Fighting a house fire. Paris holmes is at the scene. Paris, what can you tell us . Around 5am this morning the Bedford Fire Department responded to a fire here on the 1000 block shepards store road. According to the chief it took about 45 mins to put the fire out which they believe started in the garage. Theyre not sure what cause it yet. , but no one was hurt. The owners of the house are standing out here in front. Probably in shock. I havent had a chance to talk to them yet, but ive seen neighbors come out here and give them a blanket. Fire are still working in the house making sure the fire is completely thousands of people are still in the dark in our regional at this moment. Here is a live look at appalachian powers outage map. You can see the highest numbers still 24 hours later in Roanoke County and franklin county. 45hundred people are still in the dark in Roanoke County. 37hundred also in franklin county. Lets check in now with applachian powers spokeswoman teresa hamilton hal
After this weekends sudden and unexpected death of justice sant Antonin Scalia. Replacing him, of course, will tilt the balance of the Supreme Court. That has ignited a new Election Year battle, and an epic one. We have two reports for you this morning. Well also talk about all of this with republican president ial hopeful jeb bush live in a moment. Lets begin with pete williams, who is at the court this morning. Good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. Its been more than 50 years since the Supreme Court was in this position, facing the busiest part of the term without all nine justices. That cast a big shadow of uncertainty as the court prepares to take up some of the most controversial cases. Reporter draped in an american flag, the body of Antonin Scalia arrived in virginia late sunday night. The death from an apparent heart attack was a month shy of his 80th birthday at this west texas guest ranch. Before dying in his sleep in his room. Found himself in a very congenial group.
A lot of eyebrows raised. 28 for ted cruz moving into first place over donald trump. This is a different story than what is told by many other National Polls where trump had a big lead. We have a new poll for South Carolina to talk about. Our top story, president obama plans to travel to cuba next month. Ron allen is on white house duty this morning. Good morning to you. Reporter the white house is expected to announce the president s trip to cuba sometime later today. It has been just over a year since mr. Obama said he would begin normalizing relations. Many critics are saying it is much too soon to reward the castro regime. A Senior Administration official telling nbc news that president obama will visit cuba in march years a sitting president will visit cuba. These 50 years have shown isolation has not worked. It is time for a new approach. Reporter warming relations began after facetoface meetings. The pair announcing in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties. Over time
We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. It did make two attempts to land. State media showing this video which they say is the moment of the crash and the fire. A flydubai crashes in russia killing all on board. Investigators are focusing very much on the weather conditions. Severe storms and rain continue to pound the south. A brutal snowstorm may hit on the first day of spring. Coming in from d. C. And then up across much of new england. Europes most wanted man captured friday in brussels. He is the first suspected participant in the november terror attacks in london to be taken alive. Protesters try to steal the rally in Salt Lake City, utah. Jeff williams on board the nasa. Plutos aim here. All that matters. Half court heave for the win. Got it putback is good. The blue raiders have won it. This is why you call it march madness. On cbs this morning saturday. My job to give you important news. I usually try to stay with the positive stuff bu
Worlds most powerful central bank cited low inflation and a weak Global Economy as reasons not to raise Interest Rates. Steve liesman joins us now with more on her speech. So what did she say . She said that she associated herself as among those who believe that the Federal Reserve will raise rates, it will be appropriate to raise Interest Rates this year. The importance of that is last week when sme spoke she said other members of the committee, and wouldnt answer the question when asked about what she actually believes. Now you can count the fed chair as among those who think rates ought to go up sometime later this year, and i think i know what your followup question is. Does this mean they will, and when . If the chair says, its likely to happen. Although she did give the obligatory caveat of depends on the economic data, it could happen later or it could happen earlier. So the question the market is obsessed over is this it will happen next month in october or will it happen in de