just really astounding when you think about it. but one question i had for you, jessica. president obama won wisconsin in 08. there have been a lot of big name surrogates going in on both sides of this recall election. should we read anything into the fact that president obama himself has not made a stop in wisconsin for tom barrett? well, you know, the obam. ma team here points out that they have both endorsed barrett and he tweeted yesterday that he fully supports him and wants him to win. here s what barrett had to say when he was interviewed on cnn. i think there are some that want to make it a national election. that s my gripe about this. i don t want wisconsin to be the experimental dish for 9 right wing. i want wisconsin to return to wisconsin values. there are some, particularly on the other side, who do want to nationalize this. so in other words, there are down sides for barrett for a presidential visit just as there are down sides to the president visiting
not necessarily legitimately because both leading democrats and leading republicans say wisconsin is its own microcosm, but the reason it is so relevant is because debt and spending have been major issues there. those are major national issues. and many of the big picture issues we seen play out across the nation are playing out in wisconsin right now, namely money and the influence of super pacs. an independent nonpartisan group estimates dlfr 70 million to $80 million will be spent in the state of wisconsin. that s mind blowing in to a state where air time is so inexpensive. governor walker has outspent his democrat 7 to 1. governor walker today has raised $30.5 million to the democrat barrett s $4 million. that s not even taking into account how much labor unions and super pacs are pouring in. then there s the ore big question that both sides, democrats and republicans are using this as an opportunity to organize the state for november. kate? absolutely. the numbers, th
homosexuality and same-sex marriage hit the ground running on the campaign trail this week. romney is scrambling to explain a report that while in prep school he organized a hazing incident in which he cut off the long hair of a fellow student who may have been day. i did stupid things in high school. if anyone feels they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. on wednesday, president obama, speaking to abc s robin roberts, said he had changed his mind about same-sex marriage. i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. polls say that more than 50% of americans support same-sex marriage. 30 states have laws or constitutional amendment banning it. both campaigns say the issue will not loom large in the race for the white house. support for the war in afghanistan is that a new low according to a poll by the associated press. only 27% of americans support the war. 66% say they oppose america s military presence there. the president has vowe
a lot of people wondering is there a cameraman behind that bouncing camera. it is pretty windy out there. also a nest of squirrels that are getting up for the day. we ve got a little bit of a breeze out there but not much right now. we ll see the winds pick up later. maybe enough to move the cameras around. we are very sensitive to that. 10 miles enough to make the day feel more comfortable. we are cool right now. we are too cool for school. we re always cool. that should be our motto here at fox. 53degrees here in washington. the humidity is down. the winds will pick up today. it won t be as breezy as yesterday. all right. sentinel sat-rad, look at that. very quiet. incredibly quiet out to ohio sorry, didn t mean to move that fast. out to the west, we don t have much going on. here is your forecast. highs in the mid-70s. yesterday, we were at 70- degree. today, maybe 74, 75 for a daytime high. yesterday, we were at 70 degrees. should be an absolutely beauti
decisive game seven in new york saturday night. alex ovechkin and jason chimera provide the the offense and braiden holtby made 30 saves in goal. awesome. you want hat head? no. i ll have hat head after won t i m sarah simmons. i m will thomas. welcome to fox 5 morning news. we ll be wearing them after the show with pride. it was such a great way to i know. they just want us to get our money s worth. did you say you were out and about and all of a sudden i was trying to get back to the house to the watch the game. you was walking through bethesda and everybody was screaming after the first goal. because they saw you, right? yeah, that happens every day, will. just kidding. everybody was pretty excited about the goal. temperatures about 07 and a nice warm-up friday, saturday. i think even most of mother s day should be fine with lots of sunshine. we are done with the rain showers. had about a quarter inch of rain last night at reagan national. now