just moments away, a big senate chicago. in massachusetts republican changes the game in washington. we will see what it means for the fight over health care overhaul. doctors been haiti say they need more supplies. the relief from winter is over. maybe some snow as soon as tomorrow. good morning washington begins right now. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. good wednesday morning. i m doug mcelway. and i m alison starling. good morning. thank you for joining us. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. let s start with adam caskey. we have some rain out there. i saw two snowflakes. i love it. i love the precision of that. there could be a flight extent this morning. that will be it, a flag or two. there could be a flilake of this morning. that will be it, at a flake or two. these are all pushing off to the east. summit early morning sprinkles. temperatu
majority in the senate. a win for republicans could have a huge impact on capitol hill. republican candidate scott brown s hard-fought race against the heavily-favored democrats martha coakley in a special election carries in measurable political stakes. if brown wins the seat, democrats would lose their filibuster-proof majority. that could de raiderette the ralph health car reform and the obama administration s domestic agenda. if scott brown wins, health care reform could be dead or at least on life-support. brown and his party relish the opportunity, especially in light of the fact the president himself campaigned for his opponent. it would make everybody the 41st senator. it would bring fairness and discussion back to the equation. that is good for democracy to have people just talking about, instead of backroom deals, we talk about transparency and doing it the right way. we have been working every day. we do not pay attention, despite what everybody says, to
reasons why he s facing the felony. this is the second time this has happened, charged once before, you may remember in kill kim and plead guilty. and in california and plead guilty. we know he plead guilty on december 21st. first, it was because he wanted to get them away from the house and away from the children. after the story broke he had the guns in the locker room, he changed the story, saying he used the guns in an effort to play a joke on a teammate and apologized for the behavior and publicly joked about it, famously caught by a photographer, using his fingers as guns and acting as if he was shooting his teammates before a game in philadelphia. the next day, he was suspended indefinitely without pay. behind the scenes, the attorney was trying to negotiate a plea deal while the grand jury investigated. there is a development on another part of the story and that is about crittenton. police began look into this claim, the player arenas was attempting to play a joke