Alcohol to school this morning. Purple rain, purple rain remembering prince, one year after his untimely death. How music fans are honoring his leg sixt your news starts now. I love that song. Well play more for you later on. We begin tonight with the wild weather. Not only todays storms that knocked over trees and power lines but also the changes in store for this weekend. We have stream coverage ton. Tisha lewis is live on storm damageage control. Lets start with sue palka. Is all this behind us now . It depends what you mean. And yes, not done with rain and more on that in a moment. And all of the activities started after 4 00 Loudoun County and then Montgomery County and grays the district to Prince George to Anne Arrundel and reports that the reports of large hail anywhere from the size of d dimes to quarters to half dollars to even pingpong balls and golf balls. Large hail is a sign of a severe storm. And this hail was seen in bethesda. So, we thank all of you who september in pi
Being hit with a distributed denial of Service Attack repeatedly, either by someone testing them, maybe to see what would happen before elections and this is a pretest, or theyre actually threatening them for ransom. Reporter a ddos attack is used by hackers and easy to carry out. He says this type of attack send large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. Anything on the internet that can be used in mass to attack Companies Like dyn or other content providers with so much traffic that they cant handle the band width and the average consumer cant browse spotify or twitter today. Reporter he says theres no way to prevent a cyber attack like this and says it latest be hard to track down whos responsible. To trace an attack like this, you have to find the command and control serve esh thats kicking off the bot nets, and in the dark web we found many of these for rent. Doing it, where i can pay for 300 for 10 minutes of a ddos attack. Reporter we have not been able to s
And has not received sexual abuse prevention training. Children and parents need to know everything is being done to support them. Classes geared at preventing child abuse for k through 12. Training to improve volunteers, vendors and contractors as well. There is a new mandate that all employees report suspected child abuse to the department of social services, something that was not required before. Our job isnt to protect each other. Our job is to protect the children in our charge. The board will be meeting throughout the summer to get the changes immremed as soon as pol. Today was important because this was the first time we had the opportunity to hear what the task force was working on and what they found. Their meetings were closed to the public and it was countered to in a letter to the Attorney Generals Office and one person to these meetings. No word yet on what the attorney general found and that request. Reporting live from upper marlboro. Im tracee wilkins. Back to you in t
Some snow out there and theres snow down in our san juans and heavy rainfall on the Eastern Plains. Well talk about the cooler temperatures in a moment. Still seeing great speeds as we start the morning commute this morning from arapahoe to i25. Speeds into the 60s and 70s as you head along i225 and i70. Big closures where jamie leary is. Well have an update on that a few minutes. A live look this morning as we continue to follow breaking news out of central italy. You can see the damage here. 38 people reported deads and crews are searching to find survivors at this hour. It hit after 3 30 this morning. Aftershocks that brought buildings town. Rescue teams led a man out of the rubble covered in blood and also a little girl was carried to safety. These are some of the moments happening out there. Crews are using their hands to dig through the debris. They fear the number of deaths will climb as the day goes on. News breaking right now out of boulder this morning. Theres a swat situatio
School is back in session in eastern iowa cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is live right now in iowa city. City. Where students are getting ready to head back to class today. Stephanie good m. Morning. Good morning kelly yeah students in iowa city will need an umbrella or rain coat for their first day of school im right outside of southeast junior high where School Starts just before 9 oc. Different than Elementary Students who start class at 7fifty five. The School District is reminding parents about this swap in start times. They believe these start times better suit the different age groups. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent 22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two mil miles. Theyre planning for more traffic to start off the year. They hope drivers are paying attention so all k