Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
Reporter triple digit weather can be extremely dangerous. When it gets this hot, its best to stay inside. This can be lifethreatening. When your brain gets to 107 degrees, it will start to dissolve and youll be left with permanent brain damage. Reporter while the game is still taking place, the school is keeping tabs on the players. The district has plenty of water stations and a medical team on site to help keep players safe. If they feel dizzy, we tell them to talk to our medical staff right away. Reporter this is another precaution. They got the medical tent set up out here so when players arent ton sidelines, theyre coming here to cool off. Theres a medical team here making sure that these players are safe. You can see this same thing is happening on the other side of the field. This game is just started about 30 minutes ago. Theyve got another couple of hours to go and then followed by varsity, hopefully it will be cooling down by then. Reporting live in pittsburgh, jodi hernandez
Causi any rumbles thunder but we have shower and some fog and a broader view showing that acrosshe eastern saesheaboard, rather delightful. How about 77 degrees in our Nations Capital . Still in the 70s for anchors town and paxnriver, i the 80s. Not as hot as yesterday but close to 90 degrees. We will talk more about the weekend in a moment. For traffic, we go to jack. Clay, we start on the beltway Prince Georges County before 202 accident activity has blocked two left lanes. You find we have activity closing powder mill road. Damascus a vehicle involved in a crash single vehicle. Tow truck on the scene and traffic is alternating. N radolph drive remains closed because of an accident. Back in to you. Jack, thank you. Breaking news off the coast of south florida. Seven americans, including West Virginia billionaire, were killed in a Helicopter Crash in the bahamas. Est Virginia Governor and one on the state Supreme Court s coles executives and others were killed in the crash and they cr
Muggy air and continues across the region. I95 north and east rain showers have moved from baltimore to the north. For us, its not a rainy start to our friday which is good for those of us that are vcationing with us here in the washington area. If you want to make that early joor walk, you will not need the umbrella but you will need probably to wipe your brow because the temperures are close to 80 in annapolis. How warm will we reach today . Few minutes. In we are following breaking news off the coast of south lorida seven americans, including a West Virginia billionaire, were killed in a Helicopter Crash in the bahamas. West Virginia Governor jim justice says coal executive and philanthropist chr cline was killed in that car. The plane was traveling to ft. Lauderdale. No word what caused the crash. Fire ripped through a house in the district. Firefightersay flames shot through the atsc of thi home am on barnhtreet on northwest. Four people are searching for place to stay and no one
Yesterday morning. It sparked fires at a couple of homes, gas lines cup tours and those whose homes were spared still have a lot of cleanup to do. All of a sudden, it was a large, rolling earthquake. Everything in my kitchen hit the floor. Picture frames started falling off the wall, everything in my bathroom came down off the shelf. Kids, theyre very scared. Reporter theres repair work also to be done at the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital where some plumbing was damaged and some patients had to be temporarily evacuated. All that cleanup is on tap despite those continuing aftershocks and the fear is they uld cause even more damage. Back to you. Thank you very much. As weve already learned, with that strong aftershock this morning, the shaking is far from over in ridgecrest and the surrounding area. Since that initial magnitude 6. 4 quake, there have been more than 500 aftershocks and the number is continuing to rise. This time lapse shows the main quake and then all of the aftershocks th