that at long last, our communications manager will be on board in about three weeks, by the middle of january. we had cleared the necessary arrangements to hire her, and we're pleased will be joining us at long last. second, in your packet that you will receive this afternoon is a memo on the budget. we're at that moment already where we're starting the budget process. seems like we just ended, and we are starting again. in fact, we just ended. the memo is kind of looking at year to date, this fiscal year. it covers the data we have, which is the first four months of this year, and looked ahead to how we are doing for the current fiscal year. you will be having a series of hearings early in the year, including your first meeting of -- on january 12, when we will be starting the budget discussions for next fiscal year. there, and a reminder that, like last year, the department's primary offices will be closed during the holiday week, december 26, the permit counter will be open, as well dbi's, but the actual department offices will be closed for that week. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am from the planning department staff, here to give you your weekl

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at what is happening with the weather. we'll have more for you coming up in just a little bit so stick with us. >> as long as it doesn't last all week. >> oh, no, just for today. >> we can deal with that. >> thank you. >>> let's check with lauren demarco for a look at traffic. >> at least we don't have to deal with it for the morning commute. no rain slickers or galoshes. we do have slow traffic northbound 201 between eastern avenue and 50 because of a wreck. 95 in virginia northbound here at the truck scales, still dealing with this accident activity off on the right shoulder. the travel lanes are open. so just watch out for that. a little bit of an eyesore there. further north, heavy and slow now in the main lanes to get across the occoquan. here you are at 123 to the right of your screen heading northbound as you make the trip into woodbridge. 66 slowing here approaching the beltway. you will find some slow traffic through manassas and centreville with the volumes dim still a bit lighter than usual. no problems to report on the beltway in montgomery county. we do have the accident on the inner loop. the right lane is blo

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us. >> sort of. >> we have clear skies. any fog won't last long. the winds have cranked up the higher elevations. at the surface not too bad yet. out in the valley things are starting to pick up a little bit. we'll have a breezy blustery day. we had our little rain. i mean emphasis on little. system dives into southern california. the pattern is extremely blocked it's like throwing a bolder in the creek. nothing is moving. everything continues to go up and over us and dives into southern california. seven-ten day outlook shows nothing for us. north wind at vacaville. north, northeast at concord. livermore has a little breeze. hence the temperature. if you get that wind it's mild, if not it's cold. 39 oakland. and 37 at san jose and hayward. it's a cold morning. the breeze sends temperatures up. you can see high pressure is built in. the low down in southern california will give them more rain. they are taking all our rain. very little fog if there is any fog. it's mainly a breeze event. cold morning 30s and 40s. windy at times up in the hills. it will be sunny. 50s to 60s. again all these highs fore

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getting tasered and has far more long lasting effects than waterboarding at least physically which might be why g.o.p. t.v. talking heads are willing to praise its use from a far but not willing to put their face in front of want to listen to pike's pepper spray canisters and until they do so hannity or meghan kelly or all rally walk the walk and take in a face full of pepper spray and they should hold off on making comments about how it's a legitimate use of force against peaceful protesters and the occupy wall street. well we we posted that daily take on the thom hartmann facebook page and asked the question should meghan kelly take a face full of pepper spray you consensus was a resoundingly yes. john wrote i think she needs to spoon some of it onto a salad or sandwich in eat on the air since it's a food product essentially and terry lynn posted give her a full dose of what the o.-w. s. got and hold the water for a while too it's kind of nasty rick pointed out something that the conservative media have been ignoring in the coverage of protesters being sprayed with pepper spray he wrote as the blog from scientific american points out is not only a

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us some perspective us and they remind us that on april 8 congress at the last minute narrowly avoided a government shutdown. on july 31 congress dithered so long over the debt ceiling debate that it caused a u.s. debt rating downgrade for the first time in history. and on november 21, the so-called supercommittee created to solve the deficit problem disbanded in failure. 0-3. president obama stepped into the white house briefing room after the house vote today and called on the speaker of the house to reconsider and bring the senate bill up for a vote. >> we have more important things to worry about than politics right now. we have more important things to worry about than saving face or figuring out internal caucus politics. we have people who are counting on us to make their lives just a little bit easier. >> pelley: to make understanding this a little bit easier, we turn now to chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation" bob schieffer. bob? >> scott, if you ever needed any proof that the congress is totally dysfunctional and unable to do anything, you saw it today. forget who's at fault, they all are for let it go this fa

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at the moment. >> how long can the positive effect last? >> usually this only blasts some days because everybody is clear about the fact that governments have had to reform and that using the printing press is the lowering the effect of the governments to go for structured refunds. at the last couple days, but in the end, everybody is aware of the fact more has to be done and politicians have to be more active than they have been in the past. >> will this send to inflation soaring? >> i don't think so. not in the short to medium run. in the medium to long run, we will see inflation in the raw material sector, the real-estate sector. this is the usual pattern. in the short run, we feel a slight recession in germany, and a stronger recession and the euro area because of the credit crunch. this is what the central bank's wants to fight. >> thank you so much for joining us. >>> global stocks rallied and the dollar slid against the euro. let's look at some of the closing market numbers. the blue-chip dax closed almost up 5% preferredthe euro stoxx 50 was 4% higher. in new york, the dow industrials were higher. and the root is trading at $1.3436. -- and the road is trading a

at least for the start of the day. meteorologist tom kierein is going to tell us how long it's going to last. tom?at skrich, skrich outside your window, that's your neighbor scraping frost off his or her windshield. >>> we've got a plane taking off from reagan national under a clear sky. sunrise is still more than a half hour away. it's a cold 35 at reagan national. thankfully, the wind is calm. elsewhere, we are down into the 20s in just about the entire area from the mountains all the way to the atlantic beaches although it's just a little bit above freezing right near the bay. elsewhere, it is mid and upper 20s, including montgomery, arlington, fairfax, and prince george's counties. parts of the district of columbia too are below freezing. and the view from space showing a few clouds drifting in from the west. they're now just beginning to move into northern maryland, western maryland, panhandle of west virginia, and shenandoah valley. they may hold together and drift over the metro area over the next couple of hours. sunrise at 7:08. ought to be above freezing. the frost should be melting by 8

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last long at all. after sunset, that rain will be ending. but a good dose for us for a year where our surplus is almost seven inches. that's right. we're above average on rainfall by nearly seven inches, and we're going to get another half to an inch of rain out of this. we're at 42 degrees right now. overcast skies. the showers are broken to the west coming in over fredericksburg and west virginia. the heavier rain sitting much further back. that's going to come into the area around 2:00 p.m. high today of 49 degrees. play planner forecast, 40 degrees at 9:00 a.m. noontime 45. still holding at 48 degrees by 9:00 p.m. because of a southerly wind. the rain will be ending and moving out of here fairly quickly by 10:00 p.m. down in the low 40s by 11:00 p.m. a look at the four-day forecast on the other side of this system. some chillier air. a high tomorrow of 45 degrees. but it's going to feel like we're more at 40 degrees because it's going to be windy. sunshine for the rest of the week. we'll take a look at new year's eve and new year's day, carol n just a couple o

getting tasered and has far more long lasting effects than waterboarding at least physically which might be why g.o.p. t.v. talking heads are willing to praise its use from a far but not willing to put their face in front of want to listen to pike's pepper spray canisters and until they do so hannity or meghan kelly are all rally walk the walk and taking a face full of pepper spray and they should hold off on making comments about how it's a legitimate use of force against peaceful protesters and the occupy wall street. coming up on the big picture of this week's conversations with great minds with author journalist and medical ethicist dr harriet washington.

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us. we don't need to worry at all. if you're getting a little rain drop or two first thing this morning that will not last long. clearing skies overnight will lead to a much colder start. 23 in columbus, ohio. 29 in pittsburgh. that's the air mass that's coming our way. we've got this ribbon of clouds to deal with. look at the clearing skies across parts of ohio and west virginia. it's going to feel like winter with a north breeze today and cold tonight into tomorrow. today sunny, breezy, cold, highs today only low to mid 40s. for tomorrow not much of a breeze. highs tomorrow in the upper 30s and low 40z. the all important seven-day forecast breezy today 45. cold tomorrow with a high near 43 degrees. a little bit of chilly sunshine sticks around through monday and tuesday. maybe a chance of a rain drop showing up wednesday, thursday, friday, time frame. it will not be the inundation of rain like we had this past week. >> it was a downpour, i was out reporting wednesday morning. taking trees out and all. >> it's going to be cold tomorrow. i think we'll be going to a movie or shopping. a good day for that. thank