Also known as anwr including offshore areas, from future energy development. By declaring these lands wilderness, Permanent Development of any kind including roads would be prohibited. Environmental activists have reacted with elation. From their perspective, alaskas wildlife refuge is a National Treasure that must be preserved at all costs. But alaska lawmakers are furious. They believe the federal government is impeding American Energy independence. Heres 14year senior senator from alaska, republican Lisa Murkowski echoing the position of Ronald Reagan in 1987 recommending Oil Development in the refuge and denouncing the barack obama designation of alaska as a wilderness. We feel that this is a frontal attack on the state of alaska and our ability to develop resources for the good of alaskans and for the good of the country. This is not just about alaska. Our oil comes to you guys, down here. If you think senator murkowski sounded angry, listen to how 40plus years in Congress Alaska
Pam moore new gruesome images of wednesday attack as new links just uncovered one of the suspects had traveled to yemen and trained with al qaeda. Mr. Reporter us officials tell cnn that as late as 2011, the older brother, said, received weapons and training from Aqap Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula one of the most violent affiliates of the terror group. In addition, french sources tell cnn that one of the brothers also traveled in the past year to syria. After scrubbing their databases, the us has found that both brothers have been on the nofly list for years. Police sources say the brothers were known to french authorities before the attack. The younger brother, cherif, was convicted in 2008 for being part of a jihadist recruitment ring that sent fighters to iraq. We need to combat them with a calm and attach them to the values of the republic showing that we are not afraid and that we will remain united. As the investigation behind the scenes ramps up, the manhunt for the two men
Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. This was a violent and eventful day in and around paris. While its tempting to declare the crisis of these past several days over we simply dont know that tonight. French police today moved in on two hostage situations. They killed three suspected terrorists including those two brothers sought after the brazen attack on the satirical magazine in paris on wednesday. Tonight police are looking for a female accomplice who might have run from the chaos and gunfire pretending instead to be a hostage. And now the worry shifts to whether or not anything else is coming. Its where we begin again tonight with our team in the u. S. And france Richard Engel starts us off from paris tonight, richard, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Those two brothers had been on the run for two days until this morning. They carjacked a vehicle, drove here on the outskirts of paris, barricaded themselves into a building got into a gunfight with polic
Its 30 degrees. The windchill is 19. Of course yesterday it was five below zero. And now, you can see that the windchills are already just in the 20s. Thats quite a change. Over the last six hours, we have seen this band of snow with an arctic front coming through. Just about everybody got to see at least some flakes. But its definitely gone here in the last radar picture. Not showing much of anything. Were not expecting any more snow during the day. Its going to be windy. The temperature is not going to be going up very much. Tonight, its going to be falling quickly. We have another bitter blast on the way thats going to affect us tomorrow. We also have some icy precipitation in the sevenday. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Interstate 78 is now reopened in Northampton County following a fatal accident this morning. A van and a tractortrailer collided. The coroner confirms that the person in the van died. The road was closed for hours. Just reopened about 30 minutes ago. Police are l
Welcome to today on a friday morning. Its a busy one. Matt has the day off. Carson daly is here. 48 hours after that terror attack in paris, there is a massive operation under way to capture the brothers involved in that massacre. In a small town northeast of paris, very near charles de gualle airport as well. We have two reports to get to Nbcs Lester Holt in paris. We want to start with nbcs bill neely at the scene. Bill what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, savannah. After the massacre and the manhunt now, the siege about five hours ago, the two suspects in that massacre the kouachi brothers were chased to an Industrial Area a few hundred yards from here. They are holding one hostage and totally surrounded by literally hundreds of french antiterrorist police and s. W. A. T. Teams who are moving closer and closer to that building. There is a Hostage Negotiator who has made contact with the two brothers and a french lawmaker says they told police we want to Police Moving around