money, probably $1.5 million so far into the race to ironically replace jesse jackson, jr., who took his plea deal today. you have a couple strong candidates, chris, a white female and an african-american female, who are both pro-nra, and don t mistake the possibility that they can effectively appeal to a fair number of african-americans in the city who are the pro-nra candidates? such as concealed carry. the pro-nra candidates who is the leading candidate, the one white in a race of 16 candidates, deb halvorson, former democratic congresswoman from mostly the chicago suburbs, and then a woman named toi hutchinson who was her chief of staff. she s an african-american. bloomberg has thrown a ton of money mostly against halvorson, about $1.3 million up to this point is going to be over that. last night for the first time he ran an ad supporting a candidate, not just attacking halvorson. that was an anti-guns candidate, perhaps the leading anti-guns candidate in the race, a woman
0 dwight eisenhower wasn t a republican either because he wasn t a hawk, and he kept us out of indochina and the middle east, and he took the heat for that because he was a guy who knew what was going on in the world. right. and didn t believe in frivolous wars. you re not sufficiently republican if you don t want to bomb iran. it was ironic when john mccain put it out there and said basically, you know what? chuck hagel was mean to president bush, he relentlessly criticized the iraq war. his fellow members of the senate thought he was not a sufficiently loyal republican. that s pretty rich coming from john mccain who basically made it his life s work to oppose george w. bush. oh, i m sorry, was it chuck hagel who said he had an illegitimate child with an african-american and that somehow produced a south asian young woman. that stuff about his wife being a drug addict. that was w s people. that was karl rove and that crowd. i don t know which of them did it, but one of them di
my pleasure. let s check in with julie wright. she is back with a look at traffic. not looking so bad right now. we do find the lanes are open if you are traveling the top stretch of the beltway leaving college park headed around towards the exit for 270. you will find lanes are open on 95 and 295 out of laurel. top side still behaving nicely as you travel leaving college park and continuing around towards the exit for 270 and 355. 95 heading northbound at speed, no signs of overnight construction. the lanes are open from triangle headed up towards the beltway. 66? good shape leaving manassas towards 495. that s a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. 66 in good shape leaving manassas towards 495. developing story out of california where sever aftershocks are being felt after a larger earthquake. the 5.7 quake struck just east of san diego along the border with mexico. the quake did not cause any injuries or major damage but it did interrupt a major lake baseball gam