Updates of the days news. Event. Facebook says they dont know who is behind these accounts. Everyday includes russia may be behind some of the activity. Sthaf received a private briefing earlier this week from facebook officials. The committee is holding an open hearing on social media later today. Listen, this is going to be a process of companies beginning to identify areas of concern. Its important this is the start of a collaboration between government and these companies to address concerns that they have and we have about the use of their platforms. I want people that do this to have a priechls i will be introducing thursday a sanctions bill against russia, everything but the Kitchen Kichg i sings in it. It will be the sanctions bill from hell. Every other Country Sharing in
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Updates of the days news. Good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 8th. A lot to talk about this morning. Lets begin with that closely watched Special Election in ohio in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades, Republican Troy Balderson leads Danny Oconnor by less than 1 of all votes cast, making it too close to call. The official outcome may not be known until all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks the race could be coming to a recount as the final results are actually certified. Still despite the razor thin margin, Troy Balderson has claimed victory and Daniel Oconnor has not yet conceded. Listen to this. Its time to get to work. Over the next three months, i will do everything i can to keep America Great again so that when we come back here in november, get ready, we got to come back here in november i have earned your vote for a second time. Can you believe how close this is . We, we are in a tie ball game. We went doortodoor. We went housetohouse.
gig-fueled apps that exceed expectations. comcast business. beyond fast. welcome back. let s get a check of your weather with bill kierans. bill, a little bit of everything this week. today alone. we could get a blizzard today. severe weather, high winds, i don t know what did i leave out? oh, yeah, flooding concerns, too, this is a huge storm, we have severe weather out in front of it. we got cold, snowy weather on the back side of it. that s why we had the flooding concerns. that s a severe weather threat. as we go throughout the day today then they re going to slowly weaken. enhanced risk from memphis to greenville, mississippi, wind
meteorologist bill kierans, we will get some good news in the northeast. it s hard to say in the rest of the country. east coast looks okay, in the middle of the country, it is wake-up time in ft. worth, a very strong line of thunderstorms. 50 to 70 mile per hour winds, through the downtown, now this line of storms will slide through dallas, about 20 to 30 minutes from now. we will have a chance of winds in dallas. there is some lightning. i m sure that thunder is waking people up. later today that line of storms will weaken. then it will fire back up this afternoon. from about 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. we ll have a chance of rain in little rock and mississippi and weaken late tonight. the other story with this storm, this is such a big storm. it will be immense, it will be intense, too, we are watching 48 million people that have the potential of seeing wind damage and it s actually going to be a lot of dust and debris blowing. anywhere in purple is under high