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wyatt andrews is in bedford. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, new hampshire is not one of those places where this is close between gingrich and romney. right now, romney is ahead by far, most say in the double digits. and he's campaigning hard right now in order to keep it this way. nationwide, romney is also changing the way he is running for president, revealing much more of himself in the media. all of a sudden mitt romney is everywhere on national t.v., a more accessible mitt romney speaking more about himself and his history. in one interview, he grew emotional about his wife ann and the day the couple learned she had multiple sclerosis. >> probably the toughest time in my life was sanding there with ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. >> reporter: the campaign says it had always planned to reveal romney's personal side but with voting just weeks away and with romney never quite breaking from the field there's a new image to project, one beyond the candidate's smiling at his opponents during debates or hi

i'm meteorologist wyatt everhart. your christmas forecast coming up. >>> why are you spending so much for christmas. coming up, we will have some answers. >> 3 million people in the registry and we still can't find a match for save yeah. >> we told -- save yeah. xavia. >> we told -- xavia -- we begin with a live look over the inner harbor after a washout day. solid, the skies are clearing but that clearing may not last too long. meteorologist wyatt everhart is joining us now. he is tracking two storms. wyatt. >>> yeah. we have a couple of different storms in the pipeline here, kelly. one will arrive tomorrow night. we are clearing out from the storm we had today. if you count today's rain, it is really three different systems to finish the week. we are in the last hours of fall 2011. at 12:30 tonight, the winter solstice will begin with record warmth. we hit 62 today out at bwi, breaking the old record of 61. that was set back in the 1950s. so, yes, a very warm night in progress. remember, your average high temperatur

wyatt, gives a smile. >>> the bigger, the more protective, circus clown. >> give me more. >>> the rainearing out. rain, that ugly december rain finally getting out of the state here. so we'll continue to look for things to clear out but still heavy stuff, reaching down through church him and queen anne's but beginning to clear things out, cecilton getting a heavy shower. rainfall totals up above an inch. about a quarter inch so far in centerville but that total being added to as we see showers. take a look across the area right now. things beginning to taper off. it's wet. temperatures have risen seven degrees in the last two to three hours with a warm front off the atlantic. that will begin to change as we go into the overnight. temperatures will drop back down. heavy steady rain shaking our camera. man, unbelievably wet and windy at times. ellicott city same deal, tough to see a in the fog. that was the story. just one of those days you didn't want to be outside. cold weather to the west in the state, very mild to the east, nearly 60 now down at the beach compared to 30s in the mount

first, wyatt andrews in new hampshire. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, mitt romney's ideas for job creation start with lowering the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 25%. so we sat down with the governor today to ask exactly how this leads to hiring. >> so if we want to get them to invest here and to build factories and facilities here and to hire people here, we have to make america an attractive place for their investment. >> reporter: if all these companies are holding on to this mountain of cash right now and not hiring people in the meanwhile, how does giving them more cash through lower taxes create more jobs? >> people invest to get a return on their investment, but they look at this environment that the president's created and see such uncertainty, such uncertainty that they'll be able to get a return, a sense that the government wants to grab whatever they make and give it to someone else. they don't want to invest right now. what brought you up here? >> well, actually, the economy got tough down there so i moved up here.

for more on herman cain's campaign issue we we head out to wyatt seine knack. wyatt, how badly is this going to damage his credibility? >> this is bad, seriously. do you know how often married men give money to single women they've been acquainted with for 13 years but haven't had sex with? never. (laughter) go ahead, try it. the check won't even clear. banks aren't set up for that. the a.t.m. says "what's wrong with you man? transaction denied, go home, come back when you get a kiss, dummy." (laughter). >> jon: first sexual harassment claims, now this. he's got to be thinking "what's next?" >> i can tell you what's next. this was the scene at the local atlanta fox affiliate that broke the story. (screaming) >> he touched my boob! >> he touched my breast! >> i road the cain train! >> they're calling it black walnut friday. (laughter). >> jon: thank you so much, wyatt, the scandal has taken its toll on the cain campaign. reports are emerging he might be consider withdrawing from the race which i strongly discourage him from doing. i already lost trump. i can't l

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wyatt? >>> it's an awesome ap. we're checking those up. 438 baltimore. 46 in eastston. hour by you're through the day we look for a climb into the low and mid-50s. the best chances for rain coming plater in the day. we'll talk more about that as it pulls out of the area. we'll also look ahead to the weekend and see what kind of weekend we will face. >>> all right. baltimore county police and some local health leaders have joined forces to push awareness about the stress that can really build up over the holidays and the crimes that can happen as a result. county police chief jimmie johnson said lots of people think about the possibilityings of break-ins or purse snatchings but don't realize they can be harmed by someone they love or know. holiday stress can lead to domestic violence. >> people believe random violent crime is what they most have to fear. the fact is many violent crimes are of people we know, who we love and care about. >> over the past two months baltimore county police have seen one murder suicide involving an elderly couple. county leaders met to encou

here's wyatt. >>> we've had another day of decent weather. yes, a few high thin clouds. temperatures have remained comfortable. take a look at some of the numbers. we have fallen from the low 50s to the 40s. sunset was at 4:44. 46 in salisbury. 48 in washington, d.c. the rest of this evening through the 40s we go, partly cloudy and temps running on the cool side. hour by hour you can see it climb back to the low 50s. we'll talk about when we could see rain around here. it's coming up. >>> the nags p-national transportation safety board wants a ban on cell phones behind the wheel. >> you need full focus, i think to operate a car, to navigate. >> reporter: now the national transportation safety board is questioning the safety of operating a vehicle while using just about any electronic device, including those that are hands free. >> it's about not being engaged in the task at hand. >> reporter: the ntsb is recommending a 50-state ban. pda's, tablet computers and ipods. there was an investigation no a multivehicle accident in missouri of 2010. by the time the last car crash

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we asked wyatt andrews to find out. >> reporter: caryn powers is one of those young adults who already benefits from the health care reform act. at 24 years old, she has crohn's disease, an immune disorder that attacks the stomach and intestines. >> it's like having the stomach flu but it's 100 times roars won't caryn's medicine alone costs more than $3,000 a month. if she could not stay on her parents' health insurance, she says, she'd be bankrupt and unable to work as a nurse. >> if i had to go off my parents' policy, i would not be able to have the medications that i need, the treatment that i need. i'd be unable to go to the doctors. i would be very, very sick. >> reporter: the administration says 2.5 million young adults now have insurance thanks to their parents and to health care reform. painter rights advocates like ron pollack of the nonprofit group families u.s.a. call this an accomplishment because young adults will 19-25, are the most likely not to have health insurance. >> this is a benefit for those people who are struggling to find a job or who are in an entry-level job

. >>> we were just talking to wyatt act the ceremony here, act the man who survived the attack telling all of baltimore he watched the water burn. today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. a day to remember the victims, survivors and the event that followed. nearly 120 survivors swerved a moment of silence. we take a look at their sacrifice and the sacrifice of those who served in the war that followed. >> war is hell. it is no way of getting around it. you do what you need to do for the mother land. . >> that is why i didn't get to finish high school because they drafted everybody 18, didn't make a difference what you were doing. >> we left the states and that was christmas eve day. >> you better believe i was scared. anybody that says they weren't scared they don't mind dying. >> the beauty of this trip is we have a group of men that fought very hard together. >> going back to -- to the beach. >> know it won't look anything like it did. >> we just thank you so much that we could come back today. ♪ [ music ] . >> lot of stuff hits you after 67 years you forget and t

wyatt has the details. >> reporter: a few flakes flying airtimes. the radar tracked a little burst of light snow showers. baltimore northward up in to the county and hartford and cecil. you can see that area is cleared out. one other area of light snow into garret and if it holds together could bring a few more snow showers. don't expect much and a chilly flight with wind in the mid- 30s. feeling and looking like winter rest of this evening as the skies continue to darken. cloudy, 30s and again the chance for a few more flurries but we will talk about how much mildler it'll get toward the new year. >> the latest on the case of a 9-year-old whose dismembered body was found in indiana. school officials say she lived in western maryland earlier this year. they say she attended winter street elementary from january to june of this year. a neighbor who was babysitting her confessed to hitting her with a brick, stashing her remains in a freezer and dismembering the body with a saw. >>> for the first time in nearly two weeks police won't do a physical sear

wyatt andrews on what's behind the decision. anna werner reports fired penn state coach jerry sandusky has been arrested again on 12 new charges. inside syria-- charissa ward takes us to an underground hospital where rebels, wounded by assad's army, are treated in secret. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. no white house has ever overruled a safety recommendation we the food and drug administration but it happened today. the question was whether the morning after pill, an emergency contraceptive, should be available over the counter to girls 16 and under. today, the f.d.a. was ready to say yes but the president's secretary of health and human services said no. wyatt andrews has our story. >> reporter: for five years, plan b, the emergency contraception drug, has only been sold without a prescription to women 17 and older. the issue is should that be changed? and the drug made available with no prescription to younger girls. when the f.d.a. looked at safety studi

>> wyatt (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back.ilm is called "we bought a zoo" >> hey, hey, hey. whoa, whoa. knot bad, actually they're pretty does il. >> not at night-- docile. >> not at night. >> oh, you like to get a little wild at night, huh, get a little crazy. crazy nighttime -- >>out! >> oh, man. >> are you all right, boss. >> oh, man! (laughter) >> listen, are you not talking to them correctly yet, you have to be real with them. >> i'm never talking to you again you little -- >> now you're talking to them. there you go. >> jon: welcome back to the program matt damon. (cheers and applause) >> jon: you know what i don't-- can i tell you something i don't normally see from my audience, no disrepresent or anything, i don't normally see this. the only other person that got that desmond tutu. >> wow. >> jon: got a lot of this. >> mighty good company to be in. >> jon: mighty good company. what's happening. >> nothing, man. i'm-- i'm getting ready for the holidays. >> jon: what are we doing? >> a movie, a movie, they made me do it.

wyatt andrews is in bedford. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, new hampshire is not one of those places where this is close between gingrich and romney. right now, romney is ahead by far, most say in the double digits. and he's campaigning hard right now in order to keep it this way. nationwide, romney is also changing the way he is running for president, revealing much more of himself in the media. all of a sudden mitt romney is everywhere on national t.v., a more accessible mitt romney speaking more about himself and his history. in one interview, he grew emotional about his wife ann and the day the couple learned she had multiple sclerosis. >> probably the toughest time in my life was sanding there with ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. >> reporter: the campaign says it had always planned to reveal romney's personal side but with voting just weeks away and with romney never quite breaking from the field there's a new image to project, one beyond the candidate's smiling at his opponents during debates or hi

wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >> mitchell: in an interview for tomorrow night's "60 minutes," steve kroft asked president obama whether he over-promised during his last campaign and underestimated how difficult the job of fixing the economy would be. >> reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades, that's going to take time. it's going to take more than a year. it's going to take more than than two years. it's going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. >> mitchell: and you can see the full interview with president obama tomorrow on "60 minutes." overseas three exceptional women receive this year's nobel piece prize. ellen johnson sirleaf, africa's first democratically elected female president. librarian leymah gbowee, a woman's rights campaign. and tawakkul karman, a pro-democracy protest leader inien and the first arab woman to win the prize. many in the western u.s. and asia watched the moon disappear from view for almost an hour this morning in a rare total lunar eclipse. in beijing people had their be

first, wyatt andrews in new hampshire. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, mitt romney's ideas for job creation start with lowering the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 25%. so we sat down with the governor today to ask exactly how this leads to hiring. >> so if we want to get them to invest here and to build factories and facilities here and hire people here, we have to make america an attractive place for their investment. >> reporter: if all these companies are holding on to this mountain of cash right now and not hiring people in the meanwhile, how does giving them more cash through lower taxes create more jobs? >> people invest to get a return on their investment. but they look at this environment that the president's created and see such uncertainty, such uncertainty that they'll be able to get a return, a sense that the government wants to grab whatever they make and give it to someone else, they don't want to invest right now. what brought you up here? >> well, the economy got tough down there so i moved up here. >> reporter:

wyatt's forecast has been right on the money. he is tracking the next few hours. it'll get more messy. >> we have always thought this would mainly be a heavy rain event. to the north see that change over it snow. the heavy flooding rains but i want to zoom in hera off to the north and west and bring it in tight to northern carroll, north of westminister, you are getting a good burst of snow this is where we can see a couple inches, two to three on the grassy surfaces, most of us not going to be slick from snow but from all the water on the roads. flood watches across the area, high witness winds, you can seat winter weather advisory has been canceled for the surrounding counties of baltimore. northern carroll isn't in that but frederick and washington are. temperatures still above freezing, of course you can still get the wet snow coming down when temperatures are just above that 32-degree mark. it doesn't stick and look at these wind gust was three, four inches of rain we could have limbs coming down. we will talk more about how fast the storm gets outcoming up.

wyatt andrews is traveling with the secretary of state. >> reporter: it was her first-ever meeting with a top u.s. official, aung san suu kyi, and secretary of state hillary clinton. what they discussed over dinner was a top-to-bottom change in u.s. relations with burma. su, kyi the pro-democracy advocate who spent 20 years being 51st cuted by the repressive burmese government now believes her government is moving towards democracy. so clinton spent her day with top government officials testing the suu kyi theory, and on every point when the secretary asked for democratic change, the promises came-- free and open elections, yes. ending management ties to north korea, yes. ending the regime's civil wars against minorities. that's already in progress. and then the big one-- the release of up to 1,000 political prisoners. two weeks ago, burma's president denied they even existed. today, he was discussing how to release them. >> the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners is a key test of the government's commitment to human rights and democracy. >> reporter: clinton

davidson killed wyatt in dupont circle and then drove off and drove home. >>> officers are trying to track down men in connection with an armed robbery. police say this group used the victim's credit card at a convenience store. surveillance video shows them outside the store. university of maryland sent a crime alert after the robbery. anyone with information about the case is asked to call the university of maryland police. >>> police are looking for three men in connection with a deadly shooting in reston. investigators say someone shot a man at the crescent apartments on cameron crescent drive. he died at the hospital. police say the three men were seen leaving the area shortly after yesterday's shooting. neighbors told news 4 drugs have been a recent problem in that area. >>> today spokeaker john boehne expects house republicans to pass their version of a payroll tax cut extension. here's a live look outside the capitol this morning. the gop pays for the cut by freezing the pay of federal workers and reduces the amount of long-term unemployment given out. but senate democrats sa

wyatt thank you very much. the unemployment picture is showing more tentative signs of improvement. the labor department reported today that the number of americans putting in their first claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to $381,000. that's the smallest number since february. congress grills jon corzine about a billion dollars in missing money. america's roads-- safer than ever. and the government says tracking may be polluting groundwater when "cbs evening news" continues. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain... two pills can last all day. ♪ tuajtibest [ th l ] ♪ i can't breathe... so i can't sleep... and the next day i pay for it. i tried decongestants... i tossed & turned... i even vaporized! and then i fought back: with drug-free breathe right advanced. these nasal strips instantly opened my nose, like a breath of fresh air. i was breathing and sleeping better! [ female announcer ] exercise your right

wyatt andrews is there. >> reporter: in anle gris that first seem his i tant but then grew emotional, secretary clinton and she sealed the bond they just made over burma. their strategy is to praise the burmese government for out promises of political freedom and then work aggressively to hold the government to its word. >> we do see opening today that give us some ground for en currentment. >> this will be the beginning of a new future for all of us, provided we can maintain it, and we hope to be able to do so. >> reporter: suu kyi was seeking from the verdict an do of her home where she spent most of the last 20 years under house arrest. >> there will be no turning back on the road to democracy. we are not on that road yet, but we hope to get there as soon as possible. >> reporter: her influence over warmer relations with burma cannot be overstated burma still has one the worst, some say horrific, human rights records on earth and if suu kyi did not believe the burmese government was changing, secretary clinton's efforts here would lack credibility. do you think this would be happen

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we asked wyatt andrews to tell us what the super pacs are doing to change the campaigns. >> mitt romney turned around dozens of american companies. >> reporter: you might think this t.v. ad came straight from the mitt romney campaign, but it didn't. it came from "restore our future," the super pac supporting mitt romney. >> restore our future inc. is responsible. >> reporter: this ad for rick perry, same story. it's not from his campaign but from "make us great again." the super pac supporting perry. for the first time in a presidential campaign, multimillion-dollar super pacs will fund a political ad near you, thanks to a 2010 supreme court decision saying corporations and unions have a first amendment right to spend unlimited money on causes or candidates. all of the major candidates have a super pac behind them. >> president obama... >> reporter: including president obama, with priorities u.s.a. what's different is there's still a $2,500 limit on donations to a candidate's campaign, but no donation limits to a super pac. that allowed hollywood executive jeffrey katzenberg to give $2

let's go over to wyatt. >>> all right. quiet december day weather wise. we like it this way. decent sunshine fading out. sunset was at 4:44. the days will continue to get shorter for another week. we'll bottom out. 43 degrees right now. winds west at six. barometric pressure 30.3. visibility unrestricted at 10 miles. today not bad. let's take a look at some of the weather. we'll time lapse. these are our abc2 hd. this is druid hill pancht bel air same scenario. in the heart of hartford things are looking quiet, same deal in mt. airy, beautiful blue skies. in laurel, nothing but sunshine and a few high thin clouds. maryland's most powerful radar showing all clear. this is doing to hold up tonight, tomorrow, probably tomorrow night. things will begin to change has we go into thursday and especially thursday evening. right now temperatures across the state running in the low 40s. hagerstown, interesting set of numbers. ocean city at 33. cooler in york, pa. winds light and variable. not much of a breeze to deal with. high temperatures today did get over 50 degrees. this is about

plus, wyatt's full forecast. p >>> a quiet evening. tomorrow milder still. things start to go down tomorrow night. >> all right. listen. coming up next, world news at 6:30. we'll see you back here at 11:00. have a great night, everybody.

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i'm going to toss this over to wyatt. we're loving you.ringing fabulous weather. >> it's the spirit of the holidays and everything combined up there in cockeysville oar poor exactly. >> awesome scene. >> happy to see the weather holding up nicely. 51 now, so not that chilly for an early december 9th. it was a harsh night, not shaping up that way, just a light northwest breeze. speaking of the holidays, we want your holiday photos. two ways to send them. post them on our facebook page, my page or abc 2 and we will get them on air. we have our first one in from jim schuler. look at mt. vernon last night. that's an awesome shot. fireworks. we got the christmas tree, the whole scene at the washingtont( monument. %o/?pçó sunnyymxd sky, longÑik earlyçólp sunsetse1 hag past 4:40. we'll see the days continue to get shorter as we go into late december. gaithersburg, nice sunset. now maryland's most powerful radar showing clear. that will be the case all weekend. temperatures running on the mild side. there are 40s the eastern shore. 45 in easton.

thanks a lot, wyatt. >>> a woman was hit and killed on the light rail tracks near seminary and railroad avenue. police are trying to figure out how she was hit. >> clearly the woman was on the tracks because she was struck by a train. why she was there is unclear. we're hoping investigation will give us much more information. in the meantime, baltimore county police have taken the lead in this matter. i'm sure they'll try to identify the woman, notifying next of kin. >> lightracks are open at this time. >>> a woman was seriously burned after a house fire in anne arundel county. it happened just after 106789 -- 10. a 65-year-old woman was taken to bayview burn center. >> it appears in this case the occupant was using a match to light a candle. >> at last check she is still at the burn center being treated there. >> baltimore police need your help identifying this man who robbed and stabbed a man. officers found a 27-year-old man with multiple stab wounds in the 2200 block of north charles street. he said he and a friend were at a gas station when two people ended up robbing and stabbing

what's up, wyatt? >> gift exchanges. got to get those gifts exchanged. maryland's most powerful radar, rain clearing from west to east but obviously, still enough to snag some traffic out there, a heavy band up through cecil county. we've got decent rain coming down in that direction. take a rook at -- look at some of the rainfall totals. over an earn in columbia, just a half an inch in easton and rock hall. wind gusts up around 25. they will be gusting higher. the rest of the evening 40s, wet, fog is gi-- foggy. much more on your forecast the rest of the week into the new year coming up. >>> investigators have just released the initial findings in that tragic christmas day fire in stanford, connecticut that killed five tam -- family members. foul play has been ruled out. >> reporter: the deadly fire that gutted a stanford, connecticut fire was an accident. it started when someone put red-hot coals into a trash bin on the first floor. >> the fire was caused by hot fireplace ash and embers. >> reporter: a roaring blaze that killed three young children and

wyatt is in the storm center with a look at the forecast. >>> i think we're going to stay generally dry but we are tracking some precipitation west and south of us. it's close. take a look at our satellite radar view. you can see two different areas of precipitation. if we look at where they are, one is to the west. you see wintry weather moving towards the oakland area. south of washington bringing line in places like fredericsberg, virginia. it will be a chilly one. we'll talk about how the rest of the weekend shapes up. >>> in the race to the top, maryland wins it. was announced today that maryland was one of nine states to receive early child hood funding. it will get $12 1/2 million each of the next four years to close the readiness gap. it will go towards improving early cold hood development. the state is focusing in lower income areas. the goal is to better prepare kids before fair formal schooling. >> what we want to accomplish is the conditions of learning in the early years are going to be better in four years than they currently are. >> coming up at six we'll explain how the

dean reynolds and wyatt andrews on our new poll that finds a three-way tie for the g.o.p. presidential nomination. gingrich, romney, and none of the above. cynthia bowers is covering a deadly blizzard in the plains and a high school football coach finds the team's toughest opponent is poverty. seth doane on what he did to defeat it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their

wyatt is your guard. we have hot cocoa. tonight is the night to do it.honoring fabulous people and showing your support. back to you. >> hot cocoa. make sure you bring some back. >>> taking a look at tonight's top stories, the ravens are flying out of theirç'iutáusr'str training camp and flying toxd owings mills forxd good. lasti] year more thanxd 110,000s wentÑi to practice session at mcdaniels college. thexd teamxdxd said they will se locations for fans. >>> a tunnel known for crime is shut down. the tunnel in lansdowne was designed to let people walk under the csx tracks but it turned into a place of crime and graffiti. workers put up blocked doors to seal it off. >>> days, maybe weeks, that's how long it could take to clean up after major wind damage. thousands of homes and businesses are still without power. a state of emergency has been declared for l.a. county. >>> a passenger steps in as a woman on his bus gets attacked and the whole thing was caught on tape. how the bus driver was able to track down police without making a single call. >>> one t

we will be dealing with honorable sponsors and wyatt, tell us how the weather will be. >> it will be great. it's so grate to honor our veterans. high temps around 60 for the tree lighting. we will drop through the low 50s. 54 at bwi and cockeysville, you're hanging at 52 degrees. i want to show you the east coast view, pretty quiet weather but there is a cold front headed. this will change the weather a little bit tomorrow but 50s clear. much more on your weekend coming up. >>> for the past two days people in western states have been pummeled by the strongest winds in a decade. roosevelt leftwich has more on the chaos created by the santa ana. >> reporter: it was like having a hurricane without the rain. category four force winds caused severe damage from california all the way to utah. there were gusts up to 150 miles an hour. the winds slamed into l.a. hundreds of trees were slammed to the ground and on to houses as well. power was out for hundreds of thousands of people santa ana winds aren't unusual but two weather systems caused severe damage. >> we couldn't even get out. we had