This friday, september 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. That was a beautiful moment. It was a beautiful moment. At the baseball game. He looked great. He looked great. Hes had his second treatment of cancer and 91 years old, or soon to be 91 years old, he still has it. He sure does. When it comes to planting a big one. He sure does. Its good to see them out. Look at them. Oh. Good job. A push to defund planned parenthood gaining momentum after the Republican Debate as washington inches closer to another fiscal cliff. Several votes are expected today as some conservatives in the house try to block federal funding for planned parenthood even if it leads to a government shutdown. Carly fiorina made an impassioned plea against the organization during the debate referring to the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses. I dare Hillary Clinton, barack obama, to watch these tapes, watch a fully formed fetus on the table. Its heart beating, its legs kicking. While someone says we have t
You ready for weather alert day. If youre in the other room, look at the screen. Storm team 4 radar shows you the rain is coming down now with the rain to come. And live pictures on the right show the wet roads youll likely face when you leave for work. Good morning. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Welcome. We want to get to chuck bell to find out more about what we can expect in the weather in the day ahead. Good morning to you, chuck. Thanks and good morning, you guys. Weather alert day for the impacts the rain will have on the morning commute. Could slow things down. Well keep you ahead of the weather by putting extra social media postings out and extra push alerts out on the websites and nbc washington app. Get those downloaded. Weather headlines for today, slow going this morning. Rain should ease up a little bit later this afternoon, but were not done yet. More rain coming our way tomorrow. Storm team 4 radar this morning, yellows and oranges down here near charlottesville thats
86 degrees our high temperature. Mostly sunny, fab friday, you know how we love alliteration. Northwesterly breeze at 5 miles an hour and 63 degrees tonight. The mostly clear, cool night, stepping out, you might want to have a sweater or little wrap, dave warren, you wear a wrap on a friday night. A shaw. Little shaw. Finally friday friday how is that for alliteration there. We are looking at the blue route now, southbound just past germantown pike, is there entrance, going south. They were painting some lines earlier there right around mid county but these look wide opened right now. So no major problems there this morning. Ninetyfive at cottman come and go, north, south east it looks good this morning, all cleared, just some light volume, to start. Of course, breakfast time and enjoying your breakfast right now, have breakfast with bob on monday. Kitchen 87, 87 washington street, in mount holly, tune in for that, bob will be back, but ill keep it the here all morning, any issues on t
Stay. 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you head out and about this morning. And good news. There are no trouble spots to report out on the roads in or around the capital city. But well be sure to keep our eyes on the roads and keep you updated for your morning commute. Abc columbia wants to help you jump start your day. We have a quick rundown of your top morning headlines. Were starting with vote 2016. 33 33 senator ted cruz. Addressing what fox news kelly calls. The elephant not in the room. After getting in some initial digs on donald trump deciding to boycott last nights final debate before the Iowa Caucuses. The gop president ial hopefuls turned on each other. Senator cruz was quickly put on the defensive. As the second place candidate. Florida senator marco rubio charged that cruz is even trying to out trumptrump, when it comes to his immigration policies. Donald trump busy headlining a show of his own during the debate. Trump held a rally just three miles away. R
But obviously, this is kind of a precursor of whats to come today and plenty of warmth for those storms to get going. 75 degrees in downtown columbia. 75 in orangeburg. Almost everybody into the 70s. Couple of spots due to some rain keeping them a little bit cooler at the moment. We are expecting a very warm and humid day today. Winds sustain around 15 to 20 miles per hour. Gusts upwards of 30 to 35 miles per hour. Right now, were watching this line of storms as you go around just to our west here, you can see were at columbia right here. This line is moving our way. Expected to bring some pretty strong wind gusts as well as some lightning and some heavy downpours of rain. Ill show you what else to expect from this line and when its going to move out coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Another one bites the dust. This morning, kentucky senator rand paul announced hes suspending his campaign for the republican nomination. He finished fifth in mondays Iowa Caucuses with 4. 5 of the vo