Amy for now were live in northwest, amy aubert, abc7 news. Larry thank you. In the 6 00 a. M. Hour of good morning washington we showed you when the protesters began climbing a construction crane north of the white house. At 10 00 they unfurled a banner that read resist. Stephen tschida picks up the coverage now live. Stephen . Stephen they are still up there. Lets get to it. You can see high up above 15th on the towering crane. They unfurled a banner that from a distance appeared to hang over the white its crazy. Its crazy. Also the weight commenced for the seven activists to descend and face charges. But on the ground, many stop to take photos. To express support for the activists. I hope they are safe. I got to think about it. Its put a big smile on my face. Two of the activists handcuffed themselves to the stairs to block the wa the Police Officers at the ready to apprehend the activists. They will be arrested and they could face a slew of charges. But at this time, the disruption
Wednesday morning. We will build a great wall along the southern border. The president set to move forward with another Campaign Promise today. Mr. Trump says he will take executive action on immigration and is expected to impact refugees and visas. Melanie alnwick is following latest from outside the white house, mel. Good morning, steve, allison a significant amount of security penning around the white house on pennsylvania avenue right if front but later today it will be another kind fence or right arm a wall people will talk about. The wall is coming President Trump in tweet last night big day planned on National Security tomorrow among many other things we will bull the wall the president is expected to make announce president ial and perhaps sign executive order at the department of Homeland Security later today. Clear priority according to whait house. Can to direct agencies and congress to commence with that work as soon as possible. It was something he promised again and again
Wednesday morning. We will build a great wall along the southern border. The president set to move forward with another Campaign Promise today. Mr. Trump says he will take executive action on immigration and is expected to impact refugees and visas. Melanie alnwick is following latest from outside the white house, mel. Good morning, steve, allison a significant amount of security penning around the white house on pennsylvania avenue right if front but later today it will be another kind fence or right arm a wall people will talk about. The wall is coming President Trump in tweet last night big day planned on National Security tomorrow among many other things we will bull the wall the president is expected to make announce president ial and perhaps sign executive order at the department of Homeland Security later today. Clear priority according to whait house. Can to direct agencies and congress to commence with that work as soon as possible. It was something he promised again and again
Were up there 16 hours before coming down about an hour ago. Tom roussey is live for the message they were hoping to send. Certainly the talk of this part of town all day long and into the night. Finallyago, l street reopened after being shut down the entire day. About an hour ago, the protesters came down. There is video we took ,on l 15th and 16th street. Seven greenpeace protesters finally decided the 217 foot put in the back of a police van, and taken away to apparently spend the night in jail. Its not clear what charges they will face. Very early this morning. Apparently before the construction crew got here, they scaled to the top and spent the entire day unfurling a banner that said resist that you could very easily sefr white house. Some folks applaud it with a data, others were not so happy, including members of the construction crew that lost an entire day working on this retail building. These construction guys are not happy. They lost a day of work. What do you say to them
And changeover to some sprinkles later. It is around frederick, domestic, dust damascus, damascus. Flurries may be switching over to a sprinkle later on, which could make for an isolated slick patch this morning. 70 down tomaryland,. 70, holding in this area today the rest of the area is dry and breezy to windy with temperatures at least getting into the 40s and 50s, but a cold start. Cloud cover and a flurry to the north and west of our area. Todays high temperatures, going right up to about 53 degrees. Julie, i like the fact that we will get sunshine later so bring the glasses heading out the door, and a nice warm jacket. We will show you our next 50 and 60 degree hi the accident activity on the inner loop at gallows has cleared. I95 north is where we have delays heading out of dale city to the capital beltway, about a 33 minute commute toward 395. He earlier crashed is gone, but unfortunately it takes a while to clear out. Struggleng to be a i95 toward 395. No problems leaving oxon