Tonight. Im maureen umeh. The deal would delay harsh spending cut for two months, but it appears the house will not vote before tonights midnight deadline. Well continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending, but lets not let that hold up protecting americans from the tax hike that will take place. We can do this. We must do this. Reporter though it is down to the wire. Its december the 31st january 1st is tomorrow, 2013, taxes go up. Reporter a frustrated senator john kuhn said the senate should have acted months ago to keep the economy from going off the fiscal cliff. I just find it really hard to sit and listen to people come up now and wring their hands and talk about gee whiz, you know, i really hope we can get something done here in the last day as we put two people together basically to resolve this. Reporter the two people were Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and Vice President joe biden who worked the phones late last night and early this morning after talks
Look at ward 8. Everybody sellin drugs, they cant get jobs. Yeah, im sayin marion barry helped create the problem because he was on drugs. Thats a bad role model. Barry barry barry were talking about a piece of history, folks, marion barry, Martin Luther king. Wave your hands, blow your horns, wave your hands, blow your horns. I met marion barry i think in 1968. He was taking a lot of chances. People werent taking chances durin that period. For a black guy, durin that period, you really had to have balls to do it. And he had em. When marion came to washington d. C. , he came into a sleepy southern town. White business, white political power, white everything ruled the city. The city was like a plantation. We didnt have elections. No mayor, no city council. We couldnt vote. Congress controlled d. C. Control of washington d. C. Was about one person, thats representative John Mcmillan of south carolina. He was a racist. And so that guided all of his politics. He used the district in ways
And this was a fluke deal where he was rolling out and got his ankle caught in the ground in an awkward way. I think theyre just fluke injuries and happen to certain players time to time. Hopefully when he recovers from this, it will be the last one he of has. Reporter we tried to he every has. Reporter we tried to talk to Robert Griffin today. He was not made available to the media. His mri results will be sent for a special reevaluation and cast for a couple weeks as he begins his rehab. With no timetable for rg3s return quarterback kirk cousins likely will receive extensive playing time as the starter. Meanwhile the nfl hired three women advisors to help the league shape its policies. Rice and a Players Union believe his punishment violates the players collective bargaining agreement. They will fight the idea of double jeopardy here. Theyll turn to the cba, some arms that say a Team Articles that say a team and the league cant punish applier for the same incident and they believe a
Why the organization may reverse its controversial stance of excluding gay scouts and troop leaders. And get ready for a weather roller coaster ride. Were about to get a taste of spring and the possibility of snow all within a few days. Thanks for joining us tonight tonight at 10 00. Im shawn yancy. Im brian bolter. We begin with the dramatic standoff between a bank robber and police that unfolded live on our air two years ago today. Tonight one of the employees held hostage inside that bank is sharing her story for the first time. She sat down with fox 5s Lauren Demarco for this exclusive interview. Before we saw this scene the gunman emerging from the bank hostage in hand he had spent about an hour inside the building terrorizing the staff who just arrived for their shift. Diana veras desk was inside an office in the bank. She describes the day that she will never forget and how it has impacted her life. [ sirens ] im hearing gunfire. Lets lock those doors. We need to lock those door
The train and walked through a tunnel. Find out what caused the mass confusion. Were live with the latest. Lets begin with the storm system tearing through the d. C. Area, the wind coming down fast, the rain at least and the wind fast and furious. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Sue palka is outside our studios to begin our coverage. How is it doing . Reporter were still getting rain fairly light to moderate. We can see it here in the street lamp and the wind is not bad. Thats been kind of a surprise tonight because we were expecting winds to be a lot worse, but we did not get thunderstorms. Weve had heavy downpours but nothing to reach up and grab those really strong winds and bring them to the surface, although there was a little damage in Central Virginia with trees down. Its really about the flooding tonight. We do have a number of Flash Flood Warnings which means flooding is occurring. Well start with that and then give you a radar tour. A lot of th