you how he s being portrayed. the question that arises is how did he violate air space in let s go to news4 s pat collins with that part of the story. reporter: chris we spend bundles an bundles of money protecting the security of our city. and it s hard to believe that something like this could happen, that a man on a flying bicycle could buzz into our town and land, undetected on the capitol lawn. how much do you think we spent on homeland security a year? 100 billion? 50 billion. 20 million. i m probably low-balling. reporter: we have a lot invested in protecting the air space over the nation s capitol. missile sites strategically located around the city. fighter planes at the ready, poised to intercept airborne intruders, special orange helicopters that circle the city with warning message boards to tell stray aircraft to turn back. yet, with all of this, yesterday 61-year-old man on what he described as a flying bicycle penetrates the restricted air space of
i have been hearing a lot of people complain about it. going to be just fine today. expecting lots of sunshine. a little cooler than yesterday with high temperatures back into the low to mid-50s. yesterday, we were in the 60s. right now, 45 degrees. humidity, that is in the comfortable range, 42%. wind are out of the north at 15. gusting to about 25. we are having a cold front come through as we speak. this one is one of these very quiet ones that have very little in the way of cloud cover. should be a bright and beautiful day. out to the west, we have clear skies. you can see the mid-atlantic very quiet and we are expecting bright sunshine throughout the day today. enjoy your afternoon because we have rain back in the forecast. at least some showers for our day tomorrow. 54 today. so about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. 51 in winchester. and 56 the hot spot in fredericksburg. should be dry. thank you. time now to check in with julie wright. right now, off to a pre
removal. and whirlwind tour for the royals. prince william and catherine have busy day in california, abc 7 news at 11:00 starts now. we begin tonight with breaking developments between capitol hill and the white house. tonight house speaker john boehner issued a strong statement in advance of tomorrow s debt talks. live in the satellite center with the latest on this, richard? it is a nailbiter for weeks, president obama and house speaker boehner have been talking about a deficit reduction deal worth more than $4 trillion in cuts. tonight a sharp right turn by the speaker now says he s seeking half the original figure, $2 trillion in reductions. the washington post says boehner, who met with mr. obama told the president a mid size package is the only political possible alternative to avoid default on the national debt. speaker issued a statement saying, quote, despite good faith efforts to find common ground, the white house will not pursue a bigger debt reduction
it s about 24 hours from now when we ll have our best chance of seeing the snow showers. no rush. what? no rush. no rush on the snow. well, enjoy the rain. it will be the warmest day in almost two weeks today. temperatures may flirt close to 50 degrees for a time. already 51 in baltimore. 51 degrees in andrews air force base. 55 down in st. mary s county this morning. a lot colder,though, back out west into the blue ridge. 33 in martinsburg. 34 winchester. no widespread reports of freezing rain in the shenandoah valley. some pocke might be cold enough to support a little freezing rain, so be extra careful. there s more rain coming now. the heaviest across portions of central west virginiand eventually the cold air will be spilling in behind that band of heavy rain showers. we ll have the shows around for much of the day with temperatures climbing into the upper 40s to near 50 degrees. but after about 6:00 tonight, things really start to get colder. by tomorrow, cloudy