More than a dozen deaths are being blamed on sandy right now. And that number is likely to rise. Some 5 Million People are without power so far, from all along the eastern seaboard. Even into the midwest. Today, also, stock markets will be closed again for a secondstraight day. A continuation of their first unplanned shutdown since the 9 11 attacks. And at this hour, there is breaking news from queens, new york, where as many as 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. The heavy winds are making it extremely difficult to battle the flames. Nearly 200 firefighters were called to the scene, trying to rescue people. No word yet on what set off those fires. Have to wonder if downed power lines played a role. Well see. Also, the outer boroughs of new york city have been hardhit, as well. With most areas of coney island and staten island, described as being underwater, following sandys record storm surge, as it came ashore just to the south of the state of new jersey. Dunes and sand berms were
Twice with the Russian Ambassador during the 2016 campaign, that revelation has democrats calling for him to step down. For the good of the country, attorney general sessions should resign. Reporter democrats have now sent a letter to the fbi director and the u. S. Attorneys Office Asking for an immediate criminal investigation. There are two issues were the meetings improper and did he mislead or lie to the senate in his confirmation hearings. Here is session under oath in his own words. Im not aware of any of those activities, ive been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i didnt i didnt have communications with the russians and im unable to comment on it. And he was asked several of the president elects nominees or senior advisers have russian ties, have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2016 government, either before or after election day . He responded, no. Sessions is defending his answers and two the mee
Live in montgomery college. Are gusty as they are everywhere, 35 recently at Reagan National and 38 Miles Per Hour in fredericksburg and martinsburg but that is below the criteria for wind advisory. Editors will climb into the 50s. Temperatures will climb into the 50s. In the afternoon, dropping into the 40s tonight. Later tonight, clouds increase around the area. Because of a system we alberta clipper, a lowpressure center developing in the central plains. This thing will start to go to the east tonight and in the overnight, 1 00, 2 00 in the morning, there could be light snow but temperatures above freezing on the ground, upstairs a few thousand feet where the precipitation is made, below freezing so we could see some snow. The cause of the warm anything that accumulates will be on grassy areas. Through tomorrow, the system as it comes through, gusty winds will develop overhead causing streamers of snow showers to come out of the great lakes. Now a team election, just grassy no accum
The republicans plan. There was a vote expected today. This being the oneyear anniversary of the a. C. A. , the current obamacare law. No vote though came through today for republicans. They could not muster the votes that they needed between republicans in the house and the white house. And we wanted to get your phone calls, your reactions to what happened in the house today. Or for that matter, what did not happen. Phone calls, phone numbers for to call for democrats host House Republicans, their caucus is expected to meet in a little over half an hour. Then were going to take you live to the floor of the house tonight, 8 00 p. M. Eastern. They will be having some votes, procedural votes, but not on the measure itself. House expected to be in session tomorrow. And of course thats friday. To work on the measure, possibly voting on the measure tomorrow as well. A look at some of the numbers here. How House Republicans are planning to vote on obamacare replacement. This is from the New
Hamilton avenue with this overturned truck. This is what delays look like out by the prospect expressway. Eastbound the bqe is shut down between hamilton avenue and atlantic avenue. This is really bad news for the morning commute. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Thank you very much. We cant to get to breaking news. All Delta Airline flights are grounded thanks to a system wide outage. Tracie strahan has been talking to frustrated newark. Weve seen things happening locally and nationally. I never heard before of a systemwide global shutdown. Really were hear being this via social media right now. You said thats the update that delta is tweeting to passengers, asking them whats going on. They say its a system outage nationwide. They are also saying theyre working to resolve the issue. The problem with that, a lot of people we spoke with are not learn being it until they get to the airport. Well show you a tweet thats airline. They say our systems are down everywhere. Hopefully it won