governor ralph northam. rumors are growing of a resignation announcement possiblyater this morning. we ll catch you up on everything. > first, it s 6:01. we ll start with your forecast. some relief on the way from the brutally cold polar vortex. lauryn ricketts is tracking a much-needed warmup. definitely much-needed warmup.4 yesterday, degrees. we had anywhere from a coating of snow, upwards of 3 inches north and west of d.c. that may have cames a surprise from some people. we were supposed to get a few snow showers yesterday, and we had a couple inches on the. grou you re waking up, and it is groundhog s day. p puxata puxatauney phil. my goodness a it is cold start out there this morning. watch for icy patchesut there. there s a few because i saw some coming in. temperatures, of course, below freezing. it is chilly in the shenandoah valley. single digits. 9 in wd chester and gaithersburg, montgomery counties. another thing we ll be watching are the temperatures.e if you l
patches out there throughout thf day, especiall those areas that don t get some sunshine. theyro may be stickingd throughout the overnight. nothing on the radar right now. high pressure in chge. if you r traveling, looking good, at least through our area and downo lanta. in case you re traveling to the super bowl. e have more on our weekend forecast we re warming things up quite a bit. a heat wave coming o a way in few minutes. lauryn, thank you. we continue to follow a developing story out of virginia this morning. b majorklash and calls for governor ralph northam to resign over a photo you re about to see. it was taken more than 30 years ago and has suddenly .resurfac the governor admits he is in one of the two pictures here, one of the people you see there. one painted in blackface, the other in a kkk hood and robe. the picture appears in northam s medical school yearbook from 1984. now, he is apologizeor it. that photo and the racist and offensive attitudes it repre
traumatic brain injury. according to cbs news, carey fell down some stairs, hit her head, and after that she was never the same. nine months ago she told police she was a prof profit and president obama had her house placed under surveillance. several medications and according to cnn, investigators found drugs used to treat bipolar disorder and depression. police are going moment by moment trying to figure out what went right and what went wrong. we get more on that from bruce leshan. former homeland security senior adviser, christopher henn, says the officers performed exceedingly well. carey did not have a gun, but he says she clearly was gunning at the officers with her vehicle. justifiable shooting. i hate to put it that way, but they had to protect themselves and others. brand-new amateur video shows a capitol police cruiser chasing miriam carey hit by the fast barricade moments after she pushed through. how the cruiser was hit, long minutes after the shooting and
we don t always find newspaper editors and area embracing reporting. it s not just economics. is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom. because it s troublesome. it s that more than the economics. if you re going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful that gives those people running into complaint to the publisher and destroys their legion over those and we are fortunate to go through the 70 s and really almost all of our careers to work for people who are really strong enough right in that area, and let the chips fall where they may. akhil reed amar presents his thoughts on the interpretation of the u.s. constitution and what the author means by up to his passages. mr. amar posits the constitution can be understood by the original text alone or historical precedent. akhil reed amar discusses his book with supreme court justice clarence thomas of the national air cried archives here in washington. this is about 20 minutes. good
be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. that is what happened to abigail fisher. it is not disputed. she was treated differently because of her race and color and national origin. now, we are not going to be talking so much about title vi my when we talk about the constitution. the supreme court said it doesn t really mean what it says. we just think it means what the constitution means. constitution has a little bit more wiggle room. although knobloch or the constitution guarantees equal protection of the law, and the outlaws the whole purpose of it the 14th amendment was to outlaw racial standards. that seems pretty straightforward. there was an act of 1981 that been racial discrimination, including in regards to college tuition. it sounds pretty straightforward. think of those things not mean what they say. there is an exception in this area. you would think, well, gee, it would be an exception. it would be an