attempting to explain lies that she acknowledges telling over the course of the trial, and since the death of travis alexander, jenna. jenna: alicia acuna, thank you. jon: we have an update now to a fox news weather alert. a dangerous snowstorm causing travel nightmares across the midwest. some areas of seeing wet, heavy snow. mike tobin showed you some of that from chicago a little while ago. others are dealing with sleet, rain and fierce winds. air canceling many flights. they are urging drivers to grab emergency kits before they hit the road. janice dean live in the fox news extreme weather center to tell us where this is heading. reporter: we are still tracking the storm and the possibility for this to move up the coast, so philadelphia, new york, boston, you need to be paying close attention, because we ll be watching the storm well into friday. where is it now? minneapolis you re still getting the snow, chicago, hundreds of
citizens to prepare for their own emergency kits in the event that we would be the center for landfall. certainly have water prepared, have batteries. know where your evacuation route will be and where your destination for evacuation for be. it still remains a tropical storm but we have 4 counties in mississippi that have been placed under hurricane watch. so as we begin to stand up to eoc, not only here in jackson that i will be at 4:00 this afternoon but standing up the eocs in those counties and making sure we have necessary supplies have sandbags, tarps, fuel, generators. yesterday at our briefing we were talking about pre-positioning the generators in the affected area of the state to have those prepared.
cnn joins us from cart hey na. what s the latest on the investigation where it stance? reporter: well, as you pointed out, those two u.s. government sources telling cnn that in fact these secret service personnel did bring back several prostitutes to their hotels. now, it s still a little squishy as to some of the details after they brought them back to their hot hotel, but at some point according to these sources, there was a dispute overpayment, and then the police, the local police got involved. about a dozen secret service officers are involved in this scandal. we re told it s a mix of undercover agents as well as the uniform officers. they were not part of the president s protective detail but were part of the overall security team here in colombia. now, we do understand that president obama has been informed about this investigation along with secretary na poll tan oof homeland security, an investigation, an internal investigation is now under way. so dan, this clea
he writes, i did stop it, not physically, but made sure it was stopped when i left that locker room, end quote. and he goes on to say, no one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30 to 45 seconds, end quote. sandusky is charged with serial child molestation and two penn state officials are charged with failing to report those crimes. paterno has been fired and mcqueary is on administrative leave. the u.s. secret service says it found a bullet that struck a white house window. officials say the bullet was stopped by bulletproof glass. another round found in the exterior of the white house. officials are trying to determine if the bullets are connected to a nearby shooting on friday night. president obama and the first lady were not at the white house when shots were heard friday. the u.s. park police have issued an arrest warrant for oscar ortega hernandez who is believed to be connected to the friday incident. zuccotti park in lower manhattan is ho
international, who are watching our special coverage of hurricane irene, a category 1 storm, a massive storm that is on its move, up the eastern seaboard. it came ashore a couple of hours ago, making landfall near camp lookout, north carolina. there s new video we are getting from nearby, atlantic beach shows you what irene has left behind already in some areas. the hurricane storm surge swamping the town with ocean water. also, irene is spinning its way northward to some of the biggest cities on the eastern coast of the united states. cities like new york, washington, baltimore, boston, cities that aren t used to being prepared for a hurricane. they could all get slammed by this storm this weekend. right now, irene, a category 1 storm, it is pushing sustained winds of about 85 miles an hour. irene has also claimed at least one life in north carolina. we do have special hurricane coverage for you this morning that spans that coastline, from north carolina all the way up the a