Disturbance in electric systems. Were about to show you a picture of a burnt transmission line on the ground near that power station. You can see the grass is blackened all around it. Pepco calls this interruption a dip in voltage. The interruption automatically caused backup Power Systems to kick in at many businesses many large facilities across the region which is why it appears the outages primarily affected buildings and offices and not homes. Pepco says its now investigating at the substation in Charles County to learn about what else went wrong and how this all started. At the live desk im Scott Mcfarlane. Oprah winfrey was in the middle of a speech at the warren theater when the lights went out there. The media mogul didnt miss a beat. She kept on talking. She was taking part in the unveiling of the Postal Services new maya angelou stamp. Tom sherwood was downtown when this happened and tells us how metro was affected. Reporter right now at the Dupont Circle metro station. Its
Visibility. Brand new information here. We are seeing fog around the area. Most areas are looking at a good amount of sunshine as the sun continues to come up but we are seeing some dense fog. The dense fog advisory goes until 8 00 so warrenton, your visibility is at zero. That will be hard to see the car in front of you through manassas and dulles. Dulles your visibility is less than a quarter mile so keep that in mind as well. Sunshine, well heat things up. Were headed to the lower 80s once again. As i fast forward to 8 00, things are getting going again for areas south and west. Thats where were going to see a lot of that activity. Well get to the lower 80s. Enjoy your wednesday. Well talk about drier weather coming up but first here is larry miller. We have three bus alerts to let you know b. 82, the a42 and w1 seeing some possible delays because of some fire activity going on in southeast d. C. Were going to work on getting more information for you. Meantime for those of new Princ
Drugs, including more widespread use and emergency oepiate reversal medication and as well as expanded access to medication assisted treatment. Multiple studies show young peoples attitudes towards marijuana use and nonmedical use of Prescription Drugs are soften. Each day an estimated 4400 young people under the age of 18 initiate drug use for the first time. This can have a profound effect in the future. Since Research Shows us in earlier a person begins to use drugs, the more likely they are to develop a Substance Abuse disorder. To enable ondcp to accomplish administrations goals to at a dress these and other numerous challenges from Substance Use disorders, the perfect is suggesting 311 million for nfy 2015, this represents a decrease of 55 million from ondcps enacted budget. However it has been developed to ensure we have the resources to meet the goals while reducing spending. Ondcps budget request includes funding for two Grant Programs that support efforts throughout the natio
Of hightech toys. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. President trump declared an emergency today in florida, puerto rico, and the u. S. Virgin islands, all threatened by the most powerful atlantic hurricane ever seen. Irma, a category five, has already turned deadly on the islands of the caribbean. The National Hurricane center says chances have grown for a direct hit on florida, possibly as soon as the weekend. We have team of correspondents covering the storm. First Tony Dokoupil in puerto rico. Reporter this wall of wind and rain is only getting worse tonight as hundreds of Puerto Ricans are already in shelters and more than 200 tourists in this hotel have been evacuated out of their rooms and into a ballroom where theyre expecting a very long night in the storm. Residents were warned to brace for the worst as the strongest winds in a century lashed puerto rico. Irma has already left plenty of evidence of its recordse
Good to be with you this saturday. The feud over security clearances is escalating. Excia director john brennan fire couing back at president t after he threatened to strip a dojs security clearance feature very quickly. Hes drunk on power. He really is. I think hes abusing the powers of that office. I think right now this country is in a crisis in terms of what mr. Trump has done and is liable to do. The white house isnt backing down. The Washington Post now reporting the documents needed to strip additionsecurity clear from these top officials tied to the russia probe. Theyre ready for the president to sign. Sarah westwood is in new jersey where the president is staying this weekend. We understand that there are 60 former cia officials who are standing in solidarity with brown, is that with brennan, is that right . Reporter thats right. President trump is facing a growing backlash to his decision to target former firbi director john brennan. Some calling it unprecedented while the wh