brown lived in northern virginia for the past several years. he leaves behind his wife and three young children. >>> a handful of protesters marched in northwest washington yesterday taking a stand against violence. the group, in-put hosted the event in front of the d.c. superior court. their goal is to bring awareness of violence spreading in communities due to stress brought on by the economic downturn. an oregon man faces federal charges after disrupting a hawaiian islands flight. joe johnson is accused of interfering with the performance and duties of a flight crew. investigators say before the maui bound flight took off johnson refused to store his carry on bag and then later in the flight the 56-year-old handed a comment card to a

lived in northern virginia for the past several years. the 37-year-old leaves behind his wife and threeoung children. >>> this new year has been a challenging one for president obama. he's prodding congressional democrats to finish up a health care bill. his first state of the union address is weeks away and he's been forced to address sho shortcomings in national security. all of this comes as his majority party fights to stay that way in this year's midterm elections. brian mooar reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: a day after getting more bad news on jobs and the economy, president obama is touting health care reform as a way to help struggling americans. >> we're fixing our broken health insurance system that's crushing families, eating away at workers' take-home pay, and nailing small businesses with double digit premium increases. >> reporter: he's hoping to sign a bill in a few weeks before his state of the union address, but house democrats say they won't just rubber stamp the bill passed by the senate. if they demand too many

thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virginia. so meigs came to arlington on the date was officially begun as a cemetery, june 16, 1864, came to this part of the cemetery, looked around and was upset that there were no graves around the lee mansion. so his next act was to go up there though, where we will go shortly, and begin to put aerials right up next to the mansion. he didn't want the least to be able to come back after the war was over. so you will see meigs's strategic approach to the creation of arlington cemetery up the hill and mrs. lee's garden. >> so we are now up on the hill overlooking washington d.c. at the lee mansion. and i'm aiming the camera at mrs. lee's garden. >> yes, this is mrs. lee's garden on the hill, the highest part in arlington national cemetery. this is the home of robert e. lee, mary custis late before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war, 1864, the first military burial was remained in the cemetery, the lower cemetery outside of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think of the g

now his widow, maria elena says poor and lanky at the crossroads aligned to a week in northern virginia to its heritage of honor, of lincoln's grant review and mrs. howe's immortal battle and of the republic. tonight we will hear from judge frank william who will deliver a few appropriate marks about this young lawyer from the prairie state of illinois. mr. bill styple will tell us about his new book, "tell me of lincoln: and also give us a first-person account of the grand review that he is discovered. mr. doug jammer sent and is america's music and fumble will continue their delightful musical made later in the evening. we will perhaps be joined by sarah epstein who will delight us with a story of her great, great, great grandparents and how they helped mr. lincoln near as president elect. and there is a frosting on the desert, as delicious as it was, and maria elena may have the most wonderful announcement to close the evening. and now allow me to briefly introduce the honorable frank williams, recently retired chief justice of the rhode island supreme court who will deliver a few ap

dominion is reporting 1100 in northern virginia. >> to check on the forecast around the clock, just log on to our website at wjla.com. good morning washington starts tomorrow at 5:00 a.m.. the threat of terrorism leads to security changes at u.s. airports. a security scare triggered a lot down in newark international airport tonight. clots rounded and thousands of passengers had to be -- with our live at dulles international is new details on changes for airline passengers. baxter continues to be a heightened awareness of security. if you are coming to dullest amar to fly out, you probably will not notice any of these new tsa rules -- if you are coming to dulles airport to fly out. for this live from heathrow, it was impossible to miss the stepped up security in place after thefailed christmas day attack. >> they patted me down and literally did a full body -- and i had never seen anything like that before. >> starting at midnight, the transportation security administration has ordered enhanced procedures for all flights coming in to the united states. every single passenger of from 14

thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virginia. meigs came to arlington on the day it was officially begun as a cemetery, june 14th, 1864, came to this part of the cemetery, ground and was upset that their renault graves around the league mansion. is next act was to go up the hill to begin to put burials next to the mansion. you can see his strategic approach to the creation of arlington cemetery. up the hill in mrs. lee's garden. we are now up on the hill overlooking washington d.c. at the lee mansion. >> the highest point at arlington national cemetery, this was home, this was the home of robert e. lee before the civil war. at the height of the civil war in 1864 the first military burials were made in the cemetery, out of sight of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think the graves were close enough to the mansion. he found officers who died in service and he had them buried here around mrs. lee's garden to make it more difficult for them to return after the war. >> as we walk along here we see these tombstones and circle

thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virginia. so, the next came to arlington on the day that it was officially begun as a cemetery, june 14, 1864. he came to this part of the cemetery, looked around and was upset there were no graves around the mansion so his next act was to go up the hill where we will go shortly and to begin to put burials right next to the mansion. he didn't want the lees to come back until the war was over so you will see his approach to the creation of the arlington cemetery. it up the hill and mrs. lees garden. >> so we are now up on the hill overlooking washington, d.c. at the lee mansion. this is the garden? >> yes, the highest point on the cemetery. this is the home of robert eletes, mary custis lead before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war in 1864 the first military burials were made in a cemetery. the lower cemetery, the hour side of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think that the graves were close enough to the mansion so that he found officers who died in surface and have th

trouble in northern virginia with an accident. 95 northbound, near the prince william parkway.e of the roadway appears beied up here. that's backing traffic up. out on the rails we do have an issue out on tread line, metro rail tells us there's disruption with the malfunctioning train at the tenleytown station. that's been resolved but expect delays on the red line in the direction ever shady grove. >>> the new report this morning that says tiger woods and his wife want to try to work things out. >>> and like something you've never seen before, the world's talles building opens today. >>> desperate search for a pair of missing sisters in prince george's county. . >>> the first family returns home today after an 11 day va occasions hawaii. the obamas spent part of their last day at the honolulu zoo. they toured different exhibits and stopped to talk to a gro of photographers. earlier the obamas visited a cemetery where the president's grandfather is buried. >>> tiger woods marriage may not be over. msnbc reports his wife elin was wearing what appeared to be her wedding ring on a

we need to fix that, reduce that congestion in northern virginia and a way to get the revenue to buildose new roads and improve our infrastructure one way is to privatize the state liquor stores. is by privatizing the liquor stores. we have beautiful beaches in virginia. offshore drilling would be 50 miles away from the shore. one storm is not going to affect the beaches or cost oil to wash up. i would point to hurricane t katrina, the worst storm to hit the gulf coast in american history. we all saw the damage that was done to new orleans, alabama, and mississippi. all of those rigs, by the time it came through the gulf, was a category four hurricane. the most rigs we have are in the western part of the gulf of mexico, and not a single drop of oil was lost in the storm. that is because of the technology. we can enhance our domestic energy resources in environmentally-sensitive ways which could bring high-paying jobs -- to bring up the slogan of the campaign. i think more jobs in the hampton roads area could reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and we would be bringing revenue to the

. >>> to lawyer for five northern virginia manetained in pakistan denied those men were going to carry out terrorist attacks. there were arrested last month. today the men were ordered to prison to give police more time to prepare their case. police plan to charge the man with terrorism and seek life sentences. >>> the secret service is investigating an apparent death threats. a large black dog was found hanging from a building in plains, georgia that had a sign with president obama's name on it. >>> the windook a toll on people who ventured outside. temperatures in the 20's felt much colder. theinds toppled some trees. one tree came down on chain bridge road and it landed on power lines and knocked out electricity. >>> investigators are trying to find out what caused a carper to plunge into rock creek. a jogger spotted the car near p street nw. >> we got there. it probably been there for awhile. >> note telling how long the person had been in the water. but the driver has been identified as joshua kuhlman of arlington. he was taken to the hospital in grave condition but died a few hou

listen live on your iphone with the c-span radio app. >> earlier this week, but the northern virginiaas the white house party crashers refuse to answer questions at a house hearing. the salahis pleaded the fifth amendment when asked repeatedly how they managed to slip past security at a white house dinner. this is about one hour, 10 minutes. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today for the sixth day of the hearing, a united states secret service and presidential protection, an examination of the system failure. good morning. i want to thank the witnesses for complying with the subpoena and appearing today. today marks the third time this committee has met to discuss security breaches at the white house state dinner. at our first hearing, the secret service director said the secret service or the sole responsibility for safeguarding the white house grounds and took responsibility for his agency's failure. the salahis were invited to appear at that hearing, but they did not appear, so the committee met again. at that meeting, we voted to i

nauj bull zazi, the five guys that left from northern virginia. when their parents brought it to the attention of the fbi, that's the way the system should work. we went out there, contacted the pakistani authorities. they're in prison. we're trying to ensure the system works in all these cases as in future events that come up. >> let's switch now to the larger terror threat we were talking about at the beginning of the show. cnn is reporting there's a radical american cleric born in yemen, very well known to you, anwar al awlaki. that had connection to the shooter at ft. hood and the christmas day bomber. do you consider the ft. hood shooting a terrorist attack? >> we're clear about is mr. awlaki was in touch with major hasan and indications he had direct contact with abdulmutallab. mr. awlaki is a problem. he's clearly a part of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. he is trying to instigate terrorism. we need to make sure we can identify other individuals or other activities of mr. awlaki to stop it before it comes through. >> is he alive? >> awla

and she became a staff supervisor at hospice in northern virginia and while she was working, i decided to help out in the kitchen. i decided that i would help her cabinets look like my mess hall cabinets. all the chance, alphabetical order, facing out, all the bottles, same size, facing out, all little boxes, same size, in alphabetical order, so you can find what you're looking for. ok. i was in great shape until she came home. and took one look at that, and i knew my days retired were numbered. since i became the director in the office of foreign disaster assistance, aid, agency for i understand national development, retired pay, but i was not in her kitchen. office of foreign disaster assistance is the agency responsible for providing aid, mostly humanitarian ahead, to foreign countries, when they have a disaster, and they ask foreign disaster help and our ambassador says yes and we went to work. i had that job for 21 months, that was followed by becoming the third director of fema. the president zester -- my predecessor was forced to retire -- wrong, he got fired by the white house

>> azzasi, david headley, other individuals that were captured, the five guys that left northern virginia, when their parents brought if to the attention of the fbi, that's exactly how the system should work. we went out there, we contacted the pakistani authorities, they're currently in prison. and what we're doing is trying to ensure that the system works as well in all of these cases as in future events that come up. >> let's switch now to the larger terror threat. b which we were talking about at the beginning of the show. cnn is reporting that there's a radical american cleric born in yemen, very well-known to you, anwar al awlaki, that had contact with both the shooter at fort hood and the christmas day bomber. if there's a link, do you now consider the ft. hood shooting a terrorist attack? >> i think what -- what we are clear about is that mr. awlaki was in touch with major hassan, and there are indication s that he had direct contact with abdulmutallab. mr. al awlaki is a problem. he is clearly a part of al qaeda in the peninsula. he is not just a cleric. he is in fact trying to i

but david headley, other individuals that were captured, the five guys that left northern virginia, when their parents brought if to the attention of the fbi, that's exactly where the system should work. we went out there, we contacted the pakistani authorities, they're currently in prison. and what we're doing is trying to ensure that the system works in all these cases as in future events that come up. >> let's switch now to the larger terror threat. cnn is reporting that there's a radical american cleric born in yemen, very well-known to you, anwar al awlaki, that had contact with both the shooter fort hood and the christmas day bomber. if there's a link, do you now consider the ft. hood shooting a terrorist attack? >> he can what we're clear about, there are indications that he had direct contact with abdulmutallab. mr. al awlaki is a problem. he's trying to instigate terrorism. what we naed to do now is make sure that we can identify other individuals or other activities so we can stop it before it comes through. >> is he alive? >> and yl awaki? we' there are a number alive that wer

chris brown is cleaning off graffiti in northern virginia to pay the price.y a fair sentence. >> lot of people said the fun punishment did not fit the crime. number three, ponzi artist bernie madoff. >> man, oh, man. changed the culture. he will go to his grave, he will never tell the truth about what happened. but is it a question of do we need more federal regulation? or are rich people too gullible to see the reality? it is a problem that will never resolve but taught us a lesson that we will be paying attention to in 2010. >> number two, the first latina on the u.s. supreme court. sonia sotomayor. >> the beginning of the year, after the inauguration, everyone kind of thought it was john paul steechbs. he didn't resign. justice souter resigned. justice sotomayor, first hispanic female sitting on the supreme court. enormous legal chapter last year. >> the number one most serious legal story, khalid sheikh mohammed. the trial will be held right by where the world trade center once stood. >> from a legal perspective, a great move by attorney general eric hold

the five guys from northern virginia that went to pakistan, was because the families brought it to the attention of the families. pakistanis were able to put them in custody. in the case of abdulmutallab his father did express concerns to us that he cass consorting with extremists. the failure was we didn't take that information and connect it to the other bits and pieces of information that came through the intelligence collection systems. it's a requirement that we're able to bring to bear all of those disparate bits and pieces in a way that allows us to identify the individuals. we had some information intelligence channels that didn't give us the clarity we needed to know who the individual was that al qaeda was using. what we need the do is make sure this never happens again. >> you are an experienced professional here. were these knowable red flags, should they have been caught and put together? >> yes, they should have been. that's what we need to do. make sure this never happens. >> does somebody need to lose their job? >> the president said there is going to be accountability

bert ely is a baing industry constant who runs his own firm northern virginia. and felix salmon ithe finance blogger fothomson reuters. previous he worked for roubini global economics. gentmen, thank you both for being with us. bert ely, to you first. what is your understanng of what form any tax oree would take? >> well, thiis all very big at this pot in time, but it could be eitr a tax on financial ansactions. it could be a tax on high level execive pay. it may be a profiturtax or some combination treof. this point in time we simply d't know the spifics of these proposals. >> woodrf: in terms of whom it would be levied on. i would presume it will be levied on lae financial institutions, bas, both commercial ban as well as investment banks. a big question is whe would the linee drawn between large ansmall and that would be one of the controversial aspectof this proposal. who gets paid... who h to pay and who doesn't. >> woodrf: felix salmon, what's your understanding what they're talkingbout? >> well, like rt, it's still ve unclear. i haven't lked to anyone who

minus 1 in washington, minus 5 in northern virginia, right at the zero mark across much of suburban marylandrtly sunny, windy, and cold today. windchills will stay in the teens. high temperatures will get up to 25 to 30 degrees, but a northwest wind at nearly 30 miles an hour will continue to blow all day long today. so windy and cold today. cold tomorrow, but not as much wind and maybe a flurry late monday night, early tuesday morning. eun? >> thank you, chuck. coming up on news 4 today at 9:00, you think the hol >>> we are back on this sunday morning, january 3rd, 2010. it is bitter cold here in new york city this morning. i think janice told me the windchill is like 4 degrees. it feels like four million below zero. >> it says 19. >> well, my legs feel really, really cold. outside on the plaza, i'm jenna wolfe along with lester holt. still to come, speaking of cold, the cold pretty much keeps us indoors. >> and you know that leads to especially in this part of the country, cabin fever. you're cooped up, feeling like you need something to do. we've got some ideas how to solve cabin fever fr

bert ely is a banking industry consultant who runs his own firm in northern virginia. and felix salmon is the finance blogger for thomson reuters. previously he worked for roubini global economics. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. bert ely, to you first. what is your understanding of what form any tax or fee would take? >> well, this is all very big at this point in time, but it could be either a tax on financial transactions. it could be a tax on high level executive pay. it may be a profit surtax or some combination thereof. at this point in time we simply don't know the specifics of these proposals. >> woodruff: in terms of whom it would be levied on. >> i would presume it will be levied on large financial institutions, banks, both commercial banks as well as investment banks. a big question is where would the line be drawn between large and small and that would be one of the controversial aspects of this proposal. who gets paid... who has to pay and who doesn't. >> woodruff: felix salmon, what's your understanding of what they're talking about? >> well,

this is a place in northern virginia were all the data comes in.here's not a single agency that is supposed to run the show entirely. it's under the office of the director of national intelligence. it is under the director. it is not any single persons jurisdiction. all the different agencies are supposed to be participating. they are all supposed to share the data and make sure they do not miss things. in design, it is supposed to do exactly what it should have done here. it did not. why? i do not know the answer. caller: good morning. in the regulatory world, there's a thing called root cause analysis when a problem occurs. you look to find out what the true systemic cause of the problem was. when i look at what i know, this was not a system failure. this was a system failure because humans, who follow the system, did not carry through on their responsibilities. one thing that i think that we have all known and learned over the years is that the intensity of your boss for a certain task sets your priority. when i learned that eric holder, his law

we know that last fall there were five young men from northern virginia that went back to pakistan and with their families that came in and tell them about them so that they could be identified. while we talk about all the responsibility of government and everything we're doing at the bureaucratic level, concerned about families, that is a key part of keeping ourselves safe. we should not either under rate or neglect, it is a very proper emphasis. when we are dealing with families, we need to rely on their help and make sure that we're not violating their civil liberties that they expect as americans. >> senator, i fully agree with the view that we have to have civil liberty as a central tenet and all of this. the director included four individuals, one of them as a civil liberty expert. the one thing that i would note is that it is very easy for me to recommend secretary napolitano to put everyone on the watch list on the no fly list. there are enormous and unacceptable cost to doing that. what we need to have is an agreement among the executive branch and members of congress about wh

and in southern maryland, right near the bay, northern next of virginia, it's near the freezing mark. for the most part, most of the region, still sub-freezing. these are the latest windchills. they're in the mid-teens, feels like mid-teens with that wind whipping in out of the west-northwest. these are the latest wind gusts. we've had gusts near 30 miles an hour. and they're going to stay 25 to near 30 miles per hour gusts all the way into the noon hours. then it should diminish a bit overnight, but still a bit blustery. out in the mountains, in the mid-teens. a few passing snow showers there. eastern shore, now in the upper 20s. and we have some steadier sno falling up in western pennsylvania. it's coming down off of lake erie as the cold air passes over the open waters of lake erie, brings in that moisture and turns it into snow. it is snowing in parts of west virginia now. a few flurries off to our west. might ha a passing flurry around the metro areaator on today. otherwise, partly sunny with a blustery northwest wind. highs briefly touching the low 30s. then, quickly, right back

overall for the entire northern virginia region you know the state transportation and budget crisis certainly is affecting us in terms of monies for roads, bridges and transit in and of itself. i serve on a lot of board of directors and i can speak for all of us throughout region how valuable the transit system, bus and rail system is for us. in order for us to dmochbt forward and meet the challenging demands we need more revenue sources coming in, so we're looking for dollars from both the federal government and the respective states, d.c., maryland and virginia. >> let's head back to where we're started. the dollars and projects in general not just transportation. you mentioned marrow binson things that had to be frozen in place. when do you think we might see a thaw in that or a turn? >> it's hard to say. i think -- i talked to the comptroller of maryland last week and he was saying there are some good signs, the rate of loss of revenue looks like it's slowing dramatically. so even though the state will take in less money this year than they anticipated the difference between what their fe

is a reality as in the case of the fort hood mass murder, and recently five american men from northern virginia arrested in pakistan, supposedly on their way to join the taliban in afghanistan. the duke university and university of north carolina study showed that since neive 139 american muslims motivated by extremism have been identified for either planning or carrying out violent attacks. the shocker? 41 of the cases were in 2009. that's a nearly 600% increase from the year before. all but one of those were muslim males under the age of 30. despite the spike, researchers believe that the threat of terrorism is exaggerated. >> well, a lot of that data is because of the somali community which from minneapolis where 20 young men went to join a movement in somalia and that accounts for a lot of the data. but there's no doubt there's a spike in 2009. i just think it's a little too early to tell if that is an aberration or a trend. >> but terrorism experts say the numbers speak for themselves, and it is clear there is a rise of home-grown radical islam. >> between the beginning of 2009 until the e

to ed's point about the ground game, you know, during the obama campaign, i live in a part of northern virginiahat's mostly retired military, and i couldn't go to an event, whether it was a book festival or farmer's market or even to the market to buy food, and there won't be an obama table with volunteers out there signing people to register to vote. and handing out buttons and stickers, so i think it's a combination of all of the above just because you're doing things, whether it's mobile, on the web, or otherwise is not a replacement for some of the traditional ground game tactics. all sexaw this strikes me as using a technology in a very old-school way. this kind of endorsement thing has been done with direct mail for the past 20 or 30 years. and then it was done by email for the past eight years. and now they're moving to text message. so it's a very old-school tactic being applied to a new school technology, and i'm not quite sure how effective that is. i think we view it as noise. i think we chuck it in the garbage, we delete it, and we don't put that much weight in it. if that text mess

we know that last fall there were five young men from northern virginia that went back to pakistan and that came in and tell them about them so that they could be identified. while we talk about all the responsibility of government and everything we're doing at the bureaucratic level, concerned about families, that is a key part of keeping ourselves safe. we should not either under rate or neglect, it is a very proper emphasis. when we are dealing with families, we need to rely on their help and make sure that we're not violating their civil liberties that they expect as americans. >> senator, i fully agree with the view that we have to have civil liberty as a central tenet and all of this. the director included four individuals, one of them as a civil liberty expert. the one thing that i would note is that it is very easy for me to recommend secretary napolitano to put everyone on the watch list on the no fly list. there are enormous and unacceptable cost to doing that. what we need to have is an agreement among the executive branch and members of congress about what the promise -- pr

there is all the date that comes in here in northern virginia and not one agent runs show entirely. under the office of director of intelligence. not under fbi, nsa, homeland security. it is under direct tore of national security. not any single person's jurisdiction. and all the different agencies are there and they're all supposed to be participating and all supposed to see data and sharing and thinking making sure they don't miss things. design it is supposed to do exactly what it should have done here but it didn't. why didn't it? i don't yet know that answer. >> host: tucson, arizona, jerry on the republican line. >> caller: good morning. in the regulatory world of fda is called root cause analysis when a problem is occurred. when you do to find out true systemic of the problem was. in my opinion, when i look what i know, this truly wasn't a system failure. this was a system failure because humans who followed the system, didn't carry through on their responsibilities. now, one then i think that all of us have and learned over the years is that the intensity of your boss, for a

. >> madam secretary, i am robert gale, i am with northern virginia community college.ow we have to prevent that and you also talk about censorship by governments. having a zeal of anonymity is actually quite beneficial. -- veil of anonymity. are you looking to have a balance between that and the in this is on censorship? >> absolutely. this is one of the challenges that we face. on the one hand, anonymity for texting exploitation of children. -- protects the exploitation of children. on the other hand, if protect the free expression of government. anonymity allows the theft of intellectual property. it also permits people to come together in settings that gives them some basis for free expression without identifying themselves. none of this will be easy. but as a fair statement. -- that is a fair statement. we all have different needs, rights and responsibilities. we should err on the side of openness and everything we can to create that. ought we recognize that there will be exceptions. how we go after this is now what we are requesting. we are asking for experts to h

host: foreign policy magazine writing about the five men from northern virginia, how al qaeda do $6.t says, these men fit the profile -- no profile at all. not it age, race, culture or education -- anyone can join or be adopted by the al qaeda network. the only prerequisite, willingness to accept the radical ideology. if there is a lesson to be learned by the recent arrests is that profiling will not work. we need something better. what would that something better be? guest: something better would be an emotional and psychological profile as opposed to physical and democratic profile. the come from economic pact -- all the economic spectrum, education spectrum, age and location. they share in common the sense of isolation, disenfranchisement and lack of belonging that those five young men exhibited that was not unlike what farouk exhibited before he decided to go bomb in detroit, some of the hard core central al qaeda, or 9/11 bombers, or others experienced. to physically profile them or demographically profile that is very difficult because they are all over the map. go further back

start looking at 2009 with major hasan, and the somalis recruited from minnesota and those from northern virginian and more recently flight 253, the alleged bomber. what does this say about recruitment from al qaeda and other radical groups both here in the u.s. -- in the u.s. and abroad? guest: it continues to exhort followers toward violence worldwide. what has happened is the conflict we are currently in has really completely destroyed any notion that armies are made up of individuals from a single nationality under a single organization. you see individuals from all over the globe, d.c. the attempt on the northwest flight, from nigeria who received training in yemen, or we see young men in minnesota recruited to go off and fight in various jihadist friends in pakistan, iraq, and elsewhere. -- jihadist fronts. no distinctions between the front line and the home front and clearly makes no distinctions between combatants and non-combatants. the battlefield is everywhere. host: in your riding you talk about the difference between recruitment and radicalization -- in your writing. guest: radicaliz

host: foreign policy magazine writing about the five men from northern virginia, how al qaeda do $6.says, these men fit the profile -- no profile at all. not it age, race, culture or education -- anyone can join or be adopted by the al qaeda network. the only prerequisite, willingness to accept the radical ideology. if there is a lesson to be learned by the recent arrests is that profiling will not work. we need something better. what would that something better be? guest: something better would be an emotional and psychological profile as opposed to physical and democratic profile. the come from economic pact -- all the economic spectrum, education spectrum, age and location. they share in common the sense of isolation, disenfranchisement and lack of belonging that those five young men exhibited that was not unlike what farouk exhibited before he decided to go bomb in detroit, some of the hard core central al qaeda, or 9/11 bombers, or others experienced. to physically profile them or demographically profile that is very difficult because they are all over the map. go further back i

some media market you might be on in northern virginia, washington, d.c., 1200 points the last two weeks were in roanoke were richmond might be on 1500 or 2000 points. [inaudible] >> guest comment acutely behind it that it's not really the minimum. i think the minimum is the 900 range behind and ad. let's just say you're going to run three ads in your campaign and let's say a six-week bike, you could run 500 points in first week, 500 points the next week and over the course of that two weeks, have accumulated enough points behind the first attitude then go onto the next ad. we like to run two ads at times or you're not just communicating a 30, second job but really like 60-second chunks. so one ad might be a bioactivity, another ad is a specific issue. that to ad up to more substance for the voter. but it takes longer to guess would like to get the minimum 900 to 1000 would be had under behind it. talked about two tracks. everything should work in concert in the campaign. i heard you haven't talked about mail yet but you would like to go direct milby in the same message as your televisio

after that the northern virginia couple known as the white house party crashers invoke the fifth amendment byron york of "the washington companier" and christopher hayes of "the nation." also, a look at the american red cross' haitian relief efforts with suzy defrancis of the american red cross. then we'll talk with glen somasey on the future of guantanamo bay detainees, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> abigail adams had to remind john adams to rerp the ladies when creating a new government, dolly madison had to encourage her once shy husband james. this weekend on "afterwards" the intimate lives of the founding fathers. thomas fleming profiles the women who played a central part in creating our country. "after words" part of this nation's book tv on c-span 2. >> up next south carolina governor mark sanford delivers his state of the state address and braised lawmakers on work on the bills and also apologized on his extra marital affairs. from columbia, this is close to an hour. >> sergeant. >> the joint assembly will please come to order. let us stand and welcome our esteemed g

but we still have too much congestion in northern virginia, too many sub-standard bridges, and to manysufficient transportation to generate new jobs. the aging infrastructure cannot continue to meet the needs of virginians. the midtown tunnel is more than 60 years old. we cannot evacuate if a sizable hurricane is threatening hampton roads. we have a number of projects built with public and private agreement, but we have failed to invest or have upkeep or made beds with the road system of this size. the only significant accomplishment that virginia can claim in terms of road funding is that we eagerly accepted infrastructure money from the federally government package. i was happy to help the president who cares about the infrastructure needs of the state, but those dollars will be gone in 2011, and we must have more dedicated revenue for transportation needs. i submit that the largest obstacles to solving the transportation needs is the philosophy that it is always wrong to raise taxes. thank goodness that previous state leaders did not hold that view, because if they had, we would hav

that was true of the northern virginia five. it was true of hasan.he center of instigation and action that > seeking out, and drawing these people in. be they domestic actors here in the united states orç those overseas. the threat and even putting it in the singular, the threat is misleading. i'll do it anyway. is very multisided. it is not just one group. the experts get bogged down into these debates about just what is the status of al qaeda central? it's somewhat of a diversion even if you agree yes there is still an organization there. it is only part of the threat. and the manifestations we have seen all these incidents that you enumerated, jim, are basically not part of that. they are individuals seeking out other groups. and including individuals here in the united states. >> putting you on the spot. labels. labels, communications about this. how does that affectq public perception and publicq policy? >> certainly, as i hinted earlier the label war is an incredibly powerful one. not just because of the label but because it describes a state

window last fall there were five young men from northern virginia went back to pakistan and with herrents, their families who came in and told authorities about them, so that they could be -- they could be identified. while we talk about all the responsibility of government and everything were doing at the bureaucratic level, i think concerned, rouse citizens, families, are an absolutely key part of keeping ourselves safe, that we should not either underrate or neglect. and it's a very proper emphasis. so when we're dealing with families, we need both to rely on their help and to make sure we're not violating their civil liberties that they expect as americans. >> director leiter? >> senator, i fully agree with the view that we have to have civil liberties as a central tenet in all of this. and the directors review panel that he set up include for individuals, one of whom is a civil liberties protection officer that we've had the office to review the watchlisted we have made. the one thing i would know though is it's very easy for me to recommend secretary napolitano to put whoever o

taking the initiative to seek groups to seek out training, to seek help the was true in the northern virginia five. that puts the lie in my view in the concept the main thing we are worrying about here is a group that is the center of investigation and action that is putting its tentacles out and drawling these people in be they domestic factors here in the united states or those overseas. the threat and even putting it in the singular threat is misleading but i will do it any way. it is very maltese i did. it isn't just one group. the experts get bogged down in to these debates about just what is the status of al qaeda central. and it's somewhat of a diversion because even if you agree is, there's still an organization there come a significant threat it is only part of the threat and the manifestations we have seen, all of these incidents that you've been enumerated, jim, are basically not part of that. they are individuals seeking out other groups, including individuals here in the united states. >> putting you on the spot, priscilla, labels, and communications about how does this affect pu

tutoring from a teacher online speech and will leave us now to go live to an elementary school in northern virginiaside of washington, d.c.. president obama just beginning to speak. >> graham road elementary school. one of virginia's finest schools. and here at graham road, they are using an abode of approach is to provide effective teaching to all their students. and that's something that all of american schools have to do. as i said before, there are any number of actions we can take as a nation to enhance our competitiveness and secure better future for our people, not a few of them will make as much of a difference as improving the way we educate our sons and daughters. offering our children an outstanding education is one of our most fundamental, perhaps our most fundamental, obligation as a country. whether we meet that obligation, not only reflect who we are as americans, it will shape our future as a nation. countries without education today will outcompete us to our. i refuse to let that happen on my watch. it's good at doing the same old thing will not get the job done for our kids. or fo

but we still have too much congestion in northern virginia in hampton roads, too many substandard bridgesmmunities with insufficient transportation to attract and generate new jobs. our aging infrastructure cannot continue to meet the needs of virginians. we do not have sufficient evacuation capacity should hurricane threaten rudd's. although we have made public and private agreements, we have failed to invest or create a road system that we should have for our size. the only significant problem we can claim is this -- we accepted infrastructure money from the federal recovery package. i do admit to pride in helping a president who cares about the infrastructure needs of the states. but the dollar's run-up in 2011, in virginia must have more dedicated revenue. i humbly submit that the largest obstacle to solving our transportation needs is a philosophy espoused by some. thank goodness previous state leaders did not hold that the. if they did not, we would not have community colleges. we would have 30 reverse. we would have a lackluster public education system and fewer roads. virginia is

the other side of the mountains, some snow showers showing up near skyline drive, across northern sections of virginia. yes, with the strong winds there's a possibility we carry a snow shower or flurry this afternoon. that's about it. it's really just about the cold. we'll be watching that thermometer trying to get back to 32 in downtown baltimore with an overcast sky and again wind chills knocked to near 20 in the afternoon. better chance of a flurry or snow shower across the hereford zone, 30 parkton. 29 westminster. and then we'll take you back to howard county with 31 degrees, 33 in annapolis. again, for today the average about 32 degrees, small chance of a flurry through this evening. overnight, less wind and we'll start to break down some of the clouds. we'll settle back to 22. then for tomorrow, really not much of an improvement. we'll stay at 33 degrees, still running well below normal but at least with less wind it will be a little more tolerable. here's the deal this week. we stay cold. we stay below normal with highs 37 wednesday. 36 thursday, overnight lows in the lower 20s. this next stor

major hasan, the somalis who have converted or recruited from minnesota the five young man from northern virginiathat went to pakistan. of course most really, a flight 253 incident, the alleged bomber there. what does that say about recruitment efforts by al qaeda and other radical jihad groups both here in the u.s. and abroad? >> al qaeda continues to exhort its followers to violence worldwide. what has happened of course is this conflict that we're currently in has really completely destroyed any notion that armies are made of of individuals from a single nationality under a single organization, what we see are individuals from all over the globe in the case of the attempt on the northwest flight from nigeria who received training in yemen, to go to europe to board a plane to carry out an attack over the united states. or we see young men in minnesota recruited to go off and fight in various jihadists fronts in yemen, pakistan, iraq and elsewhere. so it is truly, truly a global conflict that makes no distinctions between the front line and homefront. and makes no distinctions between combatants

during the obama campaign, i live in a part of northern virginia that is retired military.he market to buy food and where there would not be an obama table with volunteers signing people to register to vote. i think it is a combination of all of the above. whether you are doing things on the web or mobile, and is not a replacement. >> it surprises me -- this has been done with a direct mail for the past 20 or 30 years. then it was done by e-mail for the past eight years. now they are moving to text messages. it is an old school tactic being applied to a new school technology. i am not quite sure how effective that is. i think we view it as noise. we delete it. we put it in the garbage. if it came from someone who actually knew saying, dude, important election. we need to. i think he would hold onto that. >> with texting [unintelligible] with e-mail, you get them all the time. if you get a text, and to opt out, and you still get text messages, the finder through the roof. because most people value their cell phone, it is a way to directly reach people when there is an urgent

we know that last fall there were five young men from northern virginia that went back to pakistan and with their families that came in and tell them about them so that they could be identified. while we talk about all the responsibility of government and everything we're doing at the bureaucratic level, concerned about families, that is a key part of keeping ourselves safe. we should not either under rate or neglect, it is a very proper emphasis. when we are dealing with families, we need to rely on their help and make sure that we're not violating their civil liberties that they expect as americans. >> senator, i fully agree with the view that we have to have civil liberty as a central tenet and all of this. the director included four individuals, one of them as a civil liberty expert. the one thing that i would note is that it is very easy for me to recommend secretary napolitano to put everyone on the watch list on the no fly list. there are enormous and unacceptable cost to doing that. what we need to have is an agreement among the executive branch and members of congress about wh