Footandahalf of wet, heavy snow on some areas making driving treacherous and crippling air travel. Nearly 800 flights were cancelled and at last count nearly 250,000 customers are without power from West Virginia to maine. Lets get the latest on this from our meteorologist bill karins who is here with what we can expect. Please good news. People in the airports and almost 250,000 people without power on thanksgiving. Thats horrible. Hoping you can go over to some friends houses, stay warm and get a good meal. As far as the storm were almost done. Bangor, maine is one of the last cities getting the snow. We did pick up considerable snow last night. A lot of people waking up that have to clean their car off and shovel the walk and get rid of the big slushy mess at the end of the driveway. The big cities did okay from boston down providence, hartford, new york city, the roads are fine. More just a wet snow. All of the worst of it has definitely shifted up further towards the north. As far
Upwalkout. They are decrying police violence. Its been one week since that grand jury in ferguson, missouri chose not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed 18yearold Michael Brown. And right now 2 00 eastern as im looking at the clock we know president obama is scheduled to meet with young civil rights leaders and thats not it for the president today. We know later this hour hell gather with community and faith leaders and Law Enforcement. We have reporters on the ground throughout those different walk outs and well bring them to you live. These protests not just on the streets. They were on the field sunday night as in the football field. And today the nfl says the players involved will not be disciplined. Were you watching this . Five st. Louis rams players placing their hands up at the start of the game against the raiders. This was a sign of solidarity with the people of ferguson, missouri. Here was what one of the players had to say about this. D
Women. But im strong and im going to stand on my own two feet and im going to tell my side of the story. That is just a small part of it. Tonight, Janice Dickinsons message for bill cosby. It is raw. Its emotional. And its very angry. Bill cosby, you know the truth. Bill cosby, you were there. Bill cosby, put a Lie Detector Test on bill cosby. And more breaking news to tell you about. The st. Louis rams apologizing for the hands up dont shoot gesture by five players during last nights game in solidarity with ferguson protesters. And thats where were going to begin tonight. It is new. It is in to cnn. We want to get right to cnns sports anchor rachel nichols. Shes on the phone. Rachel, i think its important, st. Louis, the team is apologizing, correct . The head of the team is apologizing. The players are not apologizing. And thats a very important distinction. And you do understand the team that works with the Police Officers on a lot of Security Issues and are operating at a different
Things better, but likely will not solve every problem. Listen. As i said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, i think ferguson laid their problem that is not unique and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color too many individuals, particularly young people of color do not feel as if they are being treated fairly. We also heard from Law Enforcement and were reminded of what a tough job it is to be in Law Enforcement. As eric holder put it, Police Officers have the right to come home. Secondly, one of the issues that came up during the response to ferguson back in august was the issue of military equipment being utilized in the face of protests i will be signing an executive order that specifies how were going to make sure were not building a militarized culture inside our local Law Enforcement. And finally as i mentioned, eric holder is going to be working in parallel with the task force to convene a se
Rounds and may have been trying to use his car as a weapon. We didnt find any explosive devices on the suspect, or on him or in the suspect vehicle. Again, the officers first suspicions that we have the easy ly these cylinders in the vehicle he was going use it as a weapon to burn down the mexican consulate. Victor, i talked to the police chief in the last hour and he said they did find propane tank, i think it was in the gunmans car, they searched the gunmans person. What about the home. Are they searching the home . They have not cleared the home. What we do know they are approaching this as a potential threat. He mentioned that, it seems weve seen it before namely the colorado shooting that sometimes there are booby traps in these homes that its so planned out, that they are approaching this as a potential threat. But brooke you got to think about this scene. 2 20 in the morning local time. Its a holiday. Bars have just closed and the police chief says there were crowds who heard th