that's because of portsmouth i can do work on the ssbn. portsmouth is a major part of a ship maintenance enterprise that we must have and i worry about it with sequestration. >> thank you very much. is anybody want to add to the impact on depots in the country? >> senator i can add from an aviation perspective when we did furlough folks we lost a lot of engineers. right now 50% of our f-18s are underreporting. also importantly because it was mentioned in her opening statement to talk about trust and retaining high-quality people. predictability is important and i fear some of those folks that were furloughed welcome back because they have other opportunities. >> i certainly share that and i know you appreciate that with respect to the shipyard. one of the things i have heard is as we are looking at the aging workforce and need to hire new people and a shortage of stem educated people that engineers mathematicians and scientists are all in short supply. if they don't feel their certainty about government work they are going to go to the pri

president bush and barbara it in the evenings that i could remember it was even better to go to portsmouth. and president bush came in his cigar boat in drove all the way to kennebunk porch and was never afraid in his life. [laughter] but the way bush row the boat i could see havel. [laughter] so yes it was a great great great time. >> i'd like your explanations why with post-communist societies that people have come through fascism that uc the nostalgia and for full totalitarian regimes in why has the membership in the european union living it free and open societies not replaced this vestiges of the past? i find it hard to understand. but some of it could be that there is a certain sense of chaos and also concern about corruption. democracy is the difficult concept. it is not in any event but a process. even in this country people are discouraged and it is a very hard process. also people don't have enough in they were not alive at the time were to have different recollections therein is attitude surveys people are asked to deal like what is going on or do you prefer a stronger hand? the

firefighters in portsmouth virginia had to go to the hospital after slipping on ice fighting fires yesterday. others say their coats froze to their bodies. in fairfax, a house was ruined had a home owner used a portable space heater to thaw out frozen pipes in the basement. >>> this is causing delays at your children's school this morning. >>> fairfax county is starting two hours later and loudoun and prince william county. two-hour delay, frederick, clarke, warren shenandoah. >> allegheny, fauquier and page county schools in virginia one hour late. download the app or check nbcwashington.com for the full list of delays. all of them by state at the bottom of your screen. >> our extreme cold causing problems with your commute. a big dip we will see in temperatures into the weekend a little later in the broadcast. a live look at bethesda. >> if next year's school budget is approved by the county, teachers can expect a pay raise. molette, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. $2.6 billion budget proposal. that's up 2.6% from last year or $64 million. the superintendent karen garza calls

some of them in portsmouth virginia had to go to the hospital after fighting a fire yesterday. one firefighter slipped on some ice that was formed by the water they were using. firefighters say their coats froze to their bodies. >>> let's check how cold it's going to be out there. a first look at your forecast. good morning, tom. >> good morning. not as cold. in the mid-20s. storm team 4 radar, a few flurries. northeastern maryland on the eastern shore. and in our neighborhoods, falls church later today getting above freezing finally by this afternoon. into the 30s with sunshine breaking out. prince george's county hyattsville, should make it to the mid-30s by 2:00. rockville, low to mid 30s by midafternoon. right in downtown washington upper 30s with sunshine. and a blustery wind which will diminish as we get into the late afternoon hours. a look at a big dip coming our way the next 24 hours hour by hour next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5:41. melissa, is the commute going well? >> overall, no major problems. we're nice and green. inner and outer loop everything slow. 66 a

first inaugural address with isolation in many areas it served us pretty well when getting from portsmouth to new york with three weeks or so and it becomes a much less viable policy alternative when we are 30 minutes away from a ballistic missile. but it is a serious approach and i would say to moralizing approach to foreign policy that tells us that on the whole we should not meddle in other people's business and on the whole it will have unintended consequences and those will come back to haunt us. on the whole we should be spending national resources not on a large military or japan or germany, but right here at home rebuilding infrastructure and our schools and so on. so the case for isolationism or what i call it isolationism is a strong case and the smarties, and it has to be dealt with but they can be dismissed as a bunch of yahoos. i happen to think that they are wrong, but i don't want to dismiss this. >> as a columnist and editor i take it you are a conservative. >> yes i am. >> the heart of a book is a case for foreign policy and that doesn't mean that we have this. much of my

petros sekeris of the university of portsmouth said his research shows -- "clear evidence that countries with potential for oil production are more likely to be targeted by foreign intervention if civil wars erupt." in related news, royal dutch shell has signed an $11 billion deal with iraq to build a massive oil plant in the basra. the cbc and the intercept have revealed canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of internet users' file downloads in a secret program codenamed levitation. it caps on to internet cables and analyzes records of the to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs music, and other files. the report is based on documents provided by national security agency whistleblower edward snowden. a new report has found more 16 million children in the united states live in families that receive food stamps. the figure has almost doubled since 2007 before the economic crisis began. according to the southern education foundation, more than half the children attending public school now qualify for federal progr

they were trying to put out a fire in portsmouth this morning. but the arctic weather caused the water to freeze. one firefighter slipped and fell on the ice. the firefighters also said their coats had frozen to their bodies. >>> well we've got an amazing story coming up in just a few minutes. we're going to show you some video. a van hits a truck, and drags a person for several miles. >> in their car. it was a whole family in this car, and they had to call 911 to say we're attached to a truck that doesn't know we're attached to it. so that story is coming up in just a minute. >> but -- >> we're going to listen to that 911 call. very cool. kind of fascinating. >> kind of fascinating this morning, whereall the strange sounds our vehicles were making to deal with the cold. it's like what? yeah but we just have to get to the other side of tomorrow morning and then you're going to notice a difference improvements in our favor, not huge but, you know with air this cold we'll take anything you can get. evening planner forecast 23 degrees now. not a big

host: portsmouth, rhode island. democrat. caller: i think your idea of the computer chips on the passport is a great idea. i have a question that relates to getting out of the country -- if anyone has any idea how the female terrorist was able to travel from paris and get to syria. that is my comment basically. guest: thanks. i do not know that i can speak specifically about this particular instance, but i would say one of the things the visa waiver program looks at, and that these audits that i mentioned check and review is the participating country's ability to know who the potential that actors are and know their movement -- to know when they had departed paris, and to know when they come back. some countries do a good job of this. some countries probably could do a little bit better of a job but the point of the visa waiver program is we have visibility at whether countries do a good job or bad jobs, and if it is the latter, we can give and technical assistance to help them bring their standards up to where we would like

residents in portsmouth taking advantage of the blizzard with a huge snowball fight. >> obviously, theorst of this storm, which is a blessing for new york city. we have an old saying we live by around here prepare for the worst and hope for the best. >> new york and new jersey missed the worst of the storm. long island remains buried in snow. this time lapse video of the statue of liberty shows the 24 hours of the storm from 8:00 a.m. monday to 8:00 a.m. tuesday. both states lifting the travel ban put in place. several states declared a state of emergency that has claimed two lives so far. >> there's a lot happening this hour. the tide came in and did not stop. alexandra field is there in scituate massachusetts. we joins us there now. there was a lot of flooding there earlier. how is it now? >> reporter: yeah anderson. really the wind is relentless right now. the big worry throughout the day has been the water. we had high tide in the morning and later in afternoon. that's when the seawalls can be breached. it's just down the road from where i'm standing. these houses are covered in ic

host: portsmouth, rhode island. democrat.ler: i think your idea of the computer chips on the passport is a great idea. i have a question that relates to getting out of the country -- if anyone has any idea how the female terrorist was able to travel from paris and get to syria. that is my comment basically. guest: thanks. i do not know that i can speak specifically about this particular instance, but i would say one of the things the visa waiver program looks at, and that these audits that i mentioned check and review is the participating country's ability to know who the potential that actors are and know their movement -- to know when they had departed paris, and to know when they come back. some countries do a good job of this. some countries probably could do a little bit better of a job but the point of the visa waiver program is we have visibility at whether countries do a good job or bad jobs, and if it is the latter, we can give and technical assistance to help them bring their standards up to where we would like them