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WTTG Good Day DC March 16, 2017

Cherry blossoms as the annual festival gets under way. Update from the experts. And later, the madness tips off today but first were puttingut the finishing touches on our o brackets and we need your help. H good day at 9a starts right now. Oh, yeah. Oh, y were talking about the march mh madness. In the weather department. Eptm because thats whats going on. O thats whats going on rightht now. Its madness outside. Out it is march madness. You think i thought the basketball, als right. Good day dc. C it is thursday, march 16th. Mch1 wisdom martin, allison seymour,o holly morris. Mri Steve Chenevey. Were ready to go. Ady to outrage in college parkn cole somebody posted series of racisc flyers on campus theres one ofn them and now this morning themoe university with a message foragr students. Well have all those details dai coming up. First at 9 00, though let talk about this march madnessade weather. It really is crazy. Its another bitter cold morninl out there. Little less wind but a little more sunshine could make it me better than yesterday. Rd with some luck of the irish werh could be back in spring sin territory as early as tomorrow. O tucker is back with all theh details on that. Hey tuck. Y t ease on back into springtimem temperatures. Te all right. Nothing too dramatic here. Nge but it will get a little bettert each day starting with thish t afternoon. Rnoo still cold this morning, but by later today we should be justulj plain old chilly with highs inlh the low 40s. I think the sunshine remembere m this time of year the sun anglea gets to be little bit higher ifr you can get out in that sun it i should feel a little better fort you. All right. Still below freezing reagan ng rean national 31. On31. Dulles 29. 9. 28 in baltimore at bwi marshalll so another cold start. D sta everybody was below freezingreg here early this morning andnd waking up with plenty ofy sunshine. Su few clouds out to the west. Yesterday that lake effect snowe machine really kicking in and we had a lot of clouds and few a fw flurries around. Un. Less numerous today i can see ty the mountains are starting toe o get cloudiness an few flurries f west but i think for the most m part well get more sunshinee today. A little warmer highs in the low 40s the best part the winds that were blowing at 40 or even 50 miles an hour yesterday theyll only be blowing 20 to 30 today. So still a breeze. Ez still a chilly day youll want n jacket but at least itseastt trending a little bit milder m here the next couple of days. Fa. 42 today. Tod and coming up here ill have tht st. Patricks day forecast. Oras well be warmer than thathan tht tomorrow as we get into our lasl weekend of winter we will finally have hints of spring see if Mother Nature cooperates with flowers. It is madness out there. Ahah. Thanks, tuck. Hank picking up few degrees every day day. Were following a couple of breaking news stories out offoln france this morning. Ewanhis first coming from the french riviere ya a shoot tag high shoh school. Were hearing the principal ofpo the school was shot. Hool w sho local officials have issued aali warning to residents in that tht area stay away from the highomhh school. Police have arrested one personr but there are reports as many am three gunmen may have burst intt that school and opened fire. E. Motive for yet known. Yet kno the other breaking news storys comes from paris a letter bombrm exploded this morning when itni was opened at the offices of the International Monetary fund. Yun at least one person was hurt in that incident. Idt. This ruling makes us lookk weak k by the way we no longer r are, believe me. Elie me. [ applause ] just look at our borders. Were going to fight this terrible ruling. President donald trumpaldrump slamming federal judges rulingug blocking his revised travel bann that ruling from a federal courl in hawaii. Awaii. It came down just hours beforeef the ban was supposed to go into effect. Fe the judge there rejected the governments claim that the ban is about National Security andnd not muslim discrimination. Meantime a federal judge inudgei maryland also blocked President Trump ands revised ban, travell ban. The j belt yesterday brought by they e aclu. Ac he issue the ruling early sayinn the history of public statementt by the president and his lawyers continues to indicate the travea ban is meant to keep muslims ous of the United States. S all right. Ig. Nip 05 00 is the time. P 05 00 is another big story for the trumpm administration this morning is i the president has officiallyoffy unveiled his first budgetis fire proposal as commander in chief. It was expected to boost didd he phenes spending cuttings spec budgets for other agencies. R oti Melanie Alnwick has. Close sr. Look live at the looli Government Publishing Office inn northwest where the budget waseg actually unveiled. Hey, mel. Reporter good morning, mor guys. Yeah. So its called the budgetudge blueprint to make america greatt again. Again. Saying its really going too focus on defense, homelandd security, Veterans Affairs those are the winners in this budgetsb but the loser unfortunately arey many other domestic agencies. President trump saying in theg pref face that the cuts are a sensible and rationale. Atile noting that every agency andncy department will have to achievee greater efficiency and eliminate so lets talk a little bit about what some of the materials are. E when we were talking about thene Defense Department it is getting a 54 billion boost. Bst the Largest Military spendingpen increase since ronald reagan. Ra that money being used for troopt readiness, fight against islamia state and new ships fighter jetj and weapons. But that 54 billion will be b offset by 54 billion in cuts to foreign aid and domestic agencies. Ci were talking about a dozen different departments. Epar hardest hit agriculture, labor,b state and the epa. Pa also locally the nationalational institutes of health will take e budget cut as well. El thousands of federal workersorke will lose their jobs and this is also interesting as well. Asel the budget eliminates federal funding for 19 independencede agencies. Cies. Including the national endowmenn for the Arts National end do yo mean for humanities. S. Corporation for publicfopublic broadcasting and in this budgetd also cuts to legal aid for the r poor and low Income Housing assistance. We also mentioned you guys wes w talked about it several timesims this morning as well includes money in here billionsn of dollars to start buildinguiin that border wall with mexico. Mc something that on the campaign trail candidate trump said s mexico was going to pay for. Ay f so billions of dollars for thata in this budget blueprint rightpr here. Also, 500 million to fight figt opioid addiction here in thee in United States. Un we know that is an issue as wels that is coming up but again thit is a wish list this is a is blueprint. Bl it does all have to be approvedo by congress and this is just tht start. Notice how thin it is. N it i just 60 pages here. H it does not deal with taxes. Tes does not deal with the other entitlements. Titl social security, medicareme,e, medicaid. Id all of those will be forthcomino as well, but this is just the start. Start. So far the reception on capitol hill, hmm, lets just call itt mixed. Mixed. Back to you guys. Ba to mel, thanks very. Than in the meantime the in president standing by this twet former president obama illegalll wire tapped the phones at trumpp tower. To speaking to foxs tucker carlsos last night the president says interesting items will come to the forefront over the next twoo weeks. We lawmakers from both sides havedv evidence to back up his claims. There are concerns thisrn t morning at the university of unt maryland over racist posterst pe seen around campus this week. W big question remains, who put wp them up . The posters directterr students to the website vanguarr america. That group states that quote our america is to be a nation nat exclusively for the whitete american people. Pl it remains unclear if the groupg put them up, Campus Police are investigating. Investigating. Meanwhile, the schoolsanwhile, president released a statement. It says quote the White National lift posters found on collegege campuses including our own contained dee requestableequeabe language a front to who we are w and what we stand for as the states flagship university. Niit as a community, we stand fornd excellence, diversity and inclusion. Cl we stand against all forms of fo ignorance and hate. Bring it back to the districr right now. Developing story. Loping teenagers disappearing froming f washington, d. C. Ingt, d. Its a story weve coveredovr since d. C. Began raising raisi awareness about the staggeringtg number of teens missing in ourio area. Ar well now its Getting National o fox5s annie yu live in i northeast with more. Annie . Annie . Reporter good morning toni t alou. F you. Yeah, this is a story that we ih have been covering for several s years now. Ow the numbers are alarming andg whats going on is very ive concerning. In fact we know that theathe conversation will continue onnue wednesday as Council Member white is holding a forum therere at Excel Academy in southeastmyt d. C. At 6 00 oclock. clock. Hes going to continue thateha conversation about missing kidsk in the dmv and thats takingakin place wednesday. Ay but earlier this year in 2017 d. C. Police began publicizing pi the names and faces of the critical missing teens and minors most of them are minors,r most of them are females, and, a just last week we told you aboua ten black teenaged girls whols were reported missing over a tenday span. Were talking young girls aslkyo young as 12, 13, 15 years old, d and they have all gone missing, wouldnt ill the circumstanceslc surrounding theiirrcu disappeare are unclear, both the commanderd of d. C. Police Youth Service Family Service and sa the founder of the black and missing foundation they shed ty some light about what really rey could be happening and whats w behind their disappearances. Apan take a listen. I just dont know whats know going on but definitely a deeper issue. Issu i think about relisha rudd. I think that she was sold andola thats the name that, you know,o that hasnt come up, you know, lately. Te but i think that we need tothinh really take a hard core look att all these kids that are missingi even though there has not beenob any indication that they aret te involved in human trafficking, i think the follow up is going toi be so important to find out whyy did they leave . Reporter now the alarming am number of children going missins in d. C. Has not only piquednl interest in the community butn n also its gained national a nat traction theyre youre looking at mediare outlets citing fox5 reports for an issue that have h gone underreported. Erreported well be staying on top of thist Digging Deeper into what ist i going on. And we can also tell the we requested the numberr of children missing in the seat. Were still waiting on that request but again conversationvt continues next webs muchs nexts wednesday at Excel Academy att 6 00 oclock in southeast d. C. Sd ths the latest. Atest. Back to you in the studio. U the annie, thanks very much. Nk 9 11 right now. New report links over theinks o counter painkillers with ah higher risk for cardiac arrest. And other complications. Ic coming up were breaking downow the details with dr. Lisa. R. Is were still waiting to seetis just how widespread the damage m will be to our beloved cherryrry ossoms. S. After old man winters revenge. But we are getting some answerss today from the National Parkar service. Join us live next. E nex 9 14 is the time right now. He yesterday the National Park service announced there was quote widespread ty the dannou Cherry Blossoms that had reached the fifth out of six stages ofta bloom known as the quote puffytf white stage in result of theof t cold temperatures and snow thatw hit our area this week and if temperatures keep dropping,roppn there could be even more damageg so this morning were getting gg update on the state of the t blossoms from park service svice spokesman Mike Litterst who isti live in front of the t basin. Mike, its good to see you. Holly good to talk to you. Ba its been a long time. Tos bea mike and i go way long back. Give us detail on where wee really stand in terms of thefhe damage of the blossoms. Well, the cold weather thatet weve had over the last couple l of days little bit due to the snow before that has caused some damage to the blossoms. S. But more advanced blossoms asvam you mentioned. There are six stages of trees gr through before they reeeach peaa bloom. Bl were seeing the most damage ini those that are at stage five and the few that have actually maded it to bloom. But essentially were still inti e foe four. Officially the majority of blossoms are still, um, little bit encased in their buds get be something protection from therom cold weather. So what percentage were inern stage five or six would you say . Tough to quantify but weree probably about 50 of the blossoms are in stage five. And thats what were lookingkig out out here. Ere. The ones that the puffy white stage of the o t petals are out the white ishi i there theyre the most mos susceptible to damage and were seeing that as we visit theisitt trees every day. Ery day. All right. So we have to basically writelye off half of them but we stillell have 50 and i understand you guys took some clippings of some of those in the earlier stages and youre going to try to t determine force bloom them andhe determine what the damage was. Yeah absolutely right. We took clippings yesterday. Pi they are back in the officeff where its toasty warm. E it were forcing them. swer we tooe kfo them from the earlii stages. St the stage four and the stage sge three. Th still a little early yet butet b were encouraged so far in whata we see coming out. O there is not damage there. So what were probably looking i at hopefully as we emerge inmern this cold snap the next day or o two get back to seasonalasal temperatures, well get back to warming, and well work our wayy back towards peak bloom. When will you guys ims m sorry. Sorry. Mike when will you guys know that it was good or there maybey was some damage . Were taking more clippings today. Well take more clippings c tomorrow morning. Rrorning again seeing the progression asa this cold snap continues. But we should have a good idea a hopefully by this time tomorrow or so. So. Were still on track for a peaka bloom in that window off march 19th to the 22nd. Likely going to have a peak pk bloom it may just involve fewerf trees than were used to. To. Just be more people crowdeded around certain trees trying to o get their pictures. Get ei not as many trr ees to get youru pictures in front of, right . R same number of people. Nuer o less trees. Le math. Math. Ll rll right. So these are of course yoshinahi cherry trees but theres anotheh type of cherry tree that stillti will have beautiful blossom inn april, right . Right. R the yoshina. The world famous ones when we w talk peak bloom and project a forecast were forecasting for the yo sheena they make up the 70 east potomac park. The second variety come outty cm about two weeks after the yo yo sheena. Sheena theyre protected from this cold weather and theyre on track wen should see them somewhereewhe april 10th to the 13th or so s again a spectacular show comingn even after we get some of the yoshinas out. Just because the bloom psalm were hurtblo this year there wat any actual damage done to the t trees themselves, right . Iighti mean, next year, fingers finrs crossed, well be back to peak bloom and full bloom. Correct. No damage to the trees at all. Some of these trees have beenhan out here for decades. Decades some of them go back to 1912 the original plantings. Ntin theyve seen colder temperatures. Theyve seen more snow than this. Theyre going to be just fine. re tsealen mkinng jg ustot nowt what happens to the blossomse sm this year. Yea have we ever lost this amount before that you know of, mike . Dont think so. S i think this is unprecedented. It was sort of a perfect stormco we had the fall spring. In started to bring the blossomslo out early. Y. They got to an advanced state. T. And then old man weather cameerm roaring back with a vengeanceene gave us plunging temperatures,p, snow and temperatures stayedyed critical levels for 12 hours the other night, three days in a row, that sort of swing ising is unprecedented and thats whats causing the damage that weree a semaeingge. Ei mike, we sure appreciate youe always being available to givev us the latest updated ued information. Ion. Its good to see you, friend. Thanks holly. All right. Ht. 9 19 is the time right now. E ti. Coming up all new edition of tht movie matchup and this timee around kevin go head to head hd over logan. 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