we begin with the race for the white house while the republicans battle it out to see who becomes the front-runner. president obama hopes to take back the spotlight. he s heading off on an old-fashioned bus tour of america s heartland. jessica is in washington. good morning, terrell. the president is going to contrast his track record with those of his gop rivals. president obama kicks off a three-day bus tour to talk about his ideas for getting americans back to work. over the coming weeks i ll talk about proposals and i won t stop until every american who wants a job can find one. reporter: the bus tour the president s first since taking office will give him a chance to defend his record against republicans vying for his job. hi, everybody, it s great to see you. reporter: fresh off her victory at the iowa straw poll, michele bachmann trying to keep the momentum going last night in her birth place of waterloo, iowa. we ll take the country back. i know that s goi
the white house. while the republicans battle it out to see who becomes the front-runner. president obama hopes to take back the spotlight. he s heading off on an old-fashioned bus tour of america s heartland. jessica stone is in washington with the latest. jessica, good morning to you. good morning, terrell. the president is headed to the midwest to talk about job creation and he s going to contrast his track record with those of his gop rivals. president obama kicks off a three-day bus tour to talk about his ideas for getting americans back to work. over the coming weeks i ll put forward more proposals to help our businesses hire and create jobs and i won t stop until every american who wants a job can find one. reporter: he ll stop in minnesota, iowa and illinois, three states that helped carry him to victory in 2008. they are just as critical this time. the bus tour, the president s first since taking office will give him a chance to defend his record against republ
watch until 11:00 and it looks like we re getting forward round two. we ll take a look. actually now the storms moving in from the west are becoming who are severe. in fact we have a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for northern hampshire, western morgan, eastern allegheny and northeastern mineral counties. they ll be impacting old town and magnolia and it s moving east at 10 miles per hour. so you can see the lightning detection. the difference between these storms and the ones earlier today, there s more lightning with them. we re also watching this batch off i-81. this will be affecting the d.c. metropolitan area within the next two to three hours. and finally southern maryland drum point down to st. george s eye rand, some thunderstorms there, but not as much lightning. so the weather tonight stormy and flooding still possible. it will be humid. eye tei ll tell you how the workweek is shaping up in just a few minutes. thank you so much, kim. well, the crime caugh
debate we are having in washington over the national debt as the deadline drew near compromise seemed far apart as ever in washington tonight the president told americans he supports the plan by senate majority leader harry reid extending the debt limit past 2012 election reducing the deficit by 2.7 trillion dollars and does not increase taxes republicans might like to seek deeper cuts and no revenue there are many in the senate who have said yes i am willing to put politics aside and consider this approach because i care about solving the problem in his response house speaker john boehner plan to cut or three trillion dollars over 10 years also without a tax increase but raising the debt limit in two separate stages potentially setting up another standoff going into next year s election solution not complicated if you are spending more money than you are taking and you need to spend less there is no symptoms to make big government more menacing than debt, break its g
flooding in frederick, maryland right now. a viewer sent us this video of an intersection under watter in downtown frederick around 3:00 this afternoon. police tell us this is a major flooding and is closing busy roads like market street, patrick street, and college avenue. the ymca is closed because of flooding concerns around the building. you can stay with fox 5 as this system passing through. we will bring updates as they become available. you can also track the storms. can upload your weather pictures as well and also videos while you re there. now to a news edge exclusive. two of the firefighters who were injured in a house fire allegedly set by an arsonist sat down only with fox 5. stacey coen is in the newsroom to talk about their long road to recovery. wisdom, these are no ordinary men. we have mike and chuck ryan. they say they were born into fire fighting. the sons of firefighters and to understand the arrest, you need to understand what it s like to be a fir