institute forum that he didn't think any deal is within reach. >> i don't think there is serious talk on the hill. i don't think the supercommittee is anywhere close. >> reporter: the supercommittee chairman admitted frustration and said that a deal can't be reached. >> as i said throughout the process, i am not giving up hope until that stroke of midnight. >> reporter: the debate being too small or three to 4 trillion being too big is rooted in appearances. >> a lot of this is political posturing. >> reporter: mark calabria is a economist of the kato institute. >> not only were we in favor of this, we were in favor of more and a lot of this is election year posturing for who is for more kev set reduction. >> reporter: mis -- deficit reduction. >> reporter: missing the deadline would trigger large automatic domestic and defense cut. there was little appetite especially in an election year. if there was any question this problem is not going away any time soon, the treasury department announced just a short time ago that for the first time in history, the u.s. debt today topped a $15 trillion mark, brian. >> tom fitzgerald tonight. following a developing story out of pennsylvania avenue. the officers arrested a man suspected of using an assault rifle. the authorities striked -- struck him down near pittsburgh. fox 5s paul wagner is live at the white house with details on the arrest. paul. >> reporter: brian, this is what we know about the arrest and how it happened. law enforcement sources say that there were receipts found inside oscar ortega hernandez's vehicle, the abandoned vehicle they found friday night. they indicated he stayed at a hampton inn in indiana, pennsylvania. the secret service basically going on a hunch and went back to that hotel yesterday. they showed a picture of this man to the hotel workers and said have you seen this man? and they said they had not, he was not there; however, when he returned there today, they called 911. fate is police immediately came to the -- state police immediately came to the area and they found him inside the hotel lobby. this is what stat police had to say about the arrest earlier today. >> a black bag believed to be in his possession was located near the hotel when he was taken into custody. as a precaution, a canine unit was dispatched to the scene. there were no explosives detected. >> was the hotel staff able to keep them in the lobby until troopers got there? >> they used some -- i don't know what they told him, if they told him we're looking for a room or what, i don't know what they told him, but he was patiently waiting in the lobby when we arrived. >> earlier today, investigators were seen on the truman balcony to the rear of the executive mansion where they were getting on ladders and they were looking at the windows. we understand that one of the windows was hit there at the truman balcony by one of the rounds and that shattered the historic glass and was stopped by the ballistic glass, the blast -- i have lost my track here. the bullet proof glass. it stopped the round and that is where they say the first round, there was a second round as well found on the white house browns and they're not saying where it landed and there is an examination at the white house to see if, perhaps, they can find any other rounds at this point. there were several shots heard by the u.s. secret service and that is unclear as to whether or not the rifle recovered has been matched to the rounds found at the white house and that is unclear at this point. sorry i lost my place there. >> and when shots were shot, we were never told. >> they didn't know that that did happen, but that shots were fired and they found a rifle. what we were told is that it took several days before they learned that the shot had the white house and did not confirm until yesterday and that is curious why it took that long. i will agree with you on that one. >> a former secret service agent talking about his time protecting the president. carl satara served presidents reagan, clinton, and bush senior. agents have to have at least five years experience in law enforcement to be considered. and six months in training to hone their security skills. he remembers the stress of being on the job. >> i fell into a deep sleep and was awakened to the sound of explosions and in the secret service, explosions are never a good thing. and it took me about two or three secs to realize what i was hearing were the fireworks celebration over sidney harbor. >> detective agents are assigned to the president, vice president, their families, former presidents, major candidates, and visiting heads of other countries. the president is in australia today where he made a major military announcement. the u.s. will beef up military perhaps down under with 250 marines based there next year, that can go up to 2500 the next few years. the president's staff said the decision is based on nearby china's growing military force. occupy wall street protestors have planned events to mark their two-month anniversary tomorrow. demonstrators plan to, quote, confront wall street early tomorrow morning with what they call stories of people on the front lines of economic injustice. and they also plan gatherings and marches at subway stops and city hall and those who who camped in do you caughty park will stay there despite a ruling banning tents and sleeping bags. shocking new footage from an occupy protest in seattle last night. the police use pepper spray to break up the crowd, sending a pregnant woman to the hospital and hitting an 84-year-old. check out this photo by the seattle p.i. took a direct hit from the pepper spray and that she stopped and plans to keep on protesting. the only d.c., iron workers and local leaders stood under the south capital street bridge to demand that congress pass the americans jobs act. they said the 69,000 bridges in the country that are structurally deficient are carrying traffic all day, including the south capitol street bridge. more iron workers can get back to the job of fixing the brims, which, in the end -- bridges, which, in the end, saves everyone time and money. >> it's not just a matter of safety and jobs, but a lack of vision and investment in our future. poor transportation, costs between 150 to $200 billion in year in lost deficiency. >> eleanor norton holmes said the president shouldn't have to try to fix the economy through an executive order and that congress should get moving on the bill. >> a rough week for hillary clinton. a paintball protest and a streaker. both caught on camera. we have the footage coming up. >> gabby giffords's husband has harsh words for john boehner about how he responded when she was shot. what he thinks he could have done differently. sue. >> a soggy wednesday for us and we're not done with the rain yet. some of you could have a rumble of thunder before we see big changes tomorrow. what is going on in sports? >> reporter: sue, it's dallas week. they haven't played the cowboys since week 3. the washington redskins will bring dallas to fed ex field this weekend and rex grossman, who started and played against dallas will get another shot. what he has to say about the chances of the redskins of ending a five-game slide is coming up. brian. the news edge at 6 just getting started. hang tight. >> congresswoman gabby giffords's husband has harsh words for the speaker of the house. the hill is reporting that former astronaut mark kelly scolds john boehner in a new book for failing to visit his wife in the hospital or calling to check on her after being hot in january. considering she was a member of congress, he would at least visitor call to see how she was doing. no word from the speaker's office. secretary of state hillary clinton not getting a warm reception in the philippines. protestors threw red paintballs at her motorcade outside of the presidential palace today. the crowd said they want to end the military pact between our two countries. clinton was visiting the country to urn a peaceful resolution to the territorial dispute in the south china sea. two days ago, she got a.m. bushed by a streaker while posing with executives in hawaii. he was carrying a tike torch and wore a loin cloth. she handled it well. wal-mart is coming to the district. with up to six stores. see the locations planned in d.c. and hear why some are not happy about it coming up. >> first, this ad ought to catch your eye. the united tellers of beneton, hard to believe they're around. -- has photo shot world leaders giving lip. president obama gives love to china's leader. there was a photo of a pope kissing the imam. imam. arvey. >> do you work for the f dice? chances are, you -- fdic? the agency is named one of the best places to work in the federal government. the nuclear regulatory commission, government accountability office, smithsonian institution, and nasa round out the top five on the list released by the partnership for partner service. they're based on employee responses to a survey. jobs are what d.c.acy mayor is trying to bring to the city. not everyone likes to plan. with the announcement today, there are six new wal-mart stores planned for d.c. beth parker has the story. >> reporter: wal-mart is a corporate giant with no stores in the nation's capital but that is about to chap. >> 22 years in the -- to change. >> 22 years in the makes and excited to see us come to fryez. >> reporter: the mayor is referring to this, skyland plaza. long said to be on the verge of development. the mayor announced that skyland will be home to two additional wal-marts planned for d.c. with another at fort taughton and four other sites announced already, that is a half dozen stores total. you would have six wal-marts constructed in a relatively small area, for example, here at fort taunton square at the intersection of south dakota and rigs road, northeast. and that is just a mile and a half away from another of those wal-mart locations. here on georgia avenue near rigs road. a wal-mart spokesman told fox 5 that the stores will serve different neighbors and that city leaders say it will bring much needed jobs. she worked at the wal-mart in 2007 and 2008j. they promised me $10 an hour and promised benefits. >> reporter: she ended up being part time and made $8.90 an hour, a dollar an hour less than told and the only benefits was a discount card. show is part of a coalition pushing the city and wal-mart respecting the employees and d.c.'s nearby businesses. >> we know we need jobs but where people can go and work every day, have a schedule that they can be effective part of the community, their family and we need jobs where people can afford to live in the district of columbia. >> five of the wal-mart stores are expected to open in 2013. beth parker, fox 5 news. if you didn't like today, you won't like tomorrow. >> and that is like today, but colder and windier. the rain will probably shut off. we're going to have a few more showers to deal with today and that is nasty. a live look outside, we have had drizzle and fog and a lot of measurable rain in many spots. if you live in southern maryland or the northern neck of virginia, southeaster virginia, you're going to have to watch for the possibility of thunderstorms later where the air is warmer and this area of low pressure that is moving and provides morian overnight could produce thors for you and start out with a look at your sentinel radar tonight and the light stuff north, some heavier batches to the south and as we get closer between charlottesville and fredericksburg, and this is going to continue working from the south. we watch an area of low pressure riding along the front to the west and to the south near the fredericksburg area, 1.3 inches of rain and fredericksburg has the green area there, too, estimated by doppler radar around the metro area and that is about the 4 of an inch of rain and heavier on the eastern shore, about 1.1 inches and more to come and we think the estimates yesterday are from a half an inch -- an inch to an each and a half and we expicture to get more in the south and you will get that as well. can you see the red outline here? that is a tornado watch that has gone up from north carolina and wouldn't be shocked if that got expandd into southeastern virginia. here come more batches of rain and the area of low pressure that is going to ride along the front will keep the showers going overnight and into the first half of tomorrow. to the future cast we go, we want you to see what we're talking about, we might get a break for awhile tonight and about midnight or so. the first batch of heavier rain is out of here. there will be another surge, we believe, not too wet for the morning rush hour and i wanted to pause it at 3: zero. the future cast, and -- at 3:00. our future cast, we're trying to suggest this might end as wet snowflakes north and west. this is in, out, in, out, and that is out again. don't be shocked if there is a splaty snowflake tomorrow afternoon and we think this is to be out of here by 2:00, 3:00, and what you're going to talk about is the big drop in temperature and the blustery wind. the high pressure will build in on friday and back to sunshine. as that high slips to the east over the weekend, we'll get a return flow and temperatures will get more adjusted and tomorrow, only in the 40s, the chill that you're going to talk about and in combination with the rain at the surface, we'll be watching the frontal system dragging a little bit to get out of here because of the low pressure system and that wet day for the first half of the day and then the cold is what we'll be talking about and the breezy conditions out the northwest at 10 to 20 and check out temperatures now, not bad at all, 59 degrees and above average. and here comes the colder air. chicago, 38 degrees. the frontal system is right here and it will only slowly move through the area. can you see also why we have the concern for maybe some rotating thunderstorms. richmond, 67 and raleigh is 75 and all of that cold air is going to bump into them. for tonight, showers continue and maybe a rumble of thunder south and east and occasional drizzle, 48 degrees and tomorrow, we expect to have showers into the early afternoon and colder and blustery, maybe an end to the wet snowflake and not a big deal. the temperature, 49 and that is the big deal. the colder temperatures, 49 for thursday; friday, about 50; saturday, not a bad day, 54 degrees and that is kind of nice. more clouds on sunday and warming into the low 60s, prop, monday, a couple of showers around at 60. >> thank you, sue. and you may want to check out thitis ring and the sculpture garden at the national gallery of art this weekend. the rink opened saturday. the sessiona is $8 for adults, 7 for kids and $3 for skates. the rematch of cowboys on redskins turf. one hopes to make his former team pay. the sportsen is next. and first -- sports edge is next. a woman gets a maybe as burglars break into the house. she was watching the surveillance cameras from home when show saw two guys break into the back door. she said there are two guys in the house and the cat is freaking out. they raced over and caught the them as -- then as they tried to leave. rap caught men. cç >> good afternoon, i'm dave feldman. normally dallas week brings with it a air of excitement in this town. the two teams started the found in 1960s and sunday is the 104th meeting between the two teams. 103 didn't go that great. week three in dallas, the third quarter, redskins scored the only touchdown of the game. and that gave the red skins a 16-9 lead. they pass for 250 yards. the final minute, by 2 and any chance of the rally and gets stripped from behind and fumbles. the cowboys recover to ice the game, 18-16. and the redskins compiled a 1-5 record since then and hope things will change the second time around. >> it's frustrating. everyone's frustrated right now. and to have the cowboys come in there, there is no better team to go against to get everyone fired up and have the extra, extra juice, extra motivation that -- to get this thing turned around and get a big victory. >> former cowboy running back troy is expected to make the redskins debut against the former team. played the past four years with the cowboys and rushing for 189 yards and the redskins claim soft wavers on october 29th and battling a hamstring injuriness is his arrival. i asked him if he's going to play on sunday. >> oh, yeah. i'm ready to go. and i have been patient. working hard and try to -- trying to get myself healthy and felt really good this week and as long as i go out there, i'll be fine. >> the stars could be aligned. sunday's your birthday, right? you're playing the old team. >> god don't make mistakes, there is a reason for that. i believe that and you know, i'm going to be patient and not going to say too much, you know, my former teammates on the other side of the ball, we're determined to get a win and turn the season around. last night, the caps experience how fine a loop it is betweenen withing and losing. the predators have -- between winning and losing and the caps lost 4 of the last 5. final minute, game tied 1-1. the shot on goal. mike camight beel on the door-- mike knuble denied. cleared up the zone on the left side and winds the battle for the puck. john erskine loses his stick and wilson passes down low to erat, back to wilson for the game-winning goal. debite 40 shots on goal, the caps fail and fall to the spreads, 3-1. -- to the preds. and mike rizzo schedule to meet with mark burly in milwaukee. rizzo spoke with relationships, the top three agent pitchers, and now you you're up to date on sports. back to you. >> thank you for that and now you have the news edge. the news isa owls-- is always on www.myfoxdc.com. we're back here at 10. the news edge as 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