Page 135 - One Point News Today

When 2 inches of snow trapped thousands overnight in schools and on jammed highways. this time, this stopprm, there were no surprises. the sun came out in atlanta for the first time in days, melting ice on trees and power lines. people getting outside to play, while state officials expressed relief. >> the fact that we were able to keep many people from being involved in the mix, i think, has made it not nearly as dramatic and traumatic as it might otherwise have been. >> reporter: the good news...

And throughout the south, recovery is only beginning. more than an inch of ice brought widespread damage to homes, trees, and power lines in georgia and south carolina. >> no heat. cant see. >> reporter: at one point, in three states, nearly 700,000 people were without electricity. and while the cleanup is underway, there is a word of caution going out to residents tonight, saying that while the roads may be clearing, they are wet, and as temperatures go down, they will freeze again. this storm ...

. >> there is one part of the super bowl that a lot of people are talking about is perhaps the highlight of the night that had nothing to do with the game. it was the halftime performance. bruno mars putting on a truly electrifying performance indeed. watch. ♪ >> amazing. a lot of people didnt know bruno mars, but they do now. a break out moment for bruno mars. fabulous, fabulous performance. only a 12-minute show and at one

Winter doesnt officially begin until next saturday, but you wouldnt know it by the weather the past few days. snow, more than a foot in some places, from missouri to new england. the storm stretching 1,000 miles at one point. but lets look a bit ahead with meteorologist alexandra steele. alexandra, last winter was a pretty mild one. what are we looking at for this one? >> for this winter, rosa, meteorlogical winterer is january, february. lets show what you happened this far. so far in december,...

China says it has successfully landed a space probe on the moon. it marks the first lunar landing in nearly four decades, if its true. china hopes to eventually put an astronaut on the moon. thousands of people in germany have received letters asking them to pay fines for allegedly streaming copyright-protected pornography. recipients are being asked to pay about $350. some say they have been wrongly accused of watching porn from the site redtube. ♪ 14 songs, 17 music videos, beyonces unan...

Could tell john boehner feels pretty burned by the entire shutdown. so he feels pretty burned. lets put yourself back into john boehners shoes. these groups almost led the charge to get rid of him as speaker at one point. okay. these groups let him down to take the fall of making the republican party as its most unpopular in the modern era as far as unfavorable ratings thanks to the shutdown. so, i think it is human reaction, its human nature for john boehner to be reacting the w way hes reactin...

And if anything, were hearing that perhaps that island was not hit as hard, because people had been forced out of their homes by the earthquake, they then were much quicker to assemble at areas, at shelters believed to have been safer. we dont know what happened in this stricken town of tacloban with a population of more than 200,000 people that was also hit by apparently a storm surge, as well. people still are trying to get information from the storm-stricken area. fredricka? >> keep us posted...

It cant be true that when things are going bad for republicans its bad for republicans and when things are going badly for the white house its bad for republicans. republicans feel not redeemed but like they are beginning to crawl back at a policy place and in terms of this law being more problematic for the white house than i think people understand at this point, i would put this at, you know, going back to mikes baseball analogy. were in the first inning of the collapse of democratic support ...

Approval ratings, democrats shouldnt take that as a sense were doing all the right things. its the fact we have great opponents. republicans in many ways have damaged themselves so much. >> the contrast in boston watching the sum greater than its parts, 25 guys coming together and working towards a goal, highly functioning versus whats going on in washington. if youre advising either party going on to 2014, what are your saying at this point? >> i think the way that this works its always to repu...

Itself and they tried to rein that in as they were running for the white house in 2012. obviously that hasnt happened. now, harold raises a good point. the president is most vulnerable when congress doesnt have a legislative item of the president to act on because they can just beat him up and thats exactly what they are doing right now. thats in turn to any koles point creating a lot of anxiety among democrats about this health care law. and you see that, when you look at the 2014 senate candid...