toured the area today. reporter: although the northwest area was hit rather lightly, power was out. power was out in chillum because the power was knocked down. the hail, i was afraid it was going to in rip my windows because it was blowing right into the window. reporter: an oak tree came through the roof. the attic broke, seems to have broken two roof joys, roof trusses. reporter: by far the most dang occurred at a condo complex in bladensburg. the roofs and part of the top floor of several different buildings were simply torn off and tossed away. it was gray outside ant wind to me was moving at least 100 miles per hour. the hail was coming down so bad that i asked my wife and my daughter to move and go into the back room. that s how bad the hail was hitting. i thought window was going to burst in on us reporter: lee collins was actually in one of the top story condos and watched as the roof came off right over his head. the roof just peeled off into the par
we got them for 30 something. great. reporter: 50% up to 80%. whatever we can find. at least 50% off. back out live here at dcufa in columbia heights, the manager told us things were busy. it started out slow but then picked up. he said actually returns and exchanges have been few but a lot of people are here doing some after christmas shopping, really taking advantage of those great deals. if the returns were low, that means people got exactly what they want which is good news for this holiday season. thank you, matt. in the wake of the recent financial crisis with bank lending on the decline, many business owners are being forced to look elsewhere for capital. the latest trend is peer to peer lending. reporter: with bank lending down in the wake of the financial crisis, small business owners are getting money instead from other entrepreneurs. it s called peer to peer lending and army vets from dallas, georgia, opened their third edible arrangement store. the win
the it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [ male announcer ] write your story with the citi thankyou premier card, with no point caps, and points that don t expire. get started at thankyoucard.citi.com. welcome back, everyone. 6:32 on the east coast if you re just getting up this morning. the release of kidnapped israeli soldier coming at a high price. more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners in exchange and at least 400 of them are directly responsible for some of israel s worst terror attacks. so is the price of freedom just too high? joining us for their perspective in jerusalem is leyland vitter. kind of interesting here. go ahead. it s pretty interesting
car wrecks and everything, those are a part of the race and all but you never want to see somebody pass away because of that. to be here and to see it, you know, it s kind of definitely, we re all kind of touched and, you know, to think about his family and definitely makes you think a lot about your life and, you know, you never know. but to lose somebody that close and that we know so well so, just ask everybody to pray for him. ask everybody in this field, if we could choose a way to go, that s the way. almost his third race of the year and dan wheldon had cut back after winning the indy 500 and at the last moment, he ended up joining the indy 500. he said i m not going to race that much. i want to spend time with my young family. he was 34th on the start there. and he did have some worries before the race about his car. yeah, in fact, he had been blogging for usa today and some of the things he had shared with his readers, he did talk about how at the kent
if you know how old the earth actually is. we d like that answer. all right. fox news alert for you right now, palestinian militants fired rockets in israel today after getting pounded by the israeli air force. leyland vitter is live in israel in a town that just got hit by the militant rockets. is that correct? indeed. good morning, gretchen. just in the past couple of minutes, we saw yet another rocket head out of gaza strip behind me fired by militants towards either the town of ashgalan or ashdo. it s the late n the tit for tat moves by the militants. in the past couple of hours, one of the air strikes knocked out power to a large portion of the strip. it is not pleasant in there right now as they tried to get that power station back on line. you re looking at video from last night, the air strikes that came in, that killed at least five militants and hit 12 other