will this slowing cab pick us up? he speeds on by. >> i'm an inspector. id, please. did you pass me up? >> reporter: he said he was off duty, going to dinner. >> suary not out of service, sir. ticket is going to be issued for refuse to haul. >> reporter: the claim of off duty was the most common excuse all night. >> reporter: that's why you didn't pick us up? you say you're off duty? >> he said that he was off duty. d.c. law says if you're off duty, you must have an off-duty sign in your window. his light was active. he was in service. >> reporter: over a six-hour period inspectors issued 18 citations for refusing to pick up passengers and impounded sen vehicles, writing a total of 69 violations. derek. >> those are some gangster inspectors, man, but why didn't they good out on their own? why did they have to follow you? >> the taxi commission says it doesn't have the budget for an undercover operation. they say they are getting new feeds that are coming in from new credit card readers that are going into cars later this year. that will allow them to double their insp

what holds us up today, we completely are rebuilding our community. we're going back to the hunter community. it's time to reenvision housing to the lowest self-confidence. for weeks now i've been active with hudson on how to get off the treadmill off the backlogs that won't get fullly funded. last year, i meet with others who said they are commented to us having new housing. so effective immediately i've asked the director of housing authority to develop a set of recommendations to help and building a model of s f f. senator who grew up in this area has agreed to join this effort. we will engage residents, community leaders, number one housing leaders and i'm open to every one of their recommendations up to and including replacing the housing authority as we know it with a new million dollar >> every san franciscan deserves a clean safe place to call home. i believe we can improve the condition of public you housing and live up to our lowest income residents if we collaborator with hudson and others in private session terrors. and on our streets ther

us any rain. tuesday we are back up. wednesday more mild conditions. look at the low 70s return. seems like everien of the week they visit us and by the weekend we cool off. once again that's the trend. >> good thing for the seven days so we can keep track of everything. thank you, lisa. in sports this afternoon, the warriors begin an important five game road trip in minnesota against the timberwolves. >> last night the sharks tried to break out of their recent slump in dallas. here's mike shumann with the highlights and this morning's sports. >> good morning. we are going to start you on the ice with the sharks. they are sinking. they have only scored twelve goals in the last ten games. nothing is clicking. as a result they have dropped nine of their last ten. in dallas last night joe thornton showing fight. at least he scored a few punches. didn't help the sharks. their penalty kill faultered. jamir jagr with the goal. 1-0 stars. in the third, another stars power play. 2-0. sharks power play, 2 of 46 in their last 11 games. finally they get one. marleau scores off the face-off.

bring us up to speed. tell us about how this goes down. >> today, everything in front of city hall gets underway at 10:45, we will have the mayor and coach, and the players reps, they will speak, confetti, tough have confetti to kick off the event. we will start from here. it's a ravens parade with the players, coaches, band, cheerleaders and mascot's home. >> what do you want people to remember? we are #expecting thousands of people. >> we encourage people to take light rail buses, you can pack over at m and t bank stadium. can be 79@zñalong the parade ro >> reporter: they will start and t. what happens there? i heard that's where the festivities begin. >> entertainment. that will be a great way to finish the season, and thank the ravens. >> reporter: thank you for joining us live and giving us the ntion. exciting time. -- information. exciting time. everything kicks off at 10:45. the players will hit the streets, parade will end up at m and t, lots of festivities. etch cannot wait to welcome home those ra

up fuel prices. those higher prices come as gasoline is also on the rise. joining us now with the outlook for energy, alan harry. he's portfolio manager and c.e.o. of the spartan commodity fund. alan, let me first start off by talking to you about home heating oil. we saw prices up this week 3%. what is the trend going forward? >> well, thank you for having me. what i look at right now is short term we're going up a little bit more. longer term we're heading down. two, three weeks we're going to go up just a little bit more. after that, down we go. >> susie: why is that? >> well, i think we're coming to the close of the heating season. we already have an idea of what days we have left of heating. and it's not using up enough. so they've kept a lot in reserve, a lot of speculation coming to the market, and it's not getting used up. two, three weeks we have a great idea of where we will sit heating season wise. after that, down we go displuz for most of the u.s., households use natural gas. they don't use heating oil. and the ones that do are mostly in the northeast. so

bob hormats joining us. >>> up next, the state of the union and what the proposal president obama laid out in the second term. >>> later, the president brought up an eamericaing technology, 3d printing. >> new worker are masters the 3d printing. >> we'll talk to an innovator in that field and hear her remarkable personal and professional story. professional story. back in a moment. >>> let's do it without the brinks man ship that scares off investors. the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufacturing crisis to the next. we can't do it. >> president obama 66th minute state of the union address this week, the first in his second term. joining me now with analysis is tony t fratto. michael beschloss is a presidential historian. tony, let me kick it up with you. what do you think? can we get an economic policy that doesn't stress consumers or scare investors, as the president said? >> it's hard. actually in this environment. talk to people about this all the time and try to help them understand what's going on

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that could change later on in the day. >> hearing from people that have been up there recently they can usenow up there. >>> 4:49 is the time. how are the roads around the bay area? >> they are good. we don't have a lot going on expect it's wet. unfortunately when that happens we see a higher incident of collisions. a lot of fender benders. especially as the morning commute wears on. we are looking at northbound 101. it's a nice looking drive with no major problems. getting word of a new accident that just popped up on the screen. highway 24 westbound just after highway 13 in oakland. this one just popped up about two minutes ago. chp is not there yet. it's reported as a solo spinout. let's take a look at westbound bay bridge. this traffic looks good coming into san francisco. and in san jose the traffic looks well. it's ten minutes before 5:00 let's go to steve. >>> sal, thank you. our system is rotating through. not done yet. sometimes it will come down from the northeast quadrant as we say. some will wrap back into lake county and napa county. we'll have to watch that skirt the 680 corri

and george is picking us up at the airport. get out of here! why?u know that awning outside my building? he's always bragging about his vertical leap, so i bet him 50 bucks that he couldn't touch the awning. what happened? he didn't come within 2 feet of the thing. he's waving at it. so, i told him if he picks us up, he wouldn't have to pay me. hey, how we doing on time? perfect. drop off the car, pick up the shuttle, walk right on the plane. wait up! wait up! sorry. wait! wait! where you going? uh, jfk. got any small bills for a tip? a 5? give me a 10. $10? we got three bags. pretty big tip. they don't get that much. let's ask him. you can't ask him. we don't have time. two seconds. excuse me? we were having a discussion. we were wondering what you usually get for a tip. depends on the person, depends on the bag. how about people like us? two people like you? i wouldn't expect much. you don't even look like you know what you're doing. seriously. since you asked... usually i get $5.00 a bag. what? that's right. $5.00 a bag? i don't think so. you ask

weather stations on the bridge to make sure they engineered it properly and safely for toefrpb use it. coming up in 211 days -- safely for everyone to use it. that will be coming up in 211 days. >>> we have is 49 degrees for oakland, san francisco, 48 currently. 39 already in santa rosa. and san jose down to 46 degrees. tonight, we will see some 30s, upper 30s in the south bay. 35 for santa rosa and pacifica, 46. satellite and radar review will show you the ridge of high pressure is holding on. as that ridge begins to move away from us we will go from northerly north easterly wind. it will cool us down. cooler air moving in before we get showers. tomorrow, mainly sunny, mild again. the cool air will be here in the middle of the week and showers for the first time all month long will be here starting on thursday. highs tomorrow, san jose, 62. concord, 61. vallejo, 59. notice will cool down already with the onshore flow. right along the coast. 52. sanfrancisco, 54. here is the extended forecast. low 60ss inland. staying dry. upper 50ss near the bay. low 50s at the coast. here comes the first rain

you can get some free coffee and free legos. >> hooking us up. >> thank you. >> sure. >> coming up >>g up at 6:00 a lawsuit accuses a well known vacation company of tricking thousands of time shares they cannot afford and a congressman learn what's automatic cuts could mean to local economy. and space age technology going underground. a robot looking for leaks and keeping our neighborhood safe coming up at 6:00. now back to dan and cheryl. >> see you then. >> oakland lake merit going through quite a makeover. >> officials celebrating the opening of a channel closed off 140 years it will allow boaters in the oldest wildlife preservation to once again paddle from the lake to san francisco bay. >> the section was open today for the first time since the 18 60s. and the city will hold a celebration for this and other improvements later this summer. it's a beautiful day. >> fun to see that. is going to do it for us. wofrld news coming up next. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. we appreciate your time. we'll see you ag >>> this is "world news," and right now, millions of us are sl

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not much wind tonight but clear skies and if the winds back off that is setting us up for mostly 30s. a few low 40s. they are looking pretty good. wrapping up the weekend. very dry conditions for this time of year. really just quite dry. we don't have much in the way of storm systems. it's high pressure acts like a wall here off to the west of the west coast. as the high continues to strengthen. that's going to keep us dry. going be looking at warmer days. not just for the next 7 days but the next 2 weeks can end up stuck in the pattern. tomorrow morning, only patchy low clouds. that's going keep things dry and mostly clear through the day tomorrow it will look a lot like we saw today. the afternoon should be slightly warn warmer after a chilly start. chance of patchy fog. sunrise at 7:05 in the morning. heading over towards fair field. north bay valley seeing 6s as well. the inner bay will warm up through monday and tuesday. and then the warmest days of the week coming up for the second half. this will be wednesday through friday. we will have a chance of getting close to 70 degrees

that will warm us up even in san francisco likely close to 70 degrees. then after that, we'll see some changes. the onshore flow is back for everybody. we are cooler over the weekend, low 60s by sunday. and there is some rain moving in by the middle of next week so 70s on friday, we'll be down to the low 60s by sunday but still dry. rain holds off until next tuesday. highs tomorrow oakland 67. san jose 67. fairfield 69. wine country will hit the 70s once again. extended forecast low 70s on friday. then we cool down over the weekend but a pleasant weekend to get outside. we have two chances of rain next tuesday -- do you believe it? wow! breaking news! two chances of rain next tuesday and next wednesday. >> wednesday are we getting a little bit more? >> looks like this could be .25" to half inch of rain. that's not a ton but compared to the past couple of weeks, it's not bad. >> it's a start. >> thank you. >>> next stop, devil's slide! tonight a tour of the new tunnel and how it is so smart, it can even override your radio. am i allergic to any medication

us. these clouds are coming up from the moisture on the southern component of what will eventually be at the northeastern. low pressure near mobile, alabama, off of the gulf coast. you can see the warm front drifting north. the warm front is often a tip as to where the track of the storm will be. the low pressure center is generally to some extent following that track. second component, too. the energy from this as this storm is moving north will transfer the coast and help bring the storm even further north. it looks like it all comes together around boston. it looks like boston will be the main target for the storm as far as all the really significant snow and that weather occurs. the coldest of the air -- the area has shrunk and it is all in canada out right now. cold enough for snow, yes, at least some areas. high-temperature today -- cloudy skies, sunset at 5:34. it gets a little later each day. overnight, we develop a chance for a light turnout or sleet. the farther south you go, the greater the chance for that. tomorrow morning there could be some slippery driving conditions aroun

♪ >>> we continue to use the word tentative here today up about nine points. a look at some of the big names moving today. we're watching penney down sharply. limited, of course, which reported $1.55. that does it here for us at squawk on t"squawk on the stree" let's go back to wapner at hq. >>> carl, thanks so much. welcome to the halftime report. we march to the all-time highs for the dour. we stand up 9 points. you can see green arrows across the board today. playing defense, the sequester may be looming but the stocks are rallying. what's the right way to make money right now? step into the gap. retailer reporting earnings. our traders face off in one big debate. marching to record highs, stocks continue to climb. is the rally real or fake or based on fundamentals? we're trading with stephanie lee and josh brown. josh, how about that? is this based all on the fed or are there any fundamentals behind it? >> i think it's a combination. i think it had been a big factor but the fed is not the only factor. bonds became less competitive with the stocks and when

it doesn't look good to the rest of the world and it won't look good to the anthropologists who dig us up hundreds of years from now they'll still wonder what were these people thinking. the us is the most dangerous place to live the most h.i.v. drug abuse and violence in the west puts it did last as for generosity we have done more good on this earth in any other nation in history bill o'reilly claims america is the most generous nation on the planet in fact america is the meanest the least asylum seekers taken the worst environmental damage home and abroad and the least foreign aid on freedom the people who hate us hate us because of the freedoms that we circled learned of the frieze nothing of the sort with officially the least press freedom more corruption than jewelry. lowest political participation lowest proportion of women in politics on the human rights world right one hundred and sixty seven and bar for the world's most prisoners finally family to try to promote this institution of marriage try to promote the family and republicans especially top family like they invented it yet

the southwest wind is taking us up. we have a good bit of sunshine out there. we could hit 60 degrees. 36 oakland 48 elkin 48 on the shore 56 columbia, 46 annapolis and kent island. winds coming in from the southwest, a bit of a variable direction around the rest of the state. we have a northwest wind in oak land, southwest in elkin. you get the idea. the winds are not a real factor. they will pick up tomorrow as this storm starts to develop and move up the coast. as marty talked about earlier, we're watching a development of a storm system. you start to see. so of this -- see some solve this disturbance move in. snow up in the top portion of it rain back and a mix. it's expected to head towards the coastline. it's expected to strengthen and make its way up towards new england and new york. winds will pick up. we don't rebound very nicely like we have over these last few days. we get these blasts and then the temperatures go back up into the 50s. we'll stay on the cold side for the weekend. we will still see some snow through the day tomorrow. not talking about

stock up on medicine, use mass transit when upon. but even transit leaders we talked with are warning of possible service disruptions. city buses will get chains on their tires when needed. it has been snowing here since early this morning. the forecast shows heavier snow in the late afternoon. what the forecast is looking like, possibly a foot of snow in the big apple. the winds later on will be fierce. 50 to 60-mile-an-hour winds. people are hunkering down thinking at leaving work early today. city government, offices are open. city schools are open as well. the dropoff at school was pretty good, i think, for some of the parents but later this afternoon, the pick-up might be a challenge. that's the very latest from new york. i'm catherine craig, back to you. >>> this storm is causing big travel troubles. thousands of flights throughout the east coast are grounded and that's affecting travel right here in washington. news 4's megan mcgrath spoke to some frustrated travellers. she's live this morning at reagan national airport with m

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we do want to remind you, follow us on twitter, hit us up on facebook and check abc2news.com because we're updating this story, reports that the pope is going to resign at the end of february. >> this was just handed to us. we want to hit this quickly because we had this given to us. a vatican spokesman says pope benedict xvi will resign at the end of this month. this being confirmed by a number of agencies including the associated press and reuters. we've tweeted it out for you this morning. you can follow us to be up to date on this. more as the day goes on. >>> we'll tell you about the tornado you definitely heard about it by now rveght the tornado that -- by now, the tornado that ripped through mississippi. take a look at this video shortly after the tornado touched down. the town of hatsyfield is home to southern miss which received a lot of damage. state officials say three people have been injured and the storm has caused significant damage. >>> the storm may be over but the work now is just beginning. >> stay with us this morning. we're going to talk about cleaning up all the

that's going to set us up for more passing snow flurries and light snow into the course of tomorrow afternoonnd evening. some of the models want to bring it in late into monday night and some want it earlier. we'll have to watch it. looks like also we could get maybe an inch or less, but there are some models that want to bring in a little more snow. we'll have to see how it all develops. to the west winter storm watch and winter storm warning in effect, pendleton, mineral counties in effect for that beginning monday night into tuesday morning. so a lot more accumulations over the mountains, 4 to 8 inches, and strong gusting winds. we have some wind chills. they'll improve tomorrow, 38 degrees, but the warm-up kicks in the later part of the week. back to you. >>> that does it for us. fox 5 news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. >> keep it right here. sports xtra is two minutes away. this is dylan right here, this is dylan, and this is his big brother hayden. dylan's only five, but he's already been through two surgeries for brain tumors. and he just went through his second round of chemo. and thi

we were trying to get some rest, and there was nobody to back us up and help us. we were thrashed. -- we ended up making a record in the bahamas. we were on a boat in the day, and there was a fight started between the bass player. the bass player was to be ready to jump off the side of the vote. -- boat. we have been warned there were sharks around. he said, i have had enough of this. tavis: how did the war thing ?appened i >> the animals were over. i was in l.a., and i did not want to go to london and face the press. i love l.a.. it was great. i said, i am going to the actors studio. i signed up for the actors studio and had a great teacher, and i was doing well. i really enjoyed it. they said, if you want to do that, you have got to earn money in the field you are in. put a new band together. they said, we see you as a black band. i saw this events that had a trombone, trumpets, saxophone, bass. i said, we cannot take this on the road and make money. eventually we got it down to six brands and myself. -- bands and myself. it was wonderful for a couple years. it was really good, bu

please bring us up-to-date on this story. >> they are still meeting in testifying here in the state house. we talked about the governor's desire. a lot of people are now rushing to buy guns. that has created a backlog because of the seven-day background check. shooting ranges and gun stores in maryland are buzzing with activity these days. >> sales are pretty much good everywhere. people are steadily coming in the door. sales are skyrocketing but is taking an extra long time for gun owners to actually take their guns home. because so many people are buying them, the wait can take as long as a month. >> it is a necessity that needs to be done. >> this rockville collector disagrees. he attended today's gun rally in annapolis. he says it is just a method the government is using to slow down the sale of guns. >> they have just got rival stack up with the paperwork on them. we cannot do anything but man the bones and look for paperwork. >> maryland state police have received 26,000 applications for gun registration in the past few months. in 2010, they received 38,000 for the entire year. stat

with us today, howard fineman, the bbc's katrina, annie lowrey and michael duffy. first uprack obama sees a path to history on guns and immigration at this point two weeks into his second term. this is when he's strongest and he's taking his case to the country over the heads of washington. in rean'

i just use up some of my time, but it is worth it. let me stipulate first of all, the united states cannot do everything everywhere. we cannot involve ourselves even when there are humanitarian crises. we cannot always involve ourselves. there are limitations on our capabilities, our resources, and our attention. the question really is, does syria rise to the level that those acquire our attention. if you think about america's role in the world, traditionally a our involvement, we easily become involved not necessarily just for humanitarian reasons. sometimes for strategic reasons. very frequently when humanitarian issues and strategic issues -- strategic interests converge. syria is unquestionably a place where humanitarian issues do converge. lisa has talked about it. senator mccain has talked about it. you read about it every day. it is a horrendous humanitarian catastrophe. the only thing i would add is the upward of 1 million displaced people inside syria today who are about to enter a winter. and are living in tents and may suff

thank you for joining us today. >>> up next we're "on the money" and with the billionaire determined to give it all away, microsoft founder bill gates on his mission to change the world and what he thinks of the company he started in today's technology in this trade. coming up. >>> later, the business of broadway. how the big bets are the real showstoppers on the great white way and beyond. way and beyond. stay with us. >>> well, the world's second richest man bill gates has a mission to change the world one glar at a time. the billionaire philanthropist released his annual letter this week describing the work his foundation is doing to address challenges in global health and education across the globe. i spoke to the man who made microsoft at the world economic forum in davos last week. in the road aweighedhead for the company he founded and his success successor, steve bammer. >> tech leaders, those are hard jobs. amazing things. be great. >> microsoft has not had an easy time recently. would you ever return to the front office? >> i'm engaged adds chairman on a part-time basis but

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when the sunshine finally starts to warm us up a little bit coming up in the full weather forecast. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a local family is still desperate for answers four long years after the disappearance of 47-year-old pamela butler. she was an analyst at the environmental protection agency who went missing around valentine's day of 2009. as surae chinn reports, she was last seen as her home in northwest washington. >> people say time heels everything, but -- heals everything, but it doesn't heal this. >> reporter: with each passing year, the hope of finding 47- year-old pam butler grows dim. but on a cold day, family and friends continue to gather in front of pamela's former home each year and pray. >> i wonder where, when, or why somebody did this to her. >> reporter: police have long suspected pam's ex-boyfriend, but there has never been enough evidence to charge him. family says he backed out of taking a lie detector test. the home has undertaken a makeover and a new homeowner but the mystery remains. pamela's disappearance is technically considered a missing person

us. quite a few snow flurries. that system will push it way upantic and in parts of new england. let's take a look at radar and show you what's going on closer to home. we don't have whole lot to the d.c. area. delmarva got hit with a fair amount of this. i can't rule out another passing flurry or two during the course of the overnight tonight. back to our maps. we're going to be looking at another round of some these flurries. very scattered and isolated in nature. we have a winter weather advisory in effect that includes grant, mineral counties, along the front. this in effect through sunday, until 5:00. also winds are going to be strong. we've got that low pressure system moving out, ridge of high pressure pooling in. that's going to set us up for gust y winds which started tonight. we're going to see some of that blowing snow as well. scattered flurries through the metro area, accumulating snow west as well as heading to the northeast. for tomorrow, those winds will be gusting to about 35 miles per hour. definitely, you want to hang on to you