Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the United Nations Refugee Agency announced a striking figure today the number of refugees and migrants making the dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossing to reach europe this year has now passed the 300,000 mark. Thats more than 40 higher than the Record Number who made the crossing in all of 2014. And that number doesnt include the 2,600 people who have died this year on the journey. Well have an on the Ground Report on this growing crisis right after the new
Bowl. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for monday january 19th 2015. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. If youre hitting the roads in the northeast this morning, beware. Freezing rain is expected in Northern New England the same conditions that caused treacherous driving conditions yesterday. The icy roadways led to crashes that caused at least five deaths. In philadelphia one person died when up to 50 cars were involved in a massive car pileup. Two others died when they slammed into a jackknifed tractortrailer. We feel very fortunate we werent involved in it. Its just pure luck. I think all of us who are sitting here so we have to wait several hours, but thats better than the alternative if we were involved. Drivers said when they got out of their cars they realized they were driving on a sheet of ice. Black ice is caused to be the cause of a Chain Reaction pileup in eernl gone. It happened saturday morning. 26 cars and trucks were involved and
Good afternoon rick is off in the news this noon, security has tightened at the delaware home of Vice President joe biden after somebody fires gunshots. A Martin Luther king day tradition continues at independence hall. But the big story on action news this noon is a deadly fire at a Montgomery County apartment complex. It happened at the linwood Garden Apartments in cheltenham township overnight. John rawlins is live with the latest on the investigation. John. Reporter hi, sarah. Well, firefighters left here a short time ago and left behind police tape and many questions and very few answers. Theres an on going investigation. People living nextdoor did not know there was a fire here until firefighters alerted them. Fire Officials Say the twoalarm fatal blaze was not called in as a house fire only that neighbors smelled smoke in the area. When firefighters arrived at 4 30 they found two Apartment Units burning. Police and fire crews were met with heavy smoke and fire and report of one
Saudiled coalition bombed the weapons depo in the capitol sanaa causing a huge explosion. Apparently it was targeting a scud missile base for the shia Houthi Rebels in the mountain and in a separate Development Yemen foreign minister says thousands loyal to the former president have been killed since the operation started. Our correspondent is joining us now from saudi arabia and mohamed lets start with the explosion, what are we hearing now . Yeah sammy, these explosions perhaps is the biggest that has been documented by the media. We have seen the Saudi Coalition spokesman everyday showing us the explosions from air but this is the most dramatic one because it has been filmed by the media from close range and has been a huge blast and rocked not only the mountain itself but also a adjacent district and the mountain overlooking the district of western sanaa and also where the president ial palace is located and the concentration of special forces loyal to all former president and we h
This helps people overcome their fears and realize their dreams. Well, in iraq thousands of shia militia in an effort to retake ramadi from isil. An adviser to irans stream screams leader. According to the International Coordination for migration many were forced to leave ramadi. As Islamic State in iraq and the levant advanced in to their city, but those who headed to baghdad are being questioned before allowed to enter the iraqi capital. They want to make sure that no fighters of isil make it into the city. Why arent we allowed in baghdad. We cannot cope. Its better to have a good life. There is a feeling among people that they have been betrayed. We spent two days on the road. We were humiliated at government check points along the way. Government forces just retreated from ramadi. Why did they do that . Ramadi now belongs to isil, at least for now. In video was released by the radical group. The provincial capital of anbar seems to have been abandoned in a threeday offensive that p