Winter weather is affecting millions of thanksgiving travelers on one of the busiest travel days of the year on the highways and at the airports, its a major mess out there. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. And were following two breaking stories right now from snowcovered highways to backedup airports, a major winter storm makes travel a nightmare for millions of people trying to get away for the thanksgiving holiday. As night draws near ferguson, missouri, police and the National Guard they are now on the streets once again. Theyre poised for more protests. Police have identified the homicide victim found shot in the head near the scene of the Michael Brown shooting. It happened during the first night of the burning and the looting which followed a grand jurys decision not to indict the Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. There were fewer acts of vandalism last night and fewer arrests in the ferguson, area, but
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The HOLLY: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
, which was released May 11. This excerpt from The HOLLY picks up as Rubinstein is looking for the answer to a question that echoes through the book: Why did activist Terrance Roberts shoot Hasan Jones? As a steady rise in Denver’s gang violence continued, the city’s federal anti-gang effort was conspicuously absent from public reporting. I couldn’t find any mention of it since the prestigious grant had been announced in 2010. One night, I went to a public meeting of the Holly Area Redevelopment Project (HARP), held in the old Safeway building at the top of Holly Square. District 2 commander Mike Calo was there, in uniform. He had a broad chest and a high forehead. His black-and-gray hair was combed to one side. Afterward, he told me he’d be happy to discuss his work. “What we’re doing here is a model for the nation,” he said, and gave me his card.