Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang tonight, the state of florida is bracing for what could be its worst hurricane ever. While irmas sustained winds have dropped a bit, it is still a category 4 storm, with at least 22 dead and a trail of destruction in its wake. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage, from cocoa beach, florida. Reporter snaking lines of traffic and clogged highways floridians, escaping a storm thats targeting the entire state. Irma blew toward the florida keys today. The Storms Center is on track to turn north and make landfall on the mainland by early sunday, then pl
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang tonight, the state of florida is bracing for what could be its worst hurricane ever. While irmas sustained winds have dropped a bit, it is still a category 4 storm, with at least 22 dead and a trail of destruction in its wake. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage, from cocoa beach, florida. Reporter snaking lines of traffic and clogged highways floridians, escaping a storm thats targeting the entire state. Irma blew toward the florida keys today. The Storms Center is on track to turn north and make landfall on the mainland by early sunday, then pl
Straight up 6 00. It is wednesday, february 20th and it is a chilly start to your day. It is cold, very cold. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. A quick school delay to pass along to you from maryland. Garrett county Public Schools will open two hours late today. There you go. Weather already having an impact on schools. A little icy out there and temperatures are in the 20s. Roosevelt bridge family, we are very cold. Temperature locally in the low 30s. You mix in the winds you guys are talking about. You will see the cameras shaking this morning. It feels like teens and 20s. It will later today. It is february. We are in the middle of february. So today will feature temperatures about 10 degrees or so below average. 34 in washington. Dulles, 32. Bwi marshall, the magic 32 as well. We are looking at a lot of wind. Winds out of the west gusting to about 30 early this morning so wind chill values as i mentioned are in the teens and low 20s. Should be a nice bright day. We
Thank you for waking up to us and watching fox friends first. A fox news alert to get you started this morning. Two people are still missing at this hour after a massive gas explosion at a popular restaurant in crowded downtown kansas city. Cross jjs restaurant going up in flames sending 14 people to the hospital. Dhef stating rescue crews will be bigging through as several people in the restaurant could smell gas earlier in the day. Utility workers came in to check the building. They told everyone inside to leave. Minutes later the restaurant exploded rocking the entire neighborhood. He stepped out the door wasnt two minutes we were grabbing our stuff and the explosion hit. It hit you like a shock wave. You feel it and the heat of the fire came into my car. The windows were up i could feel the heat. The blast knocked out windows several blocks away. More than 100 firefighters rushed to the scenes and battled that inferno. Not clear if any employees were inside at the time. 14 people w