With just hours to go before the special counsel testifies, what do members of Congress Hope to get out of Robert Mueller . Developing overnight, rurmds that puerto ricos governor could be resigning under pressure as early as noon today. Well take you inside Jeffrey Epsteins private island where at least one accuser says e witnessed sexual abuse i say to all the doubters, dude, we are going to energize the country. Were going to get brexit done get ready for Boris Johnson as the flamboyant and controversial new Prime Minister takes office in just a few hours. A very busy early today ahead. Lets get started. Good to be with you this tuesday morning. Im Frances Rivera wednesday morning i should say im phillip mena. Were just hours away from the highly anticipated public testimony from Robert Mueller. The former special counsel will face questions about the russia investigation for the first time during todays congressional hearings nbcs tracie potts joining us now from d. C tracie, good
Also a closure out in bensalem. Right at 63 is closed and mass transit isood this morning. More when i come back. Well see you then. Breaking right now, an unprecedented danger for people in Southern California as wildfir wildfires rage out of control. Winds could make certain situations worse. Were joined live from ventura, california, which is about an hour from los angeles. Good morning to you. Give us an update on the situation right now . Reporter well, those winds are kicking up right now as we have been here. Ar theyve just been getting worse and worse and that caused the Weather Service to issue this dire warning overnight. They sate quote, extremely fire weather conditions could cause rapid fire spread in rn of deat the 80mileperhour gusts that drove the flames across Southern California this week returned this morning when Officials Say thng the the winds are back he and inacce areas that hasnt burned in decades if not longer. The les a wall of flames along theway jus commute
New jersey warming up to the upper 50s this afternoon, but still breezy all day long so youll feel that chill in the air. Ill break the forecast down hour by hour to show you how soon those clouds will move out and how long youll need that heavy coat. But pamela has your first alert traffic. And were still following that accident on 95 southbound right at wood haven road. This is a live picture of the scene there. Take a look. You can see the offramp that leads to 95 is blocked because of this overturned tractor aitalking about the last couplef hours. You can see crews are in the process of unloading some of the stuff that was in that truck off of that vehicle. Some of it spilled out on to the roadway there. All that stuff is going to have to be cleared before they can upright that truck and move it out of the way for you. I want to give you another look approaching that accident. Whats going on there. You can see drivers beginning to turn around which i wouldnt recommend that you do b
Im rosemary conners. Southern california is now under a purple threat. It is a color thats never been used before. It means there is ek trextreme danger. It forced authorities to close a major freeway. Thousands of homes remain threatened by the fires that are burning. They predict more favorable winds for firefighters. Thats some good news. Department warning potentially dangerous gusts are still possible. We show you the human impact that is striking days before the holidays. Driving through tunnels of flames as fire closes in. We need to get out of here. Thousands of evaccuees in a race for their lives. Staying behind to protect her home but sending her kids out of harms way. Her house Still Standing but her neighbors lost everything. Bell air is homes to mansion answered mustve vie stars, towering flaming sweeping across the exclusive neighborhood. Crews are confident the museum is under no immediate yalt danger. For many the damage is done. There was nothing anyone could do. Repor
Is and how many massive it is. It had multiple centers and now a concentrated center so our computer models are getting a better grip and coming to a better consensus of the track of this storm. Look at this snow inland i just got a report from charleston, south carolina. 6inches of snow. So if charleston gets 6inches, you know that we can we could be in for it the storm will accelerate, intensify as it moves up and off the eastern seaboard. It will bomb out over new england and that means rapidlily intensify. There is a blizzard warning for our shore counties and also sussex county, delaware. A winter storm warning where you see the pink for philadelphia, south jersey and our adjacent suburbs and Winter Weather advisory as you go north and west further await from the storm but everybody sees the snow. Snow rates of one to 2inches an hour in that rapidly intensifying storm especially of course in that blizzard warning down the shore. Down the shore winds gusting to 50 miles an hour and