The eastern and central time zone and for those of new the mountain and pacific time zones, 2027488001. And one place in the united states, a featured city, lots of activities expected there is hopkinsville, kentucky. In fact, nasa declared this the point of the greatest eclipse at one point. Joining us on the phone to talk not only about that but what the city will experience is representative james comber, republican from kentucky and serves the First District which includes hopkinsville and paducah and commerceville. Thanks for joining us. Caller thanks for having me here today. Host what is it like nasa declaring you the eclipse city. Caller its a big deal for southern kentucky along the western border, tennessee, hopkinsville has been planning this event for probably seven or eight months. Theyve made a weekend festival out of it. Every hotel along the tennessee border, pretty much between nashville and bowling green, kentucky, everybody is books. Farmers are clearing their field
Half of the day. Cooler temperatures. Well be in the mid 70s later this afternoon but in the next couple days featuring nice spring weather. Erin. Starting to see a lot of congestion on our majors. Little bit of light rain. Use caution. If youre taking metro skipping the roads rails dealing with problems because safe track surge 141st week day impacted with no Train Service between prince Georges Plaza and greenbelt. Shuttle service replacs that. Yellow rush plus also impacted. A closer look as we continue. Thanks erin. Well go ahead and begin with that breaking news out of Fairfax County. A man is hold up inside of his house in the fort hunt area in Fairfax County. Negotiator at the house right now. This standoff situation has been going on for almost 12 hours now. Melanie alnwick live this morning with the details for us. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys and things are still pretty much tap standstill here but i suppose that in a way you could say no news is good news. Police fi
Half of the day. Cooler temperatures. Well be in the mid 70s later this afternoon but in the next couple days featuring nice spring weather. Erin. Starting to see a lot of congestion on our majors. Little bit of light rain. Use caution. If youre taking metro skipping the roads rails dealing with problems because safe track surge 141st week day impacted with no Train Service between prince Georges Plaza and greenbelt. Shuttle service replacs that. Yellow rush plus also impacted. A closer look as we continue. Thanks erin. Well go ahead and begin with that breaking news out of Fairfax County. A man is hold up inside of his house in the fort hunt area in Fairfax County. Negotiator at the house right now. This standoff situation has been going on for almost 12 hours now. Melanie alnwick live this morning with the details for us. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys and things are still pretty much tap standstill here but i suppose that in a way you could say no news is good news. Police fi
Mornings on 2. Its thursday, august 4th. And lets start with a little weather and traffic. Hello there. Cooler, cooler, you guys. Therell be a turn on the smoke in the fire. The low clouds are 2000 feet and theres a howling delta wind. Its going to equal cooler conditions. 62 although there are 50s nearby. Its hard to get any information. And a lot of this is coming from the higher elevations. And were trying to do our best to get some temps. The key is the wind direction, west, southwest. Yesterday was east, northeast. And some of the smoke was blowing towards berryessa and vacaville. The fog bank has ramped up big time. Thats going to allow a significant cooler pattern. Gusts almost to 40 miles per hour. 50s on the temps or 60s. And low clouds are just about everywhere. Not every location but many. 70s and 80s inland. And 50s and 60s by the water. I have good news for our friends. The crash weve been telling you about 680 in the concord, Pleasant Hill area. We just got word that all
Will he ever get behind the wheel again . And saved at sea. A fishing boat with dozens on board crashing into rocks, taking on water. Passengers scrambling for life rafts, waiting desperately to be rescued. We were in the right place at the right time for those people. How Good Samaritans got there in the nick of time. And good morning, america. Great to be here. Thanks for the invite, george. We hope youre having a safe and enjoyable Holiday Weekend so far. This morning all eyes are on hermine, tracking north. Warnings and watches are in place along the coastline. Its still ruining the holiday for millions even as the storm spins into the atlantic. Beaches are closed to swimmers this morning after red flag warnings like this one in bradley beach, new jersey. Look at ocean city on sunday. Those winds are so high right the shore. Now lets take a look live at that beach right now. Should be pretty packed this labor day. Those waves are hitting pretty hard right there. Ginger, even though