union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? and now, bbc world news. time to bury a voice of moderation. the funeral takes place of the murdered punjab governor. as the flood in australia reaches its peak, they county the catastrophic loss. and a cancer-causing chemical is found in chicken feed. welcome to bbc world news. i m david. also coming up on the program. taking control of the house at last, those in the u.s. poise for head-to-head clashes with president barack obama. and birds still tumble from the sky. is it science or conspiracy? hello. a state funeral has just taken place for the governor of punjab shot dead by his own security guard. the guard said he killed mr. taseer, a well-known liberal voice in pakistan because of his opposition to the country s strict blass if a my laws. hillary clinton described his death as a great loss. we can now go to
it is 36 degrees. aouch warme than yesterday. we are taking all the lite degrees we can take becse it has en cold and it s going to stay cold, tom. you might think we re off t a waer start. we re going to have a balmy day. no. rry to say we re goingo continue to have cold a on a northwt breeze. it s going to keep us in e 30s the rest of the day. only reach 40 or so by midafteron. right now aroundhe region, it s at or below freezing much the region. princegeorge s, arlg tan, montgome, fairfax near the eezing mark. out of the mountains it s in the low 20s. over the last 12 hours, yes, other surge of high pressure coming in. ld, dry, high pressure keeping us cold. we have clouds coming from the midwest. those will be arriving this afteoon after a sunny morning. will cloud up late afternoon. sunrise, 7:27. sunset around 5:00. we ll look at thursday, iday, satuay at 5:11. now, though,et s check traffic on this wednesday mornin ashley lindher, how is it looking? we re starting
michael jackson s death is in a california courtroom. a preliminary hearing is getting underway to determine if dr. conrad murray should go to trial. the los angeles county coroner ruled that jackson died from an overdose of propofol. a man who spent more than 30 years in a texas prison for a rape and robbery he did not commit has just been exonerated. cornelius dupre jr. was just 19 years old when he first went to jail. he has served the longest prison term of any texas inmate ever cleared through dna evidence. he joins me now from dallas along with the woman who helped free him, nina morrison. i have to ask you, there must be joy in finally being released, however, these are years and years that you can never get back and i think the essential question is, is there any anger
for the first women to serve as speaker of the house. pelosi will be democratic minority leader. delaware police are trying to pinpoint the crime scene where former pentagon official was killed. his body was dumped at a landfill new year s eve. cap pain owen honors appeared with other alors in homemade videos considered gay and raunchy. tonight s mega millions jackpot is worth $330 million. if there is no winner tonight the jackpot could top $400 million for friday. that would be a record. cancer researchers may have hit the jackpot. a new blood test is being developed that is so precise that it can find a single cancer cell among billions of healthy ones. elizabeth is here to explain what this means for you. how does this thing work? it s so different from the way that we detect cancer now. let s take breast cancer. a woman has a mammogram. that tumor has to be sizable for the radiologist to see it. when would i get this test? you will not get it for five to te
york jets after he sent them sexually suggeste messages, today, tuesday, january 4, sexually suggeste messages, today, tuesday, january 4, 2011. captions paid for bynbc-un and welcome to today n this tuesday morning, i m mereth viera. meanwhile the uss eerprise is s to leave for afghanistan in a coupl of weeks. ptain owen honors may t be hon board. oers are coming to honor s defense. what does he thinkbout the controversy? we re going to ask his friendf 35 years ahead. and tragic discovery mor than a year aft the disappearance of a georgia mother, kristi cornwell s brother found his own sister s body nine miles from where she disappeared. heas on the phone with her when she was abducted. plus two women give bir fi days aparto a baby b and girl and the babies are fl genetic siblings in every way. we ll tell you how that happened. good mornin to all of you this morng. in the news this morning, of a the strange sights on the las vegas stp, snow flurries right