moment. but first a news alert tonight in d.c. on the anniversary of the tucson shooting. anti-gun activists held a series of vigils across the country calling for an end to gun violence. fox 5 s roz plater is just back from one held in the district. dozens turned out for this vigil. it was both solemn and a call to action. reporter: at the shiloh baptist church they lit a candle and stood in solidarity with hundreds of others around the country in both remembrance and protest remembering the victims of gun violence like rachelle jones, one of sykes teens mowed down in a drive-by one of six teens mowed down in a drive-by shooting on capitol street. this is something that never goes away. i hurt for my child 24 hours a day seven days a week constantly. i do not sleet. reporter: sleep. it took me nearly losing my life, experiencing something like that to wake up and realize that we don t do everything we could do in this country. we make it far too easy for people of
within will stay to our south down towards the virginia- carolina border but a few of those showers are expected to slip to the north and it is possible our southern viewers could see a few showers. for the rest of us, mostly cloudy skies expected today. starting cold, 34 in washington. most of the area at or below freezing. we will be in for a cooler day than what we ve been getting used to around here. forecast for today, clouds, cool, could be a shower or development best chance south. highs, low 40s. pretty typical for this time of year. more details in just a minute. back to you. thank you. some of our top stories we are following, an emotional night into arizona as congresswoman gabrielle giffords took the stage to mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly tucson shooting rampage. the congress woman led the crowd in a premier of allegiance at a candlelight vigil making a rare public appearance since being shot in the head. six people were killed and 13 others hurt
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which is tonight right after this hour. we shall celebrate the arrival of our new desk which inexplicably has something to do with the start of lawrence s new show with you i m not sure what. i m very excite body my new desk. we shall also celebrate the return of barack hussein obama. he is back in talking points just in case any republicans previous efforts to convince you he is secretly foreign did not work on you, they re going to give it one more shot. that s all to come over the course of the hour. but we begin tonight by putting a giant asterisk on the well worn political truism that all politics is local. the big decision democrats had to make about this year s elections was whether or not they would try to run this year s elections as a national campaign, whether they were going to try to run as democrats versus republicans or whether they were going to try to block out everything happening at the national level and, instead, hope that each individual congressional
he is touting all of these endorsements he s gotten from national conservative figures. he just puts them all under a banner that calls them alaskans. who cares? the democrat in the race, scott mcadams, he just released his first campaign ad. see if you can notice the difference in strategy. this is a long way from d.c. i m scott mcadams and i m not your usual senate candidate. i grew up in petersberg, was a deck hand in the behring sea, married up. i ve been a teacher, a mayor, and a dad. here s the difference between me, joe and lisa. they think this campaign is all about them. i think it s about alaska. getting our fair share. i approved this message because after you ve been cursed at in the region, you can take on anyone. did you catch the tag line there? it s about alaska. that s essentially his slogan. it s about alaska. local, local, local. that s how the democrat scott mcadams is running in alaska. now on the front page of joe