news. >> texas congressman ron paul is the only candidate not attending the conference. his son, senator rand paul spoke on his behalf thursday. he is staying focused on maine, which holds its caucuses tomorrow. >>> another mild day here with cool temperatures and little wind, looking ahead to the weekend though that could all change. take a live look outside right now. a little cloudy out there. looks nice to me. the sun is still shining. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage for you, marty bass in the outback, meteorologist tim williams in the weather center. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. we do have a system moving through not unlike the systems over the last few weeks or so, they come through quickly and dump their snow and rain and move on out of here. right now mostly cloudy skies around much of the area. in the bigger scheme of things we have moisture moving from the southwest. we have a front moving from the northwest and those two are going to collide over us tonight into tomorrow. the saving grace with these storms have been the temperatures. we w

we have a new texas street garden. and what people have come together in our neighborhood to make our lives better. so, we can understand about what people are saying about the crime, but we are as well. everyone is worried about that. we all want a better quality of life. i think that this rebuild is due for all of us. do not just think that because you do not live in public housing that you are the only one with problems and issues. we want a better life for our children and ourselves also. i am in my second year of college right now. i am 46. ipad -- i'm going to graduate when i am 50. but we are all looking for the same thing. people that come to the meetings that we have are really engaged with the residents. people that come to the meetings will be able to see that we want the same thing. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. [reads names] collects money ms. marshall. i have been in a lot of the programs. i will not name them all. we all want a better life. we all want our kids to be safe. i lived in public hou

up next, lady bird johnson takes us back to 1968 and shes us the ago when i was the wife of brand new texas congressman, i snapped photographs outside these iron gates. i never imagined that one day i would live on the other side of that fence. like many tourists, i had a distinct feel that this house belonged in part to me. i think that's a feeling that everyone who visits here shares. just like the thousands who come here each year, i was impressed the first floor and was proud of the stream of history that ran through each of them. what the passerby doesn't always realize is that there are two sides to the white house, the official side that remains in the public eye and the private side that the public rarely sees. the living quarters for the president and his family. this is our living room. actually, it's the west end of the long hall. it's the nerve center and cross roads of all family activities. an intimate place and yet busy. and it belongs to all the family. psychologically when you cross that threshold, you feel that you are at home, that you're inside your own house. you can pu

anna werner, cbs news, spicewood beach, texas. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonightfor all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> this is 9 news now. >>> heavy security surrounding a southeast d.c. school this afternoon as more details come out about the sexual assault of a girl inside ketcham elementary yesterday. scott broom has the new information about what happened. reporter: cathy lanier briefed the public in a radio appearance today. >> there was a adult male who entered the school i believe asked to speak to someone in the school and was given an escort. during the course of that escort inappropriately touched a female student. reporter: beyond that police and school officials are saying nothing. parents complain there's not even been a note home explaining the situation. meanwhile police and security officers kept watch at ketcham today. >> they are continuing to do interviews this morning. reporter:

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anna werner, cbs news, spicewood beach, texas. >> tough situation there. up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a live report from denver on that monster snowstorm that could break records. plus, groundbreaking new studies on alzheimer's disease that could lead to promising new treatments. we'll hear from the co-author of one of those studies. and we will go live to indianapolis for your big preview of super bowl xlvi. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

the >>gary: is josh hamilton is awaiting a new deal in texas. >>gary: said jeremy levin in new york is just tremendous. three straight games over 20 points. the nba asian partners are starting at, he plays kobe bryant and the lakers' run ninth. >>grant: it he sleeps on his brother's scout.

good news again, more showers and thunderstorms for the southeast, also parts of texas down into new mexico and with that frigid air coming southward. we are looking at lake-effect snow showers through the great lakes. let's go to next week. this is february 12 through the 18. below normal for the southeast and also below normal for most of the great lakes. but for the dakotas back through the west, looks above normal to me at this point. as far as precipitation is concerned, a lot of the country looks fairly dry. above normal for parts of the great lakes into the northeast. now the 90-day outlook, we're going to go above normal for the southeast. into the four corner region also. and as far as precipitation over the next 90 days, below normal for the southwest, texas, parts of the southeast. above normal, then, as you can  see for the northeast and parts of the great lakes. so that's not real good news there as far as the southeast and texas but they've done a lot better than we thought they would. >> yeah. they've gotten some relief there. thank you, mike. spirit of the heartland

new fuel. today, a group prayer in texas, after rick santorum's sweep. supporters hopeful that santorum's moment in the spotlight, after winning colorado, minnesota and missouri, will last. santorum pointing out that this time he wasn't wildly outspent. >> tonight, we had an opportunity to see what a campaign looks like, where one candidate isn't outspent five to one, by negative ads. >> reporter: but it also reveals the scope of mitt romney's losses. four years ago, he clearly won two of those three states. the governor then. >> thank you. >> reporter: fast-forward to now. >> this was a good night for rick santorum. >> reporter: and when you dig into romney's numbers last night, political observers say you also see something else. >> only one-third as many people in minnesota came out to vote for him as came out in 2008. only one-third as many people came out in missouri as came out in 2008. >> reporter: the romney campaign emphatic with me today, that this has less to do with an enthusiasm gap, they say, and more to do with santorum spending more time

but the good news is that texas is starting to dry out and they don't have to deal with that today. but it's moving into the area. so yes, we have showers now congealing more coming together as we go through the morning but we will dry out more and that's what we like to see but heading to the bus stop this morning,oh, kids, have the rain gear. you will need it. but the big coat not so much. the temperatures will be in the 50s this morning. and the wind will be out of the southwest at 5 to 10 meals an hour and he yes, the temperatures are going -- and yes, the temperatures will soar because we are starting out so mild that truss by the afternoon 4 -- temperatures by the afternoon 4 p.m., 67 degrees. i will have the neighborhood forecast coming up. but right now let's check the traffic with angela. is the ran affecting the roads. >> reporter: not at all. it's nice and quiet. off to a great start for the wednesday drive. through the downtown region we have opened all lanes at the fort mchenry tunnel as well as harbor tunnel on 895. now for those of you leaving baltimore heading south,

susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> texas congressman ron paul is the only candidate who won't be pac conference. he's staying focused on maine which holds caucuses tomorrow. >>> most american conservatives from voters to politicians are speaking out against the white house's contraception policy, some say it's a violation of first amendment rightings. >> president obama's fellow democrats are standing behind him in this argument. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: conservatives gathered in

texas. florida swing state, illinois blue, new york blue, new jersey blue, colorado, new mexico, texas, they are in the battle ground. new mexico, frankly, is already creeping into light blue territory. arizona, in light red territory where you have the obama campaign to spend the next three months basically test marketing, to see if they can expand the ee lk for rate and get the hispanic vote higher than it was four years ago and figure out a way to peal off enough of the white vote to try to win it. but this is what the republican party is staring at. this is, again, ten states. if you put in seven other states that have 10% or more of the electorate, that's 17 states out of 50 at this point. and, chris, if texas gets into the battle ground, which a lot of people think maybe four years from now it will be. >> yeah. >> unless the republican party does something to change it is rhetoric at a minimum when it comes to immigration. they are going to have a hard time getting at 270. >> quickly, can the republicans make up their loss of the hispanic votes by gearing up or the backlash vote by ang

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wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >>> a texas doctor is in a federal lockup in dallas this morninge biggest healthcare fraud in u.s. history. dr. jacque roy was indicted yesterday accused of stealing $375 million from medicaid and medicare. prosecutors say roy and six others submitted claim for 11,000 patients who did not need treatment. >>> a search continues this morning in mobile bay, alabama for three missing people from a coast guard helicopter that crashed during a training flight last night. one of the four people aboard was found and taken to a hospital. there's no word on that survivor's condition. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," creative ways to earn money through peer to peer services. i am betty nguyen, this is the nbc morning news. this is the clbs morning news. clear cnbc morning news. this is the clbs morning news. clear bnbc morning news. this is the clbs morning news. clear s m"cb ". this is the "cbs morning news." . >>> good morning. welcome to 9news now. today is wednesday, february 29, leap day. good morning. i'm andrea roane. >>> jump

texas. heavy rain from waco no new orleans. mountain snow in new mexico and the texas panhandle.ight, rob? >> i would be at mardi gras if i had my rain. keep the rain away from those new orleans parades. 40 from boise to albuquerque. 27 fargo. 47 in chicago and 56 in kansas city. 60s from dallas to atlanta. miami at a nice-sounding 81 but not bad here in new york. we're at 52. >> okay, wait for it. >> ready. boom. >> our favorite story of the day. a big surprise for some young visitors taking a tour of the white house. >> there she is. mrs. obama and her dog beau shocked that tour group, popping up to greet them as they strolled through the public rooms of the white house. the school kids and seniors were thrilled, as you can imagine. one woman in a wheelchair was so overwhelmed she actually broke into tears right there. >> the first lady freaked out some of the young ladies, saying there would be a 50-question test at the end of the tour and they wouldn't be able to leave unless they passed it. she was just kidding, but i'm sure -- if i was put in their shoes i would want to flu

texas worrying about new mexico stealing their jobs. my friends, the more they worry, the better we're doing. we need to keep it that way. lowes also announced it is bringing 600 jobs to albuquerque, and we welcome them with open arms. i recently visited general mills as well, which just finished a $100 million expansion creating 60 new and permanent jobs, all while achieving the highest levels of environmental standards. i said last year that i believe we can support the growth of business and protect the environment. we aren't going to help those who play by the rules and punish those who don't. when intel needed an air quality permit, we held them to a high standard, and when they met those high standards, we got them their permit in less than four months. quicker than ever before. but when corporations broke our environmental law, when they tried to sidestep our safeguards, we went after them, collecting over $3.3 million in fines from utility, energy and oil and gas companies. with sensible, predictable regulations, we can grow our

. >>> stories making news, texas, quick action from a dad helped save his 6-year-old son from a mountain lion. the boy says he was surprised by the big cat. >> sneaked up on me. >> the cat was clamped on his face. reached down and got my pocketknife out and stabbed the cat in the chest and it let go at that point. >> wow. good for him. taxity driver in lacrosse, wisconsin, is being called a hero after he helped a family escape their burning home in the middle of the night. collin was driving by the house when he noticed flames shooting from the porch. he first trade to wake the family by blowing his car horn. when he got no response, he raced towards the home. >> oh, yeah,s of freaky. there were flames and smoke and -- but i pounded on the doors and nobody answered, so i ran around the side of the house and started beating on their windows and finally they woke up. >>> and the wild card wins. rick santorum re-energizes his campaign after winning in three states. so what is it about rick santorum? henry says last night means nothing for rick. he will be done by march. karl costello has mo

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things as border problems when the reality is, what happens in arizona, what happens in new mexico, california, texas, will have a direct impact in chicago, new york, other parts of california, washington state, here in washington, d.c. >> i thank the attorney general. i don't think there really is a pending question that that's responsive to. but i appreciate your comment. we go to the gentleman from virginia for five minutes, mr. connolly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, mr. attorney general. thank you for being here and showing such dignity and honor in the face of some attempts to suggest you're other than a dignified and honorable attorney general serving his country well. and i just think, for the record, welcome on groundhog day. we heard that punxsutawney phil saw his shadow, so we have six more weeks. and it's fitting that you're here for the sixth time before congress. with repeated attempts to try to pin something on you and this president that cannot be pinned. and it is my firm hope that at some point the majority would actually ak wee ez to the request to have your predecessor, mr.

nevada, california, texas, new york, georgia and florida. as are female escort services for men.re are plenty of people at home who would see this and think, this is morally bankrupt. >> a moral thing is something that's either right or wrong. and i mean, if i'm a man and i want to take a woman on a date, i'm paying for everything. so, i don't see how it's much different, in the fact that just because a woman is paying now, it's wrong, doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: the morality debate aside, smart, affluent women are coming to the site in spades. women like 39-year-old heather smith, a successful, single manager at a fortune 500 company. >> it's funny. i had a good time with him. >> reporter: she says being a gigolo is not all about sex. >> i don't think of the gigolos as sex workers or prostitutes. i never have. they certainly don't feel like that. >> reporter: she should know. she sampled five of them and counting. she spent between $500 and $1,000 a month on gigolos. several thousand so far in total. >> i want to meet this mark guy. he's pretty attractive. that's yummy

a new storm out of texas could bring us wintry showers tuesday night but none of that tomorrow.shine, low 40s. some improved weather for your monday. >> we'll be back at 110 clock. see you back at 11:00. have a great night.

>> reporter: $3.45 texas, new york, 3.85. >> it used to take about $30 now it takes $50. >> reporter: over the past month prices have soared 18 cents a gallon. economists predict the national average could reach $425 by late april and nearly $5 by memorial day. >> a lot of prices will be fewed to the economy. -- >> reporter: if a new concern that could make it worse, iran is halting oil exports to france and britain as a preemptive strike for the european union's tough new sanctions. gas prices could be an an election issue. some are looking for ways around buying gas. >> i should have got a scooter. >> reporter: tahman bradley, abc7 news. >>> 4:41. >> time for a look at the weather forecast. it has been wet overnight. how long will the showers be with us? >> probably 10:00, noon to be safe. by 9:00 the better chance is moving on. san francisco across [ unintelligible ] by far the best radar returns around san ramon, dublin out of pleasanton and livermore along 680 through the sunol grade. across the altamont pass down into altamont and livermore where we are seeing the best radar ret

. >>> new video out of texas. was in drive through lands in -- noticed smoke coming out of her car. she managed to get out safely. >>> in new mexico police caught a drunk driver headed the wrong way. the officer tried to stop the driver who was weaving. eventually he stopped at a nearby gas station and he was arrested. he said he had taken meth earlier in the day. >>> well, the most romantic day of the year is also the most profitable for many businesses. coming up how much financial experts say you will spend next week even if you don't know it yet. >>> he went into super tuesday with the least amount of money in the campaign. rick santorum pulled off three unlikely wins. >>> have you booked that reservation for valentine's day yet. we have the details. >> reporter: for some, the most important thing on valentine's day is going out for din are and many couples have a reservation. it can also be the biggest expense but americans, they're willing to spend. 53% of its users plan to book a week ahead. some people are

new york, ohio, michigan, illinois, texas and california and largely the same states that are important today and florida hadn't made it to the list yet, and if you could carry four out of seven of those you probably would win and if you carried five out of seven there was almost no way you could lose. interestingly enough in 1960 all of those states were fairly competitive. it was not a case that either side could really totally write off any of the big seven, and so both candidates made major efforts to win those seven. joe kennedy had, maybe back in '56, had figured out that kennedy's catholicism could give him an edge in new york and pennsylvania, states that had large numbers of catholics and where catholics after world war ii had begun to move away from the democratic party especially catholics who moved out of philadelphia and new york city into the suburbs and eisenhower got a substantial vote and an even bigger margin in '56. nixon with his anti-communism spoke sprokly to conservatives was a natural for continuing that in '60, but this could be neutralized by the democrats if t

new treatments to try to stop it. and anna werner reports something most of us take for granted is growing scarce in the texas drought. >> it's devastating. you don't really know what's going to happen. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. the "c >> pelley: good evening. there is growing talk about a military strike against iran to t op it from developing a nuclear weapon. some of it came from israel's defense minister, and some of it came from u.s. defense secretary leon panetta today. more about all of that now from national security correspondent david martin at the pentagon. >> reporter: defense secretary panetta believes there is strong likelihood israel will strike iran in april, may, or june. that, according to columnist david ignatius, writing shortly after he completed a transatlantic flight with the defense secretary. panetta today did not dispute it. as if to show panetta has cause for concern, israel's defense minister seemed to reject u.s. arguments economic sanctions need more time to work. sprinkling his hebrew with english, ehud barak said, "( hebrew word ) is t

we did it in 20 states from the state of washington to florida, from michigan to new hampshire. from texas to new york. we are running a national campaign. we are 3, 4 or 5% in the latest polls. >> that's the highest we have been. 90% of americans don't even know that i am running. i have not been in a single national debate. i am the only candidate running, democrat or republican, who has been elected a congressman and a governor. i have built a billion dollar bank from zero no bail out money. i think america is in difficulty, short and long-term. short-term, our debt cannot be repaid without a plan and long-term, we have lost our manufacturing jobs to china, and we don't do a damn thing about it. >> so, you know, when you talk manufacturing, you are preaching, singing my song but part of your platform? >> i know. i know. >> is singing a song that we have been talking about here on the warroom which is campaign finance reform. i want to talk about it specifically because i think there are a lot of things -- >> let's do it. >> in your plan that make a lot of sense. let me just hit the top

. >>> this comes to us from woai, news 4 in san antonio, texas, a few high school upper classmen are helping the new kid tackle bullying. one reached out for help when bullies began targeting him. to combat the problem, his guidance counselor enlisted three seniors from the football team to walk juan to his classes. in a few weeks juan's life completely turned around. not only about did the bullying stop those seniors say what started out as sort of a task became hanging out with a new friend. that's great. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> and this is what it looks like at 4:28 here in the nation's capital. a beautiful picture of the washington monument. 34 degrees right now. good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4" this morning for this thursday, february 9, 2012. this morning police are trying to figure out the motive behind a deadly shooting in riverdale. officers were called to the area around 10:15 last night. when they got there, they found a man shot. rescuers took him to the hos

. >> and another teach net news a former texas high school teacher basketball coach facing felony charges for giving a student the morning after pill. the 16-year-old said she told the coach after having unprotected sex. the student said she went to planned pant hood and got a plan b packet. the girl apparently felt sick after taking the medicine and told her pants. >> parents. >> she thinks she is helping and in reality it's a parental. >> anyone under 17 need raise prescription to get the pill. the teach >>> townsend could join a growing number of campuses offering the plan b in a vending machine. townsend officials considering putting in the health center so students were have easier access. officials say the idea is still being researched and could be up to a year before its put in place. >> would you allow your 16- year-old to go in door tanning? the state would like to make that call and say no. a right now minors have to get parental permission to use a tanning bed. howard restricts them from hughes the bed. >> right now our law provides that minors, children, can go into the indoo

i'm prepared to move up to half of them to arizona, new mexico and texas.s is a doable thing. >> reporter: questions about santorum's posin social ills were frequent. >> just because i'm talking about it doesn't mean i want a government program to fix it. >> reporter: interesting challenge describe n one word. . >> congressman paul. >> consistent. >> senator santorum? >> courage. resolute. >> mr. speaker? >> cheerful. [ laughing ]. >> reporter: the surprise answer of the night, the michigan and arizona primaries are next tuesday. michigan growing tighter in the polls between romney and santorum. it will be interesting to see what impact if any tonight's debate will have on that. anita. >>> the virginia house of delegates today passed a bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before having an abortion. but before the vote, delegates made a big change to what has been a controversial piece of legislation. no woman will have to undergo an internal ultrasound, only an external one will be required. delegates offered the bill. he opposes a woman's leg

. >>> this comes to us from woai, news 4 in san antonio, texas, a few high school upper classmen are helping the new kid tackle bullying. one reached out for help when bullies began targeting him. to combat the problem, his guidance counselor enlisted three seniors from the football team to walk juan to his classes. in a few weeks juan's life completely turned around. not only about did the bullying stop those seniors say what started out as sort of a task became hanging out with a new friend. that's great. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. after some rain and snow, things will be nice and quiet this morning. we will see sunshine as we go into the afternoon. some clouds early this morning and then becoming sunny as we go into the afternoon with high temperatures into the 40's. i have some snow in the seven- day forecast. >> thank you. 33 degrees on tv hill. a band to built what some farmers feed their chickens -- a ban. >> sarah caldwell checking on

you've got new york, new jersey, pennsylvania and texas. >> we're focusing on those because the nature of the types of banks that are there, and also to make sure that we're performing correctly with the program. we want to be efficient with our step-by-step approach. we'll just do a few select banks for the private. and launch it through the united states as we progress. >> and real quick, frank, let me get your take. you think the volcker rule will be implemented in july? they keep pushing the comment period out. you've got to give the company 90 days to prepare for it. do you think it actually is impli meant in july? >> i think it could be. there are a lot of commented obviously that have to be mass ti gated and colated. we hope they refresh and take another look at it. >> we'll leave it there. frank, good to have you on the program. thanks, caryn. we'll be watching that pilot program for the community banks. later on we get the outlook for the trading market when i speak to ceo barry sillbert. >> a decent gain today, the dow up 117 points at this hour with the nasdaq up 43. >> up n

businessman herman cain, former new mexico governor gary johnson. texas congressman ron paul, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. later that spring and summer the field thinned out with mittÑi the first contest was the iowa straw poll last august and the results were historic. >> the winner of the 2011 iowa straw poll is congresswoman michele bachmann. >> america had the first republican female winner of a presidential contest edging out ron paul by only 152 votes. >> we are stunned and humbled and grateful and all the rest because this is really the people of iowa that did this. this wasn't us, this is the people of iowa. >> the next day the first republican candidate of the 2012 race would drop out. joining me now is former minnesota governor and candidate tim pawlenty. thanks for being here. >> good to be with you. >> i have to ask, but where the heck are you? looks like you are a locker room, something like that. >> i am in traverse city, michigan, and i know that this is not the normal huckabee backd