ceiling, it s the debt. reporter: some liberal house democrats will vote no. there s no balance. there are no revenues. god forbid, we would ask, as the republicans call them, the job creators, the millionaires and billionaires to pay anything. reporter: the compromised plan would cut about $1 trillion in spending right away, form a new bipartisan super committee to find another $1.5 trillion in savings by november. if congress fails to act on those recommendations this year, broad spending cuts are triggered. no follow-on deal by december would mean cuts in defense spending, opposed by conservatives, and cuts in social programs opposed by liberals. gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year. reporter: do many democrats now expect tax hikes on the well-off? the answer is not only yes, but hell yes. reporter: vice president biden came to the hill to lobby. i feel confident that this will pass. reporter: but bo
good evening, i m doreen gentzler. and i m jim vance. doug kammerer. watching a couple of stoppers out there. one came through loudon county. that storm now has completely died out but more storms back to the west and western portions of virginia and into western virginia right,flash flood warnings for west virginia and frederick county in towards virginia and also for the rest of us, a flash flood watch in effect for the day tomorrow. some areas tomorrow could pick up one to two inches of rain. maybe more. tomorrow is going to be a very wet day. a storm system moving in from the west is going to impact the entire day on our friday. i ll let you know who i think will get what coming up in my full forecast. okay, doug, thank you. we re following some breaking news out of grand rapids, michigan, tonight, that s where police have cornered a man suspected of shooting seven people to death including two children. police began a manhunt today after finding four people dead
day forecast for you. we are heading into the upper 90s again tomorrow. another scorch erdei. back to you. last week s heat wave proved to be deadly. this week s heat may force some changes to your routine services. sarah simmons live in morning in silver spring. it looks good behind you. reporter: it certainly does. i can feel a little bit of the water coming from the fountain and it feels nice. the sun is really starting to warm up here. they have this fountain going in this pedestrian area. some folks might be familiar with it from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. i imagine later on quite a few kids will be taking advantage of this and running through the fountain here, which a lot of kids do. there are a lot of ways to keep cool. obviously running through the fountain, getting in the pool. there are some folks that don t have access to that or air- conditioning. so we know there are lot of areas, jurisdictions that are opening up cooling centers around the area. in d.c. specif
th godfather of my daughters. he was my big brother. he was and still is, and will always be me hero. brian betz was murdered in his silver spring home in april after meeting alante saunders on a sex chat line and inviting him over. saunders brought three friends and a gun. in court, saunders, who is now 20 apologized to the betz family saying that the shooting was truly an accident, that drugs are a powerful force, his lawyer explained. there s no hint of any type of targeting as a result of anybody s sexual orientation or anything like that. this was a robbery for the purpose of obtaining money, and unfortunately, it was a robbery that sulted in an accidental shooting? glori allred came here from los angeles saying she was hired by the betz family because victims don t get as many rights as their killer, and she will ask the department of justicto investigate the killing of brian betz as a hate crime. brian be was gay. that really wasn t relevant to his family who l
we are seen near white out conditions in some places. you have been tracking the storm since yesterday. a lot of activity over night. we are just getting some of the heavy snow to fall. we can see some really heavy bands. you can see these bright colors here through the district. this is over the eastern shore. we have to hone in there. there are some heavy bands out that way. we are going to jump over to add them and get some of the new totals that we have from some of our reporters out there. weather@wjla.com that is where you should send your information. we are getting some impressive tally is out there. we do continue to see the snow. it is pumping in. we will continue to see it coming down across the area. but go over to the weather bug network. at ocean city, 58 miles an hour wind. 41 of our went downtown. the district around the bay are under the blizzard warning because of the driving snow. that makes sense. 28 degrees in annapolis. in college park, 28 degree with