He created one of televisions most iconic characters j. R. Ewing on the longtime drama dallas. A rather nasty guy that people loved to hate. Before that, he played a nice guy, captain tony nelson on i dream of jeannie. He appeared here on today last june, and well have a look back at his life and career next. A legend, absolutely. It is the day after black friday and people were going crazy hunting for bargains, so as you do your shopping this weekend, well reveal some ingenious tricks retailers use to get you to spend more and more of your hardearned cash. Speaking of shopping, today is Small Business saturday. A day for you to support the local mom and pop shops in your town. You can do it every day, of course. Something very important to new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who will join us to talk about it in our next half hour. Then an unusual punishment for a convicted killer in oklahoma. A teenager was sentenced to spend ten years in church after pleading guilty to manslaughte
And late morning early afternoon, peaksof sunshine. Another mild day as mentioned with temperatures into the upper 70s to 80 later. Currently, 62 in washington. Local airports, 57 and baltimore 60. Heres your forecast for today. Mix of clouds and sun. High temperatures 80. Could be sprinkle here for the next hour or two. More details on the forecast. Tony, back to you. Thank you very much. First up at 9 00,ome of you got to work late today thanks to an accident that took hours to clean up. A car hit a tractor trailer last night at 11 30. Cleaning up the fuel spilled didnt get done until 615 tame time this morning. All lanes are open now. The driver of the car was charged with reckless driving. Top story this morning, a search for a serial groper continues. Here is a schedule that the man police are looking for. Approached in broad day light while pushing a strolle melanie is live with the latest on the investigation. And theres got to be concern these incidents seem to be escalating. R
These temperatures should jump quickly and well into the comfortable range. Upper level disturbance bringing us cloud cover. Partly to mostly cloudy start to your day. Along with it, the risk of a light shower or light sprinkle. The best cha our viewers out to the west. We should be partly sunny this afternoon. Our temperatures will top out near 80 later today. Theres your day planner for today. Partly sunny conditions. Enjoy another warm one. We have cooler air on the way. Details on that in just a minute. I want to go back to alison at the desk. Tucker, thanks. We have been following a Traffic Alert all morning. Late night accident on i 95 north and staff order virginia led to hours long gridlocked overnight. Spilled fuel on the highway around 11 30 p. M. The vehicles were cleared a few hours later but tookto clean up the fuel. After the sand trucks were late getting to the scene. 95 north was completely closed for quite a while. Lets check in with julie for the latest. What a mess.
In southern afghanistan outside kandahar city. The nighttime accident brings yesterdays death toll to seven. Making it the deadliest day of the year for u. S. Forces. Nato saying initial reports show no enemy activity in the area at the time. And the cause of the crash is under investigation. In a separate incident, two special ops forces were gunned down hours earlier in an insider attack. U. S. Officials slapped new sanctions on north korea. This while north korean troops publicly prepare for war. In response to the start of annual military drills by the u. S. And south korea on monday, pyongyang cut off a red cross hotline with the south and scrapped the 1953 agreement ending the korean war. Staterun media also released this video of north korean soldiers and civilians holding rallies across the reclusive nation. Troops were seen performing military exercises and chanting against the united states. Leader kim jongun is urging his military to be on high alert and threatening the u. S
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