not on you. lots of sunshine to start your day dry conditions red flag warning, back at noon as we will have windy and dry conditions low humidity, cool start 47 washington, 47 baltimore, kids want a jacket here as they head out to the bus stop because our afternoon high temperatures will only be 60, and we are going to have pretty good winds, winchester 37 otherwise nice start to your day your sentinel radar nothing to report looking at quiet conditions unlike yesterday when we had a few afternoon showers develop today will be dry partial cloudiness during the course of the afternoon, here is your forecast, breezes, winds out to have west gusting to 30 and your high temperature today cooler than yesterday, 61 degrees at 4:00 p.m. more details on the forecast coming up in a minute let s do traffic and drum roll, julie wright is back. there is the drum roll that is what i was waiting for. you haven t mastered that yet tucker? that just sounds like you are running off the
tragedy, but aisle not sure it s a i m not sure it s a hate crime. jon: your thoughts, faith? well, the prosecutor is arguing that ravi s actions were motivated by his anti-gay bias against tyler clementi, and that s why he secretly put this web cam in tyler clementi s room to tape his private sexual activity and expose that to the world for the simple fact that he was gay. and they have twitter messages from this defendant speaking about this, conversations that he had with his friends where he expressed before this incident ever happened that he did not want to have a xay roommate, and gay roommate, and he didn t like that. jon: well, another case where the state is going to have to prove without a lot of evidence. it will be tough. theory and reality. jon: faith and fred, thank you both. thank you. -and-a-half a new editorial in the wall street journal that we wanted to share with you. the author says the president is constructing a sin city economy,
standard, and then everybody falls below it. but, you know, this happens all the time. he has to do that. he has to differentiate himself from, in this case, i guess, it s the opposite. he s equalizing, no, you re no better than i am, santorum. but santorum, see, the difference is santorum doesn t have anything else. he didn t run anything. he was a senator of modest accomplishment, a decent man. so once you take away the i am the man of principle, i am the conviction politician here, what s left of him? and the romney people know that, and santorum is starting to plummet in the polls, though i ve got to tell you my own personal view, it was that satan speech that did it. i don t really i m not sure it was a debate. i don t think people want a president who goes around talking about satan, to be perfectly honest with you. jon: all right. fred barbash from cq roll call. fred, thanks for joining us. nice to see you again. jon: thank you. jenna: new developments in the case of a missi
roommate had used a web cam to spy on an encounter he was having in their dorm room with another man. does the state, fred, have a case? there s ravi, the roommate, who is charged in this case. does the state have enough evidence to prosecute him? you know what, jon? this is a tough case. such a tragic case that a young man feels so despondent and feels he s got no other choice but to throw himself off the george washington bridge. but you ve got to look at it a little bit more in a morester lille manner, and the more sterile manner, and they have to prove it was a hate crime. from what i understand of the evidence, it s not clear that ravi had actually disseminated this far and wide, and there actually is an e-mail saying, look, i understand that you have an alternate lifestyle, i think if you want to change rooms, that s fine with me, i don t want to wreck your freshman year. you have to prove it was a hate crime. it s a terrible situation and
jon: presidential candidate mitt romney scheduled to speak any minute now in detroit. he s proving himself to be very adept at an old campaign tactic, playing gotcha politics at key moments to try to cut down his opponents. here he is during the debate earlier this week. senate, i just saw a youtube clip where you said you personally opposed contraceptives but you said that you voted for title x. actually, newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you. jon: let s talk about it with fred, the the managing editor of cq weekly magazine. fred, he had the reputation, maybe still has the reputation, mitt romney does, of being a flip-flopper. what he did pretty nimbly in that debate is attach that same label to people like rick santorum. that s exactly what he s doing, and he s doing it very