It. Leon and a Police Officer charged with murder. The shooting under the microscope, next. First, witnesses describe a deafening noise like an airplane crash, seconds later in miles away a massive power outage. The white house the u. S. Capitol, the university of maryland just a few of the buildings in the dark today. Alison witnesses heard the conductor fall, interrupting the power supply. Tom roussey is live on the National Mall the interviews that you will see only on 7. Tom some other buildings affected, including both the smithsonian museums, like the air and space, folks evacuated. At this hour, the lights are working fine. This all started from a place dozens of miles from d. C. , a place you would not have expected. This is where the problems started southeastern charles county. A conductor fell to the ground at a switching station. Although it affected electricity for tens of thousands, it happened in an area where many do not use electricity. As crews worked nearby, a farmer
Bell. Its a mostly cloudy day outside. Storm team 4 radar has rain drops in southwestern pennsylvania aiming into western maryland. The rate they are going, they will be in the met are at about 5 hours from now. A couple light showers across Southern Maryland. This is a much steadier batch of showers arriving between 4 00 and 5 00 this afternoon. Right around town, though, were all dry. Al bee it cloudy outside. A a couple sprinkles in st. Marys. Temperatures are relatively mild. Were in the mid60s between now and the arrival of the rain drops, we get a little sunshine and temperatures will trend upwards through the rest of the afternoon. Angie goff here at the live desk. We confirmed a a teen being treated in the hospital after being shot has died. We just found out that the boy was 16 years old. He was shot late last night near 37th street. Still, though no word on who shot him and why. More information to come. Today students are taking a stand against Sexual Assault on campus. Hund
Insulator to break. Thats something being assessed and hopefully in a short period of time will be able to determine what exactly caused that. Weve got Team Coverage on all this tonight. The university of maryland just got all of its power back on within the last hour. We begin with tom sherwood in dupont circle. Reporter all kinds of people today were affected by the power outage including a few people at the warner theater. Hi. How are you . Reporter on 13th street downtown people were buying the new maya angelou stamp. Its not just her. Its the stamp collection is recognizing africanamericans who have made a contribution. Reporter inside the warner theatre, Oprah Winfrey was celebrating the new stamp with first Lady Michelle obama. The power flickered and failed. But the program finished up. What did you think when the power went out . The power went out but we still rose. We kept going. And thats what you do and thats what maya angelou wanted us to do. Reporter the secret service q
Life to somebody. Dunn said he grabbed his gun to protect himself. And fired at the suv. He then fled the scene. Authorities never found a weapon in the teens vehicle. Davis parents were pleased with the verdict. We are so grateful that the jurors were able to understand the common sense of it all. Dunn faces a minimum of 20 years in prison for each of the attempted murder charges. Prosecutors plan to retry the murder charge. Marley hall for cbs news. A sentencing date will be set at a hearing sometime next month. Tomorrow would have been jordan davis 19th birthday. A disturbing discovery out of Dulles International airport. Body of a man was found in the well of a South African air waves plane. The air bus a340 was sitting in a remote parking area. Bruce, still more questions than answers here at Dulles Airport tonight. Who was this man hiding in the wheel well of the plane . How did he get there and why was he there in the first place . I was kind of shocked. Seeing that a guy hid in
An address to congress tonight. And stocks getting a slow start to the week. The s p falling for a fifth straight monday. Today is tuesday, anyway, february 12th, 2013. And squawk box begins right now. Asian markets shrugging off the tests in north korea. But markets in china, taiwan remain closed. North korea says a miniaturize ed Nuclear Missile was tested. The u. S. Ambassador to south korea responding to all of this. Its a very provocative act that undermines Regional Peace and stability and i think it would be critical for us to coordinate very closely with you and our colleagues in south korea going forward. Were going to talk more about washingtons reaction and what this all means for geouncertainty and our guest hosts for this hour, Jared Bernstein who works as the chief economist for joe biden. Tony is joining us and Capital Alpha markets managing director Chuck Gabriel. Theyre also going to talk state of the union. John harwood sat down with dave axlerod yesterday. He will jo