Syria,after nearly five years ofofwar, more than a quarter Million People have died, the country. Country. Now, a short time ago, a 17nation alition reached an agagement to enforce a cease fire in about a week. The deal also allows humanitarian aid to begin flowing in to help millions of syrians left homeless by the conflict. Tonights announced cease fire is the biggest step toward ending the five year war to date. We will continue to follow this developing story tonight and in the days ahead. The announced break in hostilities does not include operations against isis and other terror groups in the region. This week, Congress Heard testimony about one terror groups use of chemical weapons. Weapons. James clapper, the director of national intelligence, said rogue fighters in syria and iraq are using chemical weapons. Clapper says isis has used the blistering agent t lfur mustard. D. He noted its the first time a terror group has than 20 years. Lawmakers feel news like this is not gettin
Were getting light Ice Accumulations. You can actually see that sheen on the roads. Little icicels on the lens. Down in the upstate, great news here, temperatures have gone above freezing. The ice is now rain. You can see some of that. Watch this little glazing on the grass. It gets a little white and then the rain comes. Now we begin to melt some of this off. That pink is all about freezing rain. Pockets of pink. That is warmer air working in to this storm system and scouring some of this low level cold out. So the freezing temperatures are going to warm up. Weve already seen a lot of Ice Accumulation in these areas over mcdowell, polk, down through henderson. Down in to the northern upstate. Weather advisories in purple. Hendersonville, forest city. These are freezing rain much of the upstate. Mcdowell, burke, yancey, mitchell and avery county. Overtime, this is going to be the change. Rain takes over after midnight for a lot of places. May have pockets of freezing rain last in to th
Will this be the biggest valentines day blockbuster ever . And we do say good morning, america. And happy friday, everybody. Hope youre all ready for valentines day tomorrow. We certainly are. Going to take a live look at bryant park, the site of our epic valentines day surprise this morning. Were counting down to that. You see the piano. See the piano there . Oh, yeah. The red carpet. Uhhuh. Youll never guess who is performing unless you heard me on the wabc promo. I didnt know it was a surprise. Our biggest live love event ever. You dont want to miss it. Theyre on the ice, no danger of it melting, it is cold out in bryant park, all up and down the east coast right now. Millions waking up to frigid, frigid temperatures. More snow on the way, including a possible blizzard in boston. Abcs rob marciano is up there in boston and, ginger is going to start us off in times square. Hey, ginger. Cold is an understatement. Weve only been this cold, 8 in manhattan, once so far this winter, and t
Valentines day blockbuster ever . And we do say good morning, america. And happy friday, everybody. Hope youre all ready for valentines day tomorrow. We certainly are. Going to take a live look at bryant park the site of our epic valentines day surprise this morning. Were counting down to that. You see the piano. See the piano there . Oh yeah. The red carpet. Uhhuh. Youre never going to guess who is performing unless you heard me on the wabc promo. I didnt know it was a surprise. Our biggest live love event ever. You dont want to miss it. On the ice, no danger of it melting. It is cold out in bryant park all up and down the east coast right now. Millions waking up to frigid frigid temperatures. More snow on the way including a possible blizzard in boston. Abcs rob marciano is up there in boston and, ginger is going to start us off in times square. Hey, ginger. Cold is an understatement. Only been this cold 8 in manhattan, once so far this winter and theres another blast of cold coming
Numerous mid70s around the bay area. 76 at oakland so far and fremont 74 in San Francisco. 81 in santa cruz. Live doppler 7 hd you can see hardly a cloud to be found. Meanwhile, we still have the beach hazard alert in effect for rip currents, large breakers. Looking out over San Francisco on this sunny afternoon. Mostly clear this evening and mild. Cool inland in the Early Morning hours. Warm again tomorrow afternoon with highs ranging from near 70 on the coast to near 80 in the warmest inland locations. Quite a warm weekend. A look beyond the weekend weather in just a moment. Dan . Thank you so much. A lot of people went to the beach today to enjoy the warm weather, but as spencer mentioned, there is an alert about sneaker waves right now. Here is a look at San Franciscos ocean beach from our camera. Thats where Wayne Freedman is live for us. Wayne . We learned a lot about sneaker waves and rip currents today. One can lead to the other. We learned if you get caught in a rip current do