, how low regard washington is held in. the self-governing people reminding us about the tea party, self-governing people should not have their lightbulbs taken away from them; right? [laughter] people, the government is supposedly subserve i can't to us, and it sure doesn't feel that way, and then now, they already took our toilets, now our lightbulbs. they are going for our shower heads -- [laughter] as a good conservative i say get them out of the bedroom and into the bathroom. [laughter] we're ready to take questions from the audience. we have time for a few. if you have someone to direct it to, let me know. there's a question up here in the front. yes, i saw that. oh, at the very end? excuse me, hold the microphone as close as you can, please. >> i'd like to ask a question about the mad hatters tea party that you are describing which takes place in the high levels of leadership in washington. i'd like to ask you one, if you think the entire culture in america has radically changed within the last ten years that would s

not because he was disloyal to either washington or the nation, and he revered washington and left his country but few men in those days could afford to go in to federal public service so far from home. congressman heard less than $10 a day and had to pay their expenses and he was a farmer and part-time lawyer who need every penny he learned to support his gigantic family. as i said before, he fathered 18 children before he died, and these were not accidental births. henry loved his first wife who died after bearing six of his children and he adored his second wife who bore the rest of his children, and he absolutely and totally with all his heart and soul aboard every one of his children. he couldn't get enough of them. he loved playing with them, telling them stories, they say and danced and jumped about in circles. he taught his boys to ride, fish and hunt. he took them riding on his horse with one boy sitting behind him and another in front of him. if friends walked into his house many times and found them in the words of one lawyer on the floor with a group of little ones climbing

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from washington university.ur second speaker, bill shambla, director of the bradley center for philanthropy and civic renewal. he was director of programs for the bradley foundation in milwaukee. he served as speech writer for attorney general edwin meeks and director of the office of personnel management connie horner and secretary of health and human services lewis sullvn and he was co-director of a.e.i.'s constitution, he served on the committee for records and he served on the board of directors for the corporation for national and community service. bill crystal is editor of "the weekly standard" which he co-founded in 1995. he frequently appears on fox news sunday and the fox news channel. before starting the "weekly standard" he led the project for republican future and served as chief of staff to vice president dan quayle and secretary of education william bennett. he taught politics at the university of pennsylvania and finally, senator alexander's coed tore is joining us, checker finn is president of t

he helped washington win the war. it was henry who discovered the scandal behind the food shortages at valley forge. it was henry that helped uncover and thwart the group of vicious officers to overthrow washington as chief and reconciliate with britain. it was henry that sent troops into the west to seize the illinois territory, along with kentucky, ohio, and indiana. that was not the continental army, that was henry's force. and it was henry who sent virginia militiamen into north carolina and helped drive the british out of north carolina. he never fired the weapon himself, he was one the great heros of the american revolution, along with washington, lafayette, green, and knox. the hit -- the historians all but ignore the greatest of the american patriots. which is why i wrote line of liberty to restore patrick henry to his rightful place on one of the greatest of the founding fathers. in some ways, henry was actually a more notable founding father than even washington. washington fathered no children, henry father

impending holiday deadlines focused a legislative mind in washington. remember the christmas eve health care vote? this year is no different. so now with any number of critical issues still hanging fire, every victory is one that can be universally claimed. >> candidly speak, there are some elements of this legislation i don't like. there's some el lts that members of my party don't like. there's some elements that republicans here today don't like. that's the nature of compromise. >> we want to stop all of the tax hikes for at least the next two years, and secondly, that we ought to have the funding bill through september 30 at 2008 levels before the stimulus and before the bailouts and all the other nonsense that's gone on here. gwen: all the other nonsense. you see, this time last week, janet, we were talking about the liberal revolt in the house floor and even on the senate floor. what happened? >> well, over the course of the last week, which was consumed by talk about this tax bill, two things had. at least two things happened among liberals. a lo

good morning washington at 5:00 a.m. begins now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. welcome back. i am pamela brown. >> i'm scott thuman. alison starling as the day off. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes. first, adam caskey is stocking'' no -- is talking snow. >> a nice coating expected this midday. clouds are increasing. areas of snow are shown in bright white stretching from indiana into illinois and north carolina and south western virginia. what you see all left in green is rain. once the rain moves are way, it will turn into snow. the winter weather advisory starts at 10:00 a.m. for the medical area and will last until 9:00 p.m. high temperatures in the upper 20's. one or two inches locally. higher amounts order south of the >>> there's an accident on vehicle near five, branch avenue on the right. we are looking of the beltway at the american legion bridge. the roads are clear and dry. no major issues other than the crashed near route 5.

why increase the number of politicians in washington when washington is so dysfunctional?i don't think we will see that happening anytime soon. massachusetts is going to be a thorny state. democrats have all 10 seats in massachusetts, including the 10th district where the caller is from. host: david wasserman from the cook political report, thank you for being on the program. in 45 minutes, we will be talking about the start treaty. after the break, we will be talking with ray walser of the heritage foundation to talk about the impact of drug violence on the economy. you are watching the "washington journal." today is december 22, 2010. >> listen to historic supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> with the exception of the cross, the nativity scene is one of the most powerful religious symbols in this country and certainly one of the most christian symbols in this country. >> listen to the argument on c- span radio. you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs every morning on "washington journal." connecting you to elected officials, policy makers, an

itself primarily the western portions of washington but all of washington will be getting it shortlys the snow showers come through. there is the district. there is the beltway. so it is d.c., northwest d.c., southwest d.c., points out to the west as you are driving out to the beltway, george washington parkway, down to alexandria, 359 and 95 down towards fredericksburg. not much happening in the eastern parts of the city. but as you travel farther out east, you will see a few more snow showers down there. we expect light accumulations anywhere from a dusting to a half inch for most people. maybe an inch or more an inch down in fredericksburg where it is a little heavier. these advisories have been expanded a little bit now. winter weather advisory in effect for washington, d.c. and all of these surrounding counties. they've now added charles county and stafford county. fredericksburg, you are under this winter weather advisory. waldorf is now included in this. this is because light snow that is moving through the area. it could add to slippery conditions on the roads and again, some

it is washington your way. the c-span network is now available in over 1 million homes -- in over 100 million homes. >> now bill kristol, kate o"b'bierne. this even from friday is held by the hudson institute. >> i would like to welcome our audience at home watching on c- span and our viewers at hudson .org. we are pleased to have hudson alexander here today. lamar alexander needs no introduction. he is a senior senator from the set of tennessee. he served as governor of tennessee, as president of the university of tennessee, as u.s. secretary of education, as a businessman, and also as a hudson institute fellow. for a few hundred votes in the new hampshire primary, he would've been the republican nominee in 1986. the senator has treated his signature red flannel shirt for the more muted suit of it u.s. senate. he is a leader who takes ideas seriously. in recent years, we have worked with him on numerous issues, including the assimilation of immigrants. he and his colleagues will tell you the same. he is one of

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"good morning washington" continues right now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. it is 6:00 on this wednesday, december 15. great to have you along with us on this wednesday morning. dom pamela brown. >> i am greta kreuz, in for alison starling. important news for students and parents. rappahannock county, va., schools closed because of the water issue. schools in garrett county, md., and morgan county, west virginia, have two-hour delays for the schools. >>> we will check in with lisa baden in a moment. first we started to meteorologist adam caskey. today is a repeat of yesterday, though we have changes on the way. >> the cold air will stick around. gul this morning like yesterday morning, but it is not as gusty. you do feel the wind and you will notice it all day, but it will not be howling. 23 at reagan national, 23 a culprit. 20 at martinsburg. 20 in hagerstown. sunny and cool today, breezy, rise in the low '30's. increasing clouds tonight. that will lead to a few midday light snow showers tomorrow, just a trace of sn

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washington approach. booker t. washington was a major educator.he was the first black figure invited to sign at the white house with president theodore roosevelt. and booker t. washington essentially argued that blacks, in order to thrive coming to accept segregation and build their own institutions within their own world. he was futile to fight the massive structures of segregation and of course you have to understand this is a time when lynchings were quite common. another figure, w. e. b. to bully disagreed vehemently with booker t. washington. he argued that? the civil rights definite general had to be much more aggressive, they had to become troublemakers, they had to organize everywhere they could. it was the boy who came up with the concept of the talented attempt. and that fight he meant the civil rights movement in the black community as a whole needed to identify the cream of the crop, the very best and brightest among the black community. and get them to be a vanguard for the movement to leave for the charge to decide what happen when y

ultimately, though the class came to change washington, in fact washington changed the class. that is the challenge for this new class. >> how important was the leadership to that process? >> leadership is very important. they say that legislative leaders don't actually lead their majorities, they follow their majorities. we came in and i think there were many old bulls who had been here long time. republicans had not been in power in 40 years. they had seen democrats, their predecessors, all the years being ranking committee members, they watch the democratic chairman of any committee will power and pulled the lever is a power and do things they wanted. those old bulls said they wanted the power it once we get the majority and brazil began to drain out of the young revolutionaries, the old bulls quickly went back to the old ways and began spending and earmarking and allocating power to benefit themselves. over a span of years, from 1994- 2006, we have fundamentally fallen short of the promises in the contract to america. we raised spending again great we allowed chairmen to g

into this story now on both the atlantic we've got a catarina groucho over in moscow but is to washington first we go and garniture can go on a very good evening to you good day to you of course where you are could you confirm what i was telling our viewers there on this just coming through from the a.p. news agency that in fact those senators seventy one of them at the end of the day one hundred voted yes. yes karan seventy one votes for and twenty six against in the treaty heated up glisic to seven to be approved it's a big day for everyone for a lot of people here in the uighurs who've been pushing so hard for the treaties ratification but the president certainly for senators who've been tirelessly be fanning the treaty on the senate floor over the last seven days of excruciating debate say was a marathon i'll tell you so what do we get with the treaty we have some very significant reductions on the way over the next ten years both states will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty warheads on each side the deal also limits the number of delivery vehic

"good morning washington" at 5:00 a.m. beginning right now. >> good morning, washington. glad to have you along with us on this tuesday morning. >> we are freezing. >> we do have a quick heads up in maryland. garrett county schools are closed. they were closed yesterday and are closed again today. in west virginia, schools in morgan county are going to be opening two hours late. >> now a check on your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. lisa is watching the roads for us but first meteorologist adam caskey. anything we ought to know? >> >> possibly again tonight and tomorrow morning. just that type of weather pattern now. that area right there you see on your screen, montgomery county between urbana and clarksburg, that is a little snowshower. that will leave a little coating of additional snow on the roadways so you exercise caution. you can drive through this. just be very slow. lisa will talk more about that. give yourself extra following distance. otherwise, it is windy and cold outside. you factor in the wind, it feels like we're zero to 10 above. even below zero. w

we are getting snow here in the washington area. that is separate from what they are getting out there. there is a pretty good gap between here and there where there is no snow falling. but they will get significant snowfall in western maryland, portions of west virginia and western portions of virginia. meanwhile, here is what is going on right here. take a look at hd radar. we've got snow moving across the region. tucker barnes just stepped outside and reports that we've got steady snowfall here in northwest washington. that is what the radar is showing as well. it is a rather narrow band. down to the south, it is more widespread and more significant rainfall. can we go to the heavy snow machine and check it out? there you go. some heavier snowfall. i think fredericksburg could wind up with a couple of inches of snow. that is where the heaviest snowfall is. most of us are just seeing light snowfall. now, let's get to the graphics. here is your winter weather advisory. all the counties in blue and it does include washington, d.c.,

once again, live from washington, moderator, gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. congress tackled all the big political issues of the day this week, immigration, nuclear security, gay rights. even the normally placid harry reid was irate, though, at the lack of movement. >> what in the world do they accomplish by saying we're not going to allow you to do the start treaty, the defense authorization bill, until the tax bill is completed and spending is done. we know that before we leave here this year, we're going to have to do something to finance the government for the next year and the odds are we're going to do something on taxes. for them to have these, i repeat, artificial road blocks is foolishness. >> nothing stirred the blood like the debate that erupted after the president agreed to extend tax cuts republicans wanted to the wealthy. to the president, the deal was not a betrayal. >> i will be happy to see the republicans test whether or not i'm itching for a fight on a whole range of issues. i suspect they will find i am. and i think the american people wil

right around washington, might pick up an inch or two. as we get in next week, a chance of snow on wednesday. jerry, how is traffic? >> tom, breaking traffic news that will definitely affect your commute. live pictures chopper 4 over the capital beltway in maryland. multicar crash, inner loop between georgia avenue and connecticut avenue. quick check elsewhere, 395 looks okay to t 14th street bridge. out to the rails, no worries right now. metro, vre, one delay. manassas, 322. marc looking good. joe, eun. >> not a good start to the morning commute. big mess on the beltway already. >> thanks, jerry. >> 6:23, 27 degrees. a lot of women confused this morning. >> a group of students goes to the hospital after eating brownies. why police are now investigating. >>> the end of an era. the king has left the studio. join the jaguar platinum celebration ! come celebrate excitincars that are stunning to look at, exhilarating to drive and worry free to own. celebratthis holiday season with the gift of platinum. jaguar platinum coverage: five years or

>> they moved their families to washington. i cannot call him a socialist if i have to eat dinner with his wife the next night. that is a huge cultural disconnect. >> they talk about getting disconnected from your vors back home. in three weeks, i feel there is a disconnect. i felt like i had to go home. i went home this last weekend. you start -- the best politics isood government. what we ran it was a retail government. identify your customer. the government does not know who its customer is. they do not have to react to the bottom line. most of t people that are in legislature have never been a in a business where they had to get a loan. they did not know the pressures. [applause] >> david, is and what we assault this week giving the customers what they want? >> -- isn't what we saw this week giving e customers what they want? >> i think that what has ppened is that the generation -- we lost a lo of that civic culture that was there. to me, you the question is not only what the folks in washington do. the real question is wh

. >> muy buenos días desde washington dc, les saluda josé díaz ballard bienvenidos a esta edición de, hoy diciembre 26, muchas felicidades espero que hayan podido pasar con familia y seres queridos, vamos a haar del futuro de una reforma migratoria vimos que el sábado pasado murió el dream act,nemos a maribel de american voice, con nosotros, muchas gracias por estar con nosotros, tú eribistre un artículo extraordinario sobre nr ringconnect 1200 >> los republicanos dijeron que no a una reforma migratoria. >> pero sabemos que esto hay que resolverlo, porque no podemos hablar de seguridad nacional, así que se necesita que la administración invierta más de cara a los comicios del 2012, también tienes al partido republicano que también va de cara al 2012, para que demuestre que también va cona esta retórica. >> creo que el partido republicano, a ellos le conviene estar en contra de los indocumentados, políticamente, í quno veo cómo presionar a un partido político cuando su beneficio es estar en contra de los indocumentados. >> pero también necesitan a votantes latinos y será una prueba de

heavier's to the south of washington. if you are down towards fredericksburg, richmond, the snow amounts will be heavier. lighter as you get up to the pennsylvania border. generally 1 to 3 inches. about 1 inch here in washington. here is your forecast for today. no problems for the morning commute. just cold out there. we will warm up to 28, light snow developing by noon. it will continue for the evening rush and that would be the most likely problem, drive time i would expect. >> hopefully, we can get through the morning rush without too much trouble. early this morning, julie is taking a look at the roads. night lot of traffic out there yet. >> not yet. we are concerned about this evening's rush as tucker just mentioned. waking up to dry pavement. that is a good start to your commute. apparently, there is construction out there in your way. you want to keep an eye out for that. no incidents along southbound 270. this is the ramp here at montrose road. keep in mind as you travel throughout the day, the bridges, ramps and

con ustedes desde washington dc josé díaz-balart. >>> muy buenas tardes desde washington dc.onde hace solo minutos y tras una ardua batalla, el dream act superó su primera prueba de fuego. en la cámara baja da propuesta. y 1 1e89 votos. solo 8 republicanos votaron que sí a la medida 208 demócratas que sí. 38 demócratas que no. 160 republicanos votaron que no. ahora ¿que kaquiere decir esto? ¿cual es el significado de este voto? histórico sin lugar a dudas. ahora la pelota está en la cancha del senado de los estados unidos. que se espera que mañana, líder de la mayoría en el senado harry reid, traiga al pleno del senado, el primer paso, que es simplemente votar si o no, se permite debatir el tema del dream act en el senado. vamos con estas imágenes que están ocurriendo en estos momentos aquí en washington dc. conferencia de prensa de distintos representantes demócratas hispanos en el congreso. todos votaron a favor del dream act. y esto, es una victoria. en una batalla muy ardua. y quiero ser muy claro con ustedes. lo más fácil, era aprobar el dream act en la cámara baja. será

not having washington d.c. mandating from on high this one-size-fits-all whether it is health care or education or transportation policy, those can best be addressed at the state level. frankly, they can be done more efficiently, more effectively, and we can help save washington substantial amounts of money in the process as well. yes, sir. in the back. >> thai. them with the huffington post. george w. bush is doing a lot of media tours for his book. of wondering if you could reflect a little bit on the menu was your predecessor in the governor's office and also head of the republican party for years. talk about the need for republicans to reclaim the loss the prejudice of the past. to that extent to the steps in the bush administration? >> i want you to read the book, first off. i'm going to refer you to that. republicans are not unscathed. democrats, republicans, the supreme court of get on my radar screen. you know, the purpose of been launched. they hit those targets. look. there is nobody perfect in this.

washington. james lee pruett carried a sign with them, actually two sides. they were homemade signs, and one of them said, don't prosecute people for trying to sign up to vote. the other side said, a free vote for everybody in mississippi by 1964. for this effort, hampering his own sign, he was approached a security official who said you're not allowed to have your own sign. the march on washington committee have specifically set standards for how the site would come out. in fact, the united auto workers paid some sites, they had to make, and it was a group of people, the big ten, the organizers had to approve every single sign that was carried along the march from the washington monument to the lincoln memorial. and so there was reason for a security guard approached jimmy pruett and say, sorry, you can't carry that sign. jamie lee pruett was probably a little bit scared. he was probably a little bit intimidated. he was probably a little bit surprised. so he kind of froze in a moment. and then f

the goal, it was 1-0 washington. but the ducks slow them down in the second period.he deflections and through the five hole. this game was tied. into overtime. the caps got caught again. john carlson on the board takes it in. the caps are in the longest skid since bruce boudreau took over three years ago. >> i thought we played very good. sometimes you play very good and lewis. >> it is tough to lose a game, but we if -- but we fought hard until the end. there was no quitting. >> i spent a good portion of the day with donovan mcnabb yesterday. that is why i don't understand the drama. donovan mcnabb starts -- expects to start sunday in dallas. mike shanahan wanted to play cat and mouse with the media. >> i don't go through the starting lineups. we talk about it every week. sooner or later you will find out who is starting. i am not committing to you to tell you who the starters are at any position. would somebody like to ask the same question a different way? >> the same whether that rendered the metrodome unusable monday vikings game night may do the same this week.

hangups in southeast washington.or those coming inbound across the douglas bridge, the stalls car on the right side of the highway. that's tacking on time inbound from naylor toward sheridan road. a good 10 minute ride across the anacostia. so allow extra time there. and lanes are open at 395 leaving duke street toward seminary road. traffic slowing again at the inbound 14th street bridge. southbound 29 lockwood drive toward university boulevard, no accidents, volume delays leaving stewart lane toward the capital beltway. beltway still congested and southbound 270 on the brakes leaving 24, mva, toward the split. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >>> president obama will unveil his report card for the war in afghanistan today. and the announcement comes on the heels of the president's strategist richard holbrook's death. nearly 500 americans have been killed. robert gibbs announced the administration will start withdrawing troops from the region in july of 2010. jeff smith joins us from the american forei

"good morning washington" begins right now. >> welcome back. good morning, washington. i'm pamela brown. >> i'm scott thurman. closed, culpepper, fauquier, king george county, prince william county, rappahannock, spotsylvania as well. >> the federal government is open today for those of you wondering and don't forget there is a complete list at the top of your screen all morning long. >> let's check in with jim in just a minute but first a busy day for adam. >> yes, yesterday was a bit busy. the snowfall averaged an inch and a half across the region, i would say, on average. some areas 2.5 pushing 3 inches but i measured about 1.6 at my house in arlington. let's talk temperatures outside. it will be slow getting out of the neighborhood. it is doable but some snow cover and slick spots. 25 now at reagan national. 12 in martinsburg. 19 in frederick. we'll be in the mid 30's today. above freezing, which will help melt things down a bit. possibly some icy refreezing spots on the roads tonight. mostly cloudy tomorrow. we'll talk more about the weekend and snow chances coming

it does include washington.ll of the counties that you see here in brown, the national weather service issues that when they believe that wind gusts are going to be possibly up to 45 miles per hour and higher. and we've already seen some strong wind gust this is morning. let me show those -- well, i'll show those to you in a moment. right now, it is 23 degrees in the district. it feels like nine degrees with the strong winds coming through the region. even though today will be in the 0s -- in the 20s to around 30 degrees, it will feel like it is in the single digits for the bulk of the day. four is your wind chill in gaithersburg and five in frederick. those winds gusting up to 25 miles per hour at this hour in washington, d.c. 24-mile per hour winds in annapolis. 30 in manassas. 36-mile per hour winds in hagerstown. hence their wind chill of two degrees up there. your forecast for washington for today, winter weather advisory in effect until 9:00 this morning. mentioned the wind advisory in effect until 10:00 t

even to learn from the independent institute in washington thank you for your views on r.t. tonight. thank you. russian football fans of finding themselves cold in the middle of extreme nationalists notoriety these days it's after ethnic riots was sparked by the death of a spotter. thought to have been killed by a caucasus man earlier this month prime minister vladimir putin's been meeting the leading football fan clubs calling on them to resist the influence of the far right . history lesson for an unlikely audience talking to football fans still fuming after the recent clashes with ethnic minorities let me put in carefully navigated between giving a pep talk and showing yellow cards but from which the throughout its history russia has always had a strong immunity to nationalism and xenophobia but now it seems this immunity has started to slacken and you can see that in the activities of the fan movement to nationalistic calls are sometimes heard of the stadiums like the killing of a football fan in moscow allegedly by a caucasus man and he set sequent rallies by seemingly

cnbc, washington. college debt crisis" tonight at 9:00 eastern time on cnbc. >>> up next, the increasing talk on broadway that a show about a spider might be a snakepit. >>> the show did not go on last night on broadway, though some of the people in the audience, for spiderman on broadway thought what happened was part of the show. amateur video shows the stunt man spiderman falling 30 feet into the pit after a tether broke. the broadway extravaganza has been plagued by problems from the start, eight years in the making at a cost of $65 million. the biggest production ever staged. the show includes 27 aerial stunts. government safety inspectors ordered some changes today. tomorrow's matinee has been postponed but the producers say tomorrow night's show will go on. >>> did you set your alarm to drag yourself or a loved one outside to see the total lunar eclipse? turns out a lot of people did including a viewer of ours in brisbane, australia, who captured the image as an aircraft streaked across the sky.

>> tom: washington puts the finishing touches on extending the bush tax cuts. that's so real life businesses can start making real life plans. >> we're committed to putting another salesperson out next year. so knowing, we believe, that they're going to leave taxes where they are makes us feel better about that decision. >> suzanne: but that business owner says if the tax cut plan stalls, his hiring goal could be put on hold. you're watching "nightly business report" for wednesday, december 8. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i'm joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa's corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. >> suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traf

it's been hailed by both washington and moscow as a huge positive step in boosting u.s. russian relations and in furthering world nuclear disarmament galley kitchen counter washington has more on the historic decision. to vote. on this matter on this resolution are seventy one days twenty six nays two thirds of the senate president having voted the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to. and with this approval russian the us will start the new year with a treaty that has become a symbol of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers i'm glad that democrats and republicans came together to approve my top national security priority for this session of congress the new start treaty. this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades and it will make us safer and reduce our nuclear arsenals along with russia both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal al

good morning, washington. great to have you with us on this wednesday morning, i am pamela brown. >> i'm greta kreuz. there's one school closings. rappahannock county schools are closed today because of a water issue. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes. >> lisa baden in a moment. first, meteorologist adam caskey. another bone-chilling day. >> i'm sorry to hear about your pillow that you lost. i thought i was the only one. let's go to the graphics to look get a chilly temperatures. 18 in gaithersburg, 20 in martinsburg, 22 in the district. it feels like we are in the single digits when you factor in the wind. it feels like 5 in martinsburg. high temperatures today in the low 30s. cold and blustery with winds from the west at 25 miles an hour. now to lisa baden. >>> inner loop at telegraph road for virginia commuters, there's a broken-down tractor-trailer blocking the right lane at the exit. expect to find a little slowdown starting to form on 66 out of manassas, but it is open inside the beltwa

>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. it is a clock on this tuesday, december 14. great to have you with us. i'm powerball brown. pamelagreta kreuz -- i'm brown. >> i'm greta kreuz. allison starling has the day off. garrett county schools are closed today once again. there are delays -- frederick county, maryland, morgan county, virginia -- morgantown, west virginia, and page county, virginia. >>> we start with meteorologist at caskey. it's not even officially winter yet, but it sort does feel like it -- is assured us feel like it. >> that is why we categorize winter as december 1, january, and february. at a sevena look radar. laurel, maryland, is where we have light snow showers. there is still residual snow and slick spots on the roads. much of montgomery county, frederick county, and prince george's county as the snow shower clicks -- clips parts of laurel and bowie. shown in blue on your screen, wind chills, down in the single digits. it even feels like for below zero right now in front royal. scattered showstoppers

live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. i am julie parker. >> i am greta kreuz. allyson stalling as the day off. we start with meteorologist adam caskey, fresh back from minneapolis. >> we would be lucky to squeeze out 1 inch of snow. we do have areas of light snow just through the morning. tomorrow morning we could have a similar situation. it will not be as widespread. we have a winter weather advisory until 9:00 a.m. for the metro area. frederick county, charles county and everywhere in the metro area. it's about timing. we are getting a little snowfall close to brushhollow. areas of light snow from reston and dulles airports and ashburn. and south down today a city. and into the lorton area and southbound into richmond's there's light snow. be careful for wet roads. minor accumulations possible on grassy surfaces and rooftops and index up to about an inch. isolated light snow this morning. maybe sigel flouris this afternoon. if blustery and gold, is in the low to mid the 30's. tomorrow, near 30 degrees for the high temp

if you're in the washington d.c.metro area code con please visit us to explore our new exhibit ie the documents we hold upstairs,i the charters of freedom. thank you all for coming. th of. stahr will be available in the lobby to sign copies of his book. thank you all. [applause] >> this program first aired in 2005. to see more events from petitti's archives, visit otb.org. >> were here at the national press club talking with marine beasley about her new book, "eleanor roosevelt" transformative first lady. can you tell us what aspect of her life you concentrated on? >> yes, this book concentrates on the way owner roosevelt wrote the script for first lady. now, every first lady since eleanor has either follow the script or hasn't all described, but at least they had she read the script. they've had to know about it. there are lots of books on oliver roosevelt. but what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that of a hostess or somebody who is interested perh

there is still many in washington who believe otherwise. they believe government spending is what spurs our economy and creates prosperity. beginning on january 5, the american people will watch their congress do something differently. , at least in one house. beginning in january, the house will become the outpost in washington for the american people and their desire for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government. the president's agenda may be the agenda of washington, but beginning january 5, the agenda of this house will be the agenda of the american people the people's priorities will be our priorities. we have laid the groundwork for action and in the 45 days since the election, under leadership of our transition committee ourgreg walton and others, we have banned earmarks, a raised to have cameras installed in the rules committee, we have reduced the size of committees so they can work more effectively and do a better job of oversight. we have also instituted reforms like cut as you go which makes it harder to increase s

be inhibited from leaving washington -- >> sean: wait a minute.e laws are now -- >> to say he's not a chicago want he represented chick being in the house of representatives -- -- i'm not an expert on chicago law. >> sean: he has to have lived in chicago for a full year prior to the election. he doesn't make it. [ talking over each other ] >> sean: he admitted himself he's a part-time resident. when this comes up he amends his tax return. >> does the law say fulltime resident? >> sean: you have to live in the city for a full year. >> every holiday he goes -- >> i was involved in mounting a campaign against him that. law is clear about fulltime resident. the only exemption is armed services. >> sean: why did your guy pull out? >> he had a lot of kids.