It is no longer just africas problems. The mention from a top u. S. Expert. Lets make a comeback. From batman to birdman, Michael Keeton gets the Venice Film Festival off to a flying start. So we start this news hour with the crisis in ukraine and reports are coming in to us predominantly from the Reuters News Agency of the Petro Poroshenko calling angurgent security meeting because of what he is calling a Russian Military invasion. As i say, a Russian Military invasion is what president poroshenko is calling the Current Situation in his countritries, plus a spoesh that separatist leader has come out saying that russian soldiers are fighting among his ranks. We can go live now to our correspondent paul brennan north of mariapol. He has been following the stories for us. Paul, tell us what you know. Reporter martin, the crisis here in ukraine, i think, is entering a very critical next 24 hours. Two main questions on the table firstly, how long can russia go on denying what is increasing
Within the last couple of hours, montgomery, prince georges, grant county, Howard County also announced two hour delays. And dc Public Schools the full list again at the bottom of your screen and can be found on our w s. A. 9 wusa9s mobile app. Allison ray is tracking conditions outside where we find here with the umbrella in hand. Reporter it is coming down pretty good in norwest dc. It is slick out there and we are going to see freezing rain possible especially areas off to the north. Roadways are well treated. The biggest issues is walking just outside of your door your sidewalks, and ramps. Be cautious out there until the temperatures start to warm up. Grab the umbrella with you. You are going to need it today. Rain will continue. It will be heavy at times. 37 degrees in dc. Areas east of the shanendoah valley near the blue ridge and frederick, the pink colors indicating the possibility of freezing rain. Give yourself an extra couple of minutes and sometimes it just looks slick and
A blast kills two at a march in karkiv. Plus. In the heart of columbian rain forests where conservationists are fighting to preserve jaguars for future generations. Egypts president has defended his position to attack isil target did in libya. He said it was planned top avoid civilian casualties. He said Egyptian Forces delayed attacking isil targets for several months due to this reason. We launched an offensive against 13 targets. These targets were subjected to strict and inaccurate surveillance. Intelligence information was gathered in absolute secrecy and accuracy. Lets bring in al jazeeras hoda following from djerba. What will be made of what president sisi had to say there . Reporter president sisi was talking both to the egyptians and the International Community, to the egyptians, he clearly said that he needed to do that the blood of innocent egyptians had been spilled on libyan soil and he could not face the families and pay his condolences without doing that. Will be well re
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Rm good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Matt and natalie have the morning off. Miss p does not. We have royalty this morning. Best in show at the Westminster Dog Show. Maybe a little Love Connection with wrangler. Look at the wrangler. Look at that. He said i wish i fixed my hair this morning if i had known. I can hear strings of mrs. Robinson playing. We will check in with miss p in a moment. The bitter cold is the top story. Temperatures plunging across the eastern half of the country. Al, this is just more and more. People have power lost in that area. We are not seeing an end in sight. This is just the beginning of it. The bad stuff gets in even sooner. In fact we take a look and before we get to the siberian express, let me show you what we have been dealing with in the south. Frozen trees and power lines and were talking about a real mes
Stopped. With oil also on the curb. Its likely the collision happened far into the intersection kind of where that island is that you can see the cones are covering two pole that is were pent after the car plowed through. Its also an area marked with candles and roses. Stoplights emerge lane, crosswalk cars and pedestrians converge at a multi lane intersection in sunny vale. North fair oaks and north wolf road. Where it comes together thats where you have the conflict with pe de pedestrians. Its hard to think about how to be with life. Instead of taking yourself for granted. Reporter around 2 00 in the afternoon the driver of the silver ford focus struck two pedestrians. Who had the right of way still unclear. Police say women in the mid50s died on scene while the second pedestrians in her mid30s was transported to the hospital in critical condition. The driver appeared to be a woman in her mid40s. Investigators say she stayed on scene and is cooperating. The driver described as clearl