we still could see a rain/snow mix in the higher elevations. i ll have a look at the rest of your weekend which looks a lot drier coming up. thanks, lisa. early this morning the republican controlled house passed legislation to cut $60 billion from hundreds of federal programs. i think you ve done yourself proud this week. the vote was mostly among party lines and led by republican freshmen. the $1.2 trillion measure will keep the government running through september. there are sweeping spending cuts to school, housing and other domestic programs. but the measure protects oil and coal companies and farmers from new environmental regulations. the bill faces a tough battle with the senate which is still controlled by democrats. and president obama has threatened a veto. the deadline for congress to agree to some sort of funding measure is march 4th. after that as abc 7 political reporter mark matthews explains, the government will shut down. it s not just that the repub
that cold air in place so, yes, more low snow levels this morning. jenelle. bundle up out there. the republican controlled house passed legislation to cut $16 billion from hundreds of federal programs. the vote was along party lines and led by freshman republicans. the $1.2 trillion measure will keep the government running through september. there are sweeping spending cuts to schools, housing subsidies and other domestic programs but it protects coal companies and farmers from new environmental legislation. president obama has threatened to veto. the deadline for congress to agree to some sort of funding measure is march 4th. after that mark matthews says the government could shut down. they want to start with $61 billion this year. we are taking the first step intacteling our unsustainable debt and preserving our economic strength for future generations. when jackie speier described it a bit differently. the silly, the dangerous and hypocritical. instead of pass
governor bop bob ehrlich. they will make the last campaign stops today as you head to the polls in a half an hour. and again, the most recent poll out shows that 52% of those likely to vote today will support governor o malley. 42% will go with bob ehrlich. now, o malley is scheduled to visit a polling station at the leisure world community center in montgomery county and took advantage of early voting cast his ballot last week. tonight, he is going to watch the results come in at the american visionary arts museum right here in baltimore. he spent part of yesterday spending it in east baltimore to get out the vote and former governor ehrlich is voting near his home in annapolis. he will gather with sperst timonium fairgrounds and he he did last-minute stumping for voters in hunt valley. choice was no accident. he said baltimore county would be crucial to his chances and has been saying that for weeks, turn out is going to mean everything. at 6:31, it s battle. you ve seen th
received 60 pints of blood. he remains in critical but stable condition. that surgery and today has depleted the blood supply. today volunteers turned out to donate blood. his bladder was fixed. the red cross issued a critical appeal for blood monday, august 23rd, and there hasn t been a great outpouring based on that but when friday, when an officer in the community has been shot and has used so much blood, there has been a great outpouring. doctors say officer young will have additional surgeries later this week. police and firefighters are investigating a deadly high- rise fire in san francisco s tenderloin district. it started when a mattress caught fire in one of the apartments, they report two people were inside at the time. reporter: the fire here at the trinity towers apartments at about 5:30 this morning at 8880 fairly street across the street from the great american music hall, one person, a male described as an asian male mid- 30s was injured. he is hospita
now the fbi is involved. kiet do shows us how a traffic stop escalated into a shootout and then a bomb scare and much more. reporter: ann, i want to show just how violent it was out here in oakland early this morning. if you push in here very quickly you see those paper bags leaned up against the guardrail. they are filled with assault rifles and weapons. all the weapons that were used by chp officers in that gun battle early this morning. they have been taken for evidence. balistics experts will be examining them later on today. before we get to the report i want to show you some home video that was posed on youtube of that gun fight and neighbors say it sounded like the wild west. just when the chp was getting ready to clear the scene investigators found a suspicious looking package, called the bottom called the bomb squad. and a few hours later it is unclear exactly what it was. the bomb squad also found material of interest. given the amount of weaponry and possib