Story and has new details tonight. Reporter top brass in Prince Georges County say that report you mentioned absolves them that the it is now case closed. However, there are questions about how the investigation was conducted, who was interviewed, who was not. The biggest question now will there be another investigation by the state with new evidence and whistleblowers coming forward . Fighting back against corruption claims, Prince Georges County schools gave us this report. It says a year ago the Us Department of education got a whistleblower tip alleging the ceo of schools was forcing educators to change grades to boost the graduation rate. In december a representative from the Maryland State Department of ed was sent to investigate. She met with ceo dr. Kevin maxwell and says she asked him to identify others with whom she could talk to. In january she spent several hours interviewing maxwell and four brought in. None of them recalled any complaints that grades had been changed. The
News. Republicans breathing a sigh of relief down in georgia and maybe throughout the country. Just a short time ago karen handel won the race, what had been a close contest. This is key because largely seen as a referendum on the Trump Administration. Keith standing by with more. Reporter they really wanted to take this. It barely won for President Trump back in november and now it seems republicans will hold on to it. Karen handel took it. She has grown close to majority whip Steve Scalise. She wants both sides to come together. In these days of United States of america, no one, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political believes and position. Ossoffs party, he just concede saying this is the start of something big. He is 30 years old, georgetown grad. The full Democrat Party thrown behind him. Watching this house race, it was the most expensive in history, a huge turnout, more than a quarter voters. And winner takes the seat once held by tom price who is serv
Todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. The wind and the waves are really starting to pick up. Already the wind is whipping up white caps. The gulf coast prepares for Tropical Storm cindy. This is going to be a serious event. The storm is coming so hupger down, everybody. The heat in the southwest. Another very uncomfortable day. The state department is weighing Response Options on north korea after the death of Otto Warmbier. Frankly, if he were brought home sooner i think the result would have been a lot different. The status quo is simply unsustainable. Mitch mcconnell says theyll vote on the Health Care Reform next week. I like to move forward with legislation that i havent seen. Thats one of the practices ive enjoyed around here. This is not the outcome any of us were hoping for. The big victory for republicans in georgia, karen handel defeating jon ossoff. Passengers recovering after a United Airlines jet hit severe turbulence. It happened as the boeing 737 was en route to h
Nbc 10 news starts now. Right now at 11 00, tropical downpours heading our way. You can see the storms brewing on our live radar. Weve issued a first alert for tomorrow morning as we could get a heavy shot of storms. Lets get right to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. What can we expect in the morning . It depends on how late you want to sleep. If you sleep late enough you might miss the whole thing. One area of rain is heavy right now and well be affecting burks, lehigh, north hampton, bucks, montgomery counties and why do i highlight those and those are the areas that have had probably more than an inch of rain and they have flood advisories already before the main area comes in. Look at the size of this thing. This is the remnants of cindy and it is obviously moving in our direction. Heres the hourbyhour timing as we go to the middle of the morning. Heavy from the poconos down to burks county and then right across the area from bucks county to Chester County
Ruined, but this will be out in the Morning Hours and then the rest of the weekend looks a lot better. But especially north and west of the i95 corridor, were pretty saturated. And now you can see on the radar we have more rain and yet again we have pockets of heavier rain particularly this line that you see firing off just to the west of us. So that will be heading our direction as we continue through the Morning Hours. Again, its not lasting terribly long. The view shows us that as we go throughout the next few hours, the heaviest line will pass right into philadelphia though. So here is the wider view. It shows scattered showers on the back side, but otherwise we will start to dry out as we progress into the later this morning and especially into the afternoon. Lets talk temperatures. Its actually pretty nice out there if it werent for the humidity which is making it feel steamy already this morning. 78 in philadelphia and 77 in wilmington. Lancaster, youre 69 and actually at the At