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peggy, peggy. freeze, come here, come to mama. >> hi! good to see you. >> now, you are going to have to choose between -- see over there, prize number one, prize number two, or prize number three. so which ever one you pick. okay, hold on. which one? >> two. >> she's picking prize number two. turn around. a trip to aruba! >> you are going to aruba! >> thank you! >> have you been before, peggy? >> i have. >> peggy has been before many times. >> not many. >> here's the other two prizes you get anyway. what are they? a kathie lee cd and a book. >> oh, my god. >> we're excited for you. >> thank you. >> you want to give it away to somebody that's never been to aruba, that's up to you. >> she said, no, thanks. >> my anniversary is coming up. >> there you go. >> right down there. >> give it up for peggy, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] all right. still looking at your signs, everybody. still have a really great prize to give for that. >> yeah, we do. we got to tell who paid for that trip to aruba. that's a big deal. this is where they are go

disagreement abounds i would agree with peggy more than she suspects.s community, working people, pedestrians can't survive and live and flourish if we operate our government at the federal level month by month, three quarter by quarter round clips. reality 9.4% in automatic cuts if this sequester goes through, 8.25 to discretionary spending. i've heard the president and my friends in congress and friends in the administration say they wish they had a scalpel to move things around but they don't. the thing that's the most important to me, and i heard maria's interviews about how to balance this thing, there's no talk about growth to the extent we should talk about it. why not the keystone pipeline, new revenues the states in this country would benefit. ten to 12, water, sewer, education with new tax revenue. why not go forward with natural gas to be exported. the department of energy said it's okay. we would reduce our trade deficit, create jobs in the country. why not give broadband certainty around regulations or lack of regulations, $1.5 trillion in

peggy fox is here to explain. and peggy, play ball. >> yes, it does. remember the governor proposed eliminating the gas tax. this new compromise does get rid of the tax for a smaller wholesale tax on gasoline. it makes a very confusing to figure out what that means to us. one website reader posted today that none of it made any sense and that three middle schoolers and a dog could have done better. >> entirely ditching the gasoline tax wasn't going to happen. virginia's is 17.5 cents per gallon. small compared to other states, but still appropriate. says fairfax county chairman, sharon. >> it is sort of a user fee. people who use the roads pay for those roads, pay for the maintenance of the roads. and in my mind, it was foolish to just eliminate that source of revenue. >> here's what lawmakers have worked out. they want to replace that per gallon gas tax with a 3.5% wholesale tax paid by distributors. those taxes will be passed on to consumers. one expert said it will work out to 11 cents a gallon. if you drive an alternative fuel vehicle, you'd have t

. >> peggy noonon in her column said with the president it's always government by freakout. does she have a point about that? cliffs, always by freakout, that's what's happening with sequester, 700,000 children dropped from head start, meat won't be inspected, tsa workers laid off. mr. obama hit on his own version of national unity, everyone gets scared together. >> no one turns a phrase like peggy noonan. look, this is not of the president's creation. you know this president didn't campaign and hasn't wanted to govern by constantly being in conflict with congressional republicans. but from the very beginning, remember, it was a leadership of the republicans and senate who say their number one agenda was to make this president a one-term president. having won a second term, their number one agenda is to slow down the recovery of our economy. that needs to be called out. it is a fact that sequester is going to have an impact, particularly on education in our state and i think also in louisiana. it's going to have an impact on innovation investments. it's going to have an impa

(peggy) grab viva, and break the rules on all your tough messes.> welcome back the big story is the nor'easter blast. you'd know it is that when the green bay, and the chicago of these places are bracing for the worse. but we do not have to worry about that but we are monitoring the situation because it is impacting travel. and erica is monitoring our weather. >> of public transit is already being shut down in the new york city. and gil force winds. there are 14 in. expected in new york city, and boston could be breaking records with 3 ft.. and when to gusting at 70 mph all of this activity of the satellite and refer this to be a pretty rough one. downed trees, power lines. coastal flooding from costinthe coast of boston and up to the bill would lend coast. acros the state of maine to. and coastal- flooding expected-the purple winter storm blizzard. this is something that we will continue to monitor. in the bay area a little bit of rain fall with some light showers. it looks like there rainfall is situated over the san mateo bridge. from the high-r

. >>> a father charged with a murder of his own toddler, but tonight, as peggy fox reports, the child's mother is suing a virginia doctor and a psychological professional group for the way they handled the case. >> mother of a toddler who was murdered is now suing a virginia psychologist. the mother says they were negligent when they told a judge that the baby's father was safe to have unsupervised visits with the baby. it was during one of those visits that the baby was drowned. >> he took my son, he stripped off all of his clothes, and he held him under water until he died. >> karen mccloud's son, prince, just learned to say the word, ball, when he was killed in october. last month, the boy's father, rams, of manassas was charged with first-degree murder in the boy's death. >> mr. rams walked into the psychological center and he essentially paid them to ignore evidence and to lie for him. >> mccloud filed a $20 million lawsuit against both the ashburn psychological services and margaret wong, who evaluated rams. neither wong or the center's owner would return our calls. rams was safe

peggy fox joins us live along the toll road to explain. what does this mean to you and me, peggy?> well, check this out. i mean, this is what it means to commuters. this is why we need a virginia it happens plan with dedicated funding. because we have the worst congestion in the country here in this area. the governor has a plan. it passed the house of delegates last week. it includes $300 million, which would go to finishing the silver line, phase 2, right there is the station of the stover line. it would take it out to dulles. now that plan passed the house of delegates. the governor came here where some of the leaders of the senate live and he came to say, it's your responsibility, don't blow it. >> and i'm determined to fix it now. this session, no more excuses, no more delays, no more finger pointing and no more in action. >> the governor says he has exchanged cordial letters with dick sazla who blasted the governor's transportation plan because it would eliminate the gas tax. virginia's gas tax is 17.5 cents. it is the lowest around. democrats have been trying, but republica

i'm peggy fox in george mason. some an >>> the murder-suicide at the university of maryland may have you concerned tonight if you have a child in college or headed there. you may be wondering how to know if your child is in a bad roommate situation. peggy fox has some answers from george mason university. >> reporter: for many students heading off to college for the first time, it's a worry wondering who their roommate will be, but these two freshman students at mason has hit it off as dorm roomies. >> she was having roommate problems and she knew my room was available. >> lauren didn't have a roommate at first, rachel needed to get out of a bad situation with hers. >> we sort of started to butt heads and got to the point, i didn't want to be in my room anymore. >> she met with her resident adviser who helped make her change. getting help is exactly what a student should do if they are bothered by another student or roommate. >> when stunteds move off campus, if they have concerns about their roommates, they can st

. >> peggy fox, wusa9. >> peggy talked with the commonwealth attorney and asked him whether those girls could also be charged with child porn if they knew that they were being recorded. he said he couldn't comment on the details of the case, but he is standing by the charges and says the victims, which are the girls, will not be charged. >>> an explosion at a lorton sandwich shop, now police are trying to determine whether the owner had been targeted. it happened in the 9500 block of richmond highway in the williamsburg square shopping center at around 10:30 this morning. witnesses say somebody ran into the sub shop with an explosion and set it off inside. the shop owner was the only one hurt. he had to be taken to the washington hospital center burn unit. >> a cocktail could have been used in the blast and it may have backfired on the suspect. police are looking for one or two suspects believed to have thrown the device and then have run away. >> starting this summer, the postal service will stop delivering letters on saturday. now we know the agency has been struggling financially for

live in mclean peggy fox, wusa9. >>> we are following breaking news tonight. federal investigators have charged former illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. with misusing campaign money, spending $750,000 on personal luxuries. wbb mtv reports jackson signed a plea agreement with prosecutors. they've charged his wife with filing false income tax forms. an attorney for sandra jackson says she's signed a plea deal with prosecutors as well. mr. jackson has released a statement that says he offers no excuses for his conduct and he accepts responsibility for the mistakes he's made. >>> we could see some snow tonight and i'm here in the weather center with topper shutt. i understand you're breaking out the flake-o-meter. is that where we are now? it comes to this. >> i like that. right now we have rain showers, start with temps, very warm today. some spots hit 60 degrees. now temps are starting to tumble a bit. look back north and west, 28 in oakland, 37 in winchester, 50 downtown and now mid-50s pushed off to east across i-95 and into parts of anne arundel county a

peggy fox with the story. >> there was a stupid way and a less stupid way to do this. let's at least default to the less stupid way. >> he told a northern virginia technology council that congress deserves most of the blame for the debt crisis, but so do they. >> you aught to take some of the blame, too. because every time there's been efforts to try to build a broader coalition to say, let's go ahead and take this on and get out of our individual, political fox holes and get out of our individual industry fox holes. most of you have said, well, i don't want to make this guy mad. >> a long list of ceo's who are part of the fix the debt council, mixing are most defense contractors. >> back in july, hosted a large stop sequestration rally. since then, the massive defense contractor headquarters here in fairfax county, has said very little, if anything, publicly about the debt crisis. >> the large fortune 500 company, the industry that was most absent from that list was the defense industry. >> at the mid sized federal contractor, the chief strategy officer heard warner's

. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in culpeper where a jury decided that a former police officer will spend the next 36 months behind bars. the jury did not find harmon- wright acted with malice when he shot and killed patricia cook who was trespassing sitting in her jeep in a school parking lot. he says she clamped her windows shut on his fingers and started driving away when he opened fire. >> he still feels he did the job he was hired to do and there was nothing else he could have done. so he feels victimized. >> reporter: the jury found harmon-wright guilty of manslaughter and two lesser counts. the judge can run the sentences concurrently or consecutively. >> this is a sad day. a victim lost her life. a former police officer lost his career and liberty for a period of time. hopefully the juncture that we are at, the town and community of culpeper can begin the healing process. >> reporter: peggy fox, wusa9. >>> protesters, some dressed in black, delivered a message today at the nra's headquarters in fairfax. they say gun violence must be stopped. the protesters are members of the new r

in springfield peggy fox, wusa9. >>> 1 road in maryland is about to get just a tad bit faster. the maryland transportation authority announced today the speed limit on the intercounty connector will go up from 55 to 60 miles an hour. drivers have long complained 55 is too slow on a brand-new road with little traffic. the mta said the study found the road could handle 5 more miles per hour. you can expect that new speed limit by the end of march. >>> a new community partnership is setting higher goals for d.c.'s young people and among them boosting the percentage of students who graduate from high school in four years. right now that is about 61% and the goal is 75% by the year 2017. this very same partnership just issued a sobering report that found only four out of 10 3rd graders in d.c. can read proficiently and only four out of 10 young adults have full- time jobs. >>> here's a question. who owns your kid's homework? it might be the school board in prince george's county if your kid goes to school there. the board has drawn up a proposal for a copyright policy and under it a

peggy fox visited a local family today. they have a few extra worries with dealing with less income. >> any time i eat or drink, she starts eating. >> preparing for a new baby is an exciting time. the baby shower gifts pile up and the anticipation builds. >> ten fingers, ten toes. >> in four weeks, lena and al will welcome their first child. they picked a baby, chase cooper. but now, despite their careful planning, they see a curve ball coming. al is expecting to be furloughed at least one day a week. >> two days out of each pay period equates to about $640. then of course you can times that by 26 pay periods and then we are getting, if it goes for a year, we're talking $17,000. >> al works in aviation for the department of defense. after 32 years in the army, he is the sole bred winner and lena plans to stay home with the baby. >> we made plans to do a vacation next year. we are going to have to tighten up quite a bit, maybe not take that vacation. maybe not go out and have a little fun like we used to. i mean, it's a huge

peggy fox has the story. >> there is a stupid way and a less stupid way to do this. let's at least default to the less stupid way. >> senator mark warner is angry. he told a northern virginia technology council that congress deserves most of the blame for the debt crisis, but so do they. >> you aught to take some of the blame, too. because every time there's been efforts to try to build a broader coalition to say, let's go ahead and take this on and get out of our individual political fox holes and get out of our individual industry fox holes. most of you have said, well, i don't want to make this guy mad or this chairman or that chairman. >> along a long list of ceo's who are part of the fix the debt council, missing are most defense contractors. back in july, a stop sequestration rally. since then, the massive defense contractor headquartered here in fairfax county has said little if anything publicly about the debt crisis. >> the large fortune 500 companies, the industry that was most absent from that list. >> at the mid sized federal contractor in vertex, heard w

(peggy) grab viva, and break the rules on all your tough messes. >> we are back.a look at wall street this morning. futures trading shows the dow trading in a negative this morning while the nasdaq and the s and p trading positively. >> stocks in the day yesterday almost breaking even after recovering from an early loss. >> on wall street the dow ended the day seven. up to once again close to a shy of 14,000. the nasdaq lost 3. >> in the s&p 500 picked up a fraction of a point. >> we will be watching the market all morning starting at 6:38 a.m. with the opening bell. >> net flicks will not miss saturday mail delivery, even though we can service helped keep the company's dvd by mail subscribers happy. the postal service's plan to shift to reduce home deliver to 5 days a week instead of six might even make net flicks slightly more profitable while adoring the cost for sending out its familiar red envelopes with the edie's. that is because subscribers may be able to watch your tv these for the same monthly price. >> net flicks ddt subscribers have shrunk from a 2011

. ♪ ♪ if you knew peggy sue, then you'll know why i feel blue, about peggy, my peggy sue ♪ >>> a civiln is getting a big honor. tomorrow would have been rosa parks' 100th birthday. the postal service is releasing a stamp in her honor. she refused to give up her seat to a white customer on a bus in alabama was a catalyst for a city-wide boycott which became a crucial moment in the civil rights struggle. >>> something has earl as early as tomorrow, the boy scouts of america could decide to lift its ban on gay members. they may vote to make that change. on tuesday, a new jimi hendrix song comes out. "somewhere" was reported in march of 196. it features hendricks on guitar and stroke calls, steven on bass and buddy miles on drums. on wednesday, fashion week starts in new york. all the world's fashionistas will head to bryant park. and on friday, bruce springsteen is honored as person of the year. the honor will happen in los angeles. among the big names who will perform neil young, elton john, sting, and mavis staples. that will do it for me. thanks for joining. cnn continues right with do

peggy fox, wusa9. >> the uso has 160 families worldwide. there are 12uso centers right here in this region. soon one is going to open at walter reed medical center in bethesda as well. >>> good morning. thank you for watching wusa9 at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> happy wednesday. i think baltimore still has its purple hangover. what a celebration that was. >> good morning, monika. good morning, howard. >> good morning. a little chilly but i don't think anybody was feeling the chill up in baltimore. today we've got some sunshine returning and temperatures mieldzer. we stopped at 42 in town. closer to 50 in fredricksburg yesterday but the clouds were just hanging too tough so we didn't get the sunshine. we will get the sun today and consequently a little milder as highs reach into the

. >>> a dangerous situation, i'm peggy fox in >>> the murder suicide at university of maryland may have you concerned tonight if you have a child there or headed there. you may be wondering how to know if your child is in a bad roommate situation. >> what should students do if they are afraid or uncertain? peggy fox has answers from george mason university. >> for many students heading off to college for the first time, it's a worry wondering who their roommate will be. but these two freshman students have hit it off as dorm roommates. >> she was having roommate problems and knew my room was available. >> she didn't have a roommate at first and rachel needed to get out of a bad situation with hers. >> we started to butt heads and got to the point that i didn't want to be in my room anymore. >> rachel met with her resident adviser. getting help is exactly what a student should do if they are bothered by another student or roommate. >> when students move off campus, if they have concerns about their roommate, they can still seek help from the colleges counseling and psychological services

. ♪ ♪ if you knew peggy sue, then you'll know why i feel blue, about peggy, my peggy sue ♪ >>> a civiln is getting a big honor. tomorrow would have been rosa parks' 100th birthday. the postal service is releasing a stamp in her honor. she refused to give up her seat to a white customer on a bus in alabama was a catalyst for a

in fairfax, peggy fox, wusa9. >> the signs can also be a warning sign for suicide. each year about 1100 college students across the country take their own lives. george mason has a special tram called mason cares which trains gatekeepers to recognize some of those warning signs. it also couches them how to respond to students who are in -- coaches them how to respond to students who are in crisis. >>> good morning. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. we're glad you're here. it is wednesday. >> it does feel like we're getting over a hump. >> climbing. >> so far so good traffic wise? >> so far so good. >> so far so good in weather. >> going to be a fine mother, a dry morning. when i say fine, it's going to be cloudy. rain moves in for the afternoon. there will be some snow in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia where we have winter weather advisories starting at noon but around here if you're hoping for snow, you better hope really hard because it doesn't look like we'll see much snow at all. just a sliver tonight could be expected. pretty quiet out

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. >> peggy, thank you. guys. >> a lorton sandwich shop owner may have been the top of an explosion this morning. this happened in the 9500 block of richmond highway. it's in the william square shopping center. one person has been taken to the hospital with severe burns and surae chin is live in lorton where it all went down. surae. >> well, derek, folks are still cleaning up, they are boarding up the business and an employee next door at the thrift store right next door says she heard the explosion as things were flying off the shelves. she saw the owner being taken to the hospital. now fairfax county police say they are looking for one suspect seen running from the shopping center. now they are trying to figure out who did this and why the sub shop was targeted. >> just saw the smoke as i was loading my truck up. >> fire coming out of the win dose, all the windows, obviously, blown out. >> witnesses say the sub shop owner was the one badly burned and taken to washington hospital center's burn unit. >> i sa

peggy fox brings us the story from culpeper. >> reporter: it took the jury about four hours to reach a decision on punishment. they decided to give daniel harmon-wright no more than 12 months for each of the three counts for a total off no more than 36 months behind bars. minutes after the jury decided daniel harmon-wright should spend the next three years behind bars the former culpeper police officer was handcuffed and escorted back to jail. special prosecutor jim fisher said he was satisfied with the decision. >> it was an abandonment of the role of police officer entirely and i think it was important for the jury to send that message and i think they did. >> reporter: the jury did not find harmon-wright acted with malice when he shot and killed patricia cook who was trespassing sitting in her jeep in a school parking lot. he says she clamped her window shut on his fingers and started driving away when he opened fire. >> he still feels like he did the job he was hired to do and there was nothing else he could have done. so he feels victimized. >> reporter: instead of murder the ju

peggy fox, wusa9. >> a great welcome home. the uso has 160 family centers like this worldwide. there are 12-centers in our region and another is coming to bethesda. : a florida judge is rejecting a trial delay in the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman's attorneys say they need more time because the prosecution has been slow in turning over the evidence they need. the state attorney denies that and zimmerman acted in self- defense when he shot and killed the unarmed teenager. a neighborhood watch volunteer, or the former neighborhood watch volunteer is charged with second-degree murder. >> we have zooming down the road in tonight's consumer alert. a brake problem prompts mitsubishi to recall 1400 of its electric cars. there's a defective vacuum pump. that can reduce your breaking power and that's risky. mitsubishi will let you know if yours is in the mix and replace those pumps for free. >>> here's a warning for car buyers. those turbo charged engines may not deliver the speed or the fuel economy for the money that car makers are charging you. the nonprofit tested several mod

in fort belvoir, peggy fox, wusa9. >> the uso has 160 family centers worldwide. there are 12 centers right in this region. another uh-1 is coming soon to walt -- another new one is coming soon to walter reed medical center. >>> thank now watching wusa9 at 6:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >>> wednesday is here. you're halfway there. aim mike hydeck. thanks for waking up with us. >> now you're awake too. >> caffeine is a wonderful thing. >>it's kicking in. >> howard's forecast is pretty nice today. good morning. >> good morning. a lot of cloudiness right now but we'll see sunshine return and we have a good looking wednesday around here. then thursday, friday, things start going downhill but the weekend is also looking all right. so good news there as well. here's a look at your day plan other this wednesday. a few clouds early but skies are going to become partly if not mostly sunny. by lunch time we're talking low 40s with highs in the mid-40s which is right where they should be for the 6th of february. winds out of the west, northwest at 10 miles an hour. so a decent

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coming up at 5:50, peggy fox will show us how sequestration could affect the price of our grocery bill. >>> a 30% of a jump in business. is it divorce lawyers, wedding planners or florists? >> we'll have the answer in our 6:00 show. we'll be right back. welcome back. 4:56 president's day 2013. cold out there. temperatures in the tepees in a few spots. it is a cold, cold morning. by lunch time mid to upper 30s, we'll top off lower to mid-40s. let's check what monika samtani has to say. >>> gaithersburg has fire activity blocking route 355 at cedar avenue. on 270 things look good from shady grove road. >>> very sad story. family and fans of country music star mindy mccreadie are mourning her death. the 37-year-old shot and killed herself. she had been committed to a treatment facility to deal with alcohol. last month her boyfriend also shot himself. she is survived by her two sons. >>> tina fey and paul rud. >>> john lennon's widow, yoko ono is celebrating her 80th birthday. >>> tina fey co-stars with paul rud in admission. she plaids a princeston university admissions officer who finds

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. >> reporter: in d.c., peggy fox, wusa9. >> now the mayor spokesman says that the plan is no good. in fact he calls it mind boggling. the last thing we need is more guns in schools, he says. an urban setting is entirely different from rural areas and said that here in d.c., police could respond to the situation within minutes, but adds that they appreciate the citizens ideas and they are happy to look at them. according to the washington city paper, the prince george's county school system has pulled an anti-bullying video that promotes itself being able to turn gay people straight. the video was shown to a handful of 7th graders, but pulled this week after the city started asking about it. here is a clip from that video. >> hi dreams of being basically intimate with a woman. i was full of anxiety. all i wanted was for someone to hold me. i couldn't imagine telling anyone that i was sexually attracted to girls. >> okay. they quote the spokesman for prince george's county school said that they approved that video. okay you saw it. what do you think? were they wrong for even showing