Fredericksburg at 53 degrees. 48 at dulles and 52 already for winchester and martinsburg. The warmer air is going to move its way up today. And we are headed into the 50s pretty much overall. Tomorrow even warmer. Were headed for a 60 degree day. That strong cold front will bring in storms. Eyes to the skies for your wednesday. Morning fog, mild. Well see some of the clouds increasing into the later part of the day. A chance for shower ahead of that frontal system. Temperatures rising to the 50s and 60s. Spring tease isnt all bad. Its better than my rapping. Back to you. Wasnt bad for spur of the moment. Thank you very much. Welcome news to those affected by hurricane sandy. 50. 5 billion is coming their way. The Senate Approved the emergency relief package yesterday. Rebuilding efforts from the residential all the way up to the state level. Super storm sandy is blamed for billions of dollars in damage and more than 130 deaths. Happening today, president obama is set to unveil his plan
In preparation, the mayor has declared a state of emergency and flights in and out of kansas citys airports were shut down. Hit the pan handle with 15 inches of snow and hurricane forced winds. Blame the storm for at least two deaths. One from a traffic crash and one from a roof collapse. Dozens of roads and highways are still shut down. And power is out for thousands of people. A minute after the hour, lets see what we are in store for. Good morning. Mostly rain around here. Could be good soaking rain particularly this afternoon. The evening commute will be a slow go. Looking at the potential for one to two inches of rain. A flood watch here locally. Lets get to the radar. Its still several more hours before the main event. Its moving in from the south and west and packing everything. Wintery mix off to the south and west. A lot of rain. Thunder storm activity and the white you see out towards kansas city pushing up towards chicago and milwaukee. Thats snow thats flying. Temperatures
And i guess well have to see, you know, theres not i dont have a lot of discretionary spending. David, a General Council for the American Federation of Government Employees says federal workers have suffered enough. After three years of pay freezes. It needs to stop. They need to quit treating federal employees as an atm and deal with the tax loopholes and other changes that are going to balance the budget. If federal workers get furloughed, its not just their budgets at home that will get cut, but every place else they spend money, also. Restaurants, new clothes, entertainment, even lunch at a food truck. Everyone is going to hurt from this sequester. You guys are worried in. Yes, we are worried. Some federal workers say forced furloughs imply their work is not valued and their pay not important. And that makes them angry. We are just like everybody else, whether you are in private industry or the federal government. We all need our paychecks. We all work real hard. We may be cut one
At 7 00 in the dark as she walked the short distance home from her job as a nanny in this Friendship Heights neighborhood. He was a hispanic man about 5 danny or 5 11, short hair 5 10 or 5 11, short hair, jeans, tshirt, not normal attire in freezing cold weather. Reporter she said he followed her in his mini van, then got out and went after her. He wasnt walking out of his car. He swung open the door and started walking towards me fast. Reporter earlier that afternoon here along south park avenue in the commercial part of Friendship Heights a man driving a maroon suv approached a 13yearold girl and started asking questions including her name. Its terrifying. Ying. I have a teenage daughter. Its terrifying. Its a shame our children cant just go out and be safe. Reporter in the first incident just after school last friday a group of kids at rolling wood apartments after east west highway in Silver Spring was approached by a man asking inappropriate questions about their bodies. Montgomer
Everything else is on the table. The gets want higher taxes. The gop deeper entitlement cuts. The president is commander in chief and he is very concerned and that is why he has put forward compromise proposals again and again. The president signed it into law. Didnt have to sign it into law. He did. And for over a year from august 2011 through the end of last year, the president did nothing to stop it. The sequestration splits the cuts evenly between defense and nondefense programs. It calls for a total 1. 2 trillion in cuts over the next eight years. Yesterday, president obama called House Speaker john boehner and Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell to discuss the pending sequestration. Mcconnells office says it is the first he has heard from the president since new years eve. Thank you. The former director of d. C. s Homeland Security agency has been charged with tax fraud. Millicent west is expected in court today to plead guilty to one felony count of attempting to incident fea