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Raise wages for federal contract workers. The deep south is back in the deep freeze another winter storm slamming the southeast right now. So far were not seeing what we saw in january when ice turned roads into parking lots around atlanta. But the roads arent the only problem. More than 200,000 homes and businesses in that region already without power. The freezing rain, snow, and ice are still coming down. Robert ray is live on interstate 75, robert. Reporter yeah, good afternoon, del. This is...

A busy afternoon for you on capitol hill. The Senate Just Voted to increase the nations debt limit. And we begin with a major storm that is affecting millions of people from the deep south to the east coast. All up and down the east coast. Thousands of flights, trains have within canceled. Only a few people ventured out into this mess braving the elements, despite warnings from city and emergency officials, and for good reason as areas from washington, d. C. To new england will see inches, possi...

A former athlete shares his story of coming out at the height of his college career. 95 years old. Still going strong, how americas oldest paper boy proves that age is state of mind. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Much of the south is now directly in the path of a severe winter storm. The National Weather service is using words like mined bog lipping, and historic so describe it. Ice will be a major problem. Roads could be glazed over, making driving nearly impo...

Weather from yesterday was doing to spill into the weekend. Different story though. Yeah, total 180 from yesterday is what were expecting for the day today, rosemary, with the exception, however, to the cooler temperatures. They will stick around. Were thankful for that. We are expecting more clouds today. Guess what, yes, rain for your saturday. But there is some good news to all this. Outside right now, wind blowing. Old dplorry up there. The winds really not going to be an issue today, at lea...

Showers. Mainly west. Specifically into chester county, burks, lancaster county. This is primarily light rain but there are pockets of heavier rain. Heavier rain in reading. This will drip towards the northeast and some ores will see some rain drops. But most of it will really be aside light rainfall at least for this morning. Temperature, 64 degrees for philadelphia. 55 for allentown. Your saturday planner shows the bulk of the showers and rain will really be this afternoon. Its not going to be...

Rained on today. A slimmer of a chance. Well talk about the increasing rain chances for the work week when i see you next. Thanks. New this morning five people were shot overnight in the district. The shooting happened on n street southwest. This was just before 2 00. This morning, a block from nats park. Two women, three men. All five were taken to the hospital and all are alive. Police are not releasing a possible motive at this time. A 25yearold reward is being offered for details about a dea...

Sixth floor exhibit today. I think i got that section. I did want to go through this quickly. We have eyewitnesses of the assassination. We have tina who was her youngest photographer at the time of the assassination. Seated behind tina are Dylan Dale Neumann the closest eyewitnesses to president kennedy at the time of the shooting and james payton is here today. He was supposed to be here. Im not sure if he isnt not if he is or not but thats okay. We hope all is well with jim. We had some other...

Fast moving day in ferguson. That happened on the same day in that a local grand jury started considering evidence as to whether or not the Police Officer who shot Michael Brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. There is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report from ferguson, and we will have all of that coming up, including multiple live reports from the scene in downtown ferguson starting in just a moment tonight. But before we get to that news from ferguson, today w...

This part, and partly because of the sheer exhaustion of a traumatized community. And partly the sense that the wheels of justice are in moment. There were major developments today. The grand jury began to hear evidence for the first time today. Attorney general eric holder came to town to meet with fbi agents pursuing a federal civil rights investigation, which included conducting a third autopsy and canvassing the neighborhood for witnesses to his death. Holder met with local leaders and stude...

New Jersey Police department. State trooper, im not sure what they call it in new jersey. He told the story how he was humiliated. They told him to get out of his car and searched his car. Officials are weighing whether to open a broader civil rights investigation into fergusons policing practice as a whole. At a lunch stop, we met the man who in many ways has been the face of official dom at the protest. Last night looked a little bit better . The Community Came out, our activists. They did. Af...