Hello, everyone. Welcome to the early sunday morning to the brooklyn book festival being hosted here at Brooklyn Law School. Our dean nick allard is here to welcome you. That dean has been a really wonder for bridge between the law school in brooklyn and the brooklyn book festival. Its on like to introduce nick allard to you all. [applause] thank you, professor. Well, welcome to all of you. Were so proud to be able to host part of the largest free letter very festival in new york city in one of the largest in the United States. It certainly is the hippest and most diverse book festival. So weve got that working for us. Also, welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Some of you know were the only law school in brooklyn. [laughter] but, you know, we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough in the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful country. So we have that working force. Its pretty good. Yesterday, marla and i returned from a short trip to r
It above the 60degree mark. Everyone else comfortably into the 50s. Thats bonus territory for sure. Rain chances are back starting tonight and into your monday. For now its a dry and seasonally chilly start out there, mid 30s around washington. 30 degrees in manassas. What to wear today . Nothing more than a light jacket. Maybe a swea youl need after about 9 00 or 10 00 this morning. Hour by hour through your sunday off to a seasonally cold start, tempes hoverg in the upper 20s and low and mid 30s early this morning. By lunchtime, nice and pleasant. 53 by lunch. 59 in washington. Fredricksburg, probably closer to 63, maybe 64 degrees. It wont last long. Showers tomorrow and bitter cold late in the week. All that coming up with your sevenday. Well be watching and waiting for that. The power is back on at Pentagon City mall. News 4s Darcy Spencer has our report. Reporter this cell phone video shows the chaos as shoppers tried to get out of the parking garage at Pentagon City mall seeming
White shocker, the snowboarder makes the stunning announcement one day before the competition is set to begin. Well tell you what it is today, wednesday, february 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today countdown to the olympic winter games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in sochi, russia, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in olympic park in sochi. Matt, good morning to you, im Savannah Guthrie here in studio 1a. And dont make us wait any longer. What are we hearing from shaun white this morning . We have just received a statement from shaun white, hes giving to us first. And heres what he says, after much deliberation with my team, ive made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the Third Straight gold medal in halfpipe for team usa. The difficult decision to forego slopestyle is not one i take lightly. As i know how much effort everyone has
Holiday weekend. Overall 3 it states are heading in the wrong direction reporting an increase in new cases can over the past seven days it and that is why images like these from the Holiday Weekend have Health Experts and local officials so concerned. Clearly our current approach, if you call it that, is not working. By the time were for the fall election, im sure well easily be at 100,000 cases a day as dr. Fauci predicts, and we might even more might even be at a higher level than that, and were in freefall and need to stop it. Lets go to cnns rosa flores in miami. Rosa, what are you seeing there . Reporter you know, ill start with the silver lining, kate. The numbers were just released by the Florida Department of health. They are down a bit just to over 6,000. This weekend, however, florida busted its record with more than 11,400 cases in one day alone. Leaders here like the mayor and city of miami has used the word exponential to describe the growth and a the spread of this virus
Him to take what he values in the opinions of dr. Fauci and dr. Birx and others and do what he thinks is best for the country. There is an explosion of covid cases largely in the sunbelt states and what we are in for if we cant get this under control. Here is dr. Fauci earlier today it went from an average of 20,000 to 50,000. Thats doubling. Any state that is having a serious problem that state should look at shutting down. We have to get our arms around this. That goes against trumps assertion that the u. S. Is, quote, in a good place with respect to handling this virus. With november in clear view, trump says there will be no more shutdowns. It is staying open. The latest push is to open schools. Today trump said, quote in germany, denmark and many other countries schools are open with no problems. The democrats think its bad politically for schools to open before november election. May cut off funding if not open. I disagree on the tough and expensive guidelines to open schools. Th