Equipment. How reliance on china could be making it even more challenging. And songs for the soul. A stunning performance by Andrea Bocelli as millions spend easter separated from family. Well talk to him only on cbs this morning. It was so good. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Oh, man, look at this. Its a mile wide. A series of tornadoes tore a path of destruction from louisiana to alabama. I heard this really loud bang. I was like, okay, well, the window is gone. All 50 states under a federal disaster declaration. We are hoping at the end of the month we can look around and say is there any element here we can cautiously start pulling back on. A cautious reopening of the economy. Is new jersey ready for that . I fear that we could be throwing gasoline on the fire. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now out of the hospital after recovering from covid19. We will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. Easter sunday was celebrated in unique ways fr
Above freezing yet at Reagan National airport. Holding on a 31 degrees. 32, quantico. 27 in winchester. In terms of what we have for our temperatures, feels like to rodgers, 21 in leesburg. It feels like only 18 degrees at Reagan National airport. It just a cold through the afternoon. Make sure you layer up them a cover up your head if you have the chance were put on a hat. Cloud cover off to the west of us, brilliant sunset around the capital beltway. The hourly forecast will only make it to around 32 to 33 degrees through the afternoon hours. The winds will begin to ease a little bit. Cold temperatures overnight. Christmas week outlook comfortably the holiday quickly approaching, more on that coming up in a few minutes. Adrianna victory for doug jones. His win over roy moore makes him the first democratic senator in alabama in 25 years. The race was extremely close with jones winning by 1. 5 percentage points. That adds up to about 21,000 votes. Maggie rulli is in alabama with more o
Together in friendship as well as in infrastructure. As this weeks infrastructure week, its a great opportunity for us to highlight the critical needs we have in this country. Senator inhofe tomorrow we will question secretary chao on the administrations priorities and its my hope todays hearing will be a productive lead into her visit. Last congress, the e. P. W. Committee led the charge to pass the fast act, the sixth highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This was the largest one since 1998. Nobody believed we could get it done. Others thought wed get an 18month bill but senator boxer and i as the chairman and Ranking Member insisted on five years and it shows people of opposite different philosophies can get along and make wonderful things happen. However, the current investment is not enough to fully address our needs. The fast act authorization is about 305 billion over five years. Yet, according to the United States d. O. T. Report from this year, the backlog
As we have it. In the meantime, if you know anything about the robberies, call the crime line at 1 888lockuup. Remember, you do not have to give your name when reporting a crime. We also have breaking news about a fire in Virginia Beach. Crews got called out to a fire at a house on victoria drive near continental street around 4 30 this morning. Dispatch tells us two people have been hurt in the fire. Paramedics took them to the hospital. We are working to find out how they are doing. Two animals were also hurt. We will have updates all morning long on air, and on wavy dot com. Our other top story this morning is cold weather. The super doppler 10 weather team has been warning us about this all week. So even though the snow isnt falling the Winter Weather is definitely not over. Meteorologist deitra tate joins us now with more on these freezing temperatures. Today isolated flurries before 7am. Otherwise, around 30. Wind nw 1020mph. Tonight cold. Lows in the cold with increasing clouds.
Well see another system bring rain to the region early next week stay tuned for updates. Good morning, hampton roads. Lets check traffic now. We have new information about a fire we first told you about last night at 11 00. Firefighters in virgnia on atterbury court, near newtown road. One firefighter was hurt, but should be okay. First responders from norfolk assisted. The red cross is helping at least five people find a new place to stay. We continue our coverage with developing news on the peninsula. This morning, Newport News Police are investigating a second possible meth operation on middlesex road. Officers busted one on the same street over the weekend. Its only a couple houses down from the meth lab police found last night. Investigators say a followup to sundays bust led them to the second home across the street. Rico bush is live at hidenwood north apartments near warwick boulevard. Rico, you talked with detectives this morning whats the latest . Don, katie, investigators sa