Icy manayunk with more. David . Reporter Jessica Chris very icy. I spoke to penndot official. He says crews are spraying calcium chloride and the major roads to help melt that ice and those temperatures but speaking of ice, this is the problem. The side streets in manayunk and other places in our viewing area and its only going to get worse as the temperatures drop. As darkness hit the city, the temperatures quickly dropped. Well below freezing. Leaving roads looking like this. Zach was on his way to long island tonight and he told Eyewitness News the ice and speeding cars worried him the most. Im going stick to the main roads. 76 476,ism 95 and hope dont hit much traffic. Several areas around philadelphia. Manayunk to be the bug geoff problem spot with icy hills and slippery streets. When i was coming in down here i actually slid a little bit. Making the turn to go down to park. I drive really slow. Not even just on the roads on the sidewalks too. Theres black ice. Just need to be car
Brace for another round of Severe Weather today. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, may 17th. Less than a week after President Trump fired and warned the fbi director james comey about tapes of their conversations, a paper trail inside the bureau of investigation is emerging. Multiple sources with firsthand knowledge tell nbc news saying he wrote a memo saying trup asked him to drop an investigation into Michael Flynn. Comey wrote the memo which nbc news hasnt seen on february 14, the day after flynn resigned, following reports he mislead Vice President mike pence about lifting sanctions with the russian ambassador. Comey wayne the office for a count counterterrorism briefing. He asked comey to stay behind after the meeting was breaking up. According to New York Times, trump claimed comey had done nothing wrong. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go, hes a good guy, i hope you can let this go. The memo said comey didnt say anything replying i agr
Dramafree weekend. No such luck. This morning, a Major Development in the controversy over President Trumps firing of james comey. A memo from former fbi director claims the president asked him to drop an investigation into Michael Flynn the day after flynn was fired. The big question this morning, is this obstruction of justice among other things . The chaos continues. This feels like a defining moment. With us we have New York Times reporter who broke this comey memo story, Michael Schmidt, senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc, mark halperin. Veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and former democratic congressman harold ford, junior. Also, joe ahead with new reporting on all of this. First lets lay it out for you. Less than a week after President Trump fired and then warned fbi director james comey about tapes of their conversations, there looks to be a paper trail inside the bureau of investigation. Multiple sources firsthand knowledge of all of this tell
Account of what happened behind closed doors. Stand by for that. Heres what the president has said about all of this this morning on twitter, taking to twitter to defend himself, saying this as president , i wanted to share with russia at an openly scheduled white house meeting, which i have the absolute right to do. Facts pertaining to terrorism and Airline Flight safety, humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. So, where does that leave us right now, other than a lot of moving parts to follow . Lets get to jessica schneider, whos following all of these twists and turns. So, jessica, what the president said this morning, does that contradict what h. R. Mcmaster, his National Security adviser, said just last night . It seems to, kate. You know, this has become sort of a common refrain within the white house. The story goes Something Like this. A crisis situation breaks, white house staff and Administration Officials scramble to
Naming to the new chief of staff position, old chief of staff position, naming a new chief of staff, general john kelly, the former secretary of the department of Homeland Security. The president believes kelly is an emerging rock star in the administration and wants that level of expertise drive and discipline with him in the west wing. Listen to what the president said earlier today. What hes done in terms of Homeland Security is record shattering. You look at the border. Look at the tremendous results weve had. And you look at the spirit. And with a very controversial situation theres been very little controversy which is Pretty Amazing by itself. Reporter in the Oval Office Following kellys swearing in, in a Cabinet Meeting that occurred and on twitter, the president dismissing the notion that theres crisis in the west wing tweeting, highest stock market ever, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border securist, Supreme Court no white hou