Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will: we start this morning off with a fox news alert, the u.s. and u.k. carrying out a new wave of airstrikes yesterday, this time targeting sites in yemen occupied by the iranian-linked houthi rebels. pete: the pentagon confirming strikes on at least 36 targets and more than a dozen different sites including weapon facilities, missile launchers and air defense systems. that s what we re today. while the british with military says it struck a ground control station near yemen s capital. rachel: the u.s. and coalition forces are putting out a joint statement saying we will not hesitate to continue to defend lives and commerce in one of the world s most critical waterways in the face of continued threats. will: meanwhile, the houthis are vowing to respond saying, quote, the american-british aggression with against yemen will not go unanswered, and we will meters calculation wees calculation. pete: the
Low temperatures and arctic air combined with gusty winds, really delivering quite a tight out there. 33 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in leesburg. 45 mile per hour wind gusts at joint base andrews. At the bust up this morning, cold, 20 to 25 degrees. Will get up to around freezing, 32, the temperature at 2 00. This will be one of those days were you just hurry from point a to point the. Windchill conditions today in the 20 bus. We are still tracking a small chance of us getting a few flurries and a little bit of snow from this weather system right here. I will show you where it moves in and when it could be impacting area roads when it comes up. Julie . Julie lanes are open but we are having some problems inside the beltway due to utility work on Dolly Madison boulevard , blocked off until further notice for ongoing utility work. For the beltway itself, all lanes are open at 270 with a 30 may commute from 239 to the split. Light traffic overall, college park headed towards 270 270. This m
Gloves. Weve done a windchill. Actual temperatures in the 30s. Were above freezing for most of the area. But if you look at northern maryland, we have some 20s, 30 degrees in frederick, thats also where we have a few to no flakes moving through. Heres the system weve been watching for a couple of days. Its a clipper. Its mostly in pennsylvania. Yesterday evening, we had a few snow showers pass by briefly. A few near hagerstown, martinsburg and frederick seeing a few flurries this morning. We could have slick spots in parts of northern maryland. As the kids step out at the bus stop, mainly dry. Feeling colder, feeling below freezing with the breeze. Its going to stay breezy as we go through the afternoon today. Look at that. Back in the low 40s later on. Well be in the 30s again tomorrow. Take a look at the forecast coming up. Roads not too bad weatherwise, melissa. Not bad. I have to say thank you very much for the dry roads, sheena. Always helps in the morning us. Rockville pike, lane
All right, brad. Route 1 crystal city, overturned box truck. Take a look here. A little bit hard to see because its so dark so early this morning. Getting by on the right side of the roadway. We do have the two lanes blocked. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway actually behaving this morning. Single tracking on the orange line between New Carrollton and cheverly. The late track work still happening around. Sheena . The good news, mostly dry conditions. I say mostly dry this morning. Because part of the area is dealing with snow showers from a clipper. Its kind of falling apart now. As we zoom in here, Frederick County starting to see signs of flakes falling there. Temperatures here are cold enough for anything falling tore sticking as well. Moving out of West Virginia. Lovettsville may be seeing flakes too. Maybe even flurries in the Shenandoah Valley and much of virginia. Waking up to flurries this morning. Spotty in nature, though. Shouldnt be a bigde temperatures are at or belo