The latest on that in just a moment but first, lets get a check of weather and traffic on the 1s. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell, spring is not coming back anytime soon . New york the spring flowers are being frozen. Low to mid30s in the nearby suburbs look at manassas, 21 degrees this morning. The one upside is, compared to yesterday morning, theres nowhere near a windchill to contend with. Its just flat out cold. 28 at 7 00 a. M. This morning. 55 at 5 00 this afternoon. Plenty of sunshine today. A little breezy this afternoon but by tomorrow morning, rain back in on it. And rainfall amounts tomorrow likely to add up between a half and three quarters inch of rain across the area, most of that coming before lunch. Ill let you know whether or not its going to impact the nationals home opener later on in the show. Melissa mollet. Have this problem still hacking around in gainesville, not seeing any slow downyet but not sure if the map hasnt caught up because it should be slow. In
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are battling two of californias fastest burning fires in decades. The valley and butte fires consumed 115,000acres. That is roughly the size of new orleans. Now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. More than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25 contained after five days. The valley fire close to napa is still raging. It began over the weekend. Strong winds and hot weather be making it difficult to stop. Melissa chan is live for us this morning in middletown, california, close to that valley fire. How much progress is being made fighting that blaze . Well, randall, the latest information that we have on this particular fire is its 0 containment. Thats the last figure we had. The valley fire has grown very quickly. In just the last 36 hours, its gone to 50,000acres and the deployment has been very fast in terms of the number of fir
Neil so america be ready. We have one more american and right now hes taking names. Isnt that great news . The dow is up on Stuart Varney is an american citizen, no, im kidding but we are at 17,622, and i know this sounds a little cookie, this notion that the world is a littlancy after paris. The Federal Reserve has great cover not reasonably calculated to lead to the to raise Interest Rates. But, again, when youre talking about the fed almost everything sounds contradicting. But connell has the latest on these developments. Well, its very interesting, neil, and well talk more about the markets here in a few minutes whats happening in gold and stocks. But this story out of turkey today that broke earlier with all the talk of refugees and whether they should be allowed in here or other countries in europe, this story is getting a lot of attention. What happens was the turkish authorities in the airport detained eight people who they believe are members of isis and they detained them in
Intelligence community cannot verify that each and every person coming here is not a security threat, then they should not be allowed in. Right now the government cannot certify these standards. Neil we just had reminders of that. More than half a dozen people were caught, we do not know where they are from. We do know that it looks like a are from syria. We know that they darn near got through. Ambassador bolton on that and the timing on all of this. Good to have you on that. Nice to be here, neil. Neil opposing this doubling, tripling down on the background of those trying to get into this country. The refugees in syria. We cannot run the revels in syria, we could not identify who they were. We are perfectly fine now accepting refugees even though we may not have documentation to prove who they are. America has always been a generous nation. Lets keep that clear. I think, it is a legitimate question being raised in congress. Whether the administration actually can be trusted when it
Theres more extreme weather in the forecast. With arctic air blasting the northeast, rain and snow in the west, and in the midwest, the historic winter flood is rolling on. At least 25 people have been killed there. Theres no peace in olive branch, illinois, where we find David Begnaud tonight. David . Reporter scott, at least half of the town of olive branch, illinois, is underwater tonight. There are flooded homes like the one behind me for miles in areas that are known to be vulnerable to major flooding. Theres the breech. Reporter in alexander county, illinois, the flooding is disastrous, and the temperature is near freezing. Its gotten real bad here. Reporter today the u. S. Coast guard flew us over the failed about 72 hours ago. This is where the levee breeched sending water from the Mississippi River into a flood plain. At least 100 strucucres are flooded, 14,000 acres of the county are under water, and the water is rising. Reporter this is the home of Brandon Dillow and jennife