i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family resid

dodi he came back and opened cafe meridian he came back and opened cafe maria. he wants to add an accordion player, perhaps a vocalist and guitarist. before, the restaurant was empty. i am very familiar with this because it happens to be one of my favorite places. they used to have somebody dancing, and they tried to apply for a permit, and they have a lot of problems with the people who lived next door, and consequently common they spent thousands of dollars soundproofing the wall between the house next door and the restaurant. they have moved on. the owner of the property and wants to add this low-level amplification. i do not believe he understands that this has come into being since the previous issues occur, so we tried to communicate with you but were not able to secure a good -- but were not able to. i will leave that to you. >> we have a question from the next out the carrot -- from the next applicant. what kind of entertainment new plan to have democrats and accordion or a guitarist. >> you have a speaker system? >> yes, it is only until 10:00. gootrack

at least twice a day she would drive down meridian ave and go past a strange looking building that defined itself as indian health center. she would think to yourself, i should see if that place needs volunteers. one day she called, and of -- beloved physician we had identified a project for lisa and actor -- ask her to consider joining the board of directors. with leases unique legal and medical backgrounds, benefits from having both in a single board member we save some times. thank you. and her commitment and leadership have helped guide through more than a decade of growth and the challenges that come with it. her quick, usually irreverent and sometimes wacky, actually always wacky sense of humor enlivens the board meetings, and may leave her in the future to the stage at one of my agencies comedy jam event. lisa looks forward to reading and continuing efforts to improve the health of the indians come to advocate for health care for the underserved, and to innovate in the prevention and chronic illness. and lease that is part miami -- lisa is part miami on her mother's side. and part c

southbound 14th street at meridian in northwest d.c. i'll keep you posted on that situation northbound you can get through. let me take you outside live and show you the dense fog that howard has been talking about. about a quarter mile visibility on the southbound side of 270 from frederick down past shady grove road to the point where the lanes divide. luckily, the volumes will be lighter than normal with delayed openings and school closings as well. we'll take you over to virginia. northbound on i-95, overall delays heading for the occoquan river, more in lorton. here in springfield, it looks ok heading up to 395. we'll take a live lock at 66 on the inbound side. a little more in fairfax and inside the beltway. back over to our graphics, want to let you know with the delayed openings from the federal government, metro has expanded their a.m. rush hour service. more trains will be available for you. if that's what you use. no mid-day track work will help with less delays on metro. more on area roadways at 6:45. >> thank you, monika. >

there are tornado warnings in meridian and alabama.here's even a little bit of snow on the backside of it, wisconsin, and watch out for freezing drizzle today, pennsylvania and virginia. so it's a very active weather morning on this monday. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. well, we're going to watch the warm temperatures. i mean it's very strange to have a chance for thunderstorms in the ohio valley in the middle of january, but that's the case today. wet weather will finally give way to nicer weather late in memphis today later this afternoon. this is like our second or third tornado outbreak we've had in january, something that doesn't usually happen that often. >>> all right, bills. thanks so much. >>> coming up, changes in research in motion. >>> gas prices rice and warren buffett's exchange. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus the underdog film steals the thunder from the top dog at the box office. >>> the patriots survive, the giants need

. >> my parents and i reside at stockton street next door to cafe meridian -- maria. both of my parents are senior citizens. the restaurant was formerly occupied, and they did have a weekly samba dancing and music shows, and the shows created major rockets because loud music was heard throughout our house, especially through the kitchen areas. since then, the building owners attempted to soundproof the premises, but it was only partially successful. even after the installation, the sound technician reported that it could be as high as a maximum of five decibels. >> did you say nine? >> it was in the report i submitted previously. to my knowledge there has been knows soundproofing installed. therefore, i feel that any live music performance will cause a disturbance to our house and my parents, and therefore, and we are against a permit. thank you. >> do you have that report? >> please go on. >> i am a consultant to the project. the owner of the building also lives upstairs. he happens to be 72 years old. he would like to offer a limited low-level amplification. the pri

august 19th, 1981, i ran away from the meridian home for girls just outside philadelphia to the streets of the fort lauderdale strip. i was 14. june 11th, 2011, 30 years later with 5 years sober, i started walking home. with my walk, walking up the east coast, i would walk about 10 miles in the morning, and then in the afternoons i would visit homeless shelters, treatment centers, battered women shelters. i'd go back into the alleys, under the bridges and tell my story and share hope. i started sandraswalk.org to spread little mustard seeds of hope in places that there were none. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in the recovery community, and i think the stigma of-of coming into recovery and the fellowships, and you can't do this and you can't do that, kind of wards people off. it scares people off from coming into recovery, because they think they're going to be sentenced to a church basement and a coffee pot. (music) we have recovery concerts. we have sober comedy events. we have the 12 step music fest in the keys. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in the re

if anyone is in birmingham and meridian, it looks like the worst of those storms is heading to the east. birmingham has one strong storm going through. a lot of lightning strike social security going to go through the southern side of the city. right now, a couple tornado warnings. eventually, we'll watch areas from montgomery up towards atlanta. just a rough morning. here we are in the middle of january, end of january, dealing with tornadoes at this time of the hour. very rare. it's all associated with a very strong storm center over the top of illinois. the backside is a little bit of snow. the roads could be a little slick. one thing that is good is that all of the cold air that was in new england is now leaving us. as this storm system arrives, i don't think we'll have to deal too much with snow or freezing rain. it's mostly going to be a rain event. we're already at 33 in d.c. and 36 in new york city. so there's some suburbs out there outside of the big cities. you may have a little bit of freezing rain or a little coating of ice out there this morning, but i think that will impro

looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪ >> public utilities commission, come to order. please call the roll. >> [calls roll] >> we have a quorum. >> we have the minutes of the december 13 meeting. are there any minutes or corrections? >> moved and seconded. those in favor? >> aye. >> the motion carries. >> we have no speaker cards for this. >> just two items to called your attention. we have in your communications at get something from september 13 and the urban agriculture project. i wanted to encourage you to look at the letter as we look at valuation of those projects. the other item that was an opportunity to bid for a consultant worked. $1.5 million of a project that is going to civil service. in any of it -- any event, there may be an opportunity to partner with the department of the environment folks.

this is at her aidan -- meridian due to fire activity. on the rails, i'm not seeing reported delays on the metro, marc, or vre. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> 6:32. metro is operating on an expanded rush hour service this morning because of the delay for federal workers. trains and buses will make additional trips throughout the morning to accommodate employees going to work later than usual. metro also canceled all midday track work for today. >>> this morning, police want to find a man who may have been shot by a police officer. prince george's county police are looking for 34-year-old joseph kworm. police say he tried to punch an officer yesterday while officers responded to a domestic violence call off of keating street in temple hills. they used pepper spray and a taser, but he reached for the officer's gun, that's when, police say, he shot at them and kwarm ran away. they're not sure whether he was hit. however, if you have seen him, you're asked to call the prince george's county police. >>> a fire at a townhouse displace

here's a look at the orchid salon at 1575 meridian in san jose. the car taking out three large salon chairs when it went into the store. the owners of the business are busy boarding up the space where the nine-foot window glass shattered. three people were taken to the hospital. at this point we don't know what kind of condition they were in. >>> ta district judge in oaklan is allowing domestic partners to join a lawsuit challenging a 1996 federal law. that move indicates the judge is leaning toward striking down the dense of marriage act because it denies long hi term health coverage of same-sex partners. the obama administration has argued that same-sex spouses should be able to sue over the lack of benefits, but the oakland judge says sips same-sex partners aren't allowed to marry in california, it's unfair to punish the domestic partners who don't have a marriage certificate. >>> now to decision 2012. gop presidential hopeful mitt romney is turning the tables on newt gingrich in florida, but not nationally it seems. a variety of polls show tha

any of the health science research and technology businesses choosing to expand into the court in meridian. other great idaho companies like boise dynamics and eagle, c nw arms process, have the potential to change the economic landscape of this space. the examples and many more are tangible results of idaho's entrepreneurs stepping up and expressing confidence in our future. and the key to their willingness to take a better future on idaho is the degree to which we make a commitment to be part of that project. partnership is the key. there are new programs you will be hearing about it weeks and months to come called ichamp which stands for idaho global entrepreneurial measure. it is patterned on successful programs we have seen in utah and virginia. a similar concept in cholera with industry embracing around the idea. it is not reinventing the wheel. our agricultural industry has had similar programs for years. we are just perfecting it for our university and our community and more idaho business. i got involved industry entrepreneurs and ira education and the national laboratory and cent

southbound along the rock creek parkway at e street tieing up a lane, 14th, me rid yen meridian placestalled cure tieing up the center of the roadway. 95 and 395, heading toward it is 14th street bridge. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >>> all right julie thank you. we begin over seas in pakistan a suspected u.s. drone strike killed four alleged militants. the missiles hit a house and vehicle in the northwest portion of the country the u.s. does not comment publicly on cia run drone program but officials have said privately the strikes have killed many seen your taliban and al qaeda commanders. >>> testimony resumes on the mental state of the man who shot president ronald regan. the hearing will determine whether jopliningly can make extended visits to his mothers home and live there. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity when he shot and wounded regan in 1981. doctors say his mental illness has been in remission for years. >> tucker was talking about severe weather in the south a couple minutes ago while we deal with icy conditions people in parts of arkansas a

. >> so basically someone, in meridian hill park on 16th street trying to beautify the park dumped an one of the big pools you foe trying to make it -- you know trying to make it look nice all the fish spawned to well over a thousand fish, just regular goldfish and, you know the park service didn't really have a plan for them because they normally just drain the pool and the fish would just get sucked down the drain the community talked to us what i thought was going to be a one to two day operation ballooned into this big operation >> big production. >> but great to do we had everyone in humane society help out people in the community, and got a lot of great help putting all this together from different organizations. >> thank you for all that you do. >> thank you. >> one of the important things, you go into schooltalk to kids about being kind to our animals. >> yes. >> so what do you do when you go into these schools. >> many students have different perceptions of different dogs including ryder they thing most dogs are canine police dogs are usually not pets so i teach them, to be

they were still driving us past the big houses on country club drive in meridian, mississippi. >> sundayve past those big houses with our mouths wide open and look at the cars in the driveway, look at the golf course behind there. and it seemed unattainable to us. it seemed like another world. we wondered what it was like to live inside those houses to be able to drive those kind of cars. and i'm sure in the backseat coming home from church on those sundays, there were one of two times where we said, wow, we could never do that. and there's my dad in the front seat who worked hard his whole life, unemployed at the time. no resentment. he'd say, let me tell you something, in this country, if you work hard and you keep working hard, you can do anything. most parents still believe that today. i know we're going through a difficult time. but i've got to say another great line romney had last night. he said if you believe that we're in a detour, and this is not our destiny, then join me. do you know how many americans want to believe this is a detour and who know it can be just a detour. >> t

and never once, never once growing up did i hear somebody in my church, first baptist church of meridianonce heard them say, you know what we've got to do? we've got to take care of those dirty mormons -- never once did they say that, jon meacham. i think people in manhattan -- i'm not talking about you here, but i keep hearing this over and over again. no, we see them as our allies. >> comfortable with that. >> totally. i think that's right. there is a strain of this, obviously. >> obviously. >> in the same way there's an anticatholic strain. there's a good bit of that. but i don't think the it's about god in this case. i think your first point is exactly right. there's a huge number. >> one final thing since we brought up catholics, mika. guess what. this is important. >> everything you say is. >> when people accuse southern evangelicals of hating mormons, it's important for people to understand that you do hear more anti-catholic tirades in those circles than you hear anti-mormon tirades. and guess what, a guy who bragged about being a catholic in south carolina won south carolina. a