but for doug click, the story doesn't end there. his bravery and quick action captures the media's attention. >> doug click, good morning. >> good morning. >> man, what a morning you had. >> it's been a heck of a 24 hours. >> but for the son of a police chief and brother of four police officers, doug's response, he says, was nothing more than being brought up with that old-fashioned sense of responsibility. >> i remember back when i was a kid, you know, if anybody had done anything like that, the dads would have definitely stood up and stopped the guy. he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. the police are the cleanup crew. they're not there when the crimes are going on. if you can stop the people from doing crimes, you try to stop them as best you can. >>> another terrifying crime on the road. this one on a public bus. a man boards a bus in broad daylight and immediately begins pummeling the driver, taking him and the passengers on a wild ride to remember. may 2008, in milwaukee, wisconsin. and a masked man reportedly asks, do you rememb

[laughter] >> thank you, doug. now we're going to jump way ahead to the 20th century, modern times, but the early 20th century when forensic science was still in its infancy. and as deb blum tells in her book, sort of a combination of bad laboratory science and sloppy detective work made poisoning the sort of perfect crime. you could almost get away with murder literally. and deb is going to talk about, as her book does, about the beginnings of how in the united states how a very brilliant, a very dedicated public servant and a brilliant toxicologist, the chief medical examiner of new york city and his partner, the toxicologist, developed what we know today as forensic science. deb was here, it was interesting she was here when the hardcover version came out back in 2010 and presented now the paperback is here, i'm happy to welcome her back to this stage. deb? >> well, i'd like to start, also, by thanking the tucson festival of books and saying what a privilege and pleasure it is to be on a panel with two such wond

i'm meteorologist doug kammerer.ere on nbc washington we're talking about 61 degrees out there with plenty of sunshine. winds out of the north at 20 miles per hour gusting to 25 right at the airport right along the potomac. most of us seeing wind gusts around 15 to 20 miles an hour right now. 60 degrees at rockville. gaithersburg around 57 degrees. rockville, bethesda both the 50-degree mark. 60 over toward annapolis. hunting town right now 59 degrees. warranton down here to the south in fauquier county right now at 63 degrees. what are we going to be seeing overnight tonight? you know we're talking about cold air. but maybe some of the coolest air we've seen in a little while. 38 degrees in washington. 33 in gaithersburg. 32 in frederick. 31 in winchester. a lot of people out planting already. you might want to wait another week or two before you start to plant even those tomato crops may not come up as the temperatures, soil temperature is still a little too cool and we do have a freeze advisory or freeze warning i

doug kammerer here now taking a look at the nor'easter and how it affected us. doug? >> it affected us in a big way as far as temperatures go. so far the unofficial high temperature 49 degrees. we have only been below 50 for a high three times in the last six years in the month of april so some very cold air. 20 degrees below average right now. we're still seeing shower activity right now across parts of the area. most of this continues to be of the rain variety but out toward the west we are looking at snow. this is parts of western maryland into western parts of pennsylvania, parts of pennsylvania 18 inches of snow. parts of western maryland, over 6 inches of snow. how do we know? because that's where we sent chuck bell. we sent chuck on a little voyage today. chuck, all meteorologists would love to be where you are right now. i know i'm here in the studio. i want to be where you are, my friend. >> well, if you need it, it's about a 24-degree wind chill out here, doug. come on out and join me. nice and cold out here in western maryland. current temperature 32 degree

doug is taking over in washington. >> eric: doug is coming up in just a moment. >> a giant in the world of journalism has died. mike wallace was 93 years old. he had been ill for several years. the cbs newsman was the crusading reporter who helped to make "60 minutes" a great success. he doggedly went after leaders and liars in a signature style. live in washington, our hearts go out to the wallace family, including his son, our colleague, chris wallace. we begin with steve centanni. >> mike wallace, of course, the cbs news correspondent, did pass away in connecticut at age of 93. he was relentless in probing and questioning in his entire career. one of the best ways we could pay tribute to him is to watch this amazing man at work. let's watch some of his clips here. >> which upset him and his friends. how many blacks there are on your top campaign staff, governor? >> i couldn't honestly answer you, now. >> that speaks for itself. >> uh-huh? >> i president of the united states -- >> it was -- i don't know enough about iran-cobtra, mike, to talk to you intelligently about it. all i know

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

i continue my inquest in champaign illinois two hundred kilometers from chicago and home to doug rock. going to help money. for drug rock the presence of uranium in fallujah comes as no surprise his former high ranking officer served more than thirty five years in the us army in particular during the first gulf war at that time he had a research program into the consequences of a new uranium based weapon after testing on behalf of the pentagon he became its first victim he doused suffers from several cancers and renal problems it is part of the nevada test we did and what i'm doing is blowing up the chute in berne enough but what you see is the direct impact on the iranian missions iranian impact but the uranium the brace of burns and burns and burns and burns and burn for a long time you see how long it lasts he claims that your ania has been used in american munitions since one thousand nine hundred one in missiles shells and armor plating for military vehicles. and when i shut up with four by fours man it works great this stuff is good ok i mean you have to understand the purpose i

doug's got the latest. he's tracking the changes for us. >> it's a little bit of a rollercoaster ride across our area. little ups and downs but nothing too big here. we're not talking about massive upswings or downswings. right now 75 degrees out at the airport. winds out of the northwest about 13 miles an hour. that northwesterly wind helping to warm us up and now that we have sunshine, temperatures are going up. look at these numbers. 82 right now in fredericksburg. 81 in charlottesville. 73 manassas and leesburg. to the north the coolest place on the map frederick, maryland. 70 degrees. that is well above average. right now sitting between 10 and 15 degrees above the average temperature. there is a few -- there are a few storms down to our south and west that may clip our extreme southwest viewing area. we'll talk much more about that and why that frontal boundary will continue to move down to the south and what it brings behind it because we'll wake up to some much cooler numbers tomorrow. temperatures

. >> reporter: no, this is a rarity, doug. no doubt about it. we were talking about it over the course of the weekend as well. this snowstorm is all about elevation no doubt about it. we have a couple inches on the ground up here. it's been snowing most of the day. as you know, barely anything, hardly a flake to be found anywhere in metro washington. but, boy, that story changed as soon as you drove up the hill. just outside of frostburg we have turned the calendar back to winter time. when we left washington only a couple hundred feet above sea level. the grass was green, trees in full leaf. now just outside of frostburg, maryland we're here just above 1500 feet. 2 inches of snow on the ground. it's snowing like crazy out here. >> tell us your thoughts about snow in the third week of april. >> yuk. not what we wanted to see. not at all. >> reporter: has it been a snowy winter? >> no. we didn't get much snow at all. very minute compared to other years and really nice. >> reporter: we're out in northern garrett county, maryland. this is asa king,

>> doug, first, happy easter. john nance garner would have said that had he been vice-president in the modern age. that was a very different time. he never became president. hubert hump tree free said -- excuse me, john adams said, i am nothing but i might be everything. hubert humphrey had a version of that. look, today's list -- we can't help ourselves, we are getting way ahead of ourselves, the way we often do, the republican race for president isn't over. but we are already on to speculation. the speck ielgzulation is centering mainly on two people, but there will be a long list. the two people are, of course, senator marco rubio from florida, a nontraditional choice that will please conservatives and senator ron portman from ohio, a more traditional choice, fully vetted with a lot of experience in congress and the executive branch in washington. >> you mentioned rob portman, a guest columnist wrote that the nominees see seeking runningmates from key swing states don't hold up to scrutiny, historically peeking

most of us should stay on the d dry side. >>> thank you, doug. is living out his sports fan dream and filling in for dan. you know, i don't recall you telling how you were -- how you did with your ncaa bracket. >> what bracket? you mean the one i was busted out the first day out? busted. real bad. how about you? >> i never made one. sorry. >> doug, you had one, right? >> i got first in one of my brackets. and then i was fourth, fourth and third. >> fourth and third don't matter. in the 11:00 broadcast last night, at every commercial break and every opportunity, what's the score? who's up? we're talking, of course, about the championship matchup of college basketball royalty. one team was king. the team with six potential first-rounders, the team with the national player of the year, who may not have had the best shooting night. but he sure made his presence felt in every other way, didn't he. kentucky looked like the best team, and you know what, it was the best team. this ebeat caps as for the ncaa title last night. it was a matchup of two all-a

doug? >> cool if not cold.ean, most of this winter and most of the early spring we have been very, very mild. today a little bit on the cooler side. still nice at 60 degrees. 60 and sunshine. that is a very nice day. winds out of the south about 7 miles an hour but we were about 15 degrees cooler than during the day yesterday. and pollen still a big problem out there. a lot of you suffering from pollen. it has been very, very high. high today, very high tomorrow. and it's going to be very high on saturday, too. again, we need to see some rain to take these pollen levels down. unfortunately, i don't really see a good chance of rain for the upwards of one to two weeks. 61 now in rockville. 57 manassas. right now 63 down toward warranton. over toward hunting town at about 55 degrees. what's going on storm 4 radar? we're not seeing any rain. all of the rain is down to the south down around richmond. a few showers there where the cloud cover has been, too. but right around our region nothing to talk about as far as

doug has a look at the changing forecast, what's going on? >> out there right now, 65 degrees, mostly cloudy if not cloudy skies across the region, we've seen the clouds all day long, that has kept temperatures a little bit below average yet again across the area, 65 degrees with winds out of the south at 7 miles per hour. some areas have seen sun, martinsburg, currently 71 degrees, was in the 70s in winchester, now seeing the clouds and rain return, right now 68 in manassas. i'll show you how the showers will affect you tonight and what to expect for the tough weekend ahead. >>> thank you, doug. >>> there has been an arrest in the phylicia barnes murder case, the honor student from north carolina who disappeared while visiting family in baltimore back in 2010. baltimore police arrested michael johnson wednesday night, charging him with first degree murder. he is the ex-boyfriend of the victim's sister. he was also the last person to see her alive. the teenager's body found a year ago in the susquehanna river. >> the fact that the investigati

that is doug mckelway. obviously not hearing us. doug, he is leaning in. having a little problem with his earpiece. we'll check back with doug in a moment. this is very exciting what is going on today. a very rare sight as we see the two retired shuttle aircraft, literally nose to nose as you've been saying. it is a sight really something that is very unusual and rare. jenna: it is the end of the road at least for now the space shuttle discovery that will be in the smithsonian. this is beginning of a journey for space shuttle enterprise. enterprise will have a similar flight like we saw piggybacking on top of a 747. it will fly to new york city if weather permits. there is some concern about weather already. if it goes according to plan, enterprise will fly over manhattan and over popular landmarks in new york city. that should be quite a sight on monday. it will land at jfk and 10 stay there for a little while before it makes its final trip to the intrepid air and space museum where it will be displayed. it will make that trip on a barge. we have quite a

doug knows. >> that's my job out there. as far as we are concerned, we have rain coming through right now. some showers around the woodbridge area, prince william county, warrenton we'll tcontine to see those moving quickly. this is not any relief from this very dry weather. we need to see upwards of a couple inches of rain. the last time we saw a storm with over a half inch of rain was back in february. take a look now at manassas, west of woodbridge, there is rain coming down right now. once again most is on the light side. something else is coming in with the showers. i'll show you what you can expect the next couple days coming up. >> thank you, doug. a police officer shot and killed a man in landover. on sheriff road, after 7:00. according to police the officer approached three men acting suspiciously. one of the men got into an altercation with the officer. when the officer used a taser on him, police say the man pulled the prongs out and went for the officer's done. the victim has not been identified. >> people in an

gorgeous day out there, doug. >> it does not get better than this in the month of april. temperature right now 71 degrees. our average is 62 degrees. so almost ten degrees above average. and looking at the new number right now, it is 72. so yes, ten degrees above average. we're looking at plenty of sunshine. a few clouds today. a few more than we saw during the day yesterday. but hey, not bad at all. as a matter of fact, gorgeous. look at all the sun with the winds out of the west at 8 miles per hour. dew point of 25. a very dry atmosphere. that's what allowed us to warm very easily during the day today. 73 right now in frederick. 66 in gaithersburg. and down towards culpepper, currently there sitting at 72 degrees. so everybody on the mild side. the coolest area, once again, right there along the bay. annapolis now only at 60 degrees. there are a few showers trying to make their way in from western maryland. these are going to die out before they make their way our way. you can't rule out a couple of showers from west virginia, maybe the panhandle. eastern k kentucky and

doug mckelway joins us live and doug, talk to us about this?er: gregg, this is fascinating thing to sigh. we just had a fly-by at dulles airport with the 747 mated to it. it is most unusual sight. the first thing you ask yourself when you see this how can this thing fly? it is a bit of a chore because it changes the center of gravity quite drastically on the 747 not to mention the weight factor and aerodynamic factor involved in that. if you look at the 747 pretty closely it has undergone a number of aerodynamic modifications. tail structure is very different than what you see on an ordinary 747. the shuttle itself weighs even when empty of fuel weighs 200,000 pounds. this has been gutted of most everything. it is a bit less than that, 175,000 pounds. it is a huge weight so it can't fly nearly as fast as a regular 747. can not fly as high. apparently flew up from cape canaveral at altitude of 15,000 feet. if you were able to look out your windows up and down the southeast united states you may have been able to see this all the way up the coast

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and doug was first attracted to geology when his parents hauled him around collecting rocks on field trips. and after getting geology degrees from the university of georgia and penn state, doug worked cleaning up nuclear waste in washington state. also spent time looking for oil and gas as a geophysicist for exxon and managing environmental research and monitoring at the nevada test site before coming to the u.s. gs. and doug will address us tonight on the increasing role that unconventional oil and gas resources play in the nation's petroleum. >> thanks, dave. okay. welcome, everybody. thanks for coming out tonight. i'm going to talk about unconventional oil and gas assessments in the united states. and i want to talk about this for several reasons. one is to set the stage for the following two talks. but also just to give you an idea of what role directional drilling play in enabling the production of these un -- so-called unconventional resources. and i'll start out by saying that the nation is still very dependent upon fossil fuels, including oil and gas. and in particular, gas p

doug, you're with us still. what is the reaction on the ground there. >> reporter: all eyes are rivetted on that. it just passed by maybe a little more than a hundred yards from where we now stand. it was just amazing. it was like watching a tennis match, you see the eyes all moving in one direction. that's what it was like here, and the size is what really impresses you. even when it flies by at a thousand feet or so it's huge, but to have it pass by as closely as it just did it just is absolutely magnificent. just as advertised as you look at the discovery it is a well-worn spacecraft. it's not clean, it's not shiny, it's not pretty. it looks every bit as used as it is. it spent something like 365 days, a cumulative 365 days in space on all of its 69 missions. 37 years of life span. and they want it to remain looking that way when they put it on display at the annex to the air space museum here. they don't want to clean it up. they want it to look like the well used craft that it is. rick: i was going to say,

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how about it, doug?ve to say like the low-down on the cool-down. >> lowww, barry white. >>> we've seen the clouds all day long, every once in a while we've seen sun break out, off to the west of washington. right now at the airport cloudy skies, 64 degrees, wins out of the south at 7 miles per hour. this is what we're seeing around the region, 66 in huntingtown. more sunshine to the west, 66 in dulles, but with the clouds we did not get nearly as warm as we were hoping. i thought we would get in low 70s today with some sunshine, there was a very warm air mass making its way our way but this area of rain right here was moving our way and just stayed just south of us and kept all the warm air to the south, too. behind it now looking at a line of showers and thunderstorms, that through west virginia. i think most of these you'll try to die out before they get here, i'm not too worried about those, farther down south and west, big time severe weather through eastern kentucky and southern portions of west vir

doug hill will be coming up. >> adam, we start with a look at the scene of a vehicle fire on the faright side of your screen. this is just east of the beltway before you get to 704. there is a bus that caught fire way over on the right-hand side. it is a difficult exit from the belt way to go east. it is a little heavy try to see what is going on. beltway new hampshire, very slow right now. slowing you down in a big way. quick look at springfield. a very heavy. cynne and steve, back to you. >> thank you so much. 6:32. the space shuttle discovery's final mission. >> 39 trips into space. it is on the back of the jet. it is 30 minutes away from liftoff. brianne carter is live where you can watch this historic trip. >> that is right. at the gates will open to the public at 8:00 this morning. people are going to start filing in. with this about a half-hour from takeoff and florida. and then a few hours from then it will be here. a spectacular sight. the last time that we saw something like this happen was back in 1986. it is now currently here at the museum. discovery will end up making i

chief meteorologist doug hill joins us with a look at the windy conditions and whether or not there will be any rain soon. >> may be a sprinkle or a light shower briefly tomorrow, but a dry out look at the moment. still very dry across the area and well beyond. this is the red flag warning in effect for our entire viewing area all the way down into georgia and florida. this will happen repeatedly over the next week or so because of the lack of rain in the forecast. beautiful afternoon outside of the belfort furniture weather center. the temperature has been very mild. 64 in the city. prequel in frederick. it 59 degrees. 34-42 tonight overnight. there are changes i will share with you in the fall forecast coming up. >> in developing story in the district where an effort is under way to crack down on the theft of smartphones. d.c. mayor vincent gray and police chief captiva near joined in with the chiefs of other major cities to announce a new initiative. wireless carriers will launch a new database to stop smartphones from being used once their stolen. >> with the push of a button, we wil

doug, how are you keeping track of all this? >> it is those wild temperature swings, we'll continue to see these over the next couple days, and then we'll get in a fantastic stretch of warmer weather once again we have seen a lot of it so farks we'll see more of it out there right now. the cloud cover, you can see a mixture of of sun and clouds across the area right now, with current temperature at 58 degrees. winds out of the north at 13 miles per hour, so it's a little on the cool side, when you walk outside this evening. so you will need the jacket once again and once again, will be a cool night. down to 57 right now in gaithersburg. 57 in frederick, maryland. 55 in winchester, warmest area toward fredericksburg, temperature is 61 degrees. those temperatures will be low temperatures as we make our way in the weekend. we have much warmer air that will make its way our way. that is the good news. if you're getting used to that warmer air, want it to return, wait until you see the forecast, i have good numbers for you. >>> thank

thank you, doug. coming up a popular actress and former child star arrested. we'll tell you what landed amanfred amanda bins behind bars. >> florida is reconsidering its stand your ground law after the death of trayvon martin. >> did you hear that? >> yeah. >> i know that's bs. i know it is. >> and was a pilot ignored during a call for help? why it appears air traffic control refused to arrange an ♪ ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ ♪ no more, no more, no more ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds and puts down a barrier to stop new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control spray once. stop weeds for months. >>> from a third grader's half-court heave to frisbee fun on the ice. >> a good one, folks. time for your installment of "in case you missed it" and we start with a magic disappearing act. in case you missed it, there's no more magic in orlando. actually there's no more arena where the o

hey, doug. >> yeah. hi, wendy. a very dry atmosphere. we have not seen much in the way of rain at all and you combine that with the very gusty winds. that is what prompted that red flag warning and that fire danger out there so, please, be careful if you are out and about. 65 degrees is the current temperature right now. humidity only 31%. the winds? they're gusting over 25 miles an hour, still down at the airport. some locations still seeing winds upwards of 30 to 40 miles an hour. current temperatures on the warm side. 69 right now in fredericksburg to the south in through northern virginia and talking about leesburg right now 59 degrees. frederick, maryland a temperature there of 61. we do have a chance for some shower activity. there are a few sprinkles out there. mostly in through portions of southern maryland and the panhandle of west virginia. just to the north and west of -- just to the north and east of winchester but only expect a sprinkle or two. most of this not reaching the ground down around the fredericksburg region. overn

hi, doug. >> hello. you already noticed a change right now. this change coming from the day yesterday where high temperatures were in the 60s. today we're in the 70s. everybody right now reporting at least 70 degrees. many of you well above that 70-degree mark. right now at the airport coming in at 73 degrees. even though we had plenty of cloud cover today, temperatures were still able to make it up into the 70s with the warm northwesterly wind coming in right now about 12 miles per hour. take a look at the numbers around the region and look at the numbers to the south. fredericksburg, charlottesville, both coming in at 80 degrees. 73 in culpepper. 76 in la plata. up toward gaithersburg right now current temperature along 270, 72 degrees. up toward frederick, maryland, coming in right now at 70 degrees. so a very warm afternoon but it's not going to stay that way. we have our frontal boundary that's right on top of us right now. to the south of that front we're seeing some thundershowers around roanoke, richmond, and norfolk, all seeing some t

doug kammerer is in the weather center. doug? >> it was amazing. i put out a tweet about that about 1:30 and everybody is like, snow? what are you talking about? yeah, we did see some areas of snow. a lot of people reporting hail, too. it was not hail. it's called grapple. we'll talk more about that coming up in a minute. look at the temperature right now. currently sitting at 54 degrees under partly sunny skies at the airport. winds right now are at 28 miles an hour. a very cool afternoon. we should be in the mid 60s this time of the year. right now hagerstown coming in at 45. martinsburg 45, too. 54 down in manassas. 54 in fredericksburg. that is the warmest temperatures out there right now. we still do have some shower activity and any of these showers will produce mainly rain but it may mix with snow or grapple. once again we'll explain that in a few minutes and also explain what's in store for tonight. you know it's going to be a cold night. what about the rest of the week and the all important weekend? >>> tonight a sigh of relief in indonesi

now we want to get a look at the day ahead with doug hill. good morning doug. >> good morning.nday morning. and looking good starting out. cold front came through overnight. just a few sprinkles and showers there. they're history. winds are gusty. chesapeake beach. a live camera. a few clouds over on the other side of the bay. a little cloud bank way on the horizon. either that or some mountains have appeared overnight. i think it's just some clouds. over towards tillman island. gusty winds. temperatures on the chilly side. low 40's but our average low for this second day of april is 40. 58 in quantico. 56 in fredericksburg. gusty winds with the passage of cold front. wind gusts 29 miles per hour at reagan national. it will not windy, but just a bit breezy. high pressure builds in. our futurecast will show skies clearing through the day. and sunshine, high of 62-67 degrees tonight. will be clear and chilly. winds will diminish somewhat. and the next seven days show a bit of a warming trend. that's really low end chances. and then pleasant weather straight through the end of the

doug is here with a look.ed rain and they have a plethora of it down there. >> they have an abundance of it. just last year they were dealing with major drought in oklahoma and texas. it's good for them to see some rain. yes we do need to see some here. we keep seeing these little systems coming through but they are not giving us a lot of moisture. i think the same thing can be said with the next system coming through here overnight tonight and in through the day tomorrow. out there right now we've got the clouds around the area. a lot more cloud cover once again. we've seen this type of pattern over the last couple weeks here with some clouds and just cooler weather. high temperature today only 67 degrees. the average high is 71. low this morning 50. today is the eighth day out of the last nine with temperatures below average and a lot of people wanting to see those 70s and 80s come back. i think they'll be back by this time tomorrow. by the way, check this out. the sun sets today at 8:00. it will be after 8:

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doug's here with your forecast. doug? >> yeah, you know, i think we're going to have a half and half weekend out of this. sunday looking like the better day. but this friday looking very, very nice out there. you walk outside right now, you see plenty of sunshine. temperatures a little bit below average. once again, a high temperature right now of 64 degrees. our average high is 70. so a little bit below average. and the winds gusting to near 30 miles an hour. those winds have been gusting all day long out of the north-northwest. with that we've stayed cool, especially in our northwestern zones. hagerstown 56. 59 in frederick. closer to 70 down toward fredricksburg. a 10 degree difference between areas to the north and south. no rain around our area right now but there's a very big storm off to the west and it's going to send a piece of energy our way. we will see rain during the day on saturday. i'll show you when and who i think may see the most coming up in my full forecast. >> all righty. >>> well, celebrities are hea

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host: doug schoen, question on twitter. bill writes in and says the tea party republicans have taken partisan politics to highs never seen in our country's history. what do you think about the tea party's influence? guest: i think the tea party started out as an authentic grassroots movement designed to try to return government to its roots and it became increasingly partisan over 2010, had a clear and demonstrable impact on the 2010 elections. sadly, the tea party is a reflection of ordinary people's anger with the system but the members of congress who have been elected are sufficiently inflexible and the electorate in the tea party now sufficiently intolerant that at least on the right, you're seeing a race to adopt extreme policies. you know, we've seen in the republican primaries how the tea party movement has, if nothing else, driven the ideological debate among the four candidates. so i sadly have to agree all the while underscoring that the sentiment that produced the tea party, frustration with government was somet

doug wanted it. but i big footed him. >> yeah. >> here we go.dst of a big push for the playoffs the caps visit the tampa bay lightning tonight. you knew that didn't you? less than a week ago things were looking really bad for this team. last tuesday they were blasted, embarrassed at home by the buffalo sabres. it was not pretty. they overtook the caps for the eighth and final playoff spot in the eastern conference but here's the deal. the sabres in the last couple games really sucked. they have lost both of them. as for the caps, they went the other way. they pulled out two wins, two shootout wins. thursday in boston brooks light was the hero. after blowing a 2-0 lead the caps win against montreal. with three games left washington is now two points ahead of buffalo for the final playoff spot and dig this, folks. they are just three points behind florida to potentially win the southeast division. can you believe that? >> unbelievable. >> check it out. >> we still believe that we have a chance in the division. you know, we haven't given up on that

thank you, doug. >>> still ahead, up in smoke. details behind the new effort to crack down on illegal cigarette smuggling across our region. >>> an nfl cheerleader at the center of a sex scandal. tonight she is facing some serious jail time for her alleged relationship with a high school student. >>> it's time for another installment of batter up as dan hellie takes on the my dad was a union electrician. sometimes i'd tag along to a work site, carrying his lunch or tools. it was good, honest work. i went to college with the help of a union scholarship, then started a maryland business, creating jobs by providing financing to small companies wall street ignored. today, congress is ignoring our need for jobs. my dad the electrician taught me, if something's broken, get in there and try to fix it. i'm john delaney, and i approve this message. >>> with all due respect to steven strasburg ryan zimmerman is the face of the nationals franchise. in february the team signed the seven-year veteran to a six-year, $100 million extension. >> y

i'm meteorologist doug kammerer. 63 degrees. we're looking at plenty of sunshine, winds out of the northwest 15 miles an hour, but still gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour. it's going to be a fairly breezy night. it's also going to be fairly cool. so make sure you take a jacket out and about if you have heading out for dinner. 55 in gaithersburg, 61 for dulles, 63 in manassas and root now honeytown and camden springs both coming in at 61 degrees. what are we going to be dealing with tonight? just the cold. clouds on the increase early tomorrow morning but tonight clear skies first will lead to cold temperatures down around the freezing mark in many locations and because of that we do have a freeze warning back to the west. we're talking about the same areas that have seen it around i-81 westward and even around gaithersburg and leesburg a frost advisory for you folks. we will warm up tomorrow to 59 in gaithersburg, 61 in manassas and 62 in fredricksburg. i think most of the day should be dry but by early afternoon we'll see the clou

thank you, doug. play ball! >>> an awful lot of people happy today.t the baseball season. it's under way. game one for the nats might provide the formula for success this season. maybe strong pitching, timely hitting. they got a little of both this afternoon up in wrigley field. they played the cubs up there. bill murray was there. you know he is a huge cubs fan. this, folks, is not the way to slide. okay? trust me on that. not text book. then threw out the first pitch. not bad. we think he made it across the plate. steven strasburg making his first opening start. two strike pitch to marlin byrd. goes down swinging. he used to play with us by the way. strasburg had five strikeouts today. fourth inning, strasburg and byrd again. two men on two out this time. byrd won. roped it into left field. ian comes in to score. cubs go up, 1-0. strasburg seven innings just one run left. eighth inning now. nats get something going with two outs. bases full. jayson werth draws the walk. tying run comes across to score. we're talking 1-1 through the eighth. now we're

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thank you, doug. soaring to new heights? coming up next the major milestone ten years after the terror attacks on the world trade center. >> a new twist to an old scam. criminals are going after grandparents getting them to fork over hundreds of dollars quickly. >>> the caps are in new york we know with a crucial game on the line against the rangers. dan will join us live to tell us what they need to do. >> the national zoo's giant panda couple may soon become parents. we'll tell you about a new effort to bring a baby panda to d.c. coming up tonight at 6:00. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. >>> payback time up at the big apple. the caps gearing up for game two in new york. >> dan hellie is live at madison square garden with the details. tonight feels good, doesn't it? >> yeah, it does. the capitals, guys, trying to do something that they've already done against the bruins. they lost gam

doug, how chilly is it going to get? >> chilly enough.ain we have freeze warnings out there. we have frost advisories the. we didn't have too many in march. a few in april a nother one tonight. in the district. not too bad. 54 degrees. pretty nice outside. wind out of the east at 3 miles an hour. clouds helping to keep a little heat in. just off to the west. we are starting to cool. 43 right now in frederick. 41, winchester. fredericksburg, 48. there is our freeze warnings back to the west in through val. areas west of i-95. we'll talk how cold it gets and how our unsettled pattern will continue. >> thank you, doug. >>> a clean sweep for mitt romney tonight. presumptive gop nominee claiming victory in five republican primaries. angie goff joins us with the latest. >> wendy, mitt romney edged closer to the number of delegates he needs to formally gain the republican nomination for president. follows five wins in five states. new york, pennsylvania, connecticut, delaware, and rode aisleland. and it is a blow to newt gingrich who now appears

but it's a good idea to have the umbrellas handy. >>> thank you, doug.ccused of killing jennifer hudson's family pap peered to cry at his trial. graphic images were shown of youngest victim, hudson's 7-year-old nephew. today was the first time william balfour showed any emotion in court. balfour has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the deaths of husband's mother, brother and nephew. hudson was not in the courtroom when prosecutors showed the pictures. the singer entered the courtroom after that. >>> people in montgomery county are waging a battle against plans for a gas station at the new costco. the wholesale club needs a special permit to add that gas station. neighbors in the wheaton area are worried about the impact it will have. news 4's jane watrel joins us. >> this contentious fight is entering its third year. neighbors creating a legal defense fund to fight the gas station. costco is not backing down. construction is in full swing for brand new costco outside the busy west field wheaton mall. they also want to build a mega gas station

since this photo was taken twenty one members of his team died returning from iraq doug submitted an unfavorable report on the use of depleted uranium. once i told the us army that it was dangerous we couldn't clean it up and he couldn't do it they saw the packing. they said how do you also be ghosts. we don't want to hear from you no we don't want to talk to you i mean you got your job keep doing things but shut up and go away the u.s. army never took doug rocks recommendations into account do you think you look just so you think there is a luge extensively in pollution totally it sensibly in fallujah not a question we see everything in all the other people we see every place has been used we see it i mean you try to clean it up and you can't that's what i tried to do or i could that's why i told him no more. to find out more i tried to reach colonel peter newall he was in command of the battle through june two thousand and four i never managed to obtain an interview nor would he even answer the phone. the issue appears to be embarrassing the only answer i received is a link to the

doug, the storm an weather cupping our way? >> the storm will make its way across the country towards our region. why it is not going to do t same thing down towards texas. take a look back towards dallas over the last 12 hours. numerous thunderstorms, numerous tornadic storms making the way through the dallas area. then into portions of east texas sam. ve -- still severe weather. look at severe weather reports. red, tornado reports. nearly 18 tornado reports from the dallas area. off to the east. areas in blue here. hail reports. some hail, upwards of baseball sized. now the storm itself as i mentioned will try to make its way our way. you can see a lot of storminess around the country right now. will that come through our area. what can we expect over the next couple days? little roller coaster. show you why in a minute. >> now to a developing story in northern virginia. a college there shuts its doors. surprising students and faculty. graduation is supposed to be just weeks away, too. jackie benson joins us live from rosalyn

doug can spin it any way he wants.py with their health care coming into this and now it's turned upside down. a lot of analysts think at the end of the day the costs are going to be huge and add to the budget deficit as companies and whole industries opt out of the -- of their current health care to go into the government plan. this bill was put together with two ideas, one, to get a low cbo score in the senate and secondly to get enough votes to pass the senate. it was never intended to be law, but when the democrats lost their 60th vote, they had to go with this bill. usually you fix these bills in conference and make them connect. already three major parts of this bill have been undone by the congress, and i think there's going to be more to come. but the difficulty here is you can't get the parties together to fix it. the framework i think we could talk about a similar framework, but it's been difficult because the democrats have taken ownership and republicans are willing to give it to them at this time. >> doug,