Sen. Ernst thanks everyone for coming out today. This is my 33rd town hall of this year. Been active and busy and out and about amongst our communities and constituencies. Thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you folks for coming out. It must be quiet on the president ial trail here in iowa today. You are absolutely welcome. Thank you for being here as well. The way our town halls work, we do have a number of cards filled out by folks who would like to ask questions. If you would like to fill out a card and you didnt when you came in, raise your hand. Staff will come by and will provide you with a card. You can fill that out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that, we will go ahead and get started. I wont have an Opening Statement or anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. If you have cards, send those up to the front here. Emily will go ahead and call a couple names out.
Thanks everyone for coming out today, and this is my 33rd town hall of this year. So been active and busy and out and about amongst our communities and our constituencies. So thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you, folks are coming out. It must be quite on the president ial trail here in iowa today. But you are absolutely welcomed so thank you for being here as well. The way our town halls work for those that havent been to one, we do have a number of cards that been filled up out by fols that would like to ask questions. If youd like to fill out a card and you did when you came in, if you would racial hand the staff of come by and will provide you with a card. You can solve it out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that what we will do, go ahead and get started. I will have an Opening Statement anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. I can come if you have cards, send t
The weekend. Still breezy but not as windy tomorrow, and the wind cuts down on sunday. At the chilly air will remain for a couple of days. Also, a strong northwesterly wind. So the numbers now 36 in gaithersburg, 37 in ashburn. 38 out of dale city, 39 in washington. When you factor in the wind, that drives the temperature down. When gust in the past hour have been to 25 Miles Per Hour. It 24 Miles Per Hour gust in leesburg. If you like 23 in hagerstown, 31 in washington, 25 at andrews. The weekend will be called. Coming up in about 15 minutes, i will tell you about even colder air mass that will come in through the wednesday and thursday. Minutes. The muchhyped opening of the new mgm casino at National Harbor lived up to the hype. So many people try to come out, the casino hit capacity in less than an hour. That had traffic backing up all the way to the beltway and beyond. John gonzalez has been at the casino since before dawn and joins us live. We are about 13 hours going in. How is i
Like outside. It feels like 18 in winchester. 23 in hagerstown. 26 in leesburg. 33 degrees degrees in annapolis. Its cold and clear and breezy. The wind chills will be down in the upper teens to low 20s through the night, if you have plans. Look at hourbyhour temperatures. Clear skies so well drop to the mid20s in most suburban areas. Close to 27 downtown. On top of that, if you have are in the 20s and the upper teens through the night and the Early Morning hours. We will be dry but there will be precipitation chances and more cold front showing up in the tenday outlook. Ill share that with you in 15 minutes. Alison thank you. Dont miss any changes in the weather even if you have to step away from the tv. Download the stormwatch7 app from google play and the app store to get dougs updates on its doors. The party and the games are just beginning. Horace guess what . 45 minutes later it reached capacity. It happened again today. Traffic jam. Some had trouble not just getting there but al
They are done for the night. But hundreds of people with public works will be on duty this weekend. And you should know salt is a bit different this season. Its prewet, meaning it has more of an oatmeal consistency. So what does that mean . According to Laura Daniels with dpw, this will make it much better for us drivers. The salt wont just hide under parked cars, but be spread out. Our employees, up to 350 of them, will be have safe and passable streets. Adrienne and of course we will be on top of it as well. There is Something Interesting to put it in perspective, tackling a storm like the one were expecting this weekend, not even our biggest, will cost about 1. 5 million. That is according to public works in milwaukee, im adrienne. Pedersen, wisn 12 news. Patrick a reminder, winter parking rules are in effect in the city of milwaukee. The amount of snow that falls will determine whether the 4 inch rule will take effect. So be sure to read the signs carefully. . Kathy if you arent re