Cowboys. The prize, a first class ticket to the playoffs. Thank you for joining us. Im maureen umeh. The redskins are neck and neck with the cowboys. The score is 77 at half time. Fans are hoping the skins will come into the second half dominating. We are out live covering the game. Audrey barnes is live in northwest with fans who are hailing their team hopefully to victory. Audrey . Reporter this place is packed with redskins fans. When Alfred Morris scored a touchdown to tie the score, the noise in here, the fans were so excited. Over at the field before the game there were plenty of people there getting in one more tailgate. Theyre all hoping this will not be the last game they get to cheer on their team. Rg3, rg3 reporter you would be hard pressed to find a more Exciting Group of fans. They flew home from germany to spend the holiday with us. Reporter and tomorrow is colbys 27th birthday. Whats it like to celebrate your birthday at a playoff game like this . Surreal feeling. Its great. To be here with the family and everybody. Such a great game tonight. Looking forward to a great victory. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you reporter also in the group, gary, who was 45 today. Do you think youll get that Birthday Gift . Im hoping they win at 12 00 so we both get the gift. Reporter the whole season has been a tasty gift for this Ticket Holder, who says he would have fired up the grill in the middle of a snowstorm for this game. Ive been a season Ticket Holder six years, after being on the waiting list 16 years. So its starting to pay off and see good games here. Oh, yeah, i got a big enough coat. Reporter as he warmed up around the fire, earl barbie thanks the cold snap favors the skins over the cowboys. Were used to the cold. Theyre not used to that. Theyre in that warm weather, nice, in the dome and everything. This is going to make this will determine the season right here. Reporter these fans have something in common. Theyre already thinking about winning it all. [inaudible]. Reporter hopefully in a little bit well find out if colby and the rest of these fans will have plenty more to cheer about after the game is over. Lets hope we do. Meanwhile, metro is staying open late. Trains will run an extra hour tonight. Fans leaving the field will have service from the morgan boulevard station. Riders can make connections to other lines, too. Entrances at other metro stations will close at their normal times. As if fans needed another reason to support the burgundy and gold, when and if they make it into the playoffs it could mean a big boost for the local economy. Officials in Prince Georges County says the team contributes tax revenues from the game and Income Tax Revenues from employees at the field. Local businesses are raking in the cash. Lauren demarco has the story. Reporter each time the redskins play at home, Prince Georges County brings in approximately half a Million Dollars in direct revenue. The executive director of the countys conference and Visitors Bureau says what really matters is fan attendance. There is a 10 admission tax on tickets told. Reporter then the out of towners. 5 county hotel tax. So that will contribute as well. Reporter along with the direct revenue coming into the local government, many of the businesses here in Prince Georges County also reap the benefits during game time. Loaded up, got our subs and everything like that. Plenty of beer. Reporter rg3s jersey is selling the most. Which jersey do you want . Rg3. Reporter its hard to keep up with demand. Rg3 jerseys. We have some women seizes left and kids. Reporter winter hats sold out. You have this coveted hat. Theyre sold out here. I had it since the first day it came out. I got first. Nobody else dont have it. I got it first. Reporter in the county, officials include an anticipated amount of revenue for the regular season their budget forecast. Any additional from post games . Thats a bonus. Reporter chris and heather are staying at the nearby radisson. If they get to the playoffs youll come back . Absolutely. If theres a home game weve signed up for the lottery or whatever. Got our tickets ready. Paid for. Reporter in Prince Georges County, lauren demarco, fox 5 news. Prince georges county Officials Say all the tax revenue collected from the game goes into the general fund and used on education, Public Safety and transportation. We asked our facebook fans what they were doing for the game tonight. Decorating the house burgundy and gold and cheering for robert. Shes of course referring to Robert Griffin iii. Heres one, i am not a crazy fan, but i love the way they bring such joy to the dmv. Stay with fox 5 for continuing coverage. Coming up in a half hour, scott smith will join us live from fed ex field with an update. And hell join us immediately following the game for all the highlights and a recap. Fans at fed ex are dealing with gusty winds tonight. Gary mcgrady joins us. Thanks a lot, maureen. I think the winds have calmed down quite a bit, which is the good news. Theyre not gusting like they were earlier. They were gusting up to about 40 Miles Per Hour. We even had gusts today that were up to 50 Miles Per Hour across the area. Temperature has cooled down. 33degrees in the city. Probably pretty much the same at fed ex. Gaithersburg into the 20s. Frederick now down at 30 degrees. Most places at or below freezing. Overnight tonight temperatures will drop. The winds have come down a little bit. Yes, theres a windchill factor. But its not much different than what the actual temperature is. Feels like about 25 degrees or so here in washington. Obviously 52 degrees in annapolis is wishful thinking. Thats an error there on the computers part. Clearing skies overnight tonight will be very cold. Down to about 27 degrees tonight here in town. But outside of town, out in the suburbs, overnight tonight talking about temperatures getting down into the teens. Really, really cold. One of the coldest nights weve had so far this season, maureen, and it looks like this cold stuff is around to stay. Let me just theres still a snowflake in the forecast for new years day. Well talk about new years eve and day coming up. Sounds good, thank you. Coming up, no deal. After another day of failed negotiations on capitol hill, we are nearing the oneday mark of the fiscal cliff. We have an update on where things stand, plus our analyst, mark plotkin, weighs in. Later, parents can breathe a sigh of relief. Finally a social networking site that is kid friendly. Those stories and more coming up on the news at 10 00. new tonight, secretary of state Hillary Clinton is in a New York Hospital tonight, after doctors discovered a blood clot. It stems from a concussion she suffered earlier this month. Doctors found the clot during a followup exam. Shell remain in the hospital the next 48 hours so doctors can monitor her medication. The looming fiscal cliff, lawmakers on capitol hill today, leaders say no deal is in sight. Happy new year. Reporter the house and senate back to work for a rare sunday session, trying to figure out the fiscal cliff negotiations. A lot of talk. Very few solutions so far. Our membership is as frustrated as the American People were sworn to serve. None of the votes well be casting today have nothing to do with the deadlines we face in slightly more than 24 hours. Were here, were ready. Reporter president obama sitting down for his first sunday morning talk show interview in over three years told nbc its time for lawmakers to nail down a deal. We dont yet see an agreement, and now the pressure is on congress to produce. Reporter republicans and democrats going back and forth behind closed doors, working through the night, trying to avoid some of the most painful tax hikes and spending cuts in our nations history. Theres still significant distance between the two sides. But negotiations continue. Reporter a possible sign of progress came when Vice President joe biden rushed back from delaware to the white house to work the phones and reach out to republican senator mitch mcconnell, who hes worked with on many deals over the years. Were willing to work with whoever, whoever can help. No single issue that remains an impossible Sticking Point. Reporter if these talks fail overnight, Senate Majority leader harry reid says hell push a white house fall back bill, raising taxes only on families making over 250,000 a year, and also extend Unemployment Benefits for 2 million americans, that could face an up or down vote in mondays session. Were going to come in 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, and well have further announcements perhaps at 11 00 in the morning. I certainly hope so. Reporter so much at stake for your wallet. Because if we go off the fiscal cliff, it will be the largest tax increase since world war ii. Not to mention the fact that if theres no deal, the markets may react in a very negative way. At the white house, ed henry, fox news. Lets bring in fox 5s political analyst mark plotkin for more insight. Good to see you. Good to be here. Despite the setback, both sides are saying there will be a deal. Im wondering, is there political theater, and if so, what does it aid . I think a deal will be minimal. Both parties are concerned that they will look bad. Right now polls show that the public holds republicans responsible. But democrats are worried, too. They control the senate and the presidency, and they feel theyll be damaged. So maybe this insecurity about their, both their political futures will make for something, a minimal, but at least something. President obama was on meet the press this morning, taking his argument to the american public. How effective is this, and one could say shouldnt he be talking to lawmakers directly . He did talk to lawmakers before. Right now his representative, joe biden, was in the senate for a very long time, is trying to forge a deal with mitch mcconnell. Theyve had a Successful Partnership in the past, and harry reid, the majority leader, seems to go along with that. So maybe the outlines of a deal can be between those two principals. Then again, we have john boehner, speaker of the house, has to control his own republican party. What happens if mcconnell and biden create a minimal deal and boehner cant sell it, then were back to square one, which is failure. Right. Which boehner couldnt do with his plan b a couple of days ago. Thats right. The question is, if some deal should be reached, im not expecting something thats overreaching, something large, is it shortterm . Very shortterm. And then im sorry to be the dispenser of bad news, we have the whole fiscal cliff again with the fiscal reputation in terms of the borrowing maximum, the ceiling, which will come due in about a month where they have to raise the debt ceiling. You remember the president said, im not going to play that game anymore. Unfortunately, hes going to play that game. So well have crisis number two, even if they solve this mini crisis today, or tomorrow. This white house fallback deal that senator reid is talking about pushing, if it comes to that, talk a little bit about this. That is the very minimal. What that is is going back to what he originally proposed. Anybody who makes over 250,000, their taxes will go up. This is something that republicans before didnt agree with and the president actually raised it to 400,000. But now maybe theyll pass that, and the extension of Unemployment Benefits, 2 million people, lose Unemployment Benefits. If that should happen, theyll say, wait a second, we capitulated on that to fight for another day, because we just had to produce something. Okay, so were hearing from both sides, were so far apart. Deal might be reached. I want to know, and im sure folks out there want to know, what really is the Sticking Point here . You have social security, which the republicans took off the table. Thats right. Goodpoint. What is the Sticking Point now . I think the republicans feel that theyve conceded that yes, they will tax people 250,000 or more. And so they will be on record for the first time in 20 years increasing taxes. They want something in return. What they want in return is something that hurts, and that means if theyve taken social security, which you have pointed out, spending decreases, spending limitations, spending restrictions, so they can go back to their conservative people and say, look, we wanted something, we got something, even though we had to raise taxes, even for the most wealthy of people. The real problem, more than anything, we dont have contested seats. These districts are drawn, and republicans are more worried about a challenge from the right in a primary than a general election. You need more contests where people have to come to the middle. Ill be around. You sure will. Thank you as always. President obama says hell put his full weight behind a law to prevent gun violence. Listen to what he said this morning on meet the press. It is not enough to say this is too hard so were not going to try. I intend to meet with republicans, meet with democrats, i will take to anybody. I think there are a vast majority of responsible gun owners out there who recognize you cant have a situation in which somebody with severe psychological problems is able to get the kind of high capacity weapons that he this individual in newtown obtained, and gun down our kids. The president says he will put forward a very specific proposal and would like to get through congress in the first year of his new term. The senate has approved a 60. 4 billion recovery package for areas affected by superstorm sandy. The bill faces an uncertainty future in the house. Reporter there are a couple of reasons why the 60. 4 billion aid legislation for sandy may languagish in the house. Number one, the cost, and number two, the calendar. Some lawmakers are uncomfortable with the costly package, with the nations tight Economic Situation they might want to scale it back or include cuts elsewhere. Here is one gop congressman from south carolina. We live in hurricane alley. It may be me next, my district after the next hurricane. We absolutely have to pay for it. Its the right thing to do. We cannot continue to borrow this much money to pay for things that we want but want to pay for out of our tax money. Reporter the possible holdup in the house prompted the governors of new jersey, new york and connecticut to send a letter reporter the second difficulty for the house, the calendar. Theyre running out of time. House gop speaker john boehner, who has signaled he does support some kind of sandy aid, has not decided whether or not to bring it up for a vote in this session of congress, which ends thursday. If they dont vote on it by then, then the bill will expire and the next congress will have to start on it all over again. Just ahead, somber weekend in fairfax county, as family and friends mourn the death of a College Football player killed friday night. And a horrible accident on the west coast kills at least nine people. Well have the latest details. And tonight is all about the redskins. Scott smith join us live with an update on tonights game. Well be right back. d. C. Police look for the gunman who shot a man to death this morning. It happened after midnight. Victim has been identified as 23yearold angelo paine. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Family and friend held a vigil tonight for a College Student found dead. They remembered zavier stringfellow, a battlefield grad stabbed to death friday evening in vienna. He was involved in an altercation. His body was found aside a crashed minivan. 22yearold Johnny Bonilla has been charged with murder. The two men did not know each other. Stringfellow was a sophomore in virginia. We know the name of the woman who died in a row house fire in greenbelt. The blaze displaced five people. Sports is next. How the early games affected the redskins playoff responsibility. Scott smith and dave ross are up next in sports. welcome to fed ex field. Im scott smith, where if this season came down to week 17, it will come down to the final quarter. Redskins lead 147 in what has been a rather slow scoring game. Unlike the thanksgiving game that these two met in back in november, obviously it was a 69 point combined effort in that game. 147. Redskins have taken the lead in the late third quarter. Griffin with a nice run to give the go ahead score. It has been a record setting evening for Alfred Morris. Passes the franchise season rushing yards total. He also surpasses Charlie Taylors rookie touchdown record. 11th in this game. Been a great defensive effort by the redskins in this one. Two tony romo interceptions. Redskins seem to have it on their side this quarter. Less than 100 yards passing for rg3. Little bit of a weakness in that leg. Not running a lot. He did just run in the go ahead score of this game, so we will keep keep tuned into the final quarter of play. Obviously the crowd, playoff atmosphere here, packed house, as the winner of this game will claim the four seed in the postseason. Weve had announcements of the playoff scenario, if the redskins can win this one, they will host seattle next sunday, 4 30. It would be televised here on fox 5. Of course, a lot of things happened today. Well bring in dave ross to give us a glimpse. Some things we wanted to lose ended up winning. Thats right, scott. Get warm, well see you later. The skins would know their fate earlier in the day. There was a scenario where they could have gone to the playoffs before they played the cowboys. Bears needing a win at detroit to keeps hopes alive of their own. First quarter, down 30. Cutler, had him on my fantasy team league. To earl bennett. 60yard score. Bears up 73. Seven minutes to go. Lions down 9. Matthew stafford, deficit down to 2. Three minutes to go. The bears have a 3rd