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drop us a line, mailbag@wusa9.com. we may get to your comments on the air monday evening. >>> okay, how does $50 for five gallons of gas sound? well, that is what some drivers in seaside heights, new jersey are paying, and that's after they went in line for four hours. more than a million people across the state are still without power, and that means no heat and the temperatures are going down. we take a live look outside right now. our own temperatures are none too warm. topper in the weather center. what can we expect? >> it's going to be chilly. if you are headed out i would dress for the 30s. it is going to be windy tonight and tomorrow. let's start with temperatures, primarily in the 40s. it's still 50 downtown but for all intents and purposes it's in the 40s. 46 in gaithersburg, 46 in leesburg, 43 up in hagerstown, 43 also in cumberland. the freezing mark for our friends in oakland who were still trying to dig out of 30 inches of snow. 22 miles per hour wind gust downtown, 22-mile-per-hour gust in gaithersburg.

the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back. >>> in the mailbag tonight more reaction to the election day results from yesterday. one viewer suggesting yesterday that president obama ought to give mitt romney a big job in his administration all in the interest of bipartisanship. i agreed with that. i suggested perhaps tax reform and michelle in hyattsville is with us. i think you have a great idea about including romney in some sort of position in this second government given how divisive the politics of the race were. this would go a long way to creating genuine bipartisanship to solve the serious economic problems this country faces. romney's business experience would be invaluable and silence the racial and class bigots. then there was this on a story i did last night at 11:00 chatting with an elections expert who argues that those fancy new touchscreen voting machines are the real reason behind those long voting lines. he says we need to go back to the paper ballots and our good friend deb from arlington believes him. well, now live in arlington and voted with ease

the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back. >>> in the mailbag tonight election 2012, say what you want, feel how you may like about the results, but in a lot of places it was the process that was troublesome fraught with ridiculously long lines and betty from virginia wants something done about it. today my bent over 91-year-old mother who is a world war ii veteran herself drove to the polls, circled several times to find parking, no handicapped spaces available and then stood in line for an hour with her cane before her bones just couldn't take it anymore and she had to go home. this is a disgrace. is voting only for the strong, young and able bodied? betty, of course it's not, but i'm sure you know your poor mom was only one of thousands, maybe millions dealing with those crazy long lines and hours and hours of waiting and i have a couple take-aways from the situation. first of all, major league kudos to your mom and every other american who put up with that to cast your vote, but secondly, you shouldn't have had to. americans spend $2.4 billion a year on hall

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mailbag at wus ashgs a 9.com. >>> in the mail bag tonight, president obama's plan to avoid that fiscal cliff. in his news conference today, the president said the one thing he will not do is preserve tax cuts for people who make more than a quarter million bucks a year. craig writes now is not the time for the president to draw lines in the sand. mr. obama, compromise involves you suggest a higher number. you move up and they move down until both sides reach agreement. compromise. i wonder about that as well. i know the president wants to walk the line. i'm glad he also said that he's open to other ideas as long as the numbers add up. and then there was this from alfred. is the president aware if he raises the tax rate on capitol gains, dividends and interest, he will raise taxes on the middle class? they are the ones who have invested in america and retirees and those making less than $250,000 annually who depend on those returns to supplement their income. it is a decent point. from what i can determine, the president's plan would raise the gains rate from 15% to 20%. the whole idea

. >>> in the mailbag, i am surprised but perhaps i should not be as to the volume of reaction to my guest last night, a man named howard bloom whose book purports to explain how what he sees as a god lses universe -- godless universe was able to create itself. >> one viewer says he defending his points of atheist but for as long as time people have needed to believe in something as all cultures illustrate. how can we counter so many believers? we can't. a whole lot of people believing in something does not necessarily make it true. everybody a whole bunch of folks used to think the sun was being pulled across the sky in a chariot. but i do get your point and so does robert from herndon. your guest has indulged in the belief that if he could trace the origins of the material universe back far enough, can he replace god. without opening the cover of the book, i can deduce this logic has to exist to enable any mechanism he proposes for the creation time and space. whatever you think of mr. bloom's beliefs, he's an interesting guy. while he may not be able to explain that, robert, i would lov

the address here is mailbag@wusa9.com. >>> well president obama and the congressional leaders are slated to sit down together tomorrow, trying to keep the company from, or should i say the country from falling off the so-called fiscal cliff. it is an ugly mix of tax increases and spending cuts that could put the economy back into recession. and those cuts are likely to hit our region disproportionately hard. >> i'm bruce leshan on capitol hill where worried demonstrators from across d.c. urged house speaker john boehner to compromise with president obama and avoid direct budget cuts. >> jobs, no cuts. >> reporter: more than 100 protesters. >> 47%. this is the vietnam veteran. >> reporter: organized by the group rdc. crowded the hallways outside the house speaker's office. >> i have three children. >> reporter: april thomas was homeless up until two years ago when federal help finally put her young family in an apartment in southeast. >> now i'm told that it will be a possibility that i might end up back where i came from. >> reporter: the speaker staff locked the doors. but a spokesperso

and a lot of times, you see mailbags and envelopes they can put letters in or magazines.d a lot of times, you'll see them tie a kite or a letter to the end of it and that's the way they communicate. >> the packages tied to the fish lines are sometimes called cadillacs, and hard as they try, correctional staff can rarely keep up with them. >> 99% of the time you are not going to catch it because they are looking out for each other. we will go up and tell them to give us the cadillacs, and if they want, we'll go in, shake them down, and take the cadillac. and then they'll have another one tomorrow. you know, that is where a lot of our sheets go. and you take one and they have another one the next day. >> at kern valley state prison in california, we met inmate aaron yost who participates in another illegal, yet very common practice behind bars. tattooing. >> mine's art work. you know what i mean? i did this myself. >> where? >> in a cell like this. >> how? >> how? see this cassette player? i ripped the motor out of it, and i attach a tube to it with the needle, spin the nee

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