this dancer stealing the show at a city council meeting in portland, maine. look at her move. she is going for it. things got a little weird when she crawled into this man's lap and sort of did a plank. >> nope. >> this is part of the mayor's efforted to bring the arts into meetings and she said it went really well. >> fun fact about that. >> go ahead. >> she ran into the guy at trader joe's after that so that made it even more awkward. >> did somebody buy somebody dinner or something? >> i don't know about that. >> oh, boy. >> art has very broad interpretations in portland, maine. have a good day. (vo)have to happen?idn't i didn't see it. (vo) what if we could go back? what if our car... could stop itself? in iihs front-end crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. not toyota. not honda. not ford. the all-new subaru impreza. more than a car, it's a subaru. >>> good morning, america. all night health care fight. congress working into the early morning hours over the new bill to replace obamacare as opposition mounts and president trump tries to strike a deal.

anne thompson standing by in portland, maine. , i understand that you are standing in front of a body of water that could be impacted by what we hear from trt nepreside trump next hour. how so? >> reporter: well, portland is on the gulf of maine and the gulf of maine is one of the fastest warming bodies of water, scientists say because of climate change. the iconic fish that are identified with maine such as lobster and cod and pollack, they're all moving north to find colder waters. so what's the connection between what the president is about to do and what's happening here in the gulf of maine? well, if he rolls back the climate change initiative started under the last administration, that means more greenhouse gases will go in the air. that means more climate change will happen. and we know that because of all the greenhouse gases that go in the air we are literally changing the chemistry of the oceans on land, we're growing zones or moving north. impacts are far and wide. what does it mean for jobs? as cal pointed out, coal no

in i'm pretty sure that maine, "unenrolled" means you can vote for either you prefer. host: that issue came up earlier with a caller from portlanda new main bill, if you're not a party member you are quote unenrolled. just to be clear, this independent voters project writes that "a new bill working its way into main legislature seeks to require candidates to be listed as unenrolled if not registered with a recognized party." it does not talk about voters it talks about candidates for office in that state. next, in olympia, washington, are the parties disintegrating? at our yes, just looking streets i would say so. there are three points i want to make. first of all, when i watched the democrats not standing up when donald trump gave his featured congress, that told me they are not representing everybody that is in their districts. they are only representing the people who voted for them and that is not right. and the second thing i wanted to bring up as far as gerrymandering, it should be computerized. take all that out of there. it should be computerized. a computer program could do it easily. the third thing, parties can get t

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a blizzard warning is in effect from philadelphia to portland, maine.and new york could see up to 20 inches of snow. jonathan: and would gusts and flooding -- and wind gusts and flooding are also happening. flying, well, are good luck. here is the flight aware misery map, we are calling it. hitting chicago, new york, in spreading nationwide. jonathan: thousands of flights have already been canceled. tom roussey is out the airport where it will be a long night. [click] jonathan: it just got longer. alison: we just lost him. jonathan: this is live television. alison: hey, there you are. was,i don't know where i but the misery has already struck. in arlington, it is coming down pretty good at the moment. the metro will close within the hour. when it opens tomorrow, it will be a different situation. arriving in shady grove, gaithersburg, tomorrow they can take the metro rail and will open on time. however, it will be on a saturday schedule, which means trains roughly every 12 minutes or so. we ask commuters how that would affect them. >> i will just have to

vernight senator susan collins telling a portland, maine she has serious plan.rns about the budget my question is will there be a it looks e house if like it would fail in the senate? >> i think sometimes people use the term hate to use but as an excuse for not doing something in the house. that's not how this system was designed. the house should do its work. the senate should do its work. with all due respect if every time the senate says they're going to do something or something if we predicated everything, every action upon that, i don't know out of thing would get the block. we must do our work and in my opinion it must be the best that we can put together and send it to the senate. the senate has every opportunity the bill once we send it to them so instead of trying outcome in ine the the senate and write it so that the senators will vote for it, product, what you believe in, and let them do their business. and that seems reasonable and to me. so maybe susan collins or senator collins or senator heller don't like it n its present form but there's nothing requiring them to vote

portland, maine, only 36. 50s and 60s for memphis and little rock and that is the warm air that will be here tomorrow. right now, only 31. we will get 38 for fairfax, reston, dulles, and clinton is 36. 38 in columbia and even in reedville and germantown, one of the warm spots at 40 degrees. the futurecast for your afternoon, lots of sunshine and temps struggling to get up to 50. they may not get there. tonight, not as cold. low to mid-30s in most areas and that is a step in the right direction. tomorrow morning, some showers for parts of east virginia and the shenandoah valley. as it approaches dc, they may weaken. mid-to late morning, a bit of a shower threat and as the afternoon wears on, temperatures will climb in the low to mid-50s by 5:00. fredericksburg is 55 and the three day forecast, breezy with 70s here by saturday. today, mid-to upper 40s for the afternoon and in the 50s tonight. 41 degrees and back in a few minutes, we will talk about how long this will stick around. reminder that our wusa9 app is a free download. >>> to make a quick buck, some young people might turn to

other thing i would like to tell scott pruitt is that if they just changed all the buses from portland, maine, to miami, that i-95 corridor to natural gas, they would get rid of that -black ribbon that on calm days, it hangs over the i-95 corridor. save 22 million barrels, not gallons, but barrels of oil that we would not have to import and we would do something reproduced in this country. that would be a good thing for the economy. t by for letting me share. -- thank you. host: there is a piece in "the washington post" that says noaa basis for 17% budget cut. it says the proposed cut for the oceanic and atmospheric administration would eliminate funding or variety of smaller programs, including estuary preserve, and the coastal resilience. one expert says it could imperil weather alerts. you used to work there, what do you think? like they say, no sense in being stupid unless you show it. host: we will go now to charlie from roslyn heights. good morning. caller: hi. i think what we need to do is create a genuine progressive movement for the american people because we don't have one in this n

. >> she walked into the room in portland, maine, and really got things going with her interpretive dance. look at her go. she spent most of the time doing somersaults and flailing around. >> it gets so much weirder. we're going to be honest. look at this. she goes into the audience and does kind of a plank on this gentleman, here. she ran into him later at a trader joe's and this he a good laugh about it. she looked squared. she is not a stranger in the chamber. the marin invited her in to bring arts and culture to the meeting. >> that is the intention? >> that was culture? >> that is the invention. >> entertaining. >> what if i planked -- >> i'm walking off the set right now. for all of us, thanks for joining us. who wants to be a millionaire is coming up next. >> have a good day. >> bye-bye. >> i don't blame you. mmmmm psst. yoplait custard's back. the family favorite... protein. protein proteiny protein. proteiny protein? protein proteiny protein. at least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. new greek 100 protein. from yoplait. >> you know how they say "time is money?" well, for one of

adjustments there >> let me ask you about the senate because overnight senator susan collins: the portland maine newspaper that she has concerns about the budget plan. you heard from dean heller over the weekend, he will likely lineup against the pay rallied to recover with ted cruz and mike lee all opposed to the plan. my question is, will there be a vote in the house if it looks like it would fail in the senate? >> sometimes people use that, and i hate to use that term, but as an excuse for not doing something in the house. that's not how this system was designed. the house should do its work, the senate should do its work and with all due respect, if the senate says they're going to do something or not do something, if we predicated everything, every action upon that, i don't know if anything would get out of the block. we must do our work and in my opinion, it must be the best product we can put together and sent to the senate. the senate has every opportunity to modify the bill once we send it to them so instead of trying to predetermine the outcome and write it so that senators will vote f

i'm 81 years old and i'm from portland, maine. born and raised. i received a telephone call, answered the phone and the man said he was a representative from the internal revenue service. i said, what can i do to help you? he said, well, we've gone through the records and there's been a mistake here on your returns and you owe us $5,988 and some odd cents. so i said, fine, tell me who i make the check out to and where do i mail it? he says, we can't do that. we have a warrant out for your arrest and the marshals will be in your house within an hour. and i said, well, what would you like me to do to help resolve this? they said you can go to cvs and get those itunes cards and just when you come back, you can read the numbers off to us. i said, that doesn't sound like a very professional way to do it. he said, well, it's either that or the marshals coming. if we can do this, we can tell them not to come. so i did, i went and got these little itune cards, came back, read the numbers off them and they said, okay, now, you can't tell anybody about this

there's this is town hall meeting in portland, maine. >> so that's sarah julie.er own spin on the city's arts in the chamber program by dancing like no one is watching. > that's what aware supposed to do. >> when you're home alone. >> she did a few spins. there was a move that kind of looked like she was about toe break dance i guess. >> yeah. she got a nice round of applause when she was done. there was also this -- this. >> what was this. >> this lap move. >> yeah. >> this is only for late night tv i guess. >> yeah. it was only awkward when one of the lawmakers started throwing dollar bills at that's when it became awkward. i don't know what her point was. but we hope she got it across. >> you will get the exclusive on that, i'm sure. >> yeah, all right. coming up, caught on camera. surveillance camera showing what can happen during a back draft. knocking these firefighters 0 the ground. >> and later the frightening story of a young life cut tragically short by the criminal justice system. how a powerful new documentary is helping to trigger real change. you're

it isn't obvious when a good idea goes bad then there's this town hall meeting in portland, maine. >>king about sara who put her own spin on the arts in the chamber program by dancing like no one was watching. >> julie did a few spins and it looked like she was about to break dance. not sure what was going on. >> she even like danced on top of the lap of somebody there. she did get a nice round of applause when she was done. >> awkward. >> i think elaine from "seinfeld" would be very proud. >> here's the lap dance. whoa. okay. we'll slow clap for that. >> more news after this. it's time to snap out of it. hello moto. snap on a jbl speaker. put a 70" screen on a wall. get a 10x optical zoom. get excited world. hello moto. moto is here. the moto z with moto mods. visit verizonwireless.com/droid to discover today's hot deal. it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful, 24-hour, non-drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. living healthy is a balancing act. that's why i love light

senator collins told a portland maine newspaper that she and some grave concerns about the budget plan. we heard from dean heller over the weekend that he is likely can't be rallying with ted cruz and grand paul and all of the plan. my question is will there be a vote in the house if it looks like it will fail in the senate mark. >> people use that and i hate to use the term as an excuse. that's not how this system was designed. the house should do this work, the senate should do its work and if the senate every time says predicated every action that anything would get out of the box. we must do our work and in my th opinion, it must be the most product we can get together. the senate has every opportunitt to modify send it to them. instead of trying tona predetermine the outcome and write it so that the senators will vote for it, send over your product what you believe in and let them do their business. that seems reasonable and fair to me. susan collins or senator heller don't like it in their present form but there's nothing requing them to vote for it in its present form. >> let's

. >> beth and her portland maine based company sea bags were at a cross roads. beth's business partner hannah wanted a change and while the company had been growing fast, beth knew she had to do something to make sure it reached the next level. >> if the company got busier, hannah had a desire to kind of step back from the day-to-day and i still had the vision to see the company grow and add more employees and scale it up. >> beth and hannah had co-owned the brand. it totes and duffles from used sales. before she could restructure anything, beth neeldded new partners. >> we wanted the product to continue to be made in maine and we wanted the product to stay out of recycled sales and the product it our practices to be as green as we could be. >> she quickly discovered she wasn't going to meet her match immediately. not everyone saw sea bags future the same way. >> some of the people that talked to me thought it would be so much easier if you just mad these things in china. yeah. wrong business. that's not really whate set sea bags up to be. >> as the search went

portland maine press herald said susan collins opposes the republican health care bill being debatedngress. she said this is not a bill i can support in my current form. it does not allow low income seniors to purchase health insurance. tonight she said she cannot support it. a definite vote against it. senator tom cotton is campaigning against the bill. he told politico the three-faze plan is only politician talk. the republican health care bill passed the house, all 14 democrats voted against it along with three republicans. after the vote, president trump said great progress on health care. improvemts ing made, republicans coming together. in the latest poll, 54% of registered voters oppose the republican plan and 34% support it. coming up next, not all of donald trump's comments are lies, just most of them. trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief. then you're a couple. think of all you'll share... like

this is what it looks like, generally into the single digits, how about negative single digits portland, maine, we're talking about ten to 12 degrees. the storm system is bringing chicago something they haven't seen since december 17th, that is more than one inch of snow fall in the cold season. finally getting that, over 300 flights have been cancelled across parts of the northeast and chicago, in particular. you take a look, it's out of the midwest earn u.s., it meets up with the storm exiting, the energy reel, really tremendous here as we go towards tomorrow night into tuesday morning. depending on where this storm system lines up later on into tuesday morning, it could play a significant role. initial estimates generally 8 to 10 inches, in fact more than 50 million people could see a foot of snow come tuesday, the highest concentration, puts very close to new york city, northern new jersey, parts of eastern pennsylvania continue in boston, i can see significant snow. what impresses me the most when you factor in that snow the forecast wind speeds. sort of lunchtime for new york city centra

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this is the scene today at a city council meeting in portland maine, a woman could be seen dancing around the floor as an artist. even interacting with the audience and flings herself on a stranger and here is the story behind the city hall presentation tonight at 5:00. a don't miss story. the philadelphia flower show is just days away and the crews are hard at work getting the convention center ready we'll take you inside of the quick view of the last minute preparations. it will start feeling like winter but look like spring in there. coming your way on "action news" at 5:00. >> we need all the reminders we can get thank you. >>> students from st. joseph's prep turned in the classroom for the runway, 30 seniors strutted their stuff. this year's theme is the festival of secora. and a japanese festival. the event is held to honor the prep senior moms. >> and the chance to win a scholarship brought many ballet dancers to swarthmore college. talented. hundreds of dancers auditioned for the youth grand prix. awarding 250,000 in scholarships every year, that money sended young competitors to

blizzard the nor'easter bringing several feet of snow and high wind this is what i look like in portland, mainea lot of snow falling at the rate of 2 to 3 inches per hour causing whiteout conditions and similar conditions in buffalo, new york. in massive pileup causing big traffic delays and headaches for one delivery driver. >> we want to try to get through as fast as we can. >> air travel is getting back on track think goodness yesterday more than 9000 flights were canceled due to the blizzard. >>> that wayward sea lion that got stuck in a drainage canal is on the move, we were tracking him as he swam southeast toward the delta. rescuers have nicknamed him leisure since he was spotted near leisure town road in vacaville, he spent time lounging in the culvert before disappearing for the night we saw a lot of people taking in the unusual site. >> how cool is it to see the sea lion in a creek that is crazy. as kids we used to go up and down the storm drains that would have been crazy to come across a sea lion. >> today we saw the sea lion maneuvering over some rock barriers and he caught a coupl

. >>> now to a very odd story, a dancer who put on quite a show during a council meeting in portland, maine. take a look at these moves. she was recognized as part of the arts in the chamber monday night. she performs an except from "shadow artists." nice to meet you. she spent most of the time doing somersaults and flailing around. it got awkward when she crawled on top of a guy. the mayor thought the performance was great. so many ways to go with that story. we should stop there. >> weshds. >> i think. >> how about weather in the chamber. weather in the studio. whether forecast. here is a look at live doppler 7. we have bright skies with a few high clouds. it has been a pleasant and mild day. right now, we have temperature readings in the mid-70s. 74 in concord. mid to upper 60s around the bay and this pattern is going to continue for a while. this is the view at the golden gate bridge. a cobweb that's been lingering there. fog near the coast and bay. mild as we head for the week ahead. there's a possibility of showers late next week. not a strong chance, though. overnight, fog along port

on top of the snow or at least probably sleet on top of the snow that you had in places like portland, maine. 6:00 a.m. it's almost out of here. the cold area really settles in behind this. freeze warnings towards the panhandle of florida, the deep south, the southeast. frost advisories in effect across florida as well. the cold air is coming in. here's today's high temperatures. tomorrow all of that snow that is there and especially along the coastal areas that saw the slush, the six inches of icy sleet and slush that's there will freeze and not be able to melt at all very quickly. only 27 in new york tomorrow. 29 in philly. just getting freeze manage d.c. these are the high temperatures. warming up thursday and again into friday. take a look at this. tonight and tomorrow morning, stuart, the temperatures here, 19 degrees in parts of north carolina, 28 in atlanta, into the 30s all the way down towards florida. the cold air is here for a few days. >> yeah and it's mid march. thanks, rick. how about this? politco's headline heading into today's storm. will trump bungle first big snow threat l

. >>> the city of portland maine is trying another way to get panhandlers off the street and get a job. they have a chance to work for $10.68 per hour doing jobs like cleaning up parks. a large number of people asking for help would much rather earn cash by working but many of them have a hard time getting there. >> i have two felonies, so it's hard for me to get a job and working to get my i.d. >> they are facing the obstacles of very high rate of physical disability and mental health so that's just -- they are stuck. >> starting next month five people twice a week will work on but beautifying cases. >>> a person super hero has returned to work after recovering from a beating. leo has the details. >> christopher lloyd better none as superman on the streets in the walk of fame says one of the biggest things that encouraged him to get back up after being attacked were words of wisdom from christopher reid. you can't let your setbacks set you back. christopher dennis betrayed superman for more than two decades. today he walked onto the boulevard for the first time since being almost kill

up to portland, maine. some local amounts, new york city could be 12 to 18.aybe some spots in the higher elevations could see 24 inches, it's not impossible. then to the west coast we go where a system is moving onshore around seattle. a lot of rain with this. and we are talking the possibility for land slides because that's going to rain and rain all the way through wednesday night. norah? >> all right. wow. get the snow suits ready. demarco morgan is at a salt storage facility in new york city which expects up to 18 inches of snow. good morning. >> this is just one of many salt storage facilities here in the city that are getting ready for this monster storm. the state is already ready to deemploy up to 1800 plows and use more than 443,000 tons of rock salt just to keep up roads, and highways safe. governor cuomo just announced that the state emergency's operations center will be activated at some point later this evening as all state agencies are on alert. now for those of you who may be wondering, is this the first time that march has seen a blizzard? it'

flies more domestic passengers than any other carrier, cancelled all flights at 14 airports from portland, maine to washington, d.c. thousands of people were stranded, like this new bride from britain. >> we're here on honeymoon and we flew to new york and we got here fine but now we're stuck here on our way to orlando. we can't get a flight out until tomorrow, now. we're hoping to get a hotel room but at the moment there aren't any. >> yang: n.c.a.a. tournament- bound basketball teams and fans had to change plans to get to "march madness" games later this week. amtrak suspended or modified rail service along the busy northeast corridor. nearly a quarter-million customers lost power. new york city was spared the worst as the arctic blast shifted north and west, bringing less snow and more pelting sleet. >> mother nature is an unpredictable lady sometimes. she was unpredictable once again today. >> yang: the nation's capital also got less than expected, allowing federal agencies to open on a three hour delay. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, the commandan

later on this evening, the heaviest snow and winds move into areas like portland, maine, and all of the mountainous regions of northern new england are goingto see a thumping with this storm this afternoon ending by midnight tonight. and here's the winds. new york city at 35. montoc at 30. it's moving into long island. the leaves are not on the trees yet. that certainly helps. 50 mile-per-hour gusts and in cape cod, it's 60 to 70. cape cod gets hit with big storms all the time. some trees will come down and 5:00 p.m. on tuesday, this afternoon, new york city, the winds die off. time for the clean up there. albany, 41 and blowing and drifting. stronger winds will be up towards the coastal area. we're three-quarters of the way done with our storm. we've yet to see any blizzard criteria for any one location. at this point, we're still dealing with a strong nor'easter. >> i never want to hear that phrase again, epic amounts of snow. i feel sorry for my friends in albany. >>> up next, the hardest hit areas by this winter storm slamming the northeast. stay with us right here on "andrea mitche

to portland, maine. locally, philadelphia, 8 to 16. new york city, 12 inches or more possibly. boston, 12 to 18. this is a lot of snow. for new york city, just for example, it's possible we could double it tomorrow. i to think new york could be in the 12- to 16-inch range. >> wow. lonnie, thank you so much. by the end of the day we may -- there we go. demarco morgan. hey, demarco. >> reporter: good morning. this is just one of the many salt storage facilities in the city that's getting ready for this monstrous storm. the state is ready to deploy up to 1,800 plows before the 443,000 tons of rock salt you see behind me to keep our roads and highways safe. governor cuomo said the state emergency system will be activated sometime later this evening and all state agencies are on heightened alert as we speak. for those of you at home who may be wondering is this the first time for a blizzard in march, absolutely not. it's rare. it happened in 1993 and way back in 1988. this time last year the city got up to 32 inches of snow. this year we're sitting at 22 inches. new york, i remember

. >> what's the wind direction in portland maine?n? >> no. >> yeah baby, yeah. >> so this is the students' last rehearseal to break the record. >> you know, j.d. -- -- ♪ i've got a beautiful feeling everything's going my way ♪ >> boomer. >> sooner. >> oh, yeah. >> all right. let's take a look. how much time do we have left on the clock to break the record? we're coming down to ten seconds. here we go. ten, nine. eight. seven. six. five. four. three. two. one. [ gunshot ] >> all right. all right. well coming up in a few minutes, michael is tabulating. he will let us know guys if we have broken the record. not just one, but two records, as we continue rokerthon 3, storming the madness. back to you. ♪ >> well done. well done. and let me just say, from miss guthrie and carson who are younger. there was a musical on broadway called eded "oklahoma." >> tell us about olden times. we'll check in with more madness after a check of local news and weather. i hope they made that record. >> they did. >> i think they did. ♪ >>>nbc 10 news starts n

yet especially as the system moves up the east coast and we'll continue to be watching areas of portland, maine, to deal with strong winds and also more snow. so, those areas inland, albany, dealing with heavy snowfall and that accumulation. now, as far as what our radar looks like right now, you can see rain and sleet line continuing to affect the coastal areas dealing with flood. big picture for those of you that may be headed out and mr., i know travel has been rough. i want to show you what's going on with that. we have our metro north railroad service is suspended. since noon and we continue to see that going on all the way into the afternoon hours. you see the subway express service suspended and goes on. if you're planning on traveling keeping an update on those will be a good idea. >> hold on. you're from miami, right? >> i am. >> here you go. >> i think -- i think it looks better on me, what do you think? >> of course, it does. >> we'll send it back over to you. >> definitely better on you, angie. no offense, brian. as we said the storm not as bad as first thought here in new york city

chairman i did not say this but we recommended that secretary shulkin driving to portland maine and driverough these companies is about the time he got there he was exhausted and he knew how rural our district was. but it paid off and thank you very much and congratulations mr. secretary. mr. secretary i'm concerned about the claims process and i know you have a very big job understand that. i understanding is that when claims are processed at medicare, about 90 percent of the claims to payout providers never touch a human hand.and then over at for the tricare program about 25 percent. but here's what i'm concerned about. this is, this is the accounts receivable over at eastern maine medical center. they are one of the largest healthcare providers in the state. my understanding and help me with this mr. secretary, there is about 95 claims processing centers around the country that do this work. unlike for medicare they are processed manually so my question to you is what does that mean, what does the manual claims process look like is the first question? >> what we do this first and then

chairman, we recommended that he fly into portland, maine to drive here and he knew how difficult it.r. secretary, i'm very concerned about the claims processing part of the organization. you have a very big job mitchell understanding is that when claims are processed at medicare, about 90% of the claims to pay out providers never touch a human hand, and then over at -- for the tri-care program, 75%. but here's what i'm concerned about. this is the accounts receivable of at eastern maine medical center in n bangor and shape one of the larger health care providers in the state. they have inland hospital and waterville and the medical center in prescott and i'm looking at this and they're owed $13 million by you folks and about 60% of the claims have been outstanding for over a year. that's a real concern. this is another graph of the claims -- excuse me mr. chairman -- of the claims backlog over the last year. flat-liked and this for maine medical center, which has another network of hospitals throughout the state. so you can see it's not getting any better. they were oweed nine millio

. >> what's the wind direction in portland, maine. >> from the south!, baby, yeah! >> you know. ♪ i've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going my way ♪ >> boomer, sooner! >> we're coming down 10 seconds. here we go, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. >> all right! all right! well, coming up in a few minutes michael is tabulating if we have broken the record. not just one but two records as we continue rokerthon 3 storming the madness. back to you. >> fingers crossed. >> there was a musical on broadway years ago called "oklahoma" if you're too young to know about that. >> al, thank you, we'll check in with rokerthon 3 more madness after a check of your local news and weather. boy, i hope they made that record. >> i think they d. >>> good morning, 8:26 on this monday, march 27, i'm aaron gilchrist, let's check in with melissa mollet with your first 4 traffic. >> right now inner loop at the springfield interchange, a disabled vehicle blocking the right lane so we are seeing a slowdown. beltway slow down as well from an earlier problem. outbound change afte

here is the biggest picture out here in the pacific and the main storm track headed up to our north, you see the green up toward portland. we have areas of fog bumping up close to the coastline. right around the bay. and we have an on shore wind as well. so patchy fog on the coast. could be locally dense first thing tomorrow monoing and right around the bay itself. right there at the golden gate bridge. current numbers santa rosa, 51 degrees. oakland, 56. san jose, last check reporting, 54. our live camera looking out toward the bay bridge, out toward san francisco. probably about two hours ago, we had a solid blanket of dense fog herement but looks like it cleared out nicely at least for right now. and san francisco, overnight, dropping back down to right around the 50-degree mark. coolest locations in the lower 40s out toward santa rosa, napa. san jose, 48. and, the apache fog out near the coastline and the bay as i mentioned. so, here's the deal. in san francisco, 7:00 a.m., 54 degrees to start out sunday. and then, we will call it fair skies by 12:00. 11:00 a.m., 65 degrees. then it is the afternoon hours, we are ex

the main storm track is focused up to portland and the pacific northwest. that's where we do have the clouds and the rainfall pushing up to that possession of the country. for us, we just have this, a few high clouds. you probably noticed the low clouds near the shoreline. we have clear pockets closer to ocean beach. but some patches floating around the bay. locally dense. with that, it will impact your visibility in the short term. current numbers out there, santa rosa at 49 degrees. livermore checking in at 50. san jose, 53. san francisco has warmed up to 58 degrees. still some areas of fog out there kind of floating around the bay. out toward the bay bridge as well. a northerly wind is setting up or a calm wind. winds at 5 to 6 miles per hour. some more wind reports for you with hayward and sfo and half moon bay checking in at 13 miles per hour. so most areas we have a light and variable wind at last check. so here you can see the rainfall projections over the next seven days. not much in the bay area. lots of zeros as far as the organized rainfall. that

you've got the heavy rain showing up in portland and the seattle area, where that will really stay until thursday when it drifts a little further south. the main impact on that will be slightly cooler around here with a sprinkle or two, but it is not really anything to think about right now. and so outside right now it looks like a painting, but that's a live camera shot and it is just mostly clear throughout much of the bay area. overnight lows will look like this. your bay area wednesday is very similar to today as you start off with partly sunny cool conditions. this is for san jose. at lunchtime in san jose there is your sky cover for fremont and redwood city, santa rosa. then afternoon high in the santa clara valley in the upper 70s. probably one of the warmest days of the week for your bay area wednesday. >>> president trump signs another executive order. how this one will impact the president obama's climate change agenda, plus reactions from the sierra club tonight. >>> also the warriors were all fired up far big game against the rockets this morning. mark has highlights from the showdown in houston, plus the milestone reached by steve

host: now as pollen portland, maine. think you for the call this morning. the seniored by senate correspondent for national journal. the house and senate returning this week. where is the senate on some of president trump's nominees this week? isthis week, the senate looking at the nominee for the center for medicaid and medicare. also to serve dan coats as the director of national intelligence, he was approved overwhelmingly last week. host: i heard over the weekend that the president's selection was supposed to have a hearing this week. that year he has been postponed. this is the president's call for the democrats to speed things up. any idea on why that has been postponed over in the senate? caller: this has been the slowest process of cabinet nominees in history. he has been vocal about democrats using their time to hold this down as long as possible. democrats have something to begin by holding this down, the hours on the senate floor the most valuable thing they have right now. prices. been a dragging host: on the issue of health care, obviously stil