Monument as we wait for the Cherry Blossom trees to burst on and bloom. The festival begins today and peak bloom happens thursday. With warmer temperatures coming in well see them on up quickly. Its hawrd to imagine when you consider how chilly it is outside today. Satellite and radar showing rain showers pushing off the coast as low pressure intensifies and moves to new england offshore now and showers in the forecast today. Were not done with the system. Mainly brought rain to d. C. And accumulating snow north and west to the moup taps. Cold, 40 reg national and 37 dullesen 38 bwi. Lets check temperatures elsewhere. When you get to the moun taps still not at freezing. Its closer, 36 whip chester and 36 martinsburg and 36 couple better land. Once you get up to the ridge to thats where theyre getting snow. 40 washington. 37 cambridge and 37 leonard up to. Chilly no matter what. Future cast shows were dry right now in thrping. By mid afternoon more shores through. We still have that chi
And online lottery. The estimate shows about 150,000 to 200,000 people will fit from 20th street to city hall within the secure perimeter. Anybody else will stand outside the perimeter and watch on jumbo tv screens. A live look at the Ben Franklin Park way where new traffic restrictions go into effect in just a few hours. Randy gyllenhaal is live with more of what you need to know for the morning. Randy . Reporter the traffic closures and parking bans set to get under way on the Ben Franklin Park way. All of the lanes will close in less than seven hours for the whole week. If you usually park anywhere near here or independence hall, you better Pay Attention or else your car might get towed. Outside this apartment near the Ben Franklin Park way, residents usually pull into open spots on the street. But come monday morning, those cars will be taken on a flatbed. Shawna gutman plans to find Street Parking somewhere else away from the secure zone. You have to find parallel parking somewher
Chairman Julius Genachowski and former fcc commissioner robert mcdowell. Thats followed by our discussion with congressman greg walden, chairman of the house subcommittee on communications and technology. Guest were in a landscape thats absolutely shifting, and there are areas of the statutory scheme where it would make sense to look at and say are those keeping up with the changes in the marketplace. Fundamentally, having this kind of competition, programming innovation, access by new players to consumers and access by the traditional players to viewers in new ways. Obviously, whats happening on tablets is amazing. Whats starting to happen in the living room is very exciting. Were in just an incredible time when it comes to the delivery of video programming to consumers. There are issues. We heard it at the commission, both of us did, from distributers who were concerned about the costs of programming. Consumers are concerned about the costs of programming, so thats an issue of i thin
Next saturday is official caucus day in nevada with 36 delegates on the table. Then its off to South Carolina the following weekend with 54, thats followed by super tuesday, the most critical day of the entire primary campaign on march 3rd. More than 1,300 delegates available, roughly a third of the field. But first, to nevada, where josh letterman, our Nbc News National Political reporter is with the sanders campaign. Tell me what you are hearing from the sanders campaign. Reporter well, alicia, Bernie Sanders had more than a thousand people that came out here in carson city for him today. Early voting is actually already under way. Its the first they brought early voting into the caucus systems, so the candidates eager to lock down as many people now as they possibly can. Bernie sanders seemed to have his mind on Mike Bloomberg today as he was campaigning. He was poking some fun at Mike Bloomberg saying that he is suffering because he is only down to his last 60 billion. He also brou
Dop donetsk, ukraine, with the latest. Hi, leland. Reporter hi, arthel. The independent International Observers being released is the only bit of good news coming out of this crisis that is quickly spiralling out of control. This really began as an insurgency, and is now quickly heightening in terms of its severity and its breadth into a civil war here in ukraine. Latest pictures out of one of the pro rebel strong holds, those russian separatists taking on the Ukrainian Army as it moved in its armored personnel carriers into the town. The Ukrainian Military is now about 36 hours into their offensive. They were able to take back a tv station and also an intelligence building that had been occupied by the separatists. However, the Ukrainian Military has not been able to make its way into the prorussian stronghold of slavsions. This is spreading to the key port city for the ukrainians on the black sea. Yesterday there were 30plus People Killed when they were running street battles between