Under way to avert a u. S. Military strike on syria. Top leaders from russia and the u. S. Are talking things over. Jeact john kerry arrived in geneva this morning there for two days for talks with Sergei Lavrov. We have Live Team Coverage going to geneva shortly. Randall pinkston, good to see you. Lets talk first of all about this op ed in the New York Times from russian president Vladimir Putin. How is the white house responding to that . President putin being an ally of syria doing what he can to avert any kind of military strike from the u. S. What is the u. S. s reaction . Putin has his own objectives and aims at heart and certainly not americas. We would like to be the fly on the wall for shall we say the unofficial reaction to what putin wrote but we do have a Senior Administration official telling us this morning that president putin has invested his credibility in transferring assads chemical weapons to International Control and ultimately are destroying them. If world will no
Done with the rain threat as we get into Early Morning and late afternoon. Partial sunshine, temperatures much cooler than yesterday, 78 degrees, and check out the breezes north and west, gusting to 25 miles per hour. Thats a brief look at forecast, a look at the weekend coming up in a few minutes with traffic, julie is on the roads. Julie, good morning. Reporter good morning, tucker. I remember this i gave this little gadget, i gave it to tony one time for christmas. And you hid it to play this. I have that. Reporter where is it . Its in my office. [ laughter ] reporter i was going to say what office . All right, now you have to dance when dj spice plays it. Inner loop of the beltway at ritchie marlboro road, the three right lanes are getting by at the scene, delays from 202 at landover around the accident scene, the outer loop rubber rubbernecking with a delay of a mile at this point. We will show what we have rubbernecking, the lanes are open, southbound on both 495, and 25 coming i
Now. Good morning, im richard lui. We start with breaking news out of colorado. Parts of Boulder County are being hit hard by devastating floods after three days of heavy rain. The National Weather service has issued a flash flood emergency for boulder and jefferson counties. Theres at least one confirmed death and reports of collapsed homes, mudslides, and stranded drivers, but also a report of a dam collapse in larimer county. Hundreds of students at boulder have been evacuated and the Emergency Office is telling residents to move to higher grounds. Bill karins will be here with details and whats going on there. Russian president Vladimir Putin is issuing a plea for caution for the u. S. In a the New York Times editorial. More on that in a moment. First, a report in the mornings Washington Post saying the cia started delivering weapons to Syrian Rebels. This as secretary of state john kerry is set to meet with Sergei Lavrov his russian counterpart. Lavrov is said to be a master negot
Lost their lives in all of this fury. At least four people confirmed dead. That number could rise as authorities are looking for people who are unaccounted for, and missing at this hour. Were assuming that there may be further loss of life, or injuries. We have to assume that. I hope and pray thats not the case, but given the devastation of some of those closed canyons, its certainly a high probability. And live with the news in boulder, dominick, the sheriffs department, we saw them releasing a high number. As many as 172 people unaccounted for. Thats right. In fact that number could be as high as 218. The Emergency Association was saying that is the latest figure. Starting to discover how widespread these people are in terms of their isolation and how much theyve been cut off. Its very difficult. Extremely difficult to reach the re cues areas. Earlier the phones cut off, and the roads cut off. A lot of the terrain is completely impassable due to the floodwater and risk of mudslides.
Right now. We are following several fox news alerts breaking at this hour. Good morning everyone. I am patti ann browne. I am heather childers. We begin with this one breaking news overnight terrorists in afghanistan. Two afghans were killed after twocar bombs went off. The taliban is taking responsibility. Elizabeth pran is live for us with the latest. Good morning heather and patti ann. An suv and a van carrying militants drove up to the front gate of the consulate in the Early Morning hours. State Department Officials say they initiated an attack with possible grenades and rifles which triggered a gun battle with Security Forces. Some militants were wearing suicide vests. In the footage we are seeing overnight you can see debris and twisted metal near the consulates gate. It doesnt appear any attackers demanded to breech the front gates. Two afghans were killed and several wounded. 7 attackers were also killed including the two drivers of the car bombs. American consulate personnel