>>ragan: it's always a challenge. win every race but it always keeps you hungry for the next one. >>reporter: and so the search for an improved performance will continue.....both for david ragan...and america'sfavourite motorsport... >>that's it for this week's world business. thanks for watching. we'll see you again at the same time next week.

back to jenna and chris. >> trish ragan, thank you very much. chris warren is here with a check of the weather. >> it looks like the northeast will dry out. that's the good news for a few days. meanwhile, a completely different story in the northwest. heavy rain moving in. that rain will stretch all the way down to san francisco. high wind warning at the coast and inland areas of oregon. by tuesday the mountains of washington and some of oregon's cascades could pick up three to four feet of snow in the higher elevations. meanwhile, we have nice weather in the southwest stretching all the way across into the southeast. things looking pretty good. just a few showers around the great lakes and upper new england. that's a look at your forecast across the nation. theers weather where you live. >>> the weather still dry around the b area. on the north coast, that's where the rain will be lurking dropping to the south during the day. powerful storm offshore, but most will move to the north of us. we'll match it move to north for the afternoon, 50s to l

president guest: reagan talks administration move the it solar panel as an ideological move -- ragan's administration removed the solar panels as an ideological move. and was an important symbol. the white house is one of the most visible platforms in america. president carter putting the solar panels up was a very important sign about where we wanted to go. president reagan taking them off was a sign about where he wanted to go which was more of the same. as you know, the home -- the obama administration has put solar panels back up on the roof. turning to oil subsidies from a right now we spend about $3.50 billion to subsidize big oil companies. that is a waste of money given that the big five oil companies over the last decade made over $1 trillion in profit. that report $5 billion could be invested in things like making homes much more energy efficient. treated incentives for cars, helping people riding buses and trains and making transit more affordable and accessible would be much better use of that money then to give money to exxonmobil and bp which have made billions of billion

how many airplanes can fly out of ragan national? that was what held up. at the end, they got a bill that had been hanging around for five years and they got it down probably right. now, it is probably a show of what it should have been, but it is still a very good bill. there have been arguing about patent reform for i do not know how long. janet, how long have you covered it? >> the last time we had a that was 2006 and it was a big shootout with the pharmaceutical industry on one side, silicon valley on the other side. they wanted reform but could not agree. finally, they got it done in a consensus. the house still has some problems. there are a few examples of where it is fuzzy slow, but it forces them eventually to quit being partisan and produce a product. on open rules speaker brainer i thought that was a brilliant move. the first bill of the year, open row -- open rule, go at it, have fun and hopefully that is the last one you will see in the house. >> it reminds me of when newt gingrich asked if they wanted that. they said no. the issue of how many