safety, but one senator becoming the story after a very close encounter with a train. safety, as you know, is that senator, richard blumenthal, almost taken out by the train coming into station. this found 140 violations happened to metro north in the last ten years. those are your headlines. he didn t realize that was show and tell. he illustrated his point perfectly, i almost lost my assistant here to a train. let s go to rick reichmuth standing by. was that 141 violations now? good point. the train was in the right. you re absolutely right. a really great morning, especially heading out for easter sunrise services. temperatures this morning, we are looking great across the central part of the country, and it will get better all day long.
24 paintings of world leaders. bush head while he was president including russia s president vladimir putin. the two met several times. bush even introducing putin to his dog barney who then dissed the pooch saying you call that a dog? it s interesting. read an essay by winston churchill, right? after he left office. churchill was a great parent on the value of trying a painting. impetus. incredible talent he didn t know about. i sat next to an artist on a plane, left winger who hated bush s politics i have to say as a artist i evaluate his skill as shockingly high. interesting. rick reichmuth standing by. also fun who see who he chooses to do paintings of. dali lamb matchett it s pretty cool. his dog. flowers. you know, it s a long time you have to sit there looking at a painting of putin. that s frightening. all right. so we had tornadoes this week. even with those tornadoes we are still well below average
trepidation. rick reichmuth standing by. he is weaving a web. that s good i was wondering where you were going with that see a nice warm up eventually this week towards the latter part of the week. big storms this week all of that for the most part has cleared the u.s. eastern part of the country. almost looking good. we still have the remnants of this and a bit of a coastal system developing that will bring snow across far northern new england. aside from that clear out the weekend. the south enjoy today, tomorrow the rain returns again and then watch some storms out across parts of northwest. more rain coming there, guys. more severe weather to talk about at the obama of the hour. we ll stay tuned. thank you. he took islamic out out in front of the word extremist. why did he do that? did the boss put it ahead of
starts right now. this is danica patrick and you are watching fox & friends the best show to get your motor running. shut up and drive drive, drive. well, the big dance, the super bowl of nascar s daytona 500 getting all revved up for you. rick reichmuth is out there. it looks like there is a little bit of fog. maybe a little bit of rain. not too bad temperaturewise down there in daytona. rick reichmuth standing by for the great american race. nice to see you this morning, rick reichmuth. looking very sporty, too. can we get a picture of rick reichmuth on the screen? he has a sports shirt on. got his hair all buffed up for it. got the another button, rick. [ laughter ]
treasury officials want to know. the pope is offering love advice. pope francis addressed about 10,000 engaged couples in saint peters square and actually took questions on how to have a happy marriage. he told the crowd not to be afraid of commitment and says there is a secret to lasting love. everybody? never end a single day without being at peace with each other. that s great advice. rick reichmuth standing by. hello, rick. looks solemn, rick. do i? you do. do you have bad news to report? a lot of people think so. it s been cold, it s been wintry and there is more. you get excited when there is weather. if it was boring and clear skies you wouldn t be excited. trust me it is hard to do this when you have nothing to talk about. much easier when you have a story. we have one across the northeast today. this is the future radar. take a look what happens. notice we will see the snow move through. it s going to be light for most of the cities incredibly heavy for easte