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This is not the snow and ice thats going to affect us, its around the washington, d. C. Area, the rain through the day today. Now, storm team 4 radar showing where the rain is in Montgomery County, Howard County and fairfax. Most of it on the lighter side. The heavier rain is in the martinsburg area and i81. It will stay all rain tonight. Over the weekend, the cold air moves in. We have a winter storm watch in effect. Potential, one to two inches of snow and ice around i95 corridor. Two to four inches to the west. It may be a little high. Well talk more about that later on. Right now, all eyes are on sunday afternoon. Guys . All right doug. Two Corruption Cases are shaking the d. C. Police department. An officer is being investigated for prostitution. Pat collins was in court with the officer facing child important charges and asked d. C. Police chief cathy lanier what it means for the department. Reporter teenage girls, cops, accusations of bad behavior, the consequences, hurtful. Two
Good afternoon. Downing street says the Prime Minister remains stable in hospital and is responding to treatment. Hes in intensive care suffering from severe symptoms of coronavirus. Number 10 says he remains in good spirits. The foreign secretary dominic raab, who is deputising for mrjohnson, chaired the regular morning meeting to discuss the governments coronavirus strategy. Ministers are insisting its too early to start easing the lockdown restrictions, which were put in place more two weeks ago. Heres our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Very little is normal around here just now. Westminster would usually be buzzing with activity on a wednesday morning. Instead, the streets, like so much of the country, are empty. Behind closed doors, ministers have diverted huge resources to fighting coronavirus. The Prime Minister remains here this afternoon, in intensive care, still fighting the virus. He is comfortable, hes a stable, hes in good spirits. Whilst hes had oxygen he has not b
Jo john, on that note you were formerly with the cia. Whats your campaign when you find out a Russian National was offering to help the campaign with incriminating information . What stands out . That itself is enough, but the fact that he the president does not want to take the word of the Intelligence Community. Theyre there to serve him and give him the truth. And instead he seems to take the word of president putin who is a former Intelligence Officer as well as somebody who is kind of a brutal dictator in his own right. I find that very shocking. And i think it speaks to this larger issue of this administration. It doesnt seem to be ready for prime time on one hand, and also doesnt seem to want to trust the experts and wants to do things their way. Their way seems to be a very proned to error and a way of just doing things that is very, very unsophisticated and lacking in any sort of skill or political knowhow. This raises of question of why didnt why wasnt he transparent about it
Center. Chad, the question obviously a lot of folks want to know is when could florence hit the u. S. . Probably the first effect would be some time noon on thursday. Maybe a little earlier, outer bands kind of coming in with lashing 75mileperhour winds, but the problem is not really that were 115 right now. Its the problem of whats going on from here. The water is getting warmer, erica. Its now 85 degrees under the storm. And its forecast to be 145 and right behind here, 150mileperhour storm. Even if it loses some strength on the way into land, its going to have this massive bubble of water called a storm surge. The same type of surge that we see in every landfalling major hurricane like katrina, like hugo, like all of the big storms that push water onshore. It could be 15 or 20 feet high as it comes onshore. Then the storm is going to stop. And its going to rain a little bit like harvey. Hopefully not a lot like harvey but its forecast to come onshore, stop, and put down somewhere in