For the afternoon commute. Taking a live look at the vine street expressway. A little hard to see out there. Traffic is thick. And cars are moving slow isly. A soggy day setting us up for a rainy night. Lets get to meteorologist Glenn Schwartz who is tracking the rain. The worst has been in delaware today, but it is expanding. Its expanding into philadelphia. This is where the fill lives were supposed to play tonight. You can see all the heavy rain in New Castle County starting to get some of the brighter colors around philadelphia. But this is clearly the heaviest near middletown. And now a Flash Flood Warning has been issued for a portion of New Castle County until 7 30. And reminder not to drive through tlooded roads. Because the water is very powerful. We also were veeing a big increase in the rainfall in the philadelphia area. Heres chester county. Back to the west and some of that delaware rain is coming up too. Its going to be a very wet night. Theres more coming in from the wes
Price audits. A sign of times in toe oil industry halliburton said it is cutting 5,000 jobs. The company said the reason is the Difficult Oil market and prices, as you know have dropped 60 since last june. Job cuts will come from all areas of halliburtons operations but no word when the cuts will be made. Home depot has a help wanted sign out. The Home Improvement giant started to hire 13,000 work withers for spring busy season. Home depot says hirings are about the same as the last few years. More than half of the Seasonal Work withers usually stay on. If you love to cook, no more tears in the kich. You may have your own reasons for crying over a bottle of wine but were talking an onion here. They engineered a no tearsing onnen. Supposed to hit shelves soon. It just hit actually. It is called some sweet r onion here to have lower pun jenscy levels. A british farmer has been working on it 20 years. All the problems in the world. Some people write a book and some grow an onion. It is on
Stephen a. Smith is here. And former Washington Redskins running back, clinton cortiss, friend of ray rice and tell us about the person he knew. My goodness, a very busy show. Plus what did the nfl know . When did they know it . Roger goodell said the league was never given the chance to see the video. He is not ruling out a comeback for ray rice. We will get into all of that this evening. Lets begin with the headlines in the ray rice story. Breaking news tonight owner of the Baltimore Ravens, has sent a lengthy letter to fans which reads, in part, here it is, the decision to let ray rice go was unanimous. Seeing that video changed everything. We should have seen it earlier. We should have pursued our own investigation more vigorously. We didnt. We were wrong. We also have learned a great deal and will continue to strive to be an organization and team you and baltimore will be proud of. I am sorry i let you down. And telling Nora Odonnell that the league wasnt given the opportunity to
On your crss. Im hopeful, i think, were close to opening the government, but were close to getting deals. Dana we are live on capitol hill. Peter what are you seeing and hearing since the procedural vote cleared and are they closer to a deal . Dana there is cheering and applause outside of the capitol when senator Lindsey Graham who you heard from approached a group of undocumented immigrant activists. Were back in business. Is there a deal possible bgs senator . Yes, i hope. So. You think registered tkaubg he got the reception. Behind the scenes and in front of the cameras graham worked with democratic colonel aeugz as much as any other. On the democratic side. Michigan senator and florida senator bill nelson voted yes. Montana senator voted no. Just to cut to the chase, i didnt vote for this is. A bad deal for montana. Its about not tkaubg a for me its a budget that doesnt go a month or three weeks at a time. Its about making sure we have money for Community Health centers and rural
Keep the peace. Let me speak with some folks here. Excuse me, where are you from . Im from san antonio. Reporter were live right now on msnbc. We just wanted to know, why did you decide to come here to mcallen, texas, today . I was actually coming down because i was bringing them down tomorrow and i wanted to check out what was going on and i knew there was a protest, so i thought i would check it out. When you saw the bus come out with the kids, there were some tense moments, what went through your head . Why did some of these protesters go ahead and try to stop that bus . Give me a sense for the outrage here. I think as a mother myself, its heartbreaking to think of families being separated from each other. I think its heartbreaking to think of those children without their parents and how scared they must be, not able to speak english or know whats going on in this country. Reporter what was your reaction to the president s executive order this week, stopping the separation of famili