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So around the clock to keep up with the snow. bringing it here to a parking lot at a baseball field and getting it all out of the way and into this area that they don't need right now so it can melt and get the streets clear. a very he have wet, heavy, dense snow but if you're shoveling your driveway not great for you. >> states of emergency in georgia and alabama and north carolina a lot of people without power as a rul of this ice. thanks, sarah. up next, the justice department is being asked to investigate the death of a 67-year-old unarmed man in arkansas. now the family is asking why it...

The department of justice is to put an end to internal investigations. you know when you have a trial and you're trying to impanel a jury during voir dire one of the first things a judge will ask the perspective jurors, is you know do you know any of these lawyers? do you know any of these individuals, and the reason obviously that those -- that that question is asked is because we recognize as a society the problems inherit with bias. >> thanks for bringing that up. >> the internal investigation by the little rock police department was done in the homicide did i vig. the officer who killed mr...

They both said they do not comment on matters in litigation. joining me now, eugene ellison's son, spencer ellison, a former detective with the little rock police department and now a criminal justice professor at the university of north texas and also with us attorney michael lowe representing the ellison family. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us rpg tamron. >> a lot ofto cover here. family is calling on the justice department. this has been five years now, michael. where do things stand as far as the courts and the justice department right now? >> well tamron, your rendition of ...

jonathan dienst. jihadi john has been identified. what else do we know about his background? >> reporter: mohammed emwazi, kuwaiti-born, had been on the radar of british intelligence officials for several years. he is a graduate of computer science from a middle class background in london. he moved back to kuwait at one stage in his life and he had been detained or at least questioned by british officials because of his alleged connection to the somali terror group al shabab a group that he was apparently very taken by a group that he tried -- was involved in a cell that wanted to ch...