Has the 10th lowest claims per force in our country. N saturday, we launched the pandemic unemployment assistance program. 50,000 virginians have50,000 vie successfully filed under that program and they should see benefits by the end of next week. While i understand many people frustrated by website difficulties and wait times, one. Nia has been most innovative states in amping up the ability to respond in the sudden large increase of people filing for unemployment. Worked with microsoft and Virginia Interactive to launch a portal with mobile and texting capabilities and v. E. C. Has been a National Leader in helping virginians receive these as possible. Uickly many have already begun checks. G their as i said, having half a million eople unemployed is very unfortunate and so i want to talk about how were planning to move virginia forward. I know everyone is eager to move forward. I know that i am. Extended the ban on elective surgeries through may 1 closure of d. M. V. Offices through
Lane. Happening today, President Trump is expected to take action that could have political ramifications. The first would be a welcome usrelief for hundreds of tds of federal workers, worried about another governme shutdown. The president says he will sign a spending bill that will fund the government. But thabill doesnt have money for a wall along the u. S. mexico border. Not as much as he wanted. He is expected to declare a na tional emergency to fund that project. Nbc news has learned that the president will take funds from various departments, including 600 million from the treasurys forfeiture fund. This sets up a political fight. Some back the president while democrats are planning to challenge it in court. I think he has all of the Legal Authority in the world to do this. And i will stand bind it. We will not have an end run around the congress of the united states. The white house says it is prepared for legal action. N stay withs 4 and the nbc washington app for the latest. D
Smollett set up thettack on him. Good morning, im adam tu i. And molette gen in here for meagan fitzgerald. Any time i get to be here with mo, im happy. Its cold outside. I think we dodged precipition yesterday. Temperatures outside sitting pretty low right now. A wintry mixn though ise way for plenty of us. Stormeam 4s Lauryn Ricketts is tracking the system. Took forev to warmp the car. What can we expect in the day ahead . In the day ahead weve got some freezing rain, some sleet and some rain. Now i do want tooint this out. The National Weather service went ahead and issued a Winter Weather advisory. However i think there is g hng to be fher elevations. Most of us will see rain throughout the afternoon and in the remainder of the evening. The day liggett hours, first part of the day looking fine. Again, that sun is coming up now before 7 00 a. M. Were going to gain about 30 minutes of daylight before february is over, so thats always good news. Again, we arekiust l at some cloudy con
We wanteg to with breaking news in maryland where sunrise led to a disturbg discovery. A mans body found in a backyard. Chopper 4 up over the scene eaier andhere are a still a lot of questions about how he died. News 4s Meghan Fitzgerald is live there with what w know at this point. Good morning. Reporter good morning, aaron. What we know is the call came in around 7 15 this morning for a hat was discovered in someones backyard. As you take ad look behe here, police have arrived on scene andhis area on lundy drive have turned into a crime scene. Police are taping i off while they investigate. They are focusing on the backyard of that yellow home where you can see homicide detectives gatherede front. Police ackyard is where tell us that body, that man, was found dead. Now, like you mentioned, still a lot of unanswered questions. Its still uncleaole say, whether or not there is a connection between that victim and the homeowner who wastiome at the. Thats still something theyre trying to
the justice. mostly just screaming from really ugly people. and no matter what your color, you re a white supremacist just by minding your own business commuting or worst of all helping other people in danger especially if you re riding new york s f train where the f stands for get me the f out of this city. you know the story, deranged man got killed on a new york city subway car. witnesses say he was screaming threats at passengers, throwing gar beige and so on. a few stepped up to restrain him, one put him in a choke hold and later he died at the hospital. in a normal world the headline would be heroes step in to protect terrorized strap hangers. all right. [cheers and applause] greg: but not so. in the words of cnn, the victim was experiencing homelessness. you know, like experiencing indigestion as if there s a pill and we won t let him have it. he was a vagrant just trying to get home. they don t call them experiencing terror and it is terror when an unhinged man frea