Heres whats going on now. Tensions sky high right now on the last frontier of the cold war. North korea now threatening to get physical with south korea. Promises to go forward with underground nuclear tests. And hacked the New York Times falling victim to a fourmonthlong computer atck. They say the source was china. First a dangerous stand off in the middle east that has to do with one of our most important allies. Syria and iran are fear use over an israeli airstrike inside the syrian border. They are now warning of retaliation. The details are sketchy. Syrians say the israeli strike hit a Research Facility near damascus killing two workers. A senior u. S. Official say the jets struck a convoy suspected of transporting weapons to hezbollah in lebanon. Sara sidener joins us as well as Fran Townsend from new york. We have reports from the United States and reports from syria. Is this the same or separate attacks . Reporter thats the thing that needed to be sorted today. We have heard f
We have a couple dozen reports of tornadoes where we had a damaging tornado particularly in northern georgia during the day on wednesday. But the good news is the bad weather has moved out and the cooler and dryer weather is moving in today. 50 for a high in atlanta. Were expecting 60 in new orleans as we prepare for the super bowl. In the northeast were going to see temperatures generally in the 40s and 50s but turning colder by this evening. Lakeeffect snow through cleveland, buffalo, toronto. Snow showers around pittsburgh and a high of 29 as well. And look at the cold in the midwest. Only 15 today for chicago. Minneapolis, a high of 4. Pretty quiet in the west with a little bit of rain in seattle where today were expecting high temperatures around 49 degrees. Im David Bernard for cbs news miami. Well this Morning Police in alabama are still negotiating with a gunman who has taken a 5yearold boy hostage. Officials say they have no reason to believe the boy is injured. The gunman is
male announcer live from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. Kron 4 news at 7 starts now. New reaction to San Francisco fortyniners quarterback Chris Culliver falling the some antigay, its what he said in reaction to his remarks coming up. It is good news bad news for the hot spot. The bad news is traffic is backed up on one to 1 northbound to san jose. The good news is there are moments away from reopening the two right hand lanes at the lawrence expressway or they have been shut down since the 3 00 a. M. Hour and for the morning commute. For a while they had three accident lines shut down. A big rig and slammed into a guard rail and not debris along the road way. The cleanup operations are just about wrapped of. They have removed our photographer and Michael Bolton from the scene. Michael pelton. I will have another completes traffic check coming up. Erica. Good morning george. Taking it over to satellite radar we are enjoying clear skies. We are a dry around the bay area.
Today for most of the area here as winds gust up to about 50 here behind the system. Well start with the radar. You can see weve still got a little line of rain showers moving quickly through the district and points to the north. Pushing new northern bridge county and that is the last of the shower activity but it is very mustery out there. You get the sense the wind are going to start picking up and they are as mentioned. We are expecting winds to gust to about 50 around here. Once way get this last the piece of rain around here, we should clear out. Temperatures right now in the 50s and even near 60 here in town. The temperatures will be falling a little later as the winds pick up actually whole Different Air mass moving in after a couple of days of springlike temperatures. Well start to feel cooler today. We have a couple of snowflakes in the forecast for later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Well talk about that as well. Real quick, you can see that the rain showers are moving
Tied to your newspaper subscription. But first, were going to get to the storms and sam. You have been tracking it all night. What a two days, george. This is as big as any strong outbreaks in the spring. Lets get some pictures out of north carolina. Frederick county, maryland. Around the d. C. Area. Three to five inches of rain. 60mileperhour to 70mileperhour winds blowing through with that rain. And then, also, just outside asheville, north carolina. Heres the biggest rainfall total we could find. Five information of rain in 2 1 2 hours in boone, north carolina. And again, with the incredible winds, the wind gusts just through new yorks la guardia airport. 70 miles, just off long island. A good sign. Not before 23 tornadoes reported in the touchdown zone here. Looking at 700 storm reports. Feels like spring in georgia, right, steve . Reporter good morning, sam. This is whats left of a body shop. Several people were working back here, who came right here. Used to be an office. And it