Our bottom line here at the top of the hour, it is a cold, dry day start. Sharon is watching if roads, marty is over at first warning weather. Not dry for too much longer. First warning doppler, this is the im going to the next time im going to switch the next time i give you an update. Theres moisture close to the region. Its going to come in as a bit of very light mixed precip during the midday, turning to all rain. 29 right now is 7 warmer than this time yesterday. By the afternoon rain, 36 maybe 37 as you high. Don, take it away. Thank you. Heres the rush from Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. So far nothing to get in your way if youre headed out for your morning commute. Everything is looking good as far as speeds go. In the 50s and low 60s. 55 is your average on the beltway. So far we dont have any accidents at the moment. Theres a live look outside at the topside of the beltway. Traffic still pretty light in that area. On the west side slightly busier at Baltimore National p
Profits that Drug Companies make from selling a drug would be taxed at a rate of 100 . Proceeds going directly to consumers as rebates. Harris says if congress does not act during her first 100 days in office, she would take executive action to investigate price gouging. She says hhs could allow imports from canada or other countries if drugs are available for lower price there. In egregious cases she said the government would use march in rights under the buy dole act of 1980 to license a patent to a lower cost come ppetitor someth the federal government has never done before. Mr. Raskin in advancing this important resolution. The house hopefully has come together standing as one to denounce the white houses xenophobic attacks on our member, oun omembe membe members, own our people and to defend america. America is the land of the great instituti constitution which is under threat. A beautiful land that god has given us thats being degraded. America is also a nation largely but not to
Contributor mike barnicle. White house reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire. Professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. Nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. And washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. One sign that anyone could see something coming is if i saw something coming and i saw something coming. Joes captain obvious. If he saw this coming, anybody should have seen this coming. So mike, why didnt the bureau of prisons see this coming . Why didnt the Justice Department see this coming . Why didnt the white house see this coming . How did this happen . Well, joe, if the official story right now is if the facility is understaffed we have known that its been understaffed for quite some time theres really no clear answer on electronic monitoring. I dont think there was electronic monitoring in his cell. He was alone in a cell which is against doj department of Justice Policy which is a key question that has to be answered. The bottom line, jo
Well have all the latest on the us iranian tensions and well be talking to a state department spokesperson. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. On her way home the 19 year old british woman convicted of lying about being raped in cyprus is allowed to fly back to the uk after receiving a four month suspended sentence. A teenager admits killing Andrew Harper, a Police Officer who was a newlywed, in berkshire last summer joker leads the pack this years bafta film nominations are published but theres criticism of the lack of diversity. And coming up england has won the second test against south africa by 189 runs. Ben stokes took three wickets in the final hour. Its 5 00pm. Our main story this afternoon the house of commons has been debating the escalating tensions between iran and the us following the killing of the Top Commander Qassem Soleimani in a us drone strike. The defence secretary ben wallace repeated the uk governments calls for calm. Tonight, thousands of mourners are in s
Summer is upon us, and that means it s time to start assembling your slate of summer reading material! There are a lot of exciting fantasy and sci-fi books coming out this June to choose from: