Bracing for a blizzard. Heavy snow and whipping wind move into the midwest. Good morning from the cbs news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. No comment from the fbi following allegations the white house asked the agency to dispute a report about contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian intelligence agents. Later today, the president speaks to conservative activists and yesterday top aides spoke to the group. Good morning. Good morning. The president s speech comes amid bombshell reports. They asked the fbi to publicly down play reports about contact between the Election Team and russian intelligence officers. This is our time. Reporter Vice President pence the first day at the rallying against obamacare. Obamacare has failed and obamacare must go. Reporter praising President Trump for pushing the republican agenda forward. A strong military, more jobs, less taxes. Reporter the president s two closest advisers, white house chief of staff, Reince Priebus and bannon complimented each other before turning to heavier matters like immigration. Putting a wall on the southern border, making sure criminals are not part of our process. These are all things President Trump is doing within 30 days. Reporter and the media, which bannon calls the opposition party. If you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Reporter President Trumps feud with the media deepens amid the ties to both the Associated Press and cnn reported the white house chief of staff pressed fbi officials to publicly downplay communication between members of Trumps Campaign and russian intelligence officials. The fbi refused the alleged white house request. President trump is also expected to sign another executive order at the white house today and meet with former rival and critic, ohio governor, john say s kasich. Thank you. President trump called efforts to remove undocumented immigrants a military operation. Homeland security secretary, john kelly said there will be no use of military force. Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he used the phrase to describe the precision for which enforcement was being carried ou Jeff Sessions called for the use of private prisonens reversing obamas decision to faze them out and stepping up enforcement against recreational marijuana. No details about what the crackdown would entail. The controversy to opt out of town Hall Meetings is making headlines this morning. The arizona republic, the states according to the arizona republic, the states former congresswoman, Gabby Giffords urged them to be brave and face their district. To the politicians who banned their civic obligation, have courage, face your constituents, hold town halls. The attack on giffords is a reason not to hold town Hall Meetings, references safety concerns. South florida an empty suit instead of theirs, marco rubio. Rubio had not scheduled any town halle vents citing a trip to europe. He was back in town thursday. In protest, organizers staged their own forum with or without the republican senator. Constituents in seattle were outsz Dave Reicherts office, hoping for a facetoface forum. Instead, some had a live facebook text. He answered only prescreened questions. On cbs this morning, we are talking to senator tom cotton who endured a contentious town hall in arkansas this week. The Police Officer who fired his gun during a scuffle with teens made a big mistake. The trouble began tuesday. The problems with kids walking on his lawn grabbed a 13yearold. He said the teen threatened to shoot him. It was the officer who fired his gun when a number of teens assaulted him. No one was hurt. Two teens were arrested. The officer was not. Everyone may still face criminal charges. As a father and as a police chief, what i saw on the video posted on the internet. The 13yearold did not have a gun. The Dakota Access pipeline camp is empty this morning. The last demonstrators were removed from the camp yesterday. 46 people were arrested during a National Guard operation. The camp had to be cleared ahead of spring flooding. This morning, we are learning u. S. Backed forces gained control of mosul the route began this week controlling the airport and military base next door was critical to retaking the city. The u. N. Estimates 750,000 civilians are trapped in western mosul. Malaysian Officials Say a banned chemical agent was used to kill the half brother of north koreas ruler. Authorities plan to decontaminate the airport where he fell ill last week. Police say one of the women suspected of killing him got sick after the attack. It is deadly in tiny amounts. It was banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention north korea never signed. A strong winter storm is hitting the upper midwest and blizzard conditions are out. Heavy winds expected through tomorrow. Travel in some areas will be treacherous. Eric fisher has blizzard. Reporter good morning, everyone. Watching the storm move from the plains to iowa and minnesota and parts of wisconsin all seeing the heavy snowfall today. We are watching a line of storm that is will develop toward the Late Afternoon and evening. Thats the warm air. Severe weather potential highest in indiana as well as ohio, Northern Kentucky and the detroit area of michigan. Unusually warm air coming together with strong winds could have damaging winds and isolated tornadoes late today and into the evening. Dozens of record highs again in the east today, forecast 80 in nashville. Around 80 in charleston and 60s in boston and the 70s in philadelphia. We are going to watch a change as we head into the weekend and a preview of next week taking over the western half of the country. 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The suspected gunman is dead. And d. C. s new police chief is dealing with all of this on the first day of being nominated for the job. As mayor bowser officially chooses peter new sham to head the department. How he is responding to this. First though over to allyson rae for a check of the weather. Oh my goodness, 75 plus today in february. Allyson . Oh my goodness is right. Another warm. Take a look at the current temperatures into the 50s already. 57 for washington and 46 for manassas and 60 degrees right now for hagerstown. Now we are going to see a nice little you rememberway once again. We are head warmup once again, we are headed to about 20 degrees above where we are right now. What about record highs . You know what were going to flirt with them thats for sure. Record high at reagan is 78 degrees, some sunshine today and well stay dry. Heres your planner. 62 a little bit of a breeze. Will time out the rain shower and thunderstorms for saturday coming up in just a bit. Ellen . Allyson we actually have on accident already. 59 in virginia, as you head into d. C. , three lanes have been blocked in the lorton area no significant delays here and i think it actually will clear here soon just from the reports im getting. But watch out right now. 95 northbound could be a little bit slower, also southbound construction going on through dale city at dale boulevard heading southbound on 95 in virginia. Larry . Thanks. Good morning everybody. Im larry miller in the station station newsroom with breaking news from overnight. Three separate shootings and four people injured in southeast d. C. They all happened on wheeler road. Two hours and two blocks apart. Police tell us right now the shootings are not connected to each other no arrests have been made and all four people were aliving and breathing and taken to the hospital. Northern virginia ten people of 15yearold Alexander Reyes reeves. Police say they had video of her being tortured before she was killed in january. Her body was found two weeks ago near lake park in springfield and now investigators believe she was killed because she knew about the ms13 gang member in dumfries. Five people now face charges in the death investigation. The missing teenager is back home with her family in Prince William county. Police found 15yearold ka la mate in harrisonburg, virginia and they was with she was with a 21yearold man from estonia. She was first taken to the hospital but her family tells us that shes now back with them. Jan and mike . Thats a quick look at whats coming up larry. Thank you. Busy friday morning, the news at 4 30 tarts right thousand starts right now. Scary late night and Early Morning for the men and women in blue. Last night d. C. Two officers were shot. They were in the hospital recovering now. And these are live pictures from the hospital. Were trying to learn their conditions throughout the morning this morning. Yeah theres a lot going on for you right now. And were following all the stories, good morning, thank you for joining us here your honor friday. Im on your friday. Im jan jeffcoat. Really warm. Allyson taked away. A take it away. Woohoo it is friday. And you liked yesterday you are going to love today. We are headed to the mid 70s, a nice friday. Absolutely. 46 degrees from manassas and 55 for leesburg. Now a lot of sunshine once again today. These are your high temperatures. 76 for washington. Compare that to the record highs we are headed to that record territory. 78 degrees. Is the record high out at reagan and 79 for dulles martinsburg 79 as well. What about the rain showers for saturday . Yes, they are still forecast. When do they arrive. . This is the futurecast 10 00 in the morning on saturday were already into the mid 60s and reach 70 degrees briefly its going to be rather windy on saturday. Ahead of this front. By 2 30 some showers and thunderstorms lining up just west of 95. Here it is right on top of d. C. About 3 30. Its quick in quick out. Not going to last all day. Well go into the extended forecast coming up in a little bit. Good morning ellen it is friday. Yeah. Hopefully traffic not as bad. Loved yesterday went out for a run and a tank top in january. Its wonderful allyson. February. February . Mike mike did go out for a run too . I sure did. Five miles. Five miles . Yeah. Oh jeez hes beating me. Were in a fitness challenge this month. Out on the roads some construction inner loop of the beltway by georgetown pike also noticing some delays by gw parkway. Heading around the inner loop could be a lane or two closed but mike and jan