bill: he is a tough hoosier! baker is doing just fine, he told the folks there, who rescued him, he is not going kayaking in the winter, ever again! martha: seemed like a good idea at the time, right? you know what this is, about the third rail, folks, medicare, social security, and medicaid. critics are now going after president obama because he didn t touch any of those in his new budget plan, and several analysts out there believe that both parties are kind of playing a game of chicken here, waiting for the other side to make the first move, in case it gets nasty, when it comes election time, and, what would slashing entitlements actually do to help the president? it has worked for these two governments governors, andrew cuomo and new jersey s chris christie, interesting these two guys have found each other in common situations in many ways and both have been not afraid to make tough cuts and both of them are
winds was howling out there during much of the night. cooler temperatures are here for our tuesday after enjoying a daytime high of 70 degrees yesterday. 6 now at reagan national. 32, so we re freezing in frederick. 29 in hagerstown. fredericksburg is 41. we re 40 degrees in ocean city. we ll look at our satellite- radar together and let s see what we can find. we ll find generally quiet conditions across the eastern third of the nation. looking out to the west, high pressure is out there. that will be building in the next couple of days. cooler today, highs in the low to mid-40s. we ll start a gradual warm-up starting tomorrow that will peak by friday with highs once again into the upper 60s to near 70. sunshine, cooler, still breezy out there but not as windy as yesterday. winds out of the north and west gusting to about 25 miles per hour. more details on the forecast in about three minutes. back to you. can t wait. thank you. the house has passed the patriot act. it fa
be a colder day today as well. let s take a look at the temperatures across the region. we can show you what is happening out there currently in washington. we have a temperature of 36 degrees here. 34 in baltimore. 34 at dulles airport. 41 in fredericksburg. hagerstown, you are at 29 degrees. winds are gusting into the 20s. 28miles per hour in washington. the most recent wind gust, 21 in gaithersburg. 16 down in leonardtown. 31 in manassas so quite the blustery morning. you will hear it blowing up against your house, your windows and the like t will blow your car around too as you are driving in. day planner for today, wind continue during the morning. we will see sunshine today but it will be much cooler after reaching 70 degrees for a brief period yesterday afternoon. today, mid-40s, low to mid-40s. that will be it. you think tucker was saying a 25-degree difference from yesterday. julie wright is here with the traffic. if it is trash day in the neighborhood and you pu
think there s no new money to pay irs folks. bill: where do you get the money and what s behind this? stuart varney digging into this, what s dollars idea? got to close the tax gap, that is, the gap between how much money the irs actually collects and how much it thinks it ought to collect. that s a tax gap of some $300 billion per year. so you hire an extra 5000 agents, bringing the total number to well over 100,000 irs agents, boost their budget by 12 percent, to a total of $13 billion per year. they re doing it to close the tax gap, bring in minister money. bill: where did you get this tax gap, by the way? who comes up with the $300 billion? that s basically an accusation that americans are not paying their share. that is correct, and it comes from an irs study of 46,000 taxpayers conducted in 2005, it is assumed that the $300 billion gap there s a $300 billion gap, however, how you account for the billion dollars cash economy, that has to be included in that look,