Through the area. Beatties ford at miranda road weve got an accident. The good news is im not seeing a big delay here, but its something well continue to monitor for you. And then angela hong, shes just a few minutes away from an accident a road closure, i should say because of standing water this. Is on hawthorne just north of Central Avenue. Well have live reports, more information coming up on this . Just a few minutes. John. Take a look at your screen here. We just got video in from reporter dave ferraday, this is from airport road in morganton. Take a look. Wow a huge tree fell across the road, took down power lines with it there. Big problems. The firefighters are working to get it cut up and moved off the road. Its just one of many problems up there. Weve been telling you that highway 7 is closed in both directions because of power lines down there too. County officials told us about a half an hour ago that half the town of morganton is without power. We just got updated power o
Funnel cloud as it developed this afternoon. Meteorologist john ahrens is in Severe Weather center 9 where things are a lot calmer now, but the threat of strong wind is still out there. Thats right. And some showers as well, scott as we look at the one thats coming through now in southwest charlotte into belmont and up through gastonia, live Early Warning doppler 9 showing you a big pocket of rain and gusty winds out of this. I dont want you to get scared. But this is packing strong winds and very good rain right now. Just south of the airport as you travel passed through the white hall communities of steal creek as well. Lets peel this back. And look at the winds coming out of this. This is not a severe storm and not showing any kind of rotation. But menacing as the wind speeds are going up to 50 Miles Per Hour in southwest charlotte. Tracking it for you now on live Early Warning doppler 9. Cornelius will be involved with this between now and 6 30 this afternoon and evening. Denver, a
Let me bring in my colleague from washington, correspondent mike viqueira. In some ways we knew this was coming. Were still not exactly sure what it means, though. Just yesterday actually two days ago now, im losing my days here. At the unga, Vladimir Putin kind of tipped his hand a little bit that he might escalate in syria, but there has been troop build up there and equipment build up of about 30 days. Off to the sidelines barack obama and Vladimir Putin met, speaking about what should happen about this escalation. Pick it up from there. Youre absolutely right. No one is surprised that russia has engaged in these airstrikes. The question is how theyve been about it, why theyve gone about it, and who these airstrikes are targeting. Russia gave the United States one hour notice saying were going to be starting these airstrikes. The second problem, who are they hitting. The u. S. Coalition has flown hundreds of mission but targeting only isil forces. President putin while in new york i
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In fact, that is precisely what every republican president ial candidate is doing when they decline to denounce mr. Trumps cynical strategy, because they are looking for the same votes. Other republicans have successfully used this strategy. One republican congressman told a reporter that he was david duke without the baggage. That congressman was elected by a majority to the thirdhighest ranking position in the house. Those same members of Congress Block Immigration Reform, oppose reauthorization of the Voting Rights act, could not support a simple funding bill because they are eager to defend the confederate flag. So, those are the priorities of todays Republican Party, and they will continue to be and tell someone in the Republican Party decides to summon the courage to stand up and change it. Should donald trump apologize to the president . Mr. Earnest i havent seen any evidence to indicate that he is interested in my advice about what he should do. Aisha . Aisha secretary kerry sa