for employees like 35-year veteran roy kirby -- >> you know that the end is going to come. but when it does come, it's a bitter pill to swallow. >> reporter: the end came faster for two reasons -- the 2007 law phasing out all u.s. production of incandescent bulbs except for specialty bulbs. like those used in some appliances. and the fact that consumers were changing their buying habits on their own, shifting to more energy efficient halogens. and those squiggly compact fluorescents. so out with the old and in with the new. >> if we're not responding to what our customers want, you know, there's no business here. >> reporter: and gone are the $30 an hour jobs employees like the madigan brothers are finding impossible to replace. >> i'm taking a job paying half of what i was making. if i've got to have a job at least $20 to $22 an hour in order to pay our bills, you know, and to keep our home. >> reporter: this was a career for tens of thousands from the dawn of the 20th century, making the lightbulbs that changed the way we lived, lighting america's homes and businesses in

kirby road is closed well off workers repair the broken pipe. >>> traffic is once again moving along the outer loop of the beltway. for early morning drivers, it was a different story. a fuel spill forced the outer loop to close between connecticut and wisconsin ave. that happened at around 10:00 last night there was a four vehicle pile up. the cleanup took a while and the beltway opened around 5:00 this morning. >>> pulled in the big apple are cleaning up after wild weather pounded the city. >> all, my god. >>> this home video shows the ferocious storms moving in at the height of rush hour. the fit -- the city's famous skyline blazed. the winds brought down trees one woman pulled over on the road was killed by a falling tree. the storm brought traffic to a standstill. >> it looks like a giant human car wash. everything started spinning. >>> it all to train service. the same storm system brought rain to our region. adam caskey is here with our first forecast. >>> we did get some rain but not enough to make a dent in the drought we have going on. we have an extreme drought west of tow

north starting to slow as you travel north of fort washington up towards kirby hill.are backed up through manassas between the two 234 interchains. traffic slows again at 28 and centreville, 50 and 123 and at the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> vincent gray has toppled mayor adrian fenty in the democratic primary in the race to d.c. mayor. with 90% of the precincts reporting, gray won 53 to 46%. this pretty much guarantees grey will be the next mayor of tease since there is no republican running in the election. matt ackland joins us with more. >> reporter: it still appears even after this big win last night, this morning, that the city is still divided. a gentleman came up to me and asked me who won last night. i said vincent gray and he hook his head and said that is not a good thing. but then five minutes later, another man came up to me and i said good morning. he said it is a good morning because we have a new mayor. a big celebration last night. it took some time for the election results to come in but then right around 2:00, the chair

it was a great run and i was part of t roy kirby can't quite let go. >> i'm going to have incandescent light bus in my home unless a light bulb policeman comes along. >>> some other edison inventions, themicrophone, telephone receiver and storage battery. >>> tomorrow is national drug take-back day. therere more than 4,000 sites around the country where you can drop off expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs, according to the d.e.a., there were 7 milln americans, 12 years and older, who abused prescription drugs for nonmel purposes. there arement of sites around the district, virginia and maryland, many local police departments and fire stations. >>> congress could vote today to extend the federal school lunch pgram. they're aiming to make school lunches hethier as well. the bill would require the government to eliminate junk food in the lunchroom, in vending machines. however, this bill is not without controversy. the program is being paid for by cutting future food stamps benefits. the obama ainistration says those cuts will not --. all next wee nbc news will be focusing on

to complete this i pregrilled some kirby cucumbers and add that.and some shaved ricotta salata. grilled squashes, young greens and hazelnut squash blossom vinaigrette. jokingly i often say that my goal is to vanish into obscurity. you know, i want to embrace some of the finer things in life for me at this point so the scales are tipping a little bit and i'm 48 years old. maybe by the time i'm 55 i'd like to maybe work 40 hours a week and maybe by the time i'm 60 i'd like to work 20 hours a week and check in with all the chef, go to the market with them, talk about food. i probably would be happy with that till i keel over and die. look at that. there's another duck leg in there. this is awesome, isn't it? >> another duck leg. looked good there. we want to remind you that there is still time to vote for the people's plate list. just go to the "nightline" pages at abcnews.com. view the videos submitted by our finalists. click on your favorite and the winner will be announced september 27th. that's the people's plate list. get involved. >>> when we co

coming up tonight at 5, to some it is a creative ad campaign for kirby jeans to others it is down right offensive what do you think does this ad cross the line? that story coming up at 5. >>> finally the sky is the limit for one english granny. joan harding went sky driving to celebrate her 90th birthday. she teamed up with local experts saying the experience took her breath away. >> bet it did. >> of course she is strapped on the another sky diver for her jump after all was done she said thank you with a big old kiss. >> thank you very much my pleasure. >> very cool. weren't you going to do that for your birthday? >> not unless you join my. >> really? there is a catch. >> there is a catch. >> you join me for the triathalon this weekend. >> i wish you and roberta nothing but the best. >> heating up triple digits. >> temperatures mid- to upper 90s. inland, 80s around the bay. warm at night. flip flop. >> we are in fall but it will feel like summer. >> feel like summer and you asked me yesterday when does the clock change. >> yes. >> november 7th. >> okay mark that down too. okay. have a

. >> kirby daley, senior strategist, says the impact is already visible. he points out that the recent data show china has become the biggest trading partner for many asian countries. >> it's very difficult for japan at this time, and the reason is japan's fiscal situation that the government has gotten itself into is really a mess. japan's economy, the domestic economy, is having a hard time getting going with domestic consumption and its dependence on exports to the west is something what it has no control over. it has no power over. >> reporter: some say the change symbolizes not only china's rise but also a shift in the global economic and even political landscape. but daley is cautious, noting that japan's per capita gdp is still more than ten times china's, which is $3,600. he also says china faces other problems. >> the real problem there is sustainability. a lot of the exports from asian countries to china are reexported to the west. and the ability for the western countries to keep consuming and driving those exports is going to be limited in the

. >> reporter: downtown, kirby says it helps more than just the city's business district? >> we'll see more taxes for the city, more money for our play grounds and recreation centers. >>reporter: it is baltimore's tallest building, it changed the city's skyline. it is now the transamerica tower. transamerica plans on working on their space in the building by march and they hope to be moved in by september. eyewitness news. >>> thank you derek. kayla will also be moving into the tower next year. >>> one of baltimore's own is receiving a genius grant. he won one of 23 prizes handed out by the mccart they are foundation -- mcarthur foundation. they created the hbo series, the wire and most recently another named company. he is a genius. congratulations to him. >>> still ahead at 5:00 tragedy in texas turns into a crime scene. what we know about the student behind the shooting on campus. right to drive, a push to make the team safer and change driver's license laws. >>> it is a fatal but pre--- fatal but preventable disease and they are offering a freeway to vaccinate your pet

. >> reporter: kirby fowler says, it helps more than the city's business district. >> it means more money for our play grounds and recreation centers, it is a big deal for the entire center. >> it was built in the early '70ss, it changed the city's skyline, but soon it was called the transamerica tower. transamerica hopes to start working on their space in march and hope to be moving in by next september. live on federal hill, eyewitness news wjz. >>> wedding bills are not ringing, why fewer americans are not going to the chapel than ever before. >>> bedbugs, how they will take care of that. >>> it's all about team work, how the ravens are helping troops overseas next. >>> they still had a couple of wet days, what is in store for tomorrow. bob ehrlich pretends to be for the working guy... but he's not on our side. i thought i knew bob ehrlich, but then i found out... he raised property taxes on every maryland family... and business. he increased college tuition... by 40%. 40%. and i thought i knew bob ehrlich. he was against raising the minimum wage. made $2.5 million... working for a lob

we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all these people together and you have a pretty good group to assess where our government stands with regard to national security preparedness. we believe that this assessment that is being released today -- and burress will describe it to you in just a few minutes -- is a very important document. i do not tnk i he seen anything quite like it. i have not seen all of th things that come out of government, but i have seen a good many of them. you'll see that it gives a very fresh perspective on the threat that we confront from al qaeda. our focus today is on this paper and the evolving threat from qaeda. in the future, we will explore other aspects of homeland security and national security preparedness. but today, the focus will be on the report. so, burress, to get this into this report, we ask -- , bruce, to gives into this report, we ask you to step forward. all right. before i begin, i want to first thank very warmly and appreciatively the bipartisan center, especially the exec

. -- kirby and peninsula. i might say that this is the reincarnation of the incident that happened between 1977 and 1993. it was a deterrent to north korean leadership and rain that in north korean policies -- north korean policies. one side effect of this is china's reaction. when we conducted this exercise in the wake of the cheonan sinking, the chinese reaction was unusually harsh. i think it has awakened at the international community. it is central in the war, as reflected in the sense of china. china had some objection to this joint exercise. for example, july 15 -- "we formally oppose any foreign militaries placed in the yellow city, undermining china's security." and second also, this was a joint week emphasized by a high- ranking military -- this was a jointly emphasized by high- ranking military experts as well. he placed several reasons for why china opposed the joint exercise. and, of course, through the korean newspapers, there was one professor of china's natural defense industry. he said the tru

[applause] >> michael kirby. when i stepped off the stage, he said i was so funny.alled him president mike huckaby and he said that was not funny at all. >> it is my great honor to introduce a u.s. senator who has been married for over 50 years. yes, he is the one. he and his wife have a combined 20 children and grand kids. but also have one adopted child from ethiopia. he is a lifelong conservative who has fought for the values of greater freedoms, a strong national defense and less government intrusion into the lives of the american people. he was named the top conservative in the senate for 2009. he was recently voted the most outstanding conservative u.s. senator and a top conservative by the american conservative union as an army veteran himself. he was a tireless advocate for providing greater resources, the necessary equipment and proper training to our military personnel fighting the war on terror and combating global threats to our nation's security. he has single-handedly stop global warming. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome oklahoma senator jim and ho

we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all these people together and you have a pretty good group to assess where our government stands with regard to national security preparedness. we believe that this assessment that is being released today -- and burress will describe it to you in just a few minutes -- is a very important document. i do not think i have seen anything quite like it. i have not seen all of the things that come out of government, but i have seen a good many of them. you'll see that it gives a very fresh perspective on the threat that we confront from al qaeda. our focus today is on this paper and the evolving threat from al qaeda. in the future, we will explore other aspects of homeland security and national security preparedness. but today, the focus will be on the report. so, burress, to get this into this report, we ask -- so, bruce, to give us into this report, we ask you to step forward. >> all right. before i begin, i want to first thank very warmly and appreciatively the bipartisan center, espe

they never see anyone in kirby egg using -- korea using d-o-u- g. so when you go to the library of congress, he will have to look up all three of them to get the full set of my papers. i did not have time to read all of these papers. we did not have the coordination to blame north korea and praise our government. i am doing my own paper. i do not want to -- bear with me. i was born in 1951, one year after the caribbean war broke out. -- korean war broke out. i am very short, compared to others of my comrades. that is because of the korean war. there was nothing to eat. we had nothing to eat. no supplies. i am sure than my two brothers who were born after the war. i have to blame north korea for that. [laughter] if i was born after the war, i could be a movie star in hollywood. [laughter] so, i am a born anti-communist. [laughter] so, i do not like war myself. but i have to defend myself. if somebody does not come to an agreement, that is okay. live your life. but if they cross that line, i should have the right to self- defense. that is the point i

we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all these people together and you have a pretty good group to assess where our government stands with regard to national security preparedness. we believe that this assessment that is being released today -- and burress will describe it to you in just a few minutes -- is a very important document. i do not think i have seen anything quite like it. i have not seen all of the things that come out of government, but i have seen a good many of them. you'll see that it gives a very fresh perspective on the threat that we confront from al qaeda. our focus today is on this paper and the evolving threat from al qaeda. in the future, we will explore other aspects of homeland security and national security preparedness. but today, the focus will be on the report. so, burress, to get this into this report, we ask -- so, bruce, to give us into this report, we ask you to step forward. >> all right. before i begin, i want to first thank very warmly and appreciatively the bipartisan center, espe