Is the safest out. The safety of every community is our highest priority. For thousands of commuters that take amtrak into or out of the city, the derailment make an unscheduled transfer to silver spring. It is challenging and only monday. You can see the work going on. They are pulling a big section of rail. Im not sure if that is going in or out. They are rushing to move a lot of the rail cars out of here and got most of them out already. They want to get the track reopened. But they are going to need to removal of the soil that was contaminated with that ethyanol and put in clean soil before they get the train going. All of that could take time. C sx sa air around that site. It hasnt found any problems so far but again it is just not clear how much longer it will take to get the line reopened. More problems here. A yellow weather alert again. First alert meteorologist topper shutt with us. What can we expect. Between 11 and 3 00 a. M. Will be the critical times. The Severe Weather t
Which leaves the question, did he let the killer into his home . Offering up to 10,000 for information that helps break this case. Yet another winter storm packing some snow headed our way, but tom says the target will likely say stay a bit south of our neighborhood. We may get a flake two. Maybe a dusting to an inch. Its a storm that will head south. Well track this storm carefully. It has a lot of moisture with it. Flurry or light snow your best bet on thursday. More flurries are possible on friday with an arctic front. Lets start with futurecast. 2 00 a. M. On thursday, snow breaking out to the south and west of town. We get into the 6 00 p. M. Hour, snowing across much of the metro area. You see the gradations here, you could get an inch or two into calvert county, st. Marys county. By 10 00 it begins to fade away. By noon, everything pulls across the bay. Were left with cloudy skies and another cold day. Well talk about how much cold fall on thursday. The prospect of issuing a yel
Secretary bob mcdonald corrected a misstatement that he made last month on this broadcast about his own military record after the statement was questioned by several retired officers. This comes, of course, at a time of controversy around prominent journalists who have been accused of inflating their war records. Heres wyatt andrews. That was wrong and i have no excuse. Reporter the secretary apologized for what was said during this encounter when he falsely told a homeless veteran in los angeles that he had served in the special forces. The comment was captured by cbs news last month for a segment on this broadcast. What unit . Special forces. Special forces. What years . I was in special forces. Reporter the fact that mcdonald was not in the special forces was first reported in the Huffington Post last night. The secretary explained that when he saw the veteran, he was attempting to find Common Ground but got it wrong. And so what i was trying to do is find a way to connect with that
Really quick near his waste and i pulled the trigger one time. Reporter that was 18 months ago and now the county prosecutor has resumed his investigation into the shooting after finally receiving the internal Affairs Report that the Police Department refused to give him. That seems to be evading the question and certainly not giving a clear answer to when our people knew. Reporter stewart was a witness and blames county supervisors for not stepping in to cooperate with the attorney. The Washington Post was told saturday that protecting county cost refers cough county the department refused to hand over documents. I would be disappointed if i was to find there was an interference because we were trying to prevent the county from having to respond to a lawsuit. Reporter it took letters from the chair of the Judiciary Committee to force the latest release of the report to the commonwealths attorney. This particular incident does not warrant the convening of a grand jury, then no case Fai
Keystone pipeline. The white house sent notice of the veto to the gnatsenate shortly after it was received today. They may try to override the president s veto but unlikely theyll get the 2 3 majority in both chambers that they need to do that. Its getting cold when were looking forward to temperatures in the 30s or near 30s. Chief meteorologist doug hill now in the storm watch Weather Center. When can we get a warmup here . Well get it tomorrow. One day deal. One day warmup and then back to the cold weather by thursday. Were on our Potomac River ice watch again today and it hasnt changed much. We have single day here and there that gets above freezing for the bulk of the day. That hasnt changed much. Overnight temperatures are so cold. That trend will continue. 27 in gaithersburg. 26 for quantico. Average high this time of the day this time of the year is 49. A good 20 degrees colder below that. Well continue to drop through the 20s with partly cloudy skies and light breeze out of the