Where a brain disease is effecting thousands of children. Developing story in france where a diplomatic roe is brewing with the United States. The National Security agency is accused of spying on french citizens and we have a man in paris and the tell us more about it, tim . David, this has come as something of a bomb shell on monday morning. The french have woken up to discover that during a 30day period between december and january this year the United States intercepted no fewer than 70. 3 million phone calls in france over a 30day period. Lamond the highlyrespected french newspaper has broken the story and the fallout has already been swift. The u. S. Am ambassador is being called and its shocking news and seems it was just not suspected terrorists that the u. S. Was monitoring, it was also people from the world of business, from the world of politics, and during that period under an operation code named u. S. 985 d like something out of a spy novel which of course it fully justifi
Its a chilly start but a dry start for most of us. I say for most because the only problem is a touch of fog in a couple of spots. Grab a jacket with 30s and 40s now. This afternoon rather pleasant for late october. Still cool, 58 at noon on our way to 60 or so with a northwesterly wind at a 5 to 10 miles an hour. The rain showers from yesterday afternoon, theyre now off shore and pulling away. Some clear skies, light winds, low level moisture. Just a touch of fog now in manassas and also down in toward leonardtown. You see the visibility has dropped to one quarter of a mile. You need a little extra time and your temps this morning running from the upper 30s to about 50 degrees. Andrea and mike . Thanks, howard. After caring for ebola patients in sierra leone, a nurse is vowing to end her voluntary quarantine at home in maine. Kaci hickox broke the quarantine briefly yesterday to tell reporters her civil rights are being violated as a result of these restrictions. Delia goncalves is li
Hello, im ray suarez. Nafta looked at trade between the u. S. Canada and mexico an said mor more or less lets getd of the barriers, the technica technicalities and barriers. Nafta negotiated under president george h. W. Bush, ratified by president clinton, how has the north america trade worked . We will look at in fact from the American Point of view, and we talk less, it seems, from a worker in quebec, a grocery shopper in tolucca and edmonton. Well look at that today. Well begin with a look back at what is in the law and the memories of the chief negotiators. The mammoth nafta treaty when the United States, canada and mexico opened a market when globalization was in its infancy. Now today trade of 17 billion annually. Out of all of the trait, the three countrieafterall the tre companies do in the world, those against it say the treaty hurts jobs. I sat down with karla hills with her thoughts on the treaty she helped write and its impact today. What did all of the partners have that
Hello, im ray suarez. Nafta looked at trade between the u. S. Canada and mexico an said mor more or less lets getd of the barriers, the technica technicalities and barriers. Nafta negotiated under president george h. W. Bush, ratified by president clinton, how has the north america trade worked . We will look at in fact from the American Point of view, and we talk less, it seems, from a worker in quebec, a grocery shopper in tolucca and edmonton. Well look at that today. Well begin with a look back at what is in the law and the memories of the chief negotiators. The mammoth nafta treaty when the United States, canada and mexico opened a market when globalization was in its infancy. Now today trade of 17 billion annually. Out of all of the trait, the three countrieafterall the tre companies do in the world, those against it say the treaty hurts jobs. I sat down with karla hills with her thoughts on the treaty she helped write and its impact today. What did all of the partners have that
Ovethe near future here. There you go, much of the area starting to dry out. Weve seen this little batch of shower and thunderstorm activity redevelop in the past hour to the south. If you look carefully, youll see blinking towards la plata and waldorf. And will come eventually into Prince Georges County to the north and east, towards annapolis and the bay. Nice and mild to start your day. Good news is once we get rid of this last batch of moisture, we should be looking at just cloud cover here for much of the morning and eventually afternoon sunshine. Conditions will improve. 65 at Reagan National. 59 at dulles. 64 at bwi marshall. Heres your forecast, early showers give way to afternoon sun. Temperatures top out in the mid 70s. Nice mild afternoon. More details in a minute, well look at the weekend. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you very much. Lets go to julie wright with more on the traffic. Tony, on the inner loop of the beltway out of virginia this morning a rude awakenin