Retain their natural beauty. A moonscape of destruction, thats how one journalist described what hed witnessed in syria. For four years now, civil war has raged across the country, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Those who can, flee. To date, its thought that over four million syrians have left their homeland in search of safety elsewhere. Their first port of call is often neighboring turkey. For some, turkey is just a stop on their journey into europe. Others, however, have no choice but to stay and their numbers are fast approaching two million. Reporter intissar and her family fled from a town near aleppo across the border into turkey. They are now living here in kilis. She is nineyearsold and has a congenital liver disease. Her uncle Mohammed Hamadeh is a pharmacist; he tries to alleviate her symptoms as best he can. Because she is a refugee, she cant get the treatment she needs in turkey. Mohammed when she was little, the doctors said she was unlikely to reach the age o
Area, and theres still a bit of a breeze, though nowhere near as windy as yesterday. Winds are in the process of dying down. Theres a live view from center city, where it is 38 degrees right now with the wind at 9 miles an hour. Temperatures across the area mostly in the 30s. Millville 34, 39 in trenton, pottstown is at 38 degrees. Factor in the wind and it feels like its below freezing in philadelphia right now. 31 the windchill. 28 is what it feels like in allentown. So, a cold start, but we will see sunshine today. Look at the warmup, from 39 at 7 00 to 49 at 9 00, into the upper 50s by lunchtime. When i come back in less than ten minutes, well go through it hour by hour with the future weather. But first alert traffic reporter katy zachry is watching things on a monday morning. Good morning, katy. Good morning, bill. The biggest story of the morning for our earlymorning drivers, you said it, the cold. It is cold out there, but were going to start on 76 in philadelphia. This is a li
Street down coulter, i heard screaming. Reporter this witness said he had just walked by 22yearold carlesha freelandgaither at 9 40 at the corner of coulter and green. She was screaming help, help. Reporter in the dark of night all he could see was the struggle. I dont know what happened inside the car. The glass came off and thats when i jumped back and all that and he pulled off. Reporter detectives found her cell phone and glasses at the scene along with a knife and a glove. We dont know what happened at all. Carleshas family says shes in this neighborhood frequently to visit friends and her godson. They came to the scene this morning with photos in hand ready to retrace her steps in search for answers. Were going to do the same thing everybody else is doing, search through houses and grass and leaves and any kind of pals you might see, just go through it, kick it. Any kind of things you could find and pick up just to give us a clue as to where she may be at. Reporter her family bel
And the other cracked down on Sexual Assault in the military. Julie hyman is digging into the discounts that have run far and wide, but not all retailers are playing ball. Olivia sterns is following the headache for many of these stores, with the return season beginning. Julie hyman, who resisted the pressure to cut prices . Consumers are coming to expect that. Case we havee base seen across the retail spectrum. Some retailers at the highend who think they can preserve brand equity keep prices at relatively elevated levels. Lemonked about lulu held prices. Is a teenage retailer that introduces a number of products to see what will be successful. Finally, anthropology, which is owned by Urban Outfitters, an upscale brand, where people are not so much buying gifts, but buying stuff for themselves. Now, the advantage of this strategy is obvious you preserve operating margin. One retailer that has discounted less, not resisted entirely, hasnt michael kors with margins of 30 . Margins are a
They are no exit places, where one goes if you are believed over imagine by the north korean government of having done something wrong, of having been a wrongdoer or a wrong finger. And you go there wrong finger. You go there without trial, usually taken away at night and you stay there for the rest of your life. And very often you go with kids and with your parents. I was at a conference yesterday on a concentration camp and the latest information i is that haf of the people in the camps now are believed to be just a relative of wrong doers or wrong thinkers. So collective guilt is very much a part of this system. And reasoned the camps exist that have existed for more than 40 years is because they are an instrument of terror, of the kim family dynasty. What they do is they put away those who might cause trouble, and they terrorize a 23, 24 Million People in the country to not even think about causing trouble. To that and theyve been pretty darn successful. North korea has been the lo