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Ncaa mens basketball championship over gonzaga last night. fox 5 in atlanta, officials say they hope to finish rebuilding a key interstate bridge by june 15, after a large fire caused its collapse last week. georgia transportation department personnel say they will offer financial incentives to contractors to meet interim deadlines and have the bridge repair done on time. this is a live look at seattle, our affiliate. one of the big stories there tonight, the massive drill known as bertha broke ...

Ncaa mens basketball championship over gonzaga last night. fox 5 in atlanta, officials say they hope to finish rebuilding a key interstate bridge by june 15, after a large fire caused its collapse last week. georgia transportation department personnel say they will offer financial incentives to contractors to meet interim deadlines and have the bridge repair done on time. this is a live look at seattle, our affiliate. one of the big stories there tonight, the massive drill known as bertha broke ...

Custody after fire which led to an interstate bridge collapse. charges right now include criminal damage to property and criminal trespass. that highway, interstate 85, is one of the major arteries through atlanta. its estimated it will take several months for repairs. fire crews are still looking fo the cause of the blaze. the top us commander in the middle east study ron is the biggest threat. the comets come up western worl battle terror groups like isys and al qaeda. the commander warning ab...

Interstate bridge collapse in a raging fire last night. one witness said he heard explosions and felt the ground rumple when the bridge collapsed last evening. a transportation official said the fire started in an area used to store construction equipment and supplies. they didnt know how it started though. the fire was i enormous. look at those pictures. nobody hurt. repairs could take months and traffic is a disaster. a 700 ton ferry that sat at the bottom of the sea for three years is now in ...

Thank you, governor. >> thank you. >> watching the levees throughout the region, theyre monitoring them with water levels rises in a number of rivers. cnn meteorologist jennifer grey is right there, live in valley park, missouri. she has a look at the timing and the forecast. jennifer? >> thats right, christine. we are expected to reach that record level any minute and in fact, we are going to go about three feet above that before this part of the merrimack river is expected to crest around midn...

Going forward. even with blows, trump isnt treading water, he is surging. he is first among candidates in a double digit margin over scott walker. it was conducted before this controversy, but it show hes not losing steam. the rain over the past two days was too much too fast. all time rainfall records are set in los angeles, san diego and a dozen other cities. halle jackson has the details. >> the record breaking storms slamming the west are triggering flash floods like the one that wiped out...

Having in the hearing today at noon. what is your sense he will succeed or fail to quash that subpoena? >> the committee chairman has got a vested interest here but very confident that they will prevail. he says the last time a legislative subpoena, somebody tried to quash it they lost at this exact level of a court challenge. even if it doesnt go forward today, its likely hell have to appear. >> was he have with us now host of the "the daily rundown," chuck todd. chime in, chuck. >> the questio...

May be the best window into his mental health issues. >> multiple indicators that alexis held a delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency. >> the pentagon will conduct three reviews by the end of the year to determine how the navy yard shooting could have happened and how to make sure something like that never happens again. john and diana. >> karen, thank you. the faa says a small plane that took off from kentucky burst into a fireball. the plane ...

As soon as possible. but its going to take a long time, wolf. >> as i said, this is a major interstate, interstate 5. how is it possible, a lot of people want to know, especially me, an 18 wheeler running into a bridge to cause so much damage. it sounds to me like a major interstate bridge should be able to withstand something like that. >> reporter: you know, thats the question that people are asking today. how could an 18-wheeler that brushed up basically against the side of a bridge or at lea...

See, its just as relevant today as it was back then. some of them, like san franciscos golden gate, are national symbols. but a startling number of americas bridges have become a symbol for something else. neglect and now, danger. bridges are essential to our daily lives, but more than 150,000 of them, about a quarter of all the bridges in this country, have been rated as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. in plain english, theyre getting old. >> like anything else, there is a usef...