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He was a good officer. >> reporter: and he didnt think it would get him in trouble? >> he said they will kill me or they will arrest me. >> reporter: he was jailed for nine months. but that billionaire hed warned, berezovsky, bailed him out and helped litvinenko and his family flee to london. there litvinenko kept up the drumbeat of criticism against the russian government. he even wrote a book accusing the fsb of starting a war in chechnya for political reasons. in response, russia branded litv...

Before litvinenkos murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world. >> you dont pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind. >> reporter: seven months after the law was passed, someone was liquidated. a prominent russian journalist, shot in the head outside her moscow apartment. she was a friend of litvinenko. three weeks later, litvinenko himself was poisoned with polonium 210. duma leader zhi...

About paying a $1 million bribe to the former president of mexico. finally, sears is staving off liquidation with the companys chairman winning a bankruptcy auction that could save tens of thousands of jobs. were tracking storms coast to coast. california is about to get hit with rain and mudslides and the northeast could have a big winter storm. rick reichmuth joins us with more. rick? >> we know the northeast will have a big storm. we dont know who will get the snow from it. california, youve ...

Longest winning streak since late november. nasdaq closed up 1.1% rallying for the eighth time in nine days. and it bounced back from what has been a terrible, terrible end to last year. worse november since the great recession. sears reached an 11th hour deal to remain open for at least now. attorneys for sears say they reached an accessible agreement with a hedge fund. without the deal, sears faced the possibility of liquidation. the deal is a revised version of a bid from december. it would...

From liquidation. at least for now. the lesson offer could keep 50,000 people employed through the new year. sears file for bankruptcy in october. the iconic department store plans to close more than one third of their 700 locations. kristin: it was anything but a quiet holiday on wall street. wilde, 2018 as we come to a close. the doubt broke their losing streak up after this worse christmas eve ever. and again over a thousand points the day after christmas patron is not to make sense of this t...

Duluth, minnesota on the right. icy roads and floods, several accidents all over the country. thereve been three snow related deaths in the midwest due to the storm. one death in louisiana blamed on the roads. conditions are quieter right now and most of the hard-hit areas. by this weeks storm. the forecasters say there could be more snow and ran across parts of the country. on new years eve. kristin: not good! coming up, could one of americas most iconic retail chains getting a last-minute repr...

There was a potential for a bid by eddie lampert, off the fellow who a ceo of sears and at some quite critical from his tenure thought about a bid from him. he needed to secure financing but at this point it seems clear, unless there was an extension in this, but he has not secured it and will not, and that means liquidation for all of sears. the company announced an additional 80 80 stores today d be closed whether there was a bid or not, and now it appears more no bid and no more sears. what c...

But its never been like this before. so the debt has never been like this bet. it has to be unwound. in the old days when they hadnt adopted this before in the 1920s, they just kept their hands off and there was a deep, deep depression. a year. it was all over. liquidation. no, were not allowed to liquidate and i understand it because its politics. who wants to be responsible for the payback but it has to be paid. thats the tough part. >> shepard: ill will give you credit whether people agree or...

Leadership. >> he believed he didnt do anything wrong. he was a good officer. >> reporter: and he didnt think it would get him in trouble? this wasnt just symbolism. in march 2006, eight months before litvinenkos murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world. >> you dont pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind. >> reporter: seven months after the law was passed, someone was liquidated. a ...

Agreed to be interviewed again for this program. this wasnt just symbolism. in march 2006, eight months before litvinenkos murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world.