Increase water storage and conservation in western states with Brenda Berman and water resource efforts from colorado, idaho and arizona. This is about an hour. The hearing of the Senate Energy Natural Resources soouks will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to build. Without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the American West would not be the worldwide destination that it is today. It has taken tremendous foresight. They have been great investments. In my home state in arizona, what started as a 10 million federal investment which now contributes 250 billion to the nation. Earlier i toured all 15 counties in arizona. I saw forehand how these Major Investments shaped the state. From hoover dam, salt river praur project, federal investment in these projects is therefore critical. When i visited in
Under a mile this morning so you want to be on the lookout for that. Most everybody is below 70 degrees. Always a bargain at this time of the year. 63 in chan tilly nownd 68 in quantico. This fog will be goneshortly and temperatures in the low 70s by 9 00 and todays High Temperature 88 degrees. Ooks like a beautiful day. Thank you, thank you. Northwest, a great update. Canal road between foxhall and arizona avenue the iconic picture im looking at right now on National News where the folk are standing on top of their vehicle there on canal road yesterday, everything hasc reed and they have cleaned it all up. All lanes now open. As we zoom out a little bit. Kirby road atlo123, fing and damage from rain there. Much of all this flooding may have subjecteded but distant mean local roadaf are s for driving yet. Check out the scene in northern virginia. Yesterdays flood water took out a portion of this road in mclean. News4 camera caught many of close calls. One man is trapped with his two ch
I know a lot of people heading back to work and kids heading back to school. The actual temperatures will be in the teens. Were concerned about the windchill. Make sure you cover up any exposed skin. Were talking about snow chances for part of the area. Thanks, sheena. In the midst of the brutally cold temperatures, an explosion knocked out power to a lot of families. They were left in the cold and dark for hours. Pepco had to quickly work to restore the power. Well send out weather alerts during the frigid temperatures. Download the nbc washington app. Also got breaking news in maryland where First Responders rescued three people from this car. I retweeted this video from Montgomery County fire and rescue. You see that car stuck in several feet of icy water. This was in Ten Mile Creek at Shiloh Church road. 0. Kramer middle school in southeast d. C. Has been flooded. Heres what we know so far. A pipe in the schools basement burst causing water to overflow and to make matters bores, wo
Breaks out there and checking the full roads and full check ahead. Maureen, wisdom. Caitlin and mike, thank you. 4 30 and breaking early this morning out of the district were checking out reports that a middle school flood overnight in southeast. The concern is over Kramer Middle School q street. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on the scene with the latest in this story. Mel, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, guys, still a lot of equipment on the scene here. We have d. C. Hazmat crews standing by and what youre seeing here is Washington Gas crews getting ready to go in with a digger into the school here. As you mentioned two hours going we got reports that was some kind of water main break and water in the the basement. Several feet were told and were also seeing emergency lights inside the school going off as well. One thing we noticed is strong smell of natural gas. What im told is that some of the water got into the boiler room and compromised some of the natural gas lines
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. It will likely be another morning of record low temperatures in the much of the country. It sketches frtretches from the the south and a National Weather service says its going to stay this way at least through the middle of the week. Were in washington where it is also below zero. Good morning. Below freezing. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah, you said it. The windchill here in washington currently is a bone chilling 2 degrees and we certainly feel it. A similar story playing throughout the country as people from montana to florida, texas to new england are under windchill warnings or advisories this morning. 90 of the nation started freezing causing all sorts of dangerous conditions. These are firefighters in massachusetts fighting flames while icicles form on their helmets. In houston temperatures in the low 20s are far from normal. Residents are still putting their home