hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> welcome back. super bowl weekend, super storm. all packed up together what. do you say? >> yeah, stuck, together. >> exactly. >> armando trull is in forestville, maryland. kind of a storm command center there at the department of public works. armando. >> that's right this is the snowstorm center, and it got a huge screen with access the about 100 cameras, and from the last time we spoke, we now see that the snow is beginning to pile up. this is old branch at kirby. we've got garrett at morgan station. you can see a lot more snow there. paint branch, and that subpoena in the college park area. and the temperature is now about 26 degrees. that is the temperature on the pavement. that's what their computer records say. and that means that the snow is actually sticking. and that means this about 240 trucks and crews are about or have gone into action, and with u

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >> you just have a few hours left to see the popular panda tai shan at the national zoo. wrong video, obviously. today is the last day he will be on display. he is being shipped back to china by fedex to be part of our breeding program. >>> prosecutors plan to file a criminal charge against michael jackson's dr., conrad murray, for involuntary manslaughter. he was by jackson's side when he went into cardiac arrest after taking a set of a prescribed by him. >> they have a strong case. they've been very meticulous in putting this together. that is why it has taken so long. >> investigators have spent seven months serving subpoenas and interviewing witnesses. conrad murray's attorney says that his client will voluntarily turn himself in once he is charged. >>> a woman watching the sunset on a web cam is being hailed as a hero in germany today. she man -- she spotted a german man

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >> what is going on? >> a blizzard warning in several counties. we are under a winter storm warning. heaviest snow coming in later tonight, especially after midnight and until dawn, when we could have one to two feet of snow just overnight, and then the snow gradually tapers off, but not before those totals, especially to the north and west of baltimore, go over two feet. there could be some sleet and rain. this could be across parts of the eastern shore. they have a potential for a mix of some sleet and rain mixed in. hear, a good chance for heavy snow, until at least the early afternoon -- here. sunshine and breezy on sunday and monday and another weaker storm coming next week with a chance for more snow. the slightly warmer temperatures have prevented it from being too bad, but they will be getting colder. >> u.l. little league be here -- you will literally be

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >> from wbal-tv 11, this is an insta-weather-plus alert. >> the snow has started for most of you, and hd doppler is confirming that. we have had interesting phone calls. people are going on line and had been looking at a doppler since 5:00 and 6:00 this morning. it looks like it was snowing all morning long. but really, the atmosphere was so dry that most of it was not hitting the ground it took several hours for the atmosphere to saturate, and there it is. early this afternoon, it will not be that big a problem on the roads. we might have a couple of inches on the ground by the evening. but if you are out in the next hour or two, it should be ok. this will help out a lot today. we are above freezing. 35 at the airport, 36 at randallstown 334 at parkton. any edsall that goes down on the road should create eight smith got -- any salt that goes down on the road sho

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hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. help. >> i talked to dc fire this morning. all the ambulancen and the fire apparatus are able to get where they need to go. either on their own or dedicated snow plow equipment to get them through. that's a wonderful thing. they are in constant contact with us to make sure the en entrance -- intranses to the emergency room are there. so far that's been working well. we're especially proud of the hospital workers who braved the snow to get to work. seeing them on tv as they trekked through the snow and many of the hospitals are actually sending four-wheel drive vehicles out to finish workers at designated sites. they are coordinating the effort and that seems to work well. >> people do volunteer, they contact the hospital

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. eed help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. but there are creatures from outer space right here in aruba, and they look just like real people. oh, really, i didn't know this. they're always smiling, relaxed, unnaturally friendly. and they'll do anything to lull you into feeling at home. it's inhuman, it's a trick, ricky. don't fall for it, i've seen it in the movies. let me get you a drink. oh my god, they got him too. >>> we're following more breaking news coming into the fox 5 news room. police have arrested a woman for a double murder in prince william county. a woman and her 8-year-old son are found dead inside their dale city house. police arrested 47-year-old natalia wilson of arlington. she did know the victims. we'll have more on fox 5 morning news. >>> each and every to sue palka. one last look at the forecast. >> reporter: a look at radar on truview. we see the back edge of the snow approaching the front

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> from a marketing standpoint, they almost have to win tonight, because then it would be friday the 13th. kind of catchy. their 12-game streak is already the longest in the nhl since the lock-out. as dave owens found out, not even mother nature can stop the caps. >> reporter: the caps have found all sorts of ways to win during this 12-game streak. some nights they dominate. >> score! >> reporter: others, like last night's 6-5 affair get accomplished with less than their best. >> it just happens that our b level is usually higher than most other teams' b level, even higher than sometimes when they play their best. >> reporter: alex ovechkin sat out this morning's skate. just the 9th player in history to earn 500 points in his first five seasons. >> he's got so many, i don't know where to begin any more. >> reporter: tonight, the thrashers. despite having beaten

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> you're watching 9news now's continuous team coverage. live from the 9news now safety center. >> welcome back. this big storm isn't just making us miserable. it's making everybody miserable as far south as roanoak and new york. he joins us live from time square in the big apple. the snow is coming down upon you. let me start with this. we know here in washington, our public transportation system has been in bad shape. how bad is it in new york where they rely on public transportation? >> things have gone pretty well here, brett and derek. i don't think we have been hit quite as bad as you have been in washington. the snowplows have been out all day here in this area in the middle of the metropolitan area. new york says it costs a million dollars an inch to clear the snow. take a look. traffic is pretty light tonight, but the snow is just starting to stick. it has been snow

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hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> and we're glad you were joining us on this snow wednesday morning. good morning, everybody. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. the effects could be lingering all morning. let's get straight to the latest school closings and delays. there are a lot of them. frederick county is on a two- hour delay. >>> the midweek a storm has moved on now. the late week's storm is the big question. >> it is gathering steam in texas. the storm is coming across the south. the model in its at a lot of moisture coming our way. it could be snow and may be a mixed down to the south and east. this could be a storm that will provide us with snow on friday evening into saturday. >> this could rival the december 19 blizzard. >> let's take a look at the shop from frederick. this is over the last couple of hou

added joe kennedy's urging they bring in the franklin roosevelt, jr. to campaign. franklin roosevelt's himself was very, very popular and they built a lot of stuff and the new deal really impacting west virginia. subterranean rose about and heftier, jr. and he brings up the war record or lack there of them basically decry as a draft dodger and jack kennedy says he wished he had not brought that up. that was terrible and i disassociate from the fact that hubert humphrey never served in world war ii and went thing leads to another and there are modifications of the involvement but there was some. how lot of money is poured into west virginia. even though jack kennedy is very nervous, so nervous he flies to washington d.c. to hide out. but not to downplay and he gets the call from kennedy kennedy, you wind. that is basically the end of hubert humphrey's campaign and the primaries. it is over. but not the nomination. where has landed johnson bed? he has not been a candidate. he only and balances his candidacy for the presidency of the united states one week before the

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington, on your side. >> thanks for joining us today. i'm alison starling. >> i'm alice -- i'm julie parker come in for doug mckelway. we want to bring you the latest closings and early dismissals. >> we do have a few of these early dismissals. also in maryland, we have charles county close, howard county shutting down early at noon. montgomery county, 2.5 hours early. prince george's county, three hours early. >> also, howard county will be closed three hours early today. frederick county, maryland, 3.5 hours early. washington county, 2.5 hours early. >> we are moving on here to st. mary's county schools closed, charles county schools are closed, too. >> and in virginia, the list of closures begins with alexandria city, arlington county, clark county, culpeper county, fairfax county, an spotsylvania county schools. >

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. welcome back. we continue to keep you up to date on the dangerous winter storm hitting the washington, d.c. area as we speak. >> let's take a live look outside at the weather pictures coming in from all over the region. we have a team of reporters over the d.c. region trying to keep you updated on the latest snow totals, road conditions and what is going on in your neighborhood. >> right now we want to send it to sue palka live in the weather center with an update. how is it looking for your end. >> i think the temperatures are hanging in at 33 degrees as we begin the 5:00 hour which is amazing that we are able to hang on to that that keeps us in good shape for a while. we expect things to go downhill quickly. i'm glad you used the word dangerous. things will go quickly downhill later tonight. i will do that in a moment. we are getting great reports into the live

kennedy. but does he? he makes the joe biden choice. he takes the safe choice initially. somebody who maybe can't hurt you, but someone that's not going to help you. he asks to offer the vice presidency and private to a senator from missouri named stuart simonton. simon didn't accept, but the courts made public jack kennedy will start rolling and says no, i really showed us the courtesy offer this to lyndon. he's not going to take it. [laughter] key senate majority leader. he lives for power. he's not going to be vice president. this is -- you know, john bamberger who was from texas and was about vice president said vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. and lyndon johnson certainly knew that when a cell at the reality for her. so when jack kennedy struggles down the stairs to lyndon johnson's sweet in the middle of the night to offer him the vice presidency, he was quite shocked when lyndon johnson except that. and everybody is shocked and everybody is upset on all sides of the democratic spec term. robert kennedy, who is always hated lyndon johnson and vice

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hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. if you need help staying warm this winter, give me a call at 1-877-joe-4-oil, because no one should be left out in the cold. the people who walked these streets before us were just like you and me. with hopes. dreams. challenges. today, we do more than just walk the same streets. for a moment, we get to walk in their shoes. preparing us for what lies ahead. down our next road. be part of the story. colonial williamsburg. >>> updating our winter weather alert. road crews are preparing to work around the clock to treat the roads in the district. extra salt is being brought in from baltimore. at the airport the cancellations are already adding up. airlines aren't taking any chance, many amounting flights as -- many halting flights as early as tomorrow aernoon. and then there are the schools. check out the top of the screen. other schools will be make the call in the morning. we'll update them on air and online as they come in. >>> this winter has already been one to remember. >> we have d

hi, i'm joe kennedy from citizens energy, your nonprofit oil company. help staying warm this winter, give us a call at... because no one should be left out in the cold. >>> by a thin margin on capitol hill, the house votes to let the government get $2 trillion more in debt. some house hearts and conservative democrats say the only way it's tolerable is by coupling it with a pay as you go rule. now is house majorityleader of maryland. good morning. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> first of all, we want to know if there's anything congress can stop the snow from coming this weekend in. >> well, if there was, we would be a lot more popular. >> okay. that's out of the way. let's talk about the house passing this $1.9 trillion more. basically, it ils down to some $6,000 for each american. my question is, how do you sell this to the american public during hard times? >> well, the vote yesterday was not to incur additional debt, but pay the debt that we have incur. and over the last decade, we have gone deeply into debt. they were $5.6 trillion in surp

. >> joe kennedy was saying i'm kicking myself for not running.e to tap into his dad's legacy or his uncle's legacy. meanwhile, the president of the united states talking yesterday to the democratic retreat, yes, the democratic caucus. he said i know the numbers aren't going to add up. find a way to get health care done. listen. >> so i would just suggest to this caucus, if anybody is searching for a lesson from massachusetts, i promise you the answer is not to do nothing. we've got to finish the job on health care. we've got to finish the job on financial regulatory reform. we've got to finish the job -- we've got to finish the job even though it's hard. >> interesting thing is a lot of the moderate democrats probably sitting there were probably not applauding or maybe they were applauding in private like oh, my goodness, thank god scott brown got elected so i don't have to cast another vote on this because most of them are up for re-election and it's not a popular position to have. >> i'll tell you what, it's almost as if they're on the clock an

kennedy's senate seat is now being held by a republican. >> yes. it is. it is a different world. and it is -- hard to believe, as i was watching joe biden, so close to ted kennedy. i'm sure joe biden didn't think, wolf, he was going to be swearing in a republican senator here. but what -- what he did was -- scott brown did so well was really tap in to those independent voters. while we think of massachusetts as the bluest of blue states, the truth of the matter is that self-identified independents are the largest group of voters in that state now. 53%. so i think that while republicans may depend on him for certain votes in the senate, he's much more liberal on social issues and conservative fiscally and he's not always going to be a dependable republican vote for them. >> yeah. very liberal on a lot of the social issues. supports gay marriage. which is the law in massachusetts. that's established right now. he supports women's right to have an abortion. and the law in massachusetts which provides nearly universal health insurance, he supports that as well. >> he says they had terrible problems and should not be a guide to nationa

scott brown, the massachusetts republican who won ted kennedy's former seat, was sworn in yesterday by vice president joe biden. senator brown told reporters he is willing to work with democrats on health care and the economy, but is concerned about huge new spending deficits. >> people back home, i can tell you, were very upset at the amount of spending not only in massachusetts, but you couple that with the amount of tax dollars that are being spent and sometimes wasted, people are fed up. >> brown gives republicans 41 senate vote, enough to blokt democrat prs pushing through president obama's agenda. >>> brown's surprise victory in massachusetts was thanks in part to the tea party movement which opened its first national convention thursday in nashville. tea partiers fiercely owe pose government taxes, spending policies and regulation. their convention will climax tomorrow night with a speech from former alaska governor sarah palin. >>> scientists are reporting a brain scan breakthrough in their study of people with severe brain injuries. researchers in belgium and bret tip found unexpected brain acti

kennedy senior, old joe wants you to do something, his sons do it.nd in 1946 he runs for congress. and by 1960, the ambition, which was not is for the presidency is. he's ready to rock. lyndon baines johnson, belongs to a different sort of dynasty, a different sort of ambition. his family was a dynasty on the way down. his family owned land and all slaves in texas and in the american south and his father, sam johnson, have been made member of the texas state legislature. but, he works his way down on the social and political scale. when it's in the legislature, sam johnson sponsors a bill to have a road constructed near their hometown. and by the time that road is to be constructed, sam johnson is not only a former member of the state legislature, he is working on the road crew doing manual labor, hauling dirt on his back, pushing wheelbarrows. that's how the johnson family had fallen so very, very quickly and lyndon johnson's youth. and lyndon johnson, sort of like scarlett o'hara in gone with the wind, while lyndon doesn't promise never to go hungr