The man who paid a lot of money to combat tenure and the mark he leaves behind. Reporter the socalled supercop is back in new york. The mayor elect named William Braton the job he had under giuliani. This is a beacon of light for the rest of world. Reporter his record of cleaning up crime was what attracted the oakland officials, paying him 250,000 to tell them how to tackle crime here. A yearlong contract job that ended a month ago. I think what bill did was that he came in and he watched how we were implementing different things, from time to time, our crime analysis. Even though you can do the form of it, do you do the heart of it, try to predict where the crime will happen . Having someone who is the nations expert on him was really important, i think. Reporter a major strategy he pushed was breaking down the city into five districts, with Police Commanders tasked with building relationships and being responsible for the crimes in their communities. The mayor believes the strategy
Im richard lui. A brutal weather system is bearing down across the United States. More than 30 Million People are in the path of this arctic invasion. We have snow, ice, and extraordinary drops in temperature also expected and its not over yet. Lets start with nbcs Miguel Almaguer who has the story. Reporter the big chill impacting 33 million americans is bringing a brutal mix of ice, snow, and substore row temperatures to 27 states. In minnesota nearly three feet of snow in two days. It is going to be a white christmas. Reporter the arctic blast burying cars. Conditions like these on the roads claiming at least six lives. By friday it could be 20 degrees below zero. States from california to mississippi to kentucky are bracing for pockets of record cold. We havent seen anything like this for a while this early in the season. Reporter across much of the west, temperatures could plummet 40 degrees below normal. In denver it went from nearly 60 degrees to 6 in one day. Perfect for the po
Washington, d. C. Im dara brown. Just today more than a dozen raids were carried out and 15 people arrested in australia following a huge antiterrorism operation. Australian ill tell jens Officials Say militants connected with isis were planning to carry out public beheadings, more than 800 Police Officers in sydney were involved in this operation. Back at home, it is now up to the senate. Today they take what the house passed wednesday, a measure to approve arming moderate syrians in hopes of taking down terror group isis. President obama thanked house lawmakers at the annual congressional picnic. He urged the senate to take up the bill without delay, some lawmakers remain concerned. Loretta sanchez said, quote, we dont know if somehow down the line theyll turn our guns right back on us. Here is senator joe manchin with msnbcs chris hayes. Well give them the air support. Im all for that. This doesnt make any sense for us to go in and embolden them, the isis, and use it as a recruiting
Merry christmas, everybody Merry Christmas captions by vitac this is abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org president obama and the first lady were among those pausing to remember the anniversary of the newtown shooting. Theght, we hear from victim. Good evening. I am brad bell. The weather has been messy around our area. Some parts seeing a lot of snow. This is video of some of the downpour in arlington. When is all of this going to clear out . Steve rudin is with us now. Definitely good news on the way as promised. Rain has moved out of the metro area as it moves towards the north and east. Not such great news for philadelphia and new york city. Looking at radar, the skies are beginning to clear from southwest to northeast. We are going to look for a chilly temperature moving through the overnight hours. Amateurs falling to near freezing at martinsburg and winchester. Is 46 at lexington park. Look to the extreme right hand s
Echos the heartbreak reading quote we weep as one. Officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos, one a newlywed, the other a father of two were shot at point blank range in their police car in brooklyn, simply because they were members of Law Enforcement. They were two of new yorks finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation. They were quite simply assassinated. Targeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of this city safe. Police say the gunman, 28yearold Ismaaiyl Brinsley was already on the run after shooting his exgirlfriend overnight in baltimore. He had a long history of run ins in with the law, 19 arrests in georgia and ohio as well as family disputes and a suicide attempt. Police believe instagram postings hours before the shooting revealed brinsleys plans. A silver gun references to eric garner and Michael Brown and a hash tag that reads shoot the police. Just moments before brinsley ambushed the officers witnesses said he sai