robert mcdowell, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. kennedy: indeed.omedian jim norton is going to be here. first madonna has a problem on stage that got on video. poor madge! >>> and a couple of girl's basketball teams are in deep yogurt for losing. how bad is it? "topical storm" is next. . kennedy: when there is a blizzard of nonsense, consider this your sanity cavern. we'll go over the most important news morsels of the day or the weird once. this is "topical storm." topic number one, madonna just performed at the 2015 britawards and doctors may have to perform arthroscopic surgery on madge's damaged joints. material golden girl took quite a tumble during her song living for love. ♪. kennedy: and then she gets baka up and sings, living for love, dying for vicodin, some people thought it was a cleverly choreographed dance move until she pushed her life alert necklace. one allegedly heard i've fallen and i can't get up, the dance charts. i feel for her, it's hard to pull off sluty at 60. madge, and that sexy crotch. >>> topic number two, groundbreakin

former fcc chairman robert mcdowell doesn't like the idea. >> without rules, the internet works beautifully without the help of government. what is really broken that needs fixing? >> reporter: it will take a majority vote to pass the rule. scott, if passed, opponents are expected. >> pelley: we'll follow up tomorrow. robin thicke's hit "blurred lines" is at the heart of a federal lawsuit in los angeles. the late marvin gaye's family calls it a ripoff of his 1977 hit "got to give it up." is it? have a listen. first marvin gaye. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey hey hey hey, hey hey ♪ >> pelley: the trial over those tunes is expected to last two weeks. we'll be right back. your eyes depend on a unique set of nutrients. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula that's just not found in any leading multivitamin. help protect your eye health with ocuvite. ♪ people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along

fcc commissioner robert mcdowell for the latest on this. you have differing views.et's begin with the emotional part of it. that's something you watched very closely, howard. but we're putting a spin the on this. business oriented. will this situation with brian williams change or affect an already questionable merger between timewarner and comcast? >> at the very least, it doesn't help. brian williams credibility crisis now the suspension has become the nbc universal credibility crisis. and i'm hearing that the six-month length of the suspension surprised a lot of insiders may be quite related to the fact that comcast wants this whole story off the front burner, off the front pages, off the newscasts and the cable shows so that it can concentrate on getting the merger with timewarner cable. >> there are 81,000 complaints submitted not necessarily through the official channels of the fcc, robert. but also as we talk about submitted. this was already an imetleembattled issue. do they now take into account that we have 16,000 official complaints with the fcc on top of

former fcc chairman robert mcdowell doesn't like the idea. >> without rules the internet flourishes beautifullyithout the help of government. what is really broken that needs fixing? >> it will take a simple majority of the five-person commission to pass those rules. even so the fight might not be over over the. lobbyists will try to influence how the rules are interpreted. opponents are expected to go to court to try to overturn the rules. >>> good morning. welcome back to wusa9 at 6:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. of course we are under a yellow alert day for the snow and it's going to absnow day for students from prince george's and fairfax county this morning. they're closed. >> the list is going. the federal government is on a two-hour delay. a number of school systems are already cloafd as well. the full list of closures and delays at the bam of the screen and of course on the wusa9 app. larry has plenty to talk about. what are you working on? >> delays on the metro and blue line and a new accident that cropped up on branch avenue on the beltway, inner loop. >> the list of closings will probabl

robert mcdowell was an fcc commissioner. he joins us from washington. a litigious time for the commission. what happens next? is there another lawsuit? robert: there will be a lot of lawsuits. i was analyzing the number of times the section of laws, some called title ii, have gone to the appellate court's 917 times and have been litigated at the sec internally 6000 times. it will be great for the lawyers but not good for the internet in my view. brendan: the last decision i cannot of the d.c. circuit court , they said if you want to do this, sec, you will have to use title ii regulations. why does this not put this in a better position to defend themselves in the future? robert: the court did not say that. there was a case from 2005 is that if you are a tech company like necklace and has a network like netflix has once you start classifying what we used to call information services as eloquent services, a lot of tech companies are going to get ensnared in this, too, so netflix may be hoisted through its own advocacy of try to get title ii in this space.