Yeah, everybody is going to be on the big major roads as everybody getting out of town fofrt holidays or coming into town, either way. Temperature wise its a chilly one and weve started to see the wind pickup here in the last 15 minutes or so giving us a little bit of a wind chill. Right now the temperature 43 degrees d. C. , 42 up towards the hagerstown area. Much warmer to the west. Notice, it is 58 degrees in charles town, west virginia. So, watch out for that as we move through the rest of the night tornt. It is going to cool quickly. Tomorrow a pretty nice looking friday. Were tracking your travel plans. The big issue is saturday. Well have much more information on that. And looking at a cold christmas. Not just a cold christmas, but a frigid last week of december. Were going to talk much more about that as well and our snow chances because we have a few of those coming up over the next couple of days. Theres our shot right now of our holiday lights. You can see everything lit up
Dont even yet have a handle on exactly who is affected and that means that no letters can go out, no notification go out. Remember, this covers people who got background checks over the last 15 years. Some of them never worked for the federal government. Some of them dont work for the federal government now. So first and foremost, they would have to track all those people down once they figure out exactly who they are. In the mean tame, what do you do for them you heard from Eleanor Holmes norton, she along with democratic senators, who have large numbers of federal workers in their district, are proposing that Lifetime Protection as well as 5 million in insurance, but there is no guess even at this point whether its the three years that opm is suggesting or if they do a Lifetime Protection what that would cost or how that would even work and all of this gives new urgency to what are known vulnerabilities, obviously not just at opm but talked about vulnerabilities from every agency, no
Two students and Police Believe more victims are out there. Justin Andrew Gordon taught at Connolly School of the holy child in potomac, maryland. He was a Computer Lab Assistant and fault robotics at the school. Police tell us both victims were students at the time. Chris gordon live with what we are learning about the man accused. Chris . Reporter holy child was founded in 1961. The safety of its entire community, it says is of utmost importance. Recently, a student reported a teacher may have acted inappropriately and it was the school that immediately called the police. Connolly school of the holy child educates young women in grades six through 12. Justin gordon worked as a Computer Lab Assistant. When the School Received a report last week that he inappropriately touched two Young Students, one as early as 2012, the school fired gordon. He appeared in court charged with two counts of sex abuse of a minor and two sex offenses. I mean this is a 40yearold man who is exerting influen
This parking lot this morning. They dont know if the escape was planned or impromptu, but they believe he should be considered dangerous. They have been looking with search teams. They have been out looking for him all day. Armed Police Follow k9 units, through the wednesday and along railroad tracks. A helicopter flies overhead, looking for 28yearold david m. Watson, the prisoner who escaped this morning. Watson is serving time for attempted murder in delaware. Watson faces charges of attempting to Murder Police officers. He was being transported here to clifton t. Perkins hospital for evaluation. Two detention officers were in the white van when watson escaped at 9 40 this morning. A guard opened the door after the van stopped in the parking lot, and watsoho only occupant, pushed the guard to the ground and ran into the woods. We did find handcuffs and a waist chain on the scene. Reporter police with guns drawn, searched a truck, looking for the escapee. At this Asphalt Plant nearby,
The nbc washington app at any time. Check out the radar on your phone. Thank you, doug. Now we want to move to new developments on the u. S. Sanctions against russia, despite calls from top russian officials to retaliate, president Vladimir Putin says hes going to hold off. Its a move praised by president elect trump. He said this on twitter, great move on delay by v. Putin. I always knew he was very smart. Nbcs lucy kafanov has a look at the strategy behind putins response. Reporter traditionally, historically, when the hints of one country are expelled, the other country follows suit. That was the expectation for the kremlin today, also the recommendation from Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. In a surprise move, president putin declined to do that. In a Statement Issued earlier today, he said that we are not, and im quoting here, were not going to stoop to the level of irresponsible diplomacy, and we will take future steps to restore russian american relations. What president