Well see you then, melissa. Thank you. 6 01 now. New this morning the governor of South Carolina expected to sign a bill today that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state capital grounds there. The South Carolina house of representatives passed a bill, that was after hours of emotional, sometimes tearful debate. Once Governor Haley signs the bill, the flag should come down within 24 hours. Haley and a lot of her fellow lawmakers are responding to calls from across the country to remove that flag after the racially motivated killing of black worshipers in charleston. At 1 30 this morning after a vote there, haley tweeted its a new day in South Carolina. Now a lot of folks seem to agree with her, there was a cartoon posted showing the flag and it said, going, going gone on that cartoon. Another person tweeted finally. One state, one flag. Efforts here on capitol hill to ban the Confederate Flag in federal cemeteries is proving controversial as well. The measure was added as an a
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
Over the last week or so, Prince William county, fairfax county, the district and prince georges county, Flash Flood Watch 2 a. M. Tomorrow morning through 3 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Heres a look at the radar over the past hour or so. You can see the heaviest testimony down toward culpeper, but still we talked about light showers moving in. The heavy stuff comes in overnight. Well zoom in a little bit. This has got some rainfall rates over an inch per hour around gold vein moving essentially off to the east, southeast. This will duck in between quantico and stafford in the next 40 minutes. So let me show you futurecast. Were looking at 5 a. M. , look at all the heavy rain culpeper to fredericksburg, the yellow and orange, heavy stuff. A lot of it ducks off to the south. You might not see anything in hagerstown. I think it will be a little further north than futurecast is showing here. 9 a. M. Showers essentially i66 and 50 south. By 11 00 most of the heavy activity is south of town in
Police swarming a quiet area in herndon this morning. Reporter this is an active investigation right now. Police have put up crime scene time blocking out of a perimeter. Theyve been out here since about 7 30 when the call came in. They say the building was found next to the parking structure and now theyre working to determine now the woman died. If youre familiar with the area around dulles station boulevard you know its a quiet community. Its a great community. Reporter which is why crime scene tape and investigators are unusual and startling. This is kind of scary because its very quiet. Reporter this is a spokeswoman for the fair fax Police Department who says they discovered a body tuesday morning. At this point a Death Investigation is underway. Its not clear exactly what happened. Reporter she says police are in the early stages of the investigation so they cant confirm if the death was a homicide or a suicide at this point but nevertheless, its a sight neighbors around here sa
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