storm that we x back to stay far enough off shore and have limited impact on our viewing area. maybe a chance of light snow sunday south and east of town. it moves further out to sea, no snow. today it will be partly at a mostly sunny and it will melt and 34-38 degrees and the weekend, good day tomorrow and clouds increase and a bit cooler and clouds and a chance of snow sunday. adam caskey will look at the seven-day forecast and we will have an update on schools throughout the morning. >> we appreciate that. >> we have got issues on the roadways so let's go to jim

thank you, doug. >>> coming out, and a christmas gift you need exchanged? it could cost you. restocking fees and the actions some lawmakers are taking. >> this teenager, could broadway be next? >> which you tibias had the most hits this year? find out c ♪ i ain't got no time for a nap, oh no, no ♪ ♪ i gotta make this holiday glow, like a light bulb ♪ ♪ tie it all up in a big shiny bow. i'm a "home for the holiday" superhero ♪ ♪ mrs. claus ain't got nothin' on me. i'm dancin' circles ♪ ♪ around the christmas tree. >>> youtube videos have become a phenomenon. >> which videos from 2010 had the most people collecting of their mouse? kris van cleave has the top 10. >> they range from movie clips to beiber fever. these are a couple of the top 10 youtube moments of the year. the top woman? did you see it? -- the top moment? with 60 million hits, the 2010 moment?te -- watched intnie dodson's "the bed ruder song." it got a spot at the bet awards. he was able to buy his family a new home. this ke $ha parody was number 2. ok go also made the list. also, a ridiculously i knowing -- annoy

doug mcelway at our washington newsroom now. doug?this is a -- low popularity and tax cut compromise it didn't want. today they salvage a big victory don't ask don't tell by a vote of 250 to 175. moments after that last vote was cast, victoria's house democrats included co-sponsor and combat vet patrick murphy reacted to the win. >> today's vote was about whether we're going to continue telling people willing to die for our freedoms that they need to lie in order to do so. >> democrats also cited the defense department's own study to make their case that it's time for gays to serve openly in the military. it found clear majorities of service members are willing to serve alongside openly gay colleagues. but, republicans cited that very same study to raise objections. 60% of combat said working alongside openly gay members would effect unit trusts negatively or even vary negatively. republicans also complained about the lack of hearings in the hurried deliberation in the last days of this lame duck congress. >> that lack of transparency

>> thanks, doug. >>> still ahead, d.c. mayor vincent gray takes atrip down memory lane in an offer to revilize his alma mater. >> i'm the one fighting, okay? not you, not you. >>> the complete list of golden globe nominees. >>> president obama just signed the telework bill.13 centers inn area have been told their funding will soon disappear. i'll explain coming up. >>> capitals coach bruce boudre talks aut his frustration with the team's losing stak. >>> the redskins hand out a pink >>> an arlington county man is under arrest, charged with making threats to bomb metro. court documents show eunice was arrested december 6th. the stlets were allegedly made on a facebook chat. >> the senate is expected to pass president obama's bipartisan tax compromise tomorrow. the measure will then move on to the house where democrats are signalling they need some changes. >>> jamaal alexis was sentenced to 149 years behind bars today for the murder of a popular hip-hop producer. raymond brown was shot four years ago. he was murdered when t

and doug said, look, we don't need a treaty with you to bring down our weapons. we're going to do it anyway. if you want a treaty to conform your withdrawal and ours, that's fine. but we're not going to concede missile defense to you. and the russians finally backed off. the point was, in these situations we did not allow the russians to successfully make this linkage. but in this case, we not only didn't push back, but we issued our own unilateral statement that essentially confirmed that we were not going to push the issue with the russians because our missile defenses would only be good against regional or limited threats, was the language that was used. now, this is a problem because while it's true that the resolution of ratification has some language relative to the establishment of our missile defenses -- by the way, let me quote what was in the in the language but was offered by senator demint at the time. what senator demint said was that accordingly the united states is and will remain committed to reducing the vulnerability to attack by constructing a

i'll show it to you cong up. >> thanks, doug. for the second time in eight weeks, agents have arrest aid man in northern virginia for making threats against the metro system. these threats included plansor pipe bombs and made reference to 9/11. jackie bensen joins us live. >> reporter: this happened after someone saw something live on facebook and called authorities. these images show fbi agents showing search warrants to units. federal prosecutors believe that during an early december facebook chat he said, quote, he could place a pipe bomb under a sewer head in rush hour to create the greatest number of casualties. further stated, certain metro trains had the highest number of commuteron them and he could place pipe bombs on them and they wouldn't be noticed. neighbors say they are shocked. >> they are good people. and i was so shocked. she's trying to raise them and ought them up this far, and one is in college. >> he used facebook to threaten them with authorities. then they sit there wondering why we drop the twin towers lik

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let's take a look with doug kammerer in the weather center. >> some of that coming down on a moderate clip, maybe even on the heavy side for the time being. any time you see this orange shoe in the sky, you may think about snow, and that's exactly what we have out there. current temperatures with 24 degrees with light snow falling in the d.c. area. look at the wind chill. around 12. look at the snow. a band of lake effect snow making its way along the potomac river. the areas seeing the heaviest snow are loudon county, montgomery county and bethesda. some areas mayick up a coating of snow and it may make slick spots on those roadways, so give yourself some extra time tonight. wind chills down into the single digits already. wendy? >> this is a wacky december out there. this cold with those high winds is a brutal mbination, and you don't have to be out there long to feel those effects. jackie bensen is in rossland. tell us about it, jackie. >> there are some snow flurries here in rossland. the wind makes it feel much colder than what the temperatur on the thermoter reveal. >> with a wr

go. >> thanks, doug. >>> nasa has found the strangest thing in the solar system.ome people consider it very strange. theynnounced today xrk per, exp did, that thereis a mountain 3,000 feet tall onsaturn's moon. the cassini probe captured the discovery. an icy substance is shooting out of the ground like lava from a volcano. they stay temperature there on titan is near freezing so it is not lava. rather, an icy slush. the subance is spewing out of

'll talk more about that as w get closer as well. >> thanks, doug.r e latest in high-ch gadgets can be awfully confusing no fearful we have some help. liz crenshawis here with what's hot. >> reporter: electnicdo top many wish lists. an explanationf what they are and what they can be lpful. joining m jim barrwith t consumer electronics organization. we call you our guru. th year, 2010, what ae we hring? >> in oururvey, people said they would snd a littl more on electrics, a little less overall on gif but aittle more on electronics, everyby like to get them as gts. the flat panel 3d tvs. >> every price rane. everything i hear is i want to know aut the apple ipad. i guess they do't needny more pp. >> it on the list and it has been a big, bi seer. this is the one at is aouch screen tablet. so it has a little bit of everything that you can get o the internet. yo notice it has that virtual key boar so you can use that as a, r typing and so forth. yocan read books, you can do allinds of ne things with that. now they're starting t get some competition. thiss

but first doug is out in alexandria and will tell us more about our weather today. >> reporter: we've shown you the lights over the past two weeks, right? >> say it again. >> reporter: i said we have shown you some lights evidence to pt two week. >> some wonderful lights, as a matter of fact. >> reporter: wait until you see this house. take aook at this. this is just an amazing, amazing house. this is one of those streets. we want a house that stops traffic. that is this house. i'm with some of the neighbors that said, we saw you on tv and we love this house. this is bill. first off, introduce your family to me. >> this is my wife and my daughter. >> this is such an amazing display. you put this to music. you have 12 song? >> 13 songs this year. >> and the lights go to the music. he puts it on 88.1 locally. >> 88.1 fm is my station. >> and it wasn't even bill or his family that had us come over here. it was a neighbor that said, you've got to go check out this house. it is amazing. and you guys need to sit here for -- for an hour. we don't have that much time. we'lcome back to you a l

i think jim bakker's on the list somewhere there. >> he is. >> doug, what's the problem with this?y are you questioning it? >> i think a number of those republican officials that you mentioned also raise questions about the treaty. the treaty establishes a link, an interrelationship between offensive force reduction. when i helped negotiate the pred success sor treaty, they said no. but the obama administration said yes. the treaty has counting rules, these complex counting rules that have the effect of imposing tennellties on the yit if we want to convert long range nuclear systems into long range conventional systems. >> the pentagon says it's better to create new rockets. isn't that the case? that this isn't a problem because the pentagon preferred to create new weapons? >> i don't think there's a problem of either point. number one, you're correct on the pentagon. that's not the issue. on the other hand, the so-called leakage is not there and we don't accept the russian argument isn't there. >> let's go back to -- >> key factual point here. if you look at article 5 section thre

and there's a chance he'll be bidding against doug hirsh. hirsh is planning a second farmland investment fund. diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," le roy, illinois. >> tom: well, the stock market really kind of marked time today, digesting the pop that we saw last week in share prices. let's get you updated in tonight's "market focus" but coal miner massey was the biggest gainer among energy stocks. massey added another 2% today. shares are at their highest price since a deadly explosion at a west virginia mine in april. c.e.o. don blankenship will retire at the end of the year, feeding speculation it may be bought... or be a buyer. also within energy, anadarko added about 2%. it is just $3 below where it was trading before the gulf oil disaster in april. remember that anadarko owned a stake in the blown-out well. natural gas producer chesapeake was up about 2%. and tonight's close of occidental petroleum is a new two-year high. health care stocks were the biggest losers, led by cancer drug developer celgene. the stock shed 8% on 10

we will have a live update on road conditions coming up at 6:00. >>> meteorologist doug hill is keepinging. >> snow is disappearing before our eyes. first, let's show you what is happening on lot super doppler 7. the snow in the lower bay. no more accumulation during the evening. let's take a look at our rooftop camera. started out with cloudy skies. around 10:00 a.m., the snow moved in. the snow ended just before sunset. skies are cloudy but things will clear out tonight and it will get mighty chilly outside with a bit of a freeze. 21 degrees in damascus. 25 in stafford. 26 in the district. overnight, we will drop into the low 20's in most areas, but outside of the metro area teens will be commonplace. there will be a lot of stuff that will freeze that is slushy now. the storm is headed offshore. that will allow clearing skies. we will see sunshine and melting tomorrow. a coastal storm might give a light dusting on sunday. cold temperatures and snow showers return on tuesday and wednesday. that is the latest. >>> what's the word? >> we are trying to figure out what is happening with th

doug banks >> thank-you -- >> thank you. it is important to underscore that in this city, whether with the best intentions, people have played a good game about local hiring but when the assessment has been measured about how effective local hiring is, this has come up incredibly thin. we have known that and we have been able to corroborate that by efforts by a number of us who had commissioned an audit and then that audit motivated legislation to perform how we spend workforce dollars. this legislation is a trend that this nation must go. it is important that we insert incentives so that people who want to do business with the city here the fact that this is more than just about rhetoric ringing hollow and what we expect and local hiring outcomes and did better prove they are hiring our people. when i first came into office in 2005, had been involved in violence had been a horrible -- had been involved in violence and have been a horrible time. these good a job sites in redevelopment areas, and asked the four-man to show me

. >> i'm doug ferrari and i'm here to give you my confession, and the priest said sorry i don't haveat kind of time. >> for ant an hour tonight, the troubles of 76 people living in this emergency shelter were forgotten. doug ferrari was once at the top of the world of comedy performing with jerry williams and sinefeld but then he tumbled. ten years ago friends rescued him. >> we pulled him out of a skid row hotel where he had scraped up enough money to spend the night and we got him some help, and for the last ten years he's been working to you know kind of pay back the favor. >> reporter: among the jokes, ferrari doesn't hesitate telling his story. >> i was mad, bad and dangerous to know baby. i'm telling you, they called me consumed man because i could smoke or drink anybody under the floor. >> reporter: ferrari is clean and sober and practicing his craft again. >> it's the holidays, it made me feel good. it made me laugh. >> if he can do it i know i can. >> reporter: ferrari says he doesn't see himself as an inspiration but he's happy being back doing what he's wanted to do since

. >> i'm doug ferrari and i'm here to give you my confession, and the priest said sorry i don't haveat kind of time. >> for ant an hour tonight, the troubles of 76 people living in this emergency shelter were forgotten. doug ferrari was once at the top of the world of comedy performing with jerry williams and sinefeld but then he tumbled. ten years ago friends rescued him. >> we pulled him out of a skid row hotel where he had scraped up enough money to spend the night and we got him some help, and for the last ten years he's been working to you know kind of pay back the favor. >> reporter: among the jokes, ferrari doesn't hesitate telling his story. >> i was mad, bad and dangerous to know baby. i'm telling you, they called me consumed man because i could smoke or drink anybody under the floor. >> reporter: ferrari is clean and sober and practicing his craft again. >> it's the holidays, it made me feel good. it made me laugh. >> if he can do it i know i can. >> reporter: ferrari says he doesn't see himself as an inspiration but he's happy being back doing what he's wanted to do since

. >> thanks, doug. this is different schools. my daughter occasionally, she looks at these photos and said, dad you don't have any playgrounds in your school so now we have playgrounds and skipping ropes and it's been a really great blessing to see. play is an important part of the learning process and socializing so thank you, amira. this is in la lander school, the story is in karen chronicled it in a tab you have there. well this school, there are somal bonn there and tsom some,al b al ban they're and th attacked and tried kill people that came to school. the taliban. the headmaster peddled his bicycle 30 miles to the commander leader and he had two daughters going to another school. he got very upset and came in with 120 militia and did kill onal ban and wounded one and arrested the 12 dozen others and found out they had gotten 200,000, 3,000, $100 to shut down the school from the mulla in the village. they went to his house and arrested him and they're a waiting trial in kabul and will probably get 6 - 8 years. two days late

i don't know if doug is in the room. doug is our relatively new cto. now for a few months. on travel, but fulfilling his role in exactly the way we would hope, coming in from the outside, spurring new thinking, being abridged to new engineers, other technologies outside the commission. so again, i'm enthusiastic, as we all are, about the direction launched by these proceedings and i look forward to working with my colleagues, to working with all of you, to turn these ideas into a major policy innovation for our country and seeing the next wave of innovative products for lying. so again, thank you. unless there is any more discussion, let's proceed to a vote on each of the items. we'll take two votes. on the first item, the experimental licensing item, all is in favor say aye. all the supposed coming may. the request for editorial privileges is granted. on the second item for opportunistic use, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, say nay. aye has it. request for privileges granted. thank you very much. madam secretary? >> mr. chairman and commissioners, the final

doug, it's windy out there. >> it's very windy. that will be one of the bigges problemse've seen over the next 24 to say, 48 hours. we did see the snow a little earlier. most of it to the south and east of the washington, d.c. area. we did see some of the snow throughout the i-95 corridor. but down toward fredericksburg, some areas picking up over an inch of snow. same thing with the northern ne and other portions of northern maryland, picking up some snow. only about one to two hours of snow but it was enough to provide a litt bit in the way of some accumulation. especially on those grassy surfaces. the temperatures, 32 degrees. the windchill of 19 with those winds out of the wes northwest at 22. but gusting upwards of 30 to 40 miles an hour. we are going to see a very cold night and a very cold air mass over the next couple days. 28 right now. actually 26 right now in sterling. 30 toward quantico. look at the windchills. frederick, maryland, 15. hagerstown at 9, the windchill in sterling, ten degrees. this is the kind of windchil

doug luzader has the latest. >> reporter: the president may sign the deal into law today extending the bush-era tax cuts for another two years. at the same time, a massive spending bill here ran into a wall. you may not like the prospect of filling out tax forms, but you know what you will pay. >> the motion is adopted. >> reporter: the house last night signed off on a deal to extend the tax cuts that president bush enacted in the first term in office. it passed easily, but not without drama. >> this is a bad deal. this is not creating jobs we could create with a smaller price tag. >> reporter: democrats did not like extending tax cuts to the wealthy. republicans did not like extending the long-term unemployment benefits. house speaker nancy pelosi voted against it. democrats did not fare better in the senate. they forced the clerk to read every word of the 1900-page spending bill. >> they want to ram this bill through congress and they are using the christmas break as an inducement to vote for it. >> reporter: in the end, democrats backed down. so as it stands on saturday, the federal

doug lorranger, david bancroft. i also want to thank francis, who did monumental work to make sure this legislation came to us today. >> if we could take a roll call vote on this item. [calling votes] >> this ordinance is fast -- is passed. >> item 57 of aids the community fee and the fund -- item 57 is the community and find. -- fund. >> this is passed on the first reading. we now go to roll call. >> today i have an in memorium for jonathan simmons. jonathan was an artist whose personal story can inspire all san franciscans to become their best when making the most of their individual talents. jonathan was told he would not make enough money to support himself. he traveled to new york and learned the skills of photography, painting, and eventually engineering. this man became a technical illustrator who worked to design the lunar module, designed in ejection seats from fighter planes and solved numerous problems. all the while his sensational -- insatiable quest made him a collector of rare items from stamps and co

yeah. >> doug, what do you think? >> i'm phoning it in tomorrow. that's what i'll be doing for sure as we get the snow across the area. a pretty nice night and the sun has gone down. that means a good night for holiday lights. these lights out there, and arizona right in northwest d.c. pretty nice light display and we'll be live at a fantastic light disreply on friday. if you haven't caught our light display, check this out. we have a house that will amaze you. 30 degrees, the current temperature right no the winter weather advisory for areas south of district. it does not inude the mro area but it does include areas like fredericksburg, la plata, leonard town. two to three inch of snow. highs in the upper 20s. 30 degrees in the district. snow likely for everyone. one more time, i'll show you how much we expect coming up. >> what have you got? >> a little hockey. this is a bad, bad slump. >> they have taken on the anaheim ducks. d.c.'s newest $100 million man. it brings power, not drama. plus, who is starting the quarterback for the redskins agains

doug kammerer out there changing light bulbs, running wires. the lightsr are you hosting the lights? >> i will just hosting. i would have nothing to do with what he's doing. we'll show you this. we'll turn on the lights and we'll not only turn on the lights, we'll turn on the music as well. and you'll getwhy i say both of those coming up in a little bit. wait until you see what we had today. >> i can't wait. >> it was a pretty house before the lights and music. this will be good. we should go to the neighbors' house and ask them what they thinkbout it. >> i'm sure they enjoy the view. >> i would think it would be good up to a point. up to a point. >> you decorated your house? >>i put a tree up and i have the chris moose s out. >> president obama gave some local students a holiday gift. plus parents talk to "dateline" about their daughters testimony. >>> the redskins announced donovan mcnabb will be benched the rest of the season. plus the end of an era. >>> and a rite of passage for childhood. writing letters to santa. it is what kids are askin

. >>> doug kammerer is cold here but at least no significant snow, right? >> that's correct. even the snow that did fall to the south did not cause too ny problems. eventually those roadways were above freezing. some areas toward fredericksburg and off to the east and soheast did pick up between one and even up to three inches. we did see some snow this morning down to the south and east and even a couple of flurries aroun the rest of the region as well. right now, temperature, cold. 27 degrees. but really it will be the windchill that we're talking about. the current windchill at the bottom of the screen, down to 14 degrees. make sure you have all of your skin covered as far as gloves and hats go. once again, look at these windchills. down to five. it feels like five in hagerstown. ven in winchester and right now the air force base toward andrews coming in at 11 degrees as far as the windchill was concerned. and another chance of snow. i'll have that foyou. >> coming up, some cruise ship passengers said they were afraid for their lives. >>> somebody is attack women riding me

meteorologist doug kammerer joins us from the weather center with the latest. >> it's about time that something else starts to take the blame as far as the cold is concerned. let's not talk about the cold anymore. now we have some snow moving in here. let's take a look and show you what's gng on. yes, it is still cold. temperatures, 32 degrees with some sunshine out there. and those winds are still blowing. west northwest at 18. the windchill today, around 20 degrees. those winds will die down overnight and into the day tomorrow. outside, temperatures in frederick around 28 degrees. 25 in hagerstown. still very cold there. down to the south, quantico around 33. look at fredericksburg, around 37 degrees. windchills though, still in the teens in many locations. especially to the north and we. sterling and baltimore coming in with windchills of 18 degrees. we do have that winter weather advisory in effect for areas down to the south. it does include areas like southern fauquier county, saint mary's county, even calvert county into maryland and other areas to our south including frederksb

doug is out there to show them to us. hey, doug. that house from christmas vacation does nothing to this house. it doesn't do it justice. an amazing, amazing house. we are here in alexandria. and they sent this from the international space station. i made that p. butit cod be true, bill. it really could be true. i want to you introduce your family. >> this is my wife jan and my son michael and my daughter. >> anna, she missed the first half-hour of the show. give a little wave to your friends. thank you very much. thank you very much. we he some neighbors here as well. i said how does this come up? and you said to be honestith you, it is an obsession. >> i would say so. >> would you say so? >> i would say it is absolutely an obsession. >> reporter: you said you started 20 yearsgo and you had a little something here and there. nd then it really, really grew. how many lights do you have? >> i have 5,000 lights. and 15,000 more than last year. i'm switching over the l.e.d.s so my carbon footprint is slinking. >> reporter: you said i ne