it was down near thornburg in the southeastern section of spotsylvania county. fredericksburg is up here north. this is the 95 corridor running south here. so a tropical storm that had penny-sized hail and wind gusts and heavy downpours with maybe a little hail mixed in. but that's the only storm across the entire viewing area that we even have to talk about this evening. temperatures outside, 94 at andrews air force base. 93 in alexandria. dew points at 60 mean the air is pretty sticky out there. it's drying out in some places as that system swinging through is basically dry. 96 the official high at reagan national after a morning low of 73. a little closer to our averages of 89 and 70. record 104. this is the warmest day we've had all season and only the fifth day of 80-degree weather this year. so not setting too bad of a trend for the first part of the summer. 94 in leesburg. 88 in fredericksburg with that shower that passedhrough cooling them off a couple of degrees. cooler air in the upper midwest. warmer to the south where it is 103 in dallas. all the moi

now south of thornburg crossing over 95. this storm here capable of producing brief heavy rain, maybe large hail and wind gusts over 50 miles per hour. so there is just one storm out there. way down to the south. but it is a pretty good one. let's switch it over to the weather computer. take a look at the temperatures. 93 degrees at the top of the hour. dew point is down to 55. relative humidity. only 29%. so, yes, it is hot but not terribly uncomfortable. again, as soon as the sun goes down the temperatures will fall off pretty quickly. still 91 winchester. 88 degrees at the naval air station. speaking of cooler spots if you look off to our north west you can see autumn-like air in minneapolis, st. paul. not before an area of low pressure develops on this front tomorrow night and that will give us a good chance for some showers and thunderstorms. but after it passes, it will just be a slight chance i think on saturday and sunday. for the most part it should be dry with high temperatures only near 83 both days. slight chance

he far from 95 and t thornburg area. so, as this moves in to caroline county, perhaps you're to get heal and gu y ndwiout of it. wouldn't be surprised if a severe thunderstorm warning is issued for that countys well. and ndrehet is another piece of activity just a little bit east of there. you can see this pushing across the bay. looks like it's falling a part. you would think 96, hotter than we expected, by the way. i will talk about why we got so hot. you would think it was a record but it's not. the record is 104 degrees set back in 1988. glad we didn't break it. we'll talk about the forecast. i have improvement in the forecast, brian, especially as it relates to the weekend and more thunderstorms to watch. we'll talk about that in a bit. >> i want to bring up the old guarantee, too. >> not my game. >> yes. >>> summer is in full -- as we know. 96 degrees. what is up with santa claus and the sitting snowmen? you're not dreaming. christmas has come to some local stores to splay. >>> a huge change in the country's talles

this is the manager of the $2.5 billion thornburg fund. good to have you with us. ace limit and eli lily are all on the list of top holdings. you have a few key ideas you are focusing on. we started with banks in the program and u.s. bank corp. you are buying why? >> thanks, erin. u.s. bank corp did not make the same mistakes as the competitors. they never ventured into the subprime area and didn't make unwise acquisitions and didn't buy third party loans. we think they are going to come out of this downturn with more market share and higher profitability than they went into it. >> we bought the stock early 2008 and it hit our price target in october and declined 60%. peerp able to get in in early march at just four months later at a price 60% lower and reestablish our position. today is up about 70% and we see this as a stock that has more upside to it. >> ubs and a couple of others. let's talk about this convertible bond. anyone who bought them last summer, i happen to know people. we got crushed. what would you buy right now? >> last year with huge withdrawals f

back in '91, a guy who was not much of a politician defeated a heavyweight in pennsylvania, richard thornburg senate seat by saying people needed health care. if a criminal has a right to a lawyer, the working family has a right to a doctor. people said it at the time that people who were worried about losing their jobs were afraid they would be stuck without health care. that was the way to sell health care in the old days. why doesn't obama say it this way. the way to say health care is this is something you'll lose if you don't get protected. norsds, tie it into the employment situation. >> i think he has tried that. it hasn't worked. now they changed to this idea of saying hey, this is turn into health insurance reform. he found a bad guy. not a bad guy in the republican party, but the same way everybody got angry at wall street over the economy, you can always get a bipartisan agreement that insurance companies are book ghee men and women. they're heartless and make decisions about what medical care you can get. they've decided politically they're going to have to make the insurance comp

pleased to have with us today, as our mod rater, as we almost do for this program the honorable dig thornburg >> there are others of note, and there are allegation that is would be forth coming on the nomination of judge so the to morrow. and i'm reminded the bartender philosopher who created mr. dooley once observed that the supreme court follows the election returns. we know that's not literally true of course but we did have an election last year. and -- it'll certainly affect the court. most notably president obama will be the -- is the appointing authority for vacancies over the next four years. and we can imagine a quite different scenario for -- for appointments if john mccain would have been the president. but then again perhaps judge -- justice souter play not have resigned and but -- there are a lot of things there. but the court yesterday completed its october 2008 term. we had the all-star lineup to share views on its activities. to assess the consequences of a number of 5-4 decisions in key cases, read tea leaves about future directions the court play take and make sense out of t

kind of interest rate that is going to be paid by ci it t says he has seen it before, countrywide, thornburg, aig, what happened to all those companies? >> thorn berg out of business, countrywide bought by bank of america. >> all gone, right? unless capital arises, an attempt at controlled liquidation of cit. another person telling me about 2.3 billion of principal comes due or bonds due this year, total debt due, so the 3 million financing they are getting gets them through this year, a piece of a big nut next year. unless capital, back to the point we made earlier this is not that far from a liquidation. >> first time we have seen a controlled liquiding day. >> guys trying to help themselves. >> rather than sunday night, help themselves. >> it was sunday night. >> i know. >> a different in the bear stearns, lehman brothers. that sunday night. >> i know. >> different than that. >> the government not involved. called it, i don't know, not doing anything. >> that is the good news. >> what about the 23 trillion, talk about that? >> in the next hour, the guy in charge of overseeing t.a.r.p. say

[roll call] , and ashcroft, in casey, in thornburg, an carhart wine and and i yoest so super president one of the window and women lost a fundamental constitutional protection that had existed for 36 years. also, it showed me that supreme court justices are much more than umpires calling and strikes, and that the word activist is often used only to describe the opinions of one side. as a matter of fact in just two years, these same nominees have either disregarded or overturn precedence in at least eight other cases. the case involving assignments to attain a racial diversity in school assignments, a case overruling 70 years of precedent on the 2nd amendment and federal gun control law, a case which increase the burden of proof on older workers to prove age discrimination, a case overturning a 1911 decision to allow manufacturers to set minimum prices for their products, a case overruled in two cases from the 1960's on time limits for filing criminal appeals, a case reversing precedence on the sixth amendment right to counsel, a case of returning a prior ruling on regulation of the iss