Hollywoods big night. Good evening. Thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. As we come on the air tonight, nearly 100 million americans. There is no escaping the wrath of this winter. Take a look right behind me a thick coating of ice covering roads and trees. And in in tennessee, a state of emergency tonight. In alabama, watch this. That pickup truck no match for those icy roads and to the north, that beautiful blanket of snow at the white house later turning to rain, a dangerous mix. And behind this storm, an arctic blast striking denver tonight set to reach all of the way across the country. That forecast in a moment. First, abcs linzie janis starting us off from monterey, tennessee. Reporter overnight, more than threequarters of an inch of ice in some parts of illinois, vehicle after vehicle spinning out today. Extreme weather wreaking havoc in 18 states. Traffic snarled to practically a standstill on washington, d. C. Area highways. This driver says it took him
Good evening. Tens of millions of people in the eastern half of the country woke up in the danger zone today. That rush of siberian air we were warned of came in with a vengeance. Its led to at least 25 deaths as temperatures have free fallen. In all 27 states have seen below zero temperatures today. Not the windchill, the actual temperature. Pelston, michigan, 35. Frankfurt, kentucky, minus 21. Lynchburg, virginia, 11 below. Just some of the eye watering lows. This seasons unrelenting snowstorms now the waves of arctic cold are pushing people and all the things we depend on to the breaking point in so many places. And the danger is only increasing. We start in nashville tonight with nbcs gabe gutierrez. Hello, gabe. Reporter lester, good evening. Multiple crashes are being reported across nashville right now during the evening commute. Earlier today we saw snow, right now sleet and later tonight freezing rain is expected. Across the country more than 500 daily record lows have been br
Hollywoods big night. Good evening. Thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. As we come on the air tonight, nearly 100 million americans. There is no escaping the wrath of this winter. Take a look right behind me a thick coating of ice covering roads and trees. And in in tennessee, a state of emergency tonight. In alabama, watch this. That pickup truck no match for those icy roads and to the north, that beautiful blanket of snow at the white house later turning to rain, a dangerous mix. And behind this storm, an arctic blast striking denver tonight set to reach all of the way across the country. That forecast in a moment. First, abcs linzie janis starting us off from monterey, tennessee. Reporter overnight, more than threequarters of an inch of ice in some parts of illinois, vehicle after vehicle spinning out today. Extreme weather wreaking havoc in 18 states. Traffic snarled to practically a standstill on washington, d. C. Area highways. This driver says it took him
Response to the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer. No wrongdoing was found in the shooting, but there was plenty of it in the department. Heres dean reynolds. Reporter in the seven months since the shooting death of Michael Brown chief tom jackson has been the face of the Ferguson Police force and its chief apologist. This is what he told us less than three weeks ago. Did you discover a racial problem in the department . No. Reporter none . No, there is not a rarely problem in the Police Department. Reporter is there a racial problem someplace else . No. Reporter while the department of justice exonerated white Police Officer Darren Wilson in browns death, it issued a followup report last week that said place Police Harassment in ferguson was routine and included arresting, jailing and even tasering African Americans unnecessarily. Furg isnts police force is almost all white in a town that is twothirds black. In addition to finding emails on city accounts that depicte
Response to the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer. No wrongdoing was found in the shooting, but there was plenty of it in the department. Heres dean reynolds. Reporter in the seven months since the shooting death of Michael Brown chief tom jackson has been the face of the Ferguson Police force and its chief apologist. This is what he told us less than three weeks ago. Did you discover a racial problem in the department . No. Reporter none . No, there is not a rarely problem in the Police Department. Reporter is there a racial problem someplace else . No. Reporter while the department of justice exonerated white Police Officer Darren Wilson in browns death, it issued a followup report last week that said place Police Harassment in ferguson was routine and included arresting, jailing and even tasering African Americans unnecessarily. Furg isnts police force is almost all white in a town that is twothirds black. In addition to finding emails on city accounts that depicte