captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. welcome back. thank you very much. i m matt lauer. ben bernanke is expected to face pretty tough questions on capitol hill today. he ll be speaking to members of the joint economic committee. that s right. we ve been getting a lot of mixed signals. recently wednesday 286-point dow surge comes just days after the unemployment rate jumped to 8.2%. so both lawmakers and investors on wall street will be listening very carefully to what he has to say. we ll get a live report from wall street coming up straight ahead this morning. also ahead, we ll talk about a case involving a florida man acquitted in the murder of his wife. he has fought these charges for five long years. at one point, he blamed her death on a reaction to some spray tanning chemicals. this morning he speaks out about the verdict and the toll the case has taken on his family. and then we re goin
capitol. 61 degrees. tom kierein is here to brarkt down for us. to get us back down to reality, the average temperature this time of year is 64 and right now many areas are ten degrees colder than that. right now we have our temperature at reagan national aurpt at 59 degrees and the dew point is comfortably dry, 54. there is dew forming around the region. all these areas in green are in the 50s. look at that. it covers a hurj age area. these areas in blue are in the 40s. that includes parts of shenandoah valley and western virginia and maryland. closer to washington, montgomery, fairfax, just a few clouds coming through and low to mid-50s. we ll have a delightful day coming up. by 9:00, the temperatures should be in the upper 60s to near 70. so we re going to have a rapid warm-up. by noontime for your lunch hour, we ll have your clouds building and still try. we ll have a north west breeze around 5 to 15. we should be in the mid-70s by noontime. then it s late afternoon,
just a few spots. it will be a beautiful day temperature-wise. 54 at reagan national. 54 in baltimore. lots of 50s on the map. 55 in fredericksburg. 55 in winchester. 56 in ocean cities. change to talk about and look what is out to the west. a cold front will bring us cooler and drier air for the day tomorrow. as it arrives, we ll have some showers in the forecast this afternoon. i think the timing will be this afternoon. you want dry weather guaranteed. morning hours should be fine but we ll see the clouds quickly increase and the possibility of some scattered showers. mild temperatures, look at that. 67degrees your daytime high. a few of us came close to 70 yesterday. we ll do that again today with temperatures well above average. more details on the forecast and a look at thanksgiving in just a minute. back to you. thank you. we are for following a developing story in north korea this morning. north free afired shells at south korea and south korea fired back. nort