And washington state. Today the d. C. Council will hold a hearing on a bill introduced by tommy wells calling for the decriminalization of marijuana. Kristin fisher is live outside the Wilson Building with a preview of the hearing. Good morning, kristin. Reporter good morning. Just to be clear, were talking about decriminalization here, not full legalization, two very different things. What this bill would do is it would decriminalize possession of small amounts of Recreational Marijuana in d. C. By small ams were talking about by small amounts, were talking about less than an ounce of pot. Right now what would happen . If youre caught with that amount of pot in d. C. Its a miss demeanor offense. First time offender faces up to ix months in prison and a six months in prison and a 1,000 fine. But if this were passed, the final would only be 100. Supporters say its vital for the citys youth, especially those who live in ward 8 where the hearing will be held later tonight. The thinking is
Nothing, hes joking, right . The hilarious sendup that has Andrew Garfield running for his life in an snl skit thats trending today, monday, may 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im savannah guthrie. Natalie morales and al roker are here. How many times have you watched that skit online . Probably about five times. Its hysterical. Its long, but were going to break it down in trending. A lot of people talking about that this morning. Were going to get to todays top story, and its that large wildfire racing through parts of oklahoma. The flames are being driven by unseasonably high temperatures and high winds, too. Nbcs jay gray is in guthrie, oklahoma this morning. Just north of oklahoma city. Jay, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Were in the staging area right now. Hundreds of firefighters poring through here,
Pageantry and propaganda. That and much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, july 27th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and good morning. Welcome to the weekend. We begin with breaking news from florida this morning. Seven people are dead including the gunman following a shootout at an apartment complex in hialeah. We have the latest. Reporter police are calling what happened in this south florida neighborhood possibly the deadliest mass shooting in the city of hialeah. Seven people are dead including the gunman. The s. W. A. T. Team took the man down in a hail of gunfire after eight hours of terror. He attacked his first victims after 6 30 friday evening and eventually took two hostaging before barricading himself inside an apartment. Police are working to see if the victims were targeted or if this is the act of a random act of man who snapped. His identity has nod been released. 20 hours later neighbored remain outside trying to get home. Wu multiple crime scenes still yet to process i
San jose s. W. A. T. Teams and police units swarmed a large neighborhood by story road and South Jackson avenue searching for a man who tried to rob a checkcashing store at gunpoint. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us live. And anne, apparently they caught this guy. Reporter yeah. They caught him about an hour ago. He is in the hospital right now. He was taken directly there from this neighborhood. We know that a dog was involved in his apprehension so it might have been a dog bite wound but he is expected to survive. It all started earlier this morning here at this business behind me this checkcashing business on story road and diana avenue in san jose. A man tried to rob the place by gunpoint just before opening time at 8 a. M. There was one employee in the store at the time, a woman. Shots were fired but the woman wasnt hit. She is fine. Police were notified and they got here as the man with the gun was running out of the building. They say he started jumping fences and escaped i
Speak. Most of the interior valleys are still clear. 46 santa rosa. 55 san jose. And 59 degrees in oakland. Lots of sunshine away from the coast. 70s and 80s inland. 70s and 60s breezy inside the bay cloudy skies continuing temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. Well start off this morning with a live look over at the bay bridge toll plaza. They just turned on the metering lights six minutes ago so well likely start to see delays beginning in those middle lanes in the fastrak lanes as well but right now we are just seeing them beginning to build especially in the cash lanes. Those far right cash lanes have been stacking up towards the overcrossing. Lets go to our maps. The drive time westbound 880 because of a stalled big rig approaching North Livermore avenue. They also just cleared this right before 6 00 so all lanes are open but i think this one is going to take a while to completely clear up. So big delays this morning coming thro