We have more from capitol hill. Ashton carter sailed through his nomination hearing today but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed their nr the slowgoing fight against isis. Reporter Ashton Carter the pentagon insider nominated to be defense secretary gave a sober assessment in our ability to defeat isis. The United States involvement is essential. Its necessary, but its not sufficient. Reporter the extremist groups latest act of brutality, burning a pilot alive, was calculating. Isis is really trying to fracture the coalition that is helping the u. S. And countries like jordan take the fight to isis. Reporter Jordans King Abdullah received the bad news as he was on capitol hill lobbying for help. His response hanging two terror suspects isis tried to free and offering to step up the role against fighting isis. If the United States will let them. I couldnt believe what i heard yesterday, all the red tape they have to go through to get something on the front lines to help th
Dparm si. What were learning about this crash. And a uva student bloodied in an arrest. His family is on campus and his attorney is about to speak. First at 6 00 storm team 4 tracking snow that will have an impact on our friday yes, the first day of spring. Now, whatever falls in the morning could be gone by tomorrow night, but theres still a chance it will cause some delays. Lets go right to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. What are we looking at doug . Once again all about the timing with this storm system. If this was coming during the day it would be an allrain event but its coming overnight into Early Morning and thats why we could see some problems. Storm team 4 radar is clear right now. All of our area. Nobodys seeing a thing. Down to the south and west this is where it is down around roanoke, where the temperatures are in the 30s. The precipitation actually falls and brings down colder temperatures. Thats what will happen here. As the moisture moves in the temper
Day around 4 oclock 5 oclock before we slide back to 68 by 6 oclock. Little bit on the breezy side. We have an issue with an enhanced fire danger and this is because of breezes and low humidity so keep that in mind. No flicking the cigarettes out the car window and your pollen count still running a little bit high the next couple of days but we do expect that to drop off a bit on thursday and friday. Thats because cooler cloudier and perhaps a little damp weather returns to the region. Ill have details on that coming up in the exclusive accuweather 7day matt. Okeydoke david. Nothing too traumatic on the traffic front so far on this Tuesday Morning. Construction continues to block the southbound offramp to ridge avenue. Its because of the paving work going on along ridge avenue in east falls and those of us who are east falls residents are thankful that that paving work is finally going on. Instead of ridge maybe stick with kelly drive or even henry avenue. Although if youre on henry av
That front car and just how close it was to the edge of the track. The rest of the train cars were thrown across both sets of tracks and this all happened at 6 20 tonight during the evening commute. However the train was out of service and heading back to the yard when it happened. Bart has not said when the cars will be remanufactured but it will likely mean a crane will have to be brought in to pick up and move each individual car. Bart suspended service between Pleasant Hill and hits burg but commuters are experiencing delays across the entire system. I have no idea how long its going to take me to get home tonight. Im just hoping something happens and happens very quickly. Reporter how long does it usually take you to get home . 45 minutes. Its going to take about 2 hours. 2 and a half hours now. What happened is that they said it derailed. So inconvenience on us we have to wait on the train. Im come home dont worry bit. Reporter abc 7 News Reporter is live in the Pleasant Hill bar
A complete break between europe and russia and almost every single sense right now. And we have ukraine going under going under a massive transformation, which all 3 of us could have easily predicted and actually impacted your thoughts. George . No, this is a very good introduction. Ah, what really happened now . Is a disastrous outcome that was entirely predictable. Once on the west bar on the policy of using ukraine in order to destroy russia. Because what is really happened is that your brain continues to diminish. So we have the 1st phase was the loss of crimea back in 2014. Now we have these 4 regions that are now for this all of this tool that we have heard a few months from so realist Foreign Policy is that, well, maybe we could revise this to, you know, well have a mid 3 thats got thats not, thats not happening anymore, and now lee says west to glad go. Were going not nothing changes. Were going to continue to pour in on the ukraine. Were going to go on my thing forever. Well,