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Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz latest path. Sitting and spinning around and can switch over from the radar shot and back to radar in a moment to the visible satellite and much more clearly the center of the storm. Put in motion and see how it circles in the middle and goes from there to there and northward motion, north at 3 Miles Per Hour and all it is moving right now essentially stationary. The forecast track though is to make a turn today. So lets check this and live stormtracker radar, see the rain moving across nantucket at cape cod this morning, some heavy rain perched offshore and moving away and West Brewster to South Yarmouth and nantucket much of the island shrouded in rain right now place in western edge out of it the most part. Track expected today to go to the northwest and then turn northeast. Now, this is something we are watching closely because so far it has been tracking to the north and already farther out than the earlier computer models and problem is here w
Today issuing that red flag warning. The red flag warning from areas of frederick, maryland, all the way down through d. C. Leonardtown, fredericksburg, toward annapolis and off to the west. So a lot of virginia in that now. Again, the perfect combination. Our temperatures higher over 70 degrees, most locations. The moisture low. Your dew point temperature, your humidity. That moisture, very, very low. Combine that with the wind, its breezy right now. Our gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour. And weve got the perfect combination. But were tracking some rain for early tomorrow morning, which could help. Well show how much, coming up. Well, today the father of a fallen Prince Georges County Police Officer is talking about his sons legacy and hes calling him a hero. Police and Community Members file into a local funeral home. Right now a visitation is being held for officer jacai colson. Tracee wilkins joins us live from beltsville and how hes being remembered tracee . Reporter initially, this wa
Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and jim ram stead over on the house side. When we look at what this bill might save, we know that drug courts save money. And we know that getting some of the nonviolent offenders out of the prisons will save money or reducing their sentences. Do you think we could use some of this money to pay for things like drug courts ms. Yates, do you think that will be helpful as we look at how we are going to make up for the fact that we are going to be bringing people out of prison. But they not only need R
Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profile of drug defendants currently in the bureau of prisons right now, youll see that there are a number of low level nonviolent drug defendants. For example, less than 1 of the defendants in federal prison actually had violence or threatsover violence in connection with their drug offense. Only 16 of them had a weapon. Half of them had little or no criminal history at all and only 7 of them are lead