robert mccartney is the metro affairs columnist with the washington post.bob joins us to talk more about this situation it is like naughty or nice that is the question you raise about pepco. >> the week before christmas and one day he was fined a million dollars by the regulators and very strongly criticized, for bad performance over many years, and unacceptably poor service, but the day before that fine was issued they reached a new pay package, for joe rig by chairman and ceo of the holding company, pepco holding company and it was worth almost a 12% raise to $985,000 a year base pay plus stock awards plus the possibility of bonuses. so, he is sitting pretty nicely, even though his company is being really very strongly criticized, for poor performance. >> right you mention he did at a certain point leave some money on the table, does he get points for this. >> yeah, he does get points for that. last year during february they announced he was going the forego a raise for the year, and bonus money, so that was worth about $900,000 he gave up $900,000 roughl

. >>> it's 2012, and, once again, "the washington post" columnist robert mccartney is making prescriptionsrecord from 2011. mccartney joined matt ackland on fox 5 morning news today. >> let's take a look at the past year and talk about -- . >> i would rather not. >> you didn't nail it, right? i got half right. out of 8, i got arguably four right. >> and what was your biggest myth? >> my biggest myth was probably failing to see that the -- i anticipated that gray would be welcomed as effectual, sort of low profile and a descent mayor and instead, the big scandals blow up in the face. the other big mistake, i expected that maryland would approve same-sex marriage. >> uh-huh. >> during 2011, of course, it didn't. it might in 2012. >> and i want to get back to talking about mayor gray in the district and that is my beat. i cover city politics. what are your predictions for the near future? >> this is a column i ran some day, the third time i did it and the predictions for the washington region in the coming year and takes a whimsical multiple choice floormat quiz approach. some are jokes and m

robert mccartney is a columnist for the "washington post" and writes about this very thing in today'sbarnes, hey, tuck. >> hi, allison. >> and tony, whom we know is a huge redskins fan. >> go skins! oh, nothing to go now. >> next year. >> always next year. >> heard that before. >> in your column today you say if you live in d.c. and virginia, you are a redskins fan. if you live in maryland, it's a free state. baltimore is in maryland. you have a little bit of wiggle room. >> i maintain if you're a fan in the district of columbia, no way you can root for the ravens. if you live in maryland, as i do, there's a temptation to root for the ravens, for free state pride. maryland pride. >> you use the word traitor, bob. >> i say traitor. i conclude at the end, after much reasonable and thoughtful discussion that there's no way that a real redskins fan, a committed redskins fan can root for the ravens. >> at the end of the article bob also says if any ravens fans are still reading, go patriots! he's really getting them. tucker, let's start with you. you're kind of a middle of the road person.

washington post columnist, bob robert mccartney, joins us with an annual look at predictions for the a beautiful and warm weekened yeah, right well, get ready for much colder this week. tucker is back with a look at the forecast and of course julie has your on time traffic when fox 5 morning news continues stay with us dunkin' k-cup packs are here. get america's favorite coffee for america's favorite single-cup brewer. try all five delicious varieties, only at dunkin' donuts restaurants. america runs on dunkin'. thanks, mom. who are you calling "mom"? dunkin' sausage pancake bites, delicious like mom's, only easier to carry -- get three for $1.59. >>> time to look at stories making headlines this morning authorities investigating four fire bomb attacks in new york city including one at an islamic center another at a private house used for hindu worship service. three of the attacks, sunday night in queens involved molotov cocktails. no injuries. >> disturbing event in one central arkansas town to tell you about 100 black birds died after being spooked by new years eve fireworks, the

grammys will also feature paul mccartney as a performer and nominee for the prestigious music cares person of the year award. the grammys are on february 12th here on cbs. robertredford kicked off his annual sun distance film festival in park city, utah. for 34 years, the festival has celebrated up-and-coming talent in independent films. >> sundance is expanding. the only thing we have to make sure of is we keep -- we keep intact why we're here and how we do things. >> the sundance film festival continues through january 29th and that's your eye on entertainment. bigad shaban, cbs news, hollywood. >>> good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m., happy friday. i'm andrea roane. >> we made it! boy, this was a long week. i'm mike hydeck. thank you for joining us. hi, monika samtani. nice and bright this morning. helping us get through this morning. here's anny hong in for howard. >> good morning, guys. we have winter weather headed this way but not until late tonight. that's good news for the commuters. we'll see some cold temperatures once again for today and a lot of clouds out there. here is a look at the winter storm watch in effect for thi