A number of countries start entering recessionary territory that will carry over to other countries as well standpoint of their resident scholar at American Enterprise institute. Troops have joined thousands of volunteers from across south america battling wildfires in bolivia the fires in the amazon Tropical Forests of the burning out of control for weeks doubling in size since thursday a latin american added to the sea a new man has more now from santa made it east of bolivia. Soldiers arrived in sunday to help combat wildfires. Settled by missionaries in the late sixtys hundreds has been converted into an Operations Center for the firefighting effort. Night in the wildfires are spreading out of control fanned by strong winds a prolonged drought and extremely high temperatures. With youll start to see how the animals in the forest are burning but we are proud to be able to help these soldiers are going off again to fight the fires but as you can see theyre not very well equipped they
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Im suzanne malveaux. This is the Christmas Eve edition of cnn newsroom. For a lot of you today is last minute shopping or preparing christmas dinner or taking time with your families. While youre getting busy or ready for the celebrations, well keep you updated and, of course, the holiday happening here and around the world. Lets get right it to it. First of all, some sad news. Two firefighters are dead, two others injured after responding to a fire in upstate new york. That happened early this morning not because of the fire they were trying to put out, but police in webster, new york say they were shot. Three homes burned police say for hours gunshots stopped the firefighters from putting out the fires, forced police s. W. A. T. Teams to evacuate the homes in the area. Just in, police say the shooter who killed the two firefighters is also dead. They say he set a trap for those firefighters. The nra is standing tough on its opposition to new gun laws in the aftermath of the killings
Welcome to cnn news room, im miguel marquez, in for fredricka witfield. The National Rifle association is standing tough on its opposition to new gun laws in the aftermath of the newtown massacre. The groups ceo went on tv to defend his calls for armed guards in every u. S. School. Cnns Barbara Starr is with us, the nra has been criticized for not talking about any limitations on guns and calling for armed guards in schools and for not taking questions from reporters. Yeah, miguel and all of that they seem to be sticking to their line. On the sunday talk shows, wayne la pierre, the chief executive officer. The public face of the National Rifle association, made clear on nbcs meet the press, his organization will continue to oppose legislationed ed adding new revikss to those weapons or the highcapacity ammunition magazines. Enter la pierre had a definite view about where he thinks responsibility for some of these issues lie. Have a listen. I know theres a media machine in this country
Westbound interstate 40 was temporarily shut down for two miles in a suburb of Oklahoma City this morning. They say freezing rain is probably to blame for a Chain Reaction crash involving 20 vehicles. You see it there. Including three big rigs. Alexandra steele is the storm. Take a look at this. Severe weather is just beginning to ramp up today. Were looking at a whole day with Severe Weather. Tornado watches you can see. Look at this. I10 right along the gulf coast, houston to new orleans. And this is just really the beginning of it. Were looking at incredibly Severe Weather. Tornado watches and tornado warnings. Tornado warnings meaning these storms have produced rotation and have been detected. You can see right there. So right now its eastern texas moving into louisiana. Kind of to give you a perspective, south of i20 here is tyler, texas. Heres shreveport, louisiana. All of these moving northeast and this is just the beginning of really what could be an inundation of Severe Weathe