that means sunday is a miserable day. if you have anything to do outdoors today would be the day to get it down, today 34 degrees is the forecasted high. sunday soaker on the way milder next week. as a matter of fact i believe we have 4 days in the forecast that are 40 degrees if not milder than that. i'll have more on that with the seven day when i step back inside in ten minutes. >> new this morning fire that is severely damaged a business in chester county. firefighters had to watch out for ice as they battle the the blaze inside the soft pretzel factor. it turned the 100 block of church street in west chester into a sheet of ice. the fire was brought under control in an hour, the fire is under investigation. >>> the pa legacy has been restored returning 112 wins to the school and returning joe pa to the winningest coach in college football. sharrie williams has more. >> today is a victory for people of pennsylvania. today is a victory for penn state nation. >> reporter: pennsylvania senate majority leader jay korman r

besides that it's cold miserable, damp. let's take a look at city avenue moving pretty well right now, but you can see the windshield wipers going pretty fast. but we're getting up the hill okay getting down the hill okay. big difference i was just talking to one of our guards, who actually had a problem driving in. he slid down this road coming back from the store. so that was at 6:30 this morning. improvement since then but still seeing just a miserable day outside. please stay indoors if you can. it's dangerous on many of the roadways, especially the sidewalks and the secondary streets, your driveway just getting your newspaper in the morning. keep it indoors if you can. >> meteorologist michelle grossman out there for us. thank you, michelle and we just got an update from septa. they had told us at 10:00, they were going to reassess the situation. they had suspended bus service. we now know it has resumed, but expect delays. so of course keep that in mind and anybody who has to be out there on the roads, they really sho

think asof myself as gay. >> reporter: so, why do a reality show. >> good questi >> it's kind of miserableat's not my experience. >> reporter: their unique arrangement works for them now. it wasn't always that easy. were in the dating process do you tell her that you're attracted to men? >> maybe a year. >> he said i have something to tell you, he said, i'm attracted to men. and i did not know what to do with that because, i thought, okay, does that mean we're over? >> reporter: did you tell other people? >> i told my best friend i said, he tells me he's guy! >> how long did it take for you to come around on that? >> six weeks actually. because, those six weeks were really hard i had tons of questions -- >> reporter: from that rocky start, the pair came to an understanding about their differences. were married only months later. >> i'm mad because she got to kiss more boys than i did before we got married. >> reporter: mixed orientation marriages have ended in divorces. they're not alone. fred and megan together for eight years are parents of three. >> turquoise. >> reporter: his support w

>> it's just a miserable afternoon out there but where i am in mt. erie, maryland, it's miserable outside but at least the ice that was on some of the side streets has melted away and folks are getting around okay. if it does not refreeze tonight and the salt treatments take effect should give us pretty good prospects for getting back to school tomorrow after a pretty tough day tomorrow once again. >> frustrating day for school officials in maryland county. >> it's pretty slick. >> reporter: ice continueed to a--ice continued to accumulate. i hustled over to check and she was okay. more casualties on the roads. a rollover accident on westbound i-70 near meyersville cost a driver minor injuries. state police blame icy conditions on the edge of the road. motorists say it was hard to spot the ice. >> take it easy. it's very deceiving. >> all of the sudden you hit a slick spot. >> typical western maryland weather. >> reporter: the application of salt helps clear things up quickly. >> back live now looking at the lockdown dashboard camera inside my mobile

. >> that sounds miserable. >> not only does it sound miserable, there is a good chance you are goingt stuck in the ice. >> this kayaker tries to go through the rocks there. you see there is ice and gets really jammed. it's not going anywhere. his buddies are on the other side waiting for him. trying to figure out what to do wi him.ng and still able to freeze that should be some indicator. >> you see this other guy trying to crack the ice. it doesn't really work. finally, after a little while of maneuvering, you see another guy walks up picks up a rock and ends up breaking the ice to free this guy's kayak. then they are able to continue on their kayak journey. >> these guys are hardcore. >> that kayaker is not the only one that needed rescuing. this family also needed rescuing. they couldn't fly anywhere and they were hungry. they ended up giving them food. >> aren't they supposed to have flown south? >> they're stuck. help us we're stuck. >> this is the sweet part. they free the birds out of their hands. >> they are pretty birds. >> this is one of my favorite times of year when the m

miserable day for tiger. he shot 82 today. that would be great for me. this moisture will eventually eject into the plains states in the midwest and the ohio valley in the mid-atlantic region late sunday afternoon into sunday night. in the meantime a few snow shower went through earlier today. everything has pushed south of us. now we're waiting on colder air. winds could gust to 40 miles per hour through midnight and a wind advisory continues until midnight. wind chills 5 below to 10 above. if you're out late tonight, scarf, cover the face up. saturday cold and quiet. that's good and a really close call sunday. i am favoring more of a mix to rain in the immediate metro area, perhaps saying snow in hagerstown, probably all snow towards chambersburg and right around the maryland/p.a. border a mix. in the metro area mainly a cold rain but initially a mix. so prepare if you're trying to get home on sunday after the parties. friday at 9:00 our wind gust tracker, wind are still gusting over 35 miles per hour, by midnight still gusting to about 35 miles per ho

miserable. miserable. more important than getting a mammogram, the colonoscopy was presenting a fall, and he knew how to do that, to examine the feet for ways to look for the toenails and calluses can make someone unsteady and arrange for a podiatrist to fix those problems. he would sit back and let them struggle because it told them something about their abilities. he went further and recognized something and reduced the drugs. he was not having trouble with dizziness and dehydration. >> not really necessary. >> they were not addressing the priorities. having as good a life is possible for as long as possible. when you understand it that way and you are making different choices and trade-offs that did not matter but that you were alive to do the things you want to do. the biggest priority was keeping her home. if i ask you do you no the four risk factors for someone the likelihood of following in the three most important things that we can do we don't no that. and so we did not teach people alo

all right, jacqui, what a miserable day! oh, just raw! >> i know. even if the ice didn't get you you know the temperatures with the cold rain certainly -- miserable. a little bit. we've got better conditions down the line. the later, though in the week we get, the better things are going to be. so lots to celebrate. >> exactly. let's take a look at kind of how things evolved here this morning. this tells the story. this is from chad merril in gaithersburg on our weather bug headquarters. you can see the glaze on the sidewalks. that seems to be the biggest problem in the metro. this is one of the weather bug cameras from centreville and the thing i want you to focus in on is watch these power lines as we do the time lapse here. you can see the rain that came into the area, low overcast conditions. and look at how that ice starts collecting on all of those elevated surfaces while it just stays wet on the ground in centreville. here's another one from gaithersburg and you can see if the rain and even a couple of pellets of sleet mixing in there making

it looks miserable as we get into sunday. 30 degrees is the forecasted high for allentown. clouds, otherwise mostly sunny skies chilly. temperatures around 4 35 degrees, but with the winds it will feel like the 20s and philadelphia mostly sunny and cold 34 degrees. that's it for the forecasted high. turning cloudy overnight tonight, cold, 22 outlying suburbs, 28 center city with a light breeze. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, shows miserable sunday for the delaware valley. 44 degrees, periods of rain, some of it heavy at times. monday windy 42. tuesday increasing clouds, 43. wednesday a clipper system pulls through, temperatures are on the fence we're around 40 degrees, this could go either way maybe it's rain or snow, maybe it both. doesn't look like a big system. and then it turns colder with highs in the 30s. >> we have to keep an eye on it. >> reporter: it's something for the snow lovers. >> and a headache for the rest of us. >>> world class dance dancers were under the spotlight competing for college. the dance network awards more than a quarter million d

. >> you feel any better seeing how cold and miserable it is in other parts of the world? >> you would think they are use to it but even they can reach a point where cold is just cold. >> i don't think anybody gets used to 40 or 50 below windchills. >> hunkering down inside. >> we'll have subzero temperatures. 10 below. maybe 20 below in the mountains. we're not the northern plains. we're not canada. we've had flurries around. a little dusting being reported here, skyline drive. we may get a little of that. it's also kind of windy. it almost gets swept off to the side of the road, the shoulder when you get something like n. the other thing we're watching is a band of snow. you see it coming across i-80 and williamsport. we'll track that for later this afternoon. locally mainly light flurries on the northwesterly streamers and these strong winds we've been dealing with coming across the region south of frederick, rockville, montgomery county, heading over to prince george's county now. even calvert, southern anne arundel, a few flakes there going back to warrenton and stras

miserable weather and a miserable day for luck and colts fans. 45-7.s thing really never got going for andrew and company. so tough luck for them but we've got seahawks against patriots and it's a pick' em game already. this one is going to be quite the ball game. >>> governor jerry brown and napolitano are expected to form a rare alliance on this wednesday for a regents meeting. in order to iron out their differences on tuition increases. they're planning to ask the board to name them as the only two members of the committee that will look for ways to save money. napolitano says uc needs $220 million a year. she wants to raise tuition 5% a year for the next five years. >>> the widow of a slain sacramento fire deputy was personally invited to attend the state of the union address by the president this tuesday. susan will attend the speech as a guest of ami berra. >>> white house officials say the president intends to call for a series of new taxes on banks on high income americans. including a 3.4 increase on capital gain tax. at the same time the pres

we'll take his place and be miserable in miami and south florida. anyway, we have a first alert weather day out. this goes into tomorrow morning because of our miserable weather. that's continuing. winds gusting near 40 miles an hour. really just to avoid this, try not to go outside. the winds will make it feel dangerously cold. the feels-like temperature will be below 0 degrees. this happens overnight and into part of your morning tomorrow. center city, a few clouds around mostly clear. temperature of 21 degrees. feels more like 5 degrees when you factor in the winds and the winds are gusting near 30 miles an hour. it will stay windy as we go through tonight. current temperatures actual temperatures are in the teens north and west. 16 allentown, 15 pottstown, 18 degrees for the temperature right now in trenton. south jersey and delaware hovering right around 20 degrees. but remember the winds still gusting near 30 miles an hour. here is what actually feels like when you step outside. it doesn't feel like the temperatures i just showed you. it feels

if you were miserable in greece and turkey, nevermind. the russians are almost as miserable in terms of sentiment. >> i think manus cranny is suffering from monday blues. that is the market open for you. the footsie just a little bit higher -- ftse just a little bit higher. scheier's bid for -- shire's bid for nps. caroline, a change of focus or more of the same? >> this is what it has sold to its investor base. this is why investors are driving the stock higher. it is all about adding to its rare disease expertise. the chief executive of shire saying not only is it a good strategic fit, it is growth enhancing. he says, we can afford it. we can afford more than $5 billion. he says the deal hits more of the boxes. 5.2 billion dollars. that is 10% up on the closing price on friday but the premium is big if you are looking at december 16, which is when we first saw a boost in the reporting of this potential merger between the two companies. i think this is where shire wants to focus. it is betting big on two potential drugs. it is rare disea

it will make for a miserable afternoon.iods of rain, heavy at times shooting for a high of 44 degrees, we're above average the normal is 41. wind out of the northwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. day planner take your pick it will be raining all day. 8:00 a.m., 35, periods of rain. 10:00 a.m., same thing. 1:00 p.m., 42. more rain heavy at times. 4:00 p.m., most of the rain at that point will be winding down, most of the roads will be wet and you will see ponding at that point. later this afternoon, this pushes up into new england we'll see colder temperatures move in to start the new workweek. i'll talk about that and we'll have the possibility of a little light snow on wednesday that's straight ahead in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> remember you can keep track of the accuweather forecast, anytime by downloading our storm tracker 6 live app it gives you access to live radar and hourly forecast anticipate weather alerts -- and weather alerts posted for your area. >> wilmington police are investigating a shoo

." >> to be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. on milton wrote that. more than 285 million people live with visual impairment. in recent years they have been breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of blindness. sanford greenberg lost his vision to ball, at the age of 19. he is chairman of the board of governors at johns hopkins wilbert eye institute. he joins me to talk about his experience and his mission to end blindness. >> plus jean bennett of the university of pennsylvania. once again, eric kandel a howard hughes medical investigator. i began as i always do with my rent air to review our subject tonight. >> the last program we did was a new approach to the treatment of deafness. tonight were going to consider new approaches to the treatment of blindness. as is the case with deafness, blindness is not a life-threatening situation but in some ways is more disabling as deafness because, as you pointed out, there are number of very important blindness conditions for which there is no treatment. why is that so? unlike de

there is a strand of thought that says if that we make things miserable enough people will work longer. no of we create incentives so that people will work longer here's a quick one john shogun. you have worked 40 years. as far as social security is concerned you are paid up. you don't pay in the system and there's no penalty but there's a bump up in your pay and you are -- to your employer all of a sudden. you quote steven landsberg at the university of rochester most economics can be summarized in four words, people respond to incentives and the rest is commentary. >> i think that's absolutely true. we have a system and i deal with disability. it's people get older disability starts rising that we have a disability system that says either you are disabled or you can work. a lot of people live in the gray area but reforming again these incentives incentives. how do we performer system in a way that people can continue to contribute and recognize that they do have some disabilities. again think about what will it take to encourage more people to work and by the way that everybody can.

with film, i have never felt it more than in les miserables but with film you can do hundreds of takeso realistically, you only get an hour or two. the knowledge you have built up all this time waiting for this one moment, and then you have those few takes. if you wake up with a sore voice or something is not quite right, you go home knowing you have to wait eight months to see yourself not having nailed it. interesting notion, perfection and so scrutiny. >> -- self's route knee. >> did you have a great singing voice in les miserables or did you have to learn a lot? >> i had someone i was a kid but it had been on the back burner. i had a brilliant scene teacher who helped me. >> did they seek you out? >> i pursued that. i had seen it when i was about eight or nine to read the little kid in it, give roche -- i wanted to be him. when i heard that tom cooper was directing it -- hooper was directing it -- >> you were getting ready to work with him again. >> i was shooting a film in north carolina. i found myself singing and sentenced to the producer. -- sent it to the producer. backs it is

right now dangerous and miserable winter weather is moving across the country. fast-moving storm bringing snow and cold all the way to the east coast. janice sdeen tracking the storm. >> you might see snow flurries in your neck of the woods tomorrow as we track this quick-moving system. look at the cold air. this is the headline. one shot of cold air today and one shot moving in midweek and another on the weekend. there are your temperatures. minus one in fargo. it is the wind chill that makes it dangerous. here are your morning lows as you wake up in minneapolis on wednesday. minus 14. minus 12 in chicago on thursday. indianapolis minus 7 for you. this will be lasting for at least seven days. the worst part is your wind chill. your skin can freeze in minutes with wind chills of minus 30 and 40 degrees. this is the danger here. people are urged to stay indoors for the next several days. this is what we are watching here. several inches of snow for parts of the northern plains and upper midwest. this is the system that will dive across portions of baltimore and e

he did utterly miserably failed african-americans. >> i would be interested in hearing you elaborate more on ida b. wells and trotter's efforts. and organizations they might have individually been involved in. >> let me just say i love ida wills barnett. she's 70 years before rosa parks. she refused to go to the back of a train or refused to leave the white section of a train. give up her seat to a white man and was forcibly thrown off of that train this was 1884. she sued in the lower courts and won. she went to the tennessee supreme court which was dominated by former confederates and lost. she was trotter's -- she was a female version of william trotter. they were good friends liked each other. she formed a branch of trotter's national independent political league with her negro fellship league in chicago and merged the two organizations. when the first meeting with wilson in 1913, ida wills barnett went with him and she was -- trotter addressed wilson and the only other delegate to address wilson was identify da wills barnett. how amazing. here you have a back woman who is double

picture are the camps outside israel's borders, where more than one million arab refugees maintain a miserablexistence and demand the right to return to the homes in palestine for which they say they were dispossessed during the war. israel says it would be impossible to readmit them. it has offered to discuss compensation. but the arab states, supporting the refugees' demands refused to acknowledge israel's star and it not accept any conditions at all. -- existence and do not accept any conditions at all. the plight of those people symbolizes not only the divisiveness that scars the middle east, but also strangely enough, it's opposite. the arab nations surrounding israel although divided on many issues, are united in their opposition to israel. not only their opposition to israel, but other factors too provide a unity which binds together most of the arab lands of the middle east. for the arabs of every country share a common culture which spills across the borders of nations and is apparent throughout the arab world. from the architecture of its buildings to the customs of its daily life. m

there is a strand that says if we make them miserable enough people will work longer. if we create incentives so that people will work longer, here is a quick point the economist from stanford university you work for a year and and as far as social security is concerned, you are paid up. but that is a bump up in your page and you were cheaper to your employer all of a sudden and in fact you quote stephen landsberg at the university of rochester is that economics can be summarized in four words people respond to incentives and commentary. >> guest: that is absolutely true. we have a system and i agree with disability. as people get older s. that we have a disability system that says either you are disabled or you can work but a lot of people are in the gray area and so reforming these incentives in av people can continue to work and can continue to contribute and to recognize they do have some disabilities. so think about what it would take to encourage more people to work and by the way not everybody can. but people who can. >> on the line from richmond virginia. >> he

these help erase the memory, remember how miserable it was to play in utah. curry way out.atch him flip it back for green. hit the three. damon 15 points tonight. warriors with their biggest output of the year in the third quarter, 44 points. check it out. the replay will do it a little more justice here. he just curves. wheels, deals. and andre iguodala says yeah i can do it. through three defenders, everyone celebrating because every game with the warriors is a celebration after all. coach steve kerr 30-5 now best start for a five year coach ever. >> cross another name off the 49ers list of potential replacements for jim harbaugh. one of the coaches they interview for the job in san francisco is heading east instead. sports part ii next. this... is the best part of the day. when we sit down together and talk. more and more, we're having conversations about the food itself: how good it is for us. how good it is for the planet. at monsanto, we're working with farmers to make balanced meals accessible to everyone. while using natural resources more efficiently. it's time for

>> miserable. yes, miserable. i feel sick.y stomach is hurting but it's all good. >> it is going to get worse though. as the days go. your fourth or fifth day is going to be the worst. >> i have no appetite. >> you probably won't. you won't. you'll probably want to sleep for a few days. >> rather than sleep barnes decided to focus on getting out of jail. the first step is calling a bail bondsman. >> yeah i'm deandre barnes. i'm in jail for two felonies and two misdemeanors. >> barnes' bail has been set at $26,000. he will be released if he can pay a bondsman $2,600 plus collateral. >> 2,600. he just hung up. >> barnes next reaches out to a family member. >> okay, well, can you just call my dad and tell him to look for someone who has collateral. i really appreciate it. i'll check back in with you tomorrow. all right. i need somebody with collateral. >> until he makes bail barnes will reside in one of the jail's low-security housing units. but some inmates pose a greater threat to security. they're housed in the confinement uni

traffic will be miserable. airlines have already canceled over 1700 flights. and olivia has an suv, a hummer h2 to get her to work tomorrow. there it is. we will have more reports through the morning as the northeast gets ready for a storm. let's get ready for a data check. equities, bonds, currencies commodities. the 10-year yield, 1.79. a little bit of euro strength. oil, as olivia mentioned, it is an ugly chart. it simply cannot find a bit under $45 a barrel. remarkable resiliency. brent crude, 48 .10. the greek yield is 8.92 percent, which is not all that bad. let's go to the mac monitor. nirvana. up we go to 30%. this is the greek yield and the german yield, and it is deceptive. this is an elegant chart with that moving average. what is interesting is not just about the greek yield up, but the unusual german yield down. there are two moving parts. >> and also the divert is between the greek yield moving up and the rest of the periphery not moving up in sympathy. >> and the difference is 855 basis points versus off bloomberg 203 basis points. really unique

an update. >> miserable monday. >> really is. i almost see a pink hue to the sky though.s time again, for another edition of the pink bike. >> let's bring in the music because i need to bring you up-to-date. >> ♪ ♪ >> i found the pink bike on my walk into work down market street 5:00 o'clock on monday morning. it was on its side. sitting lonely there on its sides. twos morning 5:00 o'clock in the morning i walked by, it was on just kinds of tilted. wednesday morning 5:00 o'clock, i walk by, it had been set up straight. my belief is that it is somebody walk over, so sorry pink bike, now at a rest at sixth and market street, on thursday morning 5:00 o'clock another angle of the same bike. still sitting there. friday morning the pink bike still sitting there. so i wondered, i pondered all weekend long. what happened to the pink bike over the weekend? well this morning as i walked by it is still sitting there. and it had a lonely weekends, the pink bike, now met with monday morning covered in wet horrible rain. so chris murphy has taken live trick down there yes sending live

it's a miserable sunday for the delaware valley. climbing into the mid 30s by 10:00 a.m. and by the afternoon we're in the low 40s and rain heavy at times. that's the latest out here, when i come back i'll show you storm tracker 6 live and talk about the freezing rain in the next couple of hours and the possibility of light snow in the seven-day forecast. >> i got a call from philadelphia police asking people to stay off all major highways. him this is a live picture on the traffic camera right now of i-76 at gulph mills road you can see a complete pileup blocking one side of the road. they have closed both sides of the schuylkill expressway as they deal with the accidents. the picture updating for us every five seconds. you can see a large number of cars involved in the accidents. they are concerned about the ice on the major roads this morning. we're hearing about ice, i believe on i-95 near the stadium also, as well as a multi-vehicle accident on the blue route with injuries at west conshohocken. so ice a major issue for people i

i was miserable there. >> jimmy: super bowl is one of the worst events to go to. >> i want to be closei want to have the dog. i don't want to be there in person. i like the replay. i like all of it. kind of boring, but that's how i watch sports, and i'm not really wild about people talking to me. >> jimmy: do you feel -- [ laughter ] do you feel, i know you watch and study, do you feel one way or another about who will win this game? >> i don't know. these are the two tough guys in junior high where you don't know who will win. russell is a really interesting player. >> jimmy: does it bother you, this incident with the footballs? >> i hope it's not true, but i'd never say to belichick and tom after they said we didn't tamper with the balls. somebody said that to me and i said i didn't do it, and then you say it to my face, that's a problem. so when they both said it, i didn't mesh with them. that's where i line up. and i like troy achemanikman but if tom said i didn't do it, that's where i sit. but if they said they didn't do it, let it alone. and if they find out later they did, somet

. >> reporter: good morning, we're dry it is miserably cold out so warm up your car. let's look at delaware county, the blue route at baltimore pike. no issues as you head northbound toward springfield. you're heading toward delaware county. let's check the maps, we have a couple of issues a water main break at ashborne road. take tookany creek parkway. this is commuter traffic report, i'm seeing donavan mcnabb, the 6abc team telling us about a about potholes. you don't want to be stuck in the cold, check the waze about you head out. 6 degrees in martins creek, 12 in pottstown, 17 in saint davids. 16 in center city. some of the suburbs in new jersey 10 degrees, 1 in glassboro. that will wake you up, matt. >> one person is dead, four ears were hurt in this massive four four-alarm fire at a three-story buildings in san francisco. a 40-year-old man and 36-year-old woman were being treated for burns. a san francisco blog called mission local said the fire started in its offices. 40 people have been displaced. >> measels outbreak linked to disneyland in california have gro

. >> our life has become miserable here. we haven't benefited public buses don't stop for us because they know we can't afford to pay. >> reporter: gil better and others have heard promise he of adequate housing for a long time. five years they are still waiting. the conditions are not getting any better, in fact they are deteriorating. even children have to fetch water outside the camp, using any means possible to get it home. according to u.n. statistics, today there are 79,000 people still living in tents and temporary shelters in haiti, as a result of the earthquake. but that's down from 1.5 million right after the tragedy. >> the key success is the fact that we've been able to reduce this displacement chapter. that is part now of meat's history. >> reporter: but there are more than 100,000 more people who don't show up in official statistics acknowledge occupying makeshift homes and slums like this one. many received a year of humanitarian aid to rent an apartment and get out of tent cities but that aid has since run ou

basically miserable. who gets the advantage? >> sometimes you feel like advantage to the defense because maybe they cannot throw as well. other times it might be the offense because of cutting and breaking. >> it will be i hostile environment, as always and at the end of the day it will be a ballgame. >> right now, the nfc wild card game, arizona leads carolina 14-13 at the half. so we have football going on. and it will be cold and rainy. usually fun to play in that type of water, but not tonight. >> not tonight. >> we just need to call this the king's forecast, the roller coaster we are on. >> tomorrow, 60's, then we dropped 20 degrees monday. it will be cold and blustery. flurries possible tuesday, high of 36. wednesday, thursday, highs only in the upper 20's. overnight lows in the teens. >> at least enjoy tomorrow. thanks for joining us. >>> welcome to "world news tonight." sole survivor. the small plane crash that killed an entire family except for one little girl. her climb out of the wreckage and trek through the dark woo

. >> charlie: to be blind is nod miserable. not the be able to bare blindness, that is miserable. john milton wrote that more than 285 million people currently live with visual impairment. for many of these cases, there is no cure, yet in recent years there have been breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of blindness. sanford greenberg lost his vision to glaucoma at age 19. he is chairman of the board of governors of johns hopkins wilmer eye institute. he talks about his experience and mission to end blind mess. also joining me jean bennett, university of pennsylvania, steven schwartz, jules stein eye institute, eberhart zrenner, university of tubingen and carla shatz, stanford university school of medicine and eric kandel, columbia university. i begin with eric, giving an overview of our subject tonight. eric. >> charlie, the last program we did was new approaches in the treatment of deafness. tonight it's new approaches in the treatment of blindness. as in the case of deafness blindness is not a life-threatening situation but it's tremendously disabling and in some wa

. >> and it will be a cold miserable side. and that they would be missing a great opportunity. looking forward to a cold rain. now tonight no worries. at 8:00 in gaithersburg, 33 in manassas. by 10:30 that it will be pretty much across the board for the suburbs. friday starts out nicely, but then by 6:00 the clouds roll back in. by 8:00 we have rain showing up already. 39, a cold rain, 36 in leesburg and 35 in manassas. again, this is tomorrow night at 8:00. you'll see a little bit of the mixed precipitation back in the valley. we'll advance it again by 10:00 at night where there could be mixed precipitation, maybe towards leesburg and upper montgomery county and up around i-70. the bulk of this is going to fall as rain with a pretty good soaking rain that it would be as i would make sure that you can see all the yellow here, moderate rain rolling in, just after midnight on saturday with temperatures in the 30s. we'll come back and talk about when we will dry out on saturday and look ahead to the other clipper on monday. >>> breaking news right now for prince george's county. s

basically, miserable. so who gets the advantage? >> some days you feel like it's an advantage to the defense because maybe they can't throw it quite as well. other times, you think it's an advantage to the offense because they know where they're cutting and breaking and things like that. >> it will be fun. at the end of the day, it's going to be whoever is the best is going to win. >> college football houston and pittsburgh and talk about a comeback. 31-6 in the fourth quarter. the houston quarterback james connor would throw three touchdown passes in the final three minutes and 41 seconds of the game. they recovered a couple of onside kicks. and then they go for the win with a two point conversion. and yeah houston comes back to win the armed forces bowl. talk about a comeback and later at 6:00 we're talking ohio state and alabama. >> big stuff right there. >> incredible. >> did paul pierce give you your glasses back? >> i'd like to see that. >> not going to happen. >> all right. coming up next on abc 7 news at 5:00 -- >> illegal i

. >> it is miserable.n people 28 states fred expecting the misery to continue not just in the short term but also in the long term. those 28 states stretch all the way from washington state and montana into texas, iowa across the great lakes into that northeastern corridor. we start out looking at winter weather advisories. kansas and wichita. it started out this morning in west texas, there was an icy mixture. they had trees snapped. the roads were miserable. look all the way from omaha and des moines and chicago, then towards detroit, and into the great lakes, winter weather advisories as well as winter storm watches. but in pittsburgh, they're saying that the ice has been so bad there, and also into west virginia they are really struggling on the roadways. so take it easy. it is going to be very dangerous out there. from new orleans all the way up to tuscaloosa alabama, we're expecting severe weather. and indeed, there's a tornado watch that goes until 6:00 p.m. local time. we've seen high winds across

about next three days miserable for the polar plunge.pleasant on sunday, but then boom, another clipper. this is the strongest clipper we've seen all year. snow breaks out sunday night and a healthy clipper will produce mostly snow. for much of monday we had to issue a yellow alert already. next seven days looking at leftover flurries tuesday, cold in the wake of the clipper, 30s wednesday. we bounce in the upper 40s thursday and hold in the low 40s by next friday. >>> florida senator marco rubio is taking sentence to run for president. i'm mark albert in washington with the latest on a rapidly expanding field of possible gop candidates. >> and coming up it was once a comical campaign slogan, but for some it's become all is. in tonight's consumer alert our -- >>> tonight's consumer alert our wusa9 call for action gave you a heads up about having to pay more for certain tax forms from turbo tax software. the company is now apologizing if you bought last year's cheaper tax software and is even offering some people who paid more to upgrade

they failed miserably over the past year. mobilizations that took place in ukraine in order to send troop to fight in the east met with protests all over the country. and it's hard to see if the situation is going to change dramatically. i think this is more of a p.r. tactic than it is a serious plan. >> so do you think this will be some kind of escalation or tell settle into this -- an elevated level of conflict if you like, between both sides with slins caught in the middle? -- civilians caught in the middle? >> i think unfortunately this is what's going to happen. it looks like if the airport has been retaken, the battle lines one drawn again where they were before. and i don't see the ukraineian army has the organization or the wherewithal to make a major breakthrough. i think unfortunately it's more of the same in the coming weeks and months. >> the problem is we had the truce between both sides last year which never went into effect the collapse. and now the reports that russian forces are amassing once again on the bor

the passengers and travellers we're talking to they're not feeling that miserable just yet, but they are looking and hoping to get out ahead of the storm. >> we changed to an earlier flight. we had a 3:00 flight this afternoon. >> i'm a little concerned that, you know if this does live up to the hype that things won't be leer in time and i'll get stuck in columbus for the weekend. >> it does remain to be seen though if other airports will follow boston logan's lead in cancelling all flights to and from the airport beginning tonight at 7:00 p.m. extending through tomorrow. they do hope to have things up and running, though by wednesday. back to you, tyler. >> all right, kate. thank you very much. >>> newark airport always a misery place for many people. airlines mostly down today in the stock market. jetblue, the carrier most impacted by the blizzard because it does so much of its business up and down the eastern seaport seaportseaboard. currently down the most, as you see there. about 1 3/5%. in case you are interested, folks, hawaiian airlines is up for the day by 3 1/4%. it's curre