it happened near the eastal imagine avenue exit, and temporarily shut down route 8. channel 3s Brandon Simmons spoke with some of victims colleagues, and explained what led up to this tragedy. reporter fortythreeyear old Tanya Jackson was attempting to cross 6 lanes of traffic on route 8 after a verbal argument with her husband. unfortunately, she was killed by an on coming vehicle. several frantic 911 calls came in to dispatchers around 4 00 a. M. , reporting a woman trying to cross route 8. The woman killed is 43 yearold Tanya Johnson a veteran firefighter. her coworkers saddened by the news we can be hardnd on the outside, but its brought sensitivities out, the tragedy. Reporter Police satania and her newlywed husband were stopped on the highway having a verbal argument. she exited the car, jump the median, was struck and killed as she attempted to a lot of talk on social media, speculation about what happened. tanya wouldnt have killed herself. i can tell anybody that. reporter tod
its a gorgeous morning. its been spectacular for viewing the full snow moon thats bright and brilliant in the nighttime sky. well see them to start today. obviously its clear today. cloud cover will be increasing ahead of this next storm system were tracking. todays weather, totally quiet. if youre going to the Bruce Springsteen concert, you will have cloudy skies. as you wake up and get the kids to the bus stop, 20 to 30 degrees, but as john and lynna mentioned, were tracking a big storm system out of the south and southwest. its going to bring rain first, and then well see snow again. well talk amounts and all that good stuff. right now dani is talking your commute. we have it all posted on wkyc. Com traffic. clear and dry for those of you to get breakfast. downtown cleveland is a great commute. things are all looking great. 90 into downtown. your drive times between avon and downtown cleveland. john and lynna, were good to go. this morning were waiting to learn what kind of drugs we
Is meeting with injured Police Officers and the families of fallen officers in that city after a Memorial Service there a few hours ago. What president s, the Vice President s and their families remembering the lives of the slain officers from thursdays sniper fire. Brent thompson, patrick zamarripa, krol krmichael krol lorne ahrens. President bush spoke directly to in a community. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit. Its not a matter of tolerance but of learning from the struggles and stories of our fellow citizens and finding our better selves in the process. For president obama this is his 11th time traveling to speak to a grieving community thats experienced a mass shooting and its the 15th time he addressed the nation after a mass shooting. He called on the country to Work Together to overcome it. The deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed perhaps even widened. I understand how americans are feeling
Lead their own International Boycott of the United States hosting the Olympic Games as retaliation for what happened to them in 1980. But the United States had, again, led a coalition of 65 countries for the boycott of moscow. The sovietnion sically just got themselves and their little sphere of influence in the eastern block. It was 14 countries in total, including the soviet union that boycotted l. A. In 1984. But that weird period in olympic history had one legacy for right now thats turning out to be sort of interesting. That the moscow olympics, that moscow olympic adventure with that weird International Intrigue around it in 1980, that was the last time russia gotten a olympics for a very, very long time. For a generation. Fast forward to 2007. July, 2007, the International Olympic committee met in this city, in lovely Guatemala City in guatemala to make a decision about who would get the winter Olympic Games in 2014. As you can see, Guatemala City is lovely, kcosmopolitan place.
Tweet is somebody writing communism defined. See the response there . You see the little avatar . Thats Joe Mccarthys face. Joe mccarthys face on the twitter account, if you tweeted anything that said socialism or communism or socialist communist, that joe mccarthy beyond the grave twitter account would tweet back and you and it had tweet at you Something Like this creeping socialism. Or it would say communist infiltrated. He was also good at terrible puns. He would say, for example, on your marx. This one is pretty good. Quit stalin. That twitter account was not senator joe mccarthy tweeting from beyond the grave, instead of the robot j. Mccarthy, it was a bot, a twitter bot. There wasnt, in fact, a person who was reading every twitter message sent around the world looking for the world communism or communist and then writing back with a quit stalin pun. There wasnt a person doing that. It was an automated thing. It was a robot, an automated account that was programmed to notice any t