Tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with Vladimir Putin of russia. The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince exxon to acknowledge climate change. Also today, mr. Trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that perry once vowed to scrap. Major garrett begins our coverage. Grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven will leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. Reporter Rex Tillersons move from exxonmobil c. E. O. To secretary of state nominee began with a meeting last month between Vice President elect mike pence and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. Rice, along with fellow former secretary of state james baker and former defense secretary robert gates strongly recommended tillerson for the post. After his second facetoface meeting with mr. Trump on saturday, tillerson emerged as the president e
A good wednesday morning. We begin with the president elect adding a few names to his cabinet and engaging in a big show of gop unity. Well, today trump is meeting with some of the biggest names in the Tech Industry including apples ceo tim cook, Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg and larry page. At a rally overnight wisconsin received a Green Bay Packers jersey as he appeared for the first time in public with House Speaker paul ryan. Abcs lana zak following the overnight developments and joins us from washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning, kendis and diane. Were seeing the president elect make some of those over turs to former foes particularly those on capitol hill perhaps in anticipation of some difficult Senate Confirmation hearings ahead. Trump supporters in wisconsin booed native son paul ryan. Speaker paul ryan. I really come to oh, no, ive come to appreciate honestly, hes like a fine wine. Reporter during his thank you tour visit president elect donald trump promoted his uncon
Morning, maybe again late sunday wild up down temperature swings over the next 10 days today sunny becoming mostly cloudy late. Highs 4247 winds nw 5 mph tonight stray shower flurry. Becoming mainly clear and breezy. Lows 2128 winds w 515 mph thursday blustery and very cold. Highs 2129 winds nw 1020 g 35 feels Single Digits and teens julie toss to john right now at 5 xx were following breaking news out ceasefire appears to be broken less than 24 hours after it began. In the last hour activists in alleppo say shelling hit several rebelheld neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city. A ceasefire was reached tuesday between the government and the rebels just as govern were on the brink of taking the entire city. A withdrawal was supposed to start early this morning as part of the deal, but just in the last thirty minutes, buses that were supposed to transport people returned to their depots. New this morning. New laws are now in effect in arlington, to protect consumers from predatory
Running a johnson with a check on the soon to be frigid forecast. And soon to be busy stormwatch 7 team. Tomorrow, thursday remember thursday, remember saturday and monday as well. For tomorrow it is all because of the low wind chill readings because of the cold moving in. We could have a shower, rain shower, snow shower in the area. Cautionary, not any big impact on the roads, but it is something to watch out for. Dry and sunny, its a green light for today. Mid40s, thehe next time we see temperatures this high in the 40 possible the until about tuesday of next week. Heres what im talking about, that shower, that rain shower coming through this evening. The is the rain. A little bit of it comes through , by tomorrow morning we should be just fine, but by thursday again, wintry weather a little bit of snow mixed with freezing rain and what is left of the rain on sunday, that could be quite a bit. Patches on area roads, it certainly looking like it. Temperatures will be very low. Saturda
Extremely cold air making its way in. We were cool today. Here comes the cold. And tomorrow, you will feel it. 20 to 30 degrees colder. Winds 20 to 30 miles an hour. Windchills near 5 to 15 degrees. Its going to feel so much colder tomorrow. I hope youre ready. Were also talking a little bit of snow, some ice. Aye give got a lot in my forecast. Thank you, doug, sounds like it will be a real shock to the system. The bitter cold is already impacting millions across the country. As people here get ready to break out the heavy coats and hats. Local crews are also getting ready. The Virginia Department of transportation sent this tweet today saying its officially snow season as crews begin treating the roads. Our bureau chief Tracee Wilkins continues our coverage in Upper Marlboro to tell us how people there are preparing. Reporter its already starting to get cold here tonight. I know were going to really feel it tomorrow. Folks we spoke to here saying theyre getting ready for it. An arctic