you can see the south lawn of the white house and the president and first lady limo.there to make the short drive to capitol hill. >> reporter: they will. the state of the union speech is so important to the president particularly as you head into an election. the challenge of this kind of speech, we all know it's an election year. you have to lay down your political markers without appearing to be too partisan to the american public. what the public wants to hear from the president is his vision from the country and sense of what he's accomplished over the last year. the challenge, i think, for barack obama, going forward is to make this election not a referendum on the economy but a choice between his vision and the republican vision. we heard senator shun sthune sa >> here they go. the president and first lady walking out to the car. you can tell it's a nice night. she's not even wearing an overcut. you're on the north lawn and they're getting in the limb poe on the south lawn. >> reporter: you can see her getting in, in royal blue. i'm told she's the only one ridi

we are still on lock down for the north part of the launch they came back the south lawn safely. those with the right access could leave. press has to go through the north and we can't do that right now because that's where the devices are. right now the secret service is checking it out. working with police and the secret service to make sure everyone is safe. >> the devices have the attention of the secret service the protestorsers out there? >> they are. there were about a thousand when they started but it's now been whittled down to maybe 500. i have to be honest i'm in the basement so i'm not even allowed to actually see out there. but from the agent i was speaking with here on site, he said a lot had disbursed. they disbursed almost immediately after they throw the smoke bombs. it's hard for the police. the police said no arrests have been made -- sorry, the secret service said no arrests have been made. it's hard to do that because they can't tell who sent it. >> any further niece we will be back to you. thank you. >> thanks. >> and the captain of the recked cruise ship is

i said no, nobody but the president of the united states lands on the south lawn.i would if we got too close to the white house -- [laughter] that that might be a products we agreed it would take me to andrews. they flew me to andrews, and when i landed at andrews, white house van took me to the underground bunker where dick cheney was out and the other senior officials. about this time that's when they had this secure videoconference with the president. he was frustrated he was now ready to come home. we waited. we waited for the president. all my letters have been relocated to commercial buildings in downtown d.c., tim flanagan and i were the only learned in the white house from my staff but and finally about 7:00, i ran into karen hughes, communicate and director, and we went down to the oval office and waited for the president to land on the south lawn. and afterwards he went back into his private stay with me, karen, condi rice and andy, chief of staff with the president. we worked on his speech for the nation that night we talked about what happened that day.

they said we will land you on the south lawn. i said, i said nobody but the president of the united states lands on the south lawn. plus i would if we got too close to the white house -- [laughter] that that might be a problem. so we agreed it would take me to andrews, and they flew me to introduce and when i landed at andrews, there was a white house stand there. committee underground bunker or dick cheney was out and other senior officials. about this time that's when had this secure videoconference with the president. he was frustrated. he was now ready to come home. we waited, we waited for the president all my lovers have relocated to commercial buildings in downtown d.c. tim flanigan and i were the only lawyers in the white house from my staff. and, finally, about 7:00, i ran into karen hughes, communications director, and we went down to the oval office and waited for the president to land on the south lawn. and afterwards we went back into his private study, me, karen, condi rice and chief of staff with the president. we

the helicopter land on the south lawn. the president walks out.ay to chicago to attend this fundraiser as we were talking about. often times from where we are, we with peer inside the oval office windows and you'll see the president meeting with staff. yesterday it wasn't staff but angelina jolie and brad pitit. she was screening the new film she directed. >> finally, the first lady launched her twitter account today. immediately picked up more than 100,000 followers. i checked your twitter account. you've been on for some time and you have about 2,000. >> reporter: i'm something of a slacker. let me correct your figure here. as of ten minutes it was 138, 1 138,241. this was launched by the obama campaign. and her staff openly admitted they will be doing most of the tweeting. when she tweets, she'll billion signing it, m.o. >> fantastic. thanks so much for joining us. >>> stay with us. today's top lines are coming up. we thought he was a bear. >> if you could be any animal, which one would you be? >> probably an elephant. >> why? s s. >>> here ar

>> reporter: the president just did land on the south lawn. him walking solo back to the oval office. behind him is the congresswoman from south florida. jack lew as of 10:00 a.m. this morning is now the white house chief of staff. bill daley bid good-bye. the president spent three days traveling. today in detroit the major speech. there was one just after that. he spoke of the american promise and this is what the race is boiling down to. it's two competing narratives and two competing definitions of that promise that the president is talking about. on the gop side as the president is trying to characterize it as this unbridled capitalism where people get left behind. be rich get richer, the poor get poorer. first the the image that the president is presenting of his program encouraging fair play, a level playing field and a shot at the golden ring. the president has been hitting that hard. he gave them a rousing speech e reprising many of the themes. >> mike, thanks very much. i'm sure it's just a coincidence that the states are states that

particular snow on the south lawn of the area. anne arundel county. p.g. county. about a half inch on the grassy surfaces. right here in the baltimore area, looks like cold spring lane seems to be the northern extent of flurry activity. take ape look around -- a look around the city. ure can see that line. north of us, not a drop in towson. anywhere north. city. south of the city. airport has some light snow. most of it has been right on route 50 there, from annapolis to d.c. on the lawn surfaces. and across southern portions of maryland as well. the western sections of the area haven't seen much at all. in fact, north and west of the city. all of this has been mainly in the form of rain. but in the last two or three hours, from d.c. over toward easton and cambridge, that's where we're seeing the light snow. for the next hour or two, you'll probably see some more. it could be half inch or more accumulations on the grassy surfaces. the streets will be wet. later tonight, any wet streets, if there's freezing conditions, of course, there will be salting if anything h

don't walk in the ivy in the south lawn. >> now you know. i don't care who you are.a on the some of the less glamorous realities of living in the white house. we took the time to give us a personal tour of the east wing where she keeps her office. it's filled with photographs of the first family, unscripted and private, and she talked about raising their daughters in a bubble and how important it is to let them live a normal life. that's very important to her. we'll have the first lady's east wing tour ahead and it's something you will see only on cbs this morning. >> we'll also take a look at the other news this morning with bravo's and cohen who will join us to friends are searching for a 15-year-old girl >>> 8:25. good morning, i'm grace lee. family and friends are searching for a 15-year-old girl from hayward darlene singh. she may need medical assistance because she suffers from social anxiety disorder. >>> dozens of parents were car camping outside of a kindergarten school in santa clara trying to hold a spot in line for registration at don callejon school. reg

south carolina? >> reporter: well, people go back and forth on this issue of bain capital. it's really funny, newt gingrich is here right on the lawn a little while ago. this was a bipartisan event, talking about the housing market, and gingrich didn't really mention bain by name. what he talked more about was the need for transparency in the market, transparency in the bailouts that occurred that people talk so much about. i asked him whether he's also talking about transparency with regard to bain. he said, all he's doing is asking questions. he was shocked how people have gotten so defensive about it. but those questioning have caused real heartburn, even among one or two of the candidates also running for president, like jon huntsman. he doesn't want to go there on this issue. he says he would rather talk about mitt romney's job creation record, for example. let's listen to that. >> he was 47th overall? job creation most importantly. we were number one in job creation in our state. i think that is worth looking at and scrutinizing, as compared to bain capital. >> reporter: so people here say on the one hand it's not a good idea

april when i just joined the right cause project i knew there would be a release on the lawn in a square in the south of iraq swept in that's why i went into politics what do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me is no see i foresaw the rises and i sold my last words in advance youth and this time it was the same thing is it intuition i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the country and the world wide and intuition added together all these things enable you to make the right moves. if you were with a profit off that's here in full in just over fifteen minutes time here and now for the meantime though let's get to some other news headlines from around the world this hour time for the r.t. well the al qaeda linked militants have left the central yemeni town of rada which they captured last week in return the insurgents demanded the release of several prisoners in the formation of a council to run the city as news of the gunman's withdrawal spread residents took to the streets in celebration

lawn bring. but romney told a voter on the phone, south carolina could be close. still romney's committed to fighting on to florida. rick santorum fourth in me voting polls. >> reporter: ron paul may skip florida for nevada and minnesota. newt gingrich is hoping this state this evening could be his ticket to the gop nomination. >> after the polls close here at 7:00, results in this much-watched primary will be available soon after. live from columbia, i'm steve handlesman, news4. >>> and even as south carolina votes, we're looking ahead to florida. the candidates will debate on a special edition of "rock center." you can watch it monday night at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc 4. >>> coming up in the broadcast, how marion barry's friends say he's doing after surgery. >>> and the battle over old town that's underway as we speak. and we're staying on top of our winter witness, chuck will have this full forecast right after this. >>> d.c. councilmember marion barry is out of the hospital tonight. the 75-year-old had surgery on his urinary tract. people who spoke to him s

south suburban university park. she was rushed jet advocate christ medical center in oak lawn where she died. her parents were not at home tonight but neighbors we talked to were in disbelief that this happened to such a sweet little girl. this is third time this has happened in the chicago area in the last three months, you may remember the three world should i a singleton was killed in november when a 27 in. older model tv fell on her while she was playing in her ankle what home he and on october 30th claremont was 6 years old and died after a 36 in. television fell on top of him. this latest case involving a four year-old girl from university park and we were hoping to get more information from police at some point on how this happened and of course as we get more details will bring them to you. >> a south side family is looking for answers surrounding the death of a teenager who collapsed at the cook county juvenile detention center, 16 year-old died saturday afternoon the medical examiner's office told the chicago tribune that she was playing basketball and had a verbal altercation with

south carolina and it's getting personal. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn and they had illegal immigrants who were working there, so we went to the dpaep and said, look, you can't have any illegals working on our property. i'm running for office for pete's sake. >> that's a ad. gingrich and rick perry launched high-budget campaign wars in the state against the front-runner in hopes of slowing his momentum. romney's camp says that they are ready for the attacks and they're prepared to launch an ad campaign of their own. >>> d.c. police are on the hunt for man who sexually assaulted a juv night. it happened around 5:00 in the 5000 block of hayes near merritt middle school. >>> this morning montgomery county police need your help in finding a man who broke into two homes this week and sexually assault add woman. he tied up the mother, the housekeeper and the son. detectives believe the same man robbed a woman at gunpoint inside her wheaton townhouse tuesday morning. take a look. this is the person police are looking for. he used the victims' atm cards

leadup now to south carolina, including a new york times editorial in south carolina with con fed rat flag still waves on the front lawne capitol, largely because of the efforts of the state gop, it remains good primary politics to stir up racial animosity and then link it to president obama. are you -- >> obama is appealing to their worse instincts instead of better instincts. >> do you notice they quote the new york times and abc and they use the anonymous critics say to get their point of view across. >> just like cnn blamed abc for cnn last night. look, it is not newt gingrich playing the race card, it is ann curry of nbc playing the race card. if you want to focus on the race card, don't focus on something like this because you are just cheapening the issue and it ought not be cheap ended. >> one of the things that came up about governor romney, he has these bank accounts in the cayman islands. you guys about a report and romney said he paid the 15% race is greater than most americans when, in fact, well, let's roll this tape first. >> mitt romney spent most of the day responding to calls that he release those tax

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lead-up now to south carolina, quoting a "new york times" editorial, in south carolina, where confederate flags still wave on the front lawn of the state capital, largely because of the efforts of the state gop, it remains good primary politics to stir up racial animosity and then link it to president obama. are you intentionally playing the race card to win votes? >> you know, modern liberals are just, i think frankly totally off the deep end. i went to the martin luther king jr. breakfast monday morning with a republican congressman who is an african-american. tim scott. we talked about the corridor of shame, which president obama campaigned in in south carolina and has done nothing for. i outlined a plan to build an i-73 corridor that would turn that corridor of shame into a corridor of hope. >> i'm asking you, newt gingrich about the nature of the way you're characterizing president obama as a food stamp president. go ahead. >> i'm trying to make a point to you, which is when conservatives care about the poor, and conservatives offer ideas to help the poor, and conservatives suggest that the poor would rather have a pa

south carolina and getting personal. ♪ >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. we hired a lawnompany to knmo our lawn. we went to the company and said you can't have any illegals on my property. i'm running for office. can't have any illegal. >> a new web ad. it highlights some of mitt romney's biggest gaffes. gingrich and rick perry are also taking aim at romney's time as the head of a major venture capital firm. bane capital. >> i happen to think that the companies like bane capital could have come in and help these companies. if they truly were a venture capitalist, but they are not. they are vulture capitalists. >> i think it is about envy and about class warfare. i think it is something we expected to come from president obama. we didn't expect that newt gingrich and rick perry would become the witnesses for his prosecution, if you will. and i don't think it helped them. >> romney's camp is preparing to respond with an ad campaign of their own. >> if you stick with me, we are going to finish what we started in 2008. >> president obama is rallying his base for his re-electi

snow that accumulated on your lawns or the mulchy areas, that kind of thing, you will likely have fog this morning. fog is thick in some places primarily from d.c. to points south where we have most of the snow yesterday. so some fog out there this morning. no fog advisory in effect yet. let's take a look at the satellite-radar composite this morning. we have the fog and some clouds out there. we to not have precipitation so we are expecting drier conditions today. we will eventually get some more precipitation in here but that will be tomorrow, not today. there you can see there is some rainfall across southern portions of the united states and the next time we get precip, temperatures will be too warm to support snow. we'll pull this out. there you go. let's take a look at the current temperatures at the area airports, 33 at reagan national. dulles, international, 31. bwi marshall, 34 degrees. here is your forecast for today. we'll see kind of a mixed bag early and then sunny skies later on today. we're looking for a high around 50 degrees today, maybe a little bit warmer than that. so actually going to be a nice day following our day of snow. and it will be

south. >> all right, thank you, doug. >>> the first lady paid a visit to an alexandria elementary school today, making a big announcement about healthier school lunches. mich ole 'bama sat down with students at park lawnlementary this afternoon she announced a joint effort with the u.s. department of agriculture calling for higher nutrition standards for school lunch. celebrity chef rachael ray was there, too. the new federal standards mean more frurkts vegetables and whole grapes in the cafeteria. >> when we send our kids to school, we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we are trying to keep from them when they are at home. >> popular options like pizza will be offered but healthier version with whole wheat crust and healthier cheese. >> a way to keep the pounds off. >>> the district is near the top when it comes to commuters who walk or bike to work there is a new study out from the alliance for biking and walking. and that study puts d.c. as second in the nation, boston was on top with san francisco, seattle and new york rounding out the top five. d.c. is also the sixth safest for pedestrians and cyclists. that's based on the number of deadl

lawn of the state capitol in columbia. we're waiting for former newt gingrich to get here along with j.c. watts. the big controversial here in southtinues to raise about mitt romney and his days at bain capital, where he was laying off officials and gutting companies and a venture capitalist. it's a proxy debate over the merits of free market capitolism. capital lichl. newt gingrich defended himself with piers morgan. >> then concede every effort that i made to stay positive, every effort that i made to talk romney out of this failed. you can't disarm him unless you get him out of the race. unless this is the objective reality, we have no choice. >> reporter: so, suzanne, that's sort of the center of this entire controversy. some republicans are saying it's a bad idea to talk about this because it only weakens the presumptive front-runner in republican race for president. there are others that has v a completely different school of thought. look, this is the type of issue that you have to talk about, find out how romney can handle it because at the end of the day it will will come up if he's the nominee and he has to face democrat

south bay, northbound route. most of those have little glitch remaining from the morning commute. however, southbound side 101, i just got word of a two-car accident in lawnsing out of their respective cars but an ambulance has been called, currently blocking your two left lanes. further up the peninsula, ease you drive heading to the lower bay shore. 101 across the water, golden gate bridge, low clouds hovering around. not a problem for the commute. more folks heading to the city friday into the weekend. that's what happens, jon. back to you. >> thank you very much. and thank you for joining us. another local report for you in one half hour. the "today" show rolls on. ♪ >>> that of course president obama, the first lady, mrs. obama, one of the most photographed couples in the world. what's it like really living inside the white house? monday on "today" we're going to talk to the author of a new revealing book about life at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> should be good. >>> coming up in this half hour, what is hot for 2012 from bold prints to old hollywood glamour. which styles you'll want to scoop up on your next shopping trip and they won't break the bank