let folks in those parts of our town sleep sounder. that's on 9news at 7:00. >>> still ahead in this half hour, we all wait with high anticipation when we hear there could be a chance. tonight, the national zoo's plan to try to get the giant pandas to breed. top. >> well, some clouds are in place. if you thought today was a cold start and a mild finish, you were correct. 24 was the low. averages a 46 and 31. record high 71. we'll come back and talk about when you might need the umbrella and a winter coat. >>> and up next, a can of cola causing quite a commotion online. we'll tell you why people are upset about this picture up next. >>> heated debate on the internet about the image on this pepsi can. this was taken in iraq just before he left for home. posted on his facebook page that he felt the image depicted a plane above the twin towers of new york. you have to look carefully. and that sentiment along with his picture has been shared more than 29,000 times. pep pi says the image was intended to show the growth of active cities in th

the team was back to work today; and afterwards sounders the head man said the offense was good at times last night, but he really liked the intangibles. >> there's no question, not even from the first game; but, you know, we've gotten better defensively. a little more aggressive, rotations were better. what i would like to see is the young guys finish it up at the end. a good experience to may against a veteran team. >>> some college hoops. not. have you seen the ranks lately? georgetown is 16 in the country. a big one coming up. memphis in town, rematch they played in maui earlier this season when the hoy i can't say upset them thursday night. stay tuned. >> i don't think there's any lack of confidence or -- you know, we know we escaped with our team. >> a lot of challenges when you win the first game. you know they'll come out harder next game. they're going to be trying to beat you because you beat them the first game. >> all right. feel-good final story here. in 2005 braylon edwards promised 80 eighth graders he would give them scholarship money if they graduated high school with a

may be sleeping a little sounder tonight. late night flights into reagan national will no longer be flying over their homes. you see, ever since last spring, flights landing between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. to to be diverted. d.c. delegate called up the faa and now the airport will hold off on that construction until 1:00 a.m. after those flights have landed. >> a pretty warm start to the workweek. could it stick around for our holidays? top gives us the latest forecast. but first, robbing peter to pay paul. that's what some lawmakers say virginia governor bob masumi masumi mcdonnell is doing with his new budget. >>> the washington, d.c. veteran's affairs medical center and wusa9 salute all who serve at home and abroad this holiday season. >> merry christmas and happy holidays to granddaddy, david, morgan, tyler, madison, ryan, and henry and all of our other family and friends in northern virginia, from the donaldson's in germany. merry christmas. >>> the national zoo received an early christmas present today. a $4.5 million

they may not have one for different reasons, because of political paralysis, but our structure is sounder. they are struggling. the u.k. saying we will not participate in new treaties because we do not like one part of it, and they can't do anything because of that. >> and the running out of time. europe as far as i can tell the not have the medicine or jefferson, and it could easily collapse. that is one problem. you may notice, the secretary of state has been over there because obama's reelection depends on this -- excuse me, treasury secretary. because, if europe collapses, that is america's biggest market, and unemployment in the united states is going to go up and it will defeat obama. >> i don't really think that politics played that much of a role. i think -- this would be the first year or the last year of the obama administration, the secretary-treasurer must get involved because it affects not just the reelection prospects of the president but it affects the economy of the united states and all of us. this is an institution of response, not political. >> issing colby was right i

it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas a huge crowd a sounders of sleighs for skis and snowboards as they get into the seasonal spirit in the u.s. find out more at all dot com. and now some more news from around the globe this hour and a roadside bomb attack in southern afghanistan has killed nineteen civilians and after a number of others wounded at the blast occurred when a minivan was hit by a bomb in the city of kandahar when this comes just a day after the funeral of fifty nine people killed in the twin suicide bombings of pakistan biggs extremist group claimed responsibility the victims of tuesday's explosions were worshippers marking a major shiite muslim religious holiday the taliban which is condemned the violence claims native orchestrate the attacks to create an excuse to stay in afghanistan. results from the presidential election the democratic republic of congo been delayed by forty eight hours triggering further claims of vote rigging at least eighteen people have reportedly been killed in election related violence thousands have fled the capital and dissipating a bl

the current economic system from debt jubilees to better regulations to the private industry to a sounder money you argue for just getting rid of free market capitalism as we know it and completely overhauling the social system why do you think that's the solution. well as all well and good as those things are and thank you lauren for having me the real crux here is that the structural flaws the psychological flaws that this system creates so the unemployment crisis the debt crisis the public health crisis the poverty crisis the energy crisis that's looming and the immense social destabilization are seen are actually systemic causes of this fatal flaws of this system at the core logic no i can expand on any one of those topics that you like if you take for example what you just covered in this broadcast the unemployment crisis can't be unemployment crisis is really driven by technology that's very important people to understand because unfortunately many aren't talking about this we have an exponential increase in information technology coupled with invention material invention and manufa

. >> weekend sports anchor, stan sounders here. don't look for a major disappointment from the ravens coming off a great performance. they will take care of cleveland, 32-14. >> ed norris, the fan. ravens take on the cleveland. division opponent. tough stadium, look for a close one. 17-14, ravens. >> this is steve davis. ravens, as you know, have struggled against bad teams on the road. but no worries in cleveland. they've won three straight. make it four in a row against the browns in cleveland. ravens rob 28-13. >> this is scott garceau, from 105.7, the fan. ravens take care of business. they are the better team. they play like it sunday. my guess, ravens, 24-14. >> and we all picked the ravens to win. the three games they lost earlier this year. i'm going with the ravens 20-6 in cleveland. i don't see cleveland scoring much at all in this one. one of the guys trying to stop them will be terrell sug. we'll hear from him coming up. >> thanks, mark. and if you don't have a ticket to cleveland for the game, you can watch it here on

applause ] >> jimmy: fond old memories. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] the last one is from tori soundersve: yeah, they're probably sitting next to each other. >> jimmy: be sitting next to -- >> steve: what are you writing? >> jimmy: -- sitting next to yanina rodriguez. >> steve: yanina, yeah. >> jimmy: "jimmy, i also i love those old animated christmas movies." and, my favorite character was yukon cornelius." i love that dude. [ applause ] "but, i'm also a huge akon fan. so, i think you should find someone who combines those two characters." we have to do this. ladies and gentlemen, here to sing his hit song "wrap that," put your hands together for akon cornelius. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ akon cornelius ♪ ♪ merry christmas everybooty ♪ ♪ i see you peeking but you won't guess what i got you ♪ ♪ akon cornelius got the red caps on just bought ten rolls of scotch tape ♪ ♪ cause that's how i do got my scissors and some gift wrap ♪ ♪ just -- just watch me as i wrap that so the kids don't know ♪ ♪ wrap that putting on a bow wrap that and make it snow wrap that ho-ho-ho-ho ♪ ♪ wrap that putti

but it is the sounder, better approach, of the two approaches. >> isn't it significant to you, in theate, talking about a vote 89-10, both parties agreeing, at least voting on this particular proposal, in the affirmative. 89-10, that -- isn't that significant in terms -- >> no. it's exactly the sign of what's wrong with the senate. they couldn't get their act together to pass anything meaningful to last a year. they give up, let's get together, pass a bad policy and they all got together to pass a two of month extension. this is meaningless. we'll be back two months later with the same argument. the other thing, too, the senate's walked away from the table. always when there's a disagreement between the house and the senate on how to pass legislation, which is typical, happens in every congress, they meet in the conference committee to work things out. the senate's refused to meet in the committee and barack obama won't call the democrats to meet in the conference committee. this in is an abdication. this is bad policy. >> people have serious sort of opinions on what's going on, what'

politically risky, yes, but it is the sounder, better approach of the two approaches. >> isn't it significanto you though, ari, that in the senate we're talking about a vote 89-10. both parties agreeing or voting on this particular proposal in the affirmative. 89-10. isn't that significant in terms of -- >> no. it's exactly the sign of what's wrong with the senate. they couldn't get their act together to pass anything meaningful that lasted a year so what they did was they said we give up, throw our hands in the air. let's get together and pass a bad poll simpt they all got together to pass a two-month extension. this is meaningless. we'll be right back two months later into the same fight and argument. the house has passed something meaningful. the other thing here, to, is the senate's walked away from the table. always when there's a disagreement between the house and senate on how to pass legislation, it's typical, happens in every congress, they meet in what's called a conference committee to work things out. the senate's refused to meet in a conference committee. this is an abdication of

applause ] >> jimmy: fond old memories. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] the last one is from tori sounders love those old animated christmas movies." and, my favorite character was yukon cornelius." i love that dude. [ applause ] "but, i'm also a huge akon fan. so, i think you should find someone who combines those two characters." we have to do this. ladies and gentlemen, here to sing his hit song "wrap that," put your hands together for akon cornelius. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ akon cornelius ♪ ♪ ♪ merry christmas everybooty ♪ ♪ i see you peeking but you won't guess what i got you ♪ ♪ akon cornelius got the red caps on just bought ten rolls of scotch tape ♪ ♪ cause that's how i do ♪ got my scissors and some gift wrap ♪ ♪ just -- just watch me as i wrap that so the kids don't know ♪ ♪ wrap that putting on a bow wrap that and make it snow wrap that ho-ho-ho-ho ♪ ♪ wrap that putting on a bow wrap that so the kids don't know ♪ ♪ wrap that and make it snow wrap that ho-ho-ho-ho ♪ ♪ merry christmas everybooty ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow. ♪ wrap that ♪ >> jimmy: akon -- akon corne

but it is the sounder, better approach of the two approaches. >> isn't it significant to you, though,ri, in the senate, we're talking about a vote, 89-10, both parties, you know, agreeing or at least voting on this particular proposal in the affirmative, 89-10. i mean, isn't that significant in terms of where we should go -- >> no. it's exactly what's wrong with the senate. they couldn't get their act together to pass anything meaningful that lasted a year. so they said we give up, throw our hands in the air. let's get together and pass a bad policy, and they all got together to pass a two-month extension. this is meaningless. we'll be right back two months later into the same fight, the same argument. while the house has actually passed something meaningful. the other thing here, too, is the senate's walked away from the table. always when there's a disagreement between the house and the senate on how to pass legislation, which is typical, and it happens in every congress, no matter who controls it, they meet in what's called a conference committee to work things out. the senate's re

if that were the case, the programs would be a much sounder footing. people have ended up getting much more out of the program than they ever paid in. benefits were growing much faster than the tax contributions. with the baby boom peeking out, that burden of paying -- there were promises that grow much faster. we will have to rethink how to make that affordable. it does not leave money for the necessary public investments that we need to have. very challenging. host: we have a comment on twitter. my guest has written about her interpretation about what is going on and she is encouraging congress to go big and find a solution. it talks about a debt deal that would save $4 trillion. guest: this is hard. you have to do this because bad things will happen. this is a path to prosperity, a path to economic growth. it is heart to see it will drive the recovery -- it is hard to say. the government has been borrowing for too long. one of the advantages of putting now -- it is wiset deal to not take the stimulus out of the economy. this can help businesses inve