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. >> qvc? good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m.'m andrea roane. >> as long as she touched it i'll take it. >> and i'm jessica doyle in for mike. gushing like -- monika is here with traffic. howard has the weather. >> i'll share it with him monday hen he gets back -- when he gets back. weather-wise it's cold. temperatures are down in the 20s but it's december after all and you know for november we were just about three degrees above normal. stretch that over month? that's a ton. up in buffalo, new york, they were at six degrees above normal for the month of november. today will actually be a few degrees above average. here's a look at the day planner where temperatures start owl chilly. 35 right now in washington. some of the suburbs in the mid 20s with 40 by 9:00 and 50 by noon. top out in the mid 50s with a 5:00 p.m. temperature of 52 and the winds will shift to the northwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. there's a front coming with clear skies. you can see the results of it up here into michigan. ontario. coming through northern ind

penney and qvc's websites along with apple's online store. >>> it's the largest price fixing settlementn u.s. history. flat screen manufacturers have agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars to customers. >> most of them have. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains how you may be entitled to some of that money. julie. >> reporter: if you bought a laptop or tv between 1999 and 2006, chances are you were overcharged thanks to an elaborate alleged price fixing conspiracy that sounds like something out after spy movie. >> these folks met secretly, privately in hotels, bookstores, coffee shops. they wrote memos to each other saying to be sure that you would use the telephone rather than e-mails because that would be evidence. and then they also would put on the document, destroy after you read it. >>> reporter: the attorney isn't talking about a spy movie. he is talking about the length ten major lcd manufacturers went to, to keep their alleged price fixing scheme under wraps. >> they would meet regularly to determine whether or not they would raise the prices. the fear was there w

. >> greg: i think obama needs to do more tv interviews and go on qvc and sell class warfare in six easythat is what any president is going to stay because they're not going to do -- they are not going to do the poking and prodding. their proxies will. he will say this is disgusting. somebody else do it for him. >> bob: very few people poked and prodded by the right wing than barack obama. >> greg: the media doesn't do it. >> bob: even eric will give him credit for that. they seem to have a good family life and good marriage. >> greg: of course they do. but talk about about relationship with bill ayers or reverend wright -- >> bob: that is the best you can do? >> if newt gingrich becomes the nominee, they have had more marriages than barack obama. >> bob: only one. >> andrea: newt. >> bob: he had three. if newt is the nominee, this doesn't take the issue off table. nobody believes that the campaign is going to -- >> bob: of course. greg is right. surrogates will do it. newt's personal life will be brought back up if he gets the nomination. i am beginning to feel now like you said. it's e

. >> qvc version. >> mike is off today.a is going to be back with timesaver traffic in a moment. >> but right now howard bernstein is here and it feels like december this morning. >> it does, we're down in the 20s and 30s. light winds, frost out there so that will slow you down a couple minutes on the windshield. other than that so far pretty good news from monika on the roads. i have a good forecast for today. and the whole weekend. it's cold though. 35 in town but mid 20s in lots of is suburbs. by 9:00, 41. by noon, sunny and 50 and winds will become northwesterly at 5 to 10 miles an hour and this afternoon highs in the mid 50s for driving home with 52. so the outdoor plans today look pretty good. there's a front that's coming and it is producing rain and snow up here. i expect this front to come through dry, maybe a couple of clouds with it and the rain shift to the northwest is what we'll experience but still a fine day. with those highs in the mid 50s. however this morning the temperatures before i go because they are

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if you take a look at those two polls, one from qvc and the other from abc news and "the washington post put gingrich in a dead heat with mitt romney. ron paul rounds out the top three in both polls. ron, it's going to have you on with us this morning. president bill clinton of all people on the "today" show this morning talking with ann curry about whether gingrich's days at the head of the pack are coming to a close. listen to how the president responds. >> when you're just getting the living daylights pounded out of you and people continue you out and you're down, i was pronounced dead more times than a cat has lives in '92. >> do you agree with that one? is newt experiencing the same eventual fall as other front runners have before him? >> i do think of the momentum is slowly leaking out of the newt gingrich balloon. the question is whether or not he can still gets it together, turn it around and win the caucuses. i wouldn't rule him out. i do have to say, president clinton is a genius. the last thing newt gingrich wants in a republican caucus is a compliment from bill clinton. >> th

qvc also has seen a spike in the viewers and traffic after 7:00 p.m.h access read and cosmetics. it really felt especially well in the evening after dinner time. so how are the retell is taking advantage of this? court a number of companies from the market's lows are flooding shoppers e-mail boxes with offers in the evening and online live free retailer google group is adding more cells that start at 9:00 p.m. or later to take advantage of the traffic boom and potentially inebriate shoppers. stay with us more news after this break. >>catherine: you are looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. traffic is moving and let us look at the james lick. alike are heading towards the lower deck of the bay bridge moving very slowly and headlights are hitting south bound was the peninsula moving fairly well. stay with us. >>jacqueline: storm tracker for radar shows cloud coverage moving in, will we see any rain? i will have that and more coming up. >>reporter: incense francisco pg&e is installing new street lamps and the mission this after there were too violent sexu