Sleet and freezing rain of the season this morning and follows days of weather misery around the country that left more than two dozen people dead in several states and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. The southeast is dealing with rain and in texas the people there cleaning up from deadly tornados and causing chaos for air travelers and we have more. Reporter drivers are hearing warnings of a dangerous commute in several parts of the country from illinois to massachusetts where the first snow of the season is falling this morning. First storm of the year with a lot of accidents and hopefully they will be minor. Reporter anything but minor across much of the u. S. Already this week, high winds and icy roads created dangerous conditions in wisconsin. In missouri deadly flood water swept through homes, washed away rvs and shut down major highways and new mexico declared a state of emergency after heavy snow left behind snow drifts measured by the foot, one couple was t
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. A Chicago Police officer will face a judge in half an hour in connection with the shooting death of Laquan Mcdonald. Former officer Jason Van Dyke is being arraigned on six counts of first degree murder. Dash cam video showed him shoulding mcdonald 16 times as he veered away from officers. Police say mcdonald was armed with a knife when he was shot. We have more from chicago. Van dyke is expected to plead not guilty here. His attorney has long said that what you see on the dash cam video, the shooting of Laquan Mcdonald in 2014 was not what van dyke was seeing at the time, however, what you see on the tape seems to contradict what van dyke said at the time, that Laquan Mcdonald was lunging at him and that van dyke was actually back pedaling at the time. The attorney of van dyke says he will likely ask for a change of venue in this case. He said there is no way that van dyke can get a fair trial given all thats gone on
Avalanche roars inside a neighborhood and buries people inside one home. And will the faithful prove to be a box Office Blessing for a new film . Good evening, we begin with major developments in the crisis in ukraine which tonight is quickly developing into a testy showdown between the u. S. And russia. Within the last few hours, president obama and russias president putin spoke about the crisis by telephone hours after the Russian Parliament gave putin the okay to send troops into the ukraine. Tonight the white house is warning the kremlin against what it calls the continuing violation of law. Earlier the Security Team met to discuss u. S. Options in a rare saturday session. While in ukraine itself there were growing signs that russia has already taken control over the crimea region. We have Coverage Today with bill neely in crimea. Good evening, bill. Reporter yes, the crisis here in crimea is deepening, lester, so too, are worries about an imminent russian takeover. Ukraine is cert
Box Office Blessing for a new film . Good evening, we begin with major developments in the crisis in ukraine which tonight is quickly developing into a testy showdown between the u. S. And russia. Within the last few hours, president obama and russias president putin spoke about the crisis by telephone hours after the Russian Parliament gave putin the okay to send troops into the ukraine. Tonight the white house is warning the kremlin against what it calls the continuing violation of International Law in ukraine, saying it will lead to greater Political Economic isolation. Earlier the Security Team met to discuss u. S. Options in a rare saturday session. While in ukraine itself there were growing signs that russia has already taken control over the crimea region. We have full coverage of todays fastmoving developments beginning with our bill neely in crimea. Good evening, bill. Reporter yes, the crisis here in crimea is deepening, lester, so too, are worries about an imminent russian t
2014. This is the daily rundown. Im Kristen Welker in for chuck todd. Developing news this hour, a Solemn Movement at Dover Air Force base this very hour. The body of army twostar Major General Harold Greene is being brought home two days after his killed in kabul in an insider attack by an good afternoon soldier. Greene is the highest Ranking Member of the u. S. Military to die in the line of duty in afghanistan. Were expecting to see the dignified transfer live and we will bring that to you when it happens. We want to turn now to the latest on the ceasefire between israel and hamas. Talks continue in cairo with just under 16 hours left until the threeday ceasefire is set to end. Israel withdrew its troops from the gaza strip on tuesday after declaring it had completed its mission to destroy the crossborder tunnels built by hamas. On wednesday an Israeli Government spokesperson told nbc news israel has no problem with an unconditional extension of the ceasefire and another israeli sou