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9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." lets go to the ukraine. the prime minister says ukraine is, quote, on the brink disaster. he calls the russian military bases a declaration of war and blames president vladimir putin for bringing the nation to those point. the president expressing deep concerns over russias violation ukrainian sovereignty and the international law. putin defended what he called russias rights to protect its tests. today on "meet the press," secr...

be able to meet the demand. set your thermostat at 78 and use appear electric fan. turn off all nonessential appliances. time now to get a quick check on the weather. tucker barnes, what is upoutside? >> you know whats up. it is muggy. it is humid out there. we have temperature overnight in the upper 70s, low 80s. we are in for a hot one today. 80-degree at reagan national. no thanks. winchester is 77 degrees. got some showers and thunderstorms not too far off to the north and west. ...

heat building in intensity, especially across the middle part of the country, for a while. now behind me the headline is that blazing heat thats been affecting the central united states will now begin moving east. just to give you some idea of the heat were talking about, let me show you the high temperatures today across the nation and they were really high. we are going to see a lot of places into the triple digits. thats what we saw and as a matter of fact dallas, texas, has had 17 ...

morning. thank you for waking one fox 5 morning news. im steve chenevey. >> im wisdom martin. the morning rush always busy and it is turning into a traffic head headache for route 29 commuters in silver spring. an overnight accident shut down part of colesville road in both direction and it is still closed. the crash happened just before midnight at the incident are section -- at the intersection of sligo creek parkway. the heat index easily surpassed 100 degrees in many places inclu...

more details on that coming up. >> thank you. now to the developing phone hacking scandal rocking britain news corp. chairman rupert murdoch and former newspaper editor rebecca brooks preparing to give testimony to a particle meantry panel in the next half hour british lawmakers are expected to grill them on allegations reporters hacked into phone messages. >> rupert murdoch might be late his car was surrounded by a mob outside earlier and he had to turn back a top london police chie...

bit. thank you for being with us. im steve chenevey. >> im westdom martin. -- postpone the use of high- energy appliances until the evening when it may cool off a little bit. thank you for being with us. im steve chenevey. >> im wisdom martin. >> some thunderstorms off to the north and west this morning. lets take a look at the satellite-radar composite. well show you that first. you will see what were talking about. they are well off to the north and west as you see there. some thunde...

or the residents of frisco. >> its a little messy to drive in. but i like the snow. we dont have it often enough. >> reporter: these kids got a rare snow day. but a dallas/ft. worth airport, snow day means something completely different. the turnaround delay from de-icing jets was felt as far away as west palm beach, florida. >> the people going in are going to have much better luck than people coming out because of the de-icing of the planes. >> reporter: in louisiana the first of up ...

Today. jon: she believed it was her obligation as a nurse to report unsafe practices that put patients at risk. now shes on trial and facing serious time behind bars. veteran nurse ann mitchell wrote what she thought was a confidential letter last year to the texas medical board complaining about a doctor that she thought practiced shoddy medicine at the hospital where she worked. snow shes indicted, charged with misa of official information and facing ten years in prison. does this case set a d...

Been disciplined for the manner in which he treated other patients, and she was aware of it, and she saw it being repeated. its just the fact that in the letter that she wrote, she revealed the name of the patient and medical information about that patient. in other states, you are privileged to reveal it. she didnt send it to the newspaper, she sent it to the board in austin that regulates physicians. they publicized it, and the prosecutor is going after her. jon: but does the judge or the jury...

down there. thousands of folks lined up to cheer the team on, the saints capping an unforgettable season with the teams first championship in their history. >> thats going to do it for us, thanks for joining us. "happening now" begins right now. jon: and good morning to you, im jon scott -- jane: and im jane skinner. in your top box, prison ard warnings are up for a good chunk of the east. the monster storm that was roaring through the midwest. schools, courts, airports, the federal go...