you don't have an answer. >> joe, i've learned carefully. you've said for you the entire thing, your entire view comes down to a gut feeling. that's all it is. >> not just a gut feeling. >> joe, look. >> i've asked questions -- i've asked questions -- can you answer that? can i answer why it's a gut feeling and why i feel good about it? because it's an instinctual thing, and it's also because i've had what i have been told validated. what you have heard so far that has been leaked has been validated -- was -- is validating what i've been told. there's other information that is yet to come out that we're waiting for the grand jury to pass down. okay? and when that comes down, then it's a question of whether or not anybody else believes what the investigation turns out. you know, we welcome -- we welcome the state's attorney looking into this. we welcome the grand jury. we welcome the justice department. we welcome all of this because first of all, this was not a racial incident. and we welcome all of this because we know that if we weren't sit

joe krebs. and so are many of you. deanna hooker left this comment on our "news4 today" facebook page, "i've been in denial this whole month when i heard joe say he was retiring. but i know that all good things must come to an end. joe, are you like family to me. i've seen you every day for years. even when i didn't have to go to work, i watched you. god bless you, i will miss you." another, "i've enjoyed watching you each morning and wouldn't leave the house until i heard what you had to say. i am honored to have had you in my life all these years. and you will be missed. things move forward, but your smile and your send of humor will be missed." if you want to leave a comment, head to our facebook page. news4today or tweet us. people feel like they know you. >> that is so generous. it's -- it's wonderful. it's really, really wonderful and gratifying. and i thank you all very much for that. is that hash tag joedon'tletthedoorhityou -- >> in the tukus? we loved hearing the memories from the viewers and your family and f

i can't tell you how proud i've been to work with you, joe. ay ben bernanke because i'll see you around the bend. i'm just say viao, con, dios. >> matt, gosh, too much. too much. >> we're going to try to lighten it. we've got a few more coming up near the end of the broadcast and these will make you laugh for sure. >> thank you so much. i'm speechless. >> well, heartfelt from all of us, joe. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> okay, tom. beautiful sky out there. it is 58 degrees. is it cooling down, tom? what's going on. >> a little bit. i don't know if i'm choked up or it's the pollen. >> both. >> it's probably both. the pollen count is high. good morning. this morning we've cleared out after the heb thunderstorms passed south and southwest of us yesterday. it did cause damage around the blue ridge and central shenandoah valley and there was a lot of hail. now we've cleared out but the pollen count remains high. it's mostly oak tree pollen. reagan national is at 57 degrees. there's the sunrise. beautiful sunrise at 6:57. here's the day plann

we're not letting you go, joe. you're going to be our friend for a long time and i'm hoping we're going to see you around here at nbc 4 often in the future. i'm going to miss you. >> a lot of folks are feeling that way, and they're going to hold you to coming back from time to time to do pieces here. >> or at least to say bye. come back and just -- you know. >> come back and the end of the day and do that. be glad to. >> there are some other people as well who wanted to make sure they said good-bye, and they taped some special messages. >> joe krebs, we miss you already. how are we going to get up in the morning without seeing your smiling face. you are a stalwart, 32 years here at wrc. you came from missouri, you have a background from the navy, from law enforcement, and then you came here and made our community your own. we have loved you, we admire you for your work here in journalism and also as an athlete, a cyclist, a swimmer, all of the many things you've done over the years. we hope you have time for all of

when you talk to joe he'll tell you about that. >> in the book and as depicted in the movie, you instructed him to let the american know this? to tell the truth. >> exactly. >> and with me, joe galloway, was he different as a reporter? >> first, he stayed on the ground with us. but he was in the battle at x-ray until we were pulled out of there. and he didn't go back to placu to do his reports. peter arnet, neil shehan but he and a flock of out journalists who came in at the end of the battle, they milled around interviewing troopers and then they got on the bird and went out. joe went out, also, but the battle was over. and he had to get his copy into upi. you'll find that somewhere. i'll try to look it up for you. >> what is it like to be

thank you. >> would go standard's right. goodness, joe. >> very generous, thank you very much. >>> let's go to tom kierein, he's looking at the forecast. >> we are off to quite a chilly start this morning. there's a live view from our city camera. there's the jefferson memorial. and it's partly cloudy now. reagan national now down into the mid 40s. but away from the city, temperatures are down into the 30s many locations. in fact, we've got a frost advisory. counties in dark blue including frederick and washington, panhandle of west virginia, shenandoah valley. farther west and north, lighter blue areas will probably have a hard freeze over the next couple of hours. the temperatures there are near freezing. frederick's near the freezing mark. much of montgomery county, arlington, fairfax, in the mid to upper 30s now. quite a chilly start. upper 30s, near 40 in prince george's county. and southern maryland, away from the waters, in the upper 30s as well as the northern neck, eastern shore. weather watchers are reporting this morning. for t

three staffers suggested why don't you just call him joe? >> nice to meet you. can i call you joe? thank you. thank you, gwenn. thank you. thank you. >> so mark halperin, take us back to that moment. and your reporting on this book. >> well, it is a charming moment. because it's one of the rare moments where sarah palin seemed to my ear at least even a little bit nervous walking out on that stage. then as i said in the debate she did pretty well and found her voice. she did refer to him as o'biden in debate prep and the advisers were worried that would be branded as kind of a gaffe and illustration of her ability to think on her feet coming after the katie couric interview that she did. a series of interviews with katie couric that hadn't gone well and that had exposed for some viewers and voters weaknesses in governor palin's ability, again, to think on her feet and to be knowledgeable about things. for most candidates it would just be seen as kind of a funny gaffe. they were worried it would take on larger symbolic meaning and criticis criticism if it happened in the debate. they

three staffers suggested why don't you just call him joe? >> can i call you joe? thank you. thank you, gen. thank you. thank you. >> so mark halperin, take us back to your moment. >> it is a charming moment. it's one of the rare moments where sarah palin seemed a little bit nervous walking out on that stage. as she said in the debate, she did pretty well and found her voice. she did refer to him as o'ed bi in debate prep and they were worried that would be branded as a gaffe and inability to think on her feet coming off the katie couric interview she did. a series of interviews with katie couric that hadn't gone well and had exposed for some viewers and voters, weaknesses in governor palin's ability to think on her feet and be knowledgeable about things. for most candidates it would be seen as a funny gaffe. they were worried it would take on larger symbolic meaning if she said it in the debate. call him joe. she said i don't know. how can i call him joe? so she decided to ask him for permission to do that. the irony is in the debate while she did sometimes call him joe, she

i also believe our lovely neighbor to the north. >> i think he meant mexico. >> joe, you don't understand his cues that he was drunk when he was tweeting. you said who gets drunk and goes to the laptop. we have these things with smart phone. you president don't have to turn your computer on. >> now he doesn't have to have incoming calls from women asking what he was up to. if we had free speech every american would be on jail. >> that's what raiders are. >> you say they will preach to the huge crowds kill the jews and awful things. >> i think i meant other awful things. >> it is do light. it is too late. >> we have the tape where you didn't say other that. plb on youtube. kiss your career by. >> i'm sure your people will see to that. >> kiss your time in hollywood goodbye. >> i spent $47 on i tunes last night. >> how is that possible? >> i don't know. were you drinking? >> wine. i walk up this morning and bill ruse right there waiting for me at 11:00 a.m. >> getting those i tunes e mails is iewfl. >> you know -- is awful. >> you know what it is? the vacation pictures and you have no memor

. >> good morning to you, i'm joe krebs. we begin, though, with the dramatic drop in temperatures just when you thought spring had sprung, mother nature pulls a fasts one. this shows the area under a freeze warning. tom, say it ain't so. at least it ain't snow. it is so, right? >> freezing this morning. >> wow. yeah, what a dramatic drop. >> yeah. >> okay, last friday was 83. and now this morning we're talking subfreezing temperatures. that's a live view from our city camera. and the washington monument showing up there. the jefferson memorial and the daffodils on the mall are closed for business. right now 35 at reagan national. we have to talk windchill with a northerly wind, ten miles per hour. the windchills are in the 20s right now. and we have temperatures down to the 20s in a few locations out in west virginia. closer to washington, most areas west and north of i-95 are right around 30 degrees. gaithersburg has dropped down to 28 degree. near 30 in leesburg, manassas, frederick, and parts of howard county and farther s

but before you retire, joe, your colleagues and your friends here at nbc 4 wanted you to know how muchour lives. ♪ [ no audio ] >> good morning, joe krebs. and good-bye, joe krebs. one thing you have to know about local television stations, they're only as good as the people who really love them and are active in them. and joe krebs, you've been the best. >> joe, i'm going to miss seeing you sit right there and then hearing you in my ear in the morning. you know, before joining the news 4 team, i would watch you in the morning. and i always admired your work. and then i got to know you personally, and i admire you even more. thank you for your mentorship and your leadership in our newsroom. and thank you for all of your kind words and support that you've shared with me personally over the years. i want you to enjoy this well-deserved reimer we'll miss you. >> joe, i am going to miss you so much. but i have nothing but thanks in my heart for you for all that you've done for wrc and for the community. you are an awesome man in front of the camera but an awesome man behind the scenes, too

and then you can connect back on to 395. joeo you. >> danella, thank you very much. >>> crowds are camped outside the u.s. supreme court. people have been lining up for days to get a front row seat at the hearing on the constitutionality of president obama's health care law. tracee wilkins is live outside the courthouse with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, joe. let me show you all of the people who are out here who have been here for days. dozens and dozens of people putting aside their camping chairs and sleeping bags and standing up and preparing to walk into the supreme court so they can see what the highest court in the land has to say about the health care act for themselves. folks from around the country have sat through this weekend's rain and of course the cooling temperatures that we're feeling to hear this unfold in person. this case or this act has been tossed around appellate courts throughout the country for the past two years. and today, the supreme court will begin to hear a challenge to president obama's p

you know, 130, 200, either way, people certainly expect more upside. >> i want joe involved in the conversationdo you mesh these thoughts together? the saudis and fundamentals tightening as kate was bringing up? >> i think there's no demand story a lot better than the analyst expected going back into 2012 and it's important to understand that we really haven't come into the strong period here for oil and above 110 and above 115 and you wonder what the motivation is going to be institute fully this is a fubd mentally picture and you've essentially got supply and demand very close together. the issue since last year and before has been spare capacity which, depending on who you talk so is two to four million barrels worldwide. >> lastly, i'll make this point and the demand is speculator and it's china. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> good to see you, as always. >> copper prices could be buying up shares for mack mcmoran. let's bring in an analyst from credit suisse. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> why is the stock so underperformed? >> i would say the primary reason is issues in in

. >> and i'm joe krebs. >> you can see over my shoulder the flames that are literally almost blastingthe top of that school. >> there's been absolutely no sign of her since. >> good morning. i'm joe krebs. welcome back to news 4 today. >> joe spent the second half of his career on the anchor desk here at news 4. but the first half he spent as a street reporter. joe is serious. he's a little quirky too though. he calls news 4 his family. he will arrive to work here every day around 3:30. that's 3:30 a.m. and while you might think that sounds just a bit crazy for joe, it was a dream come true. >> i've just been very, very lucky. very fortunate to have been able to do what i love to do, to be able to do it for as long as i've done it and for those people to allow me into their homes and do what i do on a regular basis. >> joe is ready for his next chapter now, to spend more time on that beloved bicycle of his, more time with his family, especially now that he has a second grandchild on the way. that'll keep him busy for a day or two. >> yes, it will. >> you know, we noted that joe krebs

thank you, paul rothstein and joe madison. >> thank you. >> might be my next stop. thank you all for your time. >>> coming up -- rush limbaugh's sorry excuse for an apology has some republicans circling the wagons. but it hasn't changed my mind. rush has got to go. >>> and some dramatic new proof that the gop primary is hurting mitt romney. and helping president obama. "politics nation" is here in montgomery, alabama, all week long. we're marching for voting rights, immigration rights, for education rights and for our civil rights. we're here to talk about what's going on in this country. 47 years ago, people were beaten with clubs, attacked with teargas and murdered fighting for the try to vote. they were just asking for the right to vote. today, we find ourselves under attack again. voter i.d. laws, suppressed voters. so we're marching here. all the sacrifices and the people that gave their lives for equality. it's not about the past. it's about the future. we're not in the promised land yet, but the same god that brought us across the red sea of selma 47 years ag

and joe, you had, you yourself are in recovery and are one of our pride and joy in terms of individuals who go around the country talking about your recovery. do you want to tell the audience, really in terms of your own situation, how you came into recovery and what was your pathway? thanks for asking me, but yeah, i'm definitely in long-term recovery and, of course, it's only because of long-term recovery i'm able to be a father today and a husband and a person also that is the executive director for the association of persons affected by addiction. for years of course-i was 36 years old when i first went into the rooms of a place that reached out for me and it was a 12-step program that actually helped me and welcomed me. but before that i had struggled severely with both addiction, alcoholism, and substance use. and also having a family, out of seven brothers and one sister, five have serious mental illness and all eight of us struggled with addiction and alcoholism. and my mother didn't drink, only my dad did. but for my recovery, of course, once i got in it, it just so happened th

lightning round. >> joe, you live in brooklyn. >> yes. >> is the man hassling you?constantly being harassed. i have to wear -- this is actually a wig over my mow hawk. >> now i feel bad with what i said. >> what do you think about the white guys complaining? >> i think they should shut up. i have noticed that a lot of people -- it is a stereo type, but young, white men in williamsburg don't appear to have very much to do. so i don't mind police harassing them a little bit. they are driving everybody else's rent up. >> move them along. >> lori, if anything, does 10% of stops make them look over looked? only 10% stop. >> i just hear this profiling and the police department is looking to muslim people. it is not constitutional. it is unconstitutional, right? >> no. >> it seems to be just overkill. it is just more piling on to the previous stories i think we have added on to this. >> that's not what you are supposed to say. >> what was i supposed to say? i don't feel strongly. i think they are complaining to joe's reason for reason. >> the nypd says they often stop peop

there is no one like joe. yout coffee every morning for i don't know how many years. he went to 7-eleven and bought coffee for all of the producers and his co-anchor. every morning i worked with joe he brought me coffee. i said, joe, we have a coffee machine in the newsroom kitchen. he says i know but i'm used to doing this. >> it's tradition. >> exactly right. >> and it's been a tradition for us because you can never wake up on the wrong side of the bed when you turned on channel 4 and saw joe. he would just cheer you up every morning and got you going. great way to jump-start the day. the celebration continues tonight at nbc 4. we're looking forward to that and his lovely wife mary lynn and his family. he was generally surprised there. had one grand baby behind him too. >> the new joy of his life. joe, you have earned your retirement. >> you sure have. >>> coming up on news 4 hear from the local officer who pulled over bat man and why he couldn't give him a ticket. >>> the fight to keep producing the pink slime

so you hate to say, joe, he's right thus far. the next 5% to the upside will be tough. >> all right, john. thank you very much. have a good week. >> you saw that piece in "the journal" today, too, talking about christina romer? you already were talking about that. >> joe, here's the thing with the whole theory, fed officials now there's a developing theory that perhaps this relationship between gdp growth and employment has broken down a little bit, for some skeptics in the market i would suggest we go back to the early part of this sent isry, maybe the 1990s. there was this big argument about productivity and growth being as strong as it was. there was also a credit binge which made the product growth greater than it should have been. i think we see the ramifications today ever since the credit bubble burst. >> what was the high for unemployment? 10-3 and 8-3 and barely above 2% gdp, you're not supposed to be able to add -- to bring down the rate with gdp growth. >> the shrinking of the labor force. you have more and more people

do you know of any around here? joe's auto repair, it's the closest. do you have the phone number by any chance? for pete's sake... just a second. do you think anyone will be at joe's garage? let's just take it one step at a time, o.k.? here iis, joe's auto repair. um, could i use your phone? o.k., make it snappy, though. go around back, phone's on the wall. ( thunder booming ) hi. hi. listen, is there a chance that maybe i can get something to eat before you close? no. grill'turned off. sure is windy, huh? it's always windy out here... god... did you find the phone yet? yes, but i'm not getting any... oh, it's ringing... oh, no, it's an answering machine. man: you've reached joe's auto repair. we're open from 7:00 to 4:00, monday through friday. if this is an emergency, please leave a short message including the location of your car. thank you for calling. ( tone sounds ) this is rebecca casey. my car broke down in... where are we? you're in iron mount... jessie's hamburger stand. in iron mount... it's near the, uh... the sundowner motel. it's a gray d

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a "fast money" trader at the studio has a question for you. >> joe terranova in new york. ve a question regarding the financing space. it's rather confuse iing, you h some integrateds that have gotten out of the space, yet you have refiners positioned perfectly, and those are the companies that look like some want to be acquirers of. where do you stand on that? would you look to be an acquirer? or do you look to pull out of the refining space? >> no, we are actually acquiring phase of refining. we have the expansion coming live over the next few weeks. what we are looking at is actually an integrated thesithe. go into liquid, which is a big refinery in the middle. and we have a breakthrough project in qatar which has just come to life. we could bring that back to the u.s. which gets you gas products like diesel oil. so we are looking at these types of things. what we can do rather than actually looking at the acquisition of more refineries. >> and the gas to liquids plant will be the largest in the world. do you see that actually happening in the u.s.? >> yes, we are at the

i can tell you you're picking up steam. joeo you. >> thank you very much. >>> people have been lining up for days outside the united states supreme court to get a front row seat or any seat at today's health care reform hearing. the debate has polarized the nation and now the highest court is being asked to decide whether the law is unconstitutional. brian mooar is live at the supreme court with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe. s of people have been camped out here -- dozens of people have been camped out here. they've seen cold weather, rain. this morning they got hit by the sprinklers. those waiting this out, the lucky few who will be inside the courtroom today say it will all have been worth the wait. today, the beginning of three days of epic arguments over president obama's health care law. it is a law sweeping in its scope, and so are the challenges to it. 26 states saying that the law in its essence is illegal. at the core of this is an argument over whether the government can force americans to

joe has actually seen it. >> i have. >> kamal, have you seen it?together from youtube trailers trailers. i think i have seen it. >> so what was your take on it. >> my take away from this was, i had a different impression of pay palin, from the movie. it is -- it's not only was she in the movie. one was this person was a -- the person was very unprepared, very close to being presidentvice president, but at the same time, i felt for her. i felt like she was totally out of her depth, drafted into this and there was no vetting, as we know from the book and such. it was -- but i think so a new answered portrait. if julian moore was running for vice president, i think we might not be talking about president obama. >> he fell for her. let hebe lear. >> are you going to see it kamal. >> i am more excited about it than the next batman movie. >> there are so many more action scenes scenes. >> this good. >> i played sar apalin against joe biden. >> did you put on an canaccent? >> you betcha. i am a fan of julian moore. i became a palin-tologist because i stud

we are believing now that all of us in average joe you think you go by earth day in two thousand and twenty and you give customers all the access they need russian companies like yoda have been doing all the chance to boost capacity with a mind to get ahead of the curve this state petersburg based innovative company rolled out one of the world's largest why max networks on the globe and given that growing traffic is a worldwide issue they even took their know how in technology a broad meeting of the central american state of nicaragua december two thousand and nine saw the launch of their four g. network in capital managua and since that time they also grabbed a foothold with the imax networks and improved however since all that work there's been a major shift in the world of mobile internet despite its initial advantage why max appears to be losing the fight against up and coming l.t.e. . we plan to migrate our existing one matz network over the next few months. to me as well as washington studios so we're presently in the progress of. launching novosibirsk and we will. look to swap

you very much. that's nice. >>> let's check the weather. tom, it is cold out there. >> joe's jokes aren't corny, they're goofy. more of an apt description. this morning the weather is goofy, too. you step outside and what the heck happened? it dropped like a rock overnight. near freezing, reagan national at 37. and the record low for the day, it's not going to be a low at reagan national, it's 20 degrees for washington set way back in 1894. the latest last freeze occurred as late as april 29, the late 1800s, too. for today, sunrise at 7:00. by 9:00, the low 40s. low 50s by noontime. breezy middle of the day. and we'll have a sunny afternoon as we reach the upper 50s. then tonight, we'll have a mostly clear sky, down to the low 40s by midnight. not as cold tomorrow morning. we'll look at the week and weekend in ten minutes. danella? >>> good morning. good news on the roadways. following i-66 eastbound, a minute ago we saw construction taking up two of the left lanes. it's up. no more delays. clear to the beltway. over to the beltway, outer loop had construction at new hampshir

>> are you talking about me, joe? >> i'm talking about you, austan. zandi. >> all i want to stipulate that austan had theegsj brett erbett. it commands attention. >> it does. >> joe, the thing is, first of all, we're disproving that we're clark xekent and superman whichs what you said before. the reason i have less hair is you give me a lot harder time when i come on here. i've been doing this a long time now. >> which all hearkens back to, you know, the government service that you provided. it was -- and we appreciate it, actually. but it's tough, austan, and you got to expect that especially when you come from university of chicago and, you know, and you were -- i thought you were, like, from university of moscow when you were at the white house. i'm kidding. >> i got a few broken ribs before i even got there from you! >> i helped get that studio at university of chicago. >> exactly. >> that's good. >> joe, how do you explain my hairline? i've never been in government. >> no. >> you're an adviser to mccain campaign and then -- >> that will do it. >>

thank you very much, mark preston. joens, our senior correspondent, standing by in louisiana to follow up on rick santorum's big win down there. you heard me talking to tom foreman. he says education -- that mitt romney doesn't do well with the folks down in louisiana. obviously, you see he didn't win. rick santorum doing very well among conservatives. among moderates. and even liberal voters as louisiana sees them. >> reporter: that's really fascinating. that's just a fascinating development. but rick santorum really continues to surprise in a lot of ways. you know, earlier in this race in some other states he was having problems getting catholic voters to vote for him, and that seemed very unusual. it was sort of defying expectations. well, now all of a sudden apparently a connection with some of those more liberal voters. it's almost, you know, inexplicab inexplicable, i would say, because rick santorum talks such tough talk on the campaign trail and in many ways he is more conservative than the other true conservative

you. let's get analysis from the team of experts. former george w. bush senior advisor karl rove, joe trippi and political strategist, mike murphy. welcome. i want to get thoughts about tonight and how it factors in with the big picture, mike, first, to you. >> well, i think we saw good evidence of what i think the fatal flaw of the santorum campaign s you know, like a team that wins two-thirds of home games but lose as way games. if you get rick santorum out of the state he loses and his campaign is unfortunately for him, focused on votes he has. and this not a freedom. he doesn't win. he's got knot going to change this delegate dynamic piling up in romney's favor and has now without winning the narrative of a can't win primaries anymore. bottom line is the beginning of the end of santorum as a realistic candidate for competition. >> and joe, do you agree? >> i think it was a big night for romney and a disappointing night for santorum. i agree he had to break romney in illinois and important for him to do it. from now, it's been the presumpive nominee. it's unclear where san tore wru

>> he's been playing with an etch a sketch all morning, joe. you be asking the wrong person. >> did you bring this in for me? >> i did not. >> we do have one on set. jeb bush, you have been saying this forever, if there's one endorsement that matters in this race above all others it's jeb bush. he gets it yesterday. mitt romney finally gets the coveted endorsements, and within minutes this story comes up. i don't think we'll be talking specifically about the etch a sketch. but with all of the other mitt romney gaffs, they play into something that people already believe about him, which is that he blows with the wind, he is silly putty, choose your metaphor, whatever he is. and this reinforces it. you saw the candidates on both sides. you saw santorum and gingrich but also the obama campaign going after him. they had props. we may not talk about the actual etch a sketch in a week, but we'll be talking about the fact that even someone inside mitt romney's own campaign perhaps believes it's ok to set the reset button and decide what he needs to say in

veronica, joe, you never tire of seeing those gorgeous blossoms of blooms. >> i don't think you can take a bad picture of the cherry blossoms. all good. >> worth going down to see it up close. >> do the cherry blossom fingers hold onto the trees overnight with the rain? did the rain knock them off? >> no, it wasn't a heavy rain. i don't think we'll have a heavy rain. out of a couple of days, by the weekend, we could have a heavier rain. weekend not looking too great. today first. again, looking at showers moving across the area right now with an overcast sky. temperatures throughout the area, not too bad. we have light wind and that's allowing fog to form. reports of fog up around hartford county, i-95 around maryland, just before you get to pennsylvania and some more patchy foggy spots down around the river and easton. that will be burning off the next couple of hours. 63, the temperature. wind out of east. light. light wind out of east all day long. but like yesterday, it will be a carbon copy, where we start out in the 60s, with clouds, a few showers. 62, 63 across the area. gaithersb

you. and your travel speed northbound, 54 miles per hour. joek you very much. >>> give yourself extra time this weekend if you plan to use metro rail. especially if you ride the red line. three stations will be closed on metro's busiest line. the shady grove station, the rockville station, and the twin brook station will be closed. free shuttle buses will run between shady grove and white flint to get you around the work. trains will single track between east and west falls church on the orange line. ince that will also share a -- trains will also share a track on the orange and blue lines. all work begins at 10:00 tonight but should be completed in time for your monday morning commute. >>> the montgomery county council will soon vote on a plan for the purple nine bethesda. the maryland transportation administration offered up ideas on what to do with the capital crescent trail. one plan would keep the trail inside the metro tunnel which runs under two buildings and wisconsin avenue, or they could remove the trail and relocate it. the council sa

so it will be a privilege to sit next to you. >> joe, i have to say thank you.lege to sit next to you. you are the best in the business. just a superb human being, and i just feel so lucky to have had the chance to work with you for a couple of years. you're such a great role model. i admire you for so many reasons . i know everyone in the station and community feels the same way. >> well, thank you. >> i don't want to feel bulbry. >> fine, fine. that's all well and good. you're not going. we're not going to let him go. >> i'll get the chain. you get the lock that at least for 30 days. >> force of habit. we've got to have you here. we're going to really miss you, joe. here this morning we're dealing with the aftermath of the big storms that hit yesterday evening. they unloaded a lot of rain. they had flooding. now the waters are receding. the sky is clearing out. thankfully a lot of the fog we've had around in the last couple of hours is beginning to break up a bit here in washington. it was pretty thick an hour ago. but right now visibility is clearing. 52 at r

how much do you aspire, joe, how much will you borrow to live in how big a house. do you think it's data last week that said it was starting to go up again? >> 0.25 percent which is better than negative, but it sure ain't back to the races. >> hey, rick, you never get to watch the show, and there's some time when i just wish you were watching. you didn't see larry meyer, did you? >> you know, i was in a little earlytoday, and i was on the train, they could control inflation. >> got it figured out. they got models. >> do you know what? >> not to worry, dude! >> yeah. no, everything is fixed. houston, there is no problem. listen, i think he's a very nice man and i think most central bankers are so immersed in their world of theory that they really i don't think are good judges about their own -- >> do you doubt if there's inflation the fed could hike interest rates and slow the u.s. economy, plunge it into recession and kill inflation, is that a doubt in your mind? it's difficult to find the will to do so and the -- >> i know there's a huge amount of doubt because i

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if you can do that, joe, i'll give you a number.llion americans out of 312 million, 1 million americans to give you $100 for reform, for putting america first, for having a unity ticket. if you can get 1 million americans at $100, that's more money than all of these guys have spent in the primary combined. >> make a big difference. let's go to katty kay. she has a question for you. >> yeah, lawrence, i thought it was interesting what you write about in the book the inside and the outside, and of course, the amount of money in politics. the last british general election cost $75 million, which is bargain basement democracy compared to what they cost here. we now have the supreme court ruling that's opened the flood gates and it seems that this is going to have to be done by presidential leadership, but no president can get into office and stay in office if they don't take part in the system of super pacs, right? it's now so corrupted, the system, that how do you get out of it? >> no, that's exactly right. and you will see neither of

did you rosa comedy.com -- joe derosa comedy.com for venue information. folks. >> i hope somebody in greenville kicks your ass. >> that's nice, andy. for that i go to patti ann browne. >> i'm not sure i get that. >> patti, i have been saying your name over and over again. did you know your name is great for a teenage mystery novel? patti ann browne and the case of the curious missing cup cake. >> everybody makes fun of my name. >> it is a fun name. chris, have i to say congrats of being the editor of vanity fair, buts i loved you as the character in "stand by me" and" star trek the next generation." >> what happened to him? chris, while we were here, you were talking about the super tuesday. you said, you know, mitt won, mitt won. but mitt won by 1% or something like that. he is puffing his [bleep]. doesn't this win make him look like the dad that thinks he still has it? you know what i mean? >> nailed it. >> no, you didn't nail it. >> that hasn't changed. he always evoked that feeling among people. don't you think? >> yes, but i think it is unsay vor re.

got joe the plumber. the next time you see me, oddly compelling creepy crime. we call this diversity. have a great night. >> more republicans are trying to push newt gingrich out of the race and joe the plumber is in the race for the house of representatives and will join me as will his opponent, congresswoman marcie captor. >> since i took office, america's dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year. >> the white house is relying on a new mini documentary. >> 17 minutes of a mini documentary. >> to highlight the administration's accomplishments. >> they asked where to begin. which urgent need would he put first. >> the president has a vision about how to move the country forward. >> president obama seems to believe he is on check by the constitution. >> he wants every american to go to college. what a snob. >> we want to run a positive campaign. >> hoary ran out of ideas. >> he's not a really good speaker. >> john mccain lost 19 states on the way to the nomination. >> the numbers are going down. >> is the mccain example one romney people want to

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