On this day, Feb. 16 .
2014: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, during a visit to Indonesia, calls climate change perhaps the most fearsome destructive weapon and mocks those who denies its existence or questioned its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat.
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1804: Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates during the First Barbary War.
1862: The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ends as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrender; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earns him the moniker Unconditional Surrender Grant.
Man, 22, undergoes world s 1st successful face and hand transplant TODAY 2/3/2021 Kerry Breen
After a fiery car wreck left Joe DiMeo with third-degree burns covering 80% of his body, the New Jersey man was unable to do even the most basic activities, like tossing a ball to his dog.
The severity of the burns meant that his finger tips had to be amputated, and he had no lips or eyelids.
Just two years later, a revolutionary procedure is giving DiMeo his life back: The 22-year-old was the recipient of the first successful face and double hand transplant. The surgery, which has been attempted twice before and been unsuccessful in the past, takes about 23 hours and involves transplanting large pieces of skin, which are prone to rejection.
they re also expected to talk about prop 8 which is cal kl s ban on same-sex marriage. that woman who was attacked and disfigured by a chimp in connecticut is settling with the animal owner s estate. remember charla nash? she s going to get about $4 million. her lawsuit originally asked for $50 million. the chimp s owner died in 2010. nash had to undergo a face transplant because of that attack. we re learning who holds the two winning tickets for the powerball jackpot. in missouri, officials say cindy and mark hill bought their tickets as a dearborn gas station. lottery officials will hold a news conference in just a little while. meanti meantime, a maryland man may have the other winning ticket which was bought in arizona. a cashier at a gas station says a man dressed in a construction uniform came in yesterday and asked for the number. when he told him the man confirmed it with other customers and then ran out. the new york city police officer seen in this picture giving a pai
office. the boy was playing with the gun and it went off shooting him in the chest. this was the scene off west franklin street and hagerstown early this morning. we now know the gun was a .22 caliber semiautomatic baretta. police say it only contained 1 bullet and the gun was not stolen. now we re trying to find the gun s owner. we talked to a volunteer firefighter who was across the street when the shooting occurred. he said accidents like this aren t common for that community. it s a shocker for this town and i know it s going to send this town for take loop for a few days, but i a loop for a few days, but i believe the town is resilient enough to bounce back. i just hope there s a lot of support for the parents and child and i hope we find an answer to what happened really fast. this is a place to raise your family and for this to happen it kind of pumps your brakes a bit. just a few hours ago we got word the little 3-year-old boy has been upgraded to stable conditi
keep an eye on president progress of the storm for on the progress of the storm. let s pinpoint that 45 to an hour, probably during the 6:00 show. broaden out the shot. there s a line of showers trying to fire south of pittsburgh. we ll watch the progress of that line as we head into the latter portion of your evening. any storm could put down gusty winds, hail, dangerous lightning and downpours. 86 in the city limits. easton is 84. the trend brings us into the 70s tonight and we ll give you your seven-day forecast coming up. if you ve got a jeep, listen up because the technical services bulletin by chrysler might impact you. this comes after an eight-month investigation into an uncontrollable shaking. two members sent a letter to them asking them this look into the problems. owners complain that the jeeps would spontaneously shimmy. they issued a bulletin to show owners and technicians how to diagnose it and fix it. he dreamed of owning a jeep since he was a kid, but the