While puerto rico does not vote in the election, its been a political thorn in the president s side with democrats ripping him for not doing enough to help the island recover from Hurricane Maria. Today with some six million Puerto Ricans in the United States, President Trump moved to set things right. Almost three years to the day, Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico. Now the president is responding. I have to say in a very nice way, a very respectful way, im the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. In the past, President Trump has criticized corrupt poll situations in puerto rico and complained the island had already received too much federal relief money. And then the issue of timing. Why not a year ago, two years ago, three years ago . Why now . Weve been working on it for a long time to get it passed. Very tough to get things passed with democrats where they dont want to see this happen. They probably didnt want to see it happen at this point. The award comes as the Biden Cam
By texas director steve mcgraw perry Law Enforcement is telling us we will expect new significant information to be released about the mass shooting here in uvalde specific and when it comes to the timeline. I am told the timeline is going to change a little bit once again, but now they feel like they have it pretty concrete. Basically down to the second, they have an understanding of what happened. We will wait to see with those details are. In the meantime we want to show you a heartwrenching situation for one family here, if we can pull up this video. This is joe garcia. His wife was irma garcia. Fourthgrade teacher murdered at the school on tuesday. This is joe leaving flowers for his wife yesterday here at the school, a cross with her name on it. We learned just hours after this video was taken he died of a heart attack. I am being told to wrap right now i assume the press conference is about to start so lets get back to you guys. Kaleigh thank you, bill. Yes we are waiting, it sh
Of weather with darren peck. Good morning, devin. That is a gray view behind from you Treasure Island looking at the bay bridge and here is another one in downtown san jose. Looks like this every where this morning. The marine layer is widespread and we are all waking up to gray skies and temperatures that are almost identical, mid to upper 50s. It is 56 or 58 degrees. The clouds will melt back to the coast and it will be more sunshine than anything else except the beach. And the daytime highs will stay relatively cool. We are going to the mid80s inland and low to mid70s in the bay. Well show you specifics for your part of the bay coming up in your complete first alert forecast in a few minutes. Back to you. You just cant escape it. Every time you fill up your car it seems like gas prices are going up, but oil prices are going down and it begs the question, what is going on . A month ago crude oil was a hundred bucks a barrel. Californians were paying 5. 27 a gallon. But now crude is a
Kenilworth ave. If you are traveling through there, expect plenty of delays. Wssc says they do not know when it will be fixed. Plenty of other problems on the road. We will tell you about those in a minute, but first, lets get the latest on this arctic blast. Lets go outside to adam caskey, who has been tracking the conditions all day long. I was out in the snow earlier this morning and now we have sunshine. That is working with the exposed pavement to heated up and getting rid of the snow. Take a look at the corner of wilson and lynn here. The road has been cleared and is dry. All that snow that fell on the treated roadways has tried off. The medians still have snow, but as the sun shines it is melting. Lets see how much we got exactly across the washington area. Overall, we averaged about 1 inch across the metro area. South of washington, that is where you got lucky in st. Marys county, 4 inches to 5 inches. 1 inch in arlington when i was out earlier today. Here is your bwi travel fo
Quote suicidal tendencies before he got his pilots license. Last week when lubitz strapped into the cockpit on a lonely journey with 149 others, he left behind bottles of anti depressants and a doctors warning that he should not fly. Allen pizzey now on a man in the depths of despair who wanted to soar. Reporter this video of Andreas Lubitz learning to fly a glider shows a young man with a dream coming true. Why is it so calm today, he asks. Its unbelievable. His eventual employers had no way of knowing he would turn his dream into a nightmare. Today german prosecutor spokesman Christoph Kumpa saidrm lubitz had been treated as a suicide risk for an extended period of time before he received a pilots license. Transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder leaked to a german newspaper quote lubitz as saying hopefully, and well see, when asked to go over landing procedures. The captain takes a bathroom break and comes back to a locked cockpit door. He knocks. Bangs, then shouts, for gods sake,