31st, 2010. the last day of the year. good morning. i m gurvir dhindsa. i m sarah simmons. steve chenevey has the day off today. welcome top fox 5 morning news. you know, when you walked outside today, it felt like it would be cold but at least we know it will warm up. tucker is here. i don t want to see you this year anymore after today. i feel the same way. let s get to the numbers. 20s outside the beltway. 32 in town. gurvir, it is going to be a very long morning if you re going to keep this up. 29 in ocean city. sarah, for you, fredericksburg is 34 degrees. thank you. you re very welcome. least i can do. that s about all i can do. cloud cover working through from west to east. today will be a sunny day. we do have a little fog out there as well. warmer than yesterday. yesterday in the 40s. today in the 50s. i ll go become and look at the numbers but i think this is the first time sin the 1st of december we ve been in the 50s. it will be noticeably warmer today.
everything went well. she came in from little rock. she is in town for the next few days and will tell me everything i am doing wrong in testimonies of decoration and will tell me to fix it. i mom made a lists. you like lists. well. welcome to baltimore. so we have a lot ahead. single carrot. the best theater company by the baltimore city papers. elliot will be our guest telling you about a great production going on until the middle of january. you to to get involved and see great theater performances. they were college student from colorado and chose baltimore. and we will find out why. aid neat story. coming up it s a neat story. coming, health insurance. susan thompson will tell you what you need to. he. we talked about insurance yesterday as well and something people may want to think about shoring up and make sure they are secure going into 2011. you mentioned yesterday was the first day in business and this response has been great. which is good be
year two million more. this means big problems for the unemployed. it means a lot of people in a real sense will lose their homes, they can t afford food, they are going to get utilities shut off and facing disaster. senate democrats proposed a bill to extend jobless benefits, but it will likely face very stiff opposition from republicans. we will keep you posted on what happens. federal employees won t receive a pay increase for two years. president obama yesterday announced a pay freeze for civilian government employees. those in the military will not be affected. the president says the freeze would save $5 billion and chip away at the national debt and says the sacrifices of limiting government spending must be shared and we caught some with some feds off the getting off the train at penn station. one of the benefits for getting the government job was one of the perks was getting a yearly raise. i rather have a pay freeze than no job at all. or have to be for
another vain and ineffective. and north korean leader kim jong-il. we have how this could affect our narcotic security. we begin with jim miklaszewski. we have the state department in damage control. we just heard from secretary of state hillary clinton saying she could not confirm or deny these cables, but having a lot more to say about it. that s right, tamron. obama administration and pentagon are big into damage control today. hillary clinton, the secretary of state, offered the first on camera public remarks for any obama administration. the united states deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between count counterparts and our personal observations. because many of the leaks involved the state department, the pentagon really hasn t had too much to say about this so far, but they themselves are deep in the damage control today, because the state department quite frankly is pointing the pe
it puts at risk the relationships that we have with important allies around the world. we have an active ongoing criminal investigation. reporter: holder spoke after the whistle blower web site wiki-leaks released more than 250,000 diplomatic cables that were intended to be secret. in one, it shows arab leaders privately pushed the u.s. to attack iran s nuclear program. another calls russia s president afraid and hesitant. while french president sarkozy is labeled as an emperor with new clothes. and u.s. failed efforts to get pakistan to send enriched uranium out of the country to keep it from terrorists. besides the em barrel, there is a concern that the embarrassment, there is a concern that the lives of confidential sources will be put at risk. lawmakers call it a massive failure within the intelligence community. to create this kind of a database with this much information in it and then provide access to it to hundreds of thousands of people across the government