Lets go straight to the meteorologist, we are seen rain, hail, and a lot of snow up in the mountains just today. Quite a bit of snow in the sierra. Locally, if you thought it was cold enough to snow, you were right on, with dropping snow areas in the bay area to 22,500 feet. You can see a little bit of a dusting of snow. So yeah, the snow levels continue to drop here in the bay area. A Winter Weather advisory in fact toward the big sur coastline for today into tomorrow. What about those rainfall totals . Those numbers really adding up. San francisco 1. 14. San jose,. 86. Oakland,. 70. Concord, just over half an inch of rainfall. These were measured today around 17 and 20 inches. Snow still in the forecast for today. Heres what it looks like on the satellite, and the radar as we come in closer. Today, we still have some scattered showers, in fact the possibility of some thunderstorms showing up. Some areas experiencing a bit of a break in the clouds, but right now, you can see activity
political spectrum pledging to cancel up the $10,000 for those making less than $125,000 and year and twice that for pell grant recipients. bill: $300 billion is the latest hand out on a tab topping $4 trillion. republicans call it reckless. this sends the wrong incentives telling people if you did pay your loan on time and you did the stand-up thing, you are a sucker. this is just another example of politicians saying give it to me and then we ll take it from the people. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this may be the dumbest yet. it is stiff competition. bill: maria bartiromo has analysis. madison all worth and the cost to taxpayers. hello, jacqui heinrich at the white house. the administration just won t say it even though we already know the answer. the press secretary yesterday repeatedly punted on who is paying for this. this morning the education secretary wouldn t even talk dollar amounts. how much does this cost? you know, depending how many
Getting more information and bring that to you throughout the morning and online at wbtv. Com. Welcome to wbtv news this morning it is friday, february 12th, im john carter. And School Delays to tell you about. Avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools are all operating on a twohour delay. No other School Closings that we know of. If we get any other delays or closings, well bring them to you. But again, a very cold start to the day again today, here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Wig al it is, john, not as brutal as yesterday. Cloud cover moved in and that ounce times prevents us from getting too, too cold, it is debatable how much snow is reaching the ground. Radar is picking up snow over the mountain and foothills. There may be flurries, but snow a Winter Weather advisory from noon through tomorrow morning. Several inches of snow in the mountain, at best a flurry or sprinkle in the foothillo 25 in boone. 30 hickory and morganton, below freezing ch
Legal action over a steep increase in gas prices. Five years on from italys earthquake. Why much of a town is damaged. The artistic side of george w. Bush, how he really sees Russias Vladimir Putin and other leaders around the world. Despite all the threats from the taliban, afghanistan has carried out historic president ial elections. More than 7 million turn out to vote. Thats 58 of the electorate, higher than in the United States. Afghans had three main voices, abdullah abdullah, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, and zalmai rassoul. We probably wont know who has won for several weeks. As Bernard Smith reports, this is a proud day for many afghans. The queue started forming well before kabuls polling stations opened. Despite the taliban threats to target the election, people wanted to vote. In afghanistans 5,000year history it marks the first democratic transfer of power. People here are eager to seize the chance. We dont care about the threat from the taliban. I dont have a threat from taliban
This this this this. Cobbkabul. There are eight men running. Three considered to be the frontrunners. He holds a ph. D. In cultural an throppology and worked for the world bank for over a decade and dami rasul. The top pick. His running mate for Vice President is a woman. He is also unmarried, which is kind of unusual for a politicians in afghanistan. Abdula abdula ran in 2005, finishing a distant second to a former eye doctor. He has also served with afghanistans foreign minister. Joining us to discuss this is Richard Barrett do any of these bode well in the longterm Security Agreements . All of them are prepared to sign the bilateral Security Agreement with the United States. I think thats generally the position of most politicians in this afghanistan now that they understand there is a need and a continuing need for external support, not just for their forces but also for the economy more generally. So is most of the politicians in afghanistan in favor of this longterm Security Agre