From studio fourteen here and out of their headquarters in. Welcome to the news group be a war of words between washington and london continues british Prime Minister to resume a stands by her criticism of the u. S. President and she says shes fully focused on tackling extremism that was in response to a tweet by dont trump. All this back and forth began when making ben transfer his. Tweets United States is calling for more sanctions in the complete isolation of north korea after another Ballistic Missile test at the latest. Yet proving that it has the capability of reaching United States mainland and we. Little interest in the what options are left protecting history United Nations looks at ways to preserve heritage from war torn areas in the middle east from monuments to historic museum. And im leon Harding Police and pakistan are cracking down on thousands of taxi drivers no parking tickets or speeding fines here though theyre being stopped because the art on the side of their taxes
After a lot of soul searching this congressional interview available on our website cspan. Org. We will interrupt it for live coverage of Calista Gingrich for ambassador to the vatican. Mrs. Calistal. Gingrich is the president s nominee to be ambassador to the vatican. Mr. George edward glass is the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. And carl c. Rich to be secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to congratulate the nominees and thank you for your willingness to serve. We have congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy sea during president bushs term. The senior senator from oregon, ron widen and an esteemed member of this committee, senator portman from ohio. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to many senators here. Im trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuster free oppo
Its thursday, august 25th. Heres what you need to know today. A live look at an evacuated rv park in clermont. The turkey river is expected to crest there in just a few hours. You live close to a river and thats the worst flooding theyve seen in years as they start to clean up today. Rescue crews in italy are digging through rubble hoping to find more survivors. At least 247 people have died from a 6point2 earthquake. Eight years after flooding. And planning, the Northwest Recreation Center in cedar rapids is opening. This is the last project to use fema money from the 2008 flood. Students in waterloo have their first day of after voters rejected a multiMillion Dollar bond vote. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as High Pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as we
And good thursday morning. We begin with breaking news, major damage in the midwest after powerful tornadoes touched down. The line of severe storms hit first in indiana and then moved over to ohio late last night. This is just one of the twisters as you can see, picking up a barn there, as it tore through a rural area near tornado. In kokomo, indiana, this is whats left of a starbucks, completely flattened. Able to take cover and survive. Kenneth moton continues our storm coverage. Reporter tornado emergency in indiana. We headed for the basement and it was crazy. Like our roof got ripped up. Reporter this morning, residents are getting a better look at the mass destruction just outside of indianapolis. At least eight twisters were spotted. Its been a very active reporter roofs torn off apartment buildings. Homes and neighborhoods obliterated. Vehicles tossed like toys. One strong storm in kokomo. A lot of Power Outages throughout the city. Even in areas that werent directly impact bd
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr