The post on facebook or twitter. If you want to send a text include your name and city 202 7488003 is the text number and we will be reading those later in our live coverage from miami. Joining us now the author of unfollow an mri leaving the westborough active Baptist Church burka where did you grow up and how quex. I grew up in kansas at the westborough Baptist Church started by my grandfather and almost my entire extended family at westborough we had a normal life in some ways. Public school, video games, made cookies with my parents with all wonderful memories but then our lives were organized around a picketing ministry from the age of five i would protest gay people originally and then from there to everyone outside of the church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go with them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around the ministry. Host how does that begin if you talk about this loving family that you have and a normal childhood when did th
So, good morning, everybody, thank you for coming. Im the executive director of the big Cities Health coalition. I want to start by saying a special thank you to representative roy allards office for securing this for us. While i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today. I want to thank you her for being a true champion for Public Health and thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we started this event, planned this event. So, the big Cities Health coalition was founded in 2002 and is a forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments who have changed strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 members whose Health Department serve 62 million or one in five americans and we luckily have two of our member jurisdictions here today. So you all have bios in front of you so im not going to take up too much time, but i want to introduc
A stray shower possible today. Not likely. S id about 10 chance you will see that the mainly north of d. C. Through maryland. You guys may have a stray shower thgh the afternoon and evening. Perfect day to get out to the pool. Not going to be like that each day this week. Rain chces returning to our p ea. Thats coming u the tenday merecast. Ntime, we are following breaking news out of thct distri this morning. Three people shot on t street in northwest d. C. Overnight. Now, police sayhat this happened near the howard theater. All three victims were rushed to the hospital. To word on their condition right now, but policeay they are looking for a white audi car with d. C. Tags in connection to this case. We do have some good news this morning. Wer has been restored to thousands of people who were left in the dark in the district. Thats right. News4s derrick ward is live in the newsroom with the latest on the overnight outage. What happened, derrick . Yu know, it was about 2 45 yesterday
Shower. Then tuesday better chance of isolated showers and storms. But its a beautiful start out there. Our view from our National Harbor camera. Gorgeous conditions out there. 80 degrees is thee. Temperatur lowtomid 80s before the hour is over. Topping out in the low 90s today. Shower f an isolat north of d. C. Lets talk about rain for this keekend. Also lets tal about the heat. Illh show you tose numbers on that tenday forecast coming up. Meantime, we areeaollowing ng news out of the district this morning. Three people shot on t street in northwest d. C. Overnight. Police say this happened near the Howard Theater. All three victims rushed to the hospital. No word on their conditions right now. Po ice say they are looking for a white audi car with d. C. Tags case. Nection to this an update on other breaking news out of new york. One person is dead andle 12 peop hurt after someone opened fire near a playground last night. Police tell our sister station in new york the gunfire started j
Yeah, cold weather. Wisdom, maureen, good morning. Maureen, great advice. Extra layers this morning. It feels like Single Digits here in d. C. Even feels like below zero in a few of our suburbs. Well go through those. Well let you know how long the cold lasts coming up. Hey, erin. Right now roads are quiet but i cant stress enough, mike, it is cold out there. You need the boots, the layers, the scarves, the gloves. Whew. Backback to you guys. If youre just getting up were following a developing story from afghanistan. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in kabul. 56 more people have been wounded. Local media reporting that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate from alabama roy moore is taking his case to court. M