[ applause ] across the country and the world watched this moment tonight at the white house. Right during prime time President Donald Trump announced his pick for the next Supreme Court justice. And that is neil gorsuch. The president says gorsuch has a brilliant mind license use it to defend our nations constitution. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. If the Senate Confirms him, gorsuch will fill the seat left vacant after the death of Antonin Scalia nearly a year ago. Heres what we know about neil gorsuch. 49yearold currently serves as a federal appeals judge in denver youngest nominee and more than 20 years. The colorado native went to Harvard Law School and clerked for Supreme Court justices byron white and anthony kennedy. Politically speaking he is conservative which is expected to ignite a fight from Senate Democrats but tonight he vowed to up hold the constitution regardless of party lines. Standing here in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections
Winds causing damage all across the region. The warnings in effect right now. Good morning washington. High wind warning in effect until 6pm for a majority of the area. Gusts to 60 mph. Numerous reports of down trees and powerlines. Lots of flying debris. Driving high profile vehicles in these conditions will be difficult. Windy chilly today quiet rest of the week coolest day thursday 60s return for second half of president s day weekend today gusty winds. Mostly sunny, chilly. Highs 4247 feels 20s to 30s winds nw 2030 g 60 mph tonight mainly clear and cold. Lighter winds. Lows 2731 winds nw 510 mph tuesday partly to mostly sunny. Milder. Highs 4953 winds wsw 510 mph breaking right now. Powerful winds region overnight and wreacking havoc. In southeast dc the gusts were so strong, they actually blew the roof off of one apartment building. You can see the pieces lying in the road there. This is on bruce place. No one in the building was hurt but they were forced to spend the night in she
Numerous reports of down trees and powerlines. Lots of flying debris. Driving high profile vehicles in these conditions will be difficult. Windy chilly today quiet rest of the week coolest day thursday 60s return for second half of president s day weekend today gusty winds. Mostly sunny, chilly. Highs 4247 feels 20s to 30s winds nw 2030 g 60 mph tonight mainly clear and cold. Lighter winds. Lows 2731 winds nw 510 mph tuesday partly to mostly sunny. Milder. Highs 4953 winds wsw 510 mph breaking overnight whipping winds area, leaving a trail of damage. In germantown, the gusts toppled a tree right on top of a house. And in the district the winds were so strong they actually ripped the roof off an apartment. Lets begin with our suzanne kennedy, live in southeast. In germantown the strong winds knocking down this a house on hottinger circle. The tree fell right on the entryway blocking people inside from getting out until rescue crews came. No one was hurt and minor damage to the house. Pl
This is happening in San Franciscos south of market neighborhood at 33 tehama street. Near first and howard streets. Right now the fremont street off ramp is closed. And there is a shelterinplace along tehama street. Lets get right to kron4s jr stone. He is live at the scene with the latest on what what went wrong and when things might get back to normal. Jr . We have Team Coverage tonight of this breaking news story. Many buidlings in the area are being forced to evacuate. And there is traffic gridlock since the fremont street off ramp is closed. Kron4s Hermela Aregawi is live in San Francisco where she spoke to people who are dealing with the problems. Hermela . And we first told you about this breaking news through a push alert. We sent it through our mobile app at 3 11 this afternoon. For a complete list of buildings that are evacuated go to our website you can get push alerts through the kron four mobile app. Anytime. Anywhere. It is available for free for apple and android device
Good morning and welcome to the kron 4 morning news. Im Robin Winston. Heres a live look at our kron 4 radar. As you can see we have rain and plenty of it already. For how much rain we are expecting to see today here is James Fletcher. Toss to weather or traffic heavy rain moves through the area during the Early Morning hours, primarily impacting commuters between 3am and 6am. After that, rain should become lighter and more scattered. This will be the first of several storm system to impact us over the next 7 days. The next round of rain starts friday morning with showers lingering into saturday. Then, a brief dry spell through sunday. Next front arrives sunday night into monday with rain lasting through wednesday. We can expect anywhere from 3 to 4 inches of rain between now and next wednesday. Highs today will reach the low 60s in most locations. Looking at the bay area traffic maps and updating drive times. Another big story we are following this morning. Heavy rain is expected toda