News that over the weekend comey asked the department of justice to publicly reject the president s claims. It was first reported by the New York Times but as of this morning no such statement has been issued. This comes as the president is now demanding Congress Investigate his claims. All were saying is lets take a closer look. Lets look into this. If this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal. On meet the press, former director of National Intelligence denied there were wiretaps. A spokesman for the former president also rejected President Trumps claims. Well go live to capitol hill where Edward Lawrence will have more on the president s explosive allegations. The president is expected to sign it today, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on the original ban over a month ago. It temporarily blo of seven majority muslim countries from entering the United States. It also put a hold on the refugee program. The revised program is expected to
District. We have some problems out there this morning though. One of those things, take a look here this morning. You can see we do have some construction hanging around. This is rock creek parkway north of virginia there. Just a warning for you there. Still have this issue on 95. This is southbound, the ramp to dale city truck scales, crash blocking the ramp on to the scales and then if youre trying to get off of the scales they are not letting anybody do that right now either. That is also blocked. A serious crash, there was a medi vac there this morning. A vehicle crash still hanging around. And inner loop and outer loop of the beltway we did have that road work that has cleared out of the way, so beltway is nice and clear. Well take a live look at 66 coming up. Developing this morning one person is fighting for thaifr their life after being seriously hurt in a fire in arlington. Last night. Justin finch will tell you why firefighters had such a hard time getting into that home. A
Tomorrow. 640s in the forecast. We have chopper up this morning though. Good morning. So chopper 4 headed to a problem here. 270 southbound there at 85. We are seeing some slowdown there is on 270 so wanted to mention that. Prince william parkway east of 95, that crash still reported in the northbound indian head highway. A crash there in the right lane. Remember, safe track surge 13. First weekday of that runs through april 9th. Were talking about single tracking between braddock road and van dorn street and then on the yellow line, single tracking between braddock road and huntington. On marc delays, 872 cancelled and 841 cammed on the camden line. Developing this morning were learning hoarding conditions inside a home in arlington made it hard for firefighters to a couple trapped inside. One person died. A fire broke out on south grant street last night. Were live outside with more on that difficult rescue effort. Justin . Reporter aaron, eun, good morning. At this hour restoration
Inside of that google drive was what sent it home for me. And outbreak alert. 20 Million People facing Severe Weather including damaging winds, hail and possibly tornadoes from arkansas to minute today monday, march 6, 2017. Narrator from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Its a monday morning. Look who is up bright and early . Lester holt. How are you doing . I just came by to welcome you back and they asked me to stick around. Could you please . Everybody works around here. Coming up, our top story, the new firestorm sparked by a tweet from President Trump accusing president obama of tapping his phone at trump tower. This is the claim that the director of the fbi wants the Justice Department to reject as false. Our Political Team is ready to go with complete coverage this morning and we will talk trd President Trumps deputy press secretary. But we start with Peter Alexander. Reporter President Trump
57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Today President Trump is expected to sign a revised version of his travel ban order, but this morning its mr. Trumps accusations that president obama had his phones tapped. The director of the fbi wants the Justice Department to dispute the charges. Hena daniels is here in new york. Hena, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. The white house has requested that Congress Examine whether president obama abused his executive thoerd. The accusation came in a tweet without supporting evidence that then president obama ordered a wire tap of phones in trump tower. President trumps assertion that former president obama bugged trump tower last year is now putting him at odds with fbi director james comey. To cbs news comey asked the department of justice saturday to publicly reject mr. Trumps claims say the claims falsely suggest they broke the law. There was no such wiretap activity mounted against