Guys down Reporter Police scanner made it clear two sheriffs deputies had been shot. Officer down, officer down reporter deputies couldnt get to the wounded because the gunfire was so intense. They used smoke grenades to cover their rescue of the deputies. They were med ed evakd out but only one survived. We witnessed at least half a dozen heavy exchanges of fire. Police say the suspect had a sound suppresser on his rifle so they had difficulty figuring out where to direct their fire. Christopher dorner is holed up in a cabin about 100 yards behind our position right now. You can see authorities and the swat teams with their guns drawn, Armored Vehicles just down the road as they prepare to move in. The shootout was the climaxave manhunt that involved every Law Enforcement agency in southern california. The Big Bear Mountain resort became the focus after dorners burned out truck was found nearby. Sources tell us that weapons coldweather survival gear, and a gas mask were found inside t
Scandal and its crackdown on liberal nuns. We will speak with Barbara Blaine of the Survivors Network of those abused by priests and Sister Simone campbell of the catholic social Justice Group network, which was heavily criticized the vaticans report last year. In a black History Month special, we remember the lives of the legendary civil rights activist, singer and actor paul robeson and his wife eslanda. I have never separated by work as an artist from my work as a human being. I have always believed more strongly to me my art is always a weapon. We will speak with historian Barbara Ransby, author of the new book, eslanda the large and unconventional life of mrs. Paul robeson. Both paul and essie refused to renounce their radical friends and refused to renounce their own radical views. Again, they paid a price for it. Paul was blacklisted, they lost their house, had extensive fbi files and so forth. But first, north korea has just carried out its largest ever nuclear test. It says th
Organized a petition of Hadiya Pendleton. We will also speak to obamas Climate Change policies. I can announce over the next year another 34,000 american troops will come home from afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. By the end of next year, our war in afghanistan will be over. While obama says the war will be over next year, the pentagon says the troops will remain until the 2024. We will speak to activist kathy kelly. And we will speak to aura bogado about what he did not say about immigration. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama gave further details on his second term agenda tuesday night with the annual state of the Union Address. On the environment, obama called on lawmakers to take action against Global Warming with a number of victims of gun violence in attendance, obama also urged congress to vote on new gun control measures, including background checks and bans on massive ammunition magazines. Congress will
Delay today. In west virginia, Jefferson County schools will open two hours late. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tracking the storm. Tom. It is going to be maybe an historic storm for boston. This is what it looked like in the blizzard of 78 paralyzing new england. This is route 28 like the beltway around boston. This is what it looked like. Paralyzed thousands of cars. It took a week to get things cleared out. They had massive Power Outages as well. Both of the storms will be combining to form this giant storm forming off of long island. Blizzard warnings from long island to boston. Right now, here its all rain except the areas in white. Now lingering lighter snows along the blue ridge, warren, clark, frederick counties in virginia. Loudoun county in virginia. Frederick county, maryland getting a little bit of that wet snow. Most melting on roadways. Closer to washington, in the mid30s. Around the beltway. Just outside the beltway, some locations there are near the freezing ma
Accumulation all these counties in the lavender and that mainly would be some of the higher elevations. That includes nearby Montgomery County, howard, frederick and maryland, hagerstown toward cumberland. Shenandoah valley into eastern, West Virginia. Its expiring at 10 00 this morning. I think all rain by then. A rainy morning. Temperatures above freezing through 8 00. Thats north and west of us. Will be tapering off and changing to rain by 9 00. By noon, in the region, we should be in the upper 30s and all rain all around the reswron into the afternoon. Details in ten minutes. A look at traffic with danella. Good morning. Good morning. Well, its friday and the rails are open. Eun, over to you. Overnight, snow began to fall. A live look at the roads in northern virginia. Not much traffic yet. But it could be a rough commute once more drivers hit the road. Tony tull is live in leesburg where the flakes are falling. Tony, good morning. Reporter good morning, eun. Theyve been falling fo