functioning. good morning to you. i m eun yang. good morning to you. i m joe krebs. welcome back to news 4 today on this friday, the 16th of december. take a live look outside. welcome to hawaii. that s what it feels like out there. it is balmy right now. it is going to flat out change. it seems like we skipped over winter went right on to spring, and winter s over. that s it. some people wouldn t mind a 60 degree winter. that s what it is right now. we re around 60 degrees predawn on this friday morning, the 16th day of december. this is certainly unusually warm this time of year, this time of day. as we look outside at the view from the skywatcher camera and the city camera, we re seeing breaks in the clouds. there s the jefferson memorial on the banks of the potomac river. still a little dampness on the pavement from what did not evaporate yesterday with condensation overnight and the warm temperatures. down to 59 at reagan national. i say down because it was in
i say down because it was over 60 degrees just a couple of hours ago. and elsewhere, it s down into the low to mid-40s farther to our west. hagerstown down to a cold 41 right now. it s about 20 degrees warmer in culpeper. it s 63 there. that cold air is going to come in on a gusty northwest wind. breaks in the clouds now. sunshine in and out this morning. sunrise at 7:20. we ll be right around 50 degrees for the rest of the morning in the metro area to around noontime and colder west and north, and then down into the 40s during the afternoon hours. colder tonight, maybe even a little precipitation. we ll talk about that in ten minutes. danella, how s traffic? good morning. on i-95 headed to laurel, your right lane is blocked. this is at 216. i ll give you a look right now. police on the scene of this accident. again, it s blocking the right side of the roadway. just stick to the left to get by. traffic is moving fine on the left. you will see some volume as you make your
job? we have an msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics. thanks so much for joining us. let s talk about how the second tier candidates at least piled on newt. did they do any damage? i think they did. she scored some hits on fannie mae and freddie mac. and the other thing, you mentioned this in the opening. i haven t seen that much written in the report about it. i do think it s interesting. he was very dismissive of her. very dismissive. at the end she said i m a serious candidate, you need to take me seriously. i think it s always dangerous to be dismissive of the only woman on stage. you know, i think newt gingrich does not view michelle back man as his intellectual equal. but you have to be careful not to let that kind of thing show. and he didn t do as good a job in this last debate as he had done in the past. yeah. women tend to react to that, to being patronized. yeah, i can understand why. let s take a way at the look at bachmann got back at him
prior to today with various statements he allegedly has made mike mcqueary is the assistant coach who claims he saw sandusky rape a boy in the penn state showers, but according to his reports his account has now changed over time. the army is trying to figure out what caused two helicopters to crash killing four soldiers last night outside of a training area at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. now the choppers were observation helicopters. no word on whether they collided or crashed separately. finders keepers, that s the message from iran today about the captured u.s. drone. the country s defense minister now says it is the property of iran. president mahmoud ahmadinejad tells state tv there are people in his country who have been able now to control what he says is the aircraft. dick cheney says the obama administration mishandled the situation. the right response would have been to go in immediately after it went down and destroy it. you can do that
having one is to cross-examine mike mcqueary in the allegations pertaining to number two. prior to today with various statements he allegedly has made mike mcqueary is the assistant coach who claims he saw sandusky rape a boy in the penn state showers, but according to his reports his account has now changed over time. the army is trying to figure out what caused two helicopters to crash killing four soldiers last night outside of a training area at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. now the choppers were observation helicopters. no word on whether they collided or crashed separately. finders keepers, that s the message from iran today about the captured u.s. drone. the country s defense minister now says it is the property of iran. president mahmoud ahmadinejad tells state tv there are people in his country who have been able now to control what he says is the aircraft. dick cheney says the obama administration mishandled the situation. the right respons