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today, tuesday, september 25th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, welcome to today, it s 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a tuesday morning, i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer, first we had replacement referees in the nfl and now you re telling me a shortage of bacon on the horizon? i can t go on. i m only one man here, i can only take so much. i will arm wrestle you for this later. the drought impacted the soy and, the soybean and corn crops, that s what pigs eat, that s why there s a problem in the next year. it s a dire situation for bacon-lovers. and in other pigskin news, i m repeating the same lame joke from the east coast, big story in football. the nfl expected to weigh in on the firestorm using replacement officials following what was an extraordinarily controversial game-ending call in a matchup last night between green bay. the packers leading 12-7. seattle tries a hail mary, it appears the ball is intercepted.
in congress. this is the most partisan atmosphere i have ever seen. this is not uniting. this is dividing. reporter: ryan stuck to broad themes and did not mention medicare or romney s tax returns. issues that have dominated the campaign in recent days. instead, ryan turned the focus back on the economy. promising to cut taxes to create jobs. when we tax our job creators and our businesses at much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors tax theirs, they win, we lose. that s what obama-nomics is. we re going to reject oba obama-nomics, and help small businesses grow and create jobs. reporter: northern virginia democrats say a romney/ryan administration s tax policy would favor millionaire businessowners over the middle class. providing tax breaks to the billionaires. what about the middle class folks? that s what i hear about when i knock on doors. what about us? that s a real, real life concern that i hear day in and day out. reporter: romney supporters say th
to during the summer traffic pattern so be aware of that maybe give yourself a little bit of extra time to deal with as howard showed us some rain coming in on 66 as well. be careful if you re traveling through the centreville area. although the lanes are open right now, traffic is moving well on 66 overall. we ll take a live look on the northbound side of i-95. you ll see the wet road conditions here north of the rest area coming up from dumfries into dale city and woodbridge. again wet roads but again volumes are still quite light in august. let s go back over to our maps and this time we ll head over to the other side of town. there are no issues to report coming in from the north on 32, 29, 95, the bw parkway and another live look outside. this time here on route 50 at route 410 heading through the cheverly area. you re going to be fine into northeast. we ll be back with more traffic at 6:11. back to you guys. today should be the day in annapolis the house of delegates
improve by friday and the weekend, our highs will be back in the 80s your forecast today, lots of sunshine i don t think we will see a passing thunder storm high temperatures mid- 90s. 96 washington and need a little relief, highs toward annapolis. i will be honest with you, i will hang out here as long as i can tony and sarah back to you indoors not bad at all right now. all right looks good thank you tucker. all right. i need some guidance here we are. we will do this now thank you very much following breaking news from southeast washington. a lot of police remain on scene in the 1700 block of 17th street that is where investigators say a gunman shot and killed another man overnight, and then barricaded himself inside a home. we saw a lot of activity out there just about an hour ago. lauren demarco is live in southeast to bring us up-to-date. reporter: well, we haven t gotten an update from police, this is still a very active scene, both police and fbi here, working