Morning. Mo thanks for joining us, im us, holly morris. Im maureen umeh. Uh. Wisdom has the day off. Ff its Cherry Blossom seasonrym in d. C. In millions of people are flocking to the city. C annie yu live with detailset about this weekends closure festivities. Stiv good morning, annie. Morning, reporter good morning, mor maureen. Reporter the best time t to seat closures right now. Os theres nobody here. E its beautiful out here. The National Park service sayscy last year 1. 5 million peoplen pl came out to the nations tthe capitol to look at theset the blossoms and theyre expecting g just about the same this year t and if you lookhe around, you know, some have already burst open while others are just barely peeking through thosehrgo buds. There are about 3,000 trees that surround the tidal basinids once its peak bloom this area looks like a sea of pink and pk white. Ite. Its a support ler z. The cooler forecast temperatures this week moved the start of the peak bloom period to righth
Into working wednesday as in working campaign trail. Last of super tuesday races was called while you slept. But do victories and losses on both sides put the race for white house into clearer focus. Veronica cleary is here to break it down. Good morning, steve, alliso allison. It was a super tuesday for donald trump and Hillary Clinton. They remain front runners for sure. They did not run the table as trump once said he could do if he won south caroline a lets take a look at results. Well start with republicans trump trounced his rivals he won seven states including virginia and picked up a big share of delegates. Ted cruz won home state of texas something very important to him. And he also won oklahoma and alaska. Now marco rubio emerged with his first victory in minnesota. John kasich, ben carson didnt win any races. Trumps delegate total is at least 274. Hillary clinton, shes widened lead over Bernie Sanders winning 7 of 11 states and six of them by 30 points. Sanders won 4 states
The latest now good morning. Hey good morning allison and steve. Police are serving for the suspect and the gunman that left three women injured late last night on green street and southeast here. If you look up its a very active screen here on green street d. C. Police focusing attention on car pashing on roadway and you see evidence working surrounding car and investigators trying to find clues to help them figure out what happened there are three women hurt and this happened 11 00 last night and theres still a are the of questions and what we dont know from police and were told all is conscious and breathe when we are taken to the hospital and expected to recover. It will be closed off as the investigation continues. Thats the latest back to the in the studio. In in frederick monday morning died and police are tracking down his killer. Brian is 36yearold resident and was stand near the old town tavern 2 a. M. Police are investigating this incident as i homicide and theyre asking for
Roads. We have a crash slowing things down quite a bit. A 2 1 2 mile backup as you are headed northbound on crain highway at branch avenue. The left lane is blocked and those backups are building here. Really have increased quite a bit in the last couple of minutes. In Silver Spring now, chopper 4 over this problem, a pedestrian struck northbound Georgia Avenue at dennis avenue. Another shot from the ground there for you this morning. Also outbound 11th street bridge, still have the two left lanes blocked, overturned truck on the bridge. Thank you, melissa. A developing story now in prince georges county. Police are searching for the man responsible for a deadly shooting at a gas station. Police say surveillance cameras may have caught the shooting around 7 15 last night at the bp station on walters lane near chavez lane in forestville. Officers say this attack was not random and did not happen during a robbery. They hope any other customers inside at the time can help them to a suspec
Get historic flood waters under control in the state of South Carolina. Here, the Army National guard using sandbags to try to help the situation. This after at least 18 dams breached or failed across the state. We know the death toll is still rising. 13 people have died in South Carolina alone. Communities downstream will likely have to evacuate, Officials Say, as all that rain water makes ittowas way the low lying coast. So along with more flooding that is expected, there are so many people today without power and without running water. And drinkable water at that. Some officials even saying they fear the worst is yet to come in some areas. Weve just learned that nikki haley is going to hold a News Conference in about 15 minutes. Right now, virginias Task Force One is on the ground in South Carolina. Helping out First Responders. The team from chantilly is in west columbia. Thats about an hour south from the hard hit capital city. The team was called in sunday night by fema. The 80me