Lightning and thousands without power and to say some trees are down hard hit was the National Mall good morning. Good morning allison and steve. A lot of trees are down big mess this morning right outside Natural History mall here and you see these are not big trees one after another is knocked over some hit by lightning and even people and its a big mess all along the mall here you can see a and it looks like it it cut a path through here and this is madison by jefferson and arent as many trees there and all the way up and down here and title basin where we were 6 jefferson and along the parkland and independence avenue and bigger trees and one of them clearly looked like it was struck by lightning and strong winds whip around here and jet just a mess a path across the mall and driving down from upper northwest washington ill tell you lots of smaller branches in a lot of roadways some look like theyve about driven off the road and others like theyve been picked up and thrown off the
Reporter and moscow pushes Interest Rates to 17 trying to save the plunging russian rubel. Taliban gunman attacking a school in pakistan, 84 people have been killed so far. 81 of them are children. At least another 100 injured. While the school is in the northwest city of peshawar the Prime Minister is on his way there and he says its a National Tragedy. Nicole johnston has the latest. Reporter a few months since they launched an attack like this, six armed men stormed a school in peshawar where exams were underway and the gunman started firing. Translator the firing started suddenly. We ran to our classes. There were 67 attackers and they were entering the classrooms and shooting students one by one. Reporter the Army Public School is one by the military and has around 500 students and teachers, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said suicide bombers have entered the school, have instructions not to harm the children but target Army Personnel and he explained the attack has been la
Then back here the house directly behind us. This is the home where the tree lived, if you will. Red tagged. It is 1 of 10 that was damaged but it is the only one redtagged. You see the red caution tape, the danger do not enter tape all around the house that sits here and the roof is all caved in as well. Aroundn cack you cant see it from here. This happened just about 1 15 yesterday that the massive redwood was hit by lightning and basically it exploded, by all accounts. Thunks of wood were sent fchunk were sent flying over three blocks. Peoples homes had their windows shattered and it really sent a scare through the entire neighborhood. It was literally explosion. It was like a bomb going off. It was violent and the shockwave, i could feel it in my chest. Reporter huge pieces of tree. Everything from huge pieces to little splinters all over the nand. He city crews came out, tried to board up some of the broken windows, clean up the mess that was left behind. Had this morning i can te
County. Also up towards lucas valley there, you can see heavier showers just to your west coming your way, it is going to roll over 101 within a matter ofc minutes. Look for some ponding on the roadways there. Around napa, a Pretty Healthy cell there. All this is moving from west to east. We are seeing a little bit of a lull right now. As we head toward the afternoon hours well see an uptick in the widespread nature of the showers. Mid to upper 50s. Speak of hail, my goodness it was loud last night. Hope you slept well. Already seeing our fair share of accidents this morning. Hayward, san lorenzo, northbound side of 880, a crash out there blocking the car tool lane. Little bit farther to the north at powell street, eastbound side of 80. Right now we know it is at the maze. Eastbound side is a spunout car. Be careful of hydroplaning this morning. Plenty of water is resting on the sides of the road. Police on the scene in oakland where a large tree has fallen and is blocking lanes near
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