Before you get home from work and school and a hard freeze is coming our way for overnight tonight. Winds are also going to be an issue. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour in many locations now. That is that northwest wind which promises a big drop in temperatures as we go through the day. Lets go to sheena with more on that. You see that wind gusts ushering the colder air. Temperatures are dropping. The temperature in the district has dropped about four degrees. Its 52 degrees now but its going to start feeling colder. Gaithersburg, frederick both in the mid40s. Hagerstown in the upper 30s. 40 degrees just a bit ago. 45 dulles. Clinton coming in at 50. But it will be getting colder today. Look at the planner. By 7 00 a. M. We expect to be in the 40s. Could be in the low 40s. It will be breezy but feeling like the 30s. By lunchtime only the mid40s through the afternoon so aside r going to be a peak of our temperatures today. Expect it to be dry but again it will be windy. A warmup fo
From their coach about what they did when they felt it. Elizabeth also breaking, one person is killed at least 18 people hurt in an attack on an American University in afghanistan. The suspects blew explosives and opened fire on the attack. Fox 25 inauguration other Mark Ockerbloom is here with what we know at this hour. Mark so far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The military has been working for hours to free hundreds of students and teachers inside American University in western kabul. Right now, dozens are still trapped. The univsi they are still assessing the situation. The car bomb exploded outside a school for the blind next door, before at least one attacker fired at the University Campus from that school building. Right now, police arent sure if there were one or two attackers. Officials said a guard who worked at the university had been killed. 18 others were hurt. The u. S. Embassy was working to account for youll of its personnel all of its personnel. T
john hoffman, the economictive producer of the weight of the nation. you have covered a lot of ground. it s four hours, as we mentioned. at the end of the day a lot of people say, well, it s calories in and calories out. first of all, is that true? do you believe that, or is it possible that some calories treat our bodies differently than others? i m not going to, you know, speculate about whether carbohydrates in refined form or complex form ultimately are more fattening than others, but we are eating way too much. maybe 300 calories more a day per person than we were eating 30 years ago. so the weight gain that s happening across this country really has to be recognized that it s a large part is being driven by over consumption. we are not moving enough, but i am convinced that the experts who say that we can t exercise our way out of this problem have a point. that the over consumption that s going on is driving the largest part of this epidemic. the cob text is simp
you just saw a clip there from the weight of the nation. it s a four-part film from our sister network, hbo, and all of us are under the microscope this morning. our habits, our behavior, our country. this film is part of an unprecedented push by doctors and government health officials, and in part what s driving it this week, we have new numbers, a projection by the year 203042% of the u.s. population would be obese, not just overweight, but obese. now, some sort of twisted way, this could count as good news. the last prediction four years ago was that 51% of us would be obese. of course, none of this is still remotely good enough. here to talk about it from hbo, john hoffman, the economictive producer of the weight of the nation. you have covered a lot of ground. it s four hours, as we mentioned. at the end of the day a lot of people say, well, it s calories in and calories out. first of all, is that true? do you believe that, or is it possible that some calories treat
turkish journalists are celebrating right now. they went missing in syria nearly two months ago. they weren t heard of at all until about a week ago and many feared they were dead. well, it turned out they had been held at a sear yaus prison and a turkish islamic charity has helped negotiate their release. they were flown there earlier today. it appears as part of a prisoner swap. syrian rebels released to turkey two captive iranians and they re on their way home and now these two turks have been released. one of these journalists, he said there were tough days and he is celebrating his freedom saying, quote, freedom is the most beautiful thing in the world. fredricka. all right, thank you so much, ivan watson. almost a week after greek elections, there is still no government in place. the president will be asking all party leaders to form a national unity government. that s the only way to avoid new elections and continues financial assistance from other european nations