Then well get into what we know. Its a mixed report right now about exactly how many explosions. Anywhere from three to seven in jakarta. Witnesses say at least three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a starbucks. I believe thats what we were looking at right there. After police stormed that cafe, there was a reporter on the scene that said he heard an additional blast. Police also saying there were more than two hours of gun battles. As you mentioned, it all happened at a really busy shopping area of downtown jakarta. These explosions, these gun battles with police left bodies in the streets as some of these Office Workers watched from the highrise windows. There are also unconfirmed reports of explosions in other parts of jakarta. We do know there have been several warnings in recent weeks by the police that islamic militants were planning to attack. In fact, the National Police spokesman was just on local this attack is a copy cat of the paris attacks and most likely from an isi
Toakthmistneurlfonht wt d. Ket ogss good news is the next commanderinchief is standing on this stage. A confident group of republican candidates take the stage. Tonight, top contenders donald trump and ted cruz go toe to toe as we enter the final count down to the all important iowa caucus. Good evening. Im christine johnson. Cbs 2 Marcia Cramer has the highlights. Just 18 days before the iowa caucus, the Republican Debate was an ugly donny brook as in donald trump naturally. Even though it took 18 minutes for trump to get a question, his ongoing feud with ted cruz dominate add. Fight one, whether he can run for president since he was born you have a lawsuit over your head. If you become the nominee, who the [ bleep ] knows if you can serve in office. Why raise the issue now . Because now hes doing a little better. I didnt care before. Its true. Trump had a birth issue of his own. His mother was born in scotland and later naturalized. You kindly offered me the vp slot. Ill tell you wha
We will have a live report from one of the winning locations in the next half hour. Now a developing story. Tragedy strikes Columbia University after an accident in central america. Three columbian students have been killed. Janelle burrell is live with more this morning. Janelle . Reporter three of the female students will not be returning back here to campus when classes resume here next week. The three women were on this medical mission in honduras when they were on their bus, on their way back to the airport to return home and it crashed. The overturned bus, mangled, its windows shattered after falling more than 250 feet down a ravine, crashing with a group of medical volunteers inside. Olivia, a 20yearold sophomore, daniella, a 21year old junior at barnard college, the all Womens College that is old abigail, a Nurse Practitioner, also a student with the general studies program, all killed from the impact. The group had been volunteering for several days with doctors and pharmacist
Dont be surprised if you see a brief snow flurry or snow shower. Most of this not reaching the ground. There will be a few flakes around up until around 7 00, 8 00 in the morning. Sun by noontime, about 33. Forecasting a high a little better than yesterday, into the upper 30s. Lets get the first check on a thursday morning commute. Good morning. You can see nice green traffic flows behind me. We have some roadwork out there. Were going to head over to the queens midtown tunnel, where you have the south tube shut down. The north tube taking on the twoway traffic. That will wrap up at 6 00 a. M. Its going to be extended. Well take a quick look outside at the l. I. E. In queens where you can see roadwork in the eastbound lanes. And well have more weather and trafblg coming up. Thank you. 4 31 right now. We begin with breaking news from indonesia. Thats where police say they just ended a parisstyle terror this happened in an upscale area of t yhe capital jakarta, which is popular with tour
Good afternoon, the White House Briefing delayed 30 minutes and expecting to get an update on several months, but one of the things were expecting to hear a lot more about is the testing of the coronavirus and how thats being rolled out all over the country and also the need for the federal government to collect more medical skies that the hospitals need. As we heard in the last hour of neil cavutos show, the governor of new york says theres a need for ventilators and what they can do to work with companies that are private and allow factories to produce whatever supplies may be needed. Meantime, here at the white house we learned overnight that a staff, member of the vicepresident did test positive for the coronavirus, that person is not believed to have had any close contact with the president nor the vicepresident. Weve seen a number of states also enact those restrictions and not to leave home unless its essential. Now many are wondering what could happen with the potential federal