and opposite means competition, discord and the yin yang symbol however shows yin and yang not to be contradictory and opposing, but in fact the means of in which oppositions come together to form a harmony. and this basic outlook, this basic chinese outlook is that opposing forces can always, in some sense, be harmonized, brought together. so opposition doesn't necessarily lead to conflict or absolute opposition, because there is always a means in which it's possible to think of two things working together, sort of side by side like interlocking my fingers interlocking. >> when you think about it, that idea of balance; it we're so used to seeing things as opposites and dualisms in western culture for a variety of philosophical reasons and tradition. but i often think of it as a continuum and back to that buddhist idea of no self independent in origination if somewhere on a continuum between opposites you find a place, you find where you are and that's the process through life. i guess how you work towards the tao is you find how those opposites work but that image. i love what james

but, in essence the yin yang relationship is not just sort of male/female and dominant/recessive, it is more dynamic than that. it's more like the light on the mountain, and the light in the morning, and the light in the evening, that you can't have one without the other. that each depends on the other for its very existence. that's that interdependence sort of aspect here that the dot on the other side that, high and low, light and dark, life and death. you can't have life as we know it without the concept of death. in fact, this harmonization of opposites is i think an opening to looking at male/female relationships in a positive way. not just statically saying one is above and the other is below, but to say that we're constantly doing things for each other. and that that evolves in society and we are not in an agricultural society any longer we can throw away a lot of the old patriarchical sort of reference points of the early religion but keep the original essence of the insight, that we really do depend on each other. >> it feels to me that may be just exactly what this next mil

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome into "news 4 today" on this monday, november 5th. none of that rain, snow stuff to deal with today. very much have to contend with the cold. >> get out all your accoutrement. >> this morning you need your coat. that's one of the accoutrements you need. you need your winter coat. >>> storm team 4 radar not picking up any precipitation. just a lot of cloud cover over most of the region. central shenandoah valley and areas south of fredericksburg, where it's clear and cold and down below freezing in many of those locations. it's in the 20s much of west virginia. under the cloud cover, acting like a blanket, holding in some of the warmth from yesterday, generally mid and upper 30s. montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's county, much of southern maryland and the rest of northern virginia. here's how we're looking today. by 6:00, we're still in the 30s with the cloud cover and a light

john yang, columbus, ohio. >> i am with her, let's just have a little bit of a breather. that is our broadcast tonight, thank you, i'm brian williams, we hope to see you for "rock center," and then back here for tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, we're tracking rain across the bay area. jeff rannieri updates the forecast. >>> plus, new details in the death of the giants fan who was celebrating the world series. >> thanks for joining us on this thursday evening. >> she did it for the safety of your kids and it cost her her job. a veteran bay area school bus driver fired by durham bus services after raising concerns about mechanical problems with her bus. now, the driver said she was tankd because she spoke to the

. >> and i'm eun yang for this morning after election night. this morning the long and hard fought presidential election is over with president barack obama voted into office for a second term. >> it is a decisive victory for the president, at least in the electoral college. take a look at the race. to 270 in terms of electoral votes, president obama wins with 303 over former massachusetts governor mitt romney's 200 electoral votes, this without florida, which is still considered too close to call with 97% of the precincts reporting, although president obama does have a narrow lead. >> the president picked up many battlegrounds states, including virginia, colorado, and the all important ohio. he declared victory to an ecstatic group of supporters in chicago. the president was joined on stage just like four years ago with the first lady and their two daughters. >> shortly before that, governor romney addressed a crowd of disappointed supporters. they both said in their speeches that now that the election is over. it is time for republicans and d

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. the big story today, the snowstorm battering the northeast. >> snow is blanketing debris left behind by sandy in hard-hit queens, new york. police informing residents of a warming shelter, since many who lived there had been without power and heat for more than a week. they also offered shuttle rides to get residents to that shelter. many, however, left the borough days ago.

john yang in chicago covering powerball for us. >>> still ahead as we continue tonight, cancer patients call it chemo brain. they can feel it. their loved ones can see it, and now for the first time scientists say they can too. >>> and later, the stories we haven't heard until now. interviews locked away on tape for years. the beatles, the stones, the truth about each other at long last. >>> now to health news tonight, and what they now know about chemo brain, which will be familiar to you if you or someone you love has dealt with the frustration, fogginess and confusion among so many cancer patients, especially those in the fight against breast cancer. while patients have talked about this since the dawn of chemotherapy, scientists now say they can actually see it. our report from our chief science correspondent robert bazell. >> reporter: soon after she began her treatment for breast cancer, jodi, an author found herself in a mental fog. a condition known widely among cancer patients as chemo brain. >> chemo brain was like having my brain constantly out of focus. it was as though i co

john yang, columbus, ohio. >> i am with her, let's just have a little bit of a breather.s our broadcast tonight, thank you, i'm brian williams, we hope to see you for "rock center," and then back here for tomorrow evening. good night.

and l you, some of the little in ohio john yang is in hamilton county. the big c it was a bush county iwe don't have a lot of raw vote in yet. a little bit. but as john yang was telling us in the early vote and that's what this is this is all earlyt county. and the president had a big 16,000-vote that's a big- the president!é to essentially dupur years ago and he did. now again, we don't have the electi+a in. that's what that sre going to do with early vote and what theyaid they were going to be able to do with demographic of the electorate in florida and watching the raw votes, it looks like what they thought the electorate going to look like. t to extra we did see bob . that turned out to be a tough a ton of money against him. also see bill nelson pul florida. and missouri which is claire mccaskill versus todd akin. maybe is just too weird because todd akin is case. but missouri isn't called yet either. do those senate dynamics tell you about whato expect in those does because it was on to the battleground i think and i brought up our senate map here.

pollster fred yang and republican pollster bill mcintur.art with the undecideds and with you, fred, and i know peter hart, our pollster on this, broke down these up for grab voters and how all of a sudden they look a little more pro-obama than they do pro-romney from october. up for grab voters now the job approval rating of the president 48% to 41%. the feelings to the president 46% to 29% positive to negative. but look at this. mitt romney's feeling thermometer was 22%/49%. this is about 10% of the electora electorate, people undecided or only lean obama or lean romney. you look at those numbers and it tells you what, fred? >> i look at those numbers and it's going to be a very close election. every pundit, pollster, analyst has said that. and i think with these undecided voters, up for grab voters in a close election like this and like 2004, last-minute momentum helps. the president's leadership, hurricane sandy helped a lot, and i think these numbers with the up for grab voters show that as we head into tomorrow the president has a litt

we see there's this ying yang sort of thing going on and were trying... >> reporter: ying yang?e in green bay? >> yeah, yeah. even here in green bay. right. >> reporter: in fact, this is the main reason for all this attention here: confuscious would say: yin-yang american political strategists see it as bush-obama because wisconsin had the most counties in the nation to vote for george bush in 2004 and then switch to barack obama in 2008. brown county was one of them. but then it swung back to republican scott walker for governor in 2010. the question is what next? st. norbert college political scientist wendy scattergood says that even in a deeply divided electorate, the wisconsin tradition of tough-minded independent voters is alive and well. >> they tend to be moderates. they do want to see bi- partisanship. they want to see people working together. and so when they get really frustrated or if their perception is that either on the right of the left that they're moving too far to the extreme, they throw them out of office. but having done that only two years ago it wouldn't s

welcome back to news 4 today. . >>> i'm eun yang. as we were packing lunch this morning you may soon be living in a twinkie-less world. what may force hostess to stop production for good. no more twinkies forever and ever. first we want to talk about the weather. taking a look at the current conditions right now. it is cold out there. >> tom kierein knows that. he is outside on our weather deck. >> you need a puffy coat, your warmest winter coat. gloves on both. all bundled up, layered up. it is a cold morning. it's above freeze. temperatures throughout the region in the mid-30s. cloudiness passing from the south. mountain region it's even colder. temperatures there into the low 20s. locally into montgomery, fairfax, it's in the mid-30s. all throughout the west of virginia. a wind blowing 10, 15 miles per hour. it's a light wind but enough to penetrate. we'll stay cloudy through the noon hour. by midafternoon, a little sun breaking out with highs around 50. sunrise, 6:51. sunset, 4:54. i'm back in 10 minutes with the hometown forecas

. >> and i'm eun yang. >>> new this morning, a man is in the hospital after being pulled from the c&oal. it's not clear how he fell into the canal. at last check he was listed in critical condition. >>> and firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked a massive house fire in montgomery county. firefighters posted these photos to twitter. this house is in dickerson, maryland. you can see it engulfed in flames there. it's a total loss, but no one was hurt. inchts today is veterans day. there are changes to the public transportation system. metro will run on a saturday schedule. track work continues on the orange, red, and green lines, which includes no service at the ballston or virginia square stations. no marc or vre service today. >>> president obama honored veterans around the world at arlington national cemetery. during a solemn ceremony at the tomb of the unknown, the president laid a wreath and paused for a moment of silence. he said that citizens should always remember those who proudly served their country. >> this proud nation expresses our gratitude, but we do so mindfu

i'm eun yang. >> and good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist.elcome back to "news 4 today" on this monday, november 12th, veterans day observed. d.c.'s war memorial is expected to be packed today as many traveled from around the country to honor those who served. yesterday there were ceremonies at the world war ii memorial, the vietnam memorial, and the african american civil war memorial. one visitor said it's not just about those who served in past wars but those who are still serving our country. >> history is always with us every day because many, many people out there, i'm sure as i do, have personal family members who are still involved and in harm's way right now. we pray for all those guys who are still in harm's way. >> many of the veterans traveled here thanks to honor flights. many organizations work to bring veterans to d.c. for events like this free of charge to honor their service. >>> metro opened at a normal time today but will run on a saturday schedule. track work continues today on the orange, red, and green lines, and that in

joining me is pollster fred yang. good to have you with us tonight. what's the most likely scenario for both candidates tomorrow? >> the most likely scenario is that barack obama will be reelected president of the united states. i think all analysts and pundits from both parties are looking at eight or nine key battleground states. and i think in addition to looking at the national polls, the exit polls and the state polls, i think we should know by 8:00 whether this is going to be a long night and a good night for president obama. i think we have virginia, ohio, and florida, three mega battleground states all that will have poll closing times by 8:00. >> what are the early indicators mitt romney has a shot at winning? >> well, i think he needs to win virginia. if we go through the night by time, virginia closes at 7:00. if the exit polls and the voter totals show mitt romney will win virginia, then he sort of stays in the game. then the big battleground state, a lot of pundits have said this is a state that will make or break the election is ohio. if

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. a welcome warm-up is finally in sight. take a look here. we have a tough morning ahead of us in terms of the cold we have today. temperatures plunging into the 30s in some places. tom kierein is here to put it all in perspective. >> i'm a little choked up. >> nice weather has got us all choked up. >> group hug. >> you want to hug somebody to stay warm this morning. it's a cold start. happy friday. >>> as we take off this morning, we're under a clear sky. got a few clouds drifting into pennsylvania, perhaps into western maryland now. they won't last long. we've got that crescent moon in the southern sky right now. it is cold. we need your warmest winter coat. we have it down in the 30s. that covers just about all of virginia and all of maryland. the lighter blue areas around the bay, tidal potomac. you can see there, it's in the 40s, low 40s. the dark blue areas, this is the 20s here in the highlands of western maryland and west virginia. it's only in the low 20s there. right around the beltway, montgomery, arlington, fairfax counties, gener

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. that storm arrived overnight, dropping snow from new jersey to massachusetts. it's only adding to the misery for people who haven't had power or gas for 11 days because of sandy. t the whipping winds, pounding surf stunned people in oyster bay. some are now wondering if power will be restored by thanksgiving. >> north of there in connecticut, drivers are dealing with treacherous road conditions. police say two traffic deaths may be related to the storm. a car collided with a jackknifed crush, and in lebanon, another car overturned. the coastal storm is expected to dump as much as a foot of snow in parts of new england. tom kierein now is tracking that storm. good morning to you. >> a near miss for us thankfully, because it is a powerful coastal storm, almost like a hurricane. in fact, it had hurricane force winds yesterday afternoon. and now it's just sort of stalled out and spinning away here, just south of nantucket. and they're still getting bands of heavy snow from maine all the w

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome on this wednesday, november 14th, 2012. >>> the dulles toll road could get more expensive. the airport authority would vote whether to raise tolls. next year to $2.45. then $3.50 by 2014. and $4.50 by 2015. tolls are expected to account for about half of the line's $6.5 billion price tag. >>> also today, maryland's biggest casino is preparing for table games just a week after the question passed in the state. today maryland live will reveal plans to bring in 125 table games. owner david cordish will go over the redesign and when 24-hour gaming will begin. the tables will open up another 1,200 jobs. and they plan to open a new training school, which will open in january. >>> recommendations to keep 911 service active during a storm. the council will reveal reports.

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. we begin with a live look outside at 6:00 a.m. this monday morning. 54 degrees outside our studios. a gorgeous weekend is what we had around here. the hope is we can continue that for a moment longer. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with the forecast. >> good morning. >>> starting off, it's a chill in the air, and we're under a mostly clear sky. we do have high clouds drifting in from the west, and it's mostly cloudy, shenandoah valley into the mountains now. there it's milder. it's in the 50s to near 60 where we're clear here around the metro area and most of maryland and virginia, it's in the 40s. low to mid-40s much of the region, including montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's counties. and we also have patchy fog forming in some of the rural areas, especially the rural roads near open fields. watch out for patchy dense fog, watch out for deer, they're active. sunrise at 6:48. we'll still be in the 40s. by noontime, the low 60s with increasing clouds. then all cloudy the rest of the afternoon. it will

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. people still struggling from sandy. the election may be an afterthought, but right now we are 24 hours from the first polls opening in our area, and this morning new numbers that show the race is truly too close to call. just ahead, the last minute dash for votes around here today. >>> it is 6:00 right now. getting out the vote this year means getting out the coats. this unseasonably cold weather is hanging on. now a new storm to worry about. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is on top of all of this. tom, good morning to you. >> good morning. >>> we'll be keeping an eye on a developing storm off the coastal carolinas taking place on wednesday. right now this morning, we're starting off with a lot of cloudiness across northern virginia, the district, most of maryland, and into the mountains. there are some breaks in the clouds in the central and southern shenandoah valley and areas fredericksburg south. that is where it's coldest. in fact, where it's cleared out, temperatures there have tipped down to the freezing

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. it is thursday, november 1st, 2012. things are slowly starting to get back to normal for new yorkers affected by sandy. today people will be able to ride the bus and subways for fwr free. not all subway lines are running because some stations and tunnels are still flooded. today and tomorrow, anyone driving into the city must have at least three passengers in their car. mayor bloomberg says car pooling should help ease some of the gridlock. laguardia airport will reopen in about tle hour. >>> mission accomplished for pepco. it has restored power to all of its customers who lost electricity. dominion virginia power hopes to do the same by tonight. right now it has more than 1,700 customers in the dark in northern virginia. bge working to restore power to more than 4,000 homes and businesses in our area, mostly in anne arundel county. novak is reporting 420 customers impacted by outages right now. >> power outages in a handful of area schools means another day off. in anne arundel county, four schools are still closed. ch

i'm aaron gilchrist >> and i'm eun yang on this friday, november 16th, 2012. >>> in virginia, an amber alert for a 1-year-old girl. the little girl was taken by eric black and jennifer carlisle. police are not releasing any information about their relationship to the little girl, but they believe alexis is in extreme danger. investigators believe the trail may be heading to d.c. they may be driving a brown 1985 nissan station wagon with license plate xnj 9177. if you see alexis carlisle, call police immediately. >>> police are asking for your help to find a missing prince george's woman. 90-year-old saki mcgurin was seen leaving her home wednesday afternoon in chillum. she may be driving a gray toyota row la. >>> this morning one family relieved and one grieving after a not guilty verdict in the bowie state murder trial. a jury acquitted alexis simpson on seven charges, including first degree murder. she was accused ofbb

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today." .ng and stabbing happened just three miles apart. the stabbing happened at 51st street just after 1:00. when the police arrived, they found two women and one child with stab wounds. all are expected to be okay. no word on a suspect. then just a few minutes later police got called for shots fired on the 200 block of "c" street, and that's where police found a man in his 50s shot in the chest. he is in critical condition. no word on a motive or suspect in the case. >>> today former d.c. chairman kwame brown will find out if he's headed to prison. brown admitted to lying on an application to obtain bank loans. he faces up to six months in prison, but the prosecution is only asking for six days behind bars followed by three years of supervised release. brown will also be sentenced today in d.c. superior court on a misdemeanor campaign violation. he faces up to six months behind bars on that charge too. >>> opening statements in a murder case involving a bowie state university student. alexi

i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news 4 today" on this wednesday, november 14th. we'll learn more about virginia's plan to handle any snow that comes our way this wint winter. the department of transportation introducing new equipment they have at their disposal in northern virginia. they will also go over the area's snow removal plan and budget. >> hard to think about snow, but it certainly feels like it could snow out there this morning. it's so cold. >> i've been wearing my winter coat now, i've named it. my best friend now. >> what's it called? >> kidding. >> work k. wow in there somewhere. >> we'll bring that up when we get some snow, but not this morning. >>> it is down near or below freezing in most of the region. look at the mountains, it's in the teens in many locations from canaan valley and west virginia and elkins. closer to washington, all the areas of lighter blue are right near or below freezing. that's all of virginia and maryland except right on the bay waters and the tidal potomac w

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for this election day tuesday, november 6, 2012.ons of americans will head to the polls on this election day. polls in some east coast states will head in. ten dixville notch residents have already cast their vote for president. five picked president obama, five picked romney. mitt romney meanwhile will hit the campaign trail one more time. he has events planned in ohio and pennsylvania today. >> candidates are getting in some rest after a frantic day of campaigning. they campaigned late into the night. both ended the race in symbolic locations. mitt romney held a late night rally in new hampshire, where he kicked off his campaign a year and a half ago. president obama gave his last campaign speech in des moines, iowa, where he opened his first presidential campaign office four years ago. >> i've come back to iowa one more time to ask for your vote. i came back to ask you to help us finish what we started because this is where our

>> all right, john yang, from cincinnati tonight.n, thank you, and let's do a deeper dive on the state of ohio, with us for that, our political director chief white house correspondent, chuck todd. and chuck, i know it is kind of popular in the political business to say ohio, which is such is interesting territory has given us eight american presidents, after all is more like five states, in and of itself. >> reporter: they joke about it. it is the five ohios. so let's break it down, here it is cold country, and you see from the 2008 county map, of course the map that president obama won. you see he did well up there in the northeast part of the state. but even made some inroads here in cold country. this is where romney is expected to do really well. then you have this part here in northeastern ohio, this is where cuyahoga county and where democrats get a majority of their vote when they're doing well, or even when they're not doing well. it all comes out of here. that is sort of the second ohio, then we have the auto belt here, if

i'm eun yang. >> and good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> as the chips fell, it became clear it belonged to the president. every critical swing state swung his way. when it became clear the president had taken the race, spontaneous celebrations erupted all across the city. this crowd out in front of the white house. on "u" street, a rowdy scene as well. supporters spread into the streets. they shot off fireworks and partied into the morning. >> mitt romney's watch party did not look like much of a party. ahead, the message he had for president obama. >> ahead, how exactly the president took the race and who drove him to victory. plus a big celebration in maryland. voters made history. voters doing something that's never been done before. and rolling the dice in maryland, a casino on the potomac is a go. we'll tell you what's next on the project. >>> from this morning on election day with all there is to talk about, by the end of the day, it could be the weather dominating the conversation. >> it seems to be the case

i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome to "news4 today." the fire started at fourth and morris street and then it rekindleed th e rekindled this morning. megan mcgrath is on the scene. >> reporter: this was a very tough fire to get under control. there were a couple of instance where is they actually had to pull their firefighters out of the building because they were concerned about possible collapses, so they had to back out a little bit and change their strategy until it was safe to allow their personnel close to the building. i'll step out of the way so that you can get a better idea. you can see that there's still quite a presence here on the scene. a lot of emergency vehicles still here on the scene. let's take a look at the video shot last night and overnight and you can see just how large this fire was. we're here at the union market. this is a series of vendors here, many of the wholesale meat venn do vendors, also some suit vendors. not sewer exactly what started this fire. they thought they had a handle on it for a while and then

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for november 5th, 2012. election day is just a day away, and the candidates are separated by just a single percentage point. president obama leads mitt romney 48%-47% among likely voters. that's according to the latest "the wall street journal" poll. that poll is within the margin of error. the race for virginia is too close to call. the president leads by 1% in the commonwealth. that's also according to the nbc news/wall street journal/marist poll. and the candidates are using the final day to campaign in as many battleground states as they can. mitt romney will make two stops in virginia including a rally there this afternoon. president obama will stop in ohio, wisconsin, and iowa before heading to chicago. he'll spend election day there. it still appears this election could come down to ohio. both candidates campaign in the buckeye state yesterday, and both made a final plea to supporters for their vote tomorrow. >> i need you, ohio. if you're willing to work with me, knock on some doors for me, make some

i'm eun yang. >>> breaking news.ighters battle a fire at the watergate building on the 7700 block of virginia northwest. a balcony caught fire just after 2:00 this morning. it's not clear how the fire started, but flames and smoke could be seen coming from the roof of the building. we're told no one was hurt. firefighters are still investigating. >>> and police are searching for five teenagers who they believe shot a man on buena vista terrace southeast. the man is in critical condition. he was shot in the chest. at this point, police believe all five teenagers may be armed. officers also found a sweatshirt with a gun magazine in this near the scene. >>> and a pilot headed to dulles declares an emergency just before landing. united flight 662 was coming to washington from denver last night. a passenger disregarded landing instructions by praying in the aisle. military jets came in to escort that plane until it landed. the male passenger was taken away for evaluation. no one was hurt. >>> this morning the charles coun

you mentioned that wang yang right there may be too reformist. does that reflect more broadly a sense that while maintaining the reforms of the current regroup that we're not necessarily going to see an aggressively more reformist china? >> i think the style in china particularly the communist party is to carefully word any kind of talk of reform, and wang yang, like i said, he represents a new generation of reformers that are asking for it a little bit more forcefully. now, he did hold elections in the province that he governs over. so this may not be the time for him, although he is still relatively young, so he could be up for promotion at the next time. but even the calls for reform, you're absolutely right, have been -- they've had to be very carefully worded, usually contained in some very bland statements. >> that's something that politicians share across the pacific. thanks very much for that. >>> let's get more. good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> what are investors to do with this chinese changeover? we've hea

bob costantini, fred marcus, ruth, and fred yang.ng about congressional ego stroking was one of the tenets that made president lincoln so successful in deeming with congress trying to get the 13th amendment through. can president obama do that this time around? would john boehner get receptive enough? i want everyone's opinion. is the legacy question enough to move boehner and obama forward on a fiscal cliff deal? >> crossed fingers. i hope so. short enough? >> boehner wants to keep his job as speaker so he has to deal with his caucus. and whether or not his caucus will be going -- ready to go along with a significant amount of compromise, obviously, you know, remains to be seen. >> i think politically they saw what happened 2 1/2 weeks ago. i think they'll be in a mood to compromise. >> let's go around the table, bob. start it off. what are you thankful for on this thafg day? >> i'm thankful i still have some twinkies in the house. thankful, truthfully, the economy is getting better so my daugter who just graduated from college may

yang said the crisis in syria needs a political solution. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says that kosovo's independence is not up for discussion. clinton and the eu foreign policy chief met with the kosovan present. >> clinton and ashton are touring balkan countries currently. london's police may be selling their famous new scotland yard headquarters to cut costs. they need to find over 600 million euros of savings and help the complex can fetch a large chunk of that sum. >> city police moved into the iconic building on victoria street in 1967. with staff cuts on the way, they will not need as much space. >> we will be back in one minute with more. >> stick around. we will be right back. >> welcome back. it is deja vu all over again. florida and ohio are expected to be key swing states in determining the outcome of the u.s. presidential election. >> some are saying that romney must win florida to win the race. the southern state has a high percentage of latino voters as well as senior citizens, many of home are worried about their benef

. >> the yin and yang of this, we know there have to be revenues.ealthy republican or democrat in tennessee who are not willing to contribute more as long as they know we solve the problems. >> you've got to have ying with the yang. tom cole who serves on the house budget committee said this, "most members were just taught a lesson that you're not going to get everything you want. it was that kind of election." joan walsh, was it that kind of election? >> it was absolutely that kind of election. and i think the president has a kind of leverage he did not have in 2010. that was a bruising shellacking. if he does nothing, the tax cuts go away. we go back to the clinton tax rates, and he gets to come back, the democrats get to come back and say, please cut taxes for the middle class. that's a winning hand. the other thing you didn't play in grover norquist's comments about the election was the problem that mitt romney was a poopy head, he actually said that. >> that is deep. >> it gives me a lot to think about. but i really think that he's really slow

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome on this tuesday, november 13, 2012. we have rain in the region, cooler than yesterday. storm team 4 meteorologist tom

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for

yang gi canning is in the studio to tell us how barack obama's second term will affect economic ties between the two countries. >> japanese officials think economic ties are pretty much going to stay the way they are. business leaders are saying they want obama to tackle some of the pressing economic issues in and outside the united states. now that u.s. president barack obama has won the election, japanese government officials predict that economic relations between the two countries will remain unchanged. they plan to keep a close watch on future developments. >>> officials now believe that negotiations for japan to join the transpacific partnership may begin in earnest. no major advancement was seen prior to the u.s. president election. the u.s. has been demanding futher liberalization of japan's car and insurance marnths. this could trigger conflict between the two countries in the future. the japanese government is also concerned about the strong yen if the obama administration continues to take monetary easing measures. if the currency strengthens any further, it will have a ma

and also li ewe an chau, lewian dong who is in charge of education and culture and and wang yang. >> reporter: some analysts say it's kiquite difficult to know who's going to lead the party because it's decided in a black box. what do we know about the process? >> there's a heated competition taking place between the present force, the communist league and the other group. children of high ranking communist party officials. they are not a closely knit group, but they have a greater chance of taking a seat in the party and company. a good example of this is the vice president whose father served as vice premiere. xi, as we've reported, is widely expected to assume the party's high post of general secretary. the communist youth league is positioned as the party's backup force. it's marked its 19th anniversary this year. membership in the league is a ticket to joining the party elite. members are 14 to 28 years of age. as of the end of 2007 there were 75 million of them. analysts say former senior leaders have strong networks in the party. the president once held the league's top post a

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for friday, november 16th, 201. breaking news. >>> an amber alert for a missing 1-year-old girl. police believe she's in extreme danger. news 4's megan mcgrath is near i-95 in fairfax county with more on this case. megan, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, eun. police are looking for 1-year-old alexis rose carlisle. she was last seen at 4:30 in the afternoon yesterday. as you mentioned, police believe she's in extreme danger, abducted by two individuals. take a look at the video of this little girl, see i

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. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for this wednesday, november 7th, 2012.ve continuing coverage, but the weather could steal the headlines very soon. >>> take a look. a coastal storm is moving into our area as we speak. you see the rain off