Local, live, latebreaking, this is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Jason good morning. I m jason guy. It is president s day and we are getting you going. It is still cool this morning, but nothing like those frigid days last week. We begin with meteorologist amy sweezey. Where are we going as far as temperature . Amy we ve got a lot of clouds that we are starting with this morning. We will be climbing today. It is going to be warm despite all the clouds. Upper 70 s this afternoon. Just a couple isolated showers in our forecast today. I don we ve seen a few along the coast in the overnight hours and we may see more through the day. It is warmer to start off this morning. Day before. That increase in temperature means we are in the upper 40 s in our coolest spots, but mid60 s to the south in broward county. A little bit farther inland, in brevard county, we are much cooler. Quite a bit of cloud cover. There s a few showers on the radar. We will continue to see a couple Little Poc
Across the country and the controversy keeping mayors out of the celebration. The grand old opra house celebrating 40 years. In the crimea peninsula, the disputed ukraine territory voting to join russia and it was 97 of people who voted said yes to the referendum and good morning and welcome to al jazeera, im stephanie sy and they are deepening the rift between moscow and the west and russia wasted little time saying it will approve the decision quickly and kievs new government rejected the referendum calling it illegitimate and u. S. And eu say sanctions are the next step if russia does not reverse the stance and we have a team of reporters tracking the developments and phil is in kiev but lets begin with Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol and we have seen a see of russian flags through crimea, what has it been like where you are . Well, here in sevastopol and throughout crimea the legislatures have wasted no time in solidifying the decisions made in the elections yesterday. In the Crimea
Role in the world. What do you think america possible role in the world should be . The phone lines we will get the latest on the investigation and that malaysian aircraft and 2014 Midterm Election politics. Putin may pay dearly for crime area for crimea. European leaders are calling it illegitimate. There is also this piece from a brookings institution, an expert on american foreignpolicy. He writes there has never been a more important time to understand American Power and leadership. Critics decry a last of a lack of leadership. American withdrawal is becoming conventional wisdom. Is that right . He concludes with these words. We have the underlying capacity of a powerful ally in structure and favorable international landscape. But there is no time to wait. The longer the perception of American Hesitation endures, the more ingrained it will be. The more it will act in ways getting things for the u. S. We have global interest and global presence. Time for the u. S. To recall we are s
Ukraine. Crimea voting to secede from the country and join russia. This morning the world refusing to recognize the landslide vote. Whats next for the people of ukraine, and will russia fight to create an addition to its country . We are live with what youve missed overnight. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im rosa flores. And im john berman. It is monday, march 17th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. First to the breaking, new developments in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. This weekend the mystery, it deepened, as malaysian officials finally admitted this jet with 239 people on board was flying for many hours after its crew last spoke with air traffic controllers. And they believe it was turned deliberately off course. The search area has expanded again deep into kazakhstan and south into the southern indian ocean. Authorities are now looking into every passenger on the plane and the flight crew, a 53yearold captain and his 27yearold 1st officer. This weekend, both of the