further the jones patio level son the main level first floor of the gaylord and to get to their bar and restaurant area you enter through street level entrance. the outdoor space is much larger than their indoor space at the gaylord and it's above a parking garage on geary. it's outdoor and street level at the street level entrance on jones, but above street level on geary. the worker at jones uses -- no. 3 [#3*-/] a worker uses the white zone as a personal parking space. there say white loading and unloading zone and there is an employee there who park his toyota land cruiser in the white loading zone for hours at eight time, but there is no loading and unloading bean done with that vehicle. no. 4, jones needs to provide safety for patrons leaving their establishment. like i previously mentioned they are so drunk they pass out on the sidewalk and their interest friends are so drunk to call for an ambulance. nobody is helping. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> yes. hi. my name is [kao-erpblgs/] keith, a resident at 691 post. i just want to touch on the main points of

while they work locally, this operation is going on at the gaylord hotel. 1500 workers are being sent out maturity, where major power outages remain. largestold this is the state.ver sent out of these men and women are coming off a very long days. along the jersey shore, 60% of still without power. last another 10 days, mention temperatures dip into the 40's this week and up north. locally, the red cross is deploying volunteers and virginia,to west sandy pushed over 3 feet .f snow at the gaylord hotel, the screw breakfastll have around 6:00 and then they will e road around 8:00 this morning. 1500 are being deployed to new jersey. john gonzalez reporting. 4:35. garrett county, maryland, getting help as it tries to recover. he storm dumped more than 2 in the western maryland county. howard county says the emergency management offers scant the have an task force urban search and rescue units headed there now. with tree and will be calledd upon to assist in other ways as well. a job fair will be held today for veterans and military spouses. commercechamber of foundation is hosting the eve

. >> there is some movement out here in the parking lot of the gaylord hotel at the national harbour were these good men and women of dominion power got a good night's sleep after restoring over 300,000 homes in northern virginia and now they hit her again. 1500 workers will hit the road and head to new jersey where there are major power outages. we have the operations manager in charge of getting everyone on the road. tell me about the equipment in the parking lot. >> we've got about 75 vehicles here today. many of these people were working in northern virginia yesterday. they spent the night here at the national arbor to stage to go up to lakewood, new jersey to restore power. >> i understand this is the largest deployment you have ever had. >> it is, we have done many over the years in florida and louisiana. we were just in mississippi and louisiana this summer helping with the impact of isaac. >> how do you attack this once you get there? >> we have arrangements to provide fuel and supplies and sleeping arrangements and we will be working with the jersey central power and light.

t-- the gaylord. they will have breakfast at 6:00 this morning and then hit the road around 8:00. reporting live, john gonzalez. >> thanks so much. authorities warning about the likelihood of scams in the wake of hurricane sandy. you should watch out for a bogus charity is seeking donations for hurricane victims. and you could be vulnerable to home repair scams. used cars being sold could be exploited. look for those as well. >> president obama and mitt romney making a final push for votes. president campaigning today in ohio. mitt romney will be in ohio and wisconsin. president obama focused his closing argument on bringing about change and mitt romney countered that argument. >> i know what change looks like because i fought forest. you have too. after all we have been through together, we snot give up now. >> america finally needs real change that was promised. preclude york city mayor bloomberg endorsing president obama, saying hurricane sandy x3 shaped his thinking and that the president will take action on climate change. the commander-in-chief will be in northern virginia v

we have the staging area here at the gaylord hotel in national harbor. crews are sleeping, getting more shut eye before the huge task ahead of them. take a look at the trucks they have here. leaving in waves, the first wave leaving here this morning around 7:30. when it's all said and done, 1,500 crews going to new jersey. first to the blue claw stadium in lakewood new jersey, they will get marching orders, and specific assignments. could be gone as long as two weeks helping out those in new jersey. they have cones, coolers in the like. they have a lot of equipment on the trucks. the idea here? to be self-sufficient, so they can do their job and dent have to worry about things like fuel and food. >> they are going to bring our own fuel. we'll -- if needed, we have containers that can help us out. sometimes you can run into long lines trying to get fuel. and the trucks need fuel to run, so we'll be self-sufficient when we get up there. >> reporter: a huge operation, some very long hours ahead of them, working at least -- excuse me, 12 hour shifts, possibl

, describes our patio as "an open air garden that is accessible only to the basement revel of the gaylord hotel located at 620 jones street.." as such the roof of the building at 560 geary street is an extension. accordingly the existing bar and restaurant use at the basement of 620 jones street is a permitted use and extension to our patio is also a principally permitted use because the only matter of accessing the patio is through the basement of the building at 620 jones. therefore, no condition use permit is required. this argument aside, we relied on the conditional use permit that was publicly available on the website of the planning department as further assurance that our business complied with all applicable regulatory commitments and specifically in making investments at 620 jones we relied on information provided bit planning department on its official website. specifically the planning department website contained a conditional use permit on may 13, 2008 at the request of a group which undertook to develop the property prior to us. the conditional use permit provided on the pl

>> gaylord national as backup with their holiday attraction. >> we are running 9 degrees. it feels cold because of the cooling system. they give you jackets to wear as you come through the ice show. starting today you can see 2 million lbs. of ice carved into shrek characters. thanks for coming out early this morning. tell us more. >> this is one of the rooms. or are about eight rooms and this is 2 million lbs. of ice that creates this incredible experience. has become a tradition in the washington region. >> you can see these horizontal lines and the ice sculptures, what is that? >> it shows how the blocks of ice are stacked one on top of another candidate glue the ice together simply with water. it freezes together, it is amazing. >> who creates this? >> we have artists who travel from china. they create one of the largest ice festivals and the world. >> tell me about what we have in this room. >> this is the most popular room. there are five ice slides and they are so much fun. >> and they are fast. let's go to jacqui for moreether. >> i want to see adam slide. >> i tho

. >> we're at the gaylord national harbor. opens today all the way through january 6 and its open you cansgiving day so out with a family. there's more on our website, .jla.com nothing to worry about in the weather. maryland in southern on the eastern shores this morning. today and any later t warmer. -- there's a little rainfall in maryland and on the eastern shores this morning. >> thank you. you can double the temperature outside. yes. >> we are beyond that. that's good news for us. clouds are helping us this morning. i know it is a bomber. we have had a couple of cloudy days. i know it is a bummer. we are cloudy in maryland and virginia and towards the delmarva. sprinkles out there. you can see them on life support doppler towards the eastern bute and parts of maryland, -- toot going to mount much. to will dry out quickly. cloudy this morning, 43 degrees. of 32.nt very light wind out of the north and northwest at 3 miles an hour. dealing withe not a wind chill on top of the cold temperatures. it's 32 in frederick, 39 at du

many as the 15 million coming to washington and another 50 million or so coming today to visit the gaylordotel, the many restaurants and attractions already at national harbor. liz: people are driving to see the tourist attractions and we stopped to see you. a joint venture with simon properties. a competitor in certain realms. why are you doing that? >> we have two sites were announced after the close. these are dynamic markets, the biggest markets in the country that we both determined where underserved by output shopping. a very successful partnership in the houston, texas, market on their way to deal with them. we decided to expand the partnership entities two dynamic markets. liz: what is the attraction for a retailer like kate spade or ralph lauren to have sort of an outlet mall relationship? what is the benefit for them? it has to be better than getting rid of excess inventory. >> 15 years ago the major manufacturers, some that you mentioned, major designer names, it is a distribution channel not just a clearance vehicle. as such they get the best of us and assortment, earning 40 to

there's so much going on here and at the gaylord national hotel. >> we got pictures of the ginger bread character from the shrek movies and you can decorate a ginger bread house. and we can create a ginger bread house right there in gingy's bakeshop. >> get to take it home with you? >> you do. and you get a photo with gingy. >> excellent. also you have a very cool train ride. >> yes. a train that the little kids can ride on. the parents can ride too. everyone loves it and positioned underneath our 60 foot tall christmas tree. if you haven't seen it, it is amazing. it is suspended and all made out of synthetic candy glass. >> we have a video of what goes on. it snows at night. you have a lighting . tell me about some of the highlights. >> we have twinkling lights. every night at 6 :30 there is a tree lighting show where we light the tree. there's music, the fountain show that shoots 60 feet high. >> unfortunately we didn't have that video but maybe this video. i'm going to take you back a year ago. this is you and me when we did ice last year. you and i were very large. we had more paddi

then you have those of us, karl rove, dick morris, joe gaylord, myself, who have been at this a long time, we believe with high unemployment, high price of gasoline, the mess in benghazi, and the fact that i don't know a single mccain voter who has switched to obama, but i know a lot of obama voters who switched to mitt romney. so my guess -- i said openly, i think that romney is going to win. but i think there are two parallel universes competing right now over the nature of america. >> if mitt romney loses, and it's very, very close, but if he does lose, where do you wish he had gone harder that may have guaranteed victory? >> i can't comment until we see the returns tomorrow night, just because you're asking me a question that we'll have to see what close it is and the circumstances. i love the fact that he's campaigning in pennsylvania. i know that -- i was born in harrisburg. i know that the rally he had last night in bucks county was historic. going back into pittsburgh tomorrow is very gutsy and exactly right. i think we're probably going to pick up the u.s. senate seat in pen

the senate and decided to go to law school and came back six years later and was able to work for gaylord nelson and robert byrd. i finished with jay rockefeller as his first chief of staff. i had many memorable experiences, which are not in the book because the book is not a memoir. it is a narrative history. i had a responsibility for trying to write the senate ethics code, lead the effort to write the senate ethics code. i spilled water all over ed muskie when he was angry at us for taking away his honoraria. i had many experiences there. it was a time when the senate, because of the great people in the senate and the way it operated. it was a magnet for a lot of us coming to washington. wandering the halls, and i did not know them all in the 1970's were madeleine albright, stephen breyer, susan collins, lamar alexander. many of the leaders. and in the media today, chris matthews, george will. many of these people got their training in the senate. we were not part of the greatest generation. we have the next best thing. we were trained by them. host: our next call for ira shapiro comes

i'm sure you checked in with joe gaylord before you got on the program, but what do you think?k if the election were this friday or saturday he would get a bump from the been the president for the last day or two and the way in which chris christie has been very positive about him. that has an impact. the election will go out on tuesday will go out in the wash and be back where we were before the hurricane. i thought before the hurricane we were moving towards a 53-47 or better romney victim and republican controlled senate. when you see these waves start to build. they said romney was winning the early vote by about six points that enormous shock. obama has claimed all along they would win the early vote. so obama will be in big trouble despite being a day or two presidential giving out a lot of money and going around being concerned. >> sean: i just hope people compare and contrast, this is not the same president in benghazi. we don't 6 a picture of the situation when the president was flying off to vegas. i'm not saying this is photo op or the president doesn't care. i'm sur

high atop the gaylord national resort. you can see cloudy skies, and today not much blue at all peeking through. in fact, we've had sprinkles throughout the day. we're at 46 degrees now in gaithersburg. you folks over at ellicott city at 49 degrees. 52 in d.c. 53 degrees in belvoir. and 53 degrees currently over in areas around warrenton. as far as our overnight temperatures, dropping tonight. it's back to coat weather again tomorrow, pretty much just leave that coat on now and get ready for a thicker coat. down to about the 30s to 40 degrees tomorrow. high temperature going up to 54. breezy blustery 54. >>> the new york power outage caused by hurricane sandy may have damaged or destroyed medical research. officials returned to nyu langon medical center today to assess the extent of the damage. they say lab specimens left in refrigerators, freezers and incubators may have been destroyed. the backup generators failed on monday forcing an evacuation of the hospitals. >>> carnival is seeking the silver lining in sandy's storm

. >> we're here in the parking lot of the gaylord hotel. the staging area here. you can see the power trucks behind me here. they are sending 1,500 crews to new jersey to help out with the power situation there. some are leaving today. right now, inside the hotel catching some sleep before they begin this journey. some other employees, other trucks, heading out tomorrow and over the course of the weekend. when it's all said and done, about 1,500 crews will be heading to new jersey. going to the blue claw stadium in lakewood, new jersey. that's where they will get marching orders from local authorities, dispatched to places that most need help and working a minimum of 12-hour shifts helping people get back online, helping them get power back. as i mentioned, right now, getting a few extra winks before they head out. they will be working long hours. later on, a breakfast to get food they head out. we're expecting them to leave here from this between 7:30 and 8:00 this morning. they are bringing with them all kinds of equipment, the bucket trucks, augers, those truc

take a look at our gaylord national resort camera. you can see the beautiful sky looking toward the woodrow wilson bridge there. current temperatures, upper 40s already. montgomery county, gaithersburg, to low 50s across the area. 55 degrees right now down around areas of fredericksburg, stafford county, spotsylvania county, hanging on to 55 degrees. overnight we'll drop down again to the low 30s, upper 20s west. 37 degrees right in d.c. so that means that you'll not only need a chair, but a blanket and coat to take in the leonid showers. >>> former washington mystics player is facing assault charges. police in atlanta say she turned herself in late last night on an arrest warrant. she's accused of attacking her former girlfriend and teammate jennifer lacy earlier this week. lacy said she smashed her car windows with a baseball bat and shot into her suv. lacy was not injured. her bond is set at $100,000. she'll be back in the courtroom at the end of the month. >>> after more than two hours on lockdown, a minneapolis office building is

this is from our camera high atop the gaylord national resort where we've got sunshine across the area. but getting close to sunset. it's at 5:05 today. your temperature 45 montgomery county, to 50 prince william and fauquier county. and in the low 50s in anne arundel county, and annapolis coming in at 50 degrees. overnight temperatures, and for starting out tomorrow morning, under a clear sky. look at this, leesburg in loudoun county, 26. warrenton, 25. 35 inside the beltway. most areas will be starting out plenty cold, in the mid-20s to upper 20s across the area. chilly for tomorrow with a high just 49 degrees. we'll talk more about this rain. and that storm with rain and wind. more details coming up in my next weather hit at 45 after. >> veronica, taung. >>> well, in just a matter of hours, the nation's voters will determine the shape of our country's future. >> nbc has transformed rockefeller plaza into democracy plaza. thousands of people will watch live election results as they come in on election night right there on the plaza. nbc's rehema ellis will tell us what makes it so sp

sculptors are putting the finishing touches on the displays for the annual holiday attraction, ice at gaylordt. this year's theme the movie shrek. that looks fun, doesn't it? 40 ice carvers spent the last month sculpting the movie characters. that show opens next friday. dress warm, it's cold in there. >> they have coats for you. they actually give you coats. >> the coolest thing. >> that's a big attraction every year. >> i want to go into the cold this weekend, though. >> i think a lot of people are going to be enjoying the sunshine, especially on sunday. i think sunday will be a great afternoon to get out and about. 64 on your saturday and then sunday plenty of sunshine and same deal monday for veterans day and looking pretty good into tuesday. that's when our next best chance of rain moves in and pretty strong cold front that will cool us off. again, enjoy the weekend. >> thanks. >>> many years ago i taught english at the philadelphia public school system. in my school system there was two parents nights each semester and anywhere from 32 to 38 kids in each class, i remember that. in two a

from our camera heights on the gaylord national resort. it of course looked like this yesterday.ay before yesterday. more ominous, though, at the beginning of the week with a mostly cloudy sky. temperatures throughout the area today almost on par with yesterday. running about two, three degrees cooler. you add the wind on top of that because it's pretty blustery outside. and boy, is it cold. 46 in gaithersburg. 51 right in d.c. haymarket coming in at 40. 49 degrees. bladensburg. see our temperatures drop to the mid and upper 30s overnight with wind chills close to freezing. more on next week's weather coming up. >>> still to come, the soaring price of gas has many people looking for fuel-efficient cars. but could you trust the mileage promised by the company? one group says no. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. what do i do if i'm unhappy with what my insurance company offers for sandy repairs? that's the question. the answer's coming up on news 4 at 4:00. >>> a lot of you had to get out your generators this week. now a california company is recalling generators sold at costco stores. champi

they've also got the tree lighting at the gaylord hotel. a nice night down there for them. as far as the rest of us are concerned, a little on the cool side. as far as the temperatures go. right now, currently sitting into the 40s. 48 degrees out at the airport. what are we seeing right now? take a look at my graphic, because i think i'm on the wrong thing here. i'll just click this guy and click this guy and click this guy. it gives me -- this guy. which is the moon. look at that shot. a beautiful shot of the moon tonight. a crescent moon off in the distance. just gorgeous with temperatures sitting right now at 49 degrees. winds out of the north at 8 miles an hour. we're under clear skies right now. as far as the temperatures around the rest of the region, 48 in rockville, 43 already in gaithersburg. a little chilly there. 52 in manassas. we are going to see a cool night tonight. and a very cool start to your day tomorrow. don't expect any rain. and don't expect any rain this weekend. and probably for the next seven days. i have the next seven days dry for the most part. t

the gaylord national resort featuring shrek the halls. >> reporter: usually i don't use the word 9 degreesun in the same sentence but this chill is worth it for the thrill. it really is super spectacular when it comes to what they do here. it's become a wonderful amazing holiday tradition. and this year the theme does not disappoint. it's shrek the halls. amy joins me inside the big ice bubble. happy holidays. >> can you believe it's ice again already? >> can you believe it's ice she says. it is a constant 9 degrees in here. >> it is. it is very cold. >> there's a reason for that. we're preserving these amazing sculptures. this is open to the public. let's start our tour. and tell me about this year's ice. >> the theme is shrek thealls. the story is how shrek is an ogre. so they all come together and show him how to celebrate christmas and the true meaning of the christmas holidays. >> it really is amazing. you know you've been told it's ice but the colors are vibrant and the sculptures are meticulus. >> it gets shipped to us in large 400 pound blocks and the ice carvers stack it up. that'

the annual holiday show ice opens next friday at the gaylord national resort and national harbor. 40 carvers are putting finishing touches on the life sized sculptures. 2 million pounds of ice are used to create the walk through. this year's theme? the movie "shrek" and the show runs through january 6th. it is truly a sight to see. >> we need to do a behind-the-scenes piece on that. i want to know how they get that ice green. >> i don't know how they color it. food coloring. >> you could either color the water and then freeze it or just paint it. >> i don't think paint would stick to the ice. >> that would be tricky. probably some sort of powder they use. >> i should go out and investigate that. >> an investigative story. >> the i-team. richard jordan joins the i-team for this story alone. >> it is really cool though. >> and for us it's kind of been weird. they're starting the ice sculptures on a weekend when we finally get above averages in temperatures again. such is life. we've waited a long time, everybody. temperatures have been colder than average here since the end of october

the annual holiday show "ice" opens next friday at the gaylord national resort in national harbor. 40ches on the life sized sculptures this weekend. two million pounds of ice are being used and, yes, that ice slide is back this year. this year's theme is the movie shrek. today companies will gather to help veterans and their families with the second annual veterans career hiring event. the job fair is part of the american freedom festival. it runs from 9:00 to 3:00 at the patriot center and is free for veterans to attend. we'll have a live report from the fair coming up at 9:00. we'll check on your forecast next. stay with us. >>> tell us about this warmup. >> all right. i can do that for you. it's going to be a very nice day outside today. we have some clouds around and even one or two lonely little rain drops first thing this morning north and west of town. a nice day today. sunshine back in full force later this afternoon. current temperatures now climbing out of the 30s and into the 40s across most of the area thanks to the sunshine we can see out the window at least here at our s

the senate and decided to go to law school and came back six years later and was able to work for gaylord nelson and robert byrd. i finished with jay rockefeller as his first chief of staff. i had many memorable experiences, which are not in the book because the book is not a memoir. it is a narrative history. i had a responsibility for trying to write the senate ethics code, lead the effort to write the senate ethics code. i spilled water all over ed muskie when he was angry at us for taking away his honoraria. i had many experiences there. it was a time when the senate, because of the great people in the senate and the way it operated. it was a magnet for a lot of us coming to washington. wandering the halls, and i did not know them all in the 1970's were madeleine albright, stephen breyer, susan collins, lamar alexander. many of the leaders. and in the media today, chris matthews, george will. many of these people got their training in the senate. we were not part of the greatest generation. we have the next best thing. we were trained by them. host: our next call for ira shapiro comes

and, you know, i was thinking about -- i remember joe gaylord telling me that one of the points for himwe compare 2012 in terms of shock? >> no, i think in terms of shock, yes. >> how about 198 -- >> how about, i wrote a piece for politico that every republican leader should stop and learn and think for a while. i mean, to watch -- i was wrong. i was totally wrong a week ago. karl rove was wrong, michael barron, one of the people i most respect in this business was wrong. we need to stop and say -- and i just talked to someone in the romney campaign yesterday who said privately he honestly went into tuesday night, this particular person, absolutely thinking they were going to win. >> david axelrod has friends in the romney campaign that told them they were sure they were going to win on election night. >> if your model is that wrong, maybe you better take a deep breath, take some time -- i'm going to do a personal report on this. i think it'll take four to six months. i think -- it's not just the demographics, not just the vote, but it's the campaign strategy. i think the republican con

will get it signed, and he signed it, but also willie mays was there, mcauvey was there, sandoval, gaylord perry, the list goes on and on. my husband buys this season ticket so -- [laughter] every time i take it to show to someone, he makes that point. in any event, there are many names you would recognize. i will put it on loan from my husband it because -- when we opened the new stadium in san francisco, bobby thompson came hereat day and of course we are celebrating the world series. the ball i got that they from bobby thompson he wrote, "bobby thompson, shot heard round the world." jaun marchel -- just found his name. they may have to send them by overnight mail. assets as opposed to regular mail? -- as opposed to regular mail? >> melky cabrera didn't sign that did he? [laughter] >> being true, he actually presided over the senate and nowadays the vice president does not bother with that of buses vote is needed. he was there every day. he said that was my job. it was a transition of zero knowledge. that does not happen anymore. he got a phone call from the white house, get to the phone