Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. There is as much as 3 feet of snow in parts of new england tonight. Lunenburg, massachusetts, for one. Boston is digging out out of two feet but there is also ice and flooding. Hard hit is marshfield, massachusetts where we find anna werner. Homes along the massachusetts coast set covered in ice heavy frozen layers that brought down power lines. Crews worked all day to restore service, while plows cleared debris from snowy streets. The storm packing top winds of 60 miles an hour broke through concrete seawalls in the seaside towns of marshfield and scituate. This is where this part of the seawall blew out correct . Thats right. Reporter joe rossi chairs a local Citizens Coalition and says the sea walls are vulnerable, 85 at least 50 years old. Its a ticking tame bomb. This is only a sample what if what could be widespread coastal infrastructure failure going forward. Broken bones. Reporter
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Footpath. Reporting live in San Francisco, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. Thanks noelle. Well, if you are heading to the sierra tonight, bring your chains. Some heavy snow has been falling and there are driving restrictions on i80 and 50 headed to south lake tahoe. Once you get to your destination, can skiing and snow boarding is pretty great. And a little rain we saw in the bay area this afternoon moved quickly and left us with this beautiful bright orange sunset and hopefully, it stays dry throughout the holiday tomorrow. Chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now with panel early look at this forecast. It is looking better. Things are looking pretty good. That thing moved through barely dropping any rain. The rainfall accumulation, lets take a look at it. Mostly under a tenth of an inch of rain. San rafael is the exception. They got two tenths of an inch which is not unusual for that north bay area to get a little more rain. Oakland got 1 1 10s of an inch. It is really light
Heavy weight sorenson weighs in live tuesday, december 16th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Were starting to get details from pakistan and an attack out there. And the details are shocking. It is our top story. Unthinkable attack of the taliban on school. Students and teachers shot one by one as gunmen went through classrooms. Katy tur on this. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. 126 killed, mostly children. Were told the gunmen went in, wearing suicide vests and, as you said, shot some kids one by one. There are also more than 100 injured. These numbers keep going up as the attacks are still ongoing. Five heavy explosions were heard and now Pakistani Military Officials Say five of the alleged terrorists are dead. Its unclear if they detonated their own bombs or were killed. Its also unclear how many are left and just how many students a
Fox news reporting, enemies of the state. From new york here is john scott. Enemies of the state, the phrase conjures up perhaps the former soviet union where an allpowerful government crushes any individual who stands up against it. In truth even in a Representative Democracy such as ours, if the government goes after you, it can be a nightmare. Tonight, were going to show you several alarming stories in which government officials decide to take on private citizens. These people who didnt, and still dont believe they were breaking any rules, were suddenly in the fight of their lives. The full force of the government bearing down on them. And thats what makes it so scary. If it could happen to them, it could happen to anyone. We start in nevada where john roberts has the story of a family of ranchers who found their very way of life under attack. The western range lands, vast scenic and a battleground for what became known as the sage brush rebellion a fight that began decades ago betw