A snowball in crisis around his presidency over ties to russia he said he had nothing to hide just a day after his former National Security adviser admitted to lying about his contacts with moscow as ports the controversy is overshadowing what would have been a big win for trump in the Republican Senate giving tax bill green light. Outside the white house saturday morning President Donald Trump wanted to talk more about the new tax plan passed by the u. S. Senate then about his former National Security advisers russian contacts soured on what has been shown no solution no killer has been absolutely has been absolutely no solution so were very happy and frankly last night was one of the big nights on friday Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in federal court to lying to the f. B. I. About efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u. N. Security Council Resolution regarding israel and about conversations he had with russias ambassador to the u. S. During th
Damaging ones that rumbled through last night, dry day, just really hot outside. Lets go on out to the warning, still in effect, he is eggs i have heat warning, that is, New Castle County right up the highway to Mercer County and all of the county still stuck with the worse and the course of the heat. Storm scan3 at the moment, hey, at least thats nice and quiet. Really has been working over time a lot of these recent mornings here, where you are not finding much in the way of any wet weather. Pretty clear sky, couple of clouds, gorgeous sunrise currently underway. Not going to see showers or thunder, off to warm start. Check it out. Pretty calm overall, will continue to be the scenement because you have lined winds, sort of trifle outside. Middle township high school, take a look, light of day popping over the horizon, genesis bay at least visible in the distance, you are going to have not as much of a fog issue, 77 degrees the current temperature though, current temperature, we just
Indiana. Yeah, we did. Tornadoes. Thats a cold front. That will make its way for us, but the good news it will weaken considerably. Thats still a few daysway. In the meantime this morning still starting off pretty nice. It is 68 degrees right now. This is a live picture from the raleigh and Durham International airport starting to be a little brighter. As it does we can see an area of clouds out there this morning hanging over the northern portions of wake county. Well watch for these throughout the morning. All in all, i do think youll see more sunshine than no rain, though, on the satellite and radar composite, so thats also some good news. Lets get straight to the temperatures around the region. 61 in louisburg and clayton. Dropping now to 60 in roanoke rapids. We have the mid60s in henderson and durham. 65 in lillington. Also the midsix tee around fayetteville. Mid60s around fayetteville. 84 at lunchtime. Id say mcat worst, 90 our afternoon high. So yes, this could be so far the ho
A new planet that has been called a second earth has been discovered. That could be a major step in the quest to find life elsewhere. Also coming up this hour, we will look back at the fashion legacy of the designer who was a pioneer in womenswear who died today at age 86. Could we be facing a shortage of french wine . Extreme weather conditions have hit it hard. The details coming up. First our top stories live from paris. First, the death toll from the earthquake in italy is now up to 247. Thousands of rescuers are still racing to find survivors after towns were flattened in a mountainous area in the country center. Many people are still buried under the rubble. Luke brown reports from amatrice , one of the towns worst hit. The question for the rescuers who are continuing their desperate efforts to reach any of these survivors. Ago, we just a while spoke to the organizers of the operation here and he indicated that it is an extremely complex task. Hour to get to the and thate of amat
We end up using more salt. With big snow, we just push until the snow slows down. 24 dot trucks and three motor graders used across the county for snow removal efforts. More photos are coming in. Caitlin sent us this video as she was driving in mars hill around 8 30 this morning. A beautiful scene but drivers need to be weary of those slick roads. The snow flakes continued to fall overnight in asheville. She says she took it near the asheville mall. Sheila sent us this video. She says to be careful if anyone is crossing across mountains. Not going to bring a lot of melting and things could refreeze tonight. Michael hauler sent us this photo of the French Broad River this morning. It is a gorgeous scene. Beauty of our mountains and the snow. Mark says snow is falling in robinsville. This is a shot of his dog having a blast. He said they had around five inches and it was still snowing early this morning. Remember to send us your pictures, all you have to do is post them to our Facebook P