Good to be with you this morning. Im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. We begin this morning with the earth shattering news out of alabama. A democrat now set to represent the state in the u. S. Senate. Nbc news reports doug jones is the apparent winner in alabama. Beating controversial republican candidate roy moore by a narrow margin. After moderates, independents and a slew of republicans voted for the democrat in a race that garnered global attention. In the end it seems moore seemed to be a step too far even for alabama with his apparent loss causing a shift in the red est of red states. It will be felt in washington as well. Republicans are down to a razor thin 5149 majority in the senate. In spite trump endotsing moore in the final days of the race, even though most republicans deemed him toxic. The president weighing in overnight tweeting congratulations to doug jones in a hard fought victory. The writein votes played a big factor but a win is a win. Republicans will have an
Encouraging for them and all of us because these practices not only help Climate Change but produce more food and make and they make themselves more resilient against drought so its one of these amazing winwinwin but very few of us really appreciate it. Thats what anna is so good at getting across and we hope that our new book can help too. Thank you for that great question. [ applause ] tonight, our Washington Journal Program focusing on community policing. Well reair yesterday mornings entire program from richmond, virginia with your cools and comments, the Richmond Police chief and head of the Police Training academy and richmond mayor dwight jones. It starts at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Former president jimmy carter held a News Conference this morning in atlanta and briefed reporters about treatments for brain and liver cancer. Well show you the event on cspan. Heres some of what president carter had to say. Spots on the liver and the operation and that same afternoon, we had an
Crisis mode right now on damage control on two fronts. A memo from former fbi director james comey reportedly says the president asked him to shut down an investigation. And the administration isnt denying that President Trump revealed classified information to russian officials. But first a serious situation is unfolding in several states. Yes, a restless night for millions caused by widespread storms. This morning Severe Weather stretching thousands of miles from texas all the way north to the canadian border. Tornadoes in two u. S. States turning deadly. Can you start us a massive mutual aid for the Trailer Court because from the freeway the Trailer Court looks like it might have been leveled. Reporter in Central Wisconsin an official calling the damage to one neighborhood total destruction. The destruction, its nothing ive ever seen in my 20 plus year career in law enforcement. Reporter telephone poles along this one road toppled over. Massive trees ripped from their roots and debr
Crisis mode right now on damage control on two fronts. A memo from james comey reportedly says the president asked him to shut down an investigation. And the administration isnt denying that President Trump revealed classified information to russian officials. But first a serious situation is unfolding in several state. Yes, widespread storms. This morning Severe Weather stretching thousands of miles from texas all the way north to the canadian border. Tornadoes in two u. S. States turning deadly. Can you start us a massive mutual aid for the Trailer Court . Reporter in Central Wisconsin an official calling the damage to one neighborhood total destruction. The destruction, its nothing ive ever seen in my 20 plus year career in law enforcement. Reporter telephone poles along this one road toppled over. Massive trees ripped from their roots and d over this farm and in elk city, oklahoma, in the panhandle a twister there turning lives upside down. Home after home. Leveled. One bus on its
Out fresh drivers within the hour to help get the job done before you head to work tomorrow. This was a long snow fall, with some impressive totals. Sheldon were already looking ahead to some serious cold that could make matters worse. Our team is live to get you prepared for the week ahead. We begin with chief meteorologist mark baden. Mark that snow thankfully finally is over. We may get a couple of flurries and light snow sho i the accumulating snow has come to an end. It is nice to see very little after we had over 24 hours worth of snow. It is not the snow that works well for building a snowman. You are not going to be able to build a snowman out of this one. We have had this around for a wild. These are the flurries and snow showers i was talking about. They will come through around again, just kind of reinforcing what we have had. Now the focus will turn to the bitter cold. I will time this out and also timeout the possibility of more snow coming out on weatherwatch 12. Patrick