this is robert mccartney of course with the "washington post" metro columnist. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> over to you, tony. >> thank you very much. >>> an emergency medical team flew to antarctica to rescue an american researcher and they are now on the way to new zealand. the american scientist had a medical emergency and the u.s. research station on antarctica didn't have the facilities to care for the patient whose name and cannot aren't released. it was a tricky landing overnight as antarctica is in the middle of winter right now and it's very rare for planes to land on the ice runway at that american station. >>> nasa's roferon mars has raised its mast and now curiosity is using its high resolution cameras to zen us more pictures. they are being stitched together to make a panorama. it's sending the best views so far since touching down. it took eight months traveling 352 million miles to get to mars. scientists say the martian crater where the rove landed resembles the mojave desert in the southwest. from the pictures we have seen, it ce

joining us now to talk about that more insight on this particular issue is robert mccartney the metrost with the "washington post." thank you very much, always good to see you. >> good to see you, wisdom. >> let's talk about this. a lot of people not happy about this. every time this counselors, a lot of people work in -- every time this comes up, a lot of people working in virginia and maryland, the odds of this passing or where it is serious and could happen? >> pretty low. this has been debated for years and it's always run afoul of opposition from maryland, especially maryland and virginia delegations in the house. it would require and congressional act in order to change this. but one thing it's important to keep in mind. if the district added a commuter tax, it would not add to any individual's tax burden because if you -- i'm a maryland resident, for instance, i work in the district. but i would -- if i started paying a commuter tax to the district, i would get an offset, a credit on my maryland taxes. so it actually wouldn't -- i wouldn't actually be paying any more. the distr