Purchases to one per month. This virginia resident thinks there should be new laws. They are so regularly available here. Walmart said its executives would be too busy to attend. Today they said they will head to washington for the Task Force Meeting at the white house. Virginia governor Bob Mcdonnell announced today who would take part in a newly created panel to schurick the safety of students and teachers in the classroom. They will review School Policies and identify funding challenges. The Panel Includes people from Law Enforcement education, and the father of a Virginia Tech student killed in the 2007 shooting. The first meeting will be held on monday. The ohio Firearms Association says it wants to train teachers across the state to carry weapons in schools. The program is being offered for free for teachers and staff who already have a concealed weapons permit. President obama is expected to announce jack lew as his choice to be the next treasury secretary. There is no word offi
Good thursday morning. Im sunny hostin. And im rob nelson. Experts in every state are scrambling to deal with a flood of flu patients. One city has declared a state of emergency. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the very latest. Reporter doctors are calling it onef the fiercest outbreaks in a decade. This flu strain that started in october, instead of january, has spread to 41 states, hitting at least 2,200 people. Im declaring a Public Health emergency in the city of boston. Reporter boston mass general is seeing unprecedented levels of patients. Many of whom have to wait 24 hours to be admitted. In pennsylvania, one hospital had to set up a tent outside the emergency room to deal with flu patients. The situation is not much better in chicago, where overwhelmed hospitals diverted patients to lesscrowded e. R. S. And in minnesota, theyre dealing with 1,000 confirmed flu cases. Please, we implore you to stay home when you are sick. Reporter at least 18 children have died from the flu this season
Because prosecutors gave them a flood of material at the last minute. He was convicted on 45 counts last june and serving 30 to 60 years in state prison. The judge can rule from the bench or issue a written statement or written decision later. But nothing is changing in this case. This is all just kind of theatrics in a way or what . Its not a bad argument that they didnt have time to prepare, because it was sort of rushed and they kept on asking for continuances, and the judge because i was covering that trial, and the judge denied every single request. But with so many boys coming forward, i mean, so many allegations, the convictions on so many different counts, i cant imagine that any judge in this country, given what we all heard, would overturn a conviction and set Jerry Sandusky free. I mean, maybe hell get something. To use a football analogy, this is his hail mary legal maneuver . I any so. In other news this morning, the city of boston has declared a Public Health emergency be
Good morning, washington. Its thursday, january 10. We will get straight to meteorologist jacqui jeras. We are excited about the temperatures. We will not see a lot of improvement throughout today unfortunately. If we have a northerly wind,shine, and cloudy. Overall, it will be mild. We have about two and a half hours for temperatures to continue dropping. Its 47 degrees in the district, 45 in gaithersburg, 43 at dulles, 44 in culpeper. Theres a satellite picture. A variable amount oflienouds. There you see be express forecast. Temperatures moving into the 50s this afternoon. Sixty is around a corner. Details on that in a few minutes. Now, but the roadwaythe roadways. Its quiet from the traffic center. No problems early on connecticut avenue, silver spring, landover, new carrollton. The beltway andin Howard County does a crash on old frederick road. Closed each direction between 29 columbia pike and old mill road. No problems on 395, getting across the in down 14th street bridge, and t
Happening this morning, the envelope, please. Were rolling out the red carpet, starting the countdown, to oscar gold. Its a big day for hollywoods brightest stars. The Academy Award nominations announced live. Seth macfarlane and emma stone here with us, right here on gma. Woo. Dream on dream on dream on dream until your dreams come true and welcome to a blockbuster morning. Huge crowd in times square this morning. Cannot wait to see who gets nominated for the oscars. Good morning, to robin. Waving to everyone out there in times square. Sam is in vegas, two days ahead of miss america. Great to have amy and ginger zee back. This morning, were learning a lot more down in washington about the president s cabinet nominations. Some questions about the lack of women in very top jobs. The Washington Post had the line of the day. It looks like mad men goes to washington, except peggys leaving. And the photo in the New York Times not helping matters yesterday. Race against time. Look at these w