En route to the hospital aboard a Maryland State Police helicopter, and we e will k wilu posted as to the updates as we get them. And it is clear that the cold weather is a serious concern, and things are going to be worse. And in the next 12 hours, it is go ing to be feeling dramatically different along these parts and the mercury is taking a 50degree nose dive, and you will want to plan for the kids at the busstop tomorrow. Doug kammerer is here with more on the windchill advisory. Yes, many of us walked out and said, you dont need the coat today, and left it at home only to find out that the temperatures have dropped 20 to 30 degrees across the area. Take a look at the numbers that we saw earlier this afternoon a. High temperature the today of 54 in washington, and 59 in fredricks burlg, a fredericksburg, and 50s to the north and west, and this is how it feels, and the high temperatures were 11 or 12 00 this morning, but now we are down to 22 for windchill in d. C. , and 13 inga gai
Chemicals come from china. I cant make the vials fast enough. I cant make the swabs fast enough. So, i dont know whats right or whats wrong with that National Supply chain question, but thats where the federal government could help. But should the states take the lead on the tests . Yes. Thats exactly right. But we need the volume, and the volume is going to be determined by how well those National Manufacturers provide the kits to the 300 labs in new york. Once you take the test, theres a whole second function that were not talking about, which is you take the test tracing, you know. We have to talk through tracing, because people dont understand what tracing is. Tracing is then this function that weve never done before, where you hire an army of people, thousands of people, to be investigators, in essence not a scary investigator but an investigator who traces the contacts of every person who is positive. Thats an entire undertaking that no one has even imagined before. So, ideally,
There you can hear it. That militant group linked to al qaeda carried out the brazen day side attack on a Shopping Mall in nairobi last september killing 60 people. It comes just a day after fighte fighters laid seige to a prison where dozens of their comrades were being held. Elise lab bot joins us from washington. Why attack them now . The administration is kind of sensitive to the idea that there are a lot of Global Threats going on and they attacked somalia, not going after isis for instance in iraq in a greater way. Officials telling me they can walk and chew gum at the same time. Alshabab poses a great risk to the region. They saw a target of opportunity. They had that target of opportunity that doesnt present itself very often and they went for it, carol. So how much of a player is alshabaab across the region . Increasingly, this leader of the alshabaab has been pushing the group to go outside of somalia. They have launched attacks in uganda. They have threatened to extend their
A brief conversation Michael Cohen confirmed that the first email that aired on nbc news is legitimate. It is an email between Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels former attorney, keith davidson, and also a representative of First Republic bank. It seems to deal, wolf, with the transaction of money that took place between Michael Cohen, which he says he facilitated, to Stormy Daniels, who we know as stephanie clifford, a Money Transfer that took place between Bank Accounts on october 26th at 4 15. Michael cohen, who sent a message to the bank from his email trumporg. Com, is asking if his money has been deposited. Hes being told that is true, and he forwarded that message to Stormy Daniels attorney, it looks like, later that same day. Again, whats interesting here, wolf, were learning so much about this affair that the president says he denies through his attorney, we could write a whole book on it. This is more information, now documentation coming out that Michael Cohen, during the tran
But democrats say its the secretary of state whos the bully here. They say he is trying to intimidate officials to keep them from cooperating with the impeachment inquiry. House democrats are trying to schedule depositions with five current and former state Department Officials. Thus far, just two of them have agreed. The first deposition is set for tomorrow. Meanwhile, we could learn more about ukraine later today when the state departments Inspector General meets with staff from multiple house and senate committees. It has been described as an urgent request by the ig and is apparently related to state department documents regarding ukraine. I want to start there, because ive got Kristen Welker at the white house and Geoff Bennett on capitol hill. I hope both of you had a good nights sleep, a large cup of coffee, and you are stretched out, because youre going to have a long run today. Geoff, tell me more about the briefing. What do we know . Reporter hey, steph, good morning. Were le