change is coming to olympia, and i want all state employees to be active partners in it. i know how much you have sacrificed. you are on the front lines, figuring out how to do more with less just like every family in washington right now. you will be empowered as change agents, and we will need your ingenuity and dedication more than ever. i am serious about reform. in the weeks to come i will be taking action to transition to a results and data-driven government, with continuous quality improvement, employee engagement, and clear accountability. and to honestly address our budget problems, we must admit the difficult truth that the road to a balanced budget, and a fully-funded educational system, runs directly through health care reform. this means investing in preventative care, and aligning incentives with patients to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. king county is already doing this, and it is working. we'll improve the health of all of us in washington, as we move from "sick care" to the true health care system we deserve. we need to leverage our medicaid and st

. >> olympia. >> we have an olympia. is there a difference? >> brand. >> okay, so it's the olympia, not the zambonie, what are you doing? getting the ice ready if. >> cutting it smooth and putting another layer on it. >> how hard are you working on game day? >> i get in around 3:00. we have a guy that handles the days and from 3:00 on, we are pretty much trying to figure out what the game is going to be. >> if there's a problem with the ice tonight, you know why. i got it ready. back to you guys in the studio. much more coming up in a second. >> good to know there's backup around, just in case. >> who knew there was more than one kind of ice machine. >>> still ahead, three days remain until those massive budget cuts kick in. we'll tell you if any last minute deals are on the table. >>> this is bruce johnson. we're at the air and space museum. easily the most popular with 8 million visitors every year. we'll tell you how they are dealing with the sequester. >>> and right after the break, we introduce you to a couple of high school seniors alrea

especially from olympia to bellingham. as the rain comes at us from the north and northwest, this is associated with the warm front lingering along the coast trying to move in. damp weather for the morning commute. if you are driving down i-5 today, tomorrow looks better. we are seeing a clearing trend. we have had high pressure off the west coast that's been very strong. now the high pressure ridge back here over areas of salt lake city will strengthen heading throughout the weekend. that's a change in the weather pattern and a change in the wind direction for a few spots, including southern california as this high pressure begins to strengthen it is in a position to provide us with some of the santa ana winds. we'll see strong wind gusts in the mountains and canyons of southern california, 50 to 60 miles per hour, but it will also bring a much warmer temperature all the way to the coast. we'll watch that and dry it up there to the north. you do get warm. today is 76 in l.a. over the weekend we get to about 80 on saturday

. >> explosive details in a murder case against olympia oscar pistorius. the lead investigator in the case is facing legal troubles. >> the white house releasing the first lady's official portraits for the president's second term, different from reversed and 2009. "good morning washington" at 5:00 a.m. begins now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. time to wake up and get the day started. thursday, february 21. i am cynne simpson. >> i am scott thuman. led data meteorologist jacqui jeras to talk about what we are in store for. >> : is what we are in store for -- cold is what we are in store for. we have clouds lingering right now. it will not last long. the skies will be generally clear with a lot of sunshine. the temperature is almost irrelevant, but we are in the low to mid-20s across the region. 26 at reagan national. wind chills factory at 18. that's dropping into the single digits. another day of school ahead. 28 degrees for pick up time with partly cloudy skies, mostly clear at recess, 38

olympia and oscar fdot pistorious should find out in the next few hours. we're live. -- oscar sprinter pistorious should find out. maliki.ther a rock or they want to get rid of their prime minister. >> go like this. >> thune for fog. why this scandal may help people improve their eating habits. >> the indian government is calling for unity after a bomb attack in hyderabad. that thefurious government may have not prevented the carnage. they're sifting through the carnage were 16 people were killed. the bombs went off, the park. more than of 100 wounded. indian media are reporting there were warnings of an attack three days before the blasts. security cameras have been disconnected four days ago. earlier, they said that there was no specific information that act upon. and we havederabad this report. >> this is the side of the first blast that occurred 7:00 thursday evening. the front of these shops absolutely destroyed. this is a popular eating location where many would have gathered. the majority of the casualties occurred here during the day. scores of peo

eventually up to bellingham, but all the rain down south of olympia along the border almost into the portland area. as far as rainfall amounts go, the highest totals easily north of the seattle area. look at bellingham with the computer estimating 3.5 inches of rain. the highest totals north of the border, but everyone gets rain throughout the day today. be prepared for that throughout the morning and on your way home from work and school. will be much lighter there than they are down in washington state. looks like we stay mild with another chance of rain over the weekend, this time for california. >> thank you so much, bill. >>> well, coming up, the stock market is flirting with a record. the biggest complaints among air travelers, and what caused a deadly house explosion that rocked a neighborhood. "early today" is back in two minutes. >>> welcome back. here are some other stories making news this morning. in a 71-26 vote the senate has given former white house chief of staff jack lew the green light to replace tim geithner as treasury secretary. lew faced questions from the senat

seattle and olympia getting rain in western washington. it's several hundred miles away and we'll be dry for a while. it's all about the wind direction. maybe you noticed it's chilly until lunchtime and getting milder in the afternoon. we will be there once again tomorrow because the winds are coming out of northwest. very subtle changes are going to occur. the winds will shift to the northeast. that's an offshore wind for us and take the mid 60s and push things up four or five degrees. i do believe that some of you in the south bay and maybe even oakland will hit 70 degrees coming up on either thursday or friday. better chance on friday. so the 70s, perhaps a better chance before the rain. the rain will hold off until next week. cooler weather, wetter weather, it will hold off until next tuesday. mid 60s tomorrow, san jose 65 with sunshine. beautiful. fremont 63. san ramon, walnut creek, 64 degrees tomorrow. sunny in san francisco. a little cooler. daily city, upper 50s. and low to mid 60s for sonoma. look at all that sunshine right throu

i am truly humbled to represent all of washington, and to deliver the change in olympia you asked for last november. now i would like to do something very difficult to do as a university of washington husky, and that is to honor a washington state cougar. i would like to introduce all of you to my wife of 40 years, trudi inslee. we met at ingraham high school and raised our family in a century-old farmhouse in the yakima valley. i'd also like you to meet my three boys and their families, connor, joe, jack and his wife megan, our grandson brody, and the newest inslee, zoe ann. this is a very special day for my family. and this is a very special time in history for many other families. people all across washington stood up for fairness and family in approving marriage equality last november. we should all be proud. the vote on referendum 74 represents the best of who we are as a state. it should be an inspiration for the progress we can make, towards equality, fairness and justice across all of washington. it has been an amazing journey over the past year and a half, as i've traveled to

seattle, olympia tacoma getting rain in western washington but for us still several hundred miles away and will be dry for awhile but all about the wind direction. maybe notice it's chilly till about lunchtime. we have low to mid 60s. we'll be there once again tomorrow because the winds are coming out of the northwest. very sult change is going to occur on thursday and friday. the winds will shift toth northeast. that's an offshore wind for us and take the mid 60s and push things up about four or five degrees. up near 70 degrees on thursday and friday. i do believe some of you in the south bay and maybe even oakland will hit 70 greece coming up on either thursday or friday. better chance will be on friday so the 70s perhaps a better chance before the rain because the rain will hold off until next week. there is a pattern change coming cooler weather cloudier weather, wetter weather. mid 60s tomorrow couple ticks higher than where we were today. san jose 65 with sunshine, beautiful day in campbell, 5 fremont 63. san ramon walnut kriek pleasant hill, 64 degrees tomorrow. sunny in san fra

. >> south african a lesbian oscar pistorius -- olympia and oscar pistorius -- olympian oscar pistoriusrged with the murder of his girlfriend. >> u.s. airwaves has sealed and $11 billion deal to merge with american airlines. it will go under the name of american airlines but be operated by the u.s. air ceo. there will be expanded service along the east coast, including right here at reagan national airport. >> in alexandria, people are still here in alexandria virginia where there is a suspicious death. a 94-year-old man was found dead yesterday evening by a son or stepson. police are not identified this as a homicide just yet, but they say it is suspicious. the man was found with trauma to the upper body. if it does in the becoming a homicide, it will be the first in the county since 2011. back to you. >> a few things you need to know before you leave this morning. >> it will be a busy day for president obama. he will visit a school in georgia to talk about education. and he will return for a google plus came out at the white house. maryland governor martin o'malley will testify before

so several of the women the white house project identified several years before the 2008 election, olympiaow, katherine sebelius were in there, and barbara lee was here six years ago with her foundation, talked about locking at women governors. so we wanted to look at women governors who had been through some of barbara lee's training as parts of the pipeline to the presidency. >> we also made the observation that when a male is elected to senatorship, immediately he is cast as a future presidential hopeful. scott brown had not been sworn in yet in massachusetts and the url scott brown 2012.com was already purchased. but so many women had been in washington for so many years, as legislators and working on important work, and yet their names never bubble to the top. and we were curious, why not? >> how did you decide you wanted to write this book? all threeoff you stud yesterday similar topics. how did the book actually come about? >> your idea. >> well, i guess it was my idea. i have been a political nerd since i was -- i don't know -- my parents still remember my sister and i in 1960 stag

haley barbour who would come on our show with other people wouldn't embrace olympia snow.n on jim jeffert's most liberal day -- it's pretty simple. we got to do what we do in alabama when it comes to football. we've got to realize it's about winning. this electoral process, it's not a primal screen therapy. it's not about screaming and yelling and talk about all of your resentments and feeling good about yourself. it's about what i say every day on the show. not just winning in northwest florida but winning the suburbs of philadelphia. how do you do that? you don't do that by defending the survivalist wing of the nra. you don't do that by debating contraception which was taken care of by the court in '65. you don't do that by obsessing on small ball. you do it be focusing on winning. only people like haley barbour it seems in this republican party lately have figured out how to do that. we've lost five of the six last elections when it comes to poplar vote. it's well past time for us to get our act together and start obsessing over winning elections again. >> read all the

today is the birthday of olympia snowe.ething for each hemisphere of your brain. >> john: good evening. i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us tonight. we're now just over one week away from the automatic massive spending cuts known for some ungodly reason as sequestration. and so congress is exactly where you would expect them to be, at a pivotal time in our nation's history, on vacation. while john boehner and the g.o.p. have spent the last few days trying to place all of the blame for the situation squarely on the shoulders of president obama, it would appear the public ain't buying what they're selling. according to a new poll, if a deal is not reached by march 1st and those devastating cuts were to go into effect, only 31% say they would blame the president while 49% say they would blame congress. and probably some republicans will blame acorn. but so clearly the p.r. battle over the scwefser -- sequester is being won by team obama. but if you're one of the hundreds of americans affected by the cuts, none

, and calling down there like he did today, though certainly he had some phone conversations with olympianowe. >> sure. >> that obviously didn't pan out. but that's what this is. he is saying this is not going to be a 14-month affair. we know where we are. we're going to do this or we're not going to do it. but we're not going to drag it out for 14 months. >> susan, the president says that he'll work with anybody. i mean, he is calling republican senators, trying to get something to move on immigration. doesn't this put rubio in somewhat of a box? one day he says it's dead on arrival, the next day he says we're making progress, had a good conversation with the president. >> this was a great move by the president strategically, there is no doubt about it. and he said he was open to conversation. he didn't say it was his plan and that's it. they said they were going to work together. as you said, they were both very diplomatic. and now it is on the republicans to show that they can work with this administration and they have more incentive because, frankly, it's very much in their own agend

of the woman that the white house project has identified several years before the 2008 election, olympiah in there. and, you know, we wanted to also consider this notion, barbara lee, who had been here several years ago when you did the last round on madam presidents, six years ago with her foundation talked about looking at women governors. we wanted to look at some of the women governors who had been through barbara lee's training as sort of a pipeline to the presidency. >> we also made the observation that when a male is elected to senatorship, immediately he's cast as a future presidential hopeful. for example, scott brown hadn't even been sworn in yet in massachusetts and the url, scott brown2012.com was already purchased. but so many women had been in washington for so many years as legislators and working on important work and yet their names never bubble to the top and we were curious why not? >> how did you decide that you wanted to write this book? all three of you studied similar topics but how did the book actually come about? >> it was your idea, ted. >> ted. >> well, i gues

barney frank, olympia snowe, rubio, hoyer, everybody on capitol hill sending staffers on the trips.ny trips in the last six years. >> over 800, that's only disclosed, most of these trips will never see the light of day and never have a full accounting. >> and the interesting thing, members of congress have to report it, but when the ethics he reform bill according to your article passed house and senate. the legislation for ethics and made no mention of foreign finance cultural exchanges, but democratic leadership inserted a specific exemption for them in the final bill just before passage so the democratic leadership put that in so all of these staff members could go on all the fancy trips, over 800 in six years and don't report it. >> and it's actually really a longstanding practice since 1961, these have been allowed, what we've seen increased recently after the tight ethics reforms. and actually u.s. corporations send lobbyists on these trips as well. >> it's done so much they don't see the conflict of interest, do they. >> no, the staffers i talked to are very defensive for thi

and even olympia snow in our state, who made a real effort to work on a compromise position, eventually bailed out, i income part because of the pressure to conform was so great. >> as you remember, repeal and replace? repeal and replace. that was the mantra after it passed on the republican side. why didn't we ever see a plan to replace? obama karr? -- obamacare? really because it involved government action on a scale that the republicans could not accept. and this gets back to what i was saying earlier. for many of them, this is not about trying to figure out how to serve -- how to have health care. what they're worried about is this feeling that government infringes on personal liberties and creates dep dependence on the population and everything we do is to be resist is, and that is why the capacity to try to cross the aisle is so difficult because we are basically talking about individuals in very different world views. now, i want to go to chapter five, which is climate change. denial of public denial as public policy. here's one of the clearest cases. scientific evidence that the

speaker, it's a beautiful day back in my hometown of olympia, washington. of course it's raining cats and dogs, but that's what passes for beauty in our corner of the world. it's a beautiful day at the national wildlife refuge near olympia and it's a beautiful day at mount rain ear national park which you can see from mie my neighborhood. but, mr. speaker, if we -- see from my neighborhood. but, mr. speaker, if we don't replace sequestration, i'm worried about how many more beautiful days there are ahead. if we don't replace sequestration, then some of the $7 -- 7.5 million visiters who are scheduled to visit one of our 13 national parks aren't going to be able to. they have already announced that they are closing the visitor center at mount rainier. all of this because congress can't or won't do its job. mr. speaker, it is a beautiful day in washington state, but i don't know for how long. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objec

health care plan but by the time it came up obama was for and no republicans were for it and even olympia snowe in our state him a real effort to work on a compromise position eventually bailed out in part because pressure to conform was so great. as you remember repeal and replace, repeal and replace was the mantra after it passed on the republican side. why didn't we ever see a plan to replace? obamacare? really, because it involved government action on a scale republicans could not accept. this goes back to what i was saying before a little bit earlier. for many of them, this is not about trying to figure out how to serve, how to expand health care. what they are primarily worried about is this feeling that government infringes on personal liberty and creates dependency among the population and therefore almost anything we do in some of these areas is to be resisted and i will come back to it but that is why the capacity to cross the aisle is so difficult because we are basically talking about very different world views. i want to go to chapter 5 which is climate change, denial of publ

the olympia has reported to authorities in south africa.et under the bail terms in his murder case. he's charged with killing riva steevkamp at his home. he was released on bail on friday. >>> hamid karzai saying all u.s. special forces must be out of a key eastern province within two weeks, because of torturing and murders. last month, the president met with president karzai about possibly keeping about 9,000 american troops in america past the 2014 withdrawal date. >>> a high stakes civil trial for the gulf oil spill has officially started. a judge will hear several hours of opening statements by lawyers for both sides everybody voed in the gulf spill where 11 workers were killed. bp could face fines of about $17 billion which would make it the biggest civil fine in history. a large group of protesters are gathering outside the courtroom holding up protests signs. coming up at 8:10, we'll bring you a live report from new orleans with more on what they are demanding. >>> the big jump in gas prices is sparking new rounds of complaints from

house is still scarred from the dramatic experience of watching max baucus spend months haggling with olympiawe in a room in a senatet office building and also derailed health care reform. that is the only thing that allowed it to drag out over the summer and the tea party started attacking at all the town hauls. the next thing you know scott brown wins the senate race. they think in hind sight that they should have done it much quicker and the republicans dragged it out. they don't see the point in replaying that months long negotiation. it is like we have been debating this since 2001 literally pretty steadily. everybody knows where everybody stands so let's have a vote on it. >> i want to play what john mccain said this morning. >> leaks don't happen in washington by accident. this raises the question that many of us continue to wonder about. does the president really want a result or does he want another cadgeal to beat up republicans to get political advantage in the next election. >> who and/or what do you believe is behind the leak? >> it is interesting what senator mccain said about t

there is something he could have done and he could have pulled olympia snow and some of these very, veryentrist republicans with him and -- let me give you a -- >> let me give you a second -- >> let's talk about immigration or something like that. >> i think immigration is absolutely one way he can work with republicans. >> i think there is a significant number for republicans and the senator who will give our response on tuesday who is becoming the leader of our party and i think there is good will not by the majority of the party to get the signatures and i think it would be great for the president in terms of his accomplishments if we could get something that attempts to fix this problem. >> how concerned are democrats that marco rubio might steal some thunder from the president come tuesday night. he's a freshman senator from florida. he's not going to steal the president's thunder any more than bobby jindal did or anyone wo gave responses to the president in the past. this is what republicans have done because they've adopted the politics of symbolism. they lost the latino vote by 7

he replaced who olympia snowe. >> juliet loved her time in the white house.am, quite the most wonderful time of my life. that gives you an idea of how much she enjoyed being first lady, and how she felt that her husband had finally achieved the recognition he deserved. >> historian and edith mayo on julia grant, who married her brother's west point roommate, ulysses s. grant. public and private lives, and influence on the president. produced with the white house historical association. season one begins her present instead, he on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> john kerry spoke to state department employees monday. the former massachusetts senator was sworn in as secretary of state last friday by supreme court justice elena kagan, in a small ceremony on capitol hill. this is 20 minutes. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> good morning, mr. secretary. i don't even have to say that you are being welcomed the very warmly by all the employees here. but, mr. secretary, a deputy secretary, on behalf of all the employees of the department of state, it is a privilege