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some doubt whether they apology will have any future dollars behind it or not. i think they realize that they were losing money and support. reporter: congressman jim moran says the apology doesn t go far enough after komen severed ties with planned parenthood earlier this week. the largest breast cancer organization said it would not fund organizations that are under investigation, but the congressional probe into planned parenthood is political. now komen founder and ceo nancy brinker seen here in an earlier interview says we will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. no federal money ever goes to fund abortions. we know that the move in congress is a politically motivated one and actually this funding from komen had nothing to do with abortion. it has to do with early screening for breast cancer. reporter: while planned parenthood leaders are hopeful future komen grants will ....
continues to grow. fox 5 morning news continues right now. good morning. it is friday, february 3rd, 2012. taking a live look right now over washington, d.c. you can see the national cathedral in silhouette there. it is going to be a chilly day but nothing too bad out there. nothing we can t handle. good morning. i m sarah simmons i m wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. you know as long as my kryptonnite is not out there, which is snow, we re good to go. right, tucker? we re good to go. not a lot to talk about this morning. we have very quiet conditions. it is clear. expecting a nice day today. not going to be in the 60s or 70s. like i like it. some of us like winter weather. we ll see if that happens down the road. not going to happen today. today will be just perfect. we are cooler than we ve been last several mornings. 38 in washington. but honestly, much of the area here is flirting with that freezing mark this morning. definitely jackets in orde ....
it is really something when women s health care without over politics. they triggered a huge outcry this week when it was revealed of the foundation behind the annual three day walk had changed grant criteria eliminating planned parenthood. they cited a federal investigation into accusations of fraud and using taxpayer money for abortions. today we will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. maybe women will get the services they need and are expected. others say she should have kept the been in place. i think planned parenthood should be funded by the federal government. there is a lot of deception going on. it will start an immediate out rich to get the iconic charity back on track. republican chris sterns vowed to continue his investigation saying the obviously do not need komen s dollars. very political on both sides. so this controversial issue has divided many ....
we re generally between 70 and 75. as well as right around the bay. their temperatures in the low to mid-70s. in the mountains low to mid-60s. yesterday we had the front pushing through, and that did trigger those storms which are now long gone. we ve got a clear sky. the bright spot in the southern sky is jupiter. we have on tap for today plenty of sunshine. sunrise at 6:10. by 9:00 we ll be near 80 degrees. bright sun with low humidity throughout the day. afternoon highs reaching, yes, low and mid-90s. and then by late afternoon we should be back down into the low 90s. we will have increasing humidity tonight, and changes on the way for tonight and tomorrow. we ll look at your night planner. that will be coming up in ten minutes at 5:11. now let s check our tuesday morning traffic. danella, how are we doing? we are doing great. the roads look great. i m checking cameras for you. i don t see anything really slowing you down in our area. especially if you re taking th ....
where press secretary jay carney says the president will sign, it but we want to frame up exactly what this deal is. we know there s been so many over the past couple days. what the house voted to do tonight was raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion. it currently stands at $14.3 trillion. in exchange for doing that the government will then cut $2 trillion from federal spending over the next 10 years. later on a bipartisan commission will set out to find another 1.5 trillion in deficit reduction which kill come from entitlement programs and tax reform. will come from entitlement programs and tax reform. both sides had a lot on the line in this emotional debate. we wanted to lay out for you the republican and democratic take on what they gave up, what they achieved and what was at stake for all of us. we have a real interest making sure we don t get into this spot again and that we ought to have a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. we unnecessarily sen ....