to call from verna capital says the increasing political risk in the run up to the presidential elections of march today on certain. overall markets are going to be depressed by the by the political uncertainty. we invest in our russian the past years got used to being anything but politically unstable and i guess what we've seen over the past few weeks is that this fear of political uncertainty squeaking back into into the people's mind as such i don't really expect the market to do much between now and march or any forseen positive or negative of that sort of europe and as such i guess we're going to spend more the same you know higher or you know little or very little boy. russian energy majors gals pom and i holding have made a second attempt to join their electricity assets aiming to create the country's biggest power company in december they pulled back their application from the federal antimonopoly service saying the promise of the deal had to be revised due to the regulators criticism now the companies hope to finalize the deal by the end of march. oil company rules petrol became

bulletin this hour russian stocks closed in the black for the fourth day as oil the country's main export verna climbs the rigors we'll bring you the figures in our business bulletin let's. see a live from moscow word seven pm ominous now with our top story the u.k. has finally admitted to spying on russians after years of denying it the chief of staff to then prime minister tony blair has confirmed they were caught red handed when the f.s.b. discovered their surveillance equipment in two thousand and six it was hidden inside a fake rock in a moscow park ivor bennett has more from london but in the murky world of spies spooks and cold war stereotypes it's very hard to discern fact from fiction and so question marks always remained over this story but these comments now from jonathan powell i think it pretty conclusive evidence is what he had to say. despite iraq was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose. these revelations will be hugely embarrassing for m i six and the british government firstly be

. >> maybe verna has it? is she in your precinct?erna probably has it. >> this is 2 secretary -- >> okay, i see. >> signing our forms and checking these here. [ inaudible ] they won't have to sign in on our form. >> there's not an e-mail address on there, is there? we want their e-mail address. at a bare minimum. if they don't want to miss around with the address and everything on, ask if they can print their names and put their e-mail address. that's how we're communicating. at a minimum, a name and e-mail address. i asked the state party, i said it would have been nice to have e-mail addresses right on there. but that doesn't happen. so that's why we have the additional ones. >> we cannot ask them to add their e-mail address to that form. >> no. no. no -- no. >> i would have them do it while they're registering. i have them sign in, take the form, responsible for someone collecting it later. that again slows it down. it's amazing how it's so simple but it can be very time consuming. >> you can pass out our registration form, when t

maybe verna has it. is she in your precinct? then verna has it. >> [inaudible] >> there is not an e-mail address on that, is there? we want their e-mail address. if they do not want to mess around putting their address or anything on, at least ask if they can print their name and put their e-mail address because that is how we are primarily communicating with everybody. yeah, i asked the state party. it would be nice to have e-mail addresses right on their but it did not happen. >> so you are saying we cannot ask them to add their e-mail address? >> no. >> i would have them do it while they are registering. have someone responsible for collecting it later. again, that will slow down the process. >> right. people can fill it in as they are sitting there. that is fine, too. i do not want you all to get hung up on that form. getting the clock is going on time is the priority. if you have a bottleneck and this is becoming too much of a pain, take them into your caucus and when you start, ask people to pass them around and complete t

verna burr, of henning, minnesota, 102 years old today. enjoys gardening and reading her bible.esse james, of port saint lucie, florida. i won't try to make a joke about that. he's 101 years old today. loves gardening, bowling and robbing trains. no, he doesn't. i just threw that in. wood carver. and we have nettie lobsenz, a nice lady from new york, new york. 103, loves opera, her secret to longevity? matzo ball soup. she makes the best in the country and it's delicious. matzo ball soup, hands down. henry litzel. of kings park, new york. is 100 years old today. and a proud retired firefighter. how about that? what a hero, huh? and he loves to be involved at church activities. can't beat that. and finally, bessie griswold of dudley, north carolina. a lot of griswolds up in connecticut. 100 years old, loves reading the bible. her secret to longevity? moderation. and even in moderation, moderation. that's it. >> all right, willard, thank you so much. >>> coming up, the things you can save money on in 2012. >> but first, we're going to take a look at your local news. and if you're

beltway, rain showers picking up in intensity and off to the east now out towards crofton and buoy, vernathis up a little bit and off to the south and west, see that line down towards manassas? that's some thunderstorm activity with winds gusting to about 40 to 50 miles per hour. so got to just kind of withstand the weather here for the next few hours and things will quiet down later this morning and early this afternoon. let me also mention viewers in southern maryland, down toward st. mary's city, you're now seeing heavy rain as well. that will continue to fill in here over the next couple of hours and all of this pressing east. annapolis, you're about to get some very heavy rain. temperatures, this is fueling our big weather event this morning, 55 in washington, but 66 degrees in fredricksburg, 61 in manassas and dulles. we've got warm air trying to kind of poke north and east with our cold front and that's, again, our fuel for that storminess. here is your forecast for today, temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s early. they'll be falling this afternoon. it will get very blustery