Motorists in germantown trying to calculate prospects for commute and school tomorrow. If im early, ill beat everybody else. By the time i leave 5 00, nobody on the road. Im a teacher. Weave just been out a weve just been out a couple weeks almost. So were a little excited maybe there will be some snow. Reporter the maryland state Highway Administration an afternoon weather prediction of bands of light snow to begin hitting the baltimore beltways at 4 a. M. To 5 a. M. And continue until noon. Were only going to see 1 to 3 inches. The issue will be if it hits during rush hour. All the trucks will get stuck in the same traffic as you and i and they wont be able to treat the roads. Reporter salt brine was mixed in volume today and you can see the telltale lines left behind where trucks had treated roads during the sunny weather today to jump start the response for tomorrow morning. So this is all shaping up to be a really tough call for School Systems tomorrow morning. The snow is startin
Pelley good evening. We saw something today we havent seen since the dependents of the great recession. The price of oil fell below 50 a barrel. It ended the day at 50. 04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. Have a look at this. Just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. No one knows when the slide will end. On wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. The s p nearly 38. In beth cases a loss of nearly 2 . Elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. Reporter today marked the worst drop in the dow and s p since october. Analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. Bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. Why are the markets tanking . Oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below 50 a barrel. When you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economic downturn. The difference
Than 260. The sentence was issued in massachusetts, a state which has banned the Death Penalty since 1987 and has not carried out an execution since 1947. Polls show 85 of bostonians oppose the Death Penalty for zorn avenue as well as 80 of massachusetts residents. We will host a roundtable discussion with Denny Lebouef Eric Freedman and go to boston to speak with james rooney president of massachusetts citizens against the Death Penalty. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The selfproclaimed Islamic State has captured ramadi, capital of iraqs anbar province. The last of the iraqi forces fled on sunday as isil forces swept the city, killing government loyalists and seizing military equipment, including u. S. Supplied weapons. Local Officials Say around 500 civilians and soldiers were killed in just two days of fighting. And thousands have fled their homes. The fall of ramadi comes despite weeks of u. S. A
And wounded 260. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch called it a fitting punishment for a horrific crime. The jurys decision came after 14 hours of deliberation. Don dahler is at the federal courthouse in boston. Reporter its a city that has been holding its collective breath for this. Yes i think that its justice. Reporter but inside, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed little emotion, standing with head bowed as his fate was announced. Federal prosecutors knew they had an uphill battle in massachusetts, a state that has outlawed the Death Penalty in its own cases. Bostons Police Commissioner William Evans you know, not going to blow up our marathon, theyre not going to blow up our city, and theyre not going to inflict any type of terror in our country. I think thats the strong message we sent today. Reporter its likely, this was the critical image for the jury Surveillance Video of tsarnaev pl a deadly Pressure Cooker bomb four feet away from the Richard Family which witnesses said put eightye
With his life for his crime. Amy a federal jury has sentenced 21yearold Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection for setting off bombs at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 260. The sentence was issued in massachusetts, a state which has banned the Death Penalty since 1987 and has not carried out an execution since 1947. Polls show 85 of bostonians oppose the Death Penalty for zorn avenue as well as 80 of massachusetts residents. We will host a roundtable discussion with Denny Lebouef Eric Freedman and go to boston to speak with james rooney president of massachusetts citizens against the Death Penalty. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The selfproclaimed Islamic State has captured ramadi, capital of iraqs anbar province. The last of the iraqi forces fled on sunday as isil forces swept the city, killing government loyalists and seizing military equipment, including u. S. S