Rain moving through. So be prepared for blustery winds this afternoon and showers and hunger tomorrow. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, your drive time forecast for this thursday. Speaking of driving, how does it look now . Nice and dry. Taking a live look in maryland, 95 at 198 here in haurl, everything moving along. Beltway at river everything also looking good. Same thing taking a look beltway at st. Barnabas. No problems. Wide look at things its nice and green. A lot of the earlier road work has kind of cleared out of the way thank goodness. 270 northbound, southbound, had earlier road work that is completely cleared and no problems on 270. Back here at 5 11 with a live picture of 66 for you. Its 5 01 now. Back to breaking news in Prince William county. They have Prince Georges County. Heavy police prepares in Seat Pleasant right on the d. C. Line near Eastern Avenue and Martin Luther king junior highway. Derrick ward is at the scene. Reporter we can tell you that this is a mass
Heavy snow, strong winds, and whats likely to be recordsetting cold is causing major transportation problems. Some areas of massachusetts already have two fe2 feet of sn. States of emergency in normg and new jersey. Residents have been told to avoid travel and stay indoors and a threat of flooding is of concern along the coastal areas. For new yorks long island. And part of what makes this storm just so nasty is the biting cold temperatures. In international falls, minnesota, the thermometer measured 42 degrees below zero yesterday. Its estimated that a hundred Million People are in storms path and marlie hall is in new york with more. Marlie, good morning. Reporter good morning, annemarie. The first winter storm of the new year is pummeling the northeast with blizzardlike conditions and brutally cold temperature, bringing many cities to a standstill. Crews in boston are working around the clock, building mountains of snow as they try to keep up with the winter storm. The northeast is
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Cautioning the u. S. Would love to solve things diplomatically, but its very difficult. Mr. Trump praising chinas president for putting pressure on pyongyang for stopping the nuclear tests. I established a very good personal relationship with president xi and i really feel that he is doing everything in his power to help us with a big situation. Reporter and offering a bit of praise for north koreas dictator. His father dies. He took over a regime. Say what you want. Thats not easy. Especially at that age. Im not giving him credit or not. Im saying thats a very hard thing to do. As to whether or not he is rational . I have no opinion on it. I hope he is rational. Reporter these remarks come as secretary of state Rex Tillerson indicates a major shift in diplomatic policy. Telling npr the administration is open to direct talks with north korea as long as the agenda is right. All scenarios on the table. It is all up to north korea. Were not looking to pick a fight. Dont give us a reason t
Contradiction between President Trumps personal lawyer and the white house. The white house concedes that mr. Trump did weigh in on the response that his son met with a russian lawyer. That flies in the face of what trumps lawyer has said that the president had no involvement. This just the latest involvement of trump aides and the lack of clarity isnt inspiring confidence on capitol hill. We get more now from cnn at the white house. Reporter were learning for the first time that President Trump was involved in helping to shape the narrative about that meeting back at trump tower on june 9th, 2016. The white house acknowledged on tuesday for the very first time the president in their words weighed in on that statement saying that that meeting was about a discussion about a russian adoption. It was not about anything else. As we learned of course it was about a russian operative trying to give dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign. But we learned on tuesday that yes, the president added