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A full schedule. every task that was once routine here has become nearly impossible. north of boston, this building in flames was right across the street from the local firehouse, but the hydrants were buried and by the time firefighters dug them out-- some by hand, but the building was a total loss. chief greg gagnon: >> the guys are all iced up. the lines are icing up. the roadway is iced up. it compounds the problem. >> these are directly over the front door. >> reporter: today, city inspecto...

Time for todays daily spike, a spike, ladies and gentlemen, that reflects a current state, very cold and therefore in dire need of comfort food. lets start with the bitter cold. take a look at this. no its not an enchanted castle at disneyland. its what can happen when firefighters battle a fire in single digit temperatures. brave firefighter trying to control flames in west philly late sunday night. the problem was the temperatures were so low, water from the hoses turned quickly to ice. its go...

We havent had a complete workweek here in boston since middle of january and thats affecting a lot of different business retailers and people trying to get to work and affecting businesses. our students lost eight days of school this year. >> what is the decision there? how will you make that up? >> we are taking holidays and well be doing school on evacuation day in march and then also looking at if we need to take more days away. this week we have february school vacation week so we havent had...

Months terror attacks at the headquarters of that french satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo". mass gunmen killed 12 people who worked for "charlie hebdo" including that papers editor. police shot and killed the gunman two days later. the french interior minister also tells the associated press he wants new laws on the books that would give intelligence agencies more freedom to spy on suspected terrorists. he says investigators soo be ashould be able to read e-mails and other electronic communica...

Nothing he can do. >> i begged and screamed for them to rescue her. and when they took her away, i was ready to die. >> one of israels best rescue teams, veterans of earthquakes and terrorist attacks, arrives on the scene quickly. but it takes them two days to dig through all the debris. >> i wanted to die, and i lost consciousness. i woke up here. >> searchers use bulldozers, cranes and their bare hands. they find 24 bodies. another 300 wedding guests are injured. the country is stunned. many c...

>> whoa! holy -- "caught on camera: on the edge of death." have you ever wondered what its like to stare death in the face? well, we are going to show you. the situations are dire, the people are real, the stakes couldnt be higher. and theyre all caught on camera. its some of the most dramatic video youll ever see. hong kong, november 20th, 1996. the worst high-rise fire in the countrys history breaks out in the 16-story office and apartment building in the downtown shopping district. thousand...

Conditioning vent. but its too hot. he cant hold on. he lands on a canopy. rescuers race to reach him. miraculously, he only suffers minor injuries. he will survive as do four others who jumped to escape. they are among the lucky ones. the fire that started only 46 minutes earlier is raging out of control. the crowded building is filled with flammable materials, and many of the windows are blocked, turning the inferno into a death trap. >> a rescue helicopter piloted by captain mike ellis spots ...

Were destroyed. getting inside to fight it was impossible. >> a metal building with a large fire in there, turns into an oven. the fire has nowhere to go but to build up and build up inside. >> the owner of a car audio shop lost everything, including several classic cars stored inside. he didnt want to go on camera. >> probably have at least a million dollars of product that just went up in smoke. >> the smoke from burning car upholstery was possibly toxic prompting voluntary evacuations for tho...

Level and by ron pearlstein from his video production office directly across the street. >> i was sitting at my desk and i saw smoke. just a little smoke coming out of the window. then i saw more. i grabbed my camera, i started shooting. >> as pearlstein zooms in on the building, he sees a man perched on a window ledge trying to escape the thick smoke. >> im like, oh, my god, now this is a life or death situation. >> firefighters from the fdny rescue one unit arrive at the building joining other...

"charlie hebdo" paper in paris. this event featured a panel discussion about free speech in the wake of that attack. in boston they are preparing for yet another storm. four storms, record-breaking in massachusetts. this time a snow hurricane. massachusetts governor charles baker is now up at the podium. lets listen to officials in massachusetts as they prepare for getting hit yet again. >> the snow well see tomorrow will make driving virtually impossible late tonight and during the course of ...