Heavy rain. Temperatures are going to drop we have been above 80 for the last week. Today we think those high temperatures will struggle to reach 80. Tens of greedense fog out there righ its 3 mi. At midway. At this moment we are dry. You have to take these moments as they have been shortlived. 75 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Typical high is 83. We have isolated showers and storms late tonight into tomorrow. All lanes have opened on the eisenhower after they were partially closed last night because of high standing water and flooding. In the Early Morning commute a good thing has opened. Lots of high standing water. That has subsided. This is 83 from maine to bluff a single lane theyre working on the bridge maintenance. That will wrap until september. It will be there for awhile. Heading west out of washington resurfacing work. Just another week and a half before they will be wrapping that up. Nancy loo is live along the ike with more on last nights closure. He mentioned all lanes are open ag
Authorities policing the panama canal discovered the weapons last week hidden amidst sacks of sugar. The Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that the ship was carrying weapons bound for north korea. The spokesperson says the soviet era missile parts needed to be repaired. They said the shipment was not a breach of u. N. Security council sanctions. The crew of the freighter was trying to return home from cuba through the canal. The 35 crew members resisted efforts to redirect the ship into port. Investigators detained them. Spokesperson for north koreas Foreign Ministry says the ship was transporting the weapons for return to cuba as part of a legitimate contract. Ministry officials are demanding that authorities in panama release the ship and its crew. Earlier gene otani spoke with an expert about the discovery. Neil ashdon is an analyst covering the asiapacific for ihs country risk, a think tank based in london. Neil, you identify the cargo as a surface to air radar missile syst
Snowdens asylum application, but within a week they are expected to clear him to enter russia. Snowden worked as a contractor for the National Security agency. Earlier this year, he exposed secret government surveillance programs to the media. U. S. Authorities have charged him with espionage. Snowden traveled to hong kong, then to moscow, after making the revelations. He stayed in an airport there since late last month. The National Security agency is facing some legal heat because of the revelations snowden made about how it gathers intelligence. A coalition of u. S. Advocacy groups is suing the nsa. It includes Human Rights Watch and groups representing muslims, environmental activists and others. Representatives of the coalition filed the suit with the Federal District court in california. Theyre demanding the nsa halt its checked of phone communications and destroy any information it has stored. It argued the nsa is spying on ordinary u. S. Citizens and they say thats against the
Army personnel from Punjab Regimental Center (PRC), Ramgarh, nabbed a drugs peddler with 50gm liquid opium in the Ramgarh Cantonment area. The peddler, identified as Shankar Kumar Rai (30) from Bihar, fled from custody with his accomplice Santosh Kumar (32) on a motorcycle. Both were later arrested. This incident took place in the context of recent news and developments in Bihar and the election results in Sasaram.
BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav should start preparing for the next Assembly elections and said, it will be seen how successful he is there.