and edison was a master at this. >> in his book, the age of edison, historian earnest freeberg examines the incandescent light. i talked with him about the age of edison and the age of information. >> welcome to the museum. we're thrilled to have you here. let's talk about what

edison's labs were really about one guy, thomas edison.rying to do is create an environment and company that is about lots of inventors. i am not on every patent. i am not the inventor here. >> but this place is not just about inventing. patents are at the core of the business. he has amassed so much intellectual property that the press sometimes calls him a patent troll. >> they say this is unfair, nathan is out there acquiring all these patents on everything. how can i create anything when i have to pay a heavy fee to a company like intellectual ventures because they have the patent on it? >> there are companies that have gotten used to not paying. they have gotten used to a situation where a university owns that or a little start up owns it. a start up will never come after us. so, it's okay. we can stiff them. >> how much time does nathan really get in the kitchen? >> it is only a fraction of what we do. most of the reason i dress like this and work like this is because i love doing it. >> when nathan can't be here, chef maxime bilet t

con edison to monitor how much energy to facilities producing in real time. that's crucial because any excess energy is fed back to the grave. if there's too much back flow that can clog the system right in remote land. not that one of our burgers that they feel that something's wrong. there's a problem with how much electricity is going back to the red. robert time but the costs of the company to design engineer install the panels. con edison i believe just wants to be able to ensure that they have some sort of control. especially in certain kind of instances cited as a brown out or that people working on the grid lines and the speedy system has been performing well so far. khan and is paying close attention. experts say the technology could help prevent shutdowns like the one that occurred during super storms and the weenie you where cctv new york coroner's report brings to a close this up based on cctv news time in with my life in the company. is you the city how how. in the us. it's nice to be counted for a new way of teaching to which he did. it took an

we checked with potomac edison, and 2,800 customers have no power. >>> here's a live look outside right now where we are starting to dry out. storm team4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with the first forecast. tom? >> yeah, it was frederick county, maryland, parts of loudon county that got hit hardest by the icing overnight, that has now pretty much ended. storm team4 radar showing now the last of the rain, and now it's just rain, no longer freezing, because we are getting above freezing, it's in montgomery county, prince george's county, howard county, northern anne arundel, continuing to pull away. a few sprinkles lingering in southern prince george's county, into calvert. here is how much ice fell overnight. just a light glaze south and east of washington. there's washington. generally a tenth of an inch to a quarter of an inch fell in the northern and western suburb, but farther north and west, from montgomery county, loudon county, over a quart of an inch. a few spots in frederick county, some of the spots in washington, panhandle of west virginia, got half an inch of ice. and

and some counties like prince georges county, they are preparing right now potomac-edison is reporting 2,000 customers without power in frederick and montgomery counties, but more than 130,000 have had their power turned back on. and you can track the weather as it comes into your neighborhood with our storm team 4 weather app. you can download it for free at the apple app store or google play. search nbcwashington weather for the more up to date forecast from our own storm team 4 meteorologist. >>> family and friends will say a final good-bye to a washington man who died outside a d.c. fire station. the funeral will happen at 11:00 this morning at the canon baptist church in northwest. mills was dying across from a fire station last month. his daughter begged firefighters to help but they refused and told her to call 911. the ambulance was sent to the wrong address. mills died waiting for help. >>> we are following a developing story in northern virginia. an all out manhunt in the murder of a popular music teacher. last night, police released a sketch based on the accounts of the only

. >>> and we just checked in with edison tonight as they still have 18,180 customers without power in maryland. pepco, dominion, and pg&e all have fewer than 25 customers without power in our area. >> you know, mother teresa is a saint now, but if they wanted to make her a saint and attach it to the debt ceiling, we couldn't get all those republican votes. >> they found the house speakers comments funny. many want to spend on -- to spend on the massive deficit. tomorrow is the next deadline. jacob blue says if they do not act that we'll start to default by the end of the month. >>> on the senate side a bill designed to extend thinglong- term unemployment benefit failed today. they couldn't agree to extend the benefits. derek? >>> a police officer squared off with a firefighter and music to murder by? theyre both a pat of your world in 90 seconds. >>> opening statements today in the trial of a florida man accused of killing a 17-year- old for playing his music too loudly. >> he couldn't even hear himself talk. >> he raised his voice. it was disrespect. >> reporter: the fire chief says

in fact i know ones right there in new york, con edison, we actually briefed con edison on physical securityssues before april 16th. we took in with a team of people from doe including the 13th substation in lower manhattan. question did it several months before -- looking at prior to the incident. but and so i know there are a number of utilities that are taking steps. we need to make sure that it is a coordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substations and ensure those are protected. >> john, thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone else who just raised the latest security hack les. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious. there's a difference, as we said, bad guys making utility target an target a target. former fbi special agent john clark. john, there is a difference; right? hitting a retailer is one thing, presumably, to get money. hitting a utility substation is another. presumably to rattle folks; right? >> of course there's a differ

the mayor says edison has not embraced the movement in his city. >> they are supposed to act like they are in favour, they resisted it every step. >> edison denies that saying the utility is a leading purchaser of renewable energy, 20% of its portfolio coming from the renewable sources. >> lancaster plans to go a step further, producing and selling solar power. what i see is a day that we are not connected to the grid and serve at a model for that. >> a model that will see the sun set on high number prices - one solar panel at a time. >> authorities in new mexico are investigating a radiation leak. there's no danger to people and the voirpt. the leak is -- environment. the looek is at an underground site in federal new mexico. workers have not tested positive. it's unclear what caused the leak. >> nuclear power, and the danger of radioactive waste, fusion research. last year a controlled nuclear fusion reaction has made last year, a big step of reaching a source of clean sustainable energy. joining us from vancouver is from general fusion inc, doing its on research or nuclear fusion. t

in fact i know ones right there in new york, con edison, we actually briefed con edison on physical security issues before april 16th. we took in with a team of people from doe including the 13th substation in lower manhattan. question di it several months before -- looking at prior t the incident. but and so i know there are a mber of utilities that are taking steps. we need to make sure that it is a cordinated effort. we need to make sure we prioritize the most important substationsand ensure those are protected. >> john thank you for taking the time. it makes a big difference when a guy like you is concerned and anyone ese who just raised the test securi hack ls. thank you for doing that. >>> in the meantime, there's a reason why the former chairman is anxious. there's a difference, as we said, bad guys making utility target an target a target. former fbi special ant john clark. jo, here is a difference; right? hitting a retailer is one thing, presumably, to get money. hitting a utility substion is another. presumably to rattle folks right? >> of course there's a difference. when, you kno

. ♪ >>> a family is suing southern cal edison for cutting off their electricity after they refusing to $140,000 bill and cut off the power a couple of weeks ago. it was racked up at their rental property. the renter, not the own we, and ten others are accused of running a massive pot growing operation and bypassing the meter box to steal electricity. they say the family's name is on the account so the bill is theirs. >> i cannot wash my hair or pump my breast milk. >> the family is hoping a judge will force the company to turn the power back on. the court date isn't until next month. >> more details today from the talks between bay area electric carmaker tesla and silicon valley giant apple. it has been confirmed that talks were held with apple's acquisition, which is part of steve jobs vision of an i-car. it could put apple in a better position to compete with google and the self-driving car technology. tesla says any merger or acquisition involving apple is unlikely at this point. >> we know what is likely. the mike nicco on the roof. >> i am sure he is on the roof. >> you have the w

potomac edison has about 27,000 outages, mostly in western maryland. unexpectedave had consequences. >> for many residents across frederick county, another day of waiting for the light and the heat to come back on. >> i do not think it would be this long. >> without power, he made a makeshift office. stick it out. >> and this person has been without power for more than 24 hours after wednesday morning's eyes snapped trees and power po les in her neighborhood. as she got a generator to help her home and her neighbors. >> [inaudible] onlynk we are one of the ones with that capability with the generator. >> people are waiting for the power to come back on. also in frederick county, three schools closed today because the power was out. schools still the in the dark. also still dark, several traffic lights around the county. police are urging drivers to treat these intersections like four-way stops. our companies hope to have everyone back up and running by friday. numeral carter, abc seven. >> the power problems are so extensive that pge is calling in 400

potomac edison has more than 50,000 outages in maryland most in frederick and washington county and pepco has 21 active 549ges, dominion has about customers without power in northern virginia, most in the loudoun county area. >> we have live team coverage with cruise all over the area. meteorologistth jacqui jeras. >> this is all diminishing now. we are hardly even seeing anything any longer. you can see a little bit of ,oisture trying to make its way maybe a little drizzle in the next hour but it will push through and we will see clearing conditions into the afternoon. degrees ands at 34 32 degrees in westminster. temperatures are still near freezing with ice accumulations that have collected as much as half an engine that will stick around for a while unless it has been treated. the advisories have all been dropped. it included loudoun, montgomery, and howard county. intoextend until noon frederick county. 7/10 o of aned inch of ice. half of an engine in manchester, frederick, maryland, a lot of damage there, about a quarter of an inch for gaithersburg and leesburg. reagan national airp

the hardest hit are north and west where potomic edison has 22,000 without power. >> i hate this. >> reporter: tonight two cand are the only thing shining. >> i don't like it. >> reporter: the loigs went out when freezing rain pounded the area causing this tree to slam on to her roof. >> it was loud. >> reporter: knocking out the power. >> i thought maybe a truck hit my house. >> reporter: tonight more than 20,000 people are in darkness. we drove in neighborhoods with our dash cam. our head lights are the only thing showing you light. the bad weather caused wide spread damage. crews removed fallen trees, fixed downed lines. 150 line men, 200 additional workers trying to restore power. this woman needs it now. >> a little disappointed. >> reporter: caroline waits in disappointment and wants the lights back on. >> hopefully it is the longest we have been without it i think is two hours. >> reporter: right now looking at the tree. crews will have to come here and chop it up and get it out of here so another crew can fix her roof. as for the power outages it could take several days befor

about 240 potomac edison customers are out of power, mostly montgomery county. smeco has 900 outages, mostly in charles county. the numbers down in the last hour. >>> this morning the hardest roads to drive are the side streets. take a live look now. news4's megan mcgrath is in d.c. live to show you what you'll have to battle if you are heading out. >>> plus, trapped in an avalanche and thrown 100 feet. how the man wearing the camera that shot the video got himself to safety. and the snow is gone for now. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein's tracking how much we could see this weekend. pre-skiing fuel up @dunkin'donuts. #mydunkin. nothing gives you a boost like delicious dunkin' iced coffee. share your story. #mydunkin. [ male announcer ] leading a multi-faceted life is anything but ordinary. meet the hybrid that matches your drive. ♪ the new 2014 lexus ct hybrid with an epa estimated 42 mpg. ♪ embrace your extraordinary. ♪ embrace your extraordinary. whether you're a ham and cheese at noon, a turkey, cheddar, bacon in the afternoon, or a tuna salad when the

we just checked in with potomac edison. it could be days before everybody has their service bang on. a shelterer with handful of warming centers could be back on. >>> a a man is recovering after he was hit by a dew upon train. it happened around 7:30. first responder went to the hospital. they said he suffered nonlife- threatening injuries. >>> he went to a jailhouse and says it did him some good. now he wants any state official serving a mandatory yeef long term for drunken boating and drunking driveing. >> as members of the general assembly, we should be held to higher standard. i don't disagree with that. ki tell you both professionally and personally that i've benefited from every sentence that was handed down to me. >> dwyer has introduced a bill that would make 60 days behind bars and 28 days in we re hasn't mandatory for any state and elected official convict of drunk driving. >>> behind bars, a brother and 2 sisters connected in connection with a missing police captain. police are not sure where that cap tape might

a banyan tree was even planted by thomas edison.d is approved for up to 29 homes so a developer could subdivide or a super rich buyer could buy the island for themselves. price tag, $29.5 million. i know what you guys are thinking. you're thinking show us a really nice island. show us a real island. well, we got another one for you today. got two islands for the price ever one. this is little pumpkin key. it has a main house, two cottages, a boat, captain apartment, 20 slip marina, tennis courts that serb as a helipad and it's only $110 million. so the private island market right now just exploding. >> but does it have a banyan tree planted by thomas edison? >> no. isn't that cool? that is cool. the guy who owned the other island invented the dry cell battery. >> they should take purchasing tips from richard branson. they wanted $6 million for his island. he offered $100,000. they basically flew him off the island in disgust. a year later called back. he bought it for $180,000. they wanted $6 million. >> what changed their sentiment

potomac edison has nearly 9,000 out. most of them are in howard county. dominion power has under 600 outages. smeco is reporting 500 customers without power and pepco says they have about 170 outages. >>> other news, a scathing united nations committee report released today accuses the vatican of protecting pedophile priests. alexis christoforous has the story from new york. >> reporter: a united nations watchdog committee for children's rights demanded that the vatican immediately remove all clergymen who are known or suspected pedophiles and turn them over to law enforcement officers. the committee's report released wednesday criticizes how the vatican's government has dealt with pedophile priests. >> it has consistently placed the preservation of the reputation of the church and the protection of the perpetrators above children's best interests. another matter was the code of silence that was imposed by the church. >> reporter: the harsh tone of the report surprised vatican officials who quickly responded saying the roman catholic church is committed t

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. >>> edison customers still in the dark in frederick county, maryland. the huge ice storm wednesday is to blame. falling trees and ice brought down many power poles. middletown primary and lewistown elementary will reopen tomorrow. >>> homeland security is not taking any chances as the olympic games kick off in sochi.now banned from carry-on luggage for nonstop flights between russia and the united states. that ban comes after the department warned airlines terrorists might be trying to smuggle explosives on board using toothpaste. authorities worry terrorists might try to assemble an explosive device in flight or perhaps at the games. opening ceremonies are tomorrow. >>> new tonight at 11:00 prosecutors in los angeles are considering felony vandalism charges against pop star justin bieber. last month someone egged his neighbor's home causing $20,000 in damage. investigators searched bieber's home looking for surveillance footage and evidence. the district attorney is expected to make a decision in a week. bieber han in a bunch of trouble lately charged

here in our area, potomac edison has about 10,000 customers without power across frederick county. >>> out to our west, slick roads caused hundreds of accidents around dallas, texas. check out this near miss as a speeding car almost hits woman and then smashes the door of another car after an accident. about 40 miles away a news photographer almost became the story when a car slid dangerously close to him. temperatures here continue to be on the cold side, but we have more than one storm that could impact us over the next week. doug kammerer has more on that from storm center 4. what's the word, doug? >> rather chilly across the area. you step outside right now, and that's exactly what you get. take a look at the numbers across the area. 35 degrees in washington. 27 in gaithersburg. 27 in frederick. 33 downowards fredericksburg. storm team 4 radar not showing anything reaching the ground here. we do have a little bit of a storm. the same one that brought dallas the snow is actually moving over us right now. but the atmosphere just a little too dry. would not be surprised to see flurri

. >> the schools are city arts and technology high school, creative arts charter school, thomas edison, charter academy, five keys adult school, five keys charter school, five keys independent high school, gateway high school, gateway middle, and timp bay view academy, and san francisco bay academy, and san francisco college prep academy, and leadership high school and life learning academy. >> thank you. >> i think that we have one public speaker signed up. >> hillary henderson? >> hi, good evening and i'm hillerry and i am the director for the charter school's association and i am going to be very brief and i wanted to follow up on the letter that i submitted to you all this morning and request your support for the ratification for the mlus today and as you know, charter leaders had a conversation with superintendent carranza about this issue. and we would like to take your concerns into account and have a conversation going forward to address your questions and issues arounds enrollment process and time lines, and but given that these mlus were negotiated in good faith, last spring,

be sunday before the areas that were hit the worst are restored and back here in the area, potomac edison is working to get the lights back on for more than 17,000 customers in fredrick and montgomery county. >> and you probably notice that if you drive there is a bumpy region here in our area. the potholes are everywhere. look at this one on 16th and taylor streets in the northwest. and ddot says it is more than u busy as more than 3,000 potholes were filled last month, and already in the first six days of february, ta have filled 116 potholes. the city is urging rez dens to call 311 and use the social media to mention potholes so they can be filled. >>> and a potential vulnerability at the airports as a member at the airport was hit by lightning. >> and a stroke prevention guidelines out for women. >>> and her son died of an overdose last july. this is chris gordon and now she is here in annapolis asking the lawmakers to pass a good samaritan bill and spare other families that grief. >>> warrenton, virginia, population, 9,000, and you may not know that the mayor of this town was behind

potomac edison has nearly 10,000 outages in frederick and montgomery counties.t's telling customers all electricity will be restored by midnight tonight. bge is also telling its customers it plans to have all customers back on line today. most of its outages were upnary baltimore. >>> the number of power outages is much higher in pennsylvania. right now, crews there have more than 300,000 people in the dark. many hospitals had to power up backup generators for electricity. power companies called in help from as far away as arkansas and canada to help with restoration. >>> we haven't had a chance to talk much to tom yet this morning. i know your power was out yesterday. how are you doing today? >> still out. i'm one of those 10,000. and hopefully, yeah, it may be late tonight i get it back. right now around the region, we have got cold temperature. for those people without power inside their homes, temperatures are down into the 40s to 50s inside the homes. off to a cold start. right now in the 20s all around the region to near 30 degrees. a light wind. we have t

potomac edison has the largest share of customers who are struggling with over 29,000 outages in frederick county. more than 2,000 in montgomery county. howard has about a thousand of people without power. >>> storm team 4 meteorologist, doug kammerer is here to tell us what we can expect next. >> that was the area we were telling you about, upper montgomery count. loudoun county and the panhandle of west virginia. down to the south and east not as big a problem, a light glaze to the south. a few sidewalks covered. an inch to quarter of an inch from d.c. to bethesda and fairfax. it was back towards the west, w winchester, leesburg and clarksburg and gaithersburg and frederick, where we saw a quarter to a half-inch of ice and that will bring down trees and bring down power lines what we've seen through the area. temperatures are starting to go up. as the storm system moves out we continue to see clearing skyiei overnight tonight, at least partial clearing. and we see 48 in washington and 48 in fredericksburg and nearly 50 here and temperatures fall to the 20s and some to the teens. we menti

one of the thing that we are lately is that we are iis t the era o edisons, henry .ord's these are theers of this >> i do not even know they like each other. anything bad about the other one. they are both curators. bill gates wanted to change the world. wanted to change the world. rld.know this sounds corny. ple do not want to change the world, they just wanted to your company, those people are not going to change the world. if you want to change the woro h you may fail, but if you are smart and patient and you want to make it better, but this is e right timing, but you want to go despite all the obstacles, those are the kind of people who will change the world. definitely larry. >> easy greek thinker. -- he is a great inker. r.-- thinker. ha i was ting of that great time ad. so much good uff that come out of that. you are required to come back to the table. >> all right. it isour contract. ract.>> thank you for joining u. se timse . >> this is "taking stock," for wednesday, february 5, 2y, f pimm fox. we will focus on seeing things that other people do not, and "time" magazine has ca

bge customers are in the cold and dark tonight. 47,000 potomac edison customers. these icy problems were not limited to maryland. in loudoun county, a molar sign -- a similar scene. in leesburg, we have an update on the icy situation. maryland,the case in most of the ice has melted. leesburg,reet, in some tree branches have come down. there were trees that came down on other street. those cause big problems. >> it is unbelievable. >> that unbelievab sight in leesburg this morning. looked out the back door and said, i know why my generator came on. i did not realize that it's now several more down the road. , this tree came crashing down onto utility lines. about 4-5 different locations. there is water on the ground. >> crews worked all day to remove tree branches. they reinstall polls. it will be night time before they expect power to be flowing again. than 1500ght, more people were left without electricity in northern virginia. leesburg was one of the hardest hit. residents will go to their community coded. >> i could not get my car out. >> the i started melting

. >> you tell a story of - the best example is thomas edison, spending years to invent the light bulb. he said "i have not failed, i have just found 10,000 ways that won't work." >> that's the attitude. colonel sanders is a story. >> his wife left him. he was sick losing jobs. >> finally he gets a roadside cafe and the state of kentucky builds a highway. he ticks up. it goes on the road. he tells restauranteurs "give my $0.05 for a bit of chicken and i'll teach you oh to make great chicken", had he not failed, he would have been the proprietor of a modestly successful cafe, and kentucky town wouldn't have been heard of. >> you talk about kids, a trophy, and more than 40% of college fresh men were found to have had an a average. my experience, my kids go to fantastic schools. you were oaked down about it, when you arrived comaparted to other kids. none of the schools give them class rankings. if we want it to do well, we need to understand thou too. >> the best metaphor is the monkey bars. they had concrete under them, not mats, but no one died. you learnt - you were afraid. when you g

and edison hasn't exactly embraced the solar movement in his city. >> they're supposed to act like they're infavor of solar energy, but they resisted it at every step. >> one of the leading purchasers, with 20% of its portfolio coming from renewable sources. lancaster plans to go a step further, by producing and selling it's own solar power. >> what i see is a day that we are not connected to the grid, and we'll serve as a model for that. >> a model that paris hopes will serve as an example around the country, one solar panel at a time. aljazeera, lancaster, california. >> hackers have broken into the fundraisers website, kick-starter, and stolen data. it said that contradict numbers were not taken. it funds online donations for those trying top fund creative projects. some of the big news used the site. and now the company is encouraging altogether of the users to change their pass words. >>> here's a story that's different. venice, italy, is being swarmed with the walking dead. hundreds of zombies were there, with costumes and blood stains. we'll be right back after this short break. pro

. >>> a los angeles county family is suing son cal edison for cutting off their electricity after theyed to pay a six figure bill. they shut off the power to the home a couple of weeks ago, fowl say the son owes $145,000 which was racked up at the home that he whenned to a man who has been charged with running a marijuana "grow" operation inside and he says the man illegally bypassed the box to steal the look terrorist to power the grow lights and they have slapped him with the bill because it was his name on the power bill. >> i can't wash my hair. i can't pump my breast milk the. >> they suing power company but the utility account is under her name and they hoping a judge will town the power back on. the case is set to go before a judge in many. >> president obama returned to washington, dc, early this morning after the leaders of canada and mexico demand answers during a summit. president obama stepped off air force force one in maryland at 12:30 a.m. and they wanted it know the progress of immigration reform and the prospects for sweeping reform. prove made no promises to canadian

potomac edison power reported today the company has been holding weather watching conference calls since wednesday. crews have been alerted and decisions on how to deploy them may come as early as tomorrow. pepco is also watching the weather forecasts saying the utility is now prepared for the worst of the predictions with 150 company linemen and 450 contractors currently available if needed. good news from dominion power saying the utility there is anticipating minimal operational impact in northern virginia. the utility remains on stand-by and watching carefully. meanwhile maryland's emergency management agency tweeted today a warning for late weekend weather and reminders to be prepared for possible power problems by stocking up on batteries, canned food and bottled water. one thing that is distinguishing this incoming storm is how much the forecasts have been changing day to day. as one utility executive put it to me, it is too early to put a stake in thground but critical decisions will start getting made within the next 24 hours. scott broom, wusa9. >> coming up at 6:00 scott talke

one of the things that we areat saying lately is that we are in the era of thomas edisons, henry fordse the founders of these companies and they are operating at peak level. way steved him, the jobs -- they are not the same guy at all. -- i never heard either say anything about the other. they are both curators. jeff wants to change the world. bill gates wanted ll ghange the world. steve jobs wanted to change the world. i know this sounds corny.ds to say change the world. people who do not want to change the world, who just want to flip their company those people are , not going to change the world. but if you nt to change the world, you may fwol, but if you are smart and patient and you want to make it better, but this is not the right timing, but yob want to go despite all the obstacles, we will make much foundation, those are the kinds of people who of change the world. definitely larry. >> he is a great thinker. >> much success to this thing. it is a ready great. i wathinking of that great time, bill and steve, so much good has come out of that. you are required to come back tt the

. >> potomac edison has 50,000 outages. pg and e working to restore power to 73,000 customers. >>> phillip seymour hoffman's autopsy is inconclusive. further tests are needed. hoffman was found dead with a needle in his arm and bags of heroin near him. meanwhile, police believe they caught the drug dealers who sold him the heroin. police officers arrested four suspects at a lower manhattan apartment. police say they found 350 bags of heroin inside. we're going to have more on hoffman's death in a few minutes with u.s.a. today entertainment reporter, arian thronson. >>> we have another update on a heroin related story we followed for the last year. it's about a young addict named ryan whose troubled life had been documented by andrea mccarren and photo journalist, joe martin. they followed martin to a two- year treatment program in north carolina. as is often the case with recovering addicts, ryan had a breves setback and left that program after being clean for nearly six months, but he's starting at a new treatment facility

. >> reporter: james is the maryland president in potomac edison. >> back in 2012 we got hit with two major storms and then hurricane sandy as they all bring their challenges. this is a large event for us as we had almost 100,000 customers impacted, which is a third of the customer base with a lot more rugged terrain and our lines go across the country as we hope to have the vast majority of them restored by the end of the day tomorrow on friday. >> in frederick county, maryland, scott broom, wusa9. >> and by the way the hotels in the area, they are all full. so frederick county, they have a shelter open for people without power and their department of aging. and right now there are just under 24,000 potomac outages across the state and 16,000 of them are right there in frederick county. pg&e is still trying to turn the power on to more than 31,000 customers in maryland. >>> and in the philadelphia area, 400,000 people still without power after the storm. trees are down, power lines covered in ice. it could be four to six days before everyone gets their power back on. officials say th

fox biz own rich edison joins us. how many people have signed up?alone more than the administration projected. for the first time monthly enrollment numbers are better than expected. the slow start leaves it behind in total signup. the administration said 3.3 million have selected a private insurance plan. 1.1 million did so in january alone. app quarter select the plans between 18 and 24 years old. short of the 40% younger americans. officials say they hoped to sign up and pay premium. january beat projection the administration is still behind. expected million select a private insurance plan in january. more than did. a million behind the initial goals. downtowns show the administration had projected 7 million selected plans by the end of open enrollment on march 31st. that dropped the estimate to 6 million because the problem with the rollout. the administration said officials are encourage bid the numbers. there are a host of outstanding detail. the department of and health services has not shared. >> i'm wondering how many of those folks say si

you quote or tell the story of the best example i have ever heard of this, you talk about thomas edisono said when he spent years and had the light bulk filament that worked 10,000 ways that won't work. that's the right attitude. >> it is the right attitude, why he was so successful one of my favorite stories is colonel sanders was a serial failure. his wife left him because she was so sick of having him lose jobs. he gets a roadsighted cafe and it gets put out of business because the state of kentucky builds a new highway. he picks up at the age of 65, goes on the road with a pressure cooker and chickens, telling restaurant user, give me $0.05 a check-in, i will show you how to make the best fried chicken you've ever had. it's not because he dreameda of being a fried chicken purveyor, he discovered something great in himself had he not failed, a kentucky town you have never heard of. >> you address the whole issue of coddling our kids, you bring up sports, a trophy. you mention a survey that more than 40% of college freshman in some survey were found to have had an a average. my person

. >> we've given this congressional gold medal to george washington, to thomas edison, to jonas salk.ou're in good company now that senator brook has joined that club. >> there was a long decade, first african-american woman democrat senator carol mose mosely-braun. taking the senate as a whole, numbers are stunning 2% of the senate is represented by african-americans. only nine african-american senators in u.s. history. a nonpartisan event will honor our past and celebrate our future. i'm joined by two of the events organizers and two of those nine african-american senators. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. >> thank you very much. >> senator scott, why do this event? what was the impetus? >> what would be unusual for me, a republican, to reach out to some of my good friends on the other side with affection? >> usually -- i was going to say, code for something else. >> i'm putting this event together. i need your support. if you're going to do this with me this could be a very successful event. black history really is about american history. and if we're going to do it right we shou

potomac edison is reporting more than 19,000 outages right now in frederick and montgomery counties. pepco and bge restored service to most of its customers in the d.c. region overnight. >>> on the bright side, no ice or snow this morning. the bad news, though, very cold wind out there. storm team4 meteorologist amelia segal is in for tom kierein and joins us with her first forecast for midday. good morning. >> good morning, barbara. it certainly was a breezy morning. the good news, the winds will continue to die down for the rest of the day. we're really not looking at the breezy conditions at all. and filtered sunshine. right now, we're at 35 degrees, the high temperature today of 37. we'll hit that around 2:00 this afternoon. partly to mostly cloudy skies for the remainder of the day, and the good news, temperatures above freezing today. so any ice you're still seeing in your area will continue to melt. now, as our focus turns to the weekend, we're talking about one storm system that will move through saturday afternoon. this is going to bring some snow showers saturday afternoon

potomac edison says scattered outages will remain through tomorrow. >>> let's get a quick check of what we can expect weatherwise tonight. first alert meteorologist topper shutt joins us now. top, gosh, we really hope we get some warmer temperatures, especially for the folks without power for days. >> the good news is not super cold tonight, but the bad news, it's going to be below freezing again. right now 41 downtown, 36 gaithersburg, manassas, 37 in leesburg and frederick. not much wind, so no wind chill. keep your plans tonight, no worries even though the clouds have arrived. we see some snow and sleet in dallas again and rain down in louisiana, but this system will kind of scoot to the east and pass to the south of us, but don't look now. there are not 1, but two more systems behind that one. we'll tell you what that means for the prospects of snow saturday and again sunday. >>> the government says the economy added just 113,000 jobs last month, far weaker than the 178,000 expected. still the unemployment rate is 6.6%, its lowest level in more than five years. >>> president obama t

rich edison us out of chattanooga, tennessee. today we reason the story. there's another story we're following for you today on the president's day. five years after president obama signed his 787 billion stimulus bill in to law the jury is out whether it boosted the economy and job creation. that legislation looks certain to be a hot button issue during the midterm election as well. what will voters say to all of this? peter joins me now from washington with more on this story. peter? >> well, hey. republicans say they recovery act wasted money and unnecessarily added to deficits. the white house called their comments delusional. republicans started it off this morning with a press release noting the cbo found the cost of the plan was 830 billion. some of that money went to companies like solyndra which went bankrupt and cost taxpayers $5 35 million. and they found the plant fell short of the goal of 3.5 million jobs saved or created by the end of 2010. and the plan certainly did not for push the unemployment rate down to 5% by the end of the 2013 as this

people in edison, new jersey, are already having a tough time with their morning commute. >> slipping. >> reporter: the crippling winter storm that pounded the south has moved north. more than a foot of snow could fall in parts of the northeast today. >> powerful nor'easter. snow from boston to d.c. >> reporter: thousands of flights have been grounded and cancellations will continue. some of the busiest airports are on the east coast. crews in washington, d.c. work through the night trying to keep roads and sidewalks clear. they will be shoveling all day. this is expected to be the biggest storm to hit the nation's capital in four years and the federal government is shut down. schools on the eastern seaboard is closed, as well. hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity. it could take days for crews to repair all of the downed power lines. >> we have a newborn with us and the power is out. >> reporter: folks in north carolina experience what atlanta saw during the last major storm, cars abandoned as snow and ice turn busy roads into parking lots and sometimes even ice rin