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We will continue to update you as more details become available. The senate is out this week so on cspan2 we are going to bring live coverage of a number of events including a house hearing at 10 30 that examines the future of why your Communication Networks and how Technological Advancements could impact consumers and businesses. Host host welcome back. We are joined by congressman joe barton, a republican member of the house energy and commerce committee. Thank you for joining us. Later this w...

We all want competition, but what we want to have really is an environment, and, in fact, the digital revolution is enabling more competition. Thats why we have these, we have cable and wireless and fiber and all of these things are part of the digital revolution. But ultimately in a new act what would like to have, in my view, would be a standard that ties the regulatory activity of the agency closely to an analysis of the competitive marketplace. And then only if theres a market failure or con...

And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, o...

And the hearing on the First Responders. Its only a matter of hours before we know why firefighters failed to help a dying man who was just steps away from their station. News4 will be at a hearing regarding the questions of the breakdown of communication between d. C. Emergency responders. Tommy wells is leading the oversight hearing which starts at 2 00. The focus, the five firefighters who failed to help 77yearold medrick mills who died from a heart attack outside of their station. In additio...

Road here in laurel combined ten lanes of busy traffic. This is where sevenyear old, evans, was to fend for himself by a bus driver about 3 00 yesterday afternoon. He began a long odyssey trying to find home more than a mile away. His aunt is renee hub. He was outside for almost three hours trying toe find his way home. Tyshon and his mother live here. Renee described a frantic family search for him. He was found after dark walking near the James Harrison elementary school. A few blocks from hom...

The unrelenting lake effect snow that dropped visibility in that neighborhood to a couple of blocks. Cold snowy weather in chicago can be blamed for much of the problem. There were more than 2,000 Flight Cancellations in the united states. Mother nature is starting the new year showing us who is really in charge. New yorkers bundled up bracing for the winter storm thats bearing down to the region. Sanitation crews loaded up on salt and sand in the morning and sent trucks out to pretreat the road...

Days. Meantime tonight just cold, 30 already in gaithersburg, frederick, 34 in leesburg and manassas. Tonight look for clear skies, very cold, 14 to 24, winds light from the south 5 to 10. Most of the roads are dry. You have a couple of piles of melted snow on your driveway. That could be ice in the morning. Be careful walking the kids to the bus stop and getting the paper early in the morning. If you drove in this mornings traffic, if you not what a mess it was. There were a you know what a mes...

There is pollution in the air and the water. And it does open your eyes when it happens in your state. And it was scary. Food and water and donated to people in the southern part of the state because we understand that that is how we respond to things. Said just ar guest few minutes ago and i rewound to listen to it again said, well, if this had happened in northern virginia. West virginia is a state. West virginia faced great state. And we have a great place here. And i know people are scared. ...

You see what we see off to the west. That is the back edge of the precipitation. It is going to come and go fairly quickly. The big store hasnt developed yet. It will combine off the coast of norfolk and create this big storm that is going to create blizzard conditions. We are going to see wind and cold. This is Clark County High School looking live. Light snow you can see. It continues to fall. The transition will occur. Upper 30s, southeast of washington. At or below freezing north and west. T...

Shinki in today. Im literally convinced of that. I will have spent 16 years in congress and i continue to be disappointed every day at the lack of foresight, the lack of judgment, the lack of longterm thinking and the lack of critical decisionmaking that occurs. Senior officials from comcast and Time Warner Cable were asked about the effect their proposed merger could have on cable and broadband consumers. The proposed 45 billiondollar deal needs to be approved by the federal Communications Comm...