have been for some time. areas in the north, for example, where we have virtually no other presence and perhaps the force protection elements which go with the provincial reconstruction teams. these endeavors are a patchwork quilt and what you're trying to find the right answer for that particular location and then try to figure it out to make it an enduring answer as well. >> general petraeus, with regard to the shortage of trainers, perhaps our trainers can be a little less skilled trains or something. -- trainers or something. that's something you don't want to be short on. do you see how long it will be before we can get the sufficient number of trainers there? >> well, let me just say that again what we would like to see right now is for our nato partners to generate the additional trainers that have been requested. again, in the theory of always having contingency plans there are thoughts about how to fill that if we have to in other ways. >> admiral olson, with regard to the cerp program and how you tr

some were near collapse. and there are a lot of angry new owners of these apartments, not homes but apartments. and what's been happening is that over the past couple of decades there's been a lot more-- regulations have been more lax. municipalities or essential government no longer regulate if these construction codes are really being abided by. now is in the hands of arc tokts and the companies themselves. so there is a lot-- there is a big construction boom all over the place. so it seems that they are not really complying with the strict standards that we've always had in this country which is a country used to many, many earthquakes. so it's going to be a big issue. there is already talk about taking some firms to court. investigating them but of course that's going to be after the immediate crisis subsides. >> ifill: a lot of cleanup, pascale bonnefoy of globalpost in santiago, thank you so much for joining us. >> okay. >> the chile >> woodruff: the chile quake comes just weeks after the devastating ea

they want some answers. some things done, don. >> brian byrnes, thank you very much. >>> the senate's second ranking republican says he expects gop lawmakers to vote to extend federal unemployment benefits this week. those benefits are set to expire tomorrow for millions of americans. the senate thus far has failed to pass an extension for what to many is a financial lifeline. republican senator jim bunning of kentucky has led the opposition, saying it will add to the budget deficit. >>> israeli defense minister ehud barak is calling for new sanctions against iran to stop its nuclear ambitions. but he tells our christiane amanpour the sanctions will not be successful unless russia and china back them. israel, the u.s., and many other countries say iran is moving closer to building a nuclear weapon, a charge that iran denies. >>> the american hockey team has to settle for silver. they lost to canada in sudden death overtime today. 3-2. we're talking about the winter olympics, of course. the u.s. beat canada i

some questions as well. i will start right here to my right with gary andres. gary is also -- had time in government especially in connection with the senate as the deputy liaison to the senate for legislative affairs for president george h.w. bush. and also writes frequently around town about procedural and process matters and is a public-spirited lobbyists let's put it that way. sarah binder is part of the brookings institution. also a political scientist, a professional of political science at george washington university. the author of many books, several of them on this particular topic of particular note "majority rights, majority rule partisanship in the development of congress." that's in 1997 and then also "stalemate causes and consequences of legislative gridlock" coming out -- i'm missing another one, too. particularly on the filibuster. let me mention one more. another commercial here for an excellent book on the filibuster "principle filibustering in the united states" also with brookings in 199

let's look at some cooler numbers. we have some chilly numbers in some outlying areas.ls church, 34. 35 in gaithersburg. in the district, 44. i did see a reading in winchester of 29. nevertheless, we will all warmup quickly and nicely later today. a lot of sunshine. 70. same story tomorrow. los 70's on saturday. it does get better. by late sunday, a new system should move to town. we're expecting a few rain showers. it will get in and get out. by tuesday, back to sunshine. that is the latest on the weather. yesterday was a maess. >> we are good on beltway travel. there was a crash reported on the beltway at new carrollton. be careful between fedex field and the ikea. accident reported in new carrollton. i will show you 270 and receive the normal volume. approaching rockville. next we go to centreville, virginia, with newschopper 7 flying over 66 traffic. headlights are eastbound. back to alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> in new york sketch artist has set out on a project that could take a lifetime. he is out to sketch every single person in new york city, all 8.3 milli

some are just losers. some people have really lost out by the economy. some of these people had a perfectly fine loan and we know the fastest rate of defaults right now are people who have prime credit histories. these are people who did nothing wrong for many, many years, paid their bills on time, and now they're defaulting because of a job loss, a job loss that's caused by the economy overall. so we can't make generalizations. one thing that i can say about how scary this is for policymakers and for the banks and for homeowners and consumer advocates are trying to help people and financial counselors. more people are getting a foreclosure notice in the mail than are buying their first home. that means there's something wrong in america with the housing market. that means the american dream has become the american nightmare. it's imperative they figure out what to do. everyone disagrees on how to do it. some people say we're just tinkering around the edges, rewarding people for bad behavior. we can agree here this is something that stuck with us. we're

maybe some euphoria. one of the things that is going to be shown to be untrue is the continuous pushing by boehner and others that the public hates this, that they don't want it, that this is terrible. there is a small group of very vocal people that don't like it. but most of these polls are fairly, even some of the folk that don't like, it we talked about this before don't like it because itis not liberal enough. >> jim? >> most of the people in america, peter, are against this thing. there was some euphoria. but just because some people are against it doesn't mean it is a small inner on the. remember when the a rack war, all those people that were against it, was that a small minority? there are an awful lot the independent voters that don't like this legislation. you see it in every poll. there are this much in the poll that say they are against it. and maybe these polls that say they are for it. >> and one thing that is key is this administration, member of congress will have to sell this thing. they

>> for some things.el, for example, maintains a very large manufacturing base leer. 75% of our manufacturing is inside the u.s., even though 75% of our sales are outside. and woe do that because of the scale, because of the workforce we have here and the investments we have here. but it's a knowledge-based workforce, even inside of our factories. you know, i think if it's-- if it's just assembling solar panels, that's going to get done in china. assembling-- i was in germany last week and the germans were complaining all the windmill production has shifted to china njt right. >> even in some of these green industries, you need to be able to be competitive on a global basis. >> rose: but are you encouraging companies to encourage the hiring of math and science students, even though they may not have been inclined to do as much. >> well, i started thinking about what could one company do. last year, this week last year, i went to washington and announced that intel would invest $7 billion in the u.s. in ne

there is some road work on 270 northbound. the lights are shining in the lights of the southbound commuters. various " southbound. the work song is northbound at montgomery village avenue. it is adding to the normal pace. now to alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> the design of a moral to dwight eisenhower will be unveiled this afternoon. -- the design of a memorial will be unveiled this afternoon. it will be built on four acres at the base of the capital. >>> abc said katherine heigl is out of "grey's anatomy." she said she was asked to be let out of her contract sure she could take care of her newly >> you are watching c 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> 6:45. sete rublicans have found some glitches in a health care bill that will force it back for another vote. provisions dealing with pell grants. it is expected to happen today. more charges have been filed against a driv

some questions as well.i will start right here to my right with gary andres. gary is also -- had time in government especially in connection with the senate as the deputy liaison to the senate for legislative affairs for president george h.w. bush. and also writes frequently around town about procedural and process matters and is a public-spirited lobbyists let's put it that way. sarah binder is part of the brookings institution. also a political scientist, a professional of political science at george washington university. the author of many books, several of them on this particular topic of particular note "majority rights, majority rule partisanship in the development of congress." that's in 1997 and then also "stalemate causes and consequences of legislative gridlock" coming out -- i'm missing another one, too. particularly on the filibuster. let me mention one more. another commercial here for an excellent book on the filibuster "principle filibustering in the united states" also with brookings in 1997

we look for some interactive discussion and some comments from the floor.hy are we regulating this? >> well, i am working on it. but i have a brief power point. this is a terrific introduction of what we will try to cover during this panel. this has been a problem regarding the fcc. this will begin to provide a partial answer to our problems. i will go to some of the background on the issues and then hopefully set it up for the rest of the discussion on the panel. technologies come and go. the telegraph being the great new advanced technology of the 19th century. when we get technologies and various ways of thinking, that technologies may go but the regulatory models tend to remain. at the time that the telegraph was a new technology and the government was looking for ways to regulate new technologies that camel long, they looked to whatever regulatory models they had. -- the government was looking for ways to regulate a new technologies that came along. you look at the statutory mandates and some sound some like the first amendment. you find that the decis

, some spectrum. that means making decisions to switch technological priorities in ways that some industries will gain, some industries will lose. >> well, we need to be technologically neutral in how we move forward, but there are some things that are very clear obstacles to our success around broadband. we want to promote both wired and wireless broadband. let me talk for a minute about wireless. we have the ability to lead the world in wireless broadband. the smart phones that people are using. connecting your computers to air cards. fixed wireless broadband access. we can lead the world. but there's one very large obstacle. that is will we have enough spectrum which is the oxygen for all of these devices to meet the demands? we're very concerned about that. we think we have to move with urgency to free up enough spectrum so that we can lead the world in mobile. when it comes to other parts of our infrastructure, we still have policies that wake up every day and promote old telephone service. we ne

create some spaces where if we re-seed we can get the seed to drop on some of these empty spaces. if you need to seed with your hand, you can do that. we need to go here, seed this up a bit, take some handfulls of straw. >> it looks like we have the start of chick we'd. in this case should we scrape that off? >> that's what i would do. if you have more time, you could use a product like round-up, wait seven days, and then re-seed. >> so it depends on your timing, what you're in a hurry for. >> exactly. if we want to do the whole lawn, we can use a spreader, take our grass seed, put it in a hopper or just put that open, and we can just walk, just drop that seed down as we go. if you are doing your whole lawn, hay has we'd seed in it. >> so you have a crop growing in your garden and everything else. >> this is a ready to go type of thing. >> it is on a roll. as you seed your lawn, all you have to do is roll it out. >> it has just enough tackiness in there. it is an easier way to keep that covered so it doesn't dry out so the birds don't get to it. you have about seven to 24 days bef

some state and some did not. do you have any thoughts about that? >> there are many words were shakespeare either created them himself or they were words that he was hearing on the street. fireworks -- before then they were pyrotechnics. there is no such word as road, and that was coined by shakespeare. when it comes to drug, if you're not paying attention, he would -- when it comes to drunk, if you are not paying attention, he would talk about someone coming into the room with the sun in his eyes. what he is talking about is the person is plastered. and chaucer had a lot. one of the interesting things about the drunk thing, the people who made the lists are classic. the first one who made a list was benjamin franklin, who came up with 227 words. then dickens had a list. they are all ahead of their time. >> i can imagine that. >> i have always liked the words not about being drunk, but not the drink itself. of which there are many, too. i always like to sundown. it is just and less. there is note -- it is just and less. there is no other subject tha

some of the perks and some of the cornhusker deal and some of the other deals. what are your main objections to this reconciliation bill? >> the main objections are that the overall program explodes the government by $2.6 trillion. takes a trillion dollars out of medicare that should be used to make that system more solvent. uses it to create a new entitlement which enbe fits people not on medicare and not senior citizens. will significantly raise the premiums of small businesses in their health insurance plans forcing them to drop their employees and will be a major tax on the american people and will interfere with the american people's ability to get health care from their doctors because a lot of doctors will not be able to provide health care under the -- proposed in this bill in the area of medicare and medicaid. and the amendments we're offering, the vast majority of them basically hold the democrats to their word. one amendment says simply that the president and his cabinet and the majority leader staff should be subject to this type of a health care sys

we'll get some warmer days and some cooler days so be prepared for that.the meantime take a look at these numbers. 76 degrees today at national airport. breaking a record set back in 1978 at dulles. 78 degrees. and 75 at baltimore. and charlottesville kicked in today at 74 degrees. a little cooler than yesterday. they were 77 yesterday. 73 at martinsburg and 76 degrees at hagerstown. so talk about a great second day of spring. right now it's still pretty nice outside. you can get out and still enjoy some outdoor activity. if you have any plans, 69 degrees right now in d.c. 72 gaithersburg. dulles at 74. baltimore currently at 68 degrees. let's take a look at radar. we're going to show you exactly what's going on. lot happening here. here's a look at the system heading our way. this system has an awful lot of moisture associated with it but as it pushes its way through, we're going to see more moisture pushing in from the atlantic. so we're going to get hit with a fair amount of rainfall as the system helds its way toward us into the course of tonight and i

and i feel in 20th century through a lot of pain, killing, i think some -- according to some experts, 20th century more than 200 million people killed through warfare. so such a painful experience helped humanity thinking more mental. so i'm optimistic. >> larry: one other thing. you talk of love. you love the chinese? >> certainly. we have to practice that. sometimes you see some of these hard liners of a policy, ruthless policy. sometimes i got some irritation, but a short moment. >> larry: you still love them? >> yes. i have to make effort to keep love. >> larry: thank you. >> thank you. thank you. since i think modern, i think at least around 15 years. >> larry: 15 years since last we were together. >> so you are not much changed, so congratulations. >> larry: nor you, thank you. his holiness -- i haven't changed? i'm older. his holiness the dalai lama. >>> can you rely on toyota. the head of the automaker is here next with the answer. i'm george duran and i'm on the hunt's crash kitchen tour. today we're cooking, the men are washing. nice! ah! these tomatoes, they're bye bye. hun

some convoys, you know, moving throughout afghanistan do this well, some troops do this well, some commanders this well. they undse understand -- understand, some days you may need to be on the street. other commanders don't understand this very well. in iraq what you had, and tom alluded to this, is he talked about the need to push petraeus' vision down the throats of the military. this is something i was talking to a brigade command erg during -- commander during the throat. he said he shoves the ideas of petraeus down the throats of the one stars. so if i could tee this up, again, for afghanistan and with respect to lessons learned, i think there have been some significant lessons that have been learned in iraq, and that both linda and tom have written well on tactical and operational lessons. the strategic and political lessons, i don't think we have learned nearly as much as we needed to. i don't think we have done a lot of hard thought about how you apply leverage when conducting a counterinsurge yinencey campaign with the military. as far as the -- i think it remains to be skeen seen w

some of the stuff was matched up but some of it didn't. so you recognize even when you are trying to make it really easy that it is not going to always match up but i feel this appointed. >> i can't remember the exact words but in the introduction you speak about you are feeling both set designer and director of the film of that moment, of that time on every page. that has its benefits in being able to imagine and combined with what you are told that there is an element of invention. >> yeah and i don't want to plead artistic license. i try to be as true as possible to what either archival photographs or descriptions but i know i am never going to draw anything exact liam place. that is unfortunate but as i they say in the introduction, there is a measure of refraction we cannot get around. i guess i try to think of it is like a film director making a film about a historical episode. he or she probably tries to get some elements right but then lets the viewer just basically sink into it and be overwhelmed by the whole thing. speedy can we

there are some organizations things to do. on the trust fund the world bank is the fiscal is for the fund. an agreement between them, u.n., and the world bank. .. >> translator: we need about $4 billion in the next 18 months to achieve the critical amount that is necessary to create the momentum, to make a difference that we talked about together. and we need to innovate. favorable conditions are there and we must succeed. haiti is a country that needs to arise. as far as i can tell from your presence or this one, the political will to act and to help us in the long-term is there. the size of the country will allow us to be very specific about our initiatives, necessary initiative. we need to get over our difficulties, differences, have the confidence of trust and creativity, and transparency. you have listened and helped us and the people, the government, the people and now we are liening to you. thank you. thank you for all of us. this common endeavor. [applause] >> i think prime minister bellerive for his presentation, a ve

that comes as no surprise to some. >> some students are receptive to it. it is definitely a trend for our generation to excepted. we always need a good balance. >> it would change the picture of campuses online and offline. >> we have to discover how to take advantage of it. >> regents say they will have to look for new ways to pay the bills. >> that is a major concern in light of planned budget cuts to higher education. >> and other education news, marilyn's did -- state school superintendent has waived five days for 12 of the state's 24 school districts. they include baltimore city, anne arundel, kent, st. george's -- chris georges and st. mary's county. howard county has received a waiver for one day and six other districts have received waivers for either three or four days. >> that will not have to go further into the summer for school. >> a massive fire at an ohio egg farm. how fast moving firefighters were able to save most of the chickens. >> health-insurance reform in this day. this day. what >> a huge sigh of relief for a kansas mom and dad. thei

effect some people. not all, certainly, but some people. there will also be some things people may not like that will begin to kick in. nonetheless, we're going to see some concrete changes that people will be able to measure in a way they weren't able to measure it before this happened. now, the republicans, as you know, are going to take this fight all the way through the fall on several levels. one is -- >> are you convinced of that? i mean, it is interesting. it does seem as if republicans seemed a little bit flumoxed today on how to respond. there seemed to be another part of the party that was sort of, okay, now what do we do? >> i think the issue of the repeal is one they have to face squarely. there are a lot of republicans i talked to, you have, too, that say a pure repeal strategy is not a winner. that it has to be a repeal to change something but in a different we than president obama's plan would. so that's the first issue they've got to come up with. how do they actually craft that message?

some states had already passed some laws.nally the federal government is catching up and really trying to level the financial playing field. >> we just came lou the holiday season. i gave out a lot of gift cards and i got gift cards for christmas. do these rules apply to those gift cards or does this start sometime in the future? >> does not start until this summer. there are different kinds of gift cards. there are store gift cards and the bank gift cards. this will apply to all the different types of gift cards that are out there. >> that simplifies it for consumers. >> absolutely. >> let's talk a little about what's going on with the atm machines. this is something we reported on yesterday. a case in alexandria. fascinating, where high tech thieves put this device, i guess it's called a skimmer, on an atm and you can not necessarily tell when you go an put your card in that someone's getting all your personal information. how widespread a problem is this? >> well, it's a growing problem. organized crime is, this is their l

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i think we can do some -- make some improvement. we need to have a verification system so that we know who is eligible and ineligible to work in america. i think that's important. so once we take care of those kinds of security things where there's going to be wide support for a verification system for putting more security. i mean, we should take criminals and those who enter into our country and engage in criminal activity. we should have a seamless process for their deportation and expulsion from the united states. those are issues we are working on closely. we need more agents, more jail cells. let's do it. let's make sure that our immigration system is one that has those kinds of things. the difficult part is always the part of how do you reunify families? how do you make sure that those long waits of decades for your brother -- these are american citizens, waiting for their mom, waiting for their brother, their sister, to be reunited? how do we get rid of those long waits? that's something. and lastly, it's always going to be

or as happens in my house, your wife buys some and you buy some. >> sorry.es. we were talking about that before. should you leave them in that container? >> this container is fine. it has air. there's no reason to watch them when you bring them home. i don't refrigerate tomatoes. they don't get better. they only get worse. >> they get worse in the fridge? >> well, they don't improve in the fridge. they don't spoil that fast on the counter and you want to eat them at room temperature anyway. >> but those you do not wash the way you did the lettuce. >> no, those are fine. carrots, celery and stuff like that, you have to prep them at some point. why not prep them early, prep them when you get home or when you get a chance, then you store them in a little water and you will eat them if they're like this. right? >> good point. but this you stick in the fridge. >> this you keep in the fridge. another way to keep carrots, celery, asparagus is in a damp towel in a plastic bag. and this will keep -- i you do this with asparagus, carrots, celery, they'll keep for two

>> there is some merit to that. think that bart stupak felt that he may had to -- may have had to cut some sort of deal. shell is not clear exactly what is and -- so it is not clear exactly what is and what is not going to happen. >> let's talk about the bill, not the politics, but the content. six months after being enacted, no insurance company can drop someone if they get sick. no insurance company can limit the amount of coverage to get in a lifetime. children can stay under their parents' plan. they are 26 years old. >> that is right. those are significant changes. the question is whether it will raise health care costs for everybody else. if insurance companies have to cover everybody, that they cannot deny people they considered low risk, will that end up with higher fees? >> aipac kidneys to go to the senate. -- a packet needs to go to the senate. will that change anything? >> that will be a lot of the land until or if changes go through the senate. the bill that actually went to the president's desk tonight

at the moment, some are better and some are worse. >> i think they've increased 1.2 percentage points over are 1.5. >> thank you again for your work and the work of your staff. i was just going back to chairman casey's statements. it is so easy for us, and listen to my good friend mr. brady, so easy for us to say that there has not been progress. there has been, and chairman casey pointed out that back in january of 2009, we are losing 729,000 jobs, and in january of this year we are talking about 26,000. is that significant? >> yes, that is significant moderation. >> that is what i thought. it is not about twisting numbers are trying to make them look better than they are. we want every single american who wants to be employed. the fact remains that we are seeing some progress. that me ask you this. going back to the temporary help services, that has been up. how much up was that? >> it was up 48,000 this month. that is significant, and that is a fairly reliable indicator of a strengthening labor market. >> in other words, it sounds like -- as i understand it, when you have that temp

close to 70 degrees on sunday, some increasing cloudiness. in the evening, maybe some showers.day is when we have a better chance of widespread showers, possible thunderstorms. e first day of spring is tomorrow, officially the brunell equinoxes, marking the moments when the sun rays -- the vernal equinoxes, marking the moment when the sun's rays most directly impact the equator. tomorrow, at least 72. i bet some areas will get 75. it the next seven days, sunday, scattered showers late in the day. monday looks to be the day with a better chance of rain, thunderstorms, cooler. sunshine, temperatures above average as we had through wednesday, thursday, friday next week. >> thank you, doug. >>> the mother of octuplets it >> thank you, doug. >>> the mother of octuplets it could soon be forced out on the i cook twice a week at the fire station. i'd pick up a lot of the work around the house, the chores, the kids, the shopping, the cooking. i have two teenagers, and i'll be putting them through college someday soon. i'm very aware of what things cost, and, you know, i have to use all

some have turned to suicide.n increasing number, at least 8% of the force, are now using pills. including antidepressants, prozac, zoloft, and paxil. prescribed right on the front lines. psychologist jason princeter served in afghanistan. >> we're sending soldiers on combat missions who are depressed, who are suicidal, and we are prescribing medication that has significant side effects. >> reporter: side effects, say soldiers, like sluggishness and disorientation. >> some of it will make me more depressed, some of it would make me jittery. >> reporter: chuck luther was an army sergeant in iraq. he told us he got no therapy, just drugs to help him through his deployment. >> the mortars would come in, suicide car bombers would try to run through the gates. psychologically it would take a toll on you. seeing your fellow soldiers being killed in front of you. >> reporter: they would give you drugs, antidepressants, and send you right back out again? >> right, exactly. >> reporter: on our most recent trip to iraq we a

it's not like there's some separate civilian -- some separate set of charges like he was -- had some real estate scam in florida in addition to organizing terror attacks. so i think that if someone were acquitted in one court, sometimes the government can find legal reasons why he's not subject to double jeopardy, meaning try twice for the same thing. an example might be the police officers in the rodney king beating in los angeles. they were acquitted in state court on those charges and then tried again under federal parallel charges. host: let's go to frank, independent line in largo, florida. caller: good morning to you both. host: good morning. go right ahead. caller: follow my line of reasoning here. this will be brief. section two of the patriot act states that the president can claim any misdemeanor anywhere in the world an act of terrorism and hold said person indefinitely. i believe it was the department of justice a few weeks ago claimed that if an american abroad is believed to be committing or involved in acts of terrorism, they can be killed without a trial. now, combine

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some of that is what we laid out. some of that can be through enforcement. through stronger partnerships with our general system of preference partners. we are going to look at everything we can to open up those markets with the hope by exporting more we help create and support these jobs. >> clom's a -- colombia's president will step down in office. will he be able to see the u.s.-colombia f.t.a. passed? and what is the timetable? >> august may be a bit ambitious. i would say this, president uribe and his team have been great partners with us to address the issues raised by many members of congress about the violence against union organizers and labor leaders. and president obama recognizes that this is a great opportunity in one case for america to get a huge win. colombia and panama are both g.s.p. fartherers in. the practical effect is that their goods are coming into the united states for the most part duty free. lost on many of our friends is the reality in the case of our g.s.p. partners, these free trade agreements are almost singularly about our abi

some were called the n-word. one was spat upon.arney frank who was openly gay said he was also heckled with anti-gay slurs as he walked up the steps of the capitol. democrats and republicans both called the comments unacceptable. >> it really was a shocking and sad tone to the epithets being hurled in the face of senators and congressmen making it seem the country has moved as far as we thought it has. >> it's not a reflection of the movement of the republican party when you have idiots out there saying very stupid things. >> tea party leaders w were behind many of the healthcare protests have condemned the racial slurs. >>> from healthcare to immigration, thousands ever people rallied across the country demanding that president obama keep his pledge to deliver comprehensive immigration reform. here in washington tens ever thousands gathered on the national mall to bring their immigration reform message directly to lawmakers and to the president. they are fighting for full rights for illegal immigrants and their children. >>> today

rain, some of it heavy at times. thunderstorms could be around definitely cooler, about 10 degrees cooler tomorrow than today. we'll have your five-day first warning forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you, tim. we continue to follow the breaking news out of southeast baltimore. where two prisers were shot and a suspect killed. -- where police officers were shot and a suspect killed. >> good morning, gigi. both officers are still in shock trauma being treated after they were involved in an early morning shoot-out. it happened just before 1:00 a.m. on the 2600 block in southeast baltimore. the officers were pulling over a car when at some point, the driver opened fire. one of the officers was hit in the face. the other one in the right hand. the one hit in the face is in serious but stable condition and will survive. as for the driver who shot at police, that person was killed as police returned fire. we still don't know if -- we still don't know if the officers who shot the driver were the ones who pulled them over o

possibly some flurries and some rain and snow.ack side of the system will be on wednesday evening. it should not amount to much. it does not look that impressive. 37 in gaithersburg. 37 in fredericksburg. most of us are above the freezing mark. there could be a few slick spots. a fair amount of sunshine. a bit of a breeze. temperatures are where they should be. we're shooting for a high of near 50. partly cloudy, cool tonight. temperatures in the 20's and 30's side. less wind it tomorrow. it will be kind of gray. precipitation will kind -- will start to develop. a light mixed into wednesday. maybe some light flurries into wednesday. some gradual clearing for the weekend. warmer and more sunshine on saturday and sunday. >> traffic is moving nicely on 95 and 66. we do not have any accidents to describe. nothing complicated out of waldorf. will look good on route 4. everything is open up to the suitland parkway. there is a crash at new york- kenilworth avenue which has two lanes blocked on the right side. >> thank you. >>> and dislik

some of them may even be watching tonight. if people of good will in the republican party who feel like the republican party has left them, has taken the sharp veer right and he can appeal to them. and as far as some others who have been very concerned about this bill, seniors for instance, they don't know it yet but later this year seniors are going to get a $250 check in the mail as a drug rebate to help pay for their prescription drug costs. that is going to change some of their views about this. they are going to find this doughnut hole which they understand what it is, that they start paying a lot more for prescription drugs over a certain threshold, that is not closed by law. that is going to save them thousands of dollars. when that starts to kind of sink in, then i think you are going to see a lot of independents and republicans who change their mind about this bill. >> how did the banks and the republicans let the student loan thing sweep by? he just put a hole in the banks. >> this was maybe the most inspired move of

the protests, some before, some against, this is america history in the making and gentlemen, it's sausage in the making, but it's america's sausage and you're paying for it and we're watching how they're spending it up close and personal. >> the battle lines are drawn, the clock ticking down to one of the biggest votes that's occurred in your nation's capital in some time. do the democrats have the votes in the house? by our count, it's really, really close. for barack obama it is a piece of legislation that he believes will define his presidency. for many of congress it's a tough vote that could reverberate all the way to the mid term elections depending who you talk to, this is a piece of legislation that will either make health care more affordable or plunge our economy into an unrecoverable tailspin. hello, i'm brian wilson and this is our big story today. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. and a historic weekend here in washington. the action has already begun. the house rules committee has been meeting today to determine the parameters by wh

i bought some gld puts. there's a trade out there that forgetting where the market goes you play from the short side. >> that's a trade you actually reversed because you were long the uso and today you started shorting oil. >> remember, this is a trade -- i believe you're going to see a big liquidation in the euro. a lot of people that were short the euro, they covered on that last little move up. now they basically don't have the bullets. they're going to have to come in, sell at lower prices. >> july 4th is our independence day. actually, tomorrow, march 25th, is greek independence day. >> it is. >> odd -- >> i didn't know that you were up on the greek holidays. >> you i mention it for the following reason. i think there's a very good reason that friday rolls along, the prime minister from greece comes out and says, guess, what folks, we're insolvent, have a good weekend, let's see how this thing shakes out. now, understanding that greece basically is the size of the state of washington, you take that for

n some benefits. this new cutback in the federal medicare program means that you will become responsible for an even greater portion of your healthcare expenses, expenses that were previously paid by medicare. also, for the seniors who carry supplementalal and who have medicine in their supplemental may be taken away from us because the government no longer will be paying a certain amount for us to stay with these groups and be like a double whammy. host: a couple of good questions there. we have dr. scott got leeb coming in to talk about the healthcare bill and medicare and medicaid, but reid wilson, if up to the weigh in on that, that's fine. guest: i was going say, that's the one great argument that republicans have on this healthcare bill, is that it changes the way medicare is going to be wrifpblet that is why it's dangerous for republicans talking about repeal. at the end of the day, it is very difficult to convince people you're going to take away an entitlement. republicans will paint democrat

and among them, some of the best party translators and some of the fighter pilots and infantry officers and mechanics -- the american taxpayer is going to be better off. it is costing the american taxpayer $1.30 billion. it goes back to the earlier comments. we all took an oath. that special trust and confidence in our leadership ability -- we should have special trust in confidence of these young american heroes. we should have a special trust and confidence in the officer corps to do the right thing. when you're doing your study, make sure that we are cognizant of the fact that, to put it in historical context, and we were in the middle of the korean war where we lost tens of thousands of our americans over there, the fact is, when half of the country was still segregated, we said that we are going to desegregate the military because we all wore green. we all took that oath and picked up the rifle and defended the country. that same challenges gone today in iraq and afghanistan. i think that when you make the decisions, at the end of the day, it goes back to our country. they're willi

there are some sort of very strong fringe elements. we saw members of congress whipping them up this weekend. but to take that, it's not clear any of the people at these protests are responsible for these acts in arizona or new york. >> right. >> i think we need to let these investigations go forward before we draw too many conclusions. >> sure. >> you're right. certainly it contributes a little bit to the environment and the atmosphere and one thing also should be said. i mean, look. there is a very american way to express one's displeasure. it's what we saw at the capitol with the yelling and shoutsing and the protests, most of the yelling and shouting. obviously attempts to overthrow the government or do harm to members of congress don't fit into the construct of american democracy. >> jonathan, to your point, again, we don't want to press all of these groups together and certainly disparage anyone in this but as you know there were members of congress who said that the vote was worse than or compared it i should say to 9/11. others

leads to some fiery debate tonight. kathleen cairns reports now. 12 drivers went to jail for failure to have a proper permit. >> bob cresey works behind the wheel. and said he always he obeys the law. >> when i first applied for coach and courier, there wasn't anything, not even a speeding ticket o my record. i was surprised. they thought maybe i didn't have a complete record because there wasn't anything on it. >> last week when he pulled over to picking up regular customers at bwi he got offered a ride instead. by police. >> i needed this permit that i apparently didn't have. and then he told me, to put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me. >> handcuffed for several hours, charged with not displaying the regular courtesy commercial permit. >> i didn't know what this permit was that i was supposed to have. >> five years ago drivers tell us the maryland aviation administration, bwi authorization use permit used to hang from the rear-view mirror. >> no longer had requests or renewals of the permit. we were told that

i think we saw some signs of some inventory recovery, some business investment just gradually in some sectors. obviously people don't expect the consumer to play the role he or she played in the past but frankly i still have a sense that the uncertainty seems to leave all good reports as spot market news and there is no forward market for positive expectations. if you get a good news story, seems to last about a day. we're not really capturing any momentum on this i see a couple of our board members here. the first week in january we had an informal lunch, i cautioned that an issue i think was going to be important throughout 2010 was challenge of repricing sovereign credit risk, which was before greece and i think it extends beyond greece. in the case of the u.s. i think this will also be an issue for states and municipalities. there is a good piece in "the wall street journal" today pointed out, for many of them it is spending, not purely a debt issue. you have to look at ratings of debt instruments and there is history in using them as structured products just as us used for some m

although i have to tell you guys some of the people, we went up to one of the boxes to visit with someftime before the final race thing. and there were all these birds flying over, manmade birds and things like that, and everyone kept making jokes, there goes another million dollars that we don't have. so yeah, there's a lot of that going on there. hotels were full. we visited the atlantis in dubai. and i think every british person and german was there on vacation. dubai seems to actually be holding in there in terms of a tourist destination. night and day, saudi arabia, incredibly different. a headline i want to tell you all this. i talked to the chief of investment and asked him how he felt about oil at $80. it's hurting american consumers. he looked at me, he chuckled, he knocked on wood on his chair and said hope it stays there. that's the download from the middle east. >> the tour of the middle east continues. >> a lot more coming up on our show. billionaires coming to meet us. watch "street signs" today. >> looks beautiful. stunning. >> they come to the desert to see erin. erin,

, how about some patriotism?ut some understanding that we, the citizens are getting angry. it scares the hell out of the we are the most armed country in the world. we've got idiots running around with teabags on their head and guns behind them and we are sitting around saying let's change this rule, let's change that rule. let's start moving with a sense of urgency and senator i wish you the best and i will pray for you and work for you whatever you need but let's get moving, enough. i'm done. >> just a brief comment, and i understand the passion and i think what you're going to see -- this is a debate by a very skilled and talented panel to try to educate on an issue. you were going to see from the congress and the senate the next couple of months major pieces of legislation focusing on jobs and economic development and pulling us out of a recession. on financial reform to fix so that it never happens again. health care reform -- and the president put out there his proposal, and i think we are going to get that

and he came into some around christmas time. he had some extra money, and then he took me out. and we just clicked. and almost 36 years later, we're doing well. >> but frank donatelli ran yaf at the time. >> he was in law school. he came to washington to become the executive director. ron worked for him, and i worked for him. and then, when ron and i married, i left, because ron had just gotten the top job, and it doesn't work well for me to work for my husband. >> now, where did you get your strong conservative views? >> i think it's genetic for me. for my husband, you know, he evolved. his whole family was democrat - although by the time of reagan, they were all voting for reagan. but my family was just conservative. my father was hard-working. he always complained about the taxes. there were four children. and government was way too big, way back in the '50s and '60s. and i just heard it all those years and just soaked it in. in 1964 i was 14 when goldwater ran for president. that was the first time i got involved. and there were some liberal kids, and they would mouth off a

some sun out there away from the clouds moving in. we see some rain tonight. lows down to about 52 degrees lows into the 30s. you'll have your forecast and talk about the warmup in a few. >>> here's what people are talking about, a comcast employee kill on his way to work in baltimore city and his family says good-bye. we report from city police headquarters. >> reporter: about 3 suspects were around carlos williams' truck when he was murdered a week ago. mourners want to see an arrest. >> he helped the people in the community. >> reporter: carlos williams' cousin was overcome by grief. he worked with people who were on drugs on just getting out of jail. >> my husband was a good man and didn't deserve to die the way he did. >> i hope they get the person who did this to my cousin. >> reporter: fellow workers came in their orange hoodies to pay respect to. >> if you know anything about it, please come forward. >> a vigil held thursday and a reward was given. he oversaw housing for people recently released from prison. the motive may have been robbery, but a rela