States. One twister leveling an oil plant in texas while further west in colorado a massive blizzard is blanketing that state. Up to 18 inches of snow expected just today. And today exclusive, Charlie Sheen joins us live for a very personal announcement, today, tuesday, november 17th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a very busy tuesday morning. Nice to have Charlie Sheen in our studio this morning. Hes known to people in this country around around the world, i think you can say for good and bad reasons, once the highest paid actor on television and then equally famous for a public meltdown. Now its speculation about his health thats making news. This morning were going to let him address all the questions that are out there in his own words as he joins us live. We have a lot of news to get to this morning. Top story, once again trump, and well sta
Washington. And that is not the only traffic youll see. We have been telling you all week about this now. People are strongly encouraged to take metro with all the road closures that will be in place for the popes visit. Well share some of those with you in about ten minutes. And dont forget, download the app as well to get around the traffic. 4 31 is your time now. Want to check your hour by hour forecast. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell here with more on weather. Cool again, chuck. Little cool and a little wet outside early this morning. No heavy rain to deal with, but there are rain drops on the roadways early this morning. So that could slow things down just a touch. But most of the rain for now is in fairfax, montgomery, and howard counties lifting northeast bound toward the pennsylvania border. A big break in the action down south and west of us before you run in a couple more showers south and west of charlottesville. So wha should you be planning on your way out the door
And im like i drink two of these hopefully every day at work. Gulp it, girl. Lets go to the weather today. Because you might need a cold beverage, right dave . Cold beverage, yes, three, four of them maybe. Really . Not just two. Were talking about water here. Water, there she goes. Oh, you missed it, gulp it. It look like shes gash gel with it. Im trying to, you snow. Well let her drink in peace. Thank you, dave war glenn weather looks pretty good out there, upper 60s, fog trying to fill in this morning. Maybe not quite as dense as it was yesterday. Still muggy, 60s to 70s, drown to 66 in millville, a lot of 70s along the coast, and in dover. Lets look at the visibility, really not as low, but starting to feel in with this gray color indicating were seeing some patchy fog developing millville down to three, so maybe seeing it fill in just little more across the southeast in south jersey. The last few days, not much of change today, eagles out for bus stop buddy, 75 to 80, got mug whic
We will get more in depth on that. A question this morning is about the Border Patrol does it need more funding or more from congress . Here are the numbers. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. 5853882. S, 202 we also set a side a line for border state residents, 202 5853883. Us by want to reach social media, you can do that on twitter. Ur handle is cspanwj facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Get to the editorial from the boston globe. It is on Border Patrol. Responsibility as the changes of immigration policy takehome, the headline is the Border Patrol needs to clean up, not more funding. They write that the ebola crisis has sparked no small number of irrational statements, but one of the least sensible is the call to invest heavily in u. S. Border enforcement. Obamas highly anticipated plans for executive action on immigration were announced last thursday, including booster Border Security. Thinkingsecure, the goes, should be the policy priority. The United States has alread
The house just approved it now. Our reporter has been following all this for us. He is live on capitol hill. Good evening from capitol hill. Now the vote continues in the house but by at least 40 votes. The fiscal cliff fix, put together by president obama was senate republicans, has passed the house. Conservatives figured they have to go along or get blamed for taking us off the cliff and keeping us there. First, they fought back. It was a struggle between Speaker John Boehner and more conservative republicans like paul ryan and eric cantor, the House Republican leader who walked with the speaker but this afternoon, opposed the fiscal cliff deal that Speaker Boehner tonight would allow to pass the house. The Senate Passed it this morning, 898. Mcgrath republicans cooperating. To reverse the house tax hikes on 98 percent of americans that took effect at the midnight fiscal cliff, but leaving it in the place tax hikes on the wealthy, income over 400,000 and postponed the spending cuts.