Morning. This morning a new acting attorney general. Last night President Trump fired salary yates. Came after she refused to defend the controversial reffee ban in court. Tell us how this all played out. Statement from the white house last night said sally yates is very weak on illegal immigration. Goes on to say yates betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order. Named dana ben tay. Please, mr. President. Reconsider. Really think about this. Dont just tweet, dont just get mad, dont just call names. Think about it. Change it. Repeal it. Too many far gone to change. Got to repeal it. Theres a message there to President Trump. In addition to firing the acting ag, president also replaced the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement. Not explanation given for why he was removed from the position. Replaced with thomas hoe men back to comments last night. Calling for tougher vetting for individual traveling from seven dangerous places is not extreme.
To 24. Park side youre at 25 degrees. While Port Richmond is 31 because its close to river. Upper 20s now for bustleton. Go through the forecast hour by hour to show you who gets snow and who gets sunshine when i come back in ten minutes. First lets see how the roads are looking. Were watching the schuylkill right now. Actually the ramp moving towards the vine street expressway. That has cleared. Typically the last ramp to lift when they vine street expressway closure is in place. See here no problems headed to the vine right now from the schuylkill. Once you get out door to vine street, construction is clear. Checking drive times here. Speeds also into the 30s there as well. Remember bridge closure. Happened about a week and a half ago. New jersey turnpike, pa turnpike connector bridge still closed there. Alternate route to get you around pa and new jersey right there. Also, still in new jersey, barrington, missing manhole cover on the white horse pike heading westbound. Currently mov
Well. Some of the northern sbeshs will see light snow this morning. Not everybody is going to get snow. Thats this morning. This afternoon, we can see snowflakes and rain drops. Again, mainly north of the city. Right now look at the cold. 25 in new jersey. 27 in philadelphia. And 25 degrees in Lehigh Valley with clouds over delaware. Sunshine on hold to start with. Snow showers at 9 00. Still a chance of snow showers at 32 degrees at noontime. Not a heavy snow. Temperatures able to climb. Will be above freezing this afternoon. Not going to be an all day snowfall either. Will be light in the Lehigh Valley and suburbs. Mostly cloudy slight chance of shower this afternoon for philadelphia and Lehigh Valley will see some rain drops and snowflakes mixed in. Going to be dry at the shore. 46 degrees this afternoon. Ill break the forecast down hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. See how the traffic is looking. Jessica boyington with an update. Starting in Lehigh Valley this morning. Righ
From Virginia Beach admitted to distributing heroin resulting in that hat says he sold narcotics to Virginia Beach residents including twenty three year old monica poetry she overdosed on heroin and died had knew about boundaries doubt but continue to sell drugs. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison sentencing is set for may not have is just one piece of the heroin problem in Hampton Roads today local state and federal agencies sent a strong unified message about fighting the deadly epidemic thirteen is now was one of the first to shed light on the growing heroin problem here in virginia with our special hooked on heroin when documentary jimmy lee was there for todays News Conference in norfolk and jimmy officials want people to know their plans to combat drug problems are effective in yielding results. Yet today attorney attorney general mark herring sent a very strong message to the public that he will be drug dealers and traffickers like gregory hat he was joined by federal
At the hospital had faces twenty years to life behind bars in connection with her death he will be sentenced in me well this case is really fueling the attorney general to take drastic steps to fight this epidemic. Attorney general mark herring has wrapped up a press conference and how he plans to crack down on the daily drudge reported jimmy lee was at that press conference he joins us live with the full report can be andre attorney general mark herring in u s attorney dana ben tay announced this morning that they are using more of their resources to relentlessly go after these ten traffickers and dealers to crack down on this epidemic. Attorney general mark herring said that he had asked one of his special prosecutors here to dedicate more of his time and make this a priority. The u s attorney has also asked several of his prosecutors to make this a top priority now along with enforcement or prosecution peace. Another key piece to this initiative is the education piece recently came