Can see the house. It would have fallen right on the house. There are cars in the driveway leading us to believe there are people at home. It did fall into the street, bringing down power lines. At this moment, the powerline is the power is back on to this neighborhood. When we first got here, this morning, this entire tree was covered with branches. They have been pushed to the side of the road. This street is now open to traffic. Veronica e are when the wind begins to pick up through the Morning Hours, we down in our trees area. There is a lot more to come. It is a high impact day for us. Continue to have heavy waves of rain moving through. This pocket, shaded in bright green is under a Flood Warning until 9 30 a. M. This morning. Now, this is the pocket i am really monitoring. Around 29 down to areas of i95. Pushing back over d. C. Some of the areas that have already gotten some heavy rain. Have someeve we will Flood Warnings issued. For the kids at the bus stop this morning, they w
Congressional recess. Many republicans were met with angry constituents at town halls across the country, concerned they could lose their healthcare or see their premiums go up. Abcs janai norman has the latest from washington as senators prepare to draft their own bill. This morning frances emmanual macron, riding high after winning the highstakes election sam sweeney is at the live desk with more on that and what people are saying about the victory. Autria, at 39 macron becomes the youngest person ever lead france. And as we come on this morning, we are getting word from overseas that frances far right National Front party, the party that lost, will now change its name. Marine le pens father started that party. The Globalist Party now seeks to bait new supporters with a n n president. Hes delivering big promises, including fixing the economy, fighting terrorism and rebuilding european unity. And President Trump congratulated macron in a tweet. Saying in part he looks forward to worki
Your tuesday. Veronica johnson timing out what it will feel like to be spring again. Thats what we want to know. It is called this morning. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] start its a gorgeous your day, but doesnt exactly feel great out there. Thats right, it almost feels like a fall morning outside, chris and cool. Temperatures are low across the area. Temperatures and numbers are going to stay down, we will be tracking the rain moving through the area. Numbers,ok at the shenandoah, virginia, coming in one degree above freezing, or 33 degrees. 28 is what it feels like, sterling, virginia, 36 degrees, low enough where you will want to grab a tomorrow morning, once again, relatively low numbers with Early Morning temperature starting to feel a bit better as clouds and rain moving to the area. Today, julie, going up to 67 degrees, still below average. I will be back to show you the 7
Firing of fbi director james comey. Comey sent a letter to his former colleagues at the fbi last night saying, he is not going to dwell on the president s decision. The Justice Department is denying reports that comey recently asked for more money and manpower to investigate alleged ties between russia and the trump campaign. And the Senate Committee looking into possible ties between the campaign and russia has subpoenaed former National Security adviser michael flynn. President trump is now citing Job Performance as his motive. Abcs janai norman has the latest from washington. Good morning to you, janai. Reporter kenneth and diane, good morning to both of you. The questions still lingering why was comey fired now . Could this be tied to the russia investigation . Some lawmakers saying the answers arent quite adding up. Less than 24 hours after firing the man leading the investigation into russian meddling, President Trump welcomed russias ambassador and foreign minister to the white
Isolated showers. Lows winds e 5 mph friday mostly cloudy. Am showers, pm rain. Highs winds e 510 mph a new timeline developing this of fbi director james comey. Now were learning exactly what went down in the days and hours leading up to that shocking announcement. Suzanne kennedy is following the new developments live at the white house new this morning comeys goodbye letter to staff, the former fbi head said President Trump was within his rights to fire him, but refused to comment on how it went down. Comey beginning the note saying quote. I have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason, or for no reason at all. He continues im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you wont either before his firing comey had been scheudled to testify before the Senate Intelligence committe today at a hearing on worldwide threats. He will now be replaced by acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe. But according to reports comey has been inv