State. What is it thats transformed and built the economy . Federal contracting. From 1980 through 2009 federal contracting in Northern Virginia increased from 1. 7 billion to 38. 5 billion, but theres worry the bottom could fall out. Government contractors stopped doing business in Fairfax County because it will be dramatically reduced. Reporter these two men were farther of the Board Meeting this week asking congress to hurry up and resolve the impending sequestration. If you make the kind of cuts that some suggest happen are then youre really hurting a lot of the Small Businesses and residents in Fairfax County who rely on federal contracts for their livelihood and ultimately that trickles down to and affects Fairfax County. Reporter Fairfax County pulled in 23 billion in federal contract money in 2009. Thats more than any county in the nation and 3 billion more than washington d. C. So what is it about Fairfax County that makes it so attractive . Dulles airport. The International A
Speaker is ancient history. Its a day old. Ancient history, that he is not mad at the speaker. Hes pleased with the outcome. There will be a vote friday on the 9 billion for the Flood Insurance program and on january 15th on the 51 billion. But lets get to the larger question. Is there some sort of split in the republican party, something weve sort of seen signs of over this entire fiscal cliff debate . Well, i think it would be too simplistic to say there is a split. There are definitely those that are more pragmatic than others, as there is in the Democratic Party as well, but when youre the party that controls the white house, you have to fall in line. The republicans are a little out in the wilderness. They only control 1 3 of the three parts of government and they feel like theyre being ganged up on, so to speak, the fiscal cliff and then you have some pork stuff you just mentioned in your leadin they want to tracy and then youve got this debt extension coming up in february which
Dying inmate has also pleaded guilty today. Anthony mcintosh is accused of failing to seek medical help for ronnie white. The 19yearold inmate was found hanging in his cell in june, 08 after allegedly killing a county Police Officer. Initially Corrections Officers insisted white killed himself, but mcintosh was later charged with altering or falsifying records in a federal investigation. His trial has been scheduled for had been scheduled for next week. Police are investigating a possible 15th assault by the socalled springfield groper. The latest one happened yesterday in the 4400 block of Briarwood Court near patriot drive. Police say a man grabbed a 30 yearold woman while she was jogging. She yelled. He fled. Police say the suspect meets the same description as the previous one. A bill that delivers some much needed aid to the victims of Superstorm Sandy is now ready for the president s signature. This is just a fraction of the money lawmakers from the lev stated region had asked fo
Injured. But students have been told to hunker down until further notice. They were getting web updates. Well bring you updated information as soon as we get it. But as we just told you, the lockdown at the university of virginia wise has just been lifted. So heres something we havent seen much of that winter. The snowplows are about to hit the streets in dc. Whether you like it or not, snow is headed our way. Nothing on the ground now, but that wont be the case when we wake up. Topper is here to tell us how much well see. Its going to be a fluff any snow. Clippers do not fluffy snow. Clippers dont bring us a lot. Were look at the entire metro area under the Winter Weather advisory from midnight until 9 00 a. M. Its going to be a quick hitter. Oddly enough this is going to be the case where the heaviest snow will be south of town. Temperatures, every flake that falls is going to stick. No doubt about that. 25 downtown. 21 in gaithersburg and mid 20s in hagerstown. So the radar looks li
Its already snowing in parts of the dc area with more to come. We have the forecast for you in just a moment. But we begin with breaking news out of wie yit county, virginia wise county in virginia. Witnesses say Virginia State police and other Law Enforcement agencies are there on the campus responding to reports of a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a pistol. No reports of anyone being injured. But students have been told to hunker down until further notice. They were getting web updates. Well bring you updated information as soon as we get it. But as we just told you, the lockdown at the university of virginia wise has just been lifted. So heres something we havent seen much of that winter. The snowplows are about to hit the streets in dc. Whether you like it or not, snow is headed our way. Nothing on the ground now, but that wont be the case when we wake up. Topper is here to tell us how much well see. Its going to be a fluff any snow. Clippers do not fluffy snow. Clippers dont