And im barbara harrison. Its wednesday, january 30th, 2013. 20 first graders and six women who tried to protect them at sandy hook elementary school. The hearing was set for sparks but the hearing took a more even dramatic turn when former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was there. Giffords led off with a statement that lasted about one minute. Speaking is difficult, but i need to Say Something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. Giffords resigned from Congress Last january, one year after she was shot in theead at a Public Outreach meeting in tucson. She and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly have formed a Political Action group aimed at strengthening gun laws. On to the big story this morning. Traffic is still a mess thanks to a major crash on the beltway early this morning. This was from about 90 minutes ago. You can see cars slowly getting by on route 50 in lanham. It involved a fire truck and an suv and sen
This truck is the quiet point surrounded by a sea of barely moving traffic. As we come back live, here is the truck on the ground. The good news as we said a few moments ago, they have drained the gasoline and diesel feel out of there. As much as 4,000 or 5,000 gallons out of there earlier. They tlink there might have been 8,000 total. The next is to have a tow truck moved in there. They thought it was any moment. Now at least half an hour, so thats the next step. Move the truck and check the road bed underneath. Do any repairs, get anything cleaned out. At best theyre hoping 8 00 to 9 00 tonight. Live in marin county, wayne freedman, abc 7. All right, wayne. Thank you. Lets take a look at the drivetime traffic right now and you can see the red spots. Those are the hot spots where you would expect 101 near larkspur and greenbrae. So things are moving very slowly. Live pictures now. Well check the evening commute on the richmond bridge. And theres nobody there. Our suspicion is everybod
The car with him. Eight hours later whereabouts still unknown tonight. Good evening. California Highway Patrol issued an amber alert to be on the look out for that car jacked vehicle. We are talking about. You may have been alerted on the smart phone. Its now been eight hours as i said since Oakland Police began searching for a car with the man and 2 other people inside. Police believe the 2 are kidnap swloyms were taken at knife point from the parking lot of a safeway on redwood road this was the scene ascap toured by sky 7 hd tonight. Police say the man they are talking about was in this safeway just before 1 00 oclock when he drew the attention of store employee who thought he was trying to shoplift. Now this is a new image released by police in the last hour. It was taken from Surveillance Video captured in the store. Police say the car with license plate no. 6 jfm 6 4 8 is what they are looking for after earlier saying it was an suv. They now believe it is a sedan but thats the li
Expected for all of you in the carolinas. It has already been raining for days. The region could get another 515 inches of rain. We have an update on evacuations live in the cnn newsroom. So good to have your company. Thanks for making time for us. Im christi paul. Victor blackwell. 10 00 here on the east coast. 7 00 out west. Heavy rains, historic flooding, the kind seen every 500 years. Right now, in the carolinas, look at this video from charleston. The hazard lights there. Some will have to get out of their cars and walk. Roads quickly turning into rivers. It is becoming more dangerous. States of emergency have been declared in several states. Some people have packed up to find dryer land. The ground already soaked from weeks of rain may soon have to hold another foot of it with creeks on the rise and storm surges expected. Lets get now to nick valencia. He is out in it, in the area of charleston, South Carolina. You are standing right there in the water. Tell us what you are seein
Today is the stars of a pr it describes how President Trump is really rebelling against the criticism and restrictions from his chief of staff. We pb prks theyre trying to make the case that donald trump did not obstruct justice had he fired james comey. This is going to be very interesting legal maneuvering about this mika has the morning off today. We have washington anchor for b Bryan Pagliano c word news in,. Prp sfrnl also Senior Writer at politico and a washington, d. C. Senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc, mark hall principle. Katie kay, take us through the thus in argue fshlg now and texas finally able to dry out little by by little bit. A number of communities remain in the very real threat danger. Their road pb prrnl has been reduced to an island, the coast guard hacked away at a come would many frrm surrounded by floodwaters, the 120,000 people who live there have nothing to drink. Imagine that, its august and they have nothing to drink. All eyes are on crosby, t