Temperatures very, very cool on the coast and snow going into the mountains through the day. Some of the freeways here and highway 24 is moderately heavy and it is not completely light. The rain has been complicating things a bit and the Richmond Bridge seems lighter than usual and 80 does not and hit and miss bay bridge toll plaza backed up and check the south bay and 7 01, back to the desk. California now has 337 confirmed cases of coronavirus and more than twothirds of them are in the bay area where 239 cases have been verified. Santa clara has the most with 116 cases and last night a third person died in the virus in that county. San francisco has 37 cases san mateo 32 and contracosta 29 and other counties have ten or less cases. Napa is the only bay area county with no confirmed cases of covid19. Trading was halted the third time this morning, thats the third time this month. Investors are worrying about the coronavirus and fear it may lead to a global recession. Stocks dropped ne
This video just in from rockville shows a car getting towed after the water receded. In prince georges county, the rains were torrential and drenching. Our crews shot this video in brandy wine earlier this evening, really putting a damper on the commute. And a lot of you have seen huge hail, baseball, tennis ball size in woodbridge, virginia, where some of you saw hail since 7 00 this evening. Back here in the district, rain poured for hours over the capital, and its not completely over yet. Our team is tracking the weather and what we can expect overnight and into the morning. Doug and veronica, can we put away the rain gear yet . Yeah, we can. You can put gear. The rainy period is going to last the next couple of days. The storms that came through today were not going to see anything like that over the next couple of days. But one thing for sure, the flooding, the hail from this event, the hail really falling into the upper 3 of the hail events that we get around here because of the
Graduation. Get ready for another dose of dreary weather. Just looking at storm team 4 radar this morning, you can see rain still coming down in most parts of our area. Good morning, every. Its 5 00 a. M. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. We want to check in with chuck bell to find out if well get more rain today. A element lot of folks will cleaning up today during raindrops. That is the National Cathedral right there, this time this morning all wrapped up in clouds. You can only see the very top of the bell tower there. What should you expect then in your weather headlines . Rain several opportunities of it for today. Its already raining now. We may get a little break around lunch and then another chance for showers on the way home from work and school. Staying on the cool side and the sunshine has disappeared once again. And its not coming back anytime soon. Morning. Have your umbrella ready to go. Not terribly cold, were in the low to mid60s now. And in the 60s we will stay all
But its there. Reporter the explosion blew out windows in thousands of apartment buildings sending glass shards flying. No one was killed. Among the jur injured two00 children. More than 300 schools sustained damage. A wall at a zinc factually claeped. The regions governor promised to replace all the broken windows in a week, a long way where the temperature was 12 below zero. Tony guida cbs news, new york. Axelrod the russians werent the only ones looking up and seeing meteors purpose there were two other apparent meteor sightings reported last night one over cuba and then look at the upper right part of your screen. This image was captured in san francisco. Neither of these other two meteors caused any injuries or damage. Joining us now for more on all this activity above earth is jeffrey kluger, the science editor for time magazine. It has started to feel weve warnedded into some sort of meteor blizzard. Has something actually changed . Actually, it hasnt. The earth has been playing
Four decades. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. We begin tonight with that meteor that exploded over russia. Scientists now say it was even bigger and heavier than they first thought, 55 feet long and weighing 10,000 tons. It was moving at a speed of 40,000 Miles Per Hour when it hit the atmosphere, produce an enormous shock wave that blew out windows and injured 1200 people in chelyabinsk, russia. Tony guida has more on the largest known media to hit the earth since 1908. Reporter at chebarkul lake, 950 miles east of moscow, scientists today looked for remnants of the meteor. Fisherman Valery Morozov saw the space rock falling through the sky. In a matter of seconding, he says, it appeared to grow from a small flare into a huge ball and then an unbelievably bright flash. About once every 100 years something bigger than a minivan will come through the atmosphere and impact either our atmosphere or the earth. Reporter and this was that event