Treacherous travel right now on the roads. The entire area right now through early on wednesday morning we are looking at the wintry mix and the Winter Weather advisories so especially those untreated roadways heres a look outside of our studios at fourth and mark those windshield wipers are going. 31 degrees so temperatures are at or below freezing. As far as the hour by hour forecast, you can see by 6 00 p. M. Were still right around 32 in philadelphia. 30 in pottstown. So well be dealing with that sleet as well as that freezing rain as we move toward 7 00 oclock, more of the same. But temperatures will start to warm as we move into the overnight time frame changing everything over to rain. But take a look at the ice concern. You can see less than a tenth of an inch in philadelphia. Higher amounts once you move north and west. So heres the bottom line this evening. That wintry mix to rain then wednesday its milder on and off again rain. And then thursday, heavy wet accumulateing snow
Mother nature can tease us with a showers, but california should expect conditions with more frequent regular layer ti. The kinds of conditions in california, low precipitation, with high temperatures are already more common, likely more common in the future. Noah is a climate scientist and says its no longer valid to forecast drought based on 100 years of historical data. 80 of the year has been warm. That means is that there is a big increase in the odds that when a low precipitation year happens, it is producing drought. The high temperatures melt snow in the sierra. When you couple that with soil the implication is that drought conversation will be part of the ongoing exist yens. I am not thinking about it yet. But yeah. There is a lot we can all do i think. Some point out what is being done by resilient rinl of High Pressure from blocking storms from reaching california more frequent droughts can mean more emphasis on getting people to replace lawns installing green Water Systems
The terror group growing power and threat but in the last week according to people familiar with the operation twitter has shut down suspended at least 2000 accounts connected to isis 2000 accounts connected to isis. Major escalation. This is as serious an attack on isis twitter as we have seen so far. In response isis supporters are calling for retaliation against twitter employee at the California Base company. Among the isis target shut did you know accounts spreading video of the secretive executioner called jihad john. Despite the mask investigators say tonight he didnt pull his mother who immediately recognized her son immediately recognized her sons voice. On the very first jihad john video in which american journalist james foley beheaded. According to authorities she kept quiet about the fact it was her son mohammad. Other members of the family are also under scrutiny tonight including his younger brother omar who we found on the streets of london today. He took off running wh
Reuters news agency, the president also acknowledged substantial disagreement with the Israeli Government in the goal of keeping iran from getting Nuclear Weapons. Steve handelsman on capitol hill has the latest on this. Reporter jim, thanks. Here on the hill israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed joint meetings of the house and senate for almost 20 years, but this time tomorrow about 30 democrats say they wont attend. Thank you. Reporter cheered by American Jewish leaders in washington israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that israels survival is threatened. We must not let that happen. Reporter iran said netanyahu, would build a Nuclear Weapon to use on israel. I have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while they theres still time to avert them. Reporter the white house tried reassurance. The United States of america will not allow iran to obtain a Nuclear Weapon period. Reporter but john mccain warned iran will cheat. The Monitor
We begin with Hillary Clinton facing an email scandal this morning accused of exclusively using a personal account to conduct official government business. It involves tens of thousands of emails from clintons fouryear tenure as secretary of state and allegations this morning that she may have been in violation of federal rules. Abcs susan saulny has the details for us from washington. Good morning to you, susan. Reporter good morning, t. J. There is word this morning that Hillary Clinton didnt even have a government email address during her time as secretary of state relying solely on that personal account. The New York Times reports aides to clinton took no action to have those emails preserved on government servers as required by federal law. The state department saying overnight that it has long had access to a wide array of clintons emails. Two months ago the potential president ial candidate turned over more than 50,000 pages of emails at the request of the state department. Expe