
After widespread flooding, no relief yet for the DC metro area as 14 million people remain under alerts
CNN
Heavy flooding inundated communities across the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area on Friday and forecasters expect the rain to continue through Saturday.
Nearly 14 million people were under a coastal flooding warning early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
"The neighbors who have been here a long time say it hasn't been this high since Isabel and in their lifetime that's the only time it's been this high," Baltimore County resident Tyler Fields told CNN affiliate WJZ, referring to Hurricane Isabel, which crashed ashore in North Carolina in 2003 and moved northward into the area.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











