And get ready for gold. Its almost time for oscar and all eyes on host chris rock. Im only here cause ellen didnt want to do the show. What will he say about the oscar controversy and who will take home the biggest awards of night. Will leo dicaprio and Sylvester Stallone finally win . We are on the red carpet this morning and inside the theater with behindthescenes secrets from hollywoods biggest night only on gma. And good morning, america. We have a lot of news overnight and well get to all that. Plus, all that excitement building around the oscars. Robin and lara out in l. A. Ready for all the action. Hey, robin. Hello there. We are inside the dolby theatre right now where the biggest stars will watch the Academy Awards. On the stage right over there, all eyes on chris rock. What will he do . What will he say . More on that ahead. Out with the shows producers last night. Yeah, no kidding, the executive producers, the guys calling the shots and they gave me a few tidbits. Some secre
Desk, its another rejection on the merger of pepco and exelon, that Decision Just came toup t. This was supposed to be a final regulatory hurdle for the merger deal that would create the Largest Electric utility. The Washington Post reporting the deal fell apart after regulators said there was no evidence after pepco said if coopera kooch couldnt perform adequately. They are considering a motion to revise the merger. P it looks as though the provisions laid out in the revision will allow the deal to actually happen. You meet remember the pfc rejected the deal once before. The mayor stepped in, negotiated a big settlement, 78 million. It was supposed to benefit the community. Now here again today, we hear about a rejection and more revisions on the way. Keep an eye on the nbc washington app, tom sherwood on twitter as well to see how this all pans were learning what may have caused a man to kill his coworkers. Cedric ford shot more than a dozen yesterday and killed three of them p. This
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