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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm ann curry. welcome back. >> thank you very much. i'm matt lauer. ben bernanke is expected to face pretty tough questions on capitol hill today. he'll be speaking to members of the joint economic committee. >> that's right. we've been getting a lot of mixed signals. recently wednesday' 286-point dow surge comes just days after the unemployment rate jumped to 8.2%. so both lawmakers and investors on wall street will be listening very carefully to what he has to say. we'll get a live rep...

into the upper 40s. western maryland, shenandoah valley. here's your day planner for this thursday. yes, you'll need a sweat ore jacket but by mid to late morning we'll be in the upper 50s and a southwesterly breeze shifting into the northwest as clouds build and temperatures climb to around 80. by mid afternoon. a delightful day, except we may be dodging some isolated thundershowers by late afternoon into early evening and we'll keep you posted on that. i'll be back in ten minutes with another update and a look at the hometown forecast. here's a look at traffic fwoo. l good morning,...

7th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm ann curry. welcome back. >> thank you very much. i'm matt lauer. ben bernanke is expected to face some pretty tough questions on capitol hill today. he'll be speaking to members of the joint economic committee. >> that's right. we've been getting a lot of mixed signals, as you all know. recently wednesday's 286-point dow surge comes just days after the unemployment rate jumped to 8.2%. so both lawmakers and investors on wall street will be listening very carefully to what b...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm ann curry. welcome back. >> thank you very much. i'm matt lauer. ben bernanke is expected to face pretty tough questions on capitol hill today. he'll be speaking to members of the joint economic committee. >> that's right. we've been getting a lot of mixed signals. recently wednesday' 286-point dow surge comes just days after the unemployment rate jumped to 8.2%. so both lawmakers and investors on wall street will be listening very carefully to what he has to say. we'll get a live rep...

capitol. 61 degrees. >> tom kierein is here to brarkt down for us. >> to get us back down to reality, the average temperature this time of year is 64 and right now many areas are ten degrees colder than that. right now we have our temperature at reagan national aurpt at 59 degrees and the dew point is comfortably dry, 54. there is dew forming around the region. all these areas in green are in the 50s. look at that. it covers a hurj age area. these areas in blue are in the 40s. that includes parts of shenandoah valley and western virginia and maryland. closer to washington, montgomery...