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Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a
Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a