. we've had it worked through the virginia yaws committees of the senate -- the various committees of the senate, the banking committee, the commerce committee, the e.p.w. committee. i think what this body is waiting for right ma now is the finance committee package. the reason i come down here today in a very hopeful way is i think all of us certainly support the highway bill. we want to see a bill like this passed. but i think we also want to see it passed in the appropriate way. a understand some oand some of r renditions that have come out of the finance committee unfortunately have not paid for this bill. and it is my sense that maybe what's happening right now is that maybe there's some work being done to try to make that not be the case. i know the senator from new york is really familiar with the health care debate that we had years ago, and one of the things that many of the folks on this side of the aisle were concerned about and many folks i think even on the other side of the aisle were concerned about was some of the gimmickry used to pay for it. we'd six years' worth of spen

issues. so, two, from virginia, askeds it okay for politicians to be two-faced? is it acceptable to have a private stance on issues. secretary clinton. >> well, right, as i recall that was something i said about abraham lincoln after having seen the wonderful steven spielberg movie called "lincoln." it was a master class watching president lincoln get the congress to approve the 13th amendment. it was principled, it was strategic. and i was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it and, yes, president lincoln was trying to convince some people he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments, that was a great -- i thought a great display of presidential leadership. but, you know, let's talk about what's really going on here, martha, because our intelligence community just came out and said in the last few days, that the kremlin, meaning putin and the russian government, are directing the attacks, the hacking on american accounts to influence our election. and wikileaks is part o

might add to the debt. senator warner of virginia said on monday -- quote -- "my feeling is, health care reform can't just be paid for in a 10-year window. it has to be paid for in the out years as well." that's washingtonspeak for over the long-term. he says, "this is so much bigger than health care. it goes to the deficit t goes right to the heart of our competitiveness." that's senator warner of virginia. i couldn't agree more. all of the health care reform bills produced so far by the democratic congress, either in the senate or in the house, flunk the first test, which is reducing cost, cost to the american people and cost to the american government. in july, the congressional budget office director, douglas elmendorf, said the house bill and the senate health bill did not -- quote -- "propose the fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount." unquote. additionally, the congressional budget office has indicated that the house bill would result in a net increase in the federal budget deficit of $230 billi

virginia you would have had -- you would have potentially had a trump loss. if you did in the vermont or arkansas you could have had him finish third in iowa but nobody spent the money when it was tough to do now i'm skeptical of these stories you're talking about. until you see real people put real money into real states, it's fun speculation and it will be too late by the time they act. >> mark halperin, it seems you have these two lanes among republicans and conservatives. you have establishment people. look at the list of groups out there today. mitt romney, a group of wall street guys getting together to put money up against trump, a group of republican foreign policy experts writing a letter to condemn him. you have groups at the top who don't like donald trump and are telling everybody they don't and you have to voters who keep turning out for him. >> well, look the smart people in the stop trump movement recognize their rhetoric and reality has to be about voters. it has to be to some extent about grass-roots and persuasion of real people. >>. they won't beat anymore a smoke-f

were weirdos or wingnuts have begun to recognize. look at virginia, look at new jersey, look at massachusetts. look at indiana. >> it's stills a dismissive. >> think i'll dismiss it at their peril. nancy pelosi is guaranteed her seat from san francisco. harry reid is not guaranteed his seat from nevada. there is a tea party move in the nevada to do everything it can to bring in a person, democrat in the primary more likely one who believes in the constitution. suddenly it's cool to believe in the constitution. did you think we'd be symbol of coolness? >> neil: you, but me, never. built for comfort. realizing that the film he was shooting on his dad's 8-millimeter camera would make history. boss: y'know, geico opened its doors back in 1936 and now we're insuring over 18 million drivers. gecko: quite impressive, yeah. boss: come a long way, that's for sure. and so have you since you started working here way back when. gecko: ah, i still have nightmares. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> neil: one has never-before-seen footage of one president

, norfolk, virginia at 80 degrees, cape hatteras 76 degrees. forecast for today looks like this, mostly sunny skies, cooler, yes, it will be warm with the high in the upper 80s to 90 but that's 10 to 12 degrees cooler than it was over the course of the weekend for a high temperature and as importantly, it won't be as humid so not a bad day today. that's a look at what's happening with the weather. >>> now let's get an update on traffic with lauren demarco. >> yesterday's weather still having an impact on the roads. watch for trees and debris across the roadway near arizona avenue. decarl ya parkway, westbound lanes are blocked, eastbound is open at this time. the other big problem is traffic signals, dark. in montgomery county there are more than 200 traffic signals dark this morning, still without power, you want to treat those as a four way stop. here is a look at an accident at one of those intersections, southbound 29 at mus grove road in silver spring, accident activity off to the right. you want to be sure to treat these as a four way stop. 335 at grovener lane an accident

hearing room then we'll adjourn the hearing. chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. hurt, vice chairman of the capital markets subcommittee. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the witnesses for providing testimony today. i represent virginia's fifth district, and i can tell you that most of the people that i represent have concerns about the way this administration has approached this crisis in syria, in iraq, and i think that there's a lot of concern that the administration was -- either didn't know or ignored critical information that could have prevented us from being in the situation that we find ourselves. with that said, i was interested in the testimony of each of you as it relates to the hard work that goes into identifying those who should be subject to the sanctions that are allowed by u.s. law and law of other countries, and it strikes me that that information has to be gathered really on the ground and is -- has to come to treasury through, again, department of defense and intelligence agencies who are in the business. and so i guess my question is is

still unclear. >>> last night virginia execud a woman convicted of ranging the killings of her husband and stepson, teresa lewis is the first woman to be executed in the united states in five years. despite thousands of appeals of leniency in part because defense attorneys said she was borderline mentally disabled. >>> the fda avandia has been pulled from the market. >>> eddie fisher died overnight because of complications from hip surgery. he was known for his marriages to debbie reynolds and then elizabeth taylor. the father of actress kerrie fisher, eddie fisher was 82 years old. >>> a plane crashed -- hundreds of school children were among those in a crowd of speck todayors. >>> gold meantime hit yet another high this morning. trish reagan is at the new york stock exchange. this can't be a good sign. >> it's a great sign if you own a lot of gold, but the rest of us out there, is not a good sign. one reason is that all of the doom sayers are helping to boost this price up. also theelationship between gold and the u.s. dlar is ver important here. the u.s. dollar has really been getti

was a kid, they'd say, "where were you born?" i'd say, "williamsburg." they'd say, "virginia?" i'd say, "yeah." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: a nice virginia boy, yeah. >> but we grew up in a a tenement, in williamsburg. it was -- it was really nice. >> jimmy: how many brothers and sisters did you have? >> i have three older brothers, i was the baby boy. >> jimmy: were you trouble? >> no, no, i was busy, but i wasn't trouble. and my mother used to make -- on a kaiser roll, she'd make a a butter and a lot of sliced tomatoes, put it in a brown paper bag, and she'd throw it out the window, and i'd catch it and i'd sit on the curb with eugene and murray and benji and it was great. tomato, salt, pepper, buttered kaiser roll. eat my lunch, and, you know, we'd play punch ball or something. it was great. one day, she threw -- i was a a very good athlete, i would just, you know -- [ laughter ] never missed. [ cheers and applause ] one day -- woof! bang! flat. missed it on the curb, brown paper bag, wet tomato running -- [ laughter ] kaiser roll crushed. [ laughter ] i took it, and i put it on my l

] and former senator jim webb of virginia. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the democratic candidates for president of the united states. [ applause ] >>> now, everybody, please rise for our national anthem performed by nine-time grammy award winner singer songwriter, sheryl crow. o say can you see ♪ ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ what so proudly ♪ we hailed ♪ at the twilight's ♪ last gleaming ♪ whose broad stripes ♪ and bright stars ♪ through the perilous ♪ fight ♪ o the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ the bottoms bursting ♪ in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag ♪ was still there ♪ o say does that ♪ star spangled banner ♪ yet wave ♪ o'er the land ♪ of the free ♪ and the home of the brave [ applause ] [ applause ] >>> want to thank sheryl crow. the candidates are here. the crowd is certainly ready. the first democratic debate will begin right after this. [ applause ] we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why sett

and democrat tim kaine. the stage is said at longwood, university in farmville, virginia, with the level of anticipation pales in comparison to last week's showdown between hillary clinton and donald trump there is still a lot on the line. >> . >> ifill: there s. it's a chance for to introduce themselves to the nation but more important, to bolster the top of the respective ticket. elaine quijano of cbs news will moderate. joining us are regular contributors, syndicated columnist mark shields, from the "cook political report" amy walter and "washington post" columnist mike it gerson. welcome all. here is the question of the night. why does the vice presidential debate matter? michael gerson? >> well, i think republicans need some good news after historic trouncing. there's morale issue here. and they need a good night. >> woodruff: amy walter 124. >> i agree. they have the role of playing stabilizer. for mike pence it is to get trump and the trump campaign back on track to stabilize after the big fall of this past week. and for tim kaine the stabilize hillary clinton's lead. she ha

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university in farmville, virginia. my thanks to hillary clinton and to donald trump. and to hofstra university for hosting us tonight. good night, everyone. >> first presidential debate of this campaign season is in the record books. hillary clinton, donald trump taking questions for over 90 minutes. went a little bit long. and we see them now shaking hands with the mod raerator lester holt and expect them to greet their families as is tradition on these nights. chuck todd, i'll turn to you first. what did we witness tonight? do you think either candidate moved the needle in their directions? >> before i want to talk about the candidates, this most an nationbnormal event i've ever witnessed. not a normal political debate. let's not sit here and pretend we saw something that was a quadrennial occasion here. this was as surreal as some thought it might be. it was clear both candidates didn't lie to us about how they prepared for this debate. hillary clinton was at times even, you could argue overprepared in her opening statement must have had 15 policy proposals within that two minute

to richmond, virginia, to new york city, and boston. how much rain are we going to see? notice the strip of yellow and orange, and that's as much as five to eight inches of flooding possible. flooding possible today. >> thanks, jeff. >>> prince philip is having surgery today and is expected to remain hospitalized up to two weeks on monday he turns 92. charlie is outside the london clinic where the prince is staying. >> good morning, norah and charlie. we understand that the prince slept well last night and said to be in good spirits before the operation, but noting he will be under general anesthetic, risky business for a man about to turn 92. looked well at the queen's garden party yesterday at the buckingham palace. he was relaxed, cracking jokes. but we are told a preplanned exploratory operation on his abdomen. he will be here two weeks, meaning he spend his 92nd birthday. queen, business as usual, visited the bbc this morning. prince philip, himself, cut down on royal engagements of late. remember, he was hospitalized twice last august for a bladder condition. charlie, norah.

the top executives. that is who the bill is focused on. host: hampton, virginia. kristin. independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. the v.a. i worked at for over 30 years at both the level,l and the national and on the that this end it is about speaking truth for power for people down the food chain and see the things going on. you want to do something about it, but you tell your superior, and they do not want to know because then they have to do something about it. after youto the ig have told your supervisor, then the ig starts poking around in your area, and they know it was you, so what happens is the people who really care passionately about the mission of the agency end up suffering retaliation from superiors for speaking up. spoke secretary shinseki and he was in the military, and paid the price for that. he certainly should not be held accountable for this situation because he wants to know, and what is striking to me -- i watched the hearing the other day -- the under secretary for health, he was not telling secretary shinseki what he knew, and that

a court appointed attorney, plus if, no efforts to bring him back to virginia. >>> and the focus on the ebola outbreak and how to contain it. president obama will address world leaders any minute now. >>> we have just learned u.s. attorney general eric holder plans to announce his resignation today during an event at the white house. after six years of leading the justice department. holder is the first black attorney general. holder has agreed to remain in his post until the confirmation of his successor. >>> now, developments in the search for hannah graham. the uva missing student case just had a major shift. the man accused in her abduction is in police custody. police say matthew managed to make it all the way from charlottesville to galveston, texas, and that's where a judge questioned him today. news 4 live desk. >> he appeared on closed circuit television over video conferencing. he was not face-to-face with that judge. but the judge denied him bond. he's facing two charges out of texas now. being a fugitive from justice, stemming of course from the abduction charge in charl

think about virginia to be able to vote or register to vote online. as a former high school english teacher, this one provision is interesting. at 16 years old now, able to preregister to vote and you can't cast a ballot until 18. what that will be like in the classroom trying to introduce the more civics. >> will it help? >> i think it will because you can say look, in a couple of years you should vote. there was no practical implication for them. also what's going to mean politically is all the efforts and the voter registration drives are going to start moving into the high schools and start a lot sooner. 2014 coming up. anyone turning 16, colorado is important for 2016. they will be able to vote and interesting to see if the number of voters go up because of this. >> in california, a digital law that requires companies to describe how they share information that they might be pulling for you. >> this is all about privacy. we have seen this whole thing with the nsa and privacy matters. this is what people will be talking about more and more as people have the smart phones and dig

things. think of a case in virginia. it was only a few decades ago, it was illegal for a man, woman of different races to be married in virginia. actually were arrested for that. it's inconceivable in america to be that anymore. that's because supreme court made it clear you can do that. one man one woman. because of major change. roe v. wade. we debated abortion. supreme court decided roe v. wade. i remember bush v. gore. they decided an election before all the ballots were counted. i want a supreme court that is not ideologically polarized >> let's stay with that far moment. people who are critical of the actions of the supreme court saying it's anti-democratic. nine judges get to decide something or overrule something that the representatives branch of government has decided. is it anti-democratic when they review the laws? >> some of the ways it is. take the voting rights act. that was passed decades ago. it was renewed just a few years ago. after hundreds and hundreds of hours of debate and hearings and the almost every member of the house of representative, both parties voted

detective of virginia, as well as the district of columbia. so this filing has to do with the case in d.c. and basically, what he's saying is, he's saying, hey, in the united states, the basic tenets of our judicial system are that a special counsel, if they're appointed, they have to focus on one specific issue or one specific set of crimes. and in this case, the order that installed robert mueller says, yes, he can look at one specific issue, which is, of course, the russian interference of the 2016 election, and any other crimes that arise as a result of his investigation. and manafort's attorney, kevin downing, says, whoa, wait a minute. that's not what this is about here. and we can take a second to look at the actual filing from last night, which i believe that we have available. and basically in that filing, it says that the issues and the crimes, and i'll read it now, the original and superseding indictments do not focus in the slightest on alleged coordination between the russian government and the trump campaign during the 2016 election or even mr. manafort's brief involv

. loses virginia, takes ohio. takes iowa. takes new hampshire. he gets 269. >> what happens to the single delegates in nebraska and maine? >> obama-ha. >> i started with the obama romney map from 2012. i did a little bit of flipping based on what the polls looked like before the convention. so in this case, i handed ohio to donald trump. i think in the places where it's a tossup, i think he'll do better in the white, working class states. but then a place like florida, i actually kept in hillary clinton's camp. the large hispanic populations. >> florida-pennsylvania, hillary clinton or donald trump wins those two, you win the race. >> i've got trump at 279-259. >> trump? you said he was a loser a minute ago! you have him winning the presidency! >> hold on. in his life, he's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from vietnam. he's a populist candidate. he's running against the most establishment candidate. it was a terrible idea by the democrats to support hillary clinton for president. >> you're thinking he's going to win? >> if the democrats are not really worried th

northern virginia. you assembly people of new york made it so difficult because how pain phil it is for us. >> these people have no idea how the economy works. bringing 25,000 jobs to new york city, good-paying jobs, 150,000-dollar salary on average. the people fighting for 15-dollar minimum wage, they actually killed the deal. they killed the deal, they feel it wasn't good enough. yes, we could have gotten a better deal. our governor and our mayor negotiated a bad deal on behalf of taxpayers but we should look to improve it. virginia got same 25,000 jobs but giving a fraction of the incentives. ainsley: the governor is upset. he could have said hold on, get the people underneath them, calm them down and get the company to sign up? >> we should definitely went back to the negotiating table gotten a better deal. in virginia, they're getting investment in transportation, education as well as affordable housing. so there was, definitely a better deal to be made. you had leftists led by alexandria ocasio-cortez. ainsley: gosh yeah. >> radical members of the new york city council are anti-ca

western new york, western ennsylvania and west virginia. that are led to a shale plate in north dakota and eastern montana nd that led back home to a shale plate in san antonio going down to the rio grande border in mexico. mr. mitchell came into this world with a very special title b.o.i., born on island, a title of reference for someone who is born on galveston island. .e was born on may 21, 1919 galveston was trying to recover from america's worst natural disaster, the galveston hurricane of 1900 at least at died in september of that year. but being b.o.i., mr. mitchell did not despair. he felt resurgence. he felt hope. and took that resurgence and hope to college station and exas a and m university. he finished first in his class and was the captain of the varsity tennis team. the university gave him the tools he needed to succeed and a andools back tore texas m. 35 million for two new buildings. s wife of nearly 70 years, cynthia, he gave the university text as medical branch, as's medical schools to study alzheimer's. $20 million for research for the cancer center and brou

to the gentleman from virginia, mr. griffith. mr. griffith: risk of assistance, that's what we are looking for and the founding founders -- we took an oath to uphold the constitution and rely agency that deals with a secret committee and members of congress are limited to their access to the actions of that committee and we are supposed to trust them. folks, we have a job to do. i yield back. i vote yes. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr. amash: how much time remains? the chair: the gentleman from michigan has 45 seconds remaining and the gentleman from florida has two minutes remaining. mr. amash: i yield to the gentlelady from hawaii. >> countless men and women from my state of hawaii and all across the country have worn the uniform and put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms and our liberties. i cannot in good conscience to take a single dollar from the pockets of hard-working taxpayers from across the country to pay for programs which infringe on the very liberties and freedoms our troops have fought and died for. ben frank

of life, and she was taken from us instantaneously. >> reporter: the virginia tech freshman was returning from a long day of skiing. her friend fell asleep behind the wheel. >> there were no skid marks or braking. he hit a tree on my sister's side of the car at full speed. >> reporter: to show you just how dangerous it can be, we set up a test at the skid harbor driving school in connecticut. >> hi, jeff, how you doing? >> what are we doing today? >> take you through some technical obstacle courses and see how you drive. >> reporter: it's the middle of the afternoon, i'm wide awake and it shows, pulling off tight turns. >> good, nice and smooth. >> reporter: and last-minute lane changes, never hitting a single cone. that was a piece of cake. >> then i went home and kept myself awake for nearly 30 hours. >> it is about 1:00 a.m. and fatigue is starting to set in. we are deep into the infomercials now, 3:00 a.m. late-night pizza run. back to the driving track to see how i do. >> how we doing today? how you feeling? >> tired, but actually, i feel fine. i feel like this is the kind

southern ohio, western west virginia down into northern texas. out west, spectacular weather. 91 degrees. one more day of hot weather in southern california. high surf advisories there as well. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. a chilly start this morning, 30s and 40s, but we'll see lots of sunshine. and with a healthy southerly wind, we'll warm into the 70s this afternoon. and back in the 70s again tomorrow, but the bright sunshine will be taking a break as clouds move in. there's a chance for a shower during the day, really a better chance of evening showers on tuesday. they'll be clearing out wednesday, 72 degrees wednesday afternoon. lots of sunshine on thursday. then another chance of showers as we head toward the weekend. have a great day. >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> thank you very much. >>> now to a proposal that gives new meaning to the phrase wedding crashers. >> quite literally. a newly engaged couple had the experience of a lifetime when their hot air balloon ride at sunset ended

charged with stabbing and seriously injuring a virginia couple in an attack. lindsey davis has the story. >> reporter: this morning a prominent virginia lawyer and his wife are fighting for their lives in a case of revenge, lawyers, bloat behind bars, facing charges of abduction and malicious wounding after they drove to this million dollar virginia home and stabbed the couple inside. >> there's a victim inside the house with a stab to the neck. >> reporter: neighbors say that alicia shuul was fired from international property law. on friday, they knocked on the front door of this home, owned by her former boss, who works for the law firm. andrew forced his way into the home and stabbed him. when the victim's wife responded, he stabbed her too. >> caller is advising that two people have been stabbed and bleeding out. >> reporter: when one of the victims managed to sound a home ala alarm, they fled the scene. >> there's going to be a lookout for a white male, last seen wearing all black and a brown fedo fedora. >> reporter: they tracked them down and arrested them. >> their attorneys are

of these people are low-income in, you know, places like arkansas, kentucky, west virginia, low-income, they're on medicaid, they might be disabled, are they going to pay attention to the health care part of it, or the way trump has bonded with them on what it means to be american? we don't know that and that's a fascinating test for the senators who have different relationships with those voters in deciding whether to vote for this bill. >> and the big test with mcconnell, leader mcconnell pushing for a vote this week, eliza, do you see it playing out, kind of like what we saw with paul ryan. he was supposed to pull the house vote and then they were able to pass it. do you think mcconnell has the leverage they need to make it happen? >> the house and senate work very different. the house had the luxury of more time. they kind of had more tile on this. when they pulled the bill, they got to go back, they went home, they were negotiating -- i was actually with congressman mark meadows, one of the people who stopped the bill right after that first bill was pulled in north carolina

house on the horizon? virginia governor terry mcauliffe says we'll know in two months. hillary is reported going to decide on a presidential run in 60 days but will not go in for an early bid. mcauliffe is a long-time ali of the clintons who helped with their re-election campaign. >>> what does it take to rattle the nerves of a navy s.e.a.l.? you would think a top secret mission to kill the most wanted terrorist in the world would do the trick, but according to the s.e.a.l. who pulled the trigger on bin laden, a round of golf is, quote, more stressful than combat. >> wow. >> rob o'neill says a therapist recommended hitting the links to help with his ptsd but that turned out to be a bad idea. those are your headlines. >> totally agree with that. golf is so frustrating. >>> who said it was -- the famous quote, it's a good walk spoiled. >> i don't know who said that. i've heard it's a gentleman's sport. rob o'neill has trained his entire life for combat. but golf is -- i would think golf would be a lot easier than -- >> was it eisenhower. somebody go to twitter and let me know. i thi

problem on virginia on southbound i-95. all lanes are closed, and a vehicle is on its side. we have got equipment that is going to roll northbound in the southbound lanes so all traffic is held once the equipment arrives, only a single left shoulder will get by. express lanes are pointed in the southbound direction, by the way. canal road down near fletcher's boathouse, a vehicle left the roadway down into the water. apparently everybody is ok. we may have live pictures down there. there you see the vehicle, itself. no lanes are blocked on canal road. southbound gallows road remains clident investigation at woodburn road between mary field and annandale. that's an overnight issue, northbound lanes are open. jacqui, things are getting. is the weather exciting? >> it's kind of quiet, which is exciting to me because it's beautiful and calm. nothing to worry about until the weekend. 29 degrees is the temperature. we have got a wind chill factor of 24. so it's really the wind chill that's going to be the big weather story throughout the day today. feels like 21 in frederick. 18 in gaithe

more details on when that will air. alexander, virginia. charles, a republican. good morning, you're on the air. caller: yes, hello. i just want to say i have 12 years of a federal service. a case to be military, state farm, commerce department, defense department -- i used to be military, state department, commerce department, defense department. i have met dedicated public servants who have walked away and could have made five or seven times more money. but they choose to work for the federal government. great people work for the federal government. i am not one of them. i am a private citizen. i also want to say there are people under federal government who did not pay the rent because they cannot make it in a private sector. that is the ying and the yang. please. we have the scandals, but go back to classic "star trek." keep that in mind. host: an independent in new york. caller: as an independent, i'm going to say it is a cultural problem. some of the other independencts, they're going to blame the president. usually he is the most honest guy in there. like romney is going to st

sin is not greater than we already know, his hill is a little bit steeper. >> and then in virginia, elections matter and we have a democratic -- and he is saying he is not going to defend the virginia ban on gay marriage. >> huge, i would say in terms of elections matter, the previous ken cuccinelli one of the leading people bringing suit to the supreme court about the health care law. so it shows you the power that those people have. saying he won't defend the law. this follows kathleen cain said something similar earlier this year. fascinating and as you said earlier, if people don't think down ballot races matter, it was decided far less than 1,000 votes, terry mcauliffe and elected lieutenant governor, relatively easily, the mark herring race was the one in doubt for some time. they quite clearly have consequences because i guarantee if the republican nominee for state attorney general, if he was the attorney general, we would not be having this conversation today. >> we should point out mark herring said he was wrong to support the ban on gay marriage back when he was in the a

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, virginia, where a dangerous serial killer could be on the loose. police releasing this composite sketch of a suspect who so believed to have shot a piano teacher dead as she opened her front door. two other murders are now being considered in connection with this one. back in november, there was a local transportation official who was also gunned down in his home less than one mile from ruth ann's house. then back in 2003, a real estate agent, the wife of a sheriff, also gunned down in her home less than two miles away. >>> now an update, snowboarder jamie anderson grabbing the gold in a slope style with a near perfect run. sage kostenburg captured the gold upon the men the day before. it's the winters olympics, but listen to this. the temperatures there, 61 degrees. it is so warm that skiers are complaining they are sweating. temperatures expected to remain high, in the 50s, all week long. how about that? those are your headlines. we could use some of those warmer temperatures. >> steve kostenburg, he had like 20 million twitter followers, shot up to like 70,000 twitter followers. bria

. >> reporter: to conduct the study, virginia tech transportation institute equipped vehicles with video cameras for an 18- month period. according to the study, drivers who crashed or nearly crashed spent an average of five seconds looking at their text devises. at 55 miles per hour, that's about long enough to cover the distance of a football field. >> lots ofesearch and other areas of highway safety has shown that what gets drivers to change their behavior is a strong law, strongly enforced. >> reporter: texting has also proved deadly for mass transit operators. last year, texting was blamed for a commuter train crash that killed 25 in los angeles. and earlier this year, a trolley conductor in boston who was texting ran a red light and injured 49 people. just today, senator chuck schumer introduced a bill to ban texting by transit operators. but in most of the country, driving while texting is perfectly legal. only 14 states ban it. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. >>> overseas next to israel, which is under pressure from the white house to stop construction of west bank settlem

arlington virginia. >> right now, i'm not doing anything. i can do anything if i find a job, but i'm unemployed since october 2. >> reporter: pineda recently picked up a few hours shoveling snow and occasionally someone comes by looking for a painter or a mover. but it doesn't pay nearly what full time construction work does. >> they don't pay more than $10 an hour over here and a heavy equipment operator can make $20- $25, but there's no more those kind of payment because the situation is really hard. >> reporter: pineda never expected to be here because he is a legal immigrant and has a license to operate heavy equipment. but his situation is becoming more common says andres tobar. tobar runs this center to give day laborers a safe place to wait for work. >> we're getting more people that are losing, that are legally here, that are losing their jobs from construction companies that they were on or even landscape and moving companies. with unemployment in the construction industry almost twice what it is in the rest of the economy, more laid off workers like luis are showing up at d

richmond, virginia, found 60% of families in the city have just one parent, usually the mother at home. among black residents, 86%. and related pew study estimated that women when they are the prime bread winners and they are in 40% of american households that unfortunately the majority of these households are led by a single mother who has $23,000 in income. intact families average $80,000 by comparison. 85% of all young men or even for that men middle-aged men in prison came from a family that never had a functional father figure in their midst. 85%. mr. statement it is an understatement to suggest to you that children are desperately in need of a mother and a father. and i know no better way to illustrate that than to tell the story of three fathers and the first story i will tell is one father named earl carr, my grandfather, a coal miner. and when he was in the his mid -20's, a terrible cave-in crushed his friends, killed most of them and broke his back. so as a child, i remember growing up when my grandfather could carry a coal bucket maybe 40 feet and then he would have to sit d

continuing throughout parts of the carolinas and portions of virginia. could be looking at thunderstorms that could produce isolated severe weather and parts of the ohio valley as well. otherwise the other big issue with this storm system is flash flooding. we have that threat throughout the day. several inches of rainfall expected up and down the east coast. you can see that rain already creeping on towards portions of the northeast, already raining here in new york city. very lightly but it should be picking up in intensity later today. on the cold side of the storm system i'm sure some of you really want some snow just in time for christmas and we are going to see it across parts of the great lakes and the midwest. we have winter weather advisories. not too much snow, just about one to four inches of snow forecast for that area. then another storm system will be impacting portions. pacific northwest. we have advisories and watches issued for so many states across the rockies and parts of montana and parts of washington state. we want to switch gears because every wednesday we do scien

. pastor ken -- big springs, west virginia. i aplaurd your challenge to the clergy, but why does it take a tv personality to accomplish this? i don't know but i believe in our ju -- the show here sold out. ticket vendors in line were charging $600. i know that's what happened. scalpers. the only one right now with tickets ri tickets ree yo ranch -- "the factor" tip of the day on the subject of church going, list the states where church attendance is the highest and lowest. first and most devout, utah, mississippi, alabama, louisiana, arkansas arkansas. the least church going, vermont leads the league. new hampshire, maine massachusetts, washington state. interesting new england doesn't go to church that much isn't it? because new england was founded on the church, the pilgrims. "the factor" tip of the day spirituality's good for all human beings if used for reflection and the advancement of others. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website which is different from billoreilly.com. spout off from anywhere in the world o'reilly@foxnews.com. name and town if y

politics is justsidency is goin down to math. there are a couple of states that matter, virginia, ohio, florida, maybe pennsylvania. do you think this chris christie endorsement is going to help trump in florida, virginia, ohio. those three states will probably determine who is going to be president. >> yes, i think in swing states chris christie would be a boost to donald trump. i think there is no question about that. donald trump has got some big liabilities that he would carry into the general election in terms of the way that he with galvanize the democratic base, the strongly negative feelings that nonwhite voters have about him. he is weaker among better educated voters. and you can bet that college educated suburbanites would be a major target for democratic campaign against a trump/christie ticket. but, no, chris christie could help donald trump and take a campaign that would be uphill for donald trump and make it a little bit less uphill. >> let me bring in jim harwood and get your thoughts on this too. i want to bring in robert frank on the question of trump's tax returns. h

the health care bill. a federal district judge down in virginia ruled that a key part of the bill, the requirement that we all buy insurance, is unconstitutional. well it's not end of obamacare but if the republicans get their way it's certainly the beginning of the end. and with the republican right and the democratic left making all of the noise these days, what is the political middle have to say for itself? could there be a movement there as well? midpoint between the tea party and the most activist progressives? we'll ask two center-leaning republicans who were elbowed aside by right-wing activists. >>> and finally, some guy up at yale has come up with the top five political quotes of the year. they're all on "the sideshow" and they're all pretty bad. >>> we start with the tax bill, senator michael bennet is a democrat from colorado. senator bennet, thanks for joining us. you just came into this senate -- or just actually been voted in, i should say. tell me about this vote today. it looks like you've got the 60 votes to beat philly buster to get cloture. it looks like you're

my aunt virginia. john: aunt virginia's at the end there. nice to have you with us. good luck to you all. i have our first face-off, and i need george, and i need pamela. please join me. [cheers] john: oh. i can tell already we got ourselves a feud here. you know the way the game is played. we surveyed 100 people, the top six answers are on the board. try to get the most popular answer. name a kind of doctor who should never ask you to get undressed. george, to you. >> a leg doctor. john: a leg doctor. no. ok, pamela. >> a dentist. john: a dentist. yes, that's a no-no. a dentist -- show me there. there we go. you control. pass or play? >> play! >> we'll play! john: they're going to play. all right. >> whoo! john: ok. >> whoo! john: all righty. i'll tell you. nobody's happier than the berry women right now. >> whoo! john: tawanda, a kind of doctor who should never ask you to get undressed. >> pediatrician? john: a pediatrician. yes, absolutely. a pediatrician. no. no. all right. might ask a little kid, but -- kim? >> i'm going to say the optometrist. john: the optometrist. [cheers

amendment? >> mr. chairman, i -- >> mr. whitman, the gentleman from virginia, vecked for two minutes. >> i -- is recognized for two minutes. >> i have a perfecting amendment at the desk. >> that is number 237, perfecting amendment on the andrews amendment. would the clerk please distribute that. without objection, reading the amendment will be dispensed with. the gentleman is recognized for two minutes to explain his amendment. >> thank you, chairman. my amendment restores the dollars back in to make sure we can do the construction projects there that are necessary, especially those things like the barracks project, the barracks there right now, i've been there before, absolutely terrible shape, mold and such. we want to make sure we have a permanent facility there, if you make that investment, for our marines, we want to make sure the barracks are permanent. i agree with mr. andrews. we need additional information on the cost and get a briefing on that. this amendment allows this briefing requirement to stay there but my amendment would reverse the prohibition on construction until

appoint the honorable mark r. warner, a senator from the commonwealth of virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: following leader remarks the senate will begin consideration of h.r. 5949, the fisa reauthorization bill. at approximately 9:45 a.m. this morning, there will be several, up to 25, roll call votes. in order to complete action on the fisa bill and on the supplemental appropriations bill. the senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. to allow for caucus meetings. additional votes in relation to executive nominations are possible today. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. the senate will proceed to the consideration of h.r. 5949, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 510, an act to extend the fisa amendments act of 2008 for five years. the presiding officer: under the previous order, -- the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quoru

. there are key states like ohio and virginia. the polls are still open for hours as people come home from work and continue to vote. so many areas we haven't heard from yet. what we can tell you for sure so far is that this is a very tight race tonight. let's start with the national poll question. direction of the country. are we on the right track or the wrong track? it's evenly divided. those saying we are on the right direction and going for president obama, no surprise there. 52%, though, say we are headed in the wrong direction. they are backing governor romney. now voters are split on whether the economy is getting better or worse. huge question tonight for everyone, of course. you have about four out of ten states getting better. three of ten say it's getting worse. three of ten says it stays the same for them. slightly more voters think governor romney would hand the economy better. slightly more voters think that president obama is more in touch with people like them. okay? look at ohio and go forward. this is the hotly contested state perhaps the most, though, of the evenin

enough information to project at this point, so -- and virginia, this is a big one, george, and we do not have enough information at this moment. we are watching it every single moment. we'll bring you the news as we have it. >> that is the biggest surprise so far. a must win for mitt romney. the overall map. as you said no big surprises right now. a lot of votes outstanding but the polls are closing. the race could not be closer. both 2012 stavote 2012 starts r. >> are you fired up? are you ready to go? >> i believe in america. i believe in you. >> announcer: the speeches are over. the campaigning done. tonight across america your voice has been heard. your vote's being counted so who will win this crucial election for president? now the abc news political team takes you everywhere to chicago inside the obama campaign and boston behind the scenes with romney. to the heated battleground states across the country where this election will be decided and our team tracking your vote everywhere in the crossroads of the world with the crowds in times square. and with our partners from univi

, virginia, and the race there we do not have enough information yet to make a projection in the state of virginia. bob schieffer is, this is -- you've been covering presidential elections since 1972. >> not 57 of them! (laughs) >> pelley: quite a few, bob. i wonder. the polling is showing us that the election is very, very tight. what are you looking for tonight? >> well, the polls are showing this as a tie in the national vote. it all comes down to these nine battleground states the nation is deeply divided, scott the red states are very, very red. the blue states are very, very blue. for example, illinois, california, and new york, the democrats are going to pick up 104 electoral college there and they did nothing there except go there for fund-raisers. that just shows you how sure we have of these states that are so blue and so red. but it's those nine states that we're talking about. that's what it's going to come down to, those nine battleground states and they are all-- with the possible exception of ohio-- all within the margin of error right now. >> pelley: norah, what do you see

years. let's go onto our first phone call, bob from virginia, democratic caller. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. what really bothers me is those saying hillary has brain damage. i would like to know what bob thinks about that. she is a terrible secretary of state, responsible for benghazi, everything. it is horrible what they are doing to hillary clinton. it is outrageous. please respond to that. host: your thoughts on this debate. guest: big controversy and it will go on for a while because it is likely she will run for president. she will be 69 if she were elected, which will be roughly the age john mccain would have been, but younger than ronald reagan. republicans obviously did not like the way rove did it and how they did it, and when you run for president, there is so much pressure for you to release your health records, and she has has -- she has had health issues before, tech and karl rove's life. whether it is health or rain at the state department, she will have to make the case or benghazi. every candidate has strengths and weaknesses. she will have to make a c

sophomore at west virginia university and guess what, nobody had her on their radar for a gold medal. today she brought home the first gold medal std games, the first gold medal of the united states. she was by the way competing against two women who already had gold medals and she has another event to come. i'll be talking to her later on tonight. i'll have to 0 for you on msnbc tomorrow morning. let's take a look at what you see if you watch our olympics coverage tonight. first of all, men's basketball. that will be on the nbc sports network, u.s. versus china. let's guess how that will turn out. you'll want to see that. men's gymnastics. they had a terrible injury today. a french gymnast. but the u.s. men's team performing maybe better than a lot of people expected. what to watch in swimming, katie ledecky, she could win five gold medals here. she was swimming in the preliminaries today of the 4 x 100 meter, a relay. i ran into her dad and her uncle, one of the things again that's consistent about olympics, i think the only people more nervous than the athletes are their parents up in th

the table, you got alabama, georgia, massachusetts, oklahoma, tennessee, vermont, virginia most are primaries. nine are primaries, two caucuses, most of them open p primarie primaries. that map -- >> by the way -- >> back up there, look at texas. texas is in play with senator ted cruz, that's not a red one on the map. it's yellow but he's neck and neck in some polls leading over cruz. >> cruz' people said this super tuesday is their fire wall. they got to be strong. he's got to win texas and see where it goes from there. >> by the way, mr. donald trump himself will come on with us later this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern and we'll be able to ask him. >> it will be fantastic. all right. on the democratic side of things, the focus is on south carolina tonight. yeah, where polls in the primary open in less than an hour. >> peter is hot on the campaign trail in colombia where bernie sanders and hillary clinton are vying for the votes. good morning, peter. >> good morning, sandra. this was one of the busiest precincts for democrats in 2008. we should get a good idea how interested souther

security center of excellence which leverages maryland and virginia, who have also been looking to bring in companies to work collaboratively on cybersecurity to create this tipping in effect that you so eloquently described that are parts of clusters. >> i'm a great proponent of that. i'm out of time, but i did want to submit a question about the national guard. we are going to make sure that we are coordinating with them because they will be our boots on the ground and i'm hoping we are doing the right thing there. on that, i would just like to submit that question. >> thank you, senator. we hope that the subcommittees will be having follow-ups that will go even deeper into this in terms of the clusters. we have the national security headquartered there. we have the national institutes of standards headquartered there. we hope to have the fbi quartered there. >> but thank you very much. senator shelby, did you want to say something? >> just one last observation. i want to thank the panel, all of you, for your service to the country and the way you have conducted yourself before y