Ex expected to say she will not another term. A groundbreaker on capitol hill who paved the way poorfor women in the senate. Wep sent this out as a break alert on our nbc washington app, where we will continue to update the story throughout the day. Back to you. Thank you, angie. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell joins us with his forecast. Temperatures warming up an melting out there, chuck. You bet. Now that sunshines out temperatures confrontly above the freezing mark the meltdown has truly begun. You may need the umbrella even hope to the sun is out with all the frozen water dripping and melting off treeps, branching, power lines. Outside National Harbor fairly chilly. A lot of ice across the potomac shoreline starting to break up a bit. At 43 already at Reagan National. 41 degrees at restin town center. Gaithersburg 40 degrees in parts of southern prince georges county. Nothing on storm team 4 radar for now. Dry for tonight and into tomorrow but this wave of moisture is coming
Plus. Im erica woods on south africas western cape coast and fishing and oil spills put the continent species of penguin at the risk of extinction. An Egyptian Court sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi to death, the verdict relates from a mass jail break in 2011 during the revolution that topped mubark and he and others escaped and more than 100 others have also been sentenced to death and tried. The case will now go to the grand egypts highest authority and if he agrees with sentence he can hand the case back to trial judge. The former president facing several other charges include conspiring to spy and commit acts of terrorism in egypt see that peninsula with hamas and hezbollah anicka tar that supported the government and morsi accused of fraud with economic and social programs and insulted for accusing a judge of overseeing election fraud. Morsi denies all those allegations and lets talk more about the death sentence now and we have a fellow in residence of the graduate school
To the new eastern span of the bay bridge. City in answer is yes. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Im frank mallicoat. The new span of the bay bridge will be open for traffic on labor day weekend. Theres a lot to do between now and then. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us live outside the meeting where the big announcement was just made moment ago. Reporter now transportation officials are going from decisionmaking to planning because two weeks from tonight the bay bridge will be closed. The bay bridge as we know it. And five days later, or less, the new span of the bay bridge will be open. This was a whirlwind decision. The Oversight Committee made the call 15 minutes ago. First the federal government approved a temporary fix for the 32 bolts that snapped on the bridge in march and then we heard testimony from two independent panels who concurred that the new bridge is safer than the old bridge, even while the permanent fix, the saddle, is being installed. Theres risk to all of
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The Government Agency that created a lot of worry among millions of drivers yesterday followed that up by creating a lot of anger and frustration today. People trying to find out whether their vehicles have a potentially deadly air bag defect couldnt get through to the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the phone, and the web site wasnt much help either. 247,000 more vehicles were recalled yesterday. An Auto Safety Group estimates as many as 25 million may have the dangerous air bags. Heres jeff glor. Reporter one day after the government issued an urgent letter advising consumers to take immediate action to fix exploding air bags, there was no apparent urgency on the nations auto safety web site. A search feature for recalled cars didnt work. A separate page listing affected cars was inaccurate, including vehicles not involved, and callers to the national Highway Traffic Saf
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The Government Agency that created a lot of worry among millions of drivers yesterday followed that up by creating a lot of anger and frustration today. People trying to find out whether their vehicles have a potentially deadly air bag defect couldnt get through to the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the phone, and the web site wasnt much help either. 247,000 more vehicles were recalled yesterday. An Auto Safety Group estimates as many as 25 million may have the dangerous air bags. Heres jeff glor. Reporter one day after the government issued an urgent letter advising consumers to take immediate action to fix exploding air bags, there was no apparent urgency on the nations auto safety web site. A search feature for recalled cars didnt work. A separate page listing affected cars was inaccurate, including vehicles not involved, and callers to the national Highway Traffic Saf