I take my oxygen from them. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Eerie, pennsylvania, shattered the state record with over 50 inches nearly fourandahalffeet of snow fell in just under 36 hours. The snow pack forced trucks to be dug out, along with cars and streets blanketed with snow. In ohio, the visibility and Hazardous Conditions backed up traffic on a portion of interstate 90, forcing authorities to drop the speed limit from 65 Miles Per Hour to 30 Miles Per Hour. And kansas city, missouri, the snow and ice caused many accidents on the highways. In one crash, four people were killed. Not to be outdone, record frigid temperatures sent the midwest into a deep freeze. Parts of wisconsin experienced minus20degree weather, and minneapolis had a low of negative 2, but the sixdegree wind chill in aurora, illinois, didnt stop people from shopping after christmas sales. Were from around here, so we go to School Downtown so ill really used to the wind chill. Reporter now, the snowfal
We will get response from awardwinning investigative journalist allan nairn just back from honduras. His new story for the intercept is headlined u. S. Spent weeks pressuring honduras opposition to end protests against election fraud. Trump and republicans are tempting a rightist revolution with a massive transfer, locking in the structural advantages, attacking immigrants and the poor, and working people. They have made tremendous headway, but at the same time, people are fighting back. The outcome is completely up in the air. The november elections will go a long way toward determining whether the country makes a radical swing to the right now or whether this is stopped and whether weekend repair for a time where we start to get a more sensible amy we will speak with allan that about the stories shaped 2017 as well as what has happened in honduras. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump
This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Quijano good evening. Jeff is off. Im elaine quijano. Winter has arrived with a vengeance. Arctic air is plunging deep into the lower 48 states. Almost the entire northern half of the country will wake up tomorrow to belowfreezing temperatures. Eerie, pennsylvania, a city of 100,000 people, is buried under a pile of snow. Demarco morgan is there. Demarco. Reporter good evening, elaine. The snow is still falling as we speak, so much so that this area has been declared an emergency because of the heavy snowfall. And some nsome areas, its chest deep. A winter blast dumped foot after foot of snow across the great lakes. A lot of snow, just keeps coming, wont stop. Reporter the city of eerie, pennsylvania, shattered the state record with over 50 inches nearly fourandahalffeet of snow fell in just under 36 hours. The snow pack forced trucks to be dug out, along with cars and streets blanketed with snow. In ohio, the visibility and Hazardous Condit
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The article when he tweeted he was gr as the Holiday Season continues, the u. S. Is also entering peak flu season. According to the centers for disease control, up to 650,000 people worldwide could die from complications of the flu. More now from dr. Jon lapook. Reporter earlier this month. 3yearold, had a flareup of ads asthma. He didnt improve with treatment. He had a minor cough. Thought it was as ma. Wasnt anything that was shouting out this is the flu for him. The diagnose was flu. The virus was attacking his lungs. He spent a week in intensive careun his throat. He had a tube in his nose. He had three or four ivs. This flu season could be a nasty one. Texas is one of 23 states already seeing widespread flu activity. Nearly double the number from the week before. Dr. Mary healy is Infectious Disease expert at texas childrens hospital. We had more positive tests over the last couple of weeks. So it looks like maybe we are really starting to get into the season, in earnest. And that