korean residents of islands near north korea were told to take cover. the live-fire drills are not the danger. it s the promise of military retaliation from north korea that has the entire region on pins and needles. north korea says the drills are, quote, designed to ignite war at any cost. tensions on the korean peninsula had been growing since march when a south korean warship sunk by a north korean torpedo. north korea denies the attack, and just last month north korea artillery fired a deadly barrage on to the island of yeonpyeong killing four people. in neither instance did south korea retaliate, and cnn has reporters in key locations on this story. our wolf blitzer is in north korea with new mexico governor bill richardson. ken law is in seoul, south korea and also reports from the united nations where diplomats failed to reach consensus on a unified statement on the issue, and from our washington bureau, what is playing out inside the white house and the pentagon on
with an isolated snowstorm late in the day and into tomorrow added cloud cover . traffic on the beltway is up to a good start. american legion bridge, traffic is good from fredericksburg to the beltway. the beltway at the american legion bridge, in pretty good shape. there was a crash earlier on 270 nearly 109 from the northbound side. watch for slippery conditions in some spots. mostly in the neighborhoods. on 95 in maryland, there is a work zone between 198 and 212 southbound that s blocking the left side. back to you. thank you. a home reduced to rubble and a family lucky to be alive. a gas leak fuel to the explosion near the 4300 block of lee s corner rd. a dallas nearby was also damaged. courtney robinson is there. it is amazing that no one was injured. no one was asking home at a time. we are with the fairfax county fire department and gas crews still investigating. thomas is in doubleclirubble. theestigators said that someon force damaged the house next door as
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning, i m matt lauer. and i m erin burnett filling in for meredith who i hope is a lot warmer than this. it s cold, but we started a holiday week so we wanted to come out in front of the absolutely gorgeous rockefeller tree. this is what the control guys have from time to time. meanwhile we almost turned the lights out on that rockefeller tree in protest over what happened yesterday. can you feel it in the air? that is depression here in new york. the giants leading by 21 points with seven minutes to go allowed four touchdown in the last seven minutes. the eagles scored on the last play of the game to win. they were playing for first place. you ve been unable to get over this all morning. this is the first thing, did you see the giants game yesterday? oh, it was terrible. it was the worst thing i have seen in years and years. they re calling it the crumble here in new y
just right off the bat here. stafford county, virginia and spotsylvania county, virginia, both opening two hours late today. for anybody heading out to the bus stop, it will be a chilly one. let s check in with tucker barnes. he has latest on our forecast. good morning. cold temperature across the area. it will be windy today but that is about it as we are expecting some sunshine borecast and some temperatures. let s get started with a look at our current conditions. right now at reagan national, we are 26 degrees. there is a live look at your satellite-radar. we ve got lots of low 20s across the area. cold temperatures. off to the east, we have that area of storminess. that will stay just offshore but the wind associated with that system will increase around here today. so it will be a breezy and cold one is the bottom line with a decent amount of sunshine with high temperatures only near the freezing mark. with the winds picking up, i think you will really notice the wint
the house. a beloved grocer the victim of a crime. tonight the community is mourning his death and trying to send a message to police. we start off with breaking news in fairfax county. fox 5 heading to the scene of what may be a natural gas explosion in a chan tilly neighborhood. it s a house on lees corner road. a fire erupted here about an hour ago. we expect to have an up-tate within the hour. we move to the district. one man dead and two women in the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak inside a northwest row house. mat aklin is back from the neighborhood. it may be a faulty furnace. reporter: we did meet two sons who believe it was their stepfather who died in the home today. in fact, they found out about this accident after watching it on the evening news. they are trying to get confirmation from authorities at this hour. as well as trying to cope with what went wrong inside that home. it started with a phone call to 911. a woman needed help and she was having