Worst massacre carried out by colombias func rebels are being buried 17 years later. Sorry Hong Kongs High Court has ruled an emergency law which banned facemasks one by prodemocracy protesters is in fact unconstitutional might remember chief executive carol im sure introduced the ban back in october trying to stem all of that violence weve seen i think is that dates back to British Colonial era law and the court has now ruled it incompatible with todays basic law the ban on face masks really only inflame the situation there was an escalation in protests and violence and destruction most recently monday riot police surrounded the University Campus after the protesters who were holed up inside 3 petrol bombs and shot arrows at them and in just the past few hours police have started to arrest a number of. Protesters there were also trying to leave that campus so well get an update from rob mcbride in hong kong in just a moment but we want to start with sara clarks reports on how the stan
February. Widespread negative wind chill temperatures were adding to the pain, but its not just that its cold, there is also plenty of snow causing trouble, soon. Reporter bitterly cold air, snow an ice and a harsh reality, getting around suddenly a whole lot tougher. At least 50 vehicles involved in this pennsylvania pileup. In oregon, scary moments when this school bus lost control. Unfortunately, no injuries. The brutal plast from the north sent wind chills plummeting. 17 below in chicago. 12 below in minneapolis. Misery the half company. All 48 states below freezing somewhere. That was ron mott reporting. First, breaking news ahead, a Police Standoff with a lone gunman holding an unknown number of passengers i the suspect we understand is in custody. At least one officer has been shot in the head sapped in serious but stable condition. The veteran of the force was conscious and alert when flown to a medical center. We do know he was responding to calls of shots fired when he was im
Overall a good start. Oaklands Police Department is facing multiple scandals with no chief at the helm. Now mayor schaaf believes that hiring extra cops could actually spell more trouble. Christin ayers on the bold proposal to turn things around at opd. Reporter it was one of mayor schaafs agendas, to bring it up to full strength a baseline of 800 officers in 2017. Now a sex scandal that saw the department go through three chiefs in nine days put the flan jeopardy. Whats happening is put that plan in jeopardy. Now were saying we cannot compromise quality over quality. Reporter Oakland City Council members brooks and kaplan say that rush to hire has led to bad apples on the police force. They propose to put the brakes on the next Police Academy. The magnitude of this scandal not only the number of officers accused of samesex couples but the number who knew about it and didnt do anything suggests we need change. Not only the officers accused of Sexual Misconduct but the number who knew a
Conditions ahead. But it was a powerful storm. Mainly clear skies right now. But lets look back at the peak gusts from yesterday. This is a live view from emoriville at the western sky. Ups 78 miles per hour. Pacific hills, 63 miles per hour. 59 at los gatos. And things are much calmer now. And skies clearer as we look over San Francisco. 61 in San Francisco. 59 halfmoon bay. More temperature reads. Lowe 60s. And ill show you whats coming our way. It is going to really warm up later this week. Show you ha moment. The Biggest Issue still lingering from the storm is power outages. Not many left but a few neighborhoods lost power last night and still waiting this afternoon. Are they still waiting wayne . Good afternoon larry. They still have. 19 hours in, pg e has now called in more reinforcements. The broken power line over my shoulder. People working in the trees wov sabove it. No estimate when it is going to be fixed. 3730 370 people still without power at this point due to high winds
Of capabilities that they have. There has been a lot of focus, not surprisingly, to access denial to types of weapons, to raise the cost of particular of military interventions of the kind the United States have led over the years that the russians have found so noxious to their interests. I would look very closely at the Nuclear Balance and look at what the russians are doing with their Modernization Program and what we are not doing with our program. I would leave it to clark to comment on that. D vikrams comment about the longterm. Vladimir putin is 61 years old. He takes very, very good care of himself. He plans on being in power for a long time. And so you may sure, we would like to wish for the return back to a reforming russia, but i just dont see that happening any time soon. The logic of what he has done and where he has moved has constrained him and is actually encouraging him to go four they are. So im afraid, unless something happens to him personally, i dont see any way th