Health. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The National Security adviser enjoy the full confidence of President Trump . Yes. President trumps National Security adviser resigns amit controversy. We have asked for and demand an independent investigation of what flynns discussions were with the russian ambassador. Donald trump has vowed to take a tough line against north korea, but has not released a strategy. North korea is a big, big problem and we will dealit wh that very strongly. Snow blown in by fierce winds. A bruising stormor f the state of maine. The adoptive son of penn state football coach Jerry Sandusky is under arrest. The race is on to repair the nations tallest dam. Evacuation effect. It mawas jor chaos. Chaos. Flames inside thear pking gram. Holy [ bleep ]. A crane comes down on cars, injuring people. All that 100 ccuonsetive wins. How high can you go. Mia the beagle got distracted during her routine. And all that mattered
Did bluntly say to netanyahu he needs to scale back on settlement construction on palestinian land, saying its not helpful to peace and both sides do need to make compromises. Netanyahu replied with a reference to mr. Trumps book, the art of the deal, and the two men had a warm relationship and talked about their long friendship, and this is really in stark contrast to the strained relations that netanyahu had with president obama. But, scott, palestinians say they have not had this same warm embrace. Their leader met secretly with the cia director yesterday for the first time. President trumps choice for labor secretary created a job today for someone else. Andrew puzder withdrew. I think its a great, great choice. Reporter the senates republican leader was praising puzder as recently as yesterday, but today Mitch Mcconnell warned the white house that opposition from several republicans like maines susan collins, was likely to doom the nomination. You want the person who would be the
Investigation is to keep it a secret. Reporter but democrats, including congressman adam schiff, say the focus on leaks is just a distraction. There are far bigger fish to fry. I would hate to see us go off on a tangent. Reporter those who want to see a more thorough investigation of the russian connections are heartened by the leaks. A column in the columbia journalism review is titled flynn resignation shows leaks under trump are working. Keep em coming. Author trevor timm of the leftleaning freedom of the press foundation argues that leaks to the press are vital for democracy. Former republican congressman Joe Scarborough on his msnbc program morning joe commended whoever leaked the information about flynn. The only reason were finding out about it now is because a patriot did leak this to the washington post, did get this information out there, or else we wouldnt even have known about it. Reporter the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says he will ask the fbi
When the president spoke today of illegal leaks of classified information, he was right, of course. Chip reid has been looking into that. These people have committed a potential federal felony in talking to the reporters. And that ought to disturb us. Reporter cbs News Senior National security analyst Fran Townsend was Homeland Security adviser to president george w. Bush. Theres sort of a base level of this weve come to expect out of washington. Reporter but what does she think about the amount of classified information thats being leaked right now . Frankly, i find it stunning. Reporter she says the investigation into russian influence in the Trump Administration will now be more difficult, in part because people will worry that what they tell investigators will become public. The only way to effectively run a National Security secret. Reporter but democrats, including congressman adam schiff, say the focus on leaks is just a distraction. There are far bigger fish to fry. I would hat
Dan first we want send it to jeff tanchak. We had snow today but is she sunshine on tap for the weekend. Jeff sunshine and a big warm up. You will be nowhere close thinking of winterlike weather over the weekend here. Lets get to the trend here as far as temperatures go this evening. Still be on the chilly side and the wind dies down dropping to the low to mid20s and we start to rise in temperature through the 20s overnight. We are at 28 currently. Wind is starting to go down. West wind at 12 and blustery on the lakeshore and 12 in the akroncanton area. We have a lot of sunshine out there. Look at that. Sunset time is at 5 39 now and warming overnight and big weekend warm up and an alert for light rain on sunday. I will also let you know how long this warm spurt will last coming up at about 5 17. Dan we want to tell you california right this afternoon. One of the three violent inmates who escaped from the Orange County jail is now back behind bars. 43yearold dong was arrested by police