Down. Welcome to my house a neck and neck finish for the spelling bee. The epic tie, two winners sharing the title and look whos back. Our kid correspondent. The first grader stealing everyones hearts on the ground for gma. Hey, gma, im behind the scenes at the Scripps National spelling bee. Welcome to my house happy friday. Two records this week, the youngest participant and youngest correspondent for gma ever. Akash vukoti. Flo rida in central park getting ready to kick off a Holiday Weekend. In our house this morning. 38 million americans expected to travel for memorial day. Youre looking live at some of the busiest airports in the land this morning. Those lines already forming, atlanta, chicago, l. A. , and, of course, many of those millions our team is out in full force for you right now. Of course, so many of those travelers could face that Severe Weather hitting so much of the country. A flash flood emergency in the south where more than a dozen College Students were trapped in
. . Awww. I loved willie wonka and the Chocolate Factory and gene wilder. So sad to lose him. So in a little bit were going to have a baby on the show talking about Life Insurance of all things and why you need Life Insurance for a baby. I it got us thinking about babies. The most popular baby name girl. The list of top five, last year the number one name of 2015 was charlotte. Really . Yes they say in 2014, a lot of sorry, in 2014 it was charlotte, a lot of kids are going to grow up with charlottes in their class. 2015 most of the kids will know a lot of emmas in their class. Thats been popular for a while. There 2016, the new name is olivia. Oh. I was going to guess like tyler. There are a lot of names that can go either way. Swapping genders like riley is one. Who is it noah for a girl i recently heard which i thought was fascinating. And isla. I love the name ava for a girl. Things i wish i knew before i named my baby. There is a really interesting article in u. S. A. Today. One is
How the feds say he used his power to help two women he was allegedly having Extramarital Affairs with. Cbs 2 news saturday morning starts right now. Good morning, it is 6 00 on this saturday, april 16th. Im andrea grymes. Im hazel sanchez. The days stories are straight hea. First Vanessa Murdock is here with the forecast. Not a bad saturday so far. No, its going to be a stunner of a day. Beautifully warm, beautiful blue skies just as weve had for a couple of days now. So a lovely forecast to start off the weekend. Right now i want to take you live outside. Im going to show you this pretty picture weve got here. It is beautiful. I love the way the sunshine is creating some pinks on the sky. As we look at the temperature, its 44 degrees, northeast winds at 8 Miles Per Hour right now. The 60s today. 44 in the city, but 40 in andover. It is 26 in the hamptons. The east end of long island under a freeze warning right now. 27 in belmar. As we look at the vortex satellite and radar picture,
Well, we do know that that is the priority for general manager paul wiedefeld. We do expect that to work on safety and maintenance in the coming days or weeks. He is expected to lay out a new maintenance plan. So what do the general manager think of what happened here today . What is his takeaway . We talk to him oneonone moments ago. There is a clear understanding of the importance of the system to this region and we better get it right. That is what i keep hearing for everybody. Not saying this is a dumb idea or why are we doing it . They are not saying that. They are saying look, we cant survive without this. Make it work. Get on it. Brianne that is one of the things touted is the ridership and the number of the federal employees that rely on metro every day. Also here testifying in this Committee Hearing we heard from ntsb and the f. T. A. We did get an update from the ntsb in terms of the investigation into the deadly smoke incident at plaza. We understand that report now conclude
They wept their separate ways antewoman left at the back entrance walking towards these apartment. Its not a safe area at night. I had a cuzen he used to live in apartments behind the mall he would tell me be careful when you leave your car and visit me and its unknown area not that safe. Turns out it was not safe monday night. As victim was walking, the suspect approached her again and pulled out a knife. Police say he dragged her into a wooded area along cherry wood terrace and sexually assaulted her. Some residents arent surprised by the violence. It really doesnt surprise me Something Like that because i dont want to i think crime in this neighborhood is starting to go up a little bit. So that really doesnt surprise me at all Something Like that happened. Now back here at the plaza we did see Security Officers that were kind of walking a round inside the center and police are tell us theyre hoping there will be Surveillance Footage they can look at that would help them in the inves