over 8% of washingtonians over the age of 26 abuse alcohol or struggle with dependence. that's much higher than the national average of just over 6%. experts say blame high stress and wide availability of alcohol. wide availability. isn't alcohol available everywhere? they say nationwide, half of americans over the age of 12 drink alcohol. over the age of 12? a quart thoefrm binged in the past month. in our holy cow that's creepy story of the day, there are now glow-in-the-dark puppies. you've got to see it to believe it. aisle show you in a little while. >>> first channel your inchierld and buy an ice cream sandwich on your way home from work. that's baug august 2nd is national ice cream sandwich day. 21 minutes after the hour. at exxon and mobil, we engineer smart gasoline that works at the molecular level to help your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exxon or mobil station, you can rest assured we help your engine run more smoothly while leaving behind cleaner emissions. it's how we make gasol

new yorkers and washingtonians are not used to hurricanes and this is my first experience. >> reporter: but, not everyone listened to the warning. the authorities caught surfers trying to catch a few waves. elsewhere in maryland there were long gas lines as people prepared to leave the coast. boats in annapolis moved to safer waters and sandbags were issued out. mayors of the cities out lined emergency plans for their cities, philadelphia and new york are among those who will shutdown mass transit ahead of the storm. president barack obama, whose martha's vineyard vacation will be cut short by the storm, assured them that federal agencies are ready. >> we are bringing all federal resources to bear and deployment properly to cope not only with the storm but its aftermath. >> reporter: if the storm hits new york city with the force it is expected to it will be the first time it has happened since 1938. in ocean city, maryland, back to you. >> several agencies in the bay area are on stand by or on their way to help people on the east coast deal with hurricane irene. the coast guard is dep

i get to close it out, which is really sweet for me because i am a washingtonian. it was 27 years ago that i graduated from washington high school, and the library actually looks a lot smaller now that i am older. i cannot say that i contributed to the proficiency rate back then, but i am is so proud of our students and teachers and how wonderful they have done. i am the president of the board of education and also mayor lee 's education adviser, but my most important job has been as a parent. i am pleased and proud to be a parent here in san francisco unified and to join my colleagues who also have kids in our public school system either now or have had them graduate, as well as our mayor, who had his kids in our public schools. he was telling me they are now graduating from graduate school. they have moved on to that next level, and it is a real wonderful place to be as a parent and to have somebody at the helm who has also sent his kids to public schools all these years. we continue to struggle with the challenges of our school system, and to see this kind of gr

he also is the editor of a well-read magazine in washington, the washingtonian. he teaches internet and social media courses at georgetown and is a regular political commentator. how do you fit that all in? >> guest: it's a lot of early mornings. l i wrote the book mostly sitting at a coffee shop between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. >> host: what kind of access did you get from the fbisome. >> guest: i actually got remarkably good access, i think. i demonstrated over the course of two years of working on this that i was taking it seriously, that i was sort of thinking about this and trying to understand the work that they were doing. and i think, unfortunately, in the media that's relatively rare for a government agency like the fbi to have journalists who have the time to devote to really sort of delving into issues. i certainly didn't have them answer all of my questions, but i ended up interviewing about 180 people for the book, most of them current or former fbi officials. and within the bureau the fbi did make available to me over the course of the book ev

people on the west coast are still blocking people in the northeast you know because california washingtonians they might be used to this kind of thing but it really scared a lot of people there's also another reason why nerves are a little frayed here as we near the ten year point says nine eleven the first thought in many minds was a terror attack. ok but there was no terror attack like i said no injuries no damage and even people like myself californians who were mocking the east coasters for being babies about the earth. over over by now let's move on believe it or not there are other things that are going on in this world and so today for the second day the mainstream media continued to ignore one of the worst examples of corruption by the obama administration i mentioned it to you yesterday and the obama administration has reportedly been pressuring new york attorney general eric schneiderman because he was opposed to that massive settlement that they've been trying to get through to get this whole investigation of the banks done and over with this of course despite the fact that after h

californians, washingtonians they might be used to this kind of thing. it really scared a lot of people who didn't know what was happening. tom costello has some of the best moments caught on tape. >> the earthquake hit in the middle of the day. >> there's another tremor. >> 1:15 mm time. interrupting a cooking show on tv in washington. >> the niche is nearly reddy. earthquake. >> those who felt the powerful quake could hardly believe it. >> my first impression was is the building coming down on me? i didn't know. yoipt to panic, but everything in me told me to get out of that building. >> people not used to earthquakes in this region ran from buildings. some dove under their desks. david harmon was making a commercial for his car service company in chantilly, virginia. >> what was that? my god, i think that was an earthquake. >> the 5.8 magnitude quake was centered here in the small town of mineral, virginia. about 40 miles northwest of richmond, where surveillance cameras captured the moment the quake hit. rattling a gas station, small shops even shear

so being a washingtonian i'm proud of that. >> it's really unique to d.c. tc has ow d.c. has ow it. >> reporter: never professionally trained, brown is coming off his first grammy nomination. >> a lot of people ask me when i'm going to retire. that's something i always give the same answer. the reason i haven't retired, i'm still inspired. i still have a desire. >> the go-go music still going strong. >>> a judge has ordered casey anthony to return to orlando. we'll tell you why after this. sure, but let me get a little information first. for broccoli, say one. for toys, say two. toys ! the system can't process your response at this time. what ? please call back between 8 and 5 central standard time. he's in control. goodbye. even kids know it's wrong to give someone the run around. at ally bank you never have to deal with an endless automated system. you can talk to a real person 24/7. it's just the right thing to do. ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ ♪ she was waiting up around the bend ♪ ♪ smile at me and then

the historic moments we washingtonians remember at the national cathedral and the country as well. state funerals for presidents and the service after 9/11 ten years ago, and they were inside planning that when the pinnacle actually sustained that damage. a continuing story, stonework, on that cathedral. it may not seem old by european standards, but for washington that is a very important monument. all of the monuments were closed. we'll were evacuated from major buildings. the homeland security complex right behind us was evacuated. they're all now back inside. a large complex of many building, in the northwest part of stit. the white house was being examined for damage. we haven't heard a lot of damage to buildings of historic sites but they're checking all that. the museum, the lincoln memorial, jefferson, washington memorial, washington monument. we know, of course, they are working on the martin luther king jr. memorial. the formal ceremony on sunday. the 48th anniversary of that important event. so we are still checking metro and downtown traffic, a total jam. martin? >> tha

with regard to the safety of your citizens there give me an update on how washingtonians have fared? >> first of all, it was the right decision to postpone the dedication. very disappointing to all of us but the most prudent decision was made. i think overall we fared well. the storm could have been a lot worse. be the folks who work for the city have done a great job. we've got power outages, about 32,000 power outages at this stage which our electric company, our power company starting to work on. we got between 40 and 50 trees down. we're already out doing that. we're in the assessment phase and we should be able to have a pretty good idea in two or three hours the extent of what needs to be done. we have crews out looking at our schools also to make sure that there was no damage in our schools so we can get our kids back to school hopefully tomorrow morning. >> absolutely. a beautiful look at the capitol. looks like the clouds are being sprinkled with pink. tell me about the flights in and around through dulles and bwi and d.c., reagan national. how much were flights cure tailed

and but that cannot wait on a turn it over to garrett, the editor of the "washingtonian" magazine.first book was called the first campaign: globalization, the web in the race for the white house to which examined technology in the 2000 campaign. his second book is just coming out called threat matrix: the fbi for in the age of global terror and that was out last he said? the web that you open it for us? [applause] well, as befitting a seat on the stage, i think if they started off in politics working on howard dean's presidential campaign and i think i represent the far right wing of the panel today. [laughter] so, i think that the first two years of obama in a lot of ways just truth to the old political saying that one campaign is in poetry and governance in prose and what the lesson obama has learned in many hard ways over the last two years is that governing is a lot harder than talking about governing and that as much as we like to think.closing guantÁnamo with you an easy thing to do, it turns out that for all sorts of reasons, only some of which are related to the republican

in surveys conducted by washingtonian magazine and in the same surveys hill staff noticed his great wit and humor. congressman frank represents the fourth district of massachusetts. ranking member frank, we look forward to hearing from you. ladies and gentlemen, congressman barney frank. [applause] >> that humor thing is judged on degree of difficulty. when you have to make jokes about derivatives it is a little bit harder. i am glad to share this with spencer. we worked closely together and there are areas of disagreement but some areas where we worked together. he mentioned his hearing defect. i will acknowledge are also have a hearing aspect, severe disadvantage to me. namely i sit there as chairman and ranking member and i can hear everything people say. that is not the most desirable condition. i would be glad to borrow a little package from time to time. it is great to be here and i want to particularly follow spencer and the wonderful people who work with us and the staff director ever since i became ranking member. i want to make the point one of the great things the american pe

[laughter] but fdr realized this was no moment for washingtonian humility because if he spoke about hisdeficiencies, there could be mass suicide in the country at that point. the people needed confidence and hope. general jim creates a juxtaposition between the bleak atmosphere, the bleak landscape, the hopelessness, the banking crisis and fdr's serenity, it sure fullness, optimism. i think that is such a precious gift that he gave to the nation, and then be and not guerilla dress itself in which he speaks about people's interdependence and they think this is the great revolutionary transformative moment, because it is goodbye to the laissez-faire doctrine into the rugged individualism, that characterized american ideology and society for decades. now there is a new ethos of community and interdependence. we are citizens and the same community and the same society and now we are in the same boat. we have to help one another. it is not time for social darwinism, survival of the fittest. this is what a society really is. it is a national community of people who are interdependent. >> nice

one side of the room are all of the pro-southern glowering across the room at the pro-northern washingtonians and it is sort of that last sputtering amber of this ill-fated buchanan administration. >> so now i'm going to turn to a big question but it is a big question that i have been struggling to figure out how to ask. there is a tangle of conflicting thoughts in my mind relating to the specific moments of april 12 and april 13, 1861 and they are tangled by some more general thoughts about the causes of the civil war and tangled further by my recollection of my own inadequacies as a teacher of the americans in history survey course and the university of pennsylvania for most of my career there. i should confess that unlike most in the first half of the survey course i actually in the course with the firing on fort sumter and i do this because my memory about the civil war battles and alignments is so terrible that i know that i can't get through them. so i never make it through the whole civil war and i'd never make it through reconstruction. fort sumter is the dramatic moment on which i co

one side of the room are all of the pro-southern glowering across the room at the pro-northern washingtonians and it is sort of that last sputtering amber of this ill-fated buchanan administration. >> so now i'm going to turn to a big question but it is a big question that i have been struggling to figure out how to ask. there is a tangle of conflicting thoughts in my mind relating to the specific moments of april 12 and april 13, 1861 and they are tangled by some more general thoughts about the causes of the civil war and tangled further by my recollection of my own inadequacies as a teacher of the americans in history survey course and the university of pennsylvania for most of my career there. i should confess that unlike most in the first half of the survey course i actually in the course with the firing on fort sumter and i do this because my memory about the civil war battles and alignments is so terrible that i know that i can't get through them. so i never make it through the whole civil war and i'd never make it through reconstruction. fort sumter is the dramatic moment on which i co

one side of the room are all of the pro-southern glowering across the room at the pro-northern washingtonians and it is sort of that last sputtering amber of this ill-fated buchanan administration. >> so now i'm going to turn to a big question but it is a big question that i have been struggling to figure out how to ask. there is a tangle of conflicting thoughts in my mind relating to the specific moments of april 12 and april 13, 1861 and they are tangled by some more general thoughts about the causes of the civil war and tangled further by my recollection of my own inadequacies as a teacher of the americans in history survey course and the university of pennsylvania for most of my career there. i should confess that unlike most in the first half of the survey course i actually in the course with the firing on fort sumter and i do this because my memory about the civil war battles and alignments is so terrible that i know that i can't get through them. so i never make it through the whole civil war and i'd never make it through reconstruction. fort sumter is the dramatic moment on which i co

[laughter] but fdr realized this was no moment for washingtonian humility because if he spoke about his deficiencies, there could be mass suicide in the country at that point. the people needed confidence and hope. general jim creates a juxtaposition between the bleak atmosphere, the bleak landscape, the hopelessness, the banking crisis and fdr's serenity, it sure fullness, optimism. i think that is such a precious gift that he gave to the nation, and then be and not guerilla dress itself in which he speaks about people's interdependence and they think this is the great revolutionary transformative moment, because it is goodbye to the laissez-faire doctrine into the rugged individualism, that characterized american ideology and society for decades. now there is a new ethos of community and interdependence. we are citizens and the same community and the same society and now we are in the same boat. we have to help one another. it is not time for social darwinism, survival of the fittest. this is what a society really is. it is a national community of people who are interdependent. >> nic