upt they do is they end putting holes into the walk so that when the army is ready to attack, they can run through the bridge in the front of the fort or actually go through the swamp through the holes made in the palisade and wooden fence. about 3000 federal troops who would battle hardened , who had been through the worst of virginia fighting. these defenders were from the local area. had never fired a shot in anger, had never heard one fired in anger. we are at river road. this was the main entrance to fort fisher. there was a road that went from wilmington and then went through this one gave here. federal forces were attacking this position, a loan 12 pound cannon was here. it's job was to literally load grapeshot as fast as possible and to sweep any attacking force coming across the bridge that would have it in front of the order vacation. for the gunners that were here, it worked out great until you by sharpshooters hosted union forces on the other side of the bridge. they were starting to get picked off one by one. the guys did not want to come back out here because that was ins

upted at the airport, thehaos suspect shot an officer with a pellet gun and stole his car.fter searching the man's apartment they found cocaine. he was a radicalized muslim just released from prison in september. the county at its highest alert level. >> rex tillerson is wrapping up his first overseas trip as secretary of state. he's in china meeting with top officials there, among the topics, north korea's nuclear program. yesterday tillerson raised the possibility of a preemptive strike saying all options were on the table. he had this to say today. >> the tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now. things have reached a dangerous level. >> tillerson added he was committed to preventing a possible conflict. he met with the prime minister urging them to stay cool headed. >> there is a nationwide manhunt for a teacher from tennessee and the student he's accused of kidnapping. they have not been seen since monday. cummens is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with the teenager. cummen's wife made a plea to her husband today. >> let me speak directly to m

etna volcano upted. 10 people are injured. 35 tourists were on the volcano. the explosion occurred midday. the guide that accompanied them helped to bring them to safety. a showdown in washington as president donald trump is set to welcome german chancellor angela merkel for their first face-to-face talks. u.s.s. military action against north korea is an option on the table as the threat escalates. that is the warning from washington's top diplomat, rex tillerson. deadly airstrikes in syria appeared warplanes hit a mosque in a northern rebel-held town killing 42 people. it is time for a business update. i'm joined in the studio. we will start with the first g 20 meeting in germany. >> finance ministers representing 20 of the largest economies are meeting in baden-baden. they will address free trade ofd nationalism in two days talks. after meeting with his american counterpart, the german finance minister warned against the dangers that nationalism can pose. learned anything from the past, it is that nationalism and protectionism are never the right answer. we

gio gives upt, five innings, nats going to lose 5-1.call them the great eight for nothing. last night, alex ovechkin reached another milestone in his caps win overe arizona, his 30th goal of the season. he is now one of three players in nhl history with 30 or more goals in each of his first 12 seasons. the other 2 -- mike gartner and of course wayne gretzky. for one of the game's all-time greats. >> i thought that was pretty special. you should recognize that. alex has been a great player, he has been consistent in that one area he is fantastic at. he is obviously one of the three best guys to do it the first 12 years. a lot of these guys have played, so that is pretty special. scott: yeah, pretty impressive. coming up later tonight on abc 7 sports for sunday, that voice, john wall, talking hockey. we will break down the metropolitan division race and discuss the cap's playoff scenarios. join us tonight on abc 7. the ncaa men's fastball time it quickly winding down. raise your hand if you have a cell caroline and florida meeting in the

have to bundle upt below freezi. 31 in vos. florence. cold start this morning. but we're in for sunshine. some scatteredlo clouds moving towards berks county. comibe hffe tomorrow. in fact there's a potential for heavy rai atn times tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow even those you can see there pulling out ahead of s w in northwestern pennsylvania. we won't get snow bute showers n the suburbs that's 8:00 this. first rain drops in berks county into the trenton area. someod11:30 tonight. off and on showers overnight gh thitime here comes the rain showers, j as we go in the afrnhat line of steadierrain. that's arriving just in time for the commute tomorrow 5:30 in th downpours possible, inks and into delaware and south jersey and those showers will swing through philadelphia at 6:30 in the evening and still be going through the evening. in fact a chance we'll see some showers into saturday morning. but the weekend will be drying out. in fact we'll see sunshine later in the day on saturday. 50s for saturday. sunnier and warmer up into the 60s for most otvall. with sun

. >> germany has stepped upt security measures after arity series of attacks in public m places overlice say there's no clear initial indication of a motiveav for this particular attack. >> closer to home virginiavirgia governor terry mcauliffe haslifh vetoed a bill that would w require voters to submit a photo i.d. when requesting ang n absentee ballot. the governor called the bille quote an unnecessary and impractical barrier ." barrie >> grand opening of the gra ope harriet tunibman visitors centee in church creek maryland.arylan. the national park services are hosting several events forfo occasccasion. the visitors center.. good history moment there.thre. 4:55 is the time. mike thomas.thomas. >> mike thomas got theas got the weather. yeah. yeat, we're checking out somet me showers moving in from thes north and west mothat mayay transition to a period of snowfs but we are not expecting tooecto much. take a look the a yourour expected snowfall totals.to ? you have the a grassyou h coating to an inch off to the ao north and west of d.c. dc. the it's not until you get up to the highl

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. >> coming up tinder wants toan hook you upts for internationall women's day with a charity.hari >>im? >> plus, new feature to help people find feminist film. >> and how five year old little girl is making spelling history. >> and as we head to break, new offering from starbucks, the coffee chain introducing coffee made using whistle w barrel age beans. >> looks like whiskey to me.e. >> that just might be illustration purposes, at least iration hope so. it is a limited batch, only sold in seattle. offer two specialties drinks where visitors can take homespec the coffee beans to make at home. now when the beans are roasted the alcohol is burned off. beao. starbucks says the whiskey flavor stays. caitlin? >> sounds like the best of t of both worlds to me, guys. hey, weaver some showers out out there right now. now but before t warm afternoon, high of 71 at reagan, zero seven at bwi.. well above normal. what a recovery from the cold start to the work week, we, we will ends this work week the t way we started it, inbetween fantastic spring like weather. that coming up right after the br

so i have all this footage of jim driving the pacific ocean in the background and walking upt steps to castle, he's eat a hot dog, and i never saw him again and he was dead in six months. >> reporter: but stewart had her own struggles. >> and then after i left "little house" went too a depression, i was drinking to much and doing drugs. >> reporter: she eventually move to napa and married her second husband then they successfully battled cancer. you might say it's the kind of life that would make a good book. well. >> reporter: it's called "little house in the hollywood hills ". >> reporter: the? >> the real heart of the story was surviving things like alcoholism and the death of a spouse and total financial ruin and just bouncing back. >> reporter: these days stewart lives quietly in napa sewing what she calls beetle bags for her legions of "little house" fans. she playing what may be her finest role yet, a newly wed. >> i'm healthy, happy, in love. >> reporter: nbc pay area news. >>> much more ahead on today in the bay coming up. a scary turn of events for a new giants coach who unde

election, an attack designed to weaken the democratic candidate, weaken the democricarty, upt their strategy disrupt their communications and ultimately helphe republican candidate, donald trump, win the election. it's easy enough to say that now but in the moment, in the chaos of the campaign it was hard to persuade the public to pay attention to that bigger picture, that the election was being disrupted, it was being tilted. it was being externally operated on by a foreign government in favor of the candidate that that foreign government preferred. but for that new clinton staffer whose job it was to deal with this, this was his life. he was living this everyday. as that campaign nightmare was playing out it became this new staffer's job to learn everything there was to know about this hacking so he could explain it to the world and answer everybody's questions about it. he watched this hijacking of our election in realtime, he saw clues about what was happening early on, he had to figure it out fast, firsthand, live, and now as the country is woken up to the magnitude of what happened to

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upts if the cpi keeps going point to a month, it will stabilize at two point evan percent. -- 2.7%.ounds kind of goldilocksy. we're not going fast enough for the fed to a tolerate and we're not getting the ticket really fast in nation by any measure but there are all kinds of good signs. it seems like things are going pretty good. >> you said it. goldilocks is sort of a cursed term. but a lot of times, it looked that way. looks like what is going on in the market today. not too slow. capital spending is also clearly on the improving pace. joe: at hyman, chairman of ever core isi. we will be talking about the economy and china. this is bloomberg. ♪ miss? optimismou in china, the corporate leaders are more confident in the economy then they have in at any time since 2014 according to a central bank survey. we are back with the founder and anme in of ev -- chairmn of evercore isi. often ons up every so the radar of concern in the global economy. what is your assessment? >> it was a hard landing picture with oil below $30. oil is back to $50. everything i see on china is looking better.

hopefully a warm up in therm upt days ad hm mike thomas. >> yes, warmup coming.comg.ter days to look forwardrwa to. as we head towards the end of en the week some bad news. news. we'll start with the good newsdn first and that's yes, warmerwarr temperatures are on the wayures but they're not here yet. yet this morning definitely on the f cold side.in 34 here incold d.c., gaithersbur is 28. is 27 for frederick.ederk. so, lots of 20's out there. culpeper 27, manassas 28.28. there is not too much wind but t there's enough that there's a little bit of a wind chill.ough. it feels like 30 here in d.c. c. feels like 23 at gaithersburg.h. 25 at dulles.lles. 27 up towards b so, again, just bundle up asle s you head out the door today.to satellite and radar around thedd region showing some clear so clr skies to start. but clouds not too far off tooo the west. some showers as well but i doi o believe the shower activitytiviy holds off until tomorrow buttomw clouds will work their way in by this afternoon and unfortunately will not be all n sunny and bright monday for us. there's

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accuweather 7-day for after the snow tomorrow, ito will be a cmhilly weekendwee before we start warming it uptall right, that's a chxteck of the weather. erin como is back this morningmg with the traffic.trfic. >> our producer og just saidsaid to me did he just say snow.sn >> i did say snow. sn >> i can't believe it. believe . doesn't seem right. >> i don't want anybody toy to panic. panic. >> just some flurries.us >> not at panicky snow. sow. >> conversational snow withtion the air quotes.e air qu right now we have somee breaking news out of manassas.. le mond drive is closed.cl car into a house at that th location. loc aside from that as you makeatasy your way out in montgomery county pete perringer lettingetg us know they have windav advisories for montgomeryries county through 10 o'clock this morning. winds 20 to 25 miles an hour f with gusts upgh 1 o 25 m to 50 miles an0 m an hour.ho temperatures in the 40's.40'. use caution while driving andiv be aware of hazardous roadd conditions throughoutns montgomery county. ntgomery cnt. watch for debris trash cansr other obstacles in the roadshe r

upt market has been substantially. the taiwan dollar, want to the taiwan market open up later on.rter in about 10 years. if that gives you an indication of what the outflows are coming this way. africanfees, south rand, before markets opened, did firehat david zuma his finance minister. a big week for the south african current. we were trading close to 1250 a few days ago and now we are pushing close to 1350. we are in a down channel and this takes it back to the u.s. election. here is the dollar strength coming through. very quickly back to equity toshiba for obviously kansas electric, -- kan sai electric up. korean air of. -- up. betty: thank you so much. some of these stocks to watch around asia. continuing toers drive that consensus of you for rate hikes. we can inflation in germany, silent ecb hawks calling for less stimulus. kathleen hays here for more on this divergence. it is back again. correspondent: it certainly is. if you're looking at the u.s. versus europe or the u.s. versus japan, it is getting all the stronger divergence. economists have this hawkish message coming

days,upt movement in two 110.25 basis points. what does the curve flattening signal?ted to skepticism that we will have the trump related boost that people are hoping for and the other is that we have oil prices with a strong correlation which makes no sense but there is a strong correlation between tenure inflation and will prices. is part of the story here. so we are still at a relatively steep level on the curve. and it isn't something i am worried about. francine: tobias, do you agree with that? i think investors have overstated that. making this an indicator of economic strength when oil tends to be more about supply and demand. so, you know, i tend to agree. tom: tobias, thank you so much. and conrad -- they will continue with their perspective on bloomberg radio. single-handedly flattening the yield curve. let me look at foreign-exchange right now. still not to a 1.09 level. sterling at 1.58, stability may comes up to the important moment tomorrow. on the federal reserve, we have two important speakers. one from boston and on the regime change that is underway,

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battle thatha congestion much as we forward ms our cameras along w, not the ono big trouble spot we're upt slow downs that you need to watch out for. this is 66 just typical congestion by 234 to the beltway you're in for about 45 minute ride. r let's forward our cameras oncee again two crashes inner loopnneo this one by braddockoc roadblocking the left lane and e left shoulder.r. slow from the springfield changg through 66. crash by springfield interchangr blocking the center median. metro delays because of o safetrack we'll help you get around all those delays and wett roads. back to you. >>> erin, thank you very much mc well today is internationaltion women's day and the day withouto a woman movement that has been h born out of it is a majorajor headline in our area today andod across the country.nt. supporters say women takingen themselves out of the work forcf for a day out of commerce asrce well show the power of women. opponents say they can stillan i make a point and go to work at the same time. se ti that's certainly a big issuetaiy around here today since we haveh two major school

. >> if you're just waking upt wa this morning here's a livea li look outside.look outside. nice looking day out there. ther a little chilly is it a starty i this marcs h seventh but nouto complaints. ick ch of a quick check of barnes. good morning. >> allison, cold tgoemperaturesr very cold. most of the area below below freezing. we have a nice warmup.warup. in fact springlikeinglike temperatures around here forher next of the week.the week. details on that forecast in a tt moment. i mo erin.ment >> problems on the roads and s rails this morning ontu tckthe c we're still dealing with adealia crash 95 northbound at fairfaxax county parkway.arkway and in addition to safe trackn a surge 13, more yellow line delays to huntington.tingt. we'll take a closer look at that get you to work on time tie as we continue.as we allison and steve. clison anste. >> details on all of that in ata minute. breaking at 7 o'clock a scarycky scene unfolding residents at aea southeast d.c. apartmentast building after a car crashed.dar into a gas l cine at the the colex.x. >> thankfully none of thekf

nasty complete with a overturnee vehicle they just got it upt u right they're getting ready toet it totraffic backed up with the lefth lane blocked right there to 1988 take baltimore washington parkway southbound to save yourself some time. typialticamol congesoutyostiourn to the captain tal beltway.eltw move it over and show was elseas you're up against this morning r with a look at our cameras.as seeing other slow downs this thi morning. as you make your way outin.ur w. this is a look at 66. 66. left shoulder still blocked butb all lanes getting by. b this is 66 eastbound between bee nutley street and the beltwayd l where you have that crash.t crah delays back to centreville andla then stop gone traffic 234 to 28 as well.el and this has been a parking lotl all morning long. l this is south capitol streetee inbound.und. we have emergency utility workgt at potomac avenue southeast.. delays extend past 295 on too suitland parkway at silver hillh road. i would get a very early start t or avoid those routes thiss t morning. as we take look at our mapsur mp we'll show what else you're up p

rain/snow line will be a a huge determining factor on youry snow totals.ow tot we think it will set uptnight, and that will hold dowl the snow totals south and east.e where exactly it sets up we u w won't know until the storm getss here. so we could tweak niece numbersw a little bit look at theea difference between, foret instance, oxon hill, nationall,a harbor and what you get just g north of the beltway. so very tricky forecast hereter bottom line.. we think everybody wakes up with at least a couple inches bye inh tomorrow morning with theow mor exception of those of you wellte off to theof t shoouth.. okay. . plenty more coming up.ore co u erin is back with roads.oa >> i will say thing evolvevo caitlin is on tonight and tuckec has been great on social media m keeping everyone up to date one his face nitwitted if you haveif esy questions. whether not impact for your y monday morning commute. we're dealing with problems onii the roads this morningth p. 270 southbound new crash inuthb urbana at left shoulder blockedd heavy traffic from 70 past thatt pot.t. you snow and bre bit. earlier