are concerned i was causing it all is the best expected german and french gross domestic data now frons actually posted zero dollars they were expecting a north point one percent decline so is better than expected whereas germany is economic growth slowed less in the second course than economists had forecast as well because we had at school and household spending really helped to fend off the impact of the software in a debt crisis on europe's largest economy jam records so as you can see the. good stuff we've also got currencies well so look out the common currency one twenty three seventy seven just ounces responding with optimism at the moment also with the ruble you can see that it is indeed stronger once again against both the u.s. dollar and the european current state also the russian market opens up higher and that is indeed where they were in the falling on from the gains made on monday is really energy firms that are doing that so we're going to have a snapshot at some of the movers and shakers just to give you a rundown as to what is moving. the markets today if we can think

deliberate.el he's changing the words of the declaration of independence to remove every mention of god fron every aspect of our public lives. obama canceled the traditional white house event honoring the national day of prayer saying hh would pray only in private. in a november 2010 speech, obama pretended to quote the u.s.ec national motto which is: in god we trust. i guess he couldn't bring himself to say god, so hems mistakenly said our official motto is e e pluribus unum. i when obama gave the traditional presidentialness that -- presidential thanksgiving day address, he again eliminated "god." the u.s. constitution makes it t prime duty of the president toac take care that the law to be faithfully executed, and we all saw obama at his inauguration swear an oath to uphold the laws of the united states. but apparently obama thinks he can pick and choose which laws to enforce and which he can overturn. in february 2011 obama instructed his justice department not to defend the federal defense of marriage act known as doma which waskn overwhelmingly passed byow a bipartisan congress but is

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behind this fron-- keeping our weather damp. behind a cold front is sunshine. we will be in that zone later today. 79 right now in washington. it's warm and muggy. seven to in frederick and winchester 79 in fredericksburg right now. the hourly forecasts shows cloudy this morning with spotty rains through 11:00 a.m. this afternoon after lunch time, becoming partly cloudy with some sunshine later on today. there's a chance of straight thundershowers later on especially south of washington. 89 for the high temperature today. pretty close to average this week overall in temperatures around 90 degrees. storm chance almost daily. best chance for the most widespread rain will be friday. now back to you. >> on the roads this morning lisa baden. >> it has been busy. we started with a couple r wrecks. they are gone in maryland. travel times totally working for you across the american legion bridge and to 70 is pretty good betina father hurley and the beltway. -- 270 is pretty good. in virginia, it's quiet near the washington boulevard exit, to and from the american legio

they're in out frons.te level. >> greg: the cruz victory reiterates the impact of a party that the media revileed. i'm still waiting for the candidate from occupy wall street to come out. somebody has to post their bail. >> kimberly: oh, my goodness. >> greg: cheap shot wednesday. >> kimberly: concern? are the democrats saying tea party has power? >> bob: shaking in our boots. before the primary, the democrats had no chance in texas. now they have a chance. one thing about the tea party, they can be effective in the republican primaries and caucuses. the turn-out was not high. it can have an impact. give them credit for the impact. they nominated a guy way off to the right. canadian. he's cuban. i mean, mexican americans and cuban americans do not get along with one another. simple as that. >> dana: canadian? >> bob: he was born in canada. calgary. >> dana: he is running for senate. he's not -- he lived in in texas his whole life. not running for the presidency. your don't to be born in america. >> kimberl

dazzling.omin neil: thank you, but it is sad,b i said what you said many timesm i had congressman nedler on fron new york telling me that is because the debt commission, said recommendations were allec over the map, not everyone n agrees, better to leave them out of the debate it is folly, i ams paraphrasing, i say this is e everything that senator simpsono warned me about. me >> well the other thing is that warning is really come true, everything that president isru doing down has not one thing to do with policy or reality it ali has to do with politics, i nowe suspect we will have something,t get people all juiced up, thate he did a stroke of genius, he got rid of the lates latest $60 billion. that goes so many ways, and titanic.on and these guys are not going to do a lick, they will do everything possible to gethat reelected, that means everything, that means doingha i nothing about mentioning theonit things that have to do with thing that got us 5 democrats, 5 vote, 5 republican votes, oneind independent, 60 portion of the commission, they just need ahavt plan, they don't have to get down.un

how do you get an injury fron t top of your head. assuming that it was.ebecca the baby-sitter hung herself or so it was determined she committed suicide. do you think she was responsible? >> i think -- i have asked that the police department reopen this investigation and amend the disposition of his face. they are the experts and they have the ability to do the work to do the expert work to find out what happened that day to max. >> to the attorney. can i ask you what the next step is here? >> we are waiting for the police department to respond to our meeting with them. we met with them for three hours. we had the expert present dr. rob, doctor melinic was on the phone. we provided the summary gave them the reports we spent three hours we are hoping shortly they will come back to us and say they are reopening the case and will have further investigation if needed. >> thank you so much, a very, very disturbing case. we are going to stay with it. good luck to you. >> up next a dangerous threat or delusional schematic fanat -- fanatic. the winning answer to

reporter: county service officials say the issue may not be with the vendor but rather simply the way the fronsesigned to work. >> there were some issues with this one. the there were issues with our past vendor. issue with our future vendor. it's the nature of that particular did he advice again the telephone line land line. >>reporter: officials meet with the vendor for the county emergency network system this week. should the county choose to switch providers it won't cost taxpayers a dime. because the oil and chemical industry in contra costa county is responsible for the cost of the emergency network system. in richmond, abc 7 news. >>> over sea for just a moment. coalition forces say a lucky shot hit the plane of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in afghanistan. general democracy was talking about the up take in attack on u.s. troops by the afghan counter part. general was not near the aircraft. the taliban claims insurgents targeted the plane. democracy and his staff are now in iraq. they flew to baghdad on different plane. >>> back here. the massive construction blast from ongoing w

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anti-doping agency says it plans to strip armstrong of his seven tour today frons titles, all seven. after he ended it fight against allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. he said he had enough. laura ingle following the story. the accusations have been going on for years. why now would lance armstrong say, he has not admitted it, he is not saying he did. he doesn't want to fight it anymore. why? >> reporter: while the cycling legend continues to deny ever doping he cites his family and foundation as the driving force behind his decision to drop the fight against the accusations, which will, according to world anti-doping codes strip him as you mentioned of his seven tour de france cycles and 2008 olympics bronze mid-dale he won. and all winnings from 1998 on. through his attorney armstrong says quote, there comes a point in every man's life when he has to say enough is enough. for me that time is now. armstrong went on too say the feels the anti-doping case against him has been unconstitutional witch-hunt. adding the toll this is taken on my family and my work for our foun

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