Country. We begin with weather. This morning much of the east coast is recovering from a winter storm that dumped deadly mess of snow, sleet, and ice from the southeast up to new england. One fatality has been reported after slick roads in virginia caused this suv to slide off the road, slam another vehicle, and overturn in a creek. Police have confirmed five total deaths in connection with the storm. Joining me now is meteorologist bonnie snider. Good morning. Whats the latest . Were tallying up those snowfall totals. Weve had record numbers in Providence Rhode island where there was 10 inches of snow, shattering record of 8 inches in 1977, a while back. As were looking for heavy snow working its way away from us from coastal maine, the big news, temperatures behind the system are really cold. Its in the Single Digits in some places and teens in others. Even where we didnt get a lot of snow, we certainly had plenty of ice. Be careful out there this morning. Off to the west, huge story
Good morning, alex witt has the day off. A Seismic Shift of policy in the middle east. President trump announce itted a a twostate solution is not necessarily the goal for peace anymore. A striking reversal of dc kads of u. S. Foreign policy. Instead the president says he likes, quote, the one that both parts like. I could live with either one. Tr more, lets bring in andrea mut chel with mitchell with more. President trump rolled out the red carpet for Benjamin Netanyahu. The pomp and circumstance of a state visit, plus melania trumps debut at a white house arrival ceremony. A mood change and major policy shift. Backing away from four decades of u. S. Support for a palestinian state. Side by side with israel. Im locking at twostate and onestate and i like the one that both parts like. Reporter the personal an months itty between president obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Our alliance has been remarkably strong, but under your leadership, im confident it will get even stronger. Reporter bu
Good morning, everyone. It is april 17. North korea paraded military might this weegsd. Failed to launch or get a rise out of trump administration. Hours after kim jongun unveiled a large number of new and advanced missiles. Fired from a submarine that barely got off the ground before exploding. At club in florida. President trump celebrated easter holiday. Let the pentagon do talking for him. Deferring to secretary gym mattis released a two second statement. Quote, president and military team are aware of north koreas most recent unsuccessful Missile Launch. President has no further excellent. The latest missile test fit into a pattern of provacative and destabilizing and threatening behavior on part of north korean regime. I think theres an International Consensus now including the chinese and the chinese leadership that this is a situation that just cannot continue what is clear as long as their behavior continues, as long as they continue missile development, even though this was a
For the g 7 as tensions with moscow heighten. President has called for reconciliation with russia when possible. On sunday tillerson blasted the kremlin as incompetent for allowing syria to hold onto chemical weapons. Meanwhile, resuming operations at the airbag base that was the target of u. S. Missile strike. That came in response to chemical weapons attack by bashar alassad. Russian tv aired this taking off from the air base. The video also showed some of the damage from those strikes. And it appears the forces resumed campaign of air strikes against rebel forces over the weekend. According to the syrian observatory for human rights, a serious of strikes on saturday killed at least 18 people and five children until the rebel controlled province. President trump does not seem to deterred syria president. According to state media, assad called the u. S. Strikes a failure. A navy admiral tells ri s reutee strike droid the means to deliver chemical weapons. Mapped out the next steps in
Democrats. Few ominous signs. Most unsure. Chairman john mccain said unless we get our act together, were going to lose heavily. Senate colleagues felt differently. I dont think it was any surprise that the democratic won the election over there. I think the probably would surprise people was the margin. How much the president played into it . Is this going to be the pundits are going to debate that. Democratic party in this election was more energized. Looks to me than the republican voter. Why that is, i dont know. A lot of them is saying its because of the president. Maybe. Maybe not. Are we seeing the president potentially be a drag here on his party. I dont know. Ive got a hearing to go to. Is the president going to be drag on republicans next equal. I dont think so. I dont think so. I think if he had gotten more involved in these races, it might have turned the other way. The question is whether we produce the result and reverse the trend next year. Are you aerodynamic about next