see more than a foot of the white stuff. that s actually especially troubling because the trees are not ready at all for this. the trees, still plenty of leaves on them. you have forecasters saying heavy, wet snow, high winds. those are the perfect ingredients for potentially a large problem with the electric grid. we ll have in-depth coverage of the storm with meteorologist chad myers and jacqui jeras in just a few moments. the florida highway patrol arrested a driver accused of going 120 miles per hour. that driver, a miami police officer. the highway patrol says the miami officer was on his way to a second job when he was pulled over and that he was arrested at gunpoint after ignoring multiple warnings to stop. and wikileaks founder julian assange could learn next week whether he will be extradited to sweden. assange deanalyze the accusations saying they are an attempt to smear him because of his work as head of wikileaks which has published confidential u.s. diplo
also american permanent presence in the country in the year ahead. another attack in the south of the country in kandahar where two were killed by a man wearing an afghan army uniform we understand from an army commander down there. in fact, he may have been trained by the two nato personnel he killed. we hear they possibly were australian but they re not confirming that. nick paton walsh, thank you so much from kabul. here in the u.s. from the mid-atlantic it to new england, a rare october surprise. a powerful snowstorm could paralyze parts of the region this halloween weekend. preparations for the storm are already in full swing. among the big concerns, power outages and travel delays, and it s already, by the way, snowing in parts of new york, massachusetts and other states across the region. some areas are expecting more than a foot of snow. pretty hard to believe, and we re not even at halloween yet. alexand andra steel. that s monday and days away. surprise. i tak
you. then one after another it would go on and on for hours i would fill note books. once i got them talking they remembered a tremendous amount. but it was really then i would ask them for letters and documents. i became obsessed. do you feel like it s lift ad burden to have written all this down to discover, to reach out to family members in a way that your reporter instincts had you do? traditionally people say to understand it s to forgive. i point out sometimes have to forgive before you can understand. there was a certain amount of forgiveness that had to take place before i embarked on this journey. my long trip home. you came up with this title. it has a couple of meanings. the first meaning i took a lot of trips as a young child. there were a lot of new homes where i didn t know anybody or what await immediate. the second meaning, obviously, is that the reporting of this book and the writing of this book was a long trip. a journalistic and emotional trip. t
let s talk about great news coming to the way of military families across america. they are gearing up now to celebrate the holidays with their loved ones who are now serving in iraq. one of the nation s longest wars will be over by the end of the year and nearly 39,000 troops will be heading home. the iraq war started nearly nine years ago and president barack obama says it is now time to end it. we ve already removed more than 100,000 troops and iraqi forces have taken fumble responsibility for the security of their own country. the next couple of months will be filled with welcome home ceremonies as the troops start leaving iraq. but for those who have lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers in iraq, it is bittersweet. our affiliate wgn has reaction from some families and troops in chicago. this one picture in the house. reporter: every wall in this home in rogers park is covered with pictures and paintings of army corporal who was killed in iraq three years a
into chaos. barbie, what is is it like right now? what s happening? barbie, can you hear me? all right. okay. barbie, i think i ve got you now. tell me, explain to me what s happening tonight. reporter: right now i m standing in the epicenter of all of the violence we saw earlier. and really right now the protesters are gone, they ve been carted away. but it s really a waste land. right in front of me is a burnt out police vehicle. there are cobblestones all over the place. there s so much broken class it s like walking on frozen snow. there s so much debris on the ground. the smell of tear gas in the air. many other protesters have been carted a eed away. lots of them have started trouble in new parts of rome. we have 70 confirmed injuries, 40 of which are police officers. 30 which are protesters that are confirmed injuries. there were a lot of other people who didn t seek hospitalization that were injured either by, you know, flying glass from these broken bottles and thi