this is fox 5 news at 10:00. looking live at new york city, the big party, the big crowd, the big ball at times square. we re just two hours away from welcoming in 2011. we re live in alexandria tonight, first night celebrations underway, fun for the entire family. the party promises music, children s entertainment and they ll light up the sky with fireworks at midnight. there are dozens of parties happening across our area tonight. happy new year s eve, everyone. i m brian bolter. and i m maureen umeh. so how s the weather out there? that is the big question. fox 5 s gary mcgrady is downstairs in the weather center. a little chilly but dry and that s good. clouds cleared for a time and that allowed numbers to drop. let s look at the temperatures out there, especially outside of town. a few places have fallen off the map. frederick is down to 30. manassas is usually a cold spot is 28 degrees right now and dulles is 33. the clouds are beginning to come back over, so i
is that it s going to be a very, very close race. reporter: that s why 20-year-old tony rose is going public with his own story. rose recently quit using marijuana. he started smoking it when he was just 12 years old. whenever i smoked, the only thing i really wanted to do was sit around and just hang out, think to myself, have conversation. but unfortunately all those conversations that seemed so brilliant at the time that i was having and seemed so constructive, i would soon forget 15 minutes after once i was coming down from the drug. reporter: rose, who was an avid bmx rider and snowboarder said he suddenly lost interest in sports. his grades slipped and his marijuana habit eventually landed him behind bars. i was so stuck on this cycle of using and smoking pot that i couldn t even quit smoking if my freedom was in jeopardy. reporter: those in favor of legalizing marijuana insist the measure will actually make it tougher for children to get their hands on the dr
does anybody believe, asks the governor of california that these companies out of the goodness out of their black oil hearts are spending millions and millions of dollars to protect jobs? wow. first the sanity break and the tweet of the day from shiner man in new jersey. how many minutes of your show will be on the sarah palin dancing with the stars faux controversy tonight? 23 minutes with eugene? actually, we weren t going to mention it, but since you tweeted me. we will. what controversy? they booed the crap out of her, it happens, a lot. 15 seconds. let s play oddball. we ll begin in singapore where singer and hello kitty fanatic mariah cary is performing her song make it happy.
and frontier and industries are blatantly trying to manipulate the will of the people and the public good. arnold schwarzenegger in defense of the california climate change laws under attack by big oil. the latest secret sharon angle does not want you to know. i m not going to have any more babies but i sure get to pay for it on my insurance. actually, you and i pay for shar shairn angle s babies. 45% of america s catholics don t know who started the protest. who better to ask than the star of the new series, the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret. i am filled with energy. that s the great thing about watch out! i m running around. it s david cross. all the news and commentary now on countdown. and scene. good evening from new york, 35 days before the midterm elections and two days before the likely recess of the senate, it is no longer one lawmaker giving the finger to the majority party, it is now that same lawmaker giving one finger to
today about all their marriage messes. as showbiz tonight dares to ask, who should get divorced first and who will get divorced first? ashley dupre on the tiger and jesse cheating scandals, the former call girl who brought down new york s governor eliot spitzer now naked in playboy and one on one with showbiz tonight. help me understand how women can reconcile having sex with married men knowing they may be destroying marriages. that s a really ballsy question from you. the headline, can t miss intervi interview. i m a.j. harm coming to you from new york city. i m brooke anderson in hollywood. big news breaking today, houston has a problem, a big problem. showbiz tonight can now reveal the buzz today about whitney houston s big comeback performance about as deafening as hire singing. you re about to hear that for yourself. like so many of her fans i ve rooted for her to put her drug troubles and bobby brown train wreck troubles behind her after all but we