the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. speaker, i commend the gentleman, mr. mckeon, for his straightforward commitment to the young men and women in american uniform. at this time, i yield three minutes to my colleague, my friend, the chairman of the subcommittee on readiness, the gentleman from texas, mr. ortiz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ortiz: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of the conference report for h.r. 2647, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2010. this is, my friends a very, very good bill. we cannot ignore the fact that we are fighting two wars. we are fighting a war in afghanistan and a war in iraq. the conference report before us today reflects our efforts to strengthen the readiness posture of our armed forces. it authorizes a toal of $244.5 billion for operation and maintenance, including $4.7 billion for army trainingering $13 billion for army and marine corps equipment reset and $2555.3 million for other. has $170 million for maint

the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. speaker, in a mind's eye, picture a young army corporal preparing to drive down a road in his security vehicle to help in an ongoing firefight in the mountains of afghanistan. picture in your mind this young corporal dressed in the army fatigue uniform, and m-1682 standard issue rifle in his hand, with bullets made in america for that m-16a2. he is in the latest security vehicle provided by the united states army. that m-16a2 rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. the ammunition for that rifle was furnished by the congress of the united states. the body armor on that soldier was funnished by the congress of the united states. and the vehicle in which he rides that security vehicle, was furnished by the congress of the united states. as this young soldier, this young corporal goes down the road, look at that soldier and answer the question, did you vote to support me as a >>> the committee will come to order. we welcome our guests, witnesses this morning, as well as

have to do it in front of the missouri house of representatives. somebody in the missouri house has got to sponsor a bill to get him out of there. we will get somebody to do that upstairs, upstairs meaning my producers. >> the guy is rated on a 5 point -- bill: i don't care what he is rated. we don't know who is doing the rating. my guys are going to find a missouri legislature to get it started. now we have to go to norges. now i have got to explain this. have you got cabs and petty cabs. which are little things where the guy pedals and go around. >> do you that on your side job. bill: i do that after i got off the factor i pedi cab. they don't like each other because they are vying for the same buck and they're cutting each other off. the pedi cab is going slow and the guy is beeping the horn. two of these guys get into it roll the tape. we will show you what happens. there is the pedi cab guy. cursing at the cab guy, ok? there, nice. then he throws something at him. so the cab guy, throws it back. so it's building and, whoa, there it goes. now h

the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. speaker, i commend the gentleman, mr. mckeon, for his straightforward commitment to the young men and women in american uniform. at this time, i yield three minutes to my colleague, my friend, the chairman of the subcommittee on readiness, the gentleman from texas, mr. ortiz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ortiz: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of the conference report for h.r. 2647, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2010. this is, my friends a very, very good bill. we cannot ignore the fact that we are fighting two wars. we are fighting a war in afghanistan and a war in iraq. the conference report before us today reflects our efforts to strengthen the readiness posture of our armed forces. it authorizes a toal of $244.5 billion for operation and maintenance, including $4.7 billion for army trainingering $13 billion for army and marine corps equipment reset and $2555.3 million for other. has $170 million for maint

unfortunately, more flooding out in missouri and kansas. that big storm but look how much of that moisture is heading to our north. there may be some sprinkles for folks up into pennsylvania or even in the northern maryland. temperatures right now into the 60s. heading out tomorrow morning to school, there will be some cloud ace round but i don't think any rain. temperatures into the mid-50s and tomorrow we're going to see our tomorrowxd up toñr near 80,n into the low 80s for you folks in warrenton, spotsylvania,Ñi fredericksburg with a southerly wind. weather front will bring in at least the risk of a few showers to start out the big holiday weekend. after we get more into saturday and sunday, i think the drier air will be coming in. right now the holiday on monday looks pretty nice with temperatures in the 60s. next week a touch of fall with temperatures into the 40s in the mornings, i think. back to you. >> thanks, bob. >>> the man who with his ,ufe virginia founded one of washington, d.c.,Ñi landmark places, ç1gn's chili bowl has di

in jefferson city, missouri, 2004, the pilot and co-pilot were laughing about alcohol minutes before impact. they both died. investigators are looking to whether the 2009 crash in new york. pilots usually do adhere to the sterile cockpit rule. but says to improve compliance, there should be more training and more observation. >> but a properly train ed airline pilot sits in the jump seat and observes his or her fellow pilots and has the ability to comment, to question. >> in that situation, however, a pilot might be careful not to break the rules. more realistic way to get a sense of the problem might be to pull cockpit voice recorders and listen to conversations. but people on all sides of this debate say that's a nonstarter. gene meserve, cnn, washington. >>> one man's goldfish became the victim of a family dispute. his common law wife apparently lost it when they had a fight. so, she took it out on the family pets and things got ugly. 8 >>> in man reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman. he says he's not guilty. but you have to hear the details that came out in court

we're talking about oklahoma through kansas, now towards missouri. it's a stationary boundary turned moo a told front later fwrad you'lly shifting to the east. look at the snow coming down, the white areas on the radar, south dakota, portions of nebraska, too, getting light snow. not much out there, maybe an inch or so. but the real thing we're watching this monk is the rain developing from new mexico through the texas panhandle in towards just south of kansas city and stretching down i-70 into st. louis. look at all the rain around st. louis itself. one thunderstorm line is not moving this way, basically moving to the east. if you're getting heavy rain right now, this train of thunderstorm action is going to go right overhead over the next couple of hours giving you more rain, three to five inches worth central missouri, illinois and stretching into indiana. here's the indiana radar south of indianapolis. rain is almost in the city itself, gets in towards basically cincinnati, cleveland and detroit later today. o'hare, midway will get affected in ch

she is joining us from russellville, missouri. miss olten, i thought i knew everything about being a crime victim when my fiance was murdered before our wedding, but i cannot imagine losing john david or lucy. how are the parents? how are her parents tonight? >> they're a wreck. i haven't heard from her dad today. so i can't imagine how he's doing right now. i know her mom's a wreck. >> you know, just hearing the facts, miss olten, i can hardly take it in. she only had about 1,000 feet to walk. 1,000 feet to get home from her friend's house. and just the shock of a 15-year-old neighbor girl being the suspect. i know the family is stunned. >> it just -- it's so unreal. >> when did you first discover that elizabeth was missing? >> her oldest sister called me about 7:00 and told me they couldn't find her and that they were out looking for her, that she was headed to her mother's house, and then they went up to the other house where she was supposed to be playing and they said she wasn't there. >> so she started walking home at 6:15.

flash flood warnings from southeastern kansas, southwestern missouri, into central missouri. overnight tonight there's going to be more of the same. nothing around us but look at the area of rain out there stretching all the way into st. louis. moderate rain, even some thunderstorms mid-october thunderstorms through parts of central missouri and that train of moisture continues on up into illinois. all of it -- a lot of it moving to our north. look at missouri. over seven inches of the month. we've had less than .1 of an inch, over 5 inches the last 24 hours. winchester. 66 degrees. here's what's going on. overnight tonight in our future cast there's the area of storminess. you can watch and see yet another in a series of storms moving to our north. we'll get a bit of moisture coming in tomorrow night. then saturday morning there could be a few passing light showers, but then another area of high pressure, i think, pushes in enough to give us a fair amount of sunshine for the weekend. and this weekend, some great color, near peak to just about peak through the poconos, up int

martins, missouri. peggy launs, this is the olten family spokesperson. thank you for being with us. >> caller: hello, nancy. >> miss florence, please tell me how the family is doing tonight. >> caller: well, the family is doing as well as can be expected. the family is a very strong and loving family and pulling upon each other and supporting one another in this terrible time. >> miss florence, according to all of our sources, this was an extremely safe neighborhood. the mom did everything right. she knew where her daughter was, just down the street with a playmate. it was 1,000 feet away. it was daylight. she had a cell phone for elizabeth to stay in touch with her all the time. >> caller: yes. it was a very safe neighborhood. she did everything right. she was a very loving and concerned mother. >> peggy florence, the family, the olten family knows this 15-year-old girl. is that correct? >> caller: the children played together. yes. >> we are taking your calls. out to lakesia. hi. >> caller: hi, nancy. my family and i thank you very much for what you do

. >> from the great state of missouri, where everyday, mr. chairman our thousandsfñof mob members are showing where the markets are free.xd our members are showing çthey to the elected 1eofficials, from tax money, because it's their tax money and saw rules into law, and thousands were across the state and demanded that our federal officials listened to them, and said, keep your hands off my health care. mr. chairman, members in our state say çshow me"çprosperity creating an environment that allows businesses and markets to operate free, and then you will see prosperity. mr. chairman, we had a president from the state of missouri who was harry truman, his name name was give them hell, harry. and he #gsaid he told people tç truth and they thought it was hell. h,4sj>p2iq't6x,) of missouri are giving them hell, because we are telling them the truth çand we are goi to get the job done.l5 >> from the great state of nebraska.ç >> mr. chairman, greetings from nebraska, we have held 23 grassroots events across the state. in three month

two to five inches of rain is what was reported across eastern missouri. this is wait it looked in st. louis. flash flood warnings, we had them posted up there for that city. you can see why, knee deep in floodwaters because of about four inches of rain in that particular spot. what's going on now? where are those warnings and watches? the warnings are the light shaded green, flash flood warnings in red. three to five inches of rain on top of what you've already seen so that's what we're calling for, two to four over the next couple of hours is what you'll get with that major squall line. here's dallas, cold front off to the west. it's a slow moving cold front, had which means it will rain over one spot for a longer period of time, why we have so much rain coming down at the rate it is. dallas, radar picture, most of the rain sliding to the east on i-20 toward shreveport, showers into memphis, ground stop at the memphis airport because of the thundershowers. to the north faurnlg, here is the louisville radar, breaking out a bit with the scattered showers,

kansas city, half of it is in missouri and half in kansas. so if somebody in missouri kind of goes over the line into kansas and finds out, hey, i could get a couple hundred bucks less a month on the same health policy, why can't i buy that health policy from an insurance company in kansas? what you're saying is, yeah, that's ok. allow people to shop for insurance across lines which then reduces the monopoly problem in the insurance industry. that's something that don't you think most republicans would support that idea? mr. burgess: the real stradgeji in this debate is we never really explored those types of ideas. maybe it doesn't need to be throughout the united states. maybe there could be regions, maybe there could be resip rossity between states. we've never explored that. one thing that concerns people, you get 10 years of taxes and six of benefits from this bill. none of these good things that come people's way and lift the burdens of health care, none of them happen until after the next presidential election. part of that is to keep

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here's columbia, missouri, with over two inches of rain. and earlier today, winds gusting to about 40 miles an hour. so overnight tonight, we're going to continue to see another cool night. the color is really coming on fast now. up in northern parts of maine, around the lake, too, colors coming out in new hampshire. noheastern vermont, got some pictures through the internet. there's maine, nice color up there. even though the skies are cloudy. as it in far northern new hampshire. you can see the nice color up there. as we go through the next few weeks, we'll be spreading to the south. in our own neck of the woods, not until the tail end of october, early november. overnight tonight, high pressure moves off. tomorrow as our winds turn into the south and southeast, milder air comes in. then late tomorrow and early on saturday, a cool front comes through with a few scattered spriles. but behind it, our winds will still be into the southwest as the main area of storminess is up around the lakes. that means especially for saturday and sunday, f

it's heart break in missouri tonight. i just got off the phone with the sheriff you were listening to moments ago. he told me interesting facts about how they came to find the body of 9-year-old elizabeth olton. they said they received a handwritten note. he wouldn't elaborate. they said that note led them to find a juvenile, who is a person of interest. it was that juvenile that led them to the body in the woods. >> where exactly was the body found? out in the woods, where? >> reporter: he said it's near the home. but, we are talking act a square mile radius they were searching. she had a cell phone on her. at&t was trying to get the locati location. they were in the area twice and didn't come to the body until the juvenile led them to the body. >> this is breaking news coming into the news room now. a precious elementary school child. 9-year-old. she was visiting a friend. she was walking home very close to where her friend was. it was about 6:15 in the evening, wednesday night. she never made it home. her body has just

this story out of central missouri. we're having -- we're hearing rather they have a person of interest who may lead them to a body. elizabeth has not been seen since last wednesday. let's listen in and hear what officials are saying. >> since this morning's briefing several things came to bear. we were able to obtain some fm evidence through some analysis of some of the evidence in all honesty, some written evidence, we were able to develop a person of interest. once we reached that person and interviewed them ultimately they led us to where we have recovered elizabeth's body. we're not going to have a lot to add to it at this time. a profound number of resources, both from volunteers that have been here the vfw, the american red cross, but in addition our brother firefighters as well as the highway patrol, the fbi, certainly the office of the sheriff. we're not going to be able to expand a great deal on it other than to tell you that the person that led us to this is also a juvenile. >> local to this area? >> local to

how about this for heavy rain south of kansas city into central missouri? that moves in toward iowa and all the way toward lower parts of minnesota and that rain will stretch out and rain itself out essentially over the next couple hours near chicago and milwaukee. so you'll get some showers out of that later today. may slow you down at the airports, something we'll find out later this afternoon. rain showers, thunderstorms could turn stronger later today. it's going to be right in the vicinity of the cold front and below the warm front so the warm air here is moist. cold front kicking in. lots of powerful thunderstorms will develop late this afternoon through the evening hours just like yesterday. cold air still out there. frost advisories, freeze warnings. look at some of the readings now. 31 degrees in flint when you get back on in towards marquette. into the 20s. 27 for the yuppers. cold start. we'll have more details in a bit. >>> check out this video from china. the chinese trying to make their 60th anniversary celebration the perfect event for the da

rain just blasting through missouri now, right past st. louis. rain showers still over the city, but the severe weather, the strongest stuff stuff, is over to the east. no warnings right now, good news. there were a couple earlier this morning. they're falling apart. chicago metro, look at the rain overhead on the white side. the winds pick up later today and severe thunderstorms are possible in spots that i've put in red. more in just about a half hour. >> looks busy for the day for sure. >>> you've got to give credit to former house majority leader tom delay. did you see him count? i saw him count. it's the pointing that makes me a little weirded out. dancing te ing samba is hard en but he's injured. he has stress fractures in his feet and performed against the advice of his doctors. but here comes another point. i know it. he's going to point at him sx. it's coming up. he danced away with a score of 15 out of 30. >> is that good for that show? >> no. halfway there. but he's injured, and it really doesn't matter i don't think what people -- wha

., stretching towards columbia, missouri. it is moving to the east and gradually the north as well. it is getting in towards des moines where the showers and thundershowers outside of minneapolis and getting towards st. paul now. here is what it looks like. you see st. cloud, showers and thunderstorms. the line will race through the region and basically fall apart into the colder air mass. you still get the rain showers out of that by chicago and maybe even milwaukee and green bay later this afternoon. something we will be watching. severe thunderstorms are possible again. mainly the southern end of the cold front. around the gulf coast, stretching towards arkansas and back in towards northern parts and southern parts of missouri. it is something we will be watching. back over to the east we go. cold temperatures. air you see in dark purple below freezing. rinds freezing for the blue shaded areas. check out this photograph we have. typhoon parma. we got it yesterday afternoon, 90-mile-per-hour winds. into the philippines possibly as a super-typhoon. we hope that doesn't happen. they

she is joining us from russellville, missouri. miss olten, i thought i knew everything about being a crime victim when my fiance was murdered before our wedding, but i cannot imagine losing john david or lucy. how are the parents? how are her parents tonight? >> they're a wreck. i haven't heard from her dad today. so i can't imagine how he's doing right now. i know her mom's a wreck. >> you know, just hearing the facts, miss olten, i can hardly take it in. she only had about 1,000 feet to walk. 1,000 feet to get home from her friend's house. and just the shock of a 15-year-old neighbor girl being the suspect. i know the family is stunned. >> it just -- it's so unreal. >> when did you first discover that elizabeth was missing? >> her oldest sister called me about 7:00 and told me they couldn't find her and that they were out looking for her, that while she was headed to her mother's house and then they went up to the other house where she was supposed to be playing and they said she wasn't there. >> so she started walking home at 6

the gentleman from missouri. mr. akin: who is it who should allow the federal government to tell american citizens whether they're spending their money in the right place? isn't that -- isn't that kind of this big government topdown mindset that's come up with something as dumb as that? you need to try and get well. who's to tell you spent too much or too little? even the very sniff of that speaks of this big government mindset. mr. king: i suggest that it's probably people that were the predecessor of merkel, sarkozy or even gordon brown. or even they themselves. i heard it in an actual dialogue with chancellor angela merkel we spend too much on health care. they have the look over their shoulder as if to say global norms would be right. one would be the health care industry in iraq. when we went in there in march of 2003, the average annual expenditure for health care per person in iraq was 50 cents per year. so i suppose you could add that into the average, the global average. we do spend a lot of money. we get gr

heavy downpours around central arkansas, lower missouri. heavy rain also in dallas and boston, in towards san antonio. flash flood watches and warnings are the bright shaded green areas and the flash flood warnings where the water really rises quickly. all the orange colors here, two to four inches of rain we're anticipating the rest of the day. to big "d," the heaviest rain has passed back to your east. houston, you're going to get it. shreveport and to louisiana, you get it later this morning and it goes up the line in towards arkansas. stretches all the way to western parts of tennessee and kentucky. here's the louisville radar. broken showers around louisville. down to the south, that's the squall line moving to the north and the east. heavy rain once again when you get into columbus and ohio. that moves in to pittsburgh later this morning. heavy rain also a possibility in new york late tonight. more on that. show you new york city right now. traveling up there, so far clouds are out there. temperatures about 75. 87 in atlanta today. ho

another squall line developing on the northern end of that cold front as it gets on into central missouri but not into st. louis. notice where it's headed, though, coming in your direction. st. louis will, in fact, get some thunderstorms this morning and the rain goes all the way up to the north. hey, this thing was a snow maker across the plains. right around wyoming in the northern rockies, too, over a foot of snow in some areas started on sunday night and ended yesterday. this is northern parts of wyoming, southern montana. some areas got about 20 inches of snow. now it's falling apart and moving to the east. more on that in about a half hour. >> i know it's too early to talk about it but after i saw snow pictures, why not? are you ready to get great holiday deals this coming season? the retailers will pull out all the stops to get you in the store spending. that's good news in a bad economy, don't you think? >>> all right. it is time right now to salute our troops and today's salute is to army specialist phil lumpkin who has deployed to afghanistan. it is from his heartbroken fiancee.

it's heartbreak in the capital city of missouri tonight. i just got off the phone with the sheriff you were listening to just a moment ago. he told me interesting facts about how they came to find the body of 9-year-old elizabeth olton. he said that they received a handwritten note. he wouldn't elaborate. if someone brought it to them or they found it. they said that note led them to find a juvenile, who is a person of interest. it was that juvenile that led them to the body in the woods. >> where exactly was the body found? out in the woods, where? >> he said that it is near the home, but we're talking about a square mile radius they were searching. they knew to search in this area because she had a cell phone on her. at&t was able to triangulate the area. they were in the area twice and didn't come to the body until the juvenile led them to the body. >> this is breaking news coming into the newsroom right now. a precious little elementary school student, 9 years old. elizabeth olton. she had visited a friend. she was walking home very clo

there's some nasty thunderstorms right now around springfield, missouri. overnight tonight, in the meantime, the high pressure moves off the coast, and as it does, our winds turn more to the south and southeast. tomorrow will be milder. there is a cold front. a weak one, that by early saturday will be coming through. but in back of it, back to southwesterly winds. i think we'll be seeing some mild air again for the weekend. clearing, chilly, later on tonight. once again with just a few high clouds coming in. it will be a cold morning heading out tomorrow morning with the temperatures once again around the suburbs into the 40s to low 50s in town. we'll begin to see a lot of clouds coming in by the afternoon. overall, i'll call it partly sunny. but with south to southeasterly winds. temperatures tomorrow into the low 70s. so a bit warmer than today. there's that risk of a few light showers early on saturday. i think by saturday afternoon, the sunshine's back. temperatures mid to high 70s. and sunday, too, looks like a fine day with the temperatures into the

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martins, missouri. look at this girl. let's stop and remember army staff sergeant juan campos, killed iraq on a second tour. awarded the bronze star, purple heart and remembered as a leader who always smiled and leaves mother maria, three other abouts and two sifts and widow and son. american hero. thanks to our guests and especially to you for being with us. a special good night from friend of the show, vg. virginia. what a smile. everyone, i will see you tomorrow night at 8:00 sharp eastern. our prayers tonight with little somer and elizabeth's family. god bless them. until tomorrow, good night, friend. >> i'm brooke anderson and here's our news break. here's what's coming up. shocking developments in the espn sex shocker. did steve phillips's mistress try to get into his family's home. a frightening 911 call. >>> new developments in the michael jackson case. the investigation into his death. that is your news break, tv's first most provocative news show at the top of the hour on hln.

martins, missouri, peggy florence, the olten family spokesperson. ms. florence, thank you for being with us. >> hello, nancy. >> ms. florence, please tell me how the olten family is doing tonight. >> well, the family is doing as well as can be expected. the family is a very strong and loving family, and they're pulling upon each other and supporting one another in this terrible time. >> ms. florence, according to all of our sources, this was an extremely safe neighborhood. that the mom did everything right. she knew where her daughter was. just down the street with a playmate. it was about 1,000 feet away. it was daylight. she had a cell phone for elizabeth to stay in touch with her all the time. >> yes. it was a very safe neighborhood. she did everything right. she was a very loving and concerned mother. >> peggy florence, the family, the olten family, knows this 15-year-old girl. is that correct? >> the children played together, yes. >> we are taking your calls. out to lakisha in indiana. hi, lakisha. >> caller: hi, nancy, first of all, my family and

brought very heavily rainfall to northern missouri, iowa and illinois. right now raining heavily around chicago, as you see the front edge of the cloud will make its way into the region probably tonight after the midnight hour. during the day tomorrow cloudy day, majority of this rainfall will pass to the northwest of us. but a little tip of it right town in here we could see a light sprinkle tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. but the majority of the rain will be holding offer until early portion of saturday. but only the early portion of saturday. right now, nothing showing up on maryland's most powerful radar. kingville reports in with 58 degrees. 56 in moncton. glenwood 58 degrees. down annapolis it's 62. 62 in edgemere. chestertown also 62 degrees. here's the forecast. watch the front as it makes its way in our direction. it will start to increase the clouds tonight. there they are there. a chance for passing shower tomorrow afternoon. but then the majority of the rain comes through with the frontal system on the early portion of saturday. by satu

ohio, missouri and illinois put up bill boards in detroit. dozens of states gathered up their cheering sections. six governors even appeared o the phil donahue show to plead their case. why would general motors choose spring hill? people here say it's a natural. >> the lay of the land had a lot to do with it, the facing state highway on one side, railroad tracks on the other side. >> reporter: people here are already talking about the changes saturn will bring, jobs, new roads and improved water system, maybe a new high school. land prices have doubled in the last week. >> my farm may become a subdivision, it may be sold. i don't know. >> a lot of people are going to make some money on this. >> i think so. i'd like to be one of them. >> reporter: welcome signs were going up today but not everyone shares the isn'tment. >> we're not set up for it. and it's kind of like dropping an atomic bomb. >> i personally moved here so i could get peace and quiet. looks like got everything else but now. >> reporter: the saturn plant is expected to be built

look at columbia, missouri. over two inches of rain. there's where the cold stuff is and where some of the foliage is up in the far northern parts of new england. the adirondacks this weekend, near peak also far northern parts of new hampshire and maine. a bit of a way to drive. this is in the tippy top of new hampshire. pittsburgh, new hampshire. here's how it looked earlier today. nice color. overnight tonight for us that area of low pressure will be moving to our north. tomorrow, we'll be having southwesterly winds so that will be bringing in a little bit milder air and then as we go through the day, that area of low pressure moves to our north and then by the time we get into saturday morning some rain showers coming through but anything will be light. i think we'll be right back into some milder air and tomorrow, too. pretty mild and warm compared to the last couple days. so for the remainder of the night for the most part clear. a few high clouds. it will be chilly tomorrow morning but i think in the low 50s in town. some places i

looking at a lot less wind today than yesterday and you see the showers to the west in iowa, missouri and then minnesota. that front, that is coming forth forth late tomorrow, early saturday. that's the next chance of rain around here. look at the seven-day forecast with temperatures starting on the cool side. 69 today. another chilly night tonight. 74 tomorrow with maybe a late shower. saturday the terrapins are home. howard has a home game on saturday. they will be 7. skins on sunday, better weather 72 and more showers or rain moving back in on tuesday. andrea? >> thank you. >>> the united states is taking part in the key meeting in geneva switzerland today aimed at preventing iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. it is a complicated issue and western intelligence agencies are deeply divide over the state of iran's nuclear program. with me is the former cia director and a spy museum board member. welcome back to 9 news now. >> good to be here. >> reporter: much is made in the international and international media of the united states being at the table with iran after three decades.

illinois, parts of wisconsin and iowa getting heavy rain and even strong thunderstorms over parts of missouri and stretching to texas. may have chance for severe weather later this afternoon evening but looks like for us were seeing temperatures on the cool side but winds change from the west to the south that brings the temperatures up a bit as we get into tomorrow. 63 degrees in baltimore looking at 65 in dc. 64 winchester and 50's back in western maryland. the wednesday right in the northwest right now are changing from the south as we get to tomorrow. so temperatures bump up nicely as we connect off the wean. 51 degrees tonight. northerly wind at 5 with partly cloudy skies. tell you about the weekend forecast and details coming up. >>> the jonas brother in wax. star of pop group contributed to their look alike. >> you know he's from the so will the tv in my house look that amazing? yep. fios has 100% fiber optics straight to your home. and i get $150 back when i switch to fios? that's correct. i got a question, i got a question. is anybody here buying this? read it and weep pal. switch to

an emergency room in missouri is reaching out to patients on twitter. the hospital recently began tweeting patients about how long they'll have to wait for treatment at its er. the manager says the wait times are updated about every two hours. >> the time that we're posting is pretty much what people want to know. how long is it going take me to get to a room. >> of course, the manager also says people shouldn't waste time checking twitter in certain situations like if you're having chest pains. >>> the first survivor winner gist got out of prison for tax evasion. last night, richard hatch made his first appearance on "the joy behar show." he claims part of the reason he went to prison is because he's gay. >> did you pay those on time? >> absolutely. >> so what did they get you on, they just didn't like you? >> there is discrimination in this. we asked to ask the jurors about their feelings towards homosexuals and the judge denied it. we weren't even allowed to question the jurors that got selected and i'm not saying anything negative about the jurors.

twin cities all the way down through the quad cities from minnesota through iowa, even back towards missouri. that system will try to push our way. you can see a chunk of 30s, even down to freezing in green bay this morning. back to 56 in st. louis. even warmer across the central and southern plains. we'll actually get warm air pushing back into the picture. first things first, we'll have the sunshine this, gentleman. then the clouds -- this afternoon. then the clouds push in, with rain in the mountains. we may have showers in the afternoon. only 30% chance of that. but better chance of rain showers developing, even thunderstorms as the warm air moves in on saturday. here's the setup for today though, our two-degree guarantee 67 degrees. we will be seeing some clearing skies but it will remain cool. tonight, however, we'll drop back into the lower 50s which is an improvement from where we are now. tomorrow we're looking for at least an increase in clouds in the afternoon with a chance of a shower, 72. and we'll hang on to the warm temperatures into the weekend, follow the our wake-up window

picture radar combined we got rid of one system but now we have another system and it's already in missouri and some of these clouds will kind of spill in here tomorrow and some of these clouds in the midwest will race in here and mix with our sunshine in the afternoon so we'll start mostly sunny and end up partly sunny but still the bulk of the day is pretty nice. now the zone forecast remember all six zones are on our website wusa9.com and you can track the next system with our interactive radar, pretty cool stuff. we'll start on the west side of the river and temperatures around 70, 69 in winchester but 70 in lees berg and manassas and fairfax and maybe 72 down towards woodbridge. downtown 70-71 and no advisors for the bay, 71 in rockville. next seven days, here we go. tweeked it a little bit. 71 tomorrow and clouds come in late. 81 on friday and breezy but a warm breeze and then saturday showers possible or light rain, temperatures around 70 with the green festival saturday and sunday. temperatures in the upper 60s on sunday and rain and showers monday, kind of cool. in fact maybe the c

services committee carl levin of michigan and the house armed services committee chair ike skeleton of missouri who have very different ideas about all of this and we'll talk to the retired general who was once responsible for afghanistan, anthony zinni. i'll have a final word about the end of the world. it didn't happen and we'll have the details. but first national security add vidzor... advisor jim jones on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: we begin in the studio this morning with general jones. general, thank you for coming. more bad news from afghanistan this morning. eight american troops killed in this latest attack. this as the white house is debating whether to send more troops to afghanistan. i want to begin by asking you about this meeting that the president had with general mcchrystal, our top general in afghanistan. he met with him in copenhagen. after the general basically shot down the idea of changing our strategy in afghani

watch this rescue in missouri yesterday. local media reports that bystanders jumped in but couldn't get the man out, so they tried holding his head above water, even. firefighters eventually freed him, they did cpr. he is expected to survive. police are investigating how he wound up in the creek. >>> fresh air! ♪ you are my wife >> the man who wrote the green acres theme song has passed away. he also wrote the adams family theme song. he died saturday in his bel air home. he was 93. >> i didn't notice that about boe both of those songs. they get you to move. >>> some of these appliances with the best energy rating may not be that great after all. >> good morning. >> there's the energy star label, it's green, it's like a seal of approval. it's saving energy, and that way you can get tax rebates on some of them. but there are reports that many of the appliances should not qualify for the energy star stickers at all. here's consumer reports talking with cnn's mary snow. >> in our labs, we found that it used a lot more energy

the missouri highway patrol says that the truck flipped over -- look at this kept his fire during rush hour yesterday. several people ran to get the driver out. shortly after that the truck blew up. the driver got out without any major injuries. >>> the swine flu vaccine is in short supply and demand for it is causing long lines in health clinics around the country. but there's plenty of the seasonal flu vaccine to go around. as a result, the government says more americans have gotten their seasonal flu shots than ever before. at least 60 million people so far. the agency said that 46 states now have wide spread flu activity and that so far more than 1,000 deaths are being blamed on the swine flu. >>> is there are some things that you should never try to. do the police in new york say this is one of those things. check out this surveillance video from a gas station here in new york. two men armed with a shotgun tried to run a convenience store clerk only to have him grab the gun away from them. >> i get the gun. the next thing they know they shot. and i said you know, shoot me, shoot m

i do miss it. >> i've been asking for pictures and people like in missouri or florida is saying, it's still very warm and we've got no fall. people across the north are seeing very nice fall right now. a little rain today moving across parts of the northeast. that will move out and tomorrow is looking pretty good. this has been plaguing the northern plains. more of this will continue today and tomorrow. temperatures very cool, windy, and temperatures are around 15 to 20 degrees below averages for this time of year. this was what was olaf. this moisture moving in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas. we'll see more of that and hopefully some of that will make its way toward the fire in williams you were talking about. 60 miles from my hometown. >> scary. >> he's an all time peeper, i know that. >> the tom commander in afghanistan says he needs more troops or we'll lose the war. the option president obama now has and what will it take to win the war, next. >> talk about taking the plunge. why this couple went under water to say their i do's. she looks so beautiful. >> she does. >>> ho

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we'll watch this res dmu missouri yesterday. a report bystanders jumped in but could not get the man out so they tried holding his head above the water. firefighters eventually freed him and they did cpr. he is expected to survive. police are investigating how he wound up in the creek. >>> the man who wrote the addams family theme song has died. ♪ the addams family ♪ the house they knew ♪ when people come to see them ♪ they really are the addams family ♪ >> get this, he sang the song himself. his manager says he died saturday in his bel air home. he also wrote the theme song for "green acres." the cause of death is unclear. vic mizzy was 93. wow, his home in bel air. apparently being a songwriter paid well back in the day. all right. 35 minutes past the hour. we are watching -- is it hurricane rick? let's talk to bob. >> tropical storm now. >> now it's tropical storm. >> remember yesterday it was category 3 storm, 125-mile-an-hour winds. 180-mile-per-hour winds. right now only 65-mile-per-hour wind. you can see a littl

missouri memorial association. it's a private organization which owns and operates this battleship as a museum in pearl harbor. i'm aware that the association plans to put the missouri in dry dock and refurbish it. and i'm also aware that it was not part of the donation agreement with the defense department would pay for required maintenance. i am all for navy ships being placed in place where -- places where americans can see and appreciate the great service and sacrifice of the men and women in military, navy, and marine corps in particular. the deal was that they wouldn't. that they would take care of the maintenance of. it that they would take care of whatever needed expenses are. so here's $5 million. $25 million for the national world war ii museum in new orleans to help pay for the construction of new facilities as part of a $300 million expansion. it's a privately funded museum, opened in 2000, and through the help of the louisiana delegation has received $13 million in department of defense funds tucked in

louis as the heavy rain pulls in toward your part of missouri. more on that in a bit. >>> do the cash for clunkers program cost you big money? the automotive website says the taxpayers pay $24,000 per car. now, here's how they got that number. it says 690,000 cars were sold under program but only 125,000 cars would not have been sold any way. so the government spent about $24,000 for each additional sale. the transportation department says it's unfortunately that edmon edmonds.com says negative things about the wildly successful program. >>> hundreds of thousands of people should expect another traffic nightmare today. the california d.o.t. says the damage to san francisco oakland bay bridge will not open in time for today's morning rush. workers are repairing a section where 5,000 pounds of metal broke off and fell right into traffic tuesday. drivers are crowding alternate outs and using public transit in record numbers and d.o.t. says it's not sure when the bridge will reopen. >>> we all hate it when the power goes out when we're watching tv. e

north carolina, mississippi, wisconsin, florida, illinois, missouri, indiana, iowa, louisiana and the top socialized property insurance welfare state in the nation, the people's republic of texas. people's republic? where 6682,000 property owners have their handout for socialized property insurance. more than 36,000 scooping up $1.5 billion in claims last year alone. it's not that some politicians don't care about the health of all americans as much as they care about the wealth of those meshes who can afford waterfront property. and perhaps a less callous explanation -- greed. can't with principle because mandatory socialized subsidized property insurance is even more socialist than public health insurance. you can get insurance even if you've already flooded, even if you've chose b to live in a high-risk area. even if you know there's a big rainfall or hurricane coming. but what really matters to congress is that insurance companies oppose the public option but they love mandatory socialized government-run property insurance. according to the new york times, americans pay about $2.3

the next 24 hours, a lot of rain right around springfield, missouri. that purple shaded color six to eight inches of rain probably pretty accurate, too. now on top of that some severe thunderstorms later this afternoon. a little daytime heating plus the energy from the trough. watch powerful thunderstorms right here, the main threat, gusty wind. that's what i'm thinking for the afternoon. the back side of that, all snow in lower parts of north dakota. more on that in a bit. let me show you live atlanta. finally some good weather out of the major city. looking very nice today. it's going to be warm today. 80 degrees. mostly sunny. by tomorrow 85 and hot so there you go. not quite into fall yet across the deep southeast. more on that in about a half hour. >> bring on the heat. >> yeah. >> better than snow. >> i think so. >> gag. i was just reading a story about levi johnston. >> our favorite. >> yeah. you've got to wait for this one, okay? >>> also, you may have to wait and wait and wait for your next flight to arrive. we're hearing why more flights dela