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tom, the plan reverses a ban on offshore drilling that's been in effect for 20 years. >> tom: susie, the announcement came on a day when oil prices closed in on $84 a barrel; a 17-month high. high oil prices are just one reason the president wants to reduce u.s. dependence on foreign oil and build up domestic energy supplies. >> susie: the real impact of this new policy is many years away. but as stephanie dhue reports, it still stirred up lots of criticism from lawmakers and environmentalists. >> reporter: in a speech at andrews airforce base, president obama called his proposal to open up offshore drilling both a national security and an economic issue. >> given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy. >> reporter: the president would open up the gulf of mexico and end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the east coast from delaware to florida. alaska's north slope w

nice to meet you, tom, on the air. >> tom: nice to meet you as well. so more room to run. how much more room to run after the 18-month highs? >> well, the trend is your friend, as they say, and until we get a clear reversal pattern, and my technique using volume reversal in the volume preceding price, and get indication of important selling in the market, you let the market work for you. we have targets that still say this market could go higher, but you know, the bottom line is is the trend is your friend and we're just past that halfway retracement point they mentioned in our previous interview which was 1005. as you go through a half-way retracement, you start saying are we going to do a 6-1-8 retramt or full retramt getting you back to the 14,000 area. i don't know if we can get there or not. i'm not thinking that. but we're going to keep looking at it and indicators to guide us. >> tom: you brought with you a model forecast for the dow industrials, and what you see here is this is basically your forecast for 2010 for the dow, the actual performance down below. and you

as tom said. exquisitely careful with these extremely good -- remember, these medicines are extremely good but they have potential of killing people. >> larry: the number one thing people want to get rid of is pain. >> right. you see, people who are clean, you know, the incidence of people losing their clean time by getting on some sort of medication for a dental surgery, for back pain. i mean, i've seen people go -- that's what happened to me. you know -- >> you give mackenzie a vicodin she's going out. she may not be aware of it, but she will -- a few hours later it will change her thinking, change her motivational system and she'll be on her way. doctors don't understand how powerful this biology is. >> i recently had a procedure that in the past i would have taken pain medication for and i absolutely refused and took advil only. >> do you have someone to talk to that's wiser than you? >> i have so many people in my life. >> right here like i do. i broke my back in a motorcycle wreck. i said, d

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tom vossa is with us, as well. you were talking about a www as hank was just mentioned, a double dip potentially in the last segment. we get housing data today, as well. what are you expecting there? >> i think in terms of the level of sales, we think they'll be quite weak. there are clearly weather effects which have distorted the weather in the whole of the northern hemmis near. what we see is a slight hangover coming through from the tax credit. in terms of the u.s. economy, i absolutely agree that where the numbers look solid. house prices have stabilized, oil has stabilized. you're seeing now job creation, difficult to slow the u.s. down much below 3%. but, of course, when that trend rate of growth is 3.5%, it's not going to feel like a recovery. >> tom, does the health care bill have an economic impact, or not? >> no, it doesn't. it's tiny, largely political. if there's going to be any impact from the health care bill, it's just that one box has been ticked off by the obama administrati administration. the ne

let's talk to tom kierein about how soon the clouds will roll in. tom? >>> mild temperatures, too, this afternoon, but that will be the end of it for a number of days. it will be turning much cooler beginning tomorrow. here's our sunrise look this morning going back in time to just past dawn. our sunrise this morning was at 7:04 as the sun was up just enough to see it there at the beginning of the day. the following two hours, we had quite a bit of cloudiness coming through, and the sun was blocked by some clouds from time to time. we had some high clouds, as well. the sun came out by about 8:00 and by 9:00 it had gone pretty much completely overcast around the region. as we take a live look at our city camera, you can see the overcast sky over the potomac river, the great waters there reflecting that sky. temperatures right now are rebounding from that morning low. it's 58 at reagan national. sunrise, sunset times today, 7:04, sunset 7:25, but we add about an hour and a half of daylight. by the end of april, sunrises around 6:15, sunsets around 8:00, so

tom? >> you silly rabbit. >> good morning. starting off monday morning yes with scattered sprinkles, grab the umbrella before you head off to work and school this morning. we may have more scattered showers as the day progresses. right now where you see the blotches of color on radar we're getting rain in loudoun county, frederick, montgomery county and northern prince george's county. few sprinkles in washington and in fairfax county. prince william and fauquier. and elsewhere northern anne arundel county getting sprinkles as is howard county and across central virginia into the shenandoah valley and panhandle of west virginia. mild morning. temperatures in thor 50s to near 60 degrees. occasional showers throughout the day. maybe thunder later this afternoon. highs reaching the mid-60s. any rain activity should taper off to sprinkles and drizzle into tonight and tomorrow morning. sun back tomorrow afternoon with highs in the upper 50s. wednesday some sunshine into the mid-60s and partly cloudy thursday, highs low 60s morning

i agree with what tom said. they're not used to being drawn into this.hey don't usually engage in these kind of public discussions. but this has been kind of a quiet issue for the last month since the discussion died down after justice alito's demonstration there in the house chamber. the chief justice made a decision-- we have to assume it was a decision, he didn't say this by accident-- to get back into this. and that, i think, is a bit surprising given what tom said. >> woodruff: where, jeff shesol, do you come down, though, on this question of damage? does this have the potential to do damage to the institution of the court? >> i think it does, absolutely. i think that as tom said, so much of the authority of the supreme court flows from the fact that it is seen as being above politics. now, of course, we all understand-- much more so now than in the 1930s-- that justices are political, that they are ideological, and that often that influences their decisions. we're not surprised by this. but we don't like to think about it very much. we don't really

tom papa is here. nothing," manchester orchestra from the bud light golden wheat stage. they're not really an orchestra, though. tomorrow night on the show, music from gin and our guests are nicole richie, chad ochocinco, chuck liddell and dax shepard. so join us for that. also, this saturday night at 10:00 here on abc, an encore presentation of the "jimmy kimmel live: after the academy awards special." featuring robert downey jr., keith urban, the handsome men's club and our next guest, too. so please tune in for that. our first guest is a superb actor from austria. he won an oscar this weekend and will probably be the next governor of california. you can see his award-winning performance as colonel hans landa in quentin tarantino's "inglourious basterds" which is out on dvd and blu-ray now. please say hello to christoph waltz. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: well, congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you. >> jimmy: got to be a little bit strange -- i mean, really, a year ago

. >> good morning, tom. >> hi, pat and joe. we have a spring chill in the air this thursday. 47 in washington. it's in the low to mid 40s in prince george's, arlington, fairfax counties. upper 30s further west and north. around most of the region it's in the 40s, except near the bay where it's near 50. out of the mountains, low to mid 30s. we have considerable cloudiness coming in from the west ahead of a rainmaker that will be here later tonight. today highs climbing into the 60s, a southwest blustery wind. overnight tonight, rain is likely from late this evening to midday friday. sun back tomorrow afternoon with a blustery afternoon out of the northwest. much cooler with highs around 50. 20 saturday morning, afternoon highs near 50. more rain sunday afternoon and evening. and now, jerry, how is that traffic. >> thursday morning under way. we're doing fine through the northeast, along new york avenue. kenilworth avenue, and the major roadways through the southeast looking good. let's head over and check things elsewhere. inter

espn's tom rinaldi spoke with woods.erview. >> reporter: you said you were in treatment, the simple question is for what? >> that's a private matter as well. but i can tell you what, it's tough. it's really tough, to look at yourself in a light you that never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal. >> reporter: what did you see? >> i saw a person that i never thought i would ever become. >> reporter: who was that? >> well, i had gotten away from my core values, as i said earlier. i had gotten away from my buddhism. and i quit meditating, all the things that my mom and dad taught me. i felt entitled. and that is not how i was raised. >> reporter: given all that's happened, what's your measure of success at augusta? >> well, playing is one thing. i'm excited to get back in play. i'm excited to get to see the guys again. i really missed a lot of my friends out there. i missed competing. but still, i still have a lot more treatment to do. just because i'm playing doesn't mean i'm going to stop going to treatment. >>

i think tom said tomorrow and friday. tom, good morning. >> i would say they're just about there as well right now. and hanging on in the wind. winds gusting to 35 miles an hour. you can see the city camera bouncing in the wind right now. the crowds are gathering around the tidal basin. we're in the 50s to near 60 degrees. it's 58 in washington. mid 50s in prince george's argentina. montgomery county to you near 60 degrees. we've had rather blastery winds. these are the latest wund gusts up to around 30 piles an hour now. last hour we had gusts up to 35. that's the story for the rest of the afternoon although the winds will diminish a bit by sun set. temperatures in the mountains down into the 20s but now it's warmed quickly. into the upper 40s to near 50. eastern shore in the mid 50s and all of this wind coming from the coastal low pressure system that's been plaguing new england with all the rain and flooding. that is finally winding down and pulling east and allowing the high pressure to begin to move in. the pressure

>> tom, thank you. >>> we will check on the roads now. let's go to jerry edwards with a look at what is happening. what do you have to say for yourself? >> that was an accusing way of pointing your finger at me. >> i did not mean it that way, jerry. >> 95 virginia has it coming and going. southbound, the left side othe screen, look for the right lane to be closed off. a good-sized delay. and then northbound, seems to be okay, but a little construction there, too. and the outbound side of the 14th street bridge, can you see the arrow boards. and headed up to the pentagon inbound we are doing fine. >> jerry, did you see the cherry blossoms on the last shot? >> yeah, i did. exciting. oh, my goodness. >> you did okay for yourself, jerry. thank you. >>> still ahead, we will tell you why a local chiropractor is being investigated by the feds. and plus we go into local school cafeterias to see what your children are eating. there is a difference between school system to school system. >>> first, here is a look at what is hot on nbcwashington.com

i don't think i could handle it. >> tom kierein, could you hold it together? >> i would have to. >> you would have to. >> doesn't look like any snow for us. we're getting precipitation. on the radar we're picking up a few sprinkles around at this hour where you see the patches of blue showing a few passing showers across northern virginia, maryland and the district and in west virginia as well. and our temperatures on the mild side near 60 degrees right now. 60 in washington. and later on today highs in the mid-60s, maybe a passing shower or perhaps a few sprinkles and maybe also a passing thunder shower late this afternoon. overnight tonight into tomorrow through midday passing light showers or a sprinkle. sun back tomorrow with highs in the upper 50s. wednesday and thursday sun back and a bit milder. morning lows near 40. a look at friday and the weekend in ten minutes. how is the traffic? >> on the capital beltway north of town, very close to old georgetown road near what we call the big curve as you come around from rockville pike over to river road. very

. >> let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein to get a look at the forecast. nice day yesterday. >> it sure was. got around 50 degrees. clouded up overnight an now this morning starting off with temperatures above freezing. out in the mountains now in the mid-20s. 38 in washington, nearby suburbs now in the mid-30s. view from space showing quite a bit of cloudiness. we may have a few breaks in the clouds. by sunset we might have a little light rain temperatures near 40. sunrise this morning at 6:39. little light rain in the evening hours and further west and north light snow. but then even around the metro area light snow by midnight and off and on until dawn tomorrow. we might have a slushy wet one inch on just mainly nonroad areas. looks like the roads will be wet. during the day on wednesday more rain and light snow but very little or no accumulation as we get into wednesday evening. ending after that and sun back thursday and friday. how is this traffic, jerry? >> doing pretty well. take a live look along south capitol street up towards the douglas bridge.

tom. >> what's the charge here? pandering? >> yeah, pandering charges for now, which is a css 4 felony in the state. we've got him on $150,000 bond. there's been reviews, we've been working hand in hand with the state's attorney office here for. but for right now it's pandering charges for sure. >> again, good work, tom. >> mare,jo, thanks. >> she was really courageous. >> to finally reach out for help. i wis we had more time. thanks so much. coming up, a story i think we can all celebrate. a mom's egnant, didn't even know she went into labor. who does she have to lean on? her husband is at work. her two kids have to help out, an 11-year-old and 9-year-old. things happen so fast. i'm going to talk to mom who's okay and the 911 operator who's a hero as well in this. >>>ed ongoing legal btle of the surviving members of dr. king. a judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims and given an ierim custodian custody of the king center. two sued their brother dexter, accusing them of taking money from their parents' estate.

george strickland, tom curran, george, i want to ask you about this. i mean, medicaid burdens on top of the huge government from the government worker union pensions that are bleeding the taxpayers to death and are higher than the public sector counter parts. you don't believe they're not going to be adversely effected pie this? >> i think they will be. somewhat adversely effected, but i think it's a relatively minor issue compared to the size of the budget deficits that the states are already dealing with. and as you mentioned, the unfunded pension obligations. this is an additional weight, but it's a relatively small weight in the grand scheme of things. >> you're talking $2 billion to $3 billion. california, fl r, florida, $2 b, $3 billion on top of what they don't have. >> it's a lot of money, it certainly is, but keep in mind, we're looking at collective budget deficits that have to be balanced of about $180 billion currently. so it's an issue, but i wouldn't blow it out of proportion. >> tom curran, former prosecutor that you are, what about stat

and they said, oh they go, oh -- i go, "where's tom? where's tom?"re going on vacation!" "we're like, 'no!'" [ laughter ] "we're no going on vacation! we'll never come back!" [ applause ] >> that is sad. >> jimmy: i've got to tell you about this cool thing you're doing. you did a thing called a night of 140 tweets. >> yes. yeah, well, you're a twitterer. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and paul scheer, who is a very funny comedian, and rob huebel -- they came up with this idea to get 140 people to raise money for haiti for this group called artists for peace and justice that i'm involved with. >> jimmy: yeah -- big -- >> that we want them building temporary schools down in haiti right now. so as a fund-raising idea, they got 140 people to stand up and read their favorite tweet in front of a live audience. and then we taped it, and it's on itunes and amazon.com. and it's really fun, because everybody just gets up and reads their favorite tweets, and then, you know it's happening so fast -- >> jimmy: i heard it was amazing. it was, like, will ferrell. >> will ferre

joining us now is our friend, tom curran, and, tom, what is it? he's a crook? he's a phony? the accounting was fixed? and what? he's trying to get out of jiel and going to the supreme court? >> you can hardly blame a guy for trying to get out of jail. he got sentenced to 24 years. the people who cooked the books, arre arthur anderson. everyone has been speculating this this appeal is on the intangible theory under the mail and wire fraud, the federal mail and wire fraud's statutes. but the justices today spent most of their time talking about the pretrial publicity fairness of the jury pool question. which is a big uphill climb for any defendant to try to win. >> tom, let me go back to -- walk me through this honest services. because skilling was not honest. therefore, how could he put together -- he cooked the books. they used all these off-balance sheet voeinvestment partnershipo trade with wall street vochment. i don't know why a lot of these wall street guys didn't go to jail. they misreported it and they brought down the whole accounting firm and they upstreamed phony r

tom, thanks for that. now to how health care reform will start to change health care as it's practiced every day in every city and town in this country. our own robert bazell spent the day at a hospital in columbus, ohio, in part to see what's about to change. >> reporter: today was a normal busy day at ohio state university medical center where at least one in ten patients has no health insurance. this woman gave birth to joshua alexander but she is leaving the hospital almost immediately. not what she and her doctors want because an extra day would cost almost $900, a price tag she can't afford without insurance. nurse loretta burton says new moms should stay for 48 hours. >> so they would have a longer period of time to stay for educational purposes and have their health monitored and for the baby. >> reporter: dr. stephen gabby, the hospital's ceo, looks forward to the time in four years when such problems will disappear because under the new law almost everyone will have insurance. >> it's going to be

i have one other thanks to extend as tom mentioned i served in iraq and as tom delude it to i was wounded in iraq. i had a close encounter with a shrapnel that left me with a little bit of shrapnel in my jaw and so every time i open my mouth to white my jaw hurts which is a pretty useful won't to have. [laughter] as wounds go. but i'm standing up here following in the footsteps as a transitioning or you're two writer in some other issues and somebody whose transition from the military into being a citizen. as many of you know and as those of you who've known veterans who've made the transition it's a tough one to make. my generation of veterans has the privilege of being thanked for our service on an almost daily basis when we encounter people who learn that we are veterans. generations past didn't have that privilege and one of the man who's going to follow me wallace a forerunner and part of a generation of war years to writers who begin to reshape the cultural landscape in the united states to bridge the gap from the vietnam era into the era that we are in today. and so if you're out h

tom ricks hasn't worn a tie since 1973. last night i think there's a lesson here that just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean it's not going to happen. i said that i served in iraq for just a few months, which is, you know, there are folks in the audience who spent years on the ground there. and again, i was really trying to lose the war. all the indiscriminate targeting we were doing in the fall and winter of 2003, 2004, yeah you can blame me. ironically though, one of the things that we haven't really seen come out in any of the narratives about the iraq war thus far and really in a coherent manner this is partly due to classification issues is at the beginning of the iraq war, those of us in a special operation units and task forces i think misdiagnosed the iraq war. without we confused while with a nascent insurgency for a counterterror problem. we essentially approached the problems like we would, i don't know, the red army faction in germany and kicked down a lot of doors and took out a lot of windows tryi

it's a bizarre day job. >> reporter: tom and the rest of the cast rehearse around a table. >> not for we're going to run this all the way through to sandy's line 98. >> reporter: when they finally record the show -- there are no added special effects for their voices. >> oopsi-daisy. >> pure genius. >> krusty krab. >> at 112, please. >> oh, my show! >> hmm, you seem tense. you seem tense. oh, somebody's tense. >> reporter: the show's executive producer says sponge bob is simply this. a fun-loving, hyper active, man child. so, are you a man child? are you all just immature here? >> well, i think all animators are a little immature. you have to have part of you that didn't grow up. >> you're it! >> reporter: maybe that's it. the secret formula that's turned an unlikely character into a global we nonnon. sometimes it just doesn't pay to be mature. >> what do you think this is, some kind of party? >> oh, yeah! >> reporter: i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline" in burbank, california. >> love that sponge. bong bob's up for best cartoon at the kid's choice awards. best of luck to the cast, and

tom corbett is independently elected. let me start out by saying i like tom corbett. we have had a good working relationship. he is a good lawyer and too good of a lawyer to have filed this suit. any good lawyer knows the federal supremacy clause dominates here. we don't have separate passports. each state doesn't have separate passport or immigration laws. there are some things the federal government has the absolute power to do. this is one of them. this is a waste of taxpayers money and done for political purposes. as i said, tom corbett is too good of a lawyer to have joined this suit. >> when you say he is doing it for political purposes. he is running for the republican nomination for governor. do you think this is about the primary fight to run for governor? >> he doesn't have a major primary opponent. there's a very active state representative running against him, but he has no money. tom is a slam dunk to be the republican nominee, and frankly, at this stage, probably the favorite to become the next governor. he's always been a fairly moderate person in his a

but this is a political operation. >> neil: tom, i'm saying you're blocking.nk you're blocking. >> you may think i'm blocking. i think we're working it in a way that's going to let us keep going longer, further and better. >> neil: it's always a pleasure. thank you very much. i love having you on. >> well, it's good to see you. i'll be up soon. >> neil: thank you. >>> a quick programming note. we're headed back to washington. the healthcare battle continues and we're live there friday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. coverage at 6:00 p.m. on the "fox business." if you don't get that. >> demand it? >> indeed. saturday a two-hour special of the cost of freedom kicking off at 10:00 a.m. eastern where the quest will be for the luggage i lost when last in d.c. more coming up. the president signing the executive order that won over congressman bart stupak's healthcare vote, now it's kicking my next guest's campaign against stupak into high gear. > [ male announcer ] years ago, the world was faced with a challenge. and lexus responded by building the world's first luxury hybri

they have to, tom. we're changing the risk pool.you say to insurance companies they cannot discriminate against people who have pre-existing conditions, when you bring the risk pool in, all of the people who already have troubles, you're going to have the premiums go up. that's the first thing that's going to change. >> but george is right about premiums. there are issues involving premiums. but what he ha't mentioned is the increased transparency, the fact we're going to get away from rewarding volume. we're going to start rewarding value. we're going to have delivery reform for the first time. we're going to deal with the structural problems in our health care system for the first time in history. and those are, again, by cbo account, going to have a profound effect in bringing costs down, not raising them. >> let me make one other point here. i know process of washington consumes us. and the average american out there is saying, what is all this? i have never seen such a contorted process to try to get a bill through the house, t

let's ask tom about it. tom? >> at this hour looking at the radar, we're seeing advance of some light rain coming into virginia where you see the blues and greens. that is some light rain. on the western side of it, there is a little bit of wet snow trying to reach the ground, shenadndoah county. right now the radar realtime is showing just a few sprinkles here in calvert and st. mary's county near fredericksburg and charlottesville, just coming to near culpepper on the western side of it. that's not the main area of precipitation. just up a degree now, reagan national is at 43, near 40 in montgomery, prince georges, fairfax counties. parts of southwest virginia, perhaps southern west virginia, could get three to four inches out of this, but i don't think we'll have near that here. could get some rain in the metro area in the next few hours and some wet snow to the west, but all of it melting because temperatures are above freezing. a little light rain tonight and changing to perhaps a wet snow at midnight, but w

yeah, that's what we want. >> reporter: do you think tom campbell fits that bill? >> i don't know. i don't know. i'm a little skeptical here. >> reporter: many of these mostly republican voters, at a gathering in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains, prefer chuck devore, who has been avidly courting conservatives by claiming to be the "true" conservative in the race. >> rather than mandating that people buy health insurance... >> reporter: a retired national guardsman, devore is running a low budget campaign. he travels this huge state alone, often in rented cars, appealing to so-called "tea party" activists fed up with washington. >> it doesn't seem like anybody there, including republicans, are listening to the people of the country, and that's, of course, why the tea party thing started. i've never been so worried in my whole life about my country as i am today. >> reporter: recently, devore came to the old gold mining town of angels' camp, in northern california. this is the community mark twain made famous in his story, "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county.

tom costello, nbc news, massachusetts. >>> overseas tonight, a serious and expanding problem for the catholic church. allegations of physical and sexual abuse are rocking the church after questions are being asked as well about the german-born pope benedict himself. the story tonight from donna friesen. >> reporter: across europe there is growing unease among catholics.

tom first of all welcome majority leader. are you in mourning right now, tom? >> no, i am sickened. i am sick to my stomach. >> you believe as john banor's emotional presentation suggests this is a seminole event it is a departure from previous debates that is somehow very, very different. >> the speech by speaker pelosi is why congress is held in the worst disregard in the history of the house of representatives. not only did they not listen to the american people they shredded and crashed the constitution and stood there on the floor of the house and lied to the american people. i have never witnessed anything like this. i guess it may have happened when they created medicare or social security. this is unbelievable. >> you didn't see the phoenix rising out of the ashes you saw the constitution burned by the democrats in the house of representatives tonight. oo governor rendell tom delay's passion is reflective of everything we saw from the rei pub can side of the aisle. you however have a broad smile on your face and this a historic victory for your side. >> it is a great night f

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because it's not like tom clancy or vince flynn where they're making up stories and making up people and writing off their imagination. these are real people, and you can put names to faces many my book. >> larry: are you considered though a conspiracy buff in that you're so conspiracy oriented that you believe nothing, that you question anything? >> no, not at all. i don't necessarily believe every conspiracy that i write about in this book. i just tell the other side of the story and documents back it up to where you still have to say, you know, there's validity to this. it may not be true, but it could be true. if it could be true, it's dangerous. >> larry: okay. you assert in the book that the 2000 and 2004 national elections were stolen. you say that the 2008 election came close to being stolen, too. should people keep voting if that's true, and how do you know it's true? why do you think it's true? >> in the research we did we found out about certain things.

host: you are on with tom ricks. good morning. caller: please pay us a picture of what life would be like if we never took out saddam hussein and his boys. guest: good question. i think it goes to the issue of what saddam hussein was. he was an aging, a toothless tiger. he did not have weapons of mass destruction, and certainly was not a threat to the united states. was a lousy leader? absolutely. was a terrible to his people? no question. they are all around the world. how many are we going to knock off? my big worry is a new strongman emerges, tougher, meaner, younger, more energetic than hussain, with a similar purchase. that is what we may end up with, a new, tough, and mean version who unites the country under the banner of anti-americanism. who uses oil money flowing and uses revenue to buy mass destruction weapons, then you may end up with an iraq that is the country the bush administration thought they were in 2003. but the administration invasion might actually create threats. host: our correspondent from the "christian s

tom costello is following the big story. he's live in the network room. tom, how dangerous are the swings? >> reporter: i think that's depends who you ask. a lot of mothers believe that swings are a great way to bond with your bean. but they can also pose a risk if the swings aren't worn properly. baby can't cry for help. th can actually suffocate in the fabric. kathleen ross way a happy, smiling 12-month-old, but when ann went to take the baby out of the sling she had been wearing, something was terribly wrong. >> it was mucous by blood in it. it was coming down out of heir right nostril. >> reporter: kathleen had suffocated, one of 14 such deaths over the past 20 years. in cities across the country, baby swings ares common as pacifiers and play days. >> it's good to keep them in one, lowers their blood pressure and calms them down. >> reporter: but after three children died just last year, the consumer product safety says certain slings made by the company infantino are not safe. the models involved are the sling rider and wendy bellisimo sling. >> the

tom, i'm getting depressed. i hope that you've got some answers for some of these problems. >> of course. >> we talked about that were authorizations from the regular process for appropriations, holds on confirmations. i list the boutwell problems at the beginning. scott has a couple of recommendations. so when you come up with the problems i like the spirit of coming up with solutions, too. >> got it. hold on. take notes, john. >> i am. >> listen, i'm delighted to be here at the center for american progress and to share this table with senator udall. he gave i thought a really lucid discussion of and case for the fact that the senate is not a meter waiver and forces, that this force is created sometimes by absolutely inadvertent action likely than the previous question motion in 1806 and that there is a sort of constitutional the crown did case for a new senate, which he would classify as one whose membership has been changed, not completely free e elected to determine its own rules, and i think that really adv

. >> gary williams also said he is good friends with tom izzo. the game tom and he were talking and he was saying, buddy, it hurts for me, too. they are such good friends. >> izzo was saying it hurts for him, too? >> yeah. >> not nearly. >> and also we have in other news, georgetown lady hoyas are trailing to baylor. 37-24 in the second half. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> a driver hits a woman and then takes off. the police officer who watches it all, it's definitely expensive having a growing family and it's something that you think about. we try to be conscious of that and plan out our meals so that we caneed everyone on a budget. at giantwe know saving money is important. every time you shop with your card, you can enjoy thousands of real deal savings and weekly specials, like top round lonn broil, $1.99 a pound, and healthy choice entrees, 5 for $10. this week only. it makes me feel good because we're saving money, and that works for me. only with your giant card. how about over here? n-- let's go back to the left. waffling is back at

tom fitzgerald is here with those details. >> reporter: the president made the announcement at andrewsair force base here he said it will help america an itself off dependence of foreign oil. the president's plan is to allow drilling in plans along the east coast, but not in alaska. bob mcdonnell stated 112 miles of coastline was quick to praises the decision. the president says he's rolling out new fuel economy standards for vehicles and will seek to turn the federal government's car fleet over to alternative energy fuels. >> we are announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect america's natural resources. >> virginia will be the first state to be able to enjoy the privilege of exploring and drilling off the atlantic coast for oil and natural gas. >> and no sooner had the president made that announcement than came more bad news on the l price front. oil prices posted a 17 month high nearing $84 a barrel, just after the president announced this plan for the offshore drilling.

let's check in with tom tasselmyer. >> we are seeing a mixed bagvé f precipitation.m up in the afternoon getting temperatures well above freezing and it may take a while for more snow to mix in, but you can see this covers most of western maryland. snow is redeveloping along interstate 68 and interstate 70. of this developing as another coastal storm organizes around georgia. au;wçit is expected to make the familiar round of the eastern seaboard and passmux carolina ad our way. it is going to get a slightly stronger as it comes our way. it will be a strong coastal storm with the wind and rain associated. more on the details, coming up. >> you can personalize the forecast using our interactive radar. go to our website wbaltv.com. >> it now pays to volunteer in one of baltimore city schools if you work for.: johns hopkins university. the school is giving its full time employees real incentives to sign up. it sounds like a great deal. do they]xáí actually track the e you volunteer? >> there is no catch. the volunteer and you get time off, up to two paid leave days per y

tom fitzgerald has the latest on sunday's show down. >> reporter: in campaign mode, president obama on the hard sell friday. >> not only can we afford to do this, we can't afford not to do this. >> reporter: touting his $940 billion effort to reform the health care system. >> our cost cutting measures would redupeople's prem combrums and here -- premiums and here is the bonus, it brings down the deficit by one trillion dollars the next two decades. >>> democratic house leader now appear to be close to the 216 votes they need to pass the bill. it will require everyone to buy coverage and fine those that don't but prevent insurance companies from dropping people with presifting conditions. >> this legislation is going to be enormously important for america's future. >> reporter: the debate waging in washington was evident outside george mason patriot center with voices on both sides speaking out. >> health care for all. >> we can have a process where obama snaps his fingers and gets what he wants but that's not how the country was set up. >> we are at the point that this may happen is am

tom daschle said long ago do this in a bipartisan way. i think he cited the example of australia where they had very narrow votes for health care reform and then it was repealed and they went back and forth until they got consensus. >> let's get to reconciliation which budget reconciliation means you have a separate bill here that would only need a simple majority that would just deal with the spending provisions of health care. you two had words about this on the pages of "the washington post." and senator hatch, let me put a portion of what you wrote on the screen. thuse of reconciliation to jam through this legislation against the will of the american people would be unprecedented in scope. and the havoc wrought would threaten our system of checks and balance, corrode the legislate of the process and damage the prospects of bipartisanship. it e.j., your response included this. i'm disappointed in hatch, co-sponsor of two of my favorite bills. one created the state children's health insurance program, the other signed last year by obama

tom and donna winters had to trade their car for a fishing boat. >> i think we're going to be in this for a week yet. so for us out here, it's not over. >> reporter: the flooding and the fear are receding, slowly. all of this water is straining dikes and levees so national guardsmen patrol around the clock. >> as long as the water is close to the bay, we'll be watching. >> reporter: they could be watching this high water all week while many here are declaring victory, the mayor is asks residents to wait for dry ground and dry forecast before dismantling their defenses, getting rid of all of these sandbags. bark bra pinto, abc news, fargo. >>> a stormy day from the carolinas to new england, stretching into pittsburgh, columbus and nashville. flooding from northern new jersey and massachusetts. up to a foot of mountain snow in colorado and montana. early showers in washington and oregon. >>> mostly 50s in the midwest and rockies. phoenix, 82. sacramento, 70. just shy of 70 in kansas city. highs in the 60s in new york and baltimore. 75 in miami, 57 today in new orleans. >>> when we come

i'm going to agree with tom on something big a little later. but i want to degree.think i have told tom this, i think he is too wed do the narrative that the surge failed. i don't think that the goal of a counterinsurgence iy campaign waged by a third party on behalf of a host government is to create time and space for a political breakthrough but to create time and space for a political process. i think we have done that in iraq. i think it is happening now. also you said petraeus left saying we just want to get out with the shirts on our back, but we initiative jated the s.o.f.a. agreement. i think they deserve credit about that. i am not sure i would be so quick to say the surge failed. a, it may be too early to make that judgment. b, i think an important political process is taking place and has been taking place that we can take some credit for, that the u.s. military and diplomats can take some credit for. but the goal of my remarks is to learn what we have learned in iraq, what we haven't learned, how we learned, and where this leads us going forward. over th