Catching up in the wake every frontal boundaries, so it will and it will balance out our temperatures today not going to even though we start off so mild, warm up, anywhere past probably the mid or upper sixs here in any given location, down the shore currently in the mid and upper 50s but the best you can hope for here today. Wet with more sunshine on these icons for you, yes even though we start off with the rain, should quickly clear out of here, so mid 60s the expectation at the shore points in philadelphia, little cooler in the mountains as is typical, but much nicer day coming up hereby comparison. I know yes had nice weather but man fired up last night. Certainly d those storms woke me up. I thought i left my electronic dance music on in beat, but no. Sure, you did. At least the storms are out of here right now but still dealing with a few showers outside. To the blue route right now again, ridge pike, and looking okay, both northbound, southbound, just some wet roads to deal wi
Overnight. And yes youre right. I mean, i woke up. I know a loft us did. As we look here, no lightning being reported at this point. Thunderstorms have essentially fizzled away, and just left with moisture thats got to roll through in the form of showers. It is a lot more scattered in nature obviously than yesterday produced, but where it is coming down, you have got similar rainfall intensity what we ends the up with yesterday. Meanwhile, handful of storm reports that have since come into us. Lynn Monmouth County, reported just nearly an inchsize hail, and. 88 equals out to about a nickel size, at Philadelphia International airport, we ends the up with plane m and m size hail, not peanut m and ms, just plane m and ms, New Castle County quarter inch size hail about the size after pea. Meanwhile, pocono mountain Municipal Airport pretty hefty wind gusts also reported so that was really what we expected. Wind hail, thats what we got. Outside we go to Pleasant Valley middle and high schoo
Bret, how did all of this come to light . Well, jon, this was the result of a foia request by the Washington Times, the specific story youre talking about in regards to when the Obama Transition Team was briefed about the problems at the va. The other scandals that have, the allegations have come up for at least 11 states now. And investigations are ongoing. So this is snowballing as you have lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for more in depth investigations and bringing in the fbi. Jon there is a former member of the va staff, high level staffer, who had this to say to congress a few weeks ago when some of these allegations first came up. I want to play you for this now. To date, we found no evidence of a secret list, and we have found no patient who is have died because they have been on a wait list. That was dr. Robert petzel, undersecretary for Veterans Affairs. He said at the time we havent found any evidence of secret lists. We havent found any evidence that people die
Obama spoke about his strategy to put a stop to the terrorists. We must remain unwaiverring in our fight against terrorist organizations. When necessary the United States will continue to take action against al qaeda affiliates in places likes yemen and somalia, and in iraq and syria our coalition of some 60 nations including arab nations will not relent in our mission to degrade and ultimately destroy isis. The president coming under fire for remarks he made at summit yesterday remarks he reiterated today, about preventing terrorists from recruiting people in the first place. Listen. There is a strain of thought that doesnt embrace isils tactics, doesnt embrace violence but does buy into the notion that the muslim world suffered historic grievances. Sometimes thats accurate. We do have to address the grievances that terrorists exploit, including economic grievances. Just as we address economic brief vanses we need to face a third challenge. That is addressing political grievances expl
Were following breaking news. Im wolf blitzer in washington. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is coverage of the breaking news. Five american prisoners now released by iran. Four as part of a prisoner swap. The prisoners clue Washington Post Jason Rezaian, the christian Saeed Abedini, amir hekmati, we dont know anything about mr. Nosratoliah khoshawi, a fifth, Mathew Trevithick. Details of the deal, they say secret talks with iran have been going on for about 14 months. In exchange for four of the americans, the u. S. Gave clemency to seven people held for violating sanctions against iran and dropped changes against 14 other iranians that likely the u. S. Officials say would never they like never would have been extradited to begin with. They wanted released as a goodwill gesture. Joining us now elise labott and international nic robertson, joining us from vienna. What are you learning about the the fifth. Mathew trevithick we didnt even kn