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Alaska/anchorage. this is a scene out of the iditarod. theyve only seen one-third of the average snowfall for this season. the official race beginning on monday. it typically starts around willow, alaska but theyve had to move it 200 miles to the north around fairbanks because of the lack of snow and how mild its been for the second time in 43 years. theyve having to move this way to the north to have enough cold and snow and ice on the ground. >> stay around for this next story. you have a litt...

The four men who may be linked to the murder of ahmed al jumaili. bullet holes outside his apartment show where the 36-year-old iraqi immigrant was shot and killed. >> trying to find a decent job to start his life. >> reporter: through tears, his father-in-law says al jumaili recently left iraq to escape the growing threat. in north texas, he would also be reunited with his wife after more than a year apart. her excitement for their new life together was no secret. on thursday night, jumaili had...

Has been arrested for the assassination. one of these men is a former chechnyan republic police officer. >> well continue to follow that throughout the day. want to give you some other top stories. police are stepping up patrol in a dallas neighborhood. ahmed al jamawi stepped outside to watch his very first snowfall when someone shot him with a rifle. investigators say there is no indication this was a hate crime but they also say they are not ruling that out. no arrest has been made. a spa...

Georgia, where the cnn world weather center is. thats not something that we would typically see. this is the route that they would normally take, starting in anchorage, through willow to nome. but with anchorage only receiving 1/3 its normal snowfall for the season you can see why they moved the start of the race into fairbanks, about 200 miles to the north. temperatures at the moment for the entire route is in fact below freezing i should say. having a little bit of a computer difficulty there,...

Recently left iraq to escape the growing threat of isis. in north texas he would be reunited with his wife after more than a year apart. her excitement for their new life together was no secret. he had gone outside with his wife to watch the first-ever snowfall. >> were looking for a safe place, well educated environment, good environment, what he got was one bullet in his heart. >> there is no shortage of sadness for the loss of this beautiful young man, who has only just come to this country 2...

Watching his first snowfall in his new american hometown when he was killed by an unknown assailant. he died right in front of his wife and brother. our nick valencia has been following this story for us. any new niches about leads? >> police have gotten back to us within the last hour and say they dont have any new information. we spoke to the council on american/lamic relates. we asked if ahmed had received any threats, they said no. crimestoppers is offering a reward for information leading t...

Now the annual iditarod dog race got under way on saturday but there was one tiny little problem -- there wasnt any snow! meteorologist derek van dam is at the world weather center. why, are temperatures not that cold? >> just not cold enough but nothing that 500 truck loads of the white stuff couldnt solve. this is actually the total snow coverage in alaska. what we had was the ceremonial start to the iditarod dogsled race taking place in anchorage. but there was less than an inch of snow on th...

The around the country to raise awareness. >> everything i have had? spite of having lost so much. part of life is getting hurt escaping unscathed, i survived for a reason and a purpose. to use my time honored planet to make lives a little bit better. >> and we have so much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it all starts right now. happening right now in the newsroom new evidence into what happened involving a malaysia airlines flight 370 which advantage vanished one year ago today. >> rep...

In nome alaska. this year however, due to the lack of snow they had to make special arrangements. theres on average 16 dogs on each team, 25 checkpoints along the way, and the mushers, the drivers of the sleds, they must make a mandatory 24-hour stop at some point during the race. so basically, what they had to do was move the start of the race about 200 miles to the north in fairbanks. this is what the route would typically look like in an average year but because anchorage has only had one thi...

>> well educated. good environment, what he got? one bullet in his heart. >> there is no shortage of sas sadness for the loss of this beautiful young man who has only just come to this country 20 days ago, and we dont as texans want that to be his welcome. >> reporter: police are pleading for the public to help. >> tests are ongoing now to determine if one or more rival was fired and whether the physical evidence that we have been able to get from the crime scenes related to any other offense, a...