Dumb luck. Early today starts right now. So good to be with you. Im frances rivera. A new report is rattling washington this morning, the New York Times saying former National Security adviser Michael Flynn fired after 24 days on the job revealed to the trump team he was under federal investigation for lobbying work weeks before trumps inauguration. The warning from flynn came about a month after the Justice Department notified flynn of an inquiry. It comes as new reporting questions whether flynn was even vetted prior to his taking on his job as National Security adviser. A source tells Peter Alexander flynn himself made it clear to Trump Associates two days after the election that he wanted the nsa post. Jared kushner and ivanka trump made it clear the president would reward flynn for loyalty after Deputy Attorney Ron Rosenstein made a surprise announcement appointing election. Robert mueller was named to lead the investigation after allegations trump urged then fbi director james co
About a live look outside. Going to be another hot one today. Need to cool my mind after that one and cool the body, too. Its going to be hotly. Are they just flying around looking for a little love cause they only have a few days to live. Thats gross. Whats going on weatherwise. More heat and humidity. How do you follow that up. 395 parked at duke street. Other slowdowns outside the beltway 95 southbound a crash by the icc. Well have a full look at your traffic and metro report within the in e next five minut. Allison and steve. Erin thanks. More on the tragic news from the music world singer Chris Cornell died at the age of 52. He rose to fame as the lead singer of sound garden and later joined audio slave. Cornell was on tour when he died posting to social media hours before that hand. Holly morris joins us with a look back at his career. Sudden and unexpected allison and steve thats what his representativ shocked by it. Can imagine are the statement says the family will be working
Is sudden and unexpected. Cause of death is unclear. He does leave behind wife, just 52 years old. Also back here in d. C. A tragic story developing this morning. A sixyearold boy killed after being struck by a car. Fox5s annie yu is live with new details. Good morning annie. Reporter good morning allison and steve. This is so incredibly heartbreaking, the parents of a sixyearold boy mourning the loss of their child this morning. Now this officially went out as a hitandrun but we did learn this morning that the driver of the striking vehicle did turn himself in. He turned himself in to Prince Georges County police overnight and no word yet on any charges or when hell be turned over to d. C. Police. This video that youre looking at is from last night just after 8 30 police got that call asixyearold boy hit in the 300 block of livingston road southeast just inside the district line. And police chief Peter Newsham tells us its unclear why the boy was in the street at the time. We can tell
About a live look outside. Going to be another hot one today. Need to cool my mind after that one and cool the body, too. Its going to be hotly. Are they just flying around looking for a little love cause they only have a few days to live. Thats gross. Whats going on weatherwise. More heat and humidity. How do you follow that up. 395 parked at duke street. Other slowdowns outside the beltway 95 southbound a crash by the icc. Well have a full look at your traffic and metro report within the in e next five minut. Allison and steve. Erin thanks. More on the tragic news from the music world singer Chris Cornell died at the age of 52. He rose to fame as the lead singer of sound garden and later joined audio slave. Cornell was on tour when he died posting to social media hours before that hand. Holly morris joins us with a look back at his career. Sudden and unexpected allison and steve thats what his representativ shocked by it. Can imagine are the statement says the family will be working
Killed. What do you tell the kids now. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Described as unblemished and unflappable former fbi director Robert Mueller has been appointed special counsel to investigate the ties to russia. Mueller will have sweeping power. His appointment caught both the white house and capitol hill off guard. President trump says he hopes the investigation concludes quickly. Mueller was pointed fbi director by pretty bush in 2001. He took office before the 911 attacks serving for 12 years, preceding comey. Good Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein will brief the full senate over the president s decision to fire james comey last week. It comes after he interviewed four candidates for the position. Robert mueller now has sweeping powers to investigate efforts to influence the 2016 election and related matters, matters likely to include President Trumps abrupt firing of fbi director