This is the cbs morning news for thursday, january 9th, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a political scandal engulfing one of the gops rising stars, new jerseys governor Chris Christie. Emails show that a major traffic jam was manufactured as political retribution. Christie says he knew nothing about it. Last years closing to the bridge in ft. Lee, new jersey, created a traffic nightmare for commuters. Now the scandal is raising questions about christies National Political ambitions. Marlie hall is here in new york. Marlie, good morning. Reporter annemarie, governor Chris Christie still maintains he had nothing do with the traffic tampering, but this could be the biggest test of his political career. New jersey governor Chris Christie says he is outraged and deeply saddened that a member of his staff and associates were behind a major traffic jam at the George Washington bridge last year. Newly released emails and Text Messages reveal christies
This is the cbs morning news for thursday, january 9th, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a political scandal thats engulfed about one of new jerseys rising stars, governor Chris Christie. Emails show that a major traffic jam was manufactured. Christie says he knew nothing about it. The close of the George Washington bridge in fort lee, new jersey, caused a traffic nightmare. Now the scandal is raising questions about christies National Political ambitions. Marlie hall is here in new york. Marlie, good morning. Reporter annemarie, governor Chris Christie still maintains he had nothing do with the traffic tampering, but this could be the biggest test of his political career. New jersey governor Chris Christie says he is outraged and deeply saddened that a member of his staff and associates were behind a major traffic jam at the George Washington bridge last year. Newly released emails and Text Messages reveal christies deputy chief of staff Bridg
Lay. Theres a category of deceased what they call, expected, not expected to survive. Our members made difficult decisions. Reporter no still frame of the video another still frame of the video shows the first rig that moved around her body was the one that sprayed the foam that covered her. That same rig ran over her body as it moved around the wreckage. 11 minutes later a second rig ran over her body again. Chopper 5 video of the crash scene shows hours later some of the foam dissipated and the body is now covered with a tarp. The coroners report said yes cause of death, multiple blunt injuries consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle. Her parents filed a lawsuit against the city this week accusing firefighters of deliberately and knowingly abandoning the girl in a spot where she was in harms way. Ntsb investigators are expected to issue their final report and their recommendations sometime later this year. Reporting live at San Francisco international airport, linda yee, kp
Neighborhoods after a powerful storm whipped through the area. Thank you so much for joining us. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Many homes still without power tonight. In fact, some areas wont have their electricity turned back on until the end of the week. We are live with Team Coverage for you tonight. Fox 29s karen hepp live in parkside with a look at the damage some neighborhoods are dealing with. But lets begin with chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Scott, were under a severe thunderstorm watch. More storms could be headed our way. Thats right, iain. We do have that severe thunderstorm watch until 10 00 oclock pretty much the entire area. The exception Cape May County in south jersey and also southern sections of delaware. The threat is there for scattered gusty storms. We could see winds gusting again over 60 Miles Per Hour as well as some small hail. Lets focus in on ultimate doppler current follow active severe thunderstorm warnings in our viewing area, however, take a look at
The United States is only giving token support with its intensified airstrikes from above. Isis fight user are shelling the singleBorder Crossing with turkey right now. Lets bring in greg talcott, and hes actually not too far from the action, and in the last hour we saw more smoke rising up from that town. Greg . Reporter yeah, harris, those steppedup u. S. Airstrikes might be slowing the isis terrorists down, we heard that, but we also saw that they are definitely on the march. Just about for the entire day we were listening to a real battle royal coming from that government section of the town that is in the center of the town. Our sources codo confirm that isis has taken the headquarters of the kurdish defenders, but we still hear a lot of fighting, so that thing is not going down easily. Isis basically controls the one Border Crossing between kobani and turkey. That is important because that is the only way civilians and casualties can get out of kobani, and its the only way reinfo