Susan mcginnis has our story. Reporter police hauled away members of a suspects islamist terrorist ring after a series of raids on the italian island of sardinia. They tapped the phones of terror suspects who talked about carrying out a big jihad possibly against the vatican. The chief Prosecutor Says a wouldbe suicide bomber from pakistan arrived in rome in 2010 to target vatican city but did not go through with the attack. Officials believe the terror suspect wanted to strike a crowded area, not then pope benedict. Authorities say the same group of extreme is launched one of pakistans deadliest bombings the year before killing more than 100 people at a busy market. The vatican is downplaying the significance of the alleged plot with officials saying there is no cause for concern. Police say two of the suspects arheed friday were former body guards for osama bin laden. Susan mcginnis, cbs news. Security is always heightened around the vatican. Pope francis says he knows he can be a ta
Where we dont need much of a freeze threat. But it has wind chills back down. How about a 26 degree windchill in hagerstown 32 the current windchill in washington. Highs today, plenty of sunshine. That breeze will be with us all day long as well. Northwest winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour today. High temperatures will gradually climb up into near 60. Rain chances are back over the weekend. Well talk about that in a few minutes. For now, Melissa Mollet with first 4 traffic. Some big backups, chopper 4 over this big stretch of delays we have this morning. B. W. Parkway southbound at powder mill road, quite slow. The delays there are remaining. Wide look at things, overall no major problems. Take a big look at the beltway. Same thing 270 into town out of town. You dont have any issues there. 66 now at 50. You can see eastbound and westbound pretty open. Dont have any incidents right now. 66 keep our fingers crossed there. Taking a look at 95, slowest spot is northbound through the dale city
This morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has your weather headlines. Chuck . Good morning, aaron. It is indeed a very cold start. We still have freeze warnings in Northern Maryland and Shenandoah Valley and frost advisories down to culpepper and warrenton. Skies are mostly clear, it is really cold. The wind has stayed up overnight. If the wind lays down between now and 7 00 at all, that will still mean a freeze is possible. But temperatures are comfortably above the freezing mark. But the other side of the coin since the winds are up windchills 29 in gaithersburg and hagerstown. 33 degrees in washington. Upper 30s and low 40s and mid 40s by lunch time this afternoon. Another chilly night is coming up tonight. If youre going out to dinner and a movie, you need a little wrap to go out the door. Little pashmina as we were talking about earlier this week. Thats right. All right, now 66 eastbound here as youre driving in after 50, not having any issues right now. Everything looki
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