an absolutely beautiful afternoon today as we are expecting high temperatures, upper 50s. a few clouds working through at the moment but we should wake up with sunshine. it will be a mostly sunny day today and we re not looking at much in the way of rain for the next couple of days. the forecast will be pretty straightforward from here. temperature at reagan national, it is cold out there. 34 at reagan national. your winds out of the south and west at six miles per hour. the forecast is a good one if you hike warm weather and i know many people do. lots of sunshine and we re looking at nice weather for the weekend. details on that in just a minute. thank you. in our top stories this morning, d.c. council member harry thomas, jr. resigned and he is due in federal court later on this morning to face charms of stealing government money and filing false tax returns. he is expected to plead guilty and he could do jail time. we have full reports throughout the morning coming
we test out the out of pocket calculator. thanks for joining us this saturday night, i m maurine. and i m will thomas. we will kick things off in the weather center. a wild weather day, snow in october, what s going on? absolutely. it was really not supposed to happen this way. it was a storm that hit just about all of our area with some wet snow, accumulating snow. a little bit of rain fall. very uncommon. we went from a trace to some areas in the district to 14 inches out in west virginia. take a look at the radar. the good news is, it is starting to move its way out, but new england is getting pounded. you can see behind it, we are dealing with much more. except maybe some cloud coverage. and temperature is another part of our big weather story. definitely. part of the problem today with all that moisture moving in. our temperatures were more than 20 degrees below the seasonal average. we should have been in the 60s today. we were in the 40s. i broke out my hea
weapons. and if they gain the upper hand in iraq as they have the upper hand now in syria and lebanon, our friends, israel and our arab friends in the region are going to be sorely pressed. gregg: is it possible that eight years of american efforts, almost a trillion dollars in money, but most importantly, the cost of precious american lives could all be for naught? i think it s a very real risk and i think the president just failed to understand the significance of what he s done, both in terms of the cost we ve already borne and the risks and costs we may bear in the future. gregg: ambassador, many things. appreciate it. thank you. patti: gregg, we re getting reaction to the president s decision from iraq war vets and from families who lost loved ones during the war. jody ambrose with fox kmsp in minneapolis has more. outside the home in woodbury, the stars and stripes are a symbol of pride. the gold star, one of sacrifice.
second deadly shark attack by a great white at a popular tourist destination. the latest on the hunt for the man eater. president obama fulfilling a campaign promise to pull troops out by the end of the year. it s raising red flags who say the fledgling government in back dad is not up for the job but it s a challenge they say they are ready for. you have to do the job ourselves. you can t rely fully on the americans. they did a good job but at the end it s our responsibility. molly henneberg is live in washington. hi, molly. why does the president think now is the time to bring troops home. the strategy to the end the war has succeeded. he campaigned on promise to bring the war to a quote, responsible end and now he is following through on it. we ve already removed more than a hundred thousand troops and iraqi forces have taken full responsibility for the security of their own country. thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of men and women in uniform the iraqi p