Bao bao needs mama back in china. Four things to know about the weather today. President s day, hail to the warmth. Another day with temperatures more than 15 degrees warmer than average. Our final february freeze might already be in the rearview mirror. We have not been below freezing all weekend. I dont see subfreezing temperatures for the entire remainder of the week. There is finally some needed chances for rain coming. It may impact the weekend. Well detail that coming up. An marching into april. Temperatures will stay way above average. It will feel more like april than march for sure. More about todays forecast. Lets go over to sheena. Good morning. We have some mild temperatures. If you have not walked outside just yet, you dont need the heavy coat. 44 degrees is the temperature right now. Mild start. By 7 00 a. M. , we should be in the upper 40s. A lot of sunshine today and cooperative weather if you have outdoor plans president s day. If youre grilling out, milder by noon. 60
Time to go away. The 3yearold giant panda leaving for china tomorrow and getting a special sendoff here today. Molette joins us live from the national zoo. Reporter hey there, take a look, bao bao is putting on quite a show. Shes been climbing from tree to tree trying to scratch an itch, i believe. This is a day thats all about bao baos fans. She wows the crowd one last time, the final day to say bye to bao bao, so many snapped a picture in her national zoo yard. Some came dressed in panda ears with back packs and other gear and some brought more sentimental treasures. Ive had outfits for her but this one reporter ann lane witt came with her special stuffed panda and tears in her eyes. Ive been watching her since ten minutes after she was born. She is my baby in a lot of ways. From the very start her fans rooted for her survival. And three and a half years later, shes on the move. Love her so much. And i watched her when she was on the panda cam. Shell be fine but yeah, but its hard, g
Lets go straight to storm team meteorologist. How this affects us here in South Carolina depends on a lot of things. A lot of thing and depends on where and if it makes land fall along the east coast. We were talking about this storm battering haiti and thats what its doing. Bringing that deaf staitding rainfall amounts to the island. Theyre expecting up to 25 inches of rain in those areas. Maybe even higher amounts. Maybe double that. Closer to 40 inches of rain. Lifethreatening amounts of rain. Youre talking storm surge and this storm is certainly a bit stronger than yesterday when we were talking. Now hurricane strength winds only extend out from the Tropical Storm winds extend further than that. 8 miles an hour. So picked up just a little bit of Forward Momentum overall. This storm is a very slow mover. I whether bring you back closer to home. A ways to go before we worry about our local forecast. This morning, we have to worry about a bit of fog just like yesterday. Two and a half
Overnight shift. Reporter reenforcements keep arriving as the fire grows, here are a number to strike it that they were sliding that sand fire in Southern California and they got that call to come straight there. After driving on sunday night, working monday and tuesday there and then wednesday morning we would get relief from that fire and dispatch down to this fire. Reporter immediately they are tired that crews are happen mapping out on trailers before heading out. You try to pick up. Reporter there are personalsacrifices about about it too. And some of those arriving are defense specialists. These crews will try to protect the 2,000 homes still threatened. Weve been able to bring in more resources so that we could defend those communities, as much as we possibly can. Reporter while they have been working with the bulldozers, retardant to make that perimeter around the fire that it will continue to grow with what they thought would take a week to contain that will now take more than
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