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Climate change yesterday, the climate change overnight, were hovering in the low 20s. were fortunate, or the inaugural planners are, that this thing didnt have to take place about 24 hours later. >> when i watched out of the house this morning, 16 balmy degrees. now, peter, lets talk about yesterday. a huge day in washington, a huge day for the president. lets talk about how he handled yesterday, but as importantly, sort of where we go from here. he laid out a pretty ambitious agenda of things h...

Most important things republicans stand for, which is restraining the growth of government? yeah. thats a problem and under his leadership, i hope with eric cantor and others we can fix it. >> brian: darrell issa proving does he not need any questions. himself.k a question and answer greta should have called in sick. >> alisyn: we dont like that actually. lets tell what you else is happening. a historic day on capitol hill today. in a few hours, the 113th congress will convene. the new class has...

Rehabilitation most of the past year. he is expected to be welcomed today by some of his fellow senators and vice president joe biden. kirk told nbc that hes walking up the steps to be an example to other stroke patients. >> i wanted everybody to say, you know, that depressed moment you can have when a stroke hits, say, look, kirk is even walking up the capitol steps as an example to patients. >> if you get time today, a tweeted a great story, the interview he did with "the daily herald" in the ...

Were these massive protests and people arrested for paefrly demonstrating on the capitol steps, wayne powell went right to their aid and agreed to represent 30 men and women pro bono. he is a fiscal conservative, which i think serves the seventh district very well. theres a problem with eric cantor, eric cantor is a man who shorted, who actually shorted u.s. treasury bonds for his own personal financial gain. this is unpatriotic. now, this is one of two things, either has been giving inside info...

>> still a possibility of thunderstorms down here on the mall. but the likelihood has dropped to 10%. so it looks like that big show at the other end of the mall on the capitol steps, capitol fourth can go on uninterrupted at 8:00 p.m. followed be by the spectacular fireworks show around 9:10 tonight. >> john: good news, steve. well be watching. thank you so much. steve centanni on the national mall. firefighters battling blazes across the west are keeping an eye out for fireworks tonight. theyr...

410,000 customers in west virginia didnt have power as of last night. ohio, 400,000 folks in ohio without. 340,000 in virginia, same deal there. power authorities and local governments say many of those people might be in the dark until this weekend. those people are going to have to deal with more soaring temperatures, 12 states under heat advisories this morning and the heat wave is forecast to last all week long. sandra endo is live in arlington, virginia, looks a bit of a mess behi...

Supported it. democrats did not have the support. a made for tv drama marching out of the capital and held a news conference on the capitol steps. >> we should be about the peoples business and stop wasting time over stunts that will have nothing to do with the future growth of this great country of ours. >> the vote capped a battle between holder and house conservatives. >> we were lied to. we were lied to repeatedly and over a 10-month period. >> for took to ten months to provide that and say ...

House chief of staff rahm emanuel is the latest to recommend decriminalizing marijuana, proposing those caught with 15 grams or less be given a fine up to $500. the associated press reports that republican congressional budget meister ryan points out in his 1988 class that he was voted bth prom king and, get this, biggest brown noser. a michigan lawmaker, lisa brown, used the word vagina will read from the tony award winning play "the vagina monologues" tonight on the state capitol steps. ...

>> reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didnt get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. hes got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. its going to get greece out of this...

magnificent seven? shell drop an olympic-sized bombshell. plus, a sister giving her brother and sister-in-law the ultimate gift. a baby. theyre called surrogate sisters, the good, the bad, the ugly in a few minutes. first, were putting mitt romney and your health care under the microscope. the supreme court will decide this month whether the presidents health care law will stay or go. now the devil, of course, is in the details. whatever the decision, mitt romney wants the law gone...