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degrees below zero. alex perez live in chicago. rob marciano timing this out tonight and tomorrow. also tonight, the new video just in. the u.s.-led air strikes against iranian-backed militants. the houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. firing more than 80 tomahawk cruise missiles, dozens of targets hit. what the white house is saying tonight about concerns over a wider war. mary bruce with late reporting. new images not seen before from inside the cabin of that alaska airlines flight j...

time. the windchills coming 20 to 65 degrees below zero. alex perez live in chicago. rob marciano timing this out tonight and tomorrow. also tonight, the new video just in. the u.s.-led air strikes against iranian-backed militants. the houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. now firing more than 80 tomahawk cruise missiles, dozens of targets hit. and what the white house is saying tonight about concerns over a wider war. mary bruce with late reporting. new images not seen before from insi...

confidence and those arent the only challenges to his reelection, but they maybe the biggest. even so, he delivered a powerful message to the afl-cio today uncysting he is still the right man for the job. >> im going to keep fighting for you. are you prepared to fight with me? lets build it together. lets continue to give working families a fighting chance. face our challenges head on. and lets keep building a a better america, because we can do it. >> on the other side of the coin, re...

Saying they will seek the death penalty in the hate crimes case against a white supremacist who killed ten black people in buffalo at the grocery store he visited several times before the attack. heres our senior investigative correspondent aaron katersky from buffalo tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the justice department is pursuing the death penalty for payton gendron, who carried out a racist massacre at a buffalo supermarket in 2022. in their decision, federal prosecutors said gendron picked ...

You know, just looking at the details that we have already, right, from authorities, these manifestos that the shooter left behind outlining his hatred of black people, a swastika painted on his gun and where he went, he went to an historically black university, edward waters university, turned away there, headed into this dollar general store in an historically black neighborhood. the motive seems pretty clear here. is this going to be a simple and straightforward federal hate crimes case? >> i...

Attorneys for the mcmichaels and brian acknowledge their clients made racially offensive remarks but they urged jurors to decide the hate crimes case based on facts rather than the raw emotions such words may stir. joining me is david henderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. there were slurs, death threats against black people, stereotypes as well. how could these messages, in your estimation, impact the hate crime trial? >> ive always been good at telling you theres a reasonabl...

>> hate crimes trials are a totally different beast insofar as the focus is different. its the motivation. in this case its race, the bias. you have the underlying crime. felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and add the bias. so the evidence is going to be similar, the underlying crimes, but very different in terms of proving the bias. that is why its going to be really reliving some of the first trial but opening a whole new can of worms. theres a lot of evidence...

Charge as one can bring in a hate crimes case, a death-carrying sentence. whether they proceed with the death request is up to them, but the statute theyre using does carry that if they want or they can go with life in prison. >> let me just remind everyone, before i come to you, josh, as we come to ultimate potentially death penalty in this case. sitting right there, the head of the adl, i dont think i can say this enough. adl saying this was the most violent, the deadliest attack on jewish peo...

The specifics of this case. and the president doesnt want to get involved while the department of justice is still determining whether there is a federal case to pursue with george zimmerman. as you recall, the department of justice is looking into whether there is a hate crimes case to pursue against george zimmerman. so perhaps it would seem inappropriate for the president to make contact while another branch of his government is making that decision. if i could make one point about the -- the...

Happens, because of that change in the law, the justice department can now decide and is now deciding if it wants to bring a federal civil rights case, likely a hate crimes case, to try to convict george zimmerman, even though that jury and that florida state court found him not guilty. the justice department has put out a statement saying "experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights stat...