11, discussing the book president s. And it a conversation about childhood host good morning. It is the day before thanksgiving. President trump left the white house to celebrate the upcoming holiday with his family at his country club in florida. He took questions from reporters mostly focused on the latest revelations about Sexual Assault. The president defending roy moore, the Senate Candidate from alabama and saying he is happy women in the u. S. Are coming forward with accusations against lawmakers and others. That is where we begin on the washington journal. How do we stop Sexual Misconduct . We want to know your solutions. Men dial in at 2027488000, women at 2027488001. Join us on twitter cspanwj. We will get your calls in a minute. We learned yesterday the dean of the house, john conyers paid a settlement two years ago to an alleged accuser. Charlie rose fired by cbs and pbs after the Washington Post broke that story. Eight women accusing him of unwanted advances. We want to kn
In this deep freeze for nearly a week and i think we are starting to suffer from cold stress. Temperatures are well below zero. We have 6 a. M. , 10 00 a. M. Temperatures going from 14 to may be degrees by late morning. Then at least it is drive for the day. For the day. Even in the afternoon, like this morning, make sure the kids are really warm if they will be waiting at the bus stop by themselves and not able to wait inside your car. As far as Road Conditions go, we are in the green. What, late you wednesday, thursday, we will see this postal storm in some areas of the northeast with blizzard conditions. More on that, coming up. Main breaks, as larry mentioned. Three of them south of the beltway. John lewis out there at the scene. This is a water main break that occurr traffic now able to get by in each direction. Traffic north and southbound to and from takoma park squeezing by to the right. You will find that we have a water main break on wheeler road with water getting with traff
Business. If you want to clect a drug debt, you cannot follow lawsuit in court. You collect it with the barrel of a gun. Amy as attorney general Jeff Sessions vows a major revival of the war on drugs, well spend speak with susan burton. She spent 15 years cycling in of prison after her fiveyearold son was run over and killed. She has written a book about her life experience, becoming ms. Burton from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women. I believe in rehabilitation, not only for drug addiction, but for other areas. And we cannot continue to warehouse people and not provide ,evels of rehabilitation reentry services, training, jobs, and allow them to be an economy indd to this america. Amy we will also speak with Michelle Alexander, author of, the new jim crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Is has described susan burton as a modernday Harriet Tubman. We have got to build an underground railroad for people returning home from prison. In undergrou
They caught up with him a short time later. Yesterday we talked about a woman who crashed her car into a lake after jumping out because of a spider. The insect dropped out of the cars visor onto her lap. That was in australia. Something similar happened in texas. This time it was a mouse. The driver felt it brush against her leg and jumped out, but she left the car and gear and it ended up in the bay. The woman is fine. No word on the mouse. A lot of people hear this and think, you got out and they ask why not get back in, but apparently thats a big mistake. Often that makes these end in a bigger tragedy when you try to get back in. You shouldnt jump back . Dont get back in the car unless the car is headed toward somebody else, and then you might have to make a call. I walked into my office and there was a rat in my office. I had to edge around him so he was between me and the door. You had to edge around him . Like this. Because the rat was there. I walked in. The light was off. I edg
Temperatures starting off in the mid to upper 60s. So we have got 68 in marshfield. 69 in sandwich. And even though these spots are cloudy not necessarily wet across the board, be aware where we have the fog, the mist and it is feeling very damp this morning. 66 right now in worcester. We have got some showers in spencer right now. Light rain there as well. Pepperell over to hudson, New Hampshire, windham, New Hampshire. And like i said, today is not the the prettiest wednesday. 7 a. M. , 67 degrees with drizzle and fog. At noontime, 75 and mostly cloudy skies. Still waiting for spot showers into the afternoon they are going to be somewhat scattered. Between that we will find mostly cloudy skies. A couple of thin spots in the clouds. The sunshine not making a full return until late this week. I will time out those slow improvement coming up. Julie is back with live drive time traffic. Shiri, want to remind everyone that sumner tunnel is closed for another half an hour. If you need to u