one of them taken to medstar and the other one taken to george washington. do not know the reason as far as why the boiler exploded. the men were working on it. a lot of police and fire on the scene. it is back open and police and fire have left the scene. >> thank you. developing news out of delaware, shots were fired outside the home of vice president joe biden. neither the vice president nor his wife were home when it happened saturday night. there is an active investigation . richard reid is live in the satellite center with the latest. >> the fbi and new castle county police are on a manhunt looking for that shooter. a speeding car drove by the residents and fired multiple shots. one agent spotted the car. now the fbi want to find out who did this and why. extra searchers service -- extra secret servicemen and crime scene tape. >> gunshots were heard. >> any idea how many shots? >> not sure. >> those shots, multiple rounds, came from a speeding car along this road along 8:25 p.m. saturday night. the vice president and wife often spend weekends here, but

washington or george washington carver, rather than king. by resorting to ugly, unseemly tactics of character assassination and guilt by association, larry mcdonald and john ashbrook played into the hands of supporters of the holiday. their opposition to the holiday was much more colorful, much more photogenic, then the opposition people who complained about the budget and historical perspective. at any rate, both ashbrook and mcdonald died before final action came on the bill in 1983. the bill went to the senate, which had never done in 1979. the bill went to the senate for the first and only time in 1983. jesse helms rose to the occasion by taking up the mantle of anti-communist guilt by association and character association -- assassination that he learned from ashbrook and mcdonald, who failed to make it work in the house. helms had generally stayed out of debates on the king holiday up to that point. only jumping in at the last minute in a showdown that really grabbed headlines with ted kennedy, who led the charge for the other side. wh

at his 7th street studio in washington. the first portraits made of lincoln since gardner's photographs of him in the field after antietam the previous october. brady was almost certainly galled by this, given his own relationship with the president. and on friday, january 8 exactly two months after the latter of lincoln sittings for gardner, lincoln appeared in brady's gallery for a series of photographs credited to brady himself. these are two of them from that sitting. perhaps because it was an election year, lincoln never shy around a camera, was more than usual willing to be photographed. a month later, february 9, 1864, a tuesday afternoon, he went again to brady's pennsylvania avenue gallery where he had an even longer sitting for brady photographer anthony berger. according to the painter francis bicknell carpenter, who had just started work in white house, he himself joined the president and mrs. lincoln that day under the front portico of the executive mansion where a carriage was to take them to the 3:00 appointm

tonight, on "washington week." mitt's out. >> after spending considerable thought into making another run for president i've decided it's best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee. gwen: and the 2016 republican competition grows even more intense. as hopefuls compete for cash, attention, and the chance to hone their arguments against hillary clinton. >> you look at everything that people dislike about washington, she embodies it. gwen: on capitol hill republican leaders retest arguments. on health care benghazi, and even outgoing attorney general eric holder. >> you're not eric holder, are you? >> no, i'm not, sir. gwen: mean while the president courts old allies abroad. >> india and the united states are not just natural partners. i believe america can be india's best partner. gwen: as his foreign policy team struggles to defang new threats. >> we believe that when you make concessions to terrorists it puts more american citizens at risk, paying ransoms and negotiating can

but washington's got to do something. i think that's a little bit of a shift on the republican rift about big government and government's too much and we shouldn't be -- no, here's joni ernst saying here are certain things that need to be done, and can be done if president obama is willing to work with us. so she puts it back on obama if he's talking about bipartisan cooperation. on these points i think joni ernst was effective. >> she was effective partly because we've never seen her before. the rhetorical presidency was born with teddy roosevelt, and some have talked too much about too many things. barack obama is unquestionably the most talkative, to put it politely, president we've ever had. any difficulty or any moment of tranquility is to go give a speech. so people are thoroughly tired of this. that's why four times more people are going to watch the super bowl next week than watch this tonight. and along comes someone we actually never heard before. what a refreshing experience. >> well, the panel will come back f

s so now washington had to find a more defenseable argument. and that argument was we don't want white women working so close to black member. and of course that was just an excuse to get rid of them. but what my book is really about -- i was really amazed when this book was in its early stages. this was 40 years before the modern civil rights movement. but it amazed me that tens of thousands of african-americans and others rows up and protested the jim crowe policy being implemented. men, women native americans professionals to laborers. they rows up in protest and launched a protest not seen since the abolitionist momentum and used a lot of messages that anticipated the modern civil rights movement. and i want to try to go over sol of these methods with you because i think some of them were spore rat i can but most were strategic and launched on a collective level. that was pretty amazing this was the second decade of the to the century. a time when most people don't realize such a huge, mass collective movement against discrimination or raci

they discuss washington any future of the news media. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> i thought i was the moderator. >> they told me i was the moderator. >> i will interview you. >> you get started. >> so, obama gets elected. [applause] i was in new york city, where i live, union square, joyous triumphant, people hugging crying, a real feeling that the world will change, and now, the mood is different. you can give your two cents, but the perception now, is that a lot of the stuff has failed, the government is not working. what happened? >> two things. i think a lot of things happened the economy is growing, creating jobs, on a planet rate is down, we have near universal health care access to health care, a project 100 years in the making. a lot has happened. would you have tapped into is that when president obama was elected, there was a sense of intimacy possibility, that as he had promised, the tone could be changed here in washington. the partisan superficiality of the debate here could be transcended, and that the country would benefit. i think there

according to "the washington post." the newspaper says acting director joseph clancy told the officials they have 30 days to leave their position. this shakeup comes after a series of security breaches at the white house and a new effort to overhaul the secret service. >> an isil sympathizer from ohio is now in custody accused of plotting a major attack on the u.s. capitol. christopher cornell, also known as raheel ubaydah was arrested today in cincinnati on charges of attempting to kill u.s. government officials. he allegedly planned to set off a series of pipe bombs and shoot lawmakers and their staff. the f.b.i. first noticed cornell after he voiced support for violent jihad on twitter. >> she pretended to be a real estate agency touring million dollar homes where she stole designer jewelry to the tune of $83,000. >> that's right. and today, a judge sentenced 58-year-old sally theisman to one year in jail. kevin lewis was there in the courtroom when prosecutors shared incriminating evidence in a story you saw first o

in defense of washington __ on the only person up your who is defending washington. >> that is correct. >> but i'm a patriotic american and i'm old, so that goes along with. but washington has no interest in energy because energy is not a problem. washington is driven to stories that they see every night, and crisis is everything. and energy __ smooth. the natural gas and oil industry in the united states have done an unbelievable job for america. [applause] >> you know how to time your lines. that has always been true. >> okay, but let me tell you __ they do not do it for america. i can tell you that. i know those guys. i am one of them. you are out there trying to make money. good for america? of course it is. in the meantime, what do you do for america? they got our independence from opec. >> let's talk about fracking for a moment. everyday in the newspaper, there's an argument but the pluses and minuses. how should we think about it and the pluses and minuses. >> well, i would like to dismiss this and 30 seconds. there is not a problem with fracking. there have been over 800,000 we

much of that is because things that we see driven here in washington, the powers here in washington have taken away from some of those incentives and we'd be better suited if we put that power and that structure in many cases transfer the power back to the states and back to local governments where the people in those communities, the people in those states can ultimately hold their government accountable. there are plenty of other examples and again in discussions we can talk about that in greater detail. but i'm reminded by one of my favorite sayings from president reagan. there are many great statements that are often quoted but one of mine is that one of president reagan's initial inaugural address he said that we should all remember that the federal government did not create the is states, the states created the federal government. now more than ever that is important. i look and many ways i think the president we currently have in the white house almost has a completely opposite view. when i heard the state of the union address, he sounded like a president who wanted to grow the ec

outside our studios in northwest washington. as we take a live look outside, you may have a similar view. make sure to send us those photos. tom and the rest of the storm team have been talking about this for the past few days and here it is. tom has more on what the snow means for the rest of the morning in just minutes. >>> for a lot of you, it means a delayed start to the day for you and your kids. >> if you work for the government you can work from home today. offices are open but employees can telework or take unscheduled leave. and prince george's and montgomery county schools, we just learned are two hours delayed as well as schools in alexandria city. they are opening two hours late as of right now. >> schools in maryland are also delays so are frederick county maryland schools. frederick county virginia schools are closed along with fauquier county. check the nbc washington app for some of the latest closings and delays. of course we'll scroll them at the bottom of the tv show this morning. >>> good morning to you, i'm

in washington, i'm ray suarez. today on "talk to al jazeera." astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an astronaut is nearly impossible. >> the research lab a politically complicated program coordinated between 15 countries, including the u.s. and russia.

once again, from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. we have been here before recoiling with shock, bracing for backlash. this time, ground zero is paris, where 10 journalists three police officers, four hostages, and three attackers have been killed during 72 hours of mayhem. french president francois hollande addressed the nation tonight. >> france has not finished with this threat, so i want to call on you for vigilance unity and mobilization. gwen: the attacks in paris have reverberated around the world, raising and reraising old questions here in washington. pete, nancy, and michael have been covering every angle of the story this week. what do we know tonight pete? >> well, for all intents and purposes it's over much the two responsible for the wednesday attack on the newspaper kide died nood a shootout with politics. an associate of theirs took hostages ate jewish market. he was killed, some of the hostages as well. but his wife remains at large and authorities would like to find her for two reasons the one, they are afraid she m

long, but washington is not and has no interest in energy because energy is not a problem and washington is driven to stories that they see every night and crisis is everything and energy is who. -- smooth. the natural gas and oil industry have done and under the -- an unbelievable job for americans. [applause] let me tell you, they did not do it for america i know all those guys and i am one of them. you're out there trying to make money is what you're trying to do, but for america? of course it is because of jobs and taxes but in the meantime, what does it do for americans? >> let's talk about fracking for a moment him every day in the newspaper there is an argument about the environmental pluses and minuses of fracking. how should we think about it in the pluses or minuses of it? >> i would like to dismiss this in 30 seconds, there is not a problem with fracking. there have been over 800,000 wells fracked. when the subject comes up and 70 jobs jumped out of the audiences is your fracking -- i say give me one example of fracking damaging anything, they don't have anything. fracking is

the nets snapped their seven-game losing streak in washington. 102-80. college football joe paterno was once again the winningest coach in division i football history. those 112 winds that were stripped from penn state the jerry sandusky chowed abuse scandal are back on the record. the ncaa and penn state agreed on a settlement that gives back the wins and directs the $60 million fine to address child abuse. the decree had taken away all 111 wins under joe paterno. second round of the hobby. b championship, -- of the abu dab i championship. the approaches money. mcilroy, that was his first hole-in-one. officials in a suburb outside of seattle are taking pregame robberies to another level. the seahawks taking on the packers, consumption of cheese has been banned in bainbridge island washington, only at city hall, only today. but, yeah, the city manager says he has a cheese grater at work for anybody who comes packing no pun intended. catch all of tonight's prep action at 11:30 on news channel 8. i don't know of cheeseburgers count. >> i hope they don't. n

you are watching c-span's "washington journal just o this day 20 years ago, "washington journal" first went on the air. we are back in a moment. ♪ >>> tonight, on q & a janet murgia president and ceo of the nation's largest civil rights and advocacy group on the state of hispanics in america. immigration reform and her come compelling personal story. >> i had the great privilege of experiencing the american dream here in this country, born in kansas, you know my parents actually came to this country fromin the very early '50s, very early '50 did. my parents came from mexico with no money and very little education. i think my dad had an 8th grade education; my mom, a 5th grade education. and yet they believed in the prompts of this country, and they were seeking better opportunities for their children. so they worked really hard and sacrificed as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country because they wanted that better future for their children in the promise of this country. they employed important values that have been our guide for me and my six brothers and sisters.

washington today, or washington as a coming attraction? i'm joined by the "hardball" roundtable, ruth marcus, michelle bernard and melinda heminberger. start with claire danes starring as carrie mathison in "homeland." here she is calling the shots. >> i want you to stay here. >> no. >> i'll have two security details. i'll be fine. it will be at 45,000 feet. but i need you monitoring it. >> quinn's one of the good guys. then katherine heigl in nbc's "state of affairs." her job is to brief the president on the state of terrorism in the world. here's her character commanding the room when news of a terrorist capture breaks out. >> charlie, i don't want to speak too soon, but i think we found fada. >> get down! >> charlie, we go to print in 30 minutes. >> i know. earl, where are they at with the situation report? >> just came online. he's got boots on the ground. >> do we put it in the book? >> that we may have found fada? >> it's big news. >> the bigger news is when we kill him. >> and tea leoni in "madam secretary." >> madam secretary, what

he said the greeley had a lot these guys to come to washington. i'm paraphrasing. why do you go to niagara falls and engage them in peace talks and to get a feel or for peace let me know. greeley claims he doesn't want to do it himself and gets even more puffed up and he goes up to canada, niagara falls canada but as he gets there and is prepared to start the peace talks he gets a surprise. he gets a visit from president lincoln assistant private secretary john hay and has continued to read newspaper articles himself up through the war. hey brings greeley a paper from lincoln. here are the terms i will accept. the rebellion is to end. the union is to be recognized and emancipation is to be upheld. greeley has no choice but to show the delegate this letter. the delicate says this is an outrage how dare you come up. waste. the peace talks collapse. greeley goes back to new york and abject humiliation ended in real theory. he is decided he is going to get lincoln no matter what. he decides let's publish all the correspondence. so lincoln sends a quick letter to henry

it was one of these things i was realizing, wow, washington, d.c. the mayor, the school's chief and the police chief, all women. how many other american cities have this? it turns out there's one now, minneapolis, that will end at the end of the month. a new school superintendent and no longer have three women running those three key aspects. here we talk about how will washington change? the city the run by all women. it's an interesting reminder that it's taken a while as women have entered all aspects of political life local level and national level, that you're starting to see this. this is only going to i think increase. you'll see more women governors, see more women presidential candidates not just the one or two that we have. >> all right. all of washington will be >>> one final check of the seven-day forecast. mild today, cold tomorrow. snow tuesday. bitter cold after that. >> how can i avoid maintenance fees? why would you want to avoid them? because i don't want to... you know what? i'm gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you a

ace washington. i am aw washington junior. i was named ace washington in elementary school playing piano. i was a musician and we were figuring out the name of the band and one of the teachers said let's name it "ace and the diamonds" . so i am aw washington junior. my father was aw and from the texas and from the south and had so many kids named us after the alphabet. that's what they did in the south and so many kids. they named my grandfather aw and i am aw washington junior but i element free school and what does it stand for? they used to tease me. ma, why did you name me aw? so when my father died i respectfully changed my name to ace and i became ace and at city hall i am ace on the case so ladies and gentlemen i have a few people here. i thought i would give you history. there is six of a committee of 15 that have been working closely at the formerly known as yoshi's and now known as the addition. you all come in. but these are the -- some of the individuals that are hidden in our committee that we have been working di

i don't recognize this washington mutual debt that i supposedly owe. i said okay let's call chase bank which now bought washington mutual and we will ask them directly what's going on with this amount and the debt that you don't recognize. so i call up these folks at chase and i say i have this woman right here whose name is julie. she doesn't recognize the debt and the amount. can you help us clarify because when this was sold off it appears there were mistakes. they call back and say jake we decided we are going to write off julie's dad as fraud. i said well why? they said we don't have any of the underlying documentation that would give us confidence that this is in fact a valid and accurate debt. they had some statements that they didn't have the original signed contract or proof they were paying the debt. i said what you mean you don't have a? you are the bank, shouldn't you have that? he said well when chase acquired washington mutual was a very rapid process and information was lost. when chase acquired washington mutual that was one of the larg

get things done in washington. host: story online regarding the populist movement to read he bases it on conversations that took place in des moines, iowa. the question is, to the degree in which the rising populist movement on the left can shape the party's future and whether hillary is that person. you can see from this article, a photograph of elizabeth warren. guest: it is interesting on the democratic side, given what is happening on the democratic -- on the republican side. with the tea party being born in the way they have affected the direction of the party. i would argue, not in a good way when it comes to winning elections in governing. it seems like a good number of democrats look at that and say that is terrible for republicans, we should do the same thing on our side. we have to understand the math behind it. there is a populist wing of the democratic party, not the patient be silenced, but they are a certain percentage of the electorate and they are not big enough to win elections by themselves. the w

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that's tonight on "washington week." the promise of a blank page. can the president use the new year to restore his popularity and complete an unfinished agenda? >> now you have republicans in a position where it's not enough for them simply to grind the wheels of congress to a halt and then blame me. gwen: will the new republican congress place his plans with their phone? could the supreme court change course with critical rulings on health care and gay marriage? and who will emerge in the best position to win the 2016 presidential nomination? old things or new? hear the previews -- here with a preview of the news we'll be watching this year, molly bell, from "the atlantic," joan biskupic from reuters, ed o'keefe from the "washington post," and alexis simendinger white house correspondent for realclearpolitics. >> award-winning reporting and analysis. covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital this is "washington week with gwen ifill." corporate funding for "washington week" is provide by -- -- >> we're committed to strong. we'r

replaced the head but it's still george washington's axe. there's at least a hole there that was brady -- a hole that brady made in the side of the building. yes, ma'am. >> speaking of the building on 16th -- on pennsylvania avenue. i've been in that building. my husband's uncle owned it about 50 years ago. and so -- >> my sympathies because he wasn't getting much rental. >> i was able to go up the very stairs lincoln would have gone up and also i was able to go into the room which would have been the studio. >> wow. >> although it had been converted, as you say, into apartments up there. but still you could see the area. the skylight was still there. it is not the skylight -- >> in the ceiling or in the back? >> it's in the ceiling toward pennsylvania avenue. and so that kind of kicks out the fact that the one in the back they put in when they renovated everything is really not what we would think is what -- were the actual sky light was. >> well, there were skylights in the ceiling, but -- >> it's in the ceiling. >> there was one he put on

you can make sure you have the nbc washington app. we will spend you breaking news alert as soon as that decision is announced. >>> d.c. street cars are still testing. there have been a few issues. take a look. one hit a car last night. no one was hurt. you can see the damage on the car's bumper in the back. police and vdot have not told us who they believe is at fault. this is the system's second crash in five days. a street car hit a car on h and 6th street northeast. no one was hurt in that incident either. the street cars do not appear to be damaged in either of those crashes. the system is expected to open for passengers by the end of the month. >>> new this morning north korea is threatening war over the latest round of sanctions imposed by the u.s. in a statement from that country they said that america has never "experienced a hail of bullets and shells on its own territory". the u.s. hit the north in sanctions for its cyber attack on sony. north korea denied it carried out that attack. >>> 500 health workers have been killed

"starts with ralph washington d c. caller: what we have is energy domination of the carbon industry. in the 60's and 70's, a system called the molten salt reactor. the only problem walls -- was it did not generate enough plutonium and other material for bombs. it is inherently safe. it is melted down. the half-life of the waste product is 300 years not 10,000. it can be used to burn the existing nuclear waste and wrote -- nuclear waste we have. it is such a great idea that the chinese have now dedicated 750 phd's and engineers on this project. by the end of this decade, they will have a decade. host: john, texas, the republican line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: my comment is based on immigration. i have a good idea. if they want to allow 12 million plus ill eagles a pathway to citizenship, we know that 70% of them are all in literate, that means taxpayers are going to have to pay to teach them english and pay this money into the school system. if democrats want to allow a pathway to citizenship, w

we are washington, d.c. what you might not know is that i find peace in the park and to reset and recenter i just have to see the ocean every now and then. if you're like me, you enjoy one of the best views of the city from the vista, just in front of our lady of perpetual health overlooking our great river. you probably know by now i'm fiercely loyal and disciplined and not easily moved from a winning plan. and you probably learned recently that i'm not afraidallenge. i won't run from a debate. actually, i kind of enjoy them. i tell anyone that i can fight that i'm a native washingtonian. not to divide us. but because i'm proud. i bet you don't know this though. one of the single biggest surprises and delights of this campaign was the reaction i got from little girls. the 8-year-olds -- >> that is muriel bowser making her first statement since being sworn in as d.c.'s mayor. the seventh elected mayor to serve the district. you can continue watching her comments right now on our website. go ahead and log on.

and lows tonight just below that freezing mark. 31 in washington. notice the areas where ice is more likely. gaithersburg frederick, leesburg drop to around 30 or lower. high temperature tomorrow of 38 degrees. we hit that at 3:00 in the afternoon. but at the bus stop delays are certainly possible because of that threat of freezing rain. remember though all rain by 9:00 a.m. tuesday, cold and breezy high temperature of 33. mid 30s on wednesday. thursday upper 30s. then 40s. next weekend mid 40s for high looking nice. again, we're going to continue to keep an eye or that threat of freezing rain tomorrow morning. >>> the red carpet is ready. stars are getting dolled up. one of hollywood's big parties starts in a few hours. the 72nd annual golden globes are on tonight right here on nbc 4. our golden globe coverage is going to start right after this newscast with "first look live on the red carpet." at 7:00 see what everyone is wearing during the golden globes arriving special. tina fey and amy poehler host the show for the third year in a row. >> they'

john harwood joins us now from washington with more. the president already said he will veto any keystone legislation if it passes congress but could today's ruling by nebraska's supreme court either change that promise or flip some wavering democrats, particularly in the senate to the side of voting in favor of it? >> i don't think so. i think the nebraska supreme court was simply a delay in the process. i don't think it was something with the substantiative outcome likely to -- it was anybody's vote one way or the other. today, you had a vote in the house well short of what you need to override a presidential veto. we expect the senate vote will also be short of that number. so republicans can put pressure on the president through this vote. they can't make him do it. however, because the president and i think we've talked about thef taylor is not outright opposed to the pipeline. i believe what's likely to happen is a period of negotiation in which the president says you want keystone? what are you going to do for me? >> well what wo

in fact, there's widespread anger with the entire political class in washington julie. and what i pick up from this poll and others is people want cooperation, they want a clear agenda to move america forward and business as usual as it's been practiced, whether by the republican leadership or president became they have just had it. >> mcconnell and are both not polling well amongst republicans, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me how -- just how fragile the republican coalition is. there's a narrative in washington by the main stream media, and people who play in politics, and the political class there that they're working orb a strategy, they're doing this they're doing that. well, let me tell you what's happening, in this polling that i was involved with and the question not only do 6 0% of the people want someone new, and only 25% of republicans wanted boehner to be elected speaker again. but more -- interestingly, 2/3 of the people thought of the republicans thought he was ineffective, in opposing obama, and a quarter, excuse me in ---split right down the

boxer has been in washington since 1983. she served ten years in the house before she was elected to the u.s. senate. >>> a teacher in the district now holds one of her professions most prestigious honors. michelle johnson was surprised today with the milken educator award, known as the oscar for teaching. she was recognized for getting kids excited about learning. she is a second grade teacher at seton elementary in the shaw neighborhood of the district. the students have shown big improvements over the past few years. johnson says what inspires her the most is the kids themselves. >> they want to be here more than any other kids do. they appreciate the opportunity. they come here every day and they work so hard. and make me incredibly proud. and i'm here for them. and i love it. >> michelle johnson is one of 40 teachers in the entire country to win this award. aside from the honor, it comes with a check for $25,000. johnson says she plans to use it to pay off student loans. >>> any time now. we could find out whether the n

i'm chris matthews in washington. i hope you've had a good martin luther king day with time for reflection on its meaning to this country. and it's certainly been a good day for president obama. i've been saying for a while now that the president's about to cut into positive territory. and today he did. the abc/"washington post" poll became today the first major poll to show him, again, crossing the 50% line into positive territory. what's powerful here is the speed with which he's moving right now in terms of popularity. the momentum of this thing. in december he was at 41% in the "washington post" poll. and that's a nine-point gain in just a month. and catch this, while he's gained among liberals certainly, his big growth is among moderates where he's up 10%, among conservatives where he's gained 11 points. again, in a single month. it's the economy, of course. and gas prices, of course. but also some other factors pushing this. the sheer audacity of his push with china on climate change, on immigration with the big

and as "the washington post" first reported fewer tickets were issued. that puts a smile on the face of a lot of motorists but it means less money in the city's coffers. mark segraves explain what is the council plans to do about that. >> it's not that i'm advocating there be no photo enforcement. i don't think we've done it very well. >> reporter: bill mendelson says the recent problem with the cameras not working shows how den dpent district leaders have become on the money the cameras generate. >> when we become too greedy about how much we'll get in revenue, then when there's the slightest blip we have a budget problem. >> reporter: that problem is now nearly $40 million in part because more drivers are following the law and partially because the district didn't maintain the cameras. >> i think that they were delayed in being installed or turned on when they should have been. i don't know the details of which or really why. >> reporter: not only was the police department not installing and turning on some cameras, they weren't replacing the batteries

tall washington metro area covered up in the clouds. the rain is going nowhere in the next hour or some about lunchtime things should start to improve just a bit. another slight chance for showers coming in later this afternoon with the passage of a very weak weather front. that's unfortunate. the good news is behind that little front, things will clear out tonight and we should be back into sunshine for qulour holiday monday tomorrow. a lot of people have monday off. outside for now it's just all bloom maniness out there. cloudy skies, raindrops all over the lenses of all of our tower cameras and city cameras this morning. 38 degrees at reagan national airport. so about as cold as nasty as it can be. i've been following the dew point number very carefully. now this is above freezing our threat for freezing rain has completely come to an end. my colleague veronica johnson posted a picture on our facebook page of iciness on the roads in howard county. be careful in the next couple hours. rain-soaked roads are also very slippery. this you

but in washington one of the beauties is you can come and it's very populist idea and a populist ideal. what i did say, maybe my fault two different thoughts got conflated, was that business models of everything that depends on government funding are going to be more and more creative. i think we are dealing with private public partnerships. i have no intentions of making those institutions less accessible. >> fundraising for the smithsonian may be more difficult perhaps than four or for cornell. smithsonian does really have billionaire alumni. it may have billionaires in its full. under the 10 year tenure of lawrence small, it was entering into the there was arrangement with showtime giving them exclusive first rights of her fruits over the use of archival materials, smithsonian objects. and people complained about that, that it is taking a public resource and privatizing it. any since from your work in university where the red lines need to be, or something with the smithsonian when it comes to those arrangements in the future. >> it is a great question. let me talk about the fundrai

two at washington hospital center and five at george washington university hospital. beginning tomorrow afternoon riders who left any personal belongings behind during the evacuation at the l'enfant plaza metro station can start reclaiming their property at metro headquarters. metro says it had make alternate arrangements to return belongings to anybody who cannot make it to downtown dc. you can call the number on the screen, 202-637-7000. . >>> new tonight dc police have released surveillance video recorded tonight that five people were stabbed at mcfadden's a bar in foggy bottom. police are looking for three people. they would love a phone call if anybody recognizes a face out of this video. it took place december 27th. mcfadden's license was suspended after the attack and it is still closed tonight. >>> it is eight years in prison for david gold berg. this happened in november 2013. goldberg nearly ran into another car and then tried to run down the other driver and a passenger. he wrecked his car and then stabbed the couple. all this while goldberg had his 2-year-

washington has that. if they cannot work in the government, they will learn to do something else. >> we will be profiling a w of them l later in the season, but we do n not havave enough time for that now. i was in theenate when w we created 12 weeks of mdatoryry family leave for anye who wantnted it d d thr jobs to be protected. all that fighting but it was unpapaid lve. many still do not realize that. now esident obama saysys it is timeme to have that leave be paid. mateity ave, family leave, whatatever. he wants the states to help pay for it. peter morici, aood idea or bad idea? >> not at this time. emoyers can be compelled to pay for leave, but they would just pay people less. at the end of the dayhey n only pay so much to get a pair of eyeglasses made. if thatthis is not a good time for it. >> easy for the guy to say but if you a are a woman you doo not have much of a choice. you have to take m materninity leave. if it is unpaid,- i took out ans to pay for my maternity leavave. i shouldn't have to do

this is still washington trying to pick winners and losers. i want greater economic opportunity for all americans. what the president is trying to do is to tax some to benefit others. he is still trying to redistribute income and wealth when we need to be creating it. i would say to the president why don't you work with us in trying to create a fairer, flatter, simpler, more competitive tax code, one that individuals could fill out on the back of a postcard question mark as we well know, most of these current deductions are used by higher income individuals. a lot of the people he claims will benefit from all his plans can't even use them in the first place. again, how do we get a healthy economy? i don't think the president's plan does it. i know we are in divided government, but i didn't hear much from the president in his state of the union that he had much interest on working with republicans on any common plan. i heard a lot more of "my way or the highway pick up >> -- "my way or the highway." >> what is one priority that you would like t

it was about george washington at the farm in fredericksburg. about washington's boyhood. people remember the boyhood over time. it's fitting that we're ending the year tonight looking at a sequence of events that are really partly about george washington's last great public moment when he's leaving the presidency. gone from his boyhood to his retirement essentially. it's a nice similarry that we like to see. now, we have an excellent speaker tonight who i am going to tell you a little bit about. jeffrey l. paezley -- passley. this is an old picture. i've known jeff for a while. and an old pick i've had. last month denver brunsman, the valedictorian. in this case we have jeffrey l.pazley who was not the valedictorian of carlton college. the great enemy of st. olaf's. this is nice. denver did graduate. i know he graduated. he did well. got the master's in phd. in harvard university. he talked with the great historian vernon bailen who's one of the giants of early american history and established millions of debates in the field. so tremendous lineage that we would say. he m

they had only had enough fuel to get back to washington. we landed and at that point i made the argument to ari fleischer -- the white house press secretary -- and to andy card, the chief of staff that you can't bump the press off the plane. at a time of crisis you need to have that independent voice who can assure not only the american people but the world that our government hasn't been crippled by this. and to their credit ari fleischer and andy card allowed me to stay on as the only broadcast reporter. and then one print reporter was also allowed to stay on. we spent basically ten hours with the president. we were assured wherever he goes that the press -- theg little core group of us would stay with limb. and i was allowed to use my cell phone to call in what the president was doing but there was nobody at the white house i could call. they'd been evacuated. so i had called abc news and they would put me on the air live with peter jennings who was anchoring non-stop. and i knew that every word i spoke and every -- the kind of sense and

it is the college debate in washington today. the first question for all of us -- the first debate that i want you to engage in as you listen to the speakers, right in your journals -- write in your journals, do we have polarization? what is the american public think about policymaking in the 21st century? a political scientist from stanford published a book 10 years ago in which he argued that the american public has not changed in the last several decades. that we still have a strong center but that the extremes on both sides -- the far left and the far right -- have become much more polarizing and much more activist. he attributes the dysfunction or the obstacles, the barriers to policymaking to polarization among party elite. that is elected officials and political activists. there is a different argument. he says -- i should've added -- the polarization is extreme. the public has sorted. the public is not pull arise. there is a large group of people in the middle. people in the left have moved to the left and the people in t

it is always fun when kevin durant comes home to washington. while rumors persist that he will eventually play here for the wizards tonight he was phenomenal, but what about coming home? he does not become a free agent until the summer of 2016, and the thunder are sure to offer an extension. >> no matter where i come from, no matter where i play, i just focus on oklahoma city. it feels like home to me now, so that's where i am. >> the political answer in washington. max scherzer drew quite a crowd at nats park looking to be all business putting on the new nets jersey number 31. seven-year $210 million contract. he has been an all-star the last two seasons, played minor-league ball format williams in montgomery, alabama. he was a former teammate of doug fister. when his agent scott morris told him -- scott boras told him with the nationals were offering, he just said wow. >> i think every day it is going out and getting the job done. it's just great to be part of. you always want to be part of a rotation. >> the nfl confirms 11 of the patriots f

the washington auto show is in town through sunday. right near here is the show's chair, kevin riley. i was amazed at the amount of cars you said are in that convention center right now. >> over 750 vehicles in 750,000 square feet of space. 42 manufacturers represented, ferarri, lamborghinis, the greatest from ford, honda, it is a great show. >> if you are a total car geek, everything from the concept cars to the fuel efficient cars. is the hybrid version the most popular this year? what are some of the things from that realm are on display? >> joe biden was here last year. he loves his corvette. gets 650-horsepower that may interest you. for another person they may look at the toyota a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. >> the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are very cool because water comes out of the tailpipe, they are as quiet as they could possibly be. does it seem like this is going to be a car of the future? it is really slow to market. >> that is why the washington auto show is one of the top five shows in the nation and important for the

especially for those of you north of washington. what is definite is we'll be tracking rain tomorrow evening on into the first half of monday. i posted the latest timing on my facebook and twitter pages. can you check that out as well. roads to watch tomorrow night into early monday are going to be parts of 72 1540 route 81. as far as the school day goes on monday delays are possible north of washington. i think everybody else is going to be heading to school on time. you start to dry out a little recess. dismissal, it's windy. temperatures right now in the 20s and 30s. 34 degrees is the temperature in washington. it's a cold but dry start tomorrow morning. 26 by 11:00 a.m. the temperature around 33. until 3:00 p.m. there's a chance of a wintry mix. cold but dry and breezy on tuesday, chris. the high of 34. then after that a string of dry weather with temperatures for the most part below average. highs in the 30s. >> all right. not looking too bad. thanks amelia. >> automakers have issued another massive recall tonight involving air