the corp. gives us a complete assessment of the damages, estimated cost, and time line for repairs to be completed. i don't want a discuss on climate change, you what we ought to is there are patterns ever weather changes that we need to be prepared for changes in the future, not expecting to wait for another thousand years for another epic flood. thank you, madam chair, thank you, senator inhofe. >> thank you very much. we'll call up the second panel of colleagues. senator john thune, roy brunt, hoven, and -- we welcome you. do we have somebody changing the name plates 1234 all -- plates? all right. here we go. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> senators and conmen, welcome to -- congressmen, welcome to you all. you have busy days, we understand that. as soon as you're complete, feel free to go to your next obligation. senator john thune, we welcome you. senator thune. >> thank you, madam chair for holding this important hearing, and i appreciate the examination you with giv

the president of dow chemical corp. a boat and -- wrote a book and called it, "make it in america." he took up the same thing i'm -- i do not know if that name means anything to you, but he was one of the few creating intel corp., creating tens of thousands of jobs. the both have the proposition that we were the most innovative, inattentive developing nation of products in the world. we have been and we are today. we invent so much of the new technology in this country. i want to give you an example of what the andy's are concerned about. that is that we have invented products here, we have innovated those products, and we have developed those products, but unfortunately in too many cases, as andy says, they are taken to scale overseas. what does he mean by that? they are manufactured overseas and sold back here in the united states. that means we are losing american jobs notwithstanding the fact that these are our products. an example -- the kindle. how many of you have one? i bought my grandson one. i bought him one th

four years, the marine corps, i mean for decades the marine corps was known as some circles as the chief force. they were known, i call it the frugal force. that's a little bit more esoteric, but that we were known to be the penny pinchers. so, to begin with we are going back to that. we've had 10 years of what i call cultural planning. and i don't mean we've been squandering this are refusing to nation's wealth, but i do mean that we have been tied up in afghanistan and iraq, and that does cost a lot of money. it does require a lot of new stuff. and some money has not been a problem. it is now. so we are going back to our culture. i promised the senate and the house was that i will not ask for anything i don't need. excuse me, i will not ask for things that i want. i will only ask for things that i need. and that's what i promised the leadership and that's where we are. so 2.0 we've gone back now, we have, for an example we have 40,000 vehicles, that's tanks, seven-ton trucks, humvees, mraps, the whole thing. we're going to have, we don't need 40,000. we need about, for this 186 force,

for years the marine corps -- i mean, for decades the marine corps was known as -- in some circles as the cheap force. they were known -- i'd call it the frugal force; that's a little bit more esoteric. but we were known to be the penny-pinchers. so to begin with, we're going back to that. you know, we've had 10 years of what i call a culture of plenty. and i don't mean that we've been squandering this or abusing the nation's wealth, but i do mean that we've been obviously tied up in afghanistan and iraq. and that does cost a lot of money; that does require a lot of new stuff. and so money has not been a problem. it is now. so we are going back to our culture of plenty. what i promised the senate and the house was, is that i will not ask for anything i don't need -- excuse me -- i will not ask for things that i want; i will only ask for things that i need. and that's what i promised the leadership and that's where we are in the marine corps. so to your point, we've gone back now. we've got -- for example, we've got 40,000 vehicles in the marine corps. that's tanks. that's 7-ton trucks

. @ >>> this morningserç the u.s. ay corpeers will relies a new database outlining conditions of 14,000 miles of left s across the united states. the database was among the things congress ordered the corp to establish in the wake of hurricane katrina. critics say the problem is the database doesn't include what is believed to be more than 100,000 additional miles of levees not covered by the corp's safety program. blasting the government saying the government isn't working fast enough to assess risk. >>> >> san francisco's mexican museum is getting a million dollars to build a new home. the $800,000 grant will pay for the design and development of a 40,000 square foot building on jesse square. the museum is currently at a temporary space. the new facility will allow the museum to case 14,000 works of art. should be completed in 2016. >> very exciting. >> mike co-with the weather. >>> a lot of sun even -- even this weekend and out to the coast. 11:18. good morning. northwest from sue toe, hazy, that's what you are going -- go

in champagne and you are sitting there i want to do t >>> this morningserç the u.s. ay corpof engineers will relies a new database outlining conditions of 14,000 miles of left s across the united states. the database was among the things congress ordered the corp to establish in the wake of hurricane katrina. critics say the problem is the database doesn't include what is believed to be more than 100,000 additional miles of levees not covered by the corp's safety program. blasting the government saying the government isn't working fast enough to assess risk. >>> >> san francisco's mexican museum is getting a million dollars to build a new home. the $800,000 grant will pay for the design and development of a 40,000 square foot building on jesse square. the museum is currently at a temporary space. the new facility will allow the museum to case 14,000 works of art. should be completed in 2016. >> very exciting. >> mike co-with the weather. >>> a lot of sun even -- even this weekend and out to the coast. 11:18. good morning. northwest from sue toe, hazy, that's what you are goi

coal miners signal peak for four hundred million dollars the american firm expects the corp of will help you get into new markets and increase production gun vorse says it wants to diversify from oil trading and into coal expecting demand to grow faster than crude in the next twenty years brings us nicely to the oil price it's down continuing from the decline on wednesday on fears demand may falter in europe and the u.s. france's president nicolas sarkozy says talks with germany to boost the firepower of the region's bailout fund have stalled take a look at what's happening with european stocks they are down as investors assessed efforts to fix the region's debt problems there on the sidelines a sea of red all across the board financials weighing on footsie manufacturing companies among top losers in frankfurt russian markets continue to march into the red investors are moving into cash and dissipating in possible worsening of

for decades, the marine corps was known as the cheap force. they were known as the ruble -- the frugal forece. we were known as the penny pinchers. we are going back to that. we have had 10 years in the culture of money. we have been tied up in afghanistan and iraq. that requires a lot of new stuff. money has not been a problem. we are going back to our culture of money. i will not ask for anything i do not need. excuse me, i would not ask for things that i want. i will only ask for things that i need. to your point, we have gone back. we have 40,000 vehicles. that is 7 ton trucks and humvees. the whole thing. we do not meet 40,000 vehicles. -- not need 40,000 to be a close. we are not going to recapitalize. -- 40,000 vehicles. what is going to get us through the next 8-10 years? we will sell its. we cannot -- we will sell it. we will make a plan we can afford based on our budget. there are some vehicles that will have to be replaced. this pulls at the hearts of congress and mothers and thought this. -- and fathers. they have some vehicles tha

as a manager with the army corps of engineers who was able to both let contracts and certify the contract the work was completed. the indictment alleges the four men scammed a $45 million contract to supply information technology and security to the corps. more than doubling the real cost and siphoning off the surplus into shell corporations. >> one of the most brazen federal procurement fraud scandals in our nation's history. >> prosecutors allege the men used the money to buy expensive real estate, bmw's, rolex, high end liquor, luxury hotel rooms, and flat screen tv's. prosecutors say the spir tores were plotting a bigger payday. all of this apparently made possible by the special rules congress. the contracts were steered through one based in dulles called iactec. >> special rules for alaska native corporations 40 years ago to help settle claims. no bid contracts up to $1.3 billion. and as this case suggests, when you are talking that kind of money, the possibilities of corruption are enormous. at u.s. district court, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> lawyers for those men say they had too

-- did not stop the marine corps from participating in the marine corps marathon. it was the best marathon time in 15 years. >> i did not know how big of a leader had. i was just trying to stay on pace, trying to continue to run some of all the way to the finish. the fact that i won by a fair amount that is just a blessing. >> and the top female runner but ms. from turkey. -- female runner was from turkey. >> the weather did not hold them back. it seemed to help. >>> 32 degrees at 8:00 a.m. at reagan national airport. it was cold. >> it was freezing out there. >> a week from today our sun will set a little bit after 5:00 p.m. >> here it comes. >> it is quiet and dry outside now looking down pennsylvania avenue. but temperatures are falling. look at the high temperature at reagan national airport, about 10 degrees below average for this time of year, making it up to 55 degrees. it is still a lot better than the 43 degrees we had yesterday. the wind is nonexistent. it is 30 degrees and gaithersburg. the texas over to fairfax where it is 31 degrees. -- that takes us ov

. >> one of the reasons that i personally joined the marine corps was for education. >> reporter: the department of defense allows enlisted soldiers to spend $3500 a year for their education. but the marine corps cut that down to $875. >> which only allows us to take one class a year. >> reporter: this is different from the montgomery gi bill which entitles an education strip pend after military service. >> they only can go to one class a year. >> blind sided. we did not get a survey or when it was sent out. never got an e-mail or phone call. >> reporter: this new rule will force them to delayer that education or dip into their gi bill early something they hope to use for their education or use for their family after they get out of the service. >> they may transfer over to the other services or getting out entirely and using the gi bill to get a civilian job. >> we feel like we are being targeted. why the marines? we are the first to fight and the first to get out there making the sacrifice for the country. >> we reached out to the marine corps trying to get an explanation for the ch

but according to the marine corps website starting october 1st, the marine corps cut that number down$875. >> which only allowed marines to take one class a year. >> this is different from the montgomery gi bill which entitles enlisted soldiers a monthly education stipend after completing the minimum required service. >> the marine corps said they had polled marines and they said they only attend one class per year. >> i definitely feel blind sided because we never got any word of no survey. i don't know what was conducted, when it was sent out. never got an e-mail, phone call, in ig. >> these marines say this new rule will force them to delay their education or dip into their gi bill assistance early, something they hope to use to further their education or use for their family after getting out of the service. >> honestly, a lot of marines are going to start getting out, maybe transferring to the other services. you know, maybe getting out entirely and just using their gi bill and getting a civilian job. >> we feel like we're being targeted. why the marines when we're the first to b

if you could have witnessed the conversation that we had yesterday with the corps of engineers, it would have sounded like a foreign language to you. because we were so deep into the barrages budgetary elements and authorizations, things of that nature. the administration has handcuffed itself. i think that part of that is helping you work through that morass of procedural minutia. just trying to make a success on what is going on back there. we said we were going to do a bunch of stuff, and knowing how to interpret that with what is real is a part of the role that we play. one of the things that we have done through the years, months of delegation numbers and key committee staff, if they have been raising your hecche fees, we know that we can deal with the issue. it allows your supporters in the congress to follow. >> ok, commissioners. most of these matters come to us without warning. >> it is nice to see wall. >> other comment? or next item? >> i was going to take the general managers' report as a whole. >> we have an update from ms. laponte. her parents are here today as well. welcom

regardless of the size of the marine corps at the end of the day every unit in the united states marinecorps will be ready to respond to today's crisis today. finally we have to keep faith with our people and do that because it is the right thing to do and necessary for us to maintain a high quality all volunteer force. in all our deliberations we need to send a loud and unmistakable message that the contribution that our men and women have made are recognized and appreciated. there are certainly many different definitions of keeping faith. something attributed to george washington gives us a good baseline this morning. washington said the willingness of future generations to surge out directly proportional to how they perceive veteran beverly wars were treated and appreciated by our nation. those words to be seen as relevant today as they were 200 years ago. to get back to your specific question, what would happen if the marine corps was 150,000. when we went through the first structure review effort we came up with the size of the marine corps of 186,000. that is a single major contin

in the marine corps, navy, we always started every event talking about safety. it struck me that the safety for this event, they do it every day, but it is so visible today. everywhere you look today, there coast guard vessels providing safety. let's give a special hand for the united states coast guard. [applause] i want to thank, o commadore nolan and the st. francis yacht club. [applause] fleet week is something that we raise funds for to be able to do great things for the people. this particular event has been sponsored by bank of america. i want to thank bank of america for sponsoring this today. [applause] we're blessed to have a mayor that is very supportive of what we do, not just during the one week, but it all times, he is particularly supportive of the united states military and naval services. please help me welcome our mayor, the honorable mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. it has been our honor and pleasure to join all of you here at the st. francis yacht club to celebrate and welcome the fleet to fleet week. this is the 30th an

today personally apologized for failing to protect the peace corp. volunteers. >> the peace corp.as not guilty always been safe, i deeply regret that. >> reporter: he said his agency has not done enough to protect peace corp. workers from crimes and attacks. one volunteer cape kuse was killed. she has blown the whistle on her alleged killer accusing him of raping a number of women. >> cape kuse was an amazing american who dedicated her life for people who had suffered from her tratdy. >> reporter: aaron williams was not the peace corp. director when cape was killed. but says the agency has improved safety. >>> royalty is set to arrive here in california next week. england's prince harry is set to start a helicopter training corp. at the naval air facility in el centro. the prince is an army captain learning to ply an apache helicopter. >> john, i love you mijo and i'm going to miss you so much. >>> tonight two mothers give us a closer look at the sons they've lost. both of them killed at that shooting at the cupertino quarry. >>> frustration over an economy is giving rise to a gra

this would have left the corps an all-white service. as world war ii progressed, attitudes changed and reality took hold. once given the chance to prove themselves, it became impossible to deny that these marines were just as capable as any other marine. regardless of race or color, creed or national origin, according to general jay amos -- jamente f. amos, the -- james f. amos, the commandant of the marine corps, and i quote, montford point marines serve with distinction. in three of the bloodiest battles in the pacific. saipan, iwo jima and oak that roy. the month -- okinawa. the montford point marines fought with such tenacity, valor and distinction that the commandant at that time was moved to declare the negro marines are no longer on trial. they are marines, period. their actions reflected the finest atributes of the leather neck fighting spirit and blazed the trail for generations of african-americans in the marine corps. the special recognition that congress has already afforded to first african-american servicemen of the navy, a

ahead, remembering a husband and father at the marine corps marathon. that story is next. >> mitchell: finally this sunday, today was the day for the 36th annual marine corps marathon in washington. among the thousands taking part was a family with a very special reason for running. elaine quijano has more. >> reporter: when 31 jold shalan webb describes her husband, army staff sergeant christopher webb what first comes to mind is this. >> it was just like his dream come true to have a family. >> reporter: after five years of marriage he realized that dream, becoming a father to a little girl, mary. but two months later he said good-bye to his family and headed to iraq. >> i remember asking him what if something happens and he was just like, oh, honey, nothing is going to happen, and i believed him. >> reporter: for four months they kept in touch online almost every day. but in march of 2007, men in uniform knocked on her door. >> so they came in, it was just like on tv. >> reporter: you didn't want to open the door? >> no. it's like your heart falls to

the first african-americans to join the marine corps. are barred from being stationed with whites at nearby camp lejeune. they were the last to accept blacks under orders from president roosevelt in 1941. like the army's buffalo soldiers and the air men, the so-called mumford point marines fought in world war ii, korea and vietnam. unlike their counterparts, they have never been captured in popular song or hollywood films or recognized nationally. >> they came because they felt in their heart of hearts they needed them to be a part of what was good about america. thank you very much for joining me. >> mire pleasure. >> so many people are wondering why most of us never heard the stories of these men. why? >> i think most people have never heard the story of the marines because they were just ordinary gentlemen who came from all walks of live and did extraordinary things at the time. they took part in being pioneers for the marine corps and never considered themselves as pioneers and exceptional people. we understand at the time what they

dry weather for the marine corps marathon. dry and cool for the children on monday night for halloween. now to lisa baden. >>> straight into the district, things are quiet. i spoke with vdot, no major construction this morning. kenilworth avenue, 295 an and good. looks good on 66 in manassas and centreville. travel times in our favor across the american legion bridge. 270 as well. metro rail and vre reporting normal service. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 53 degrees. >> the st. louis cardinals have another communication break down and another elimination and being sixth in the world series. tim brant has a preview. >>> on the next "anderson" -- i am conquering my fear of heights. on my next show, we all have thirs. i will show you how to face them and overcome them. on the next "anderson." ♪ ♪ [ gasp ] [ mom ] my husband -- he thinks it's a 3-sheeter.ttéwmu.vog#wvs#q(p4á)uog5un(zé4bóá)hmeg6k$'jefpl,[f=ay-c;l @n3p i say 1-sheeter. bounty can clean the mess with less. [ female announcer ] in this lab demo 1 sheet of bounty leaves

it ended up being a bit of a role changer for women in the marine corps, the way the marine corps wastilizing its women. i did not know that. i made a joke earlier, if you're ever confused about the extent you might be expecting some sort of greater change, if cnn, fox news, the associate press are behind you, solid chance that you are. it's also -- in early 2000 i deployed to helmand province, afghanistan, with my unit. i was to communicate an officer. that's essentially a gas station for the air wing. a vital job for the initial entry of bring forces into afghanistan but not something i had originally thought was going to throw me on foot patrol. in that capacity my squadron had also asked me to be intelligence officer. noticing i suppose i had those inherent qualities. [laughter] so when i arrived in country i did all of my turn of with existing unit which was a special-purpose, sort of holding ground for the marine corps so that larger bring brigade could get on deck. so the units there had a lot of interesting gadget of the infrastructure of the base and thinks we would be taking

she is from the cell corp. and the liaison to alas and head of our sponsorship corp. and has earned the nickname of the energizer bunny. in there you go. [applause] finally, in our boston office, as you know we have the collaboration where our financials is done by the cell corp., which is headquartered in boston, but we also have another staff person. her name is hondya salim. she is also an energizer bunny. watch her come up here. [applause] they are pour into sleep with their bunny's tonight. -- they are going to sleep with their bunny's tonight. it is time to turn it over to carlos, and he will finish the program we have for you today. and this is probably the first time you're going to hear this. we have a raffle on friday afternoon that you have to be present to win. it will get all kinds of tickets. the prizes are listed in your program, and they are not out. you might want to start thinking about that and see what you can do to get those tickets for the final raffled, because you have to be there to be able to win it, and remember that marriott cheese will be t

the vice-president for the harris corp.. the region chief of staff for federal health and the medical center. former wisconsin gov., president and ceo of a global technology nonprofit. and rebecca, the manager of employee engagement in disaster relief for hewlett-packard. the panel brings a great deal of expertise across many fields to our discussion today. we certainly want you to be involved in our discussion, so as questions come to your mind, who write them down. after the presentations, we would love to have discourse between new and our panel. you will see his extensive biography in your program, it is written more eloquently than mine. he is the senior vice president for a pharmaceutical company where he spent the last 39 years of his career. >> is a real pleasure for me to be here, particularly talking about this topic because i am a california native. i have family here and i certainly have lived through a number of the issues we have had for natural disasters in this area. i work for a corporation headquartered righ

it's the 36th annual marine corps. marathon with more than 20,000 participating and thousands more cheering them on. derrick ward is where the race started in arlington. how are the runners dealing with the frigid temperatures? i bet you're seeing a lot of gloves out there. >> it's not all that bad. the music they may have to deal with more than anything. i don't know how it affects their concentration. as you look behind me, some of the first runners ending up the 10k portion of the race. i want to show you video for the start of the race. this is the 36th annual marine corps. marathon. it's an iconic race that starts at arlington national cemetery, makes its way past some of the most notable, recognizable spots in the area. lots of interesting aspects in the race this year. for instance, more than 400 runners aren't letting their active duty abroad, even at sea, keep them from participating in this year's event. runners in afghanistan and even aboard the aircraft carrier uss bush will be running equivalent races where

two of them work for the army corps of engineers, a government agency. y the four men schemed to file inflated bills for federal contracting services. how brazen do you believe this was? >> i've been a prosecutor for a while. this is one of the most staggering violations we've seen. >> reporter: the lead prosecutor says they defrauded taxpayers of about $20 million. in their indictment, prosecutors say the two army corps of engineers officials kerry con and michael alexander agreed with a contractor to funnel business. in return, they overbilled the army corps of engineers by $20 million over a four-year period. that money was divided between alexander, lee kohn, his father harry kohn and an official with ei technologies. lee kohn set up shell companies to launder the money stolen by his father. all four have pleaded not guilty. jeffrey jakobovitz is a lawyer. >> we heard the government's version of the facts. obviously, there are two sides to the story. >> reporter: prosecutors say the alleged schemers were not subtle with their money, purchasing several

the annual marine corps marathon this weekend and fox 5 was at the finish line. >> jacket weather asoor. julie wright is in with a look at your halloween traffic report coming up in just a minute.  hey guys, what can i get for you? i would like a decaf 360 calories please. and for you? i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you want the 40 whipped calories on that? uh, you know what... i'll have this instead. [ female announcer ] swap one thing a day for a yoplait light. with 33 flavors all around a hundred calories, a swap a day adds up to amazing. now you can add some crunch to your creamy. yoplait light with granola. >>> welcome back to fox 5 morning news this halloween. taking a live look outside at the capitol dome being shaping up to an a pretty good day. much better than saturday. we asked, you delivered. tons of viewers sending in pictures from saturday's october snowstorm. how cute this is? this person send us a picture of 22-month-old cj enjoying the snow. we've got others for you. this one here is along the pep pen turnpike. pretty scene there. everything just dust

that is how much four men are accused of scamming from the army corps of engineers. >> one of the most brazen federal scandals in our nation's history. >> prosecutions say the money paid for things like rolex watches, sports car, first class airline tickets and other luxuries for these guys. two of them are former army corps of engineer employees and all four are from virginia. they have all been charged with bribery and unlawful kickbacks. they allegedly scammed a 45 million contract to supply information technology and security to the corps, more than doubling the real cost and siphoning off the surplus into shell corporations. >>> new from a story you'll see only on 9. tonight metro is it investigating complangts that a man was taking -- complaints that a man was taken on a four hour ride to nowhere by a cab driver. rory doyle is autistic and he functions at the level of a 7-year-old. he carries a cell phone with gps tracking software. back on september 22nd, he was picked up from the program he attend daily and taken on a roundabout trip that went near andrews air force base and le

after i left the marine corps i spent twenty two years in the marine corps i spent twenty years in veterans advocacy and many of the veterans who came into me with p.t.s.d. or psychological problems the v.a. has these group therapy they call them vet centers the group therapy centers and they just sit around and talk and they have a clinical psychologist or a clinical social worker that kind of leads the group and most of them that i've ever talked to a bit of participated in that i found that very rewarding so so so these sort of help each other and this psychology sort of like that like a talk show host like you know go to them communicate like you well is that true you're good but isn't well it's strange that they're that it's easier for them to be in a group of people who are. human and it's not better for them to be in a group of just ordinary people have of you know they need to be in a group with those who have a similar circumstance a similar and clearly showed the brutally exactly like how do you tell that to normal life well i think it. possibly i can speak for. one of them but i

the u.s. marine corps in iraq. in the year he was here he made a lot of friends and they are in shock tonight. >> it's sad to see someone go so young with so much potential. >> reporter: thomas played on howard's baseball team with alonzo. he can't believe the teammate is gone. >> just a cool guy to be around. he cracked jokes all the time. that was my buddy. i just seen him last week. that's the crazy thing about it. and then you get the news today and you will never see him again. >> reporter: along do was shot to death just after midnight on tuesday in mount rainier maryland. the police chief said it was a robbery gone bad. he was a sophomore music major at howard. this is the youtube video of a musical group he founded and wrote songs for. friends say he had it all, good looks, intelligence, talent and ambition tempered with humility and a desire to help others. >> his presence was big in the building. he would walk through smiling. he was hard to miss him. even people he didn't know he would say what's up and s

and ends up at the marine corp war memorial. about this with -- and joining us live is the maroon corp director. thank you for being with us. >> -- marine corp director. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, laura. >> tell us how this year compares to the past years. and this is the 36th year. >> reporter: it is and every year is special and unique about the marathon to come. the fact that we got 30,000 runners wanting to come to washington, d.c., indian summer and share with the marines to make a statement about their running and that this race is patriotic, $1,500 marines, another 600 sailors and law enforcement. that is one of the safest and most beautiful races we have. it's not about speed but a chance to see all of the bouty that washington, d.c. -- all of the beauty that washington, d.c., has to offer. this year is more special we get to go down independence avenue twice and which gets our runners and spectators to come out and cheer them on, close to the newest monument, the martin luther king memorial. >> is the ro

the press corps? woven a narrative, true or not, that mitt romney is too boring to be the republican presidential candidate and, therefore, can't win against up against barack obama. >> too boring? >> yeah, too boring, too straight. not a hair out of place. and there's this feeling about him running -- he's overlooking desperately for anybody else. >> does that reflect dissatisfaction on the part of republican voters, or boredom on the part of the press corps that doesn't find him to be an exciting storyline? >> i believe it's some of both but mostly dissatisfaction on the part of reporters. jon stewart said this primary is like "american idol" in reverse. they keep adding people rather than taking one away. >> it was interesting to see the joking relationship he enjoys with the press corps. sometimes he be can belittling to reporters, as well. >> i was next to mark halpern, he was calling him by name. all the national reporters knew him like they were cousins. it was amazing. i not the reporters woul

sharp and winds through the district before ending at the marine corps memorial there are a lot of streets closed along potomac you can find a list on myfoxdc.com. >> metro opened early for the marathon if you are riding the rails expect delays for track work on the green, red and orange lines some trains will be single tracking and four stations on the green line are closed water front, navy yard, anacostia and congress heights will reopen before tomorrow's rush hour. >>> a new short cut that should make the commute easier, riders can transfer from red to blue and yellow lines at no charge metro just opened the crossing, riders can now get off at west or north and transfer between the two stations for free. >>> summers earthquake not only cam damaged washington -- damaged washington monument and the cathedral t main hall of union station may have been damaged. plaster fell from the ceiling and hit a worker friday. they say it should be open tomorrow passengers are using the side entrances. >> the deadliest attack on nato in kabul a suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a