if to you break down just the defense side, and i think it's always great to look at these in mass. it's important because it looks at the whole budget. that's key one. i'm glad that if we're going to dust off any plans, it's a plan to look across the federal government and federal spending at large. but if i'm just breaking down the defense piece, this plan centered around roughly $850 billion in reductions. the baselines have changed, but you get the rough idea. focus primarily on modernization. f-35, v-22. pick your program. it's probably in there for reduction or cancellation altogether. but there were some ground breaking changes on a bipartisan level to talk about defense entitlements. it's something i know a lot of our colleagues up here and at brookings and around town are thinking about and have looked at. the way you pay those, not today's force. i don't want to go there. it's not the conversation we're going to have about how you pay tomorrow's force. and changes to tri-care, should d.o.d. operate commissaries? should we let the private sector do that? interesting ideas u

if to you break down just the defense side, and i think it's always great to look at these in mass. it's important because it looks at the whole budget, just like rivlin/domenici. that's one play and that's key one. i'm glad that if we're going to dust off any plans, it's a plan to look across the federal government and federal spending writ large, but if i'm just breaking down the defense piece, this plan centered around roughly $850 billion in total over a decade of defense spending reductions. now the baselines have changed so all the numbers are different, but you get the rough idea. focus primarily on modernization. f-35, v-22. pick your program. it's probably in there for reduction or cancellation altogether. but there were some ground breaking changes on a bipartisan

these storms. it is the contrast in these air masses that is producing at stormy weather out there. eventually that does drift east. scattered clouds tonight. cool, 55-64 below. during the day tomorrow, we might see a few more clouds. the sun will still be more or less the dominant feature. upper 70's cost to around 80, the southeast winds at 2-7 miles per hour. and 1 foot chop, the bay water temperatures in the mid 70's. here is the future cat -- future cast. we are dry, watch the time line. these are hung up in the mountains. we are still kind of dry but we're starting to pick up some clouds. overnight sunday into monday, rain chances creep up. this is a cold front coming in but it is a weak one. it does not look like this will be nasty rainfall or anything like that. monday morning into monday afternoon, we could see some scattered showers and the storm activity. sunday's forecast calls for a variable cloudy sky. 73, the high. it's like the rain will miss ocean city on monday. something coming up, summer begins officially based on the stars and all of that, wednesday. remember, t

we'll see a lot of instability start toed in as these frontal systems in -- start to build in as these frontal systems invade our warm air massace to set us up for showers or a rumble of thunder. on futurecast here's monday in the evening hours. wet weather starts to push in. tuesday becomes a rainout day and heavy pockets of rainfall to deal with wednesday and keep your eyes on the skies. make sure you stay hydrated in all this hot weather, plenty of water, lightweight colored loose clothing. check on your elderly neighbors. don't leave your pets and children in cars and keep your pets in the shade with plenty of water. five-day forecast, here we go, rumble of thunder possibly monday night, another tuesday, could see showers wednesday and thursday before we clear out friday. if you look, our temperature throughout the week gradually starts to drop, get a break in humidity as well. >> that does it for us. fox 5 news is always on at www.myfoxdc.com. keep it right here, though. sports xtra is two minutes away.

we'll be watching these storms as they continue to develop in this warm air mass right now. in the baltimore area, this storm is to the forth of us and south of us. 96. our humidity and dew point have come way, way down in the past 2 hours. humidity's only 29%. that is some very dry air. the barometer is holding steady. 73 and light rain in ocean city, 87 in cumberland, d.c. had some showers close by, but they're back up to 96. severe thunderstorm warning for a little while longer in southern charles county and along the potomac in washington county. most of the east coast under a severe thoarm watch until 9:00

this fire jumped the containment lines and went right into town and burned down these hillsides, mass evacuations ine area. here's the location of the fire burning along highway 24 between there and 25. only about a mile from the u.s. air force academy. it does not look like they're in any danger there. but 32,000 people evacuated. this fire still only 5% contained. it's going to be a warm day today, not quite as bad as yesterday there will be a chance of some afternoon thunderstorms, which is good or bad. it could rain, which would help. but if we get the thunderstorms and the lightning, we could see new fires forming, also. now down to florida, the storm has weakened enough, now it's heading into central florida and out into the open atlantic. we're done with the historic flooding from the storm. and then finally, the heat wave that is once again producing some of the hottest temperatures we've ever seen in the heartland is heading across the country. today, 100 in kansas city, tomorrow the heat goes into chicago, indianapolis and louisville. many areas from the ohio valley to the tennessee valley

do you think that, with that number -- sthu we organihould wl these people together in an en masse type of grouping to work with them in a focused way rather than sort of in a broad way? i mean is there something since we can identify these people, we know the problems they're going to have and the enormous challenges they have, shouldn't we try to single out these folks and try to have a very special program? >> sir, i think that it would be appropriate, and what you're hitting on is that it is a real challenge and actually the number i got this morning is i think 1,458 new amputees from iraq and afghanistan, and it is a challenge. i had the honor of being on a 27-member expert panel that made some recommendations about the amputee system of care, and va to their credit has implemented that amputee system of care in large measure, but it's not there yet. it hasn't met all its stated objectives and certainly we want to encourage the committee to provide oversight and support as needed for prosthetic and sensory related services to continue that program of enhancing care for our warriors

involved are hoping that some sort of movement forward will finally be made at least in some of these topics. around the clock mass protests carry on for the second night in a row in egypt over hosni mubarak sentence the country's also the leader is serving life for complicity in killing off eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising mubarak's two sons and six security officials have been acquitted which also calls a burst of indignation among the people is tom barton is in cairo. hundreds of protesters occupying terrorists where behind me more reporting into the square larger demonstrations of also being called for later in the day this all started yesterday initially with joy the life sentence that was given to former president hosni mubarak but then turned to anger. as a number of security officials in his administration were acquitted of any involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters in egypt's revolution last year eleven hochman it's a verdict has given the police the green light to do whatever they want because they knew they wouldn't be punished we want those who killed our children

opposition but if we actually compare these figures to european standards for example friends where violating the rules of these mass events could get you even in jail for up to three years or a twenty five thousand euro fine or in switzerland where the fine is a seventy five thousand euros then the fines that the current draft proposals there are still much lower to us it lays the legal grounds for the creation of sort of designated areas across russia for voicing political and philosophic. views absolutely freely similar to how it's done in hyde park in london so now that to be trapped there's been a few approved by both chambers of one of them and the only things left is the signature of the president and let opposing earlier said that this draft has to be aimed at developing democracy but also has to protect ordinary citizens from radicals these protests and also he said that he has to correspond with european standards so judging by the current situation situation it's highly likely that he is going to sign his bill. pay or to go piss up reporting there from moscow thank you. we've got all the latest stories and videos on our website r.t.

it is exciting to be able to participate in the mass in thinking that it's actually the eucharist. >> so some of theseds, have they also been non-believers? >> yeah. i had kind of a mix of christians and atheists both telling me that the things i thought made more sense in a christian framework than they did in an atheist won. i got double-teamed on that. >> you've blogged about it, written extensively about it. what possessed you to do that? >> originally when i started writing the blog about it, i was dating a nice catholic boy and we'd have arguments. and it was kind of unfair to ask him to be the sole representative of ka not sichl writing helped me clarify what i was thinking myself. >> was it that relationship that kind of enlightened you? >> yeah. like all good fights should. >> and what were his thoughts about you converting to catholicism? are you still together? >> no, we're not but obviously he's very pleased. >> how is christianity, embracing it, becoming a catholic, changed your life and then, speaking publicly about this personal journey. >> i think one thing that's kind of changed in my

voter shared the same name as someone else or a voter failed to get a notice that was sent in a mass mailing. theseof procedures used not only in texas but in other states and that result if a lot of people even without knowing it being suspended as voters or even canceled. >> and those people obviously feel that at least so much so that this is an injustice that there have been lawsuits filed, but there's been concern while you are reporting your report did not find it, but in the hispanic community in texas, there's concern that group of voters have been targeted or perhaps some of this data certainly leads to a trend of more of their names being on the rolls than anything else or removed from the rolls. >> there's a lot of problems with people with all kinds of common names, and certainly in harris county and across the state hispanics share first and last names more than anglo texans. so these kind of problems can be experienced more often by people who are hispanic, but in harris county there were not more disproportionate numbers of cancellations of hispanics as compared to anglos. but that d

these workers off the bus. and they had chance slogans in praise of the regime. so, if all that is true, it would be another of these mass killings, probably along sectarian lines, but one can't assume that necessarily. but certainly, as i say, we're reportedly it fairly strongly, because twice in less than a weeks now, similar reports are backed up by lurid video have turned out to be confirmed by u.n. observers on the ground. let's see if they can confirm what has happened there. >> jim muir speaking to me in pruth. the u.n. human rights council is meeting in geneva right now. these are the pictures live to discuss how to respond to the escalating violence in syria. let's speak to our correspondent, imogen foulkes, who joins us from geneva. and pushing, imogen, for a war crimes probe into the events at houla. >> so, that's right. i think this is the fourth time that the u.n. human rights council has met in emergency session to discuss syria in the last 12 months. and we've had a number of reports from u.n. investigators saying that some of the violations, some of the events in syria do likely amount to war crimes, to c

these are the two new phenomena. the discontent of the urban capital and large city middle classes and the sort of internet savvy youth culture that is now massing in these larger protests. >> warner: do you think they're the seeds of difficulties for him in the growing internet use in russia? i noticed today, for example, hackers suddenly disabled the website of this tv which is a private tv station that has been running protests even daily or live on their website. >> he's doing that. i already mentioned this. it's easy for him to run the country. in the last 12 years. still russia enjoys pretty good economic condition right now. actually as a matter of fact better than the united states. if you look at the g.d.p. debt in the united states it's 110%. in russia only 10%. i mean g.d.p. ratio to the economy. unemployment in russia only 5.8%. he's doing pretty well. i think he will serve his term. what's important is they really want to make a change and an impact. yothey have to unite. i told you there's a pretty mixed crowd. many people who i think want to be associated (inaudible) all those big numbers. not because so many of those pro western wha

in the parade. the analysts have been saying that these vehicles displayed in the parade were provided by china. transporting materials related to weapon of mass destruction to north korea is a clear breach of u.n. security council resolutions. ballistic missiles are in this country making it possible that china violated the resolutions. this remains unclear why china provided north korea with the vehicles. but shipping materials over requires the go ahead from beijing. therefore, it is likely that china -- china's leadership approved export of vehicles. but please look at the photo again. as the vehics appear to be for civilian purposes china claims it did not violate the resolutions as it exported the vehicles to the north for the civilian purposes. the next question is how the international committee will react to china's suspected brief of the u.n. resolution. >>> well investors who hold assets in europe may be getting even more nervous. ai joins us now. tell us why tt is. >> that's because analysts at credit ratings agencies are saying some of these assets aren't even of investment grade. the latest victim is spain. the nation has been do

to be covering their faces in the crowds the reason this is being put forward according to legislators these who try and keep and maintain public order when it comes these mass demonstrations that have been critics they're saying this is essentially a financial curfew being put in place trampy keep people away from these demonstrations first of the only demonstration or rally to be taking place today we're expecting other ones were there more jubilant nature very celebrating this day of russia. mais their focus is going to be what goes on behind me today i ask because they're going to have to really be seen to be the new lease of life into this movement has been dwindling has been suffering six months after it started up still yet to really establish one leader to get behind perhaps more crucially pointed by many analysts is the fact that even though they are united in opposition to flatter me stand against disputed elections i don't really at the moment share any political ideals and ideology. in central moscow thank you. well israel has arrested dozens of sudanese refugees in the first stage of its plan to the port more than fifty thousand african national

we'll be watching these storms as they continue to develop in this warm air mass right now. in the baltimore area, this storm is to the forth of us and south of us. 96. our humidity and dew point have come way, way down in the past 2 hours. humidity's only 29%. that is some very dry air. the barometer is holding steady. 73 and light rain in ocean city, 87 in cumberland, d.c. had some showers close by, but they're back up to 96. severe thunderstorm warning for a little while longer in southern charles county and along the potomac in washington county. most of the east coast under a severe thoarm watch until 9:00 tonight. this may, you have to put a -- this may put a cap in the thunderstorms. it's possible we might miss thunderstorms, but we have a few hours left before the system gets through the area. a skinny line of showers has developed across the mountains. this seems to be the major activity south and to the east of us along the beaches there. a broken line to the west, so it's possible you may not see much of a drop out of this, which is a shame. dry air is coming tomo

exercise involving iran syria china will be held somewhere in syria in the next couple of weeks these reports were also turned into a mass hysteria by the media saying that russia is playing a dangerous game in the syrian backyard but this also has already been denounced by the russian defense ministry which said that no such games are possible in a conflict zone which syria so much in the is at the moment so this is definitely an all out information was not something we're completely not used to. we just have to wait and see other stories and what other sensations will the western media produce as i've said russia has been denying any involvement in supplying assad's regime with weaponry and firmly stands on its position that it's not taking any sides and that it's not doing anything wrong from the international point of view i think she has shifted their multimedia tries to wage an information war against russia syria is experiencing a media war of its own ati's more information or has this report. evening meal with evening news mesa hears that the syrian army is shell in residential areas and homes. one watches anothe

in 2014. keep a lookout on the road you will start seeing these sedans soon then they say the suv's. they are hoping all of us in the massrested enough to take a risk and try out these electric expensive cars. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> this morning we are learning more about what suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi tried to do to control the fallout from the domestic violence incident involving his wife. text messages between mirkarimi his wife and campaign aide show attempt at damage control january 4th, mirkarimi's campaign manager texted mirkarimi: can you call me it is urgent regarding eliana i need to talk to you to protect you, call me. lopez texted her husband: you have to stop this before something happens, use your how we are. mirkarimi responds: i can. a fight lead to charges against him, the ethics commission is trying to decide whether to recommend mirkarimi be removed from office. >>> oakland police investigating homicide after passers-by found a woman's body this morning. we brought you the story at 4:30. police say around 2:00 this morning people driving on the highway 13 on-ramp on joaquin miller road n

exercise involving iran syria china will be held somewhere in syria in the next couple of weeks these reports were also turned into a mass hysteria by the media saying that russia is playing a dangerous game in the syrian backyard but this also has already been denounced by the russian defense ministry which said that no such games are possible in a conflict zone which syria so it's in the is at the moment so this is definitely an all out information was not something we are completely not used to. we just have to wait and see other stories and what other sensations will the western media produce as i've said russia has been denying any involvement in supplying the assad regime with weaponry and confirming stands on its position that it's not taking any sides and that it's not doing anything wrong from the international point of view i think that iran and the group of six world powers have wrapped up a marathon the gauche ations here mosco the talks over to iran's nuclear program continued for has it wrong once the right to enrich uranium or at least receive the nuclear fuel from abroad. is joining me now live with the l

exercise involving iran syria china will be held somewhere in syria in the next couple of weeks these reports were also turned into a mass hysteria by the media saying that russia is playing a dangerous game in the syrian backyard but this also has already been denounced by the russian defense ministry which said that no such games are possible in a conflict zone which syria so much in the is at the moment so this is definitely an all out information war not something we're completely not used to. we just have to wait and see what's on their stories and what all this insatiable that was the media produced as i've said russia has been denying any involvement in supplying assad's regime with weaponry and for me stands on its position that it's not taking any sides and that it's not doing anything wrong from the international border view . that was our correspondent alexy. well signs that it international race is brewing to dominate the skies with the drones and it's well it has unveiled its first manned aircraft president hugo chavez announced the country made the drone in partnership with iran russia and china here it is

in which it wants to project its military power to everyone concerned specially china and under certain agreements with the united states the philippines cannot create a certain whether these warships are carrying weapons of massdestruction or not the philippines explicitly in its constitution has adopted a nuclear free policy it is against the entry of nuclear weapons in our country but at least on the secrecy being used by the united states we can never tell if we are hosting warships with nuclear capability it has been done in the past during the period that the us military beats the us it has admitted that it had stored nuclear weapons in its former basis now it might be doing the same thing again in the guise of visiting ships that are being used to project military power throughout the region now very briefly we are running out of time you have bases in japan and south korea troops in australia and joint military exercises in the region and china is looking increasingly surrounded by washington is the us seeking to provoke china on purpose i think the us may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the us wants to contain china wants to encircle china and keep it sub

we had two in dam mass cause. efzero. these are on the weaker scale.asant hill, that is ef one. that is the strongest. and centreville. and this is on the weakest edge of the fujita intensity scale. >> 85 to run hundred nine. that is moderate damage. they assess the damage to determine the type of tornado. so we are talking about trees snapped and rooftops damaged. and definitely flying debris. >> that is what they found along with debris thrown and in a circular area. that indicates a tornado as opposed to winds through a thunderstorm and they knock things over in one direction. >> also, the rain totals pretty impressive. >> highest a.m. >> five and 1/quarter inches of -- five and one quarter. and clarksburg almost two and a half inches. then he we range right around one and a half to nearly 2 inches in elkridge and laurel. >> these are all the numbers. we are still continuing to tally, the the national weather service assessing the damage and the estimates will be coming in over the next two or so weeks. we will keep you posted here. >> 52 degrees in

we feel indignation over the mass killings in houla. it's clear that these are crimes that should be fairly. but it's also those behind these atrocities i mean to drag syria into a bloody civil war. the efforts to settle the syrian crisis politically now mr anon when he addressed the general assembly said that the international community must find common ground and act as one he said that individual actions or any kind of interventions will not. solve the crisis that the international community must act together but must act very quickly because according to the joint special envoy of the violence is escalating there the country is growing even more polarized even more radicalized. after addressing the u.n. general assembly kofi annan is now briefing the un security council on the situation in syria following the session and we'll be bringing you updates political analysts christophe forestall who's been covering events in the arab region say is there are strong indications the massacre was carried out by terrorists. in the terrorists you know called off the

in the u.s., there is very little written about or very little coverage of these mass student protestsen taking place in canada. talk about what you see has to happen. >> quebec is a very, very different society. i am very proud they have remained in canada. they reflect a great deal of value difference so the environment, for example, attracted 300,000 people on the streets of montreal for earth day. they attracted over 100,000 people objecting to the student tuition increase. now the english press in canada has portrayed this as, "the spoiled brats, they do not realize that the cheapest tuition and all of canada and they are objecting to a few hundred dollars tuition rates." no, that is not what it is about. they're saying they'd like to look to countries like the scandinavian countries, even france, where young people are regarded as the most precious commodity, where they are supported in ever -- and there universities are free if they reach a certain level of ability. that is what they're trying to tell us. but we portray this as spoiled kids who do not want to spend any more mone

russian opposition activists launched another mass rally in moscow after a similar demo last month led to clashes these are live pictures from central moscow protests trend has to be on the way. united nations observers report a shot rise in rebel attacks on syrian forces as nato zone chief then set a possible armed incursion into gaza so the un backing. and israel begins implementing its plan to expel more than fifty thousand african refugees and that's what's seen as a racist pledging policy deepens and self-styled away sissel democracy. up next an in-depth look at the capital punishment in the u.s. and our special report. right. there a trip we were there you know really goes. with our. go to your killing as well you know what we go by. what happens give checkers shekar. harder harder for her trip but she insisted. it was the biggest. in the fridge mission life me to do. mom said i was following dad around like a puppy right. what are you doing where you going and he would ask me if i wanted to go to the store so i didn't notice i was doing this but he's they said. i would go to go to the store with

about having a tax or not we're talking about having a tax on the rich or having the mass of people suffer even more in these future years than these first five years of crisis have already meant for us and in the occupy wall street movement has really helped shine a light on these people at the top and wall street in general do you think that we really have a chance of passing this. yes and let me give you an example not only did occupy wall street put the one percent versus ninety nine percent in the forefront of our national discussion and that's something we told the occupy wall street movement no matter what happens going forward for having contributed to changing the conversation in this country but here's an example the current issue of time magazine one of the largest circulating magazines in the country is all about their lead story their cover story about the end of the american dream about the conditions which make it impossible for people to work hard and do better and one of the reasons are the unemployment the government cutbacks of services and supports the only way to reverse that is to find