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Just about two weeks ago i said this. i'm obsessed with the fact that my favorite season could be totally ruined before it's done. everyone in d.c. is crossing their fingers and hoping doesn't get too cold, windy, rainy. once those cherry blossoms bloom, they would mean they are fragile. that would be a baron spring for all of us. this is one of the times i hate. the national parks service said yesterday, they've inspectsed the cherry trees after our cold snowy weather this week, and some of the trees suffered widespread damage. the closer they are to being in blo bloom, the more damage. peek ...

Hour's sleep. but the beginning of daylight saving time means spring is just around the corner. countdown to the cherry blossom festival in our nation's festival. annual event kicks off wednesday. we have about a week until the trees are expected to bloom. this year's festival celebrates 105 years since japan gifted washington, d.c. with these beautiful cherry trees. somebody called john fogerty, making an appearance in chicago. the tradition dating back to 962. a plumbers union uses green vegetable dye. thousands come out to see it and

Agencies from washington, law enforcement agencies, responding to this. there are fbi agents, d.c. police, capitol police as well as dhs. they are all still over there trying to assess what happened. so we don't know too much. but things could have been a lot worse. it's already very scary but could have been a lot worse because today is one of the busiest tourist days in washington, d.c. of the whole year. it is the first nice saturday and it is the cherry blossom festival. they have these beautiful cherry trees that are in peak bloom today. lots of people actually as this is going on behind ...

Cherry trees. current temperatures in new york city annapolis current temperature 37 degrees. rain wise we are having a little showers across the carolinas early this morning with the storm system that produced all of the rain yesterday is gone. mind it you will notice sunshine across the eastern half of the country. in raleigh, new york city, 70s in minneapolis well above average. high temperatures today 76 degrees. let's goh head back to you in new york. >> maybe take a light jacket. you are wearing yours this morning. the time is 12 after the hour.

>> maria, go out -- >> i'll go out and look for cherry trees. >> the trees are beautiful down there, aren't they, maria? >> yeah. it's absolutely beautiful. you can see the tidal basin behind me, the washington memorial in the distance and all of the cherry blossom trees are starting to bloom. they haven't reached peak bloom yet. and that's because we've had such a tough winter. so that's delayed. on average, we should be seeing them bloom in late march. but it's april. so the next couple days we'll be seeing them happen, so come on out. >> thank you very much. we all know him as the lovable...