Elias top five this morning. Elias the overnight cold weather and rain lead to a build up of icy on trees and powerlines in central iowa. Due to the ice, Power Outages were reported around the metro, local five even had its power flicker off for a few minutes late last night. There were a couple reports of broken limbs falling as well. Elias in the number two spot this morning. Elias the west glen towncenter super target had to shut down last night due to a fire. The flames came from a fryer in a kitchen area for employees. Most of the fire was put out by the time fire crews arrived on scene. The entire store filled with smoke though. So all the Holiday Shoppers and employees had to go outside. Elias the third thing you need to know before you walk out the door. Elias during his trip through africa, pope francis delivered a stern environmental warning just days ahead of a key Climate Change conference in paris. During a historic mass in kenya, the pointiff urged politicians to Work Tog
We couldnt see 10 feet in front of the bumper after that. The rain was so strong. The reason we kept the green alert for yesterday is you were able to sneak in Outdoor Activities before the rain moved in. Today, not the case, we will see that threat for showers and thunderstorms arriving by about lunchtime today. Lets take a look outside right now with the weather cam. You can see its already hazy and fogny some spots. Lots and lots of clouds. 10 00 a. M. , 75 degrees. The dew point, by the way that measures the humidity in the atmosphere, is close to 70, so that means its going to be very muggy throughout the entire day. Popup thunderstorms starting to develop by 1 00 and your temperatures reaching into the low 80s today. 81 degrees at 4 00, dropping from a high of 83 degrees, which well reach at 3 00. 64 degrees now in leesburg. 70 already in winchester. And 71 in Downtown Washington. Its 66 degrees in frederick and in gaithersburg. Theres the reduced visibility. Its not too terribly
John mccain warned democrats to turn it down. Lets stop this. Lets stop it, sit down, sit or consider the speakers proposal. Wase said john benard brave, dealing with the tea party and the debt ceiling. We should not get anywhere close to it. We are close now. Warned veterans groups area message, defaulting is not an option. Just a day and a half left and the ball is still in the houses court with the democratically controlled senate waiting. Are learning some latebreaking details of washington. A spokesman for john banner says the house will vote tonight to reopen the government and avoid a default. Stay with us on air and on the line online as we continue to monitor the situation. In Baltimore County lycee a gun man is on the run. Details are still coming in but we can confirm a serious shooting in woodlawn. Sky team 11 was over the scene at Cambridge Court and investigators do not have a suspect description. The victim is a mail but his agent name remain unclear. Another homicide is
Brief update on where we are in implementation. We started back in january. Our organization was about 30 people, we are now upwards of 60. All to support the work that meta is doing, that Mission Promise neighborhood is doing. We spend a lot of time hiring, interviewing and compiling a great team that is working hard together. We have contract with our partners. We had a fantastic backpack give away at the high school with the mayors office. We had our launch where a lot of city leadership came out, leader pelosi came out and we had secretary donovan come out and we also had some leadership from doe come visit us. Our data team has been working hard on data discovery assessing the performance of or assessing Performance Measures for all our organizational partners and understanding how they collect data. Weve also been focused on building our collaborative. We do want to see this go beyond 5 years. We think it critical and weve engaged with cutf, with koretzsky, chase and we are build
Year to ensure that we are one of four cities in california that was awarded this incredible grant well be hearing about in the next hour 1 2. I plan to touring the this time. I look forward to seeing how these federal dollars are being put to use by the collaborations that well be hearing about today. I think its important that when we think about the City District select committee that we really think about how we can strengthen the relationships between the citys resources and our schools. These are all our families whether they are constituents coming to city hall or they are coming to the schools for their education services. We need to figure out ways to better serve our parents. We are really excited to hear the presentation today and want to create more awareness around this program and see how we can have a best successful partnership. This is something we want to sustain beyond the 5 years and we have to start having that discussion now to ensure that we are able to commit to