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rainfall accumulations momentarily. there's a thunderstorm complex over ohio that pushing to the east, falling apart. let's look at rainfall totals. in morningside, prince george's county, over an inch. three-quarters of an inch in gaithersburg. highly isolated downpours. today, low a deposing. increasing clouds and may be a stray shower this afternoon. -- low 80's today. at kenilworth ave. on the beltway, construction is moving out of the way. traffic out of southeast d.c. is good into the district. coming out of southern maryland looks nice. if nothing in and out of baltimore goi...

let's talk about the very latest. headline in "the new york daily news" the president realizing his poll numbers are going down. he's got to do something. tonight, he'll have an oval office address. it will be the first of his administration, trying to show people exactly what he's doing. he's trying to take control, i think. >> only use the oval office for very special events not the economic meltdown, not the increase of troops in afghanistan, not the health care debate but this, this the most important speech of his administration so far. >> something else will be happening today ...

Watching. israel approving an investigation into a deadly raid on an israel-bound flotilla. the eu saying israel could open at least one border crossing to commercial traffic. a geological survey in afghanistan reveals a trillion dollars of untapped mineral products. a pentagon memo says afghanistan could become the saudi arabia of lithium. we are waiting now on a news conference from a north carolina congressman bob etheridge. he was caught on amateur video getting involved in a physical confrontation with a young man on a washington street. this piece of tape wound up being posted online. it...

I mean what are you doing? you can't make fools of us down here. so it's something we never see in politics. >> it looks like the democratic party in south carolina is really, really a mess. >> i don't know if it's a mess no more than the republican party in some parts of the country where they have internal feuds and fights. the fact is, wolf, if you walked in with a cashier's check made payable to get on the ballot, $10,400. you're a citizen of the united states, it is against the law to discourage wolf blitzer to run. now i don't know how he got elected but that's the facts. the voters supp...

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