Taking a new direction. Together stand whoo they came together for National Kick butts day, a day to raise awareness about the negative effects tobacco has on the teenage body. Students showed paintings, made posters, and did all kinds of communityservice projects. Its a tar jar. Its basically a years worth of tar from one pack a day of smoking cigarettes. This is how much tar will be in your lung. The plastic box is a bunch of cigarette butts, and what were showing is that cigarette butts are a huge problem, especially in parks. Theyre theyre extremely bad for the environment, and people litter them all the time, and so those are some of the the butts that we picked up at our local park. Those teens are trying to have Tobacco Products banned from public parks by getting their local government to pass legislation. I think young people are great. The group i was speaking to in particular has been in front of our city council in my city, uh, numerous times to talk about issues, and for t
A fairly substantial breeze out will windchills are back into the 20s in many neighborhoods. Feels like 27 in manassas. Again, dont forget your warm coat and sunglasses. At least the sun will be shining. 37 right now at national airport. If youre going out this afternoon, mild by staying on the breezy side. Temperatures today barely making it up to right around 50 glees. Well talk about tomorrow and weekend when i see you in a few minutes. 270 south at father murderly, lanes now open. Megan mcgrath on the way to that scene. This shall a pedestrian fatality. Road was shut down for some time but lanes were being told are open. Meg apwill be on the scene in a little bit for us to show us what is happening on the ground. 66 into and out of town and 95 in and out of town, no problems there. Prince georges county overall looking quite good. Branch avenue pennsylvania avenue indian head highway, everything rolling along. Same thing 95 in maryland and bw parkway, north and southbound. We have
So welcome back to the cold pattern, everybody. Sunshine and pretty steady breeze all day today. Overall weather impact will be fairly low, but you will absolutely need your warm coat once again and your sunglasses for the ride in and home today. Current temperatures are only in the upper 20s and low 30s right now with windchills mostly in the 20s. So a cold one for sure. Hur by hour 20s to near 30 how. Only up to near about 50 for a high today, but at least the sun will be shining. Developing right now in Maryland State Police are working to find out why a man was on i270 when he was hit and killed this morning. Meg ap mc Megan Mcgrath is there. Reporter a tractor trarl hit the man. The driver stayed on the scene and is cooperating with police. The pedestrian died though and the question is what was this man doing in the middle of the road. He was actually in a lachb traffic on southbound 270 by father hurley exit. Traffic has gotten back to normal here. All of the lanes are open. But
Sites and sounds visiting the Martin Luther king jr. Memorial along the tidal basin. Earlier they stopped by the Lincoln Memorial. This picture just posted on twitter. A big crowd around them. The royal couple checking out tourist locations throughout the area. Started at lincoln mem more then the mlk memorial and from there the president George Washingtons home. Later a speech on reducing Plastic Waste. Camilla visiting the shakespeare theater in downtown washington. And considering a run for the presidency. Forming an Exploratory Committee but never announcing add run for the white house. Japanese launching an invest investigation after ambassador Caroline Kennedy received a death threat. A series of phone calls in tokyo last month. Police received similar calls targeting the Inspector General in okinawa. A decline to comment. And the first lady landed in tokyo for her first trip to japan. Michelle obama will spend the next two days there. The main purpose of the first ladys visit is
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