secretary ray la hood says control towers may be close altogether. >> at this point, there is no list of which airports could be temporarily shut down, but the transportation secretary said it would be those with fewer than 150,000 passenger operations per year. reagan national will likely see longer lines and fewer flights. >> earlier this week, we discussed how parks in the area could be impacted. now we will look at changes across the nation. according to a national park service's memo, there will be fewer rangers, locked restrooms and trash cans will be emptied less often. this could also impact student education at gettysburg. >> we are feeling the impact of the storm that hit the midwest this week. a winter weather advisory is in effect in parts of arlington through tomorrow. >> let's get right to doug for what we can expect. >> 32 right now in arlington. precipitation is very light. because we are so close to freezing just the risk of a little freezing rain can be big. there is some patchy, light drizzle around the area. if it the venture is 34, it could reign forever and never

today outgoing transportation secretary ray la hood warned airport security lines will stretch out, flieswill be cancelled, some airport towers will be closed if the faa has to keep up the current level of safety. la hood, who is a republican, called out his own party members to take a page from lincoln. >> this requires republicans stepping forward with ideas how to keep essential services of government run. this is not rocket science. this is people coming together, the way that other congresses have done, to solve big issues. reporter: house republicans say they appealed the sequester replacement in may. the white house hopes the senate will pass the bill next week, but it's up likely the house will go long given the president's demand that tax rev few be part of the been fixing the deficit. many say, quote, obama has time for everyone and everything except those that count in order to avert the sequester. the president is going to new port new york virginia, next week to spotlight ship builders who will lose work if the sequester happens. >> shepard: not sure how you worked there for

they are hyping up ray la hood's contention that they are not going to be able to put air traffic controllers in there. the press runs with that how are the american people supposed to know what the hell is going on? >> i would say two things to it i would agree we need to do a better job of explaining it which is why i want the house republicans to pass a measure and give the cabinet secretaries flexibility that gives the house republicans who control the oversight process the chance to call up any cabinet secretary who goes out and does foolish things call them up to the hill and say why did you cut alternative. let me give you one example. the agriculture secretary when i have to make the across the board cut what i'm going to do is spend less money on treating the national forest to stop wild fires. really? that's the least essential thing you do? remember. this is the agency that has a 2.2 billion-dollar a year program. free cell service study was done free service either were not eligible for refused to prove they are eligible. cut a couple hundred million dollars out of the ag departme

. >> all right, julie, you had the opportunity to work with secretary ray la hood and know about the preparedness that goes into getting cabinet members ready for hearings like and able to take on the tough questions. i want to remind everybody some of the fumbles chuck hagel had yesterday and talk about what would have gone into getting him ready. take a look. >> i have just been handed a note that i misspoke and said i supported the president's position on containment. if i said that, it meant to say that -- obviously, his position on containment, we don't have a position on containment. >> just to make sure your correction is clear, we do have a position on containment. which is that we do not favor containment. >> the kinds of unpreparedness and mistakes and i've been told from the highest levels that he had been waterboarded, you know, practiced at the pentagon. he had been working on this. >> so jill, is it a surprise that hagel seemed unprepared, or is it a surprise that republicans were going at him so hard? >> none of this should have been a surprise, thomas. i mean, they kn

today it is transportation secretary ray la hood's turn to warn about the sec kwster's deep impact. >> this is going to happen sfwloosh clarify why -- it's the matter of mileage between -- >> because we're going to reduce the number of controllers which will reduce their ability to guide planes in and out of airports. >> republicans say that's just scare tactics. >> the president is making stuff up. he puts law enforcement -- he puts firemen and policemen who 98% of them are being paid for with your local taxes and says you're going to lose your local policeman because of this. it's not true. >> and countdown to the oscars. we'll talk to the man behind the mom natured documentary five broken cameras about the conflict in the west bank. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington where we have breaking news from the justice department now, which is joining a lawsuit by a former teammate against lance armstrong. nbc justice correspondent pete williams jones me now from the newsroom. how is the justice department getting into this case? what is the affect of that? >> well, legal

transportation secretary ray la hood has this warning. >> flights to major cities, like new york, chicago and san francisco and others, could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours. because we have fewer controllers on staff. delays in these major airports will ripple across the country. >> okay. so new york, chicago, san francisco, but it's not just the big airports that will have to scale back. smaller airports across the country could be forced to close. the transportation department could close control towers at as many as 100 small airports. >>> and this is not the weekend to visit new england. several states are about to get a third straight weekend of snow. now, it won't be as bad as the blizzard of two weeks ago, but it won't be much fun, either. meteorologist karen maginnis is tracking the storm for us. there are people waking up this morning just saying, come on! >> i know. this has been one of the most unusual systems to try to forecast for. we watched the one that moved across the central plains and really walloped that area. show you pictures in a second. now

the transportation secretary, ray la hood, said today the cuts will lead to delays at our airports, including big ones in new york, chicago, san francisco, that could ripple across the country. he warns some control towers could be shut down at some less busy airports. >>> now to the news a lot of people woke up to this morning about a so-called smart bomb new breast cancer drug, a first of its kind medication approved today by the fda. it is getting a lot of attention tonight. but this new drug isn't an answer for everyone. we've asked our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman, to join us tonight. we wish there weren't so many caveats, but there are. >> there are caveats. it's a designer drug, of sorts, brian. but the fda today said yes, there is a new cancer drug to treat the most aggressive form of breast cancer. it affects more women in this country than any other kind of cancer other than skin cancer. more than 232,000 new cases diagnosed this year. and a reminder, men get it too. more than 2,000 men are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer. but among one of the most aggressiv

after four years on the job and more than 300 billion taxpayer dollars for transportation projects, ray la hoodpushing to spend even more cash on what he calls a bold plan to fix america's roads and he says you'll be on board. >> i tone think you'd be turning off people in america because they know america is one big pothole right now. >> why didn't we fill the potholes instead of spending stimulus money on things like the ramps to nowhere. you've got to be kidding me. e-mail us or tweet us at team cavuto. >> meanwhile, to virginia and a bat over the governor's transportation plan there. it would eliminate the gas tax and replace it with a small hike in state sales tax. the republican governor on where things stan right now. governor, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, sir. >> you want to raise the state sales tax but eliminate the gas tax. give us the numbers. >> well, we do have a problem with infrastructure in america. you heard the secretary's comments and you're right. only 6% of the stimulus money was spent on infrastructure, and the rest was spent on things that didn't help much. so

now the secretary of transportation, ray la hood saying he will make as many cuts as possible in contracts and other areas, but eventually, he would be forced to cut air traffic controllers, delaying flights across the country. >> in the end, there has to be some kind of furlough of air traffic controllers and that, then, will also begin to curtail or eliminate the opportunity for them to guide planes in and out of airports. >> reporter: both president obama and members of congress have not sat down for a last-minute negotiation that could avert this. each side says the other is playing politics with the issue. >> so why is it that we can't come to the table and agree what cuts need to happen? that's what we should be doing. we shouldn't be passing the blame to the executive branch or saying this is obam's sequester. >> reporter: the pentagon would take a major hit, forcing a reduction in training that could mean longer tours of duty for troops in afghanistan. senator john mccain says we should listen to the warnings of the generals. >> if we don't believe our military leaders, who in the

transportation secretary ray la hood says the cuts are tough but they are necessary. >> we will look at everything we possibly can to get to where we need to be which is about 600 million-dollars in cuts. >> now 2.1 million federal workers would be cut. it would slash $85 billion from the proposed 2013 federal budget. >>> back here at home over night news from sonoma county. a roanoke park home burst into flames. alex savidge is live in roanoke park now with video of the huge flames you will see right here on ktvu. >>> i talked with roanoke park firefighter just a short time ago. he tells me that this house has been vacant since about thanksgiving. there is no sign that anyone was living here because the place was all locked up. the fire first started in here what was the garage and spread quickly to the house. it broke out just before midnight here at this home on the 7100 block of alma avenue. 15 firefighters were called in. they had these flames knocked down in just about 25 minutes. now the fire destroyed the garage and did about $50,000 in damage to the home over all. the firefi

. >> that is transportation secretary ray la hood warning massive airport delay across the country mandatorynding go into effect next week. the the sequester cuts you have heard about. la hood says san francisco international could be one of the hardest hit airports along with airport in new york and chicago. experiencing flight delay of up to 90 minutes when the government is forced to furlough air traffic controllers. smaller communities would also be impacted now that includes several here in the bay area. napa. concord. livermore. san carlos. and in sonoma county as well. these potential cuts are on the minds certainly of east bay congressmen. aircraft and many others. he talk advantage of the current congressional recess by joining the assembly line at local lighting company. as mark matthews explains, that event turned in more than just a photo op. >> congressman eric listened. workers here at union city showed him how to wire up one of the energy efficient fixtures. >> put these in and screw like that. >> yes. >> conversation were more about how to do the job but if he asked about per

. >> reporter: the white house also sent out transportation secretary ray la hood to worn how the cuts will impact air travel. 47,000 federal aviation employees would face furloughs meaning fewer in the towers and small delays. in smaller airports, air traffic controllers could be closed altogether. >> experience delays up to 90 minutes during peak hours. >> reporter: lahood urged republicans in congress to see the movie "lincoln" to learn how to work together. >> now, now -- >> first of all, you're getting an acting performance, because you are -- you're going to be scaring the public today. this is going to be scaring the public about their travel plans. >> well, we'll see what the reaction of the public is. what i'm trying to do is to wake up members of the congress on the republican side to the idea that they need to come to the table, offer a proposal, so that we don't have the to have this kind of calamity in air service in america. >> reporter: but on twitter, white house press secretary jay carney in the speaker's office traded tweets over who's to blame with carney noting a po

the president in putting out republican -- foreign republican -- republican ray la hood is able, it seems to me perhaps to manipulate some of these cuts so that they're going to hurt and people are going to see them because it's now kind of kabuki theater. we have this huge biological. it's not going to really hurt that much. i think we'll start hearing squeals when as ray lahood predicts. we see those first lines at the airport, and it may even hurt, you know, those wealthy republicans who don't have private jets when air traffic control and the transportation security lines grow longer. you know, there are real people, and there are real cuts. you know, we have to go through march 1st, it looks like. by the way, we're not in the leap year. february only has 28 days, so it's even shorter than you might think to get to this moment, and it doesn't seem like either side can give in. >> i know. march 1st is next friday. a week from today. a lot will happen between now and then. let's talk about ted cruise because both of you have been writing about ted cruise. margaret, you also are writing

transportation secretary ray la hood made the point that that would slow down air travel.tually see their flights get canceled. in addition to that 800,000 civilian defense department workers would be furloughed as well as teachers and border patrol agents and that's just to name a few that would be impacted by this. that's according to the administration. some have accused of administration to use scare tactics to get this done. the administration denies that, but the bottom line is, mara, there is a lot of finger-pointing going on and there doesn't seem to be negotiating going on behind the scenes and the big problem is the sticking points are the same old sticking points and president obama saying he wants to see a package that includes both spending cuts as well as new tax revenue. republicans saying they will only accept something that has entitlement reform and spending cuts. so that is where the major sticking points are at this point in time and we are six days out and no resolution in sight. >> kristen welker live at the white house. we'll check in with you later

. >> the white house also sent out transportation secretary ray la hood to warn how the cuts will impact control towers could be closed all together. >> flights to major cities, like new york, chicago and san francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours. >> lahood urged republicans in congress to see the movie "lincoln" to learn how to work together. >> references, what you call an acting performance, because you are -- you're going to be scaring the public today. this is going to be scaring the public about their travel plans. >> well, we'll see what the reaction of the public is. what i'm trying to do is to wake up members of the congress on the republican side to the idea that they need to come to the table, offer a proposal so that we don't have to have this kind of calamity in air service in america. >> jay carney and his counterpart in the speaker's office traded tweet over who is to blame, president's approach to deficit reduction, a sign administration officials are confident public opinion is on their side. >> the fact of the matter is that

>> well, our first up topic is governors talking to secretary of transation ray la hood.se cuts take effect march 1 if there's no agreement and it doesn't look like there's going to be one. we will look at real life impact on travel. cuts to defense and other programs like the f.a.a., so that has real consequences and only i think makes americans more angry at washington for failing to get something done. the president spending a good amount of time he -- blaming republicans so tries to talk about balanced spending cuts. >> you will have governors on talking about what this means for their states. in particularly, here in maryland, we have so many federal jobs at stake here. so what do you expect them to talk about in washington? >> well, i think they are going to be very upset about it. whether it's military jobs in taxpayer states. i've got governors on from louisiana and massachusetts. they have got a real impact in terms of military jobs and non-military jobs that can be cut from their states. we will also talk to them about some of the ways they are trying to deal wi

transportation secretary ray la hood, for example, says the sequester will affect air travel becauseollers would have to be furloughed. and education secretary arrest knee duncan says -- arne duncan says 40 thousand teachers could lose their job. the bottom line a lot of people are wondering why the president and members of congress from both sides have not come together to actually honor this out and avert this crisis. >>gretchen: the days, we're counting them down. >>brian: up, up and away, gas prices soaring to record levels. is there anything the president can do to stop the surge? stuart varney will be walking soon. but he won't. ever wonder what your kids do when they're supposed to be napping? take a look at this. busted big time. one of the funniest things you're going to see all you're going to see all day. when someone in my family gets the flu. fact: advil not only relieves body aches and pains that can come with the flu, it also reduces fever fast. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a hawk with night

transportation secretary ray la hood warns that airline passengers will experience firsthand the automaticmall municipal airports may be hit just as hard as the big airports. control towers would close at buchanan field in concord, along with airports in livermore, napa, santa rosa and san carlos. some of the industry say air traffic would decline, affecting numerous businesses, such as fuel, parking and other services to planes in the bay area. >> might be faced with having to lay employees off. the business has been tight for the last five years, since 2007 really. we saw a drop, huge drop in fuel sales and maintenance. >> the director of because chan in an field says the airport would stay open even if sequestration hits. most planes could take off and land without a control tower, but pilots would have to rely on radios to communicate with each other. >>> pentagon has grounded its entire fleet of f-35 fighter jets after discovering a cracked engine blade on one plane. officials say the problem came to light during a routine inspection atette wards air force base in southern california.