the confirmation hearing of obama s nominee for cia director john brennan over his support for drones and the targeted killings of u.s. citizens. people that were standing up here today, i think they really have a misunderstanding of what we do as a government and the care we take, and the agony we go through to make sure we do not have any collateral injuries or deaths. 8 codepink protesters are arrested. we will speak with the group s founder who after returning from pakistan to protest drones, personally went to the house of john brennan, not on the door. he invited her in. we will find out what they talked about. you also speak with jeremy scahill, author of the forthcoming book and movied andirty wars, and melvin goodman, author of, national insecurity: the cost of american militarism. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. john brennan, president of and is picked to head the cia, de
hundreds are wounded following a weekend of violence in iraq. a series of bombings aimed at shiites killed dozens of people over the weekend. families were celebrating eid- al-fitr, which marks the end of ramadan. according to a private monitoring group, an al qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for the bombings. on sunday, at least seven people died. three u.s. soldiers died in afghanistan on sunday. the u.s. official said that they were killed by insurgents in paktia province. attorney general eric holder is set to unveil a key new policy aimed at curbing lengthy sentences for drug violations. the policy shift will bar prosecutors from noting the specific quantity of drugs involved when drafting cases for minor drug incidents. holder will also announce policies aimed at turning over crimes to state courts and expanding drug treatment as an alternative. has spokenatt damon against president obama s policy on drone strikes. there are a lot of things that i really quest
out of the mountains into the 40s many locations. hour by hour today, we ll have a drying trend. you may need an umbrella here for another couple of hours. by noontime sun breaking up for your lunch hour, near 70. by midafternoon, we ought to hit mid-70s. a wonderful day coming up, bit of a southwest blustery wind. we ll have clearing sky by late afternoon. sunrise 7:22. sunset 6:23. i m back in ten minutes with another hometown forecast and a look at storm team 4 radar. right now a look at your first 4 traffic. we got trouble this morning. joe fox, what s going on? it is a rough morning out there, especially if you are on the inner loop of the beltway. we are looking at a tractor-trailer accident with a fuel spill has all lanes closed. you ll notice the folks in this picture are not moving very quickly. that means you will not want to go that way. take the 270 spur northbound, make a right on democracy, and make a right back on 270. that will get ayou you around this accid
i guess the rain probably not helping things but generally the rain is winding down. most of your morning commute, the roadways are still wet from the rain overnight. at least it is not actively raining. let s get to the radar and make sure what i said is true. i m pretty sure it is. a few leftover showers off to the east out towards annapolis pushing out towards the bay. we are winding things down across the immediate washington area. we are not expecting a whole lot of additional showers. there could be a sprinkle or a few light showers here over the next few hours. but then the trend will to be start to quiet things down and eventually clear things out. i think the clouds will hang tough for most of the morning hours and by afternoon, we ll be part hi sunny. temperatures are nice and might partly sunny. dulles, 60 degrees. high temperatures later this afternoon, back in the mid-70s for much of the area so that will be nice. upper 60s if you are north and west and once ag
ovethe near future here. there you go, much of the area starting to dry out. we ve seen this little batch of shower and thunderstorm activity redevelop in the past hour to the south. if you look carefully, you ll see blinking towards la plata and waldorf. and will come eventually into prince george s county to the north and east, towards annapolis and the bay. nice and mild to start your day. good news is once we get rid of this last batch of moisture, we should be looking at just cloud cover here for much of the morning and eventually afternoon sunshine. conditions will improve. 65 at reagan national. 59 at dulles. 64 at bwi marshall. here s your forecast, early showers give way to afternoon sun. temperatures top out in the mid- 70s. nice mild afternoon. more details in a minute, we ll look at the weekend. back to you at the desk. tucker, thank you very much. let s go to julie wright with more on the traffic. tony, on the inner loop of the beltway out of virginia this morn