[ music ] priceless theft a stun gun, a concert master and the mystery of who stole a 300yearold stradavarius. [ music ] atlanta will recover from the ice storm and life will get back to normal. For now the city is reeling from Mother Nature and mistakes from those in power. Thousands stranded on highway, children spending the night in schools and buses. Good samaritans rescuing those in need. We know it happened, but why what went wrong . We begin with robert ray in atlanta. Atlanta, paralyzed by a few inches of snow that turned quickly into dangerous ice. The ice on the road people are trying to drive up and down the road and couldnt make it. Tyres lost traction, everyone hit each other. A million commuters and schoolchildren trying to go home simultaneously tuesday as the storm bore down. The result a colossal regionwide traffic jam. Many people driving. If you can call it that, for over 16 hours, marking their progress in inches. Some stranded overnight, forced to leave their vehic
Jennifer leaders from israel and gaza met in egypt today to discuss a possible drawdown with u. S. Secretary general. For now, though the fighting continues. Israeli air strikes killed nearly 40 people today, groups in gaza respondented by shooting nearly 100 rockets in israel. And on the israeli side of the border things appeared remarkably calm today. This picture has caused a stir online. It shows israelis watching passively as incoming missiles sail over head. So why to israelis feel so comfortable out in the open as missiles fly above them . Because of something called the iron dome. Its a Defense System that uses radar to detect incoming rockets and determine where they will land. If it is headed towards a populated area the gunner shoots the missile out of the sky. It is particularly good at detecting the smaller, older rockets that the palestinians use. Iron dome has had an incredible 85 successful rate against the 300 rockets the palestinians have fired. The gulf missiles inte
Come in this building. Today we know all the shots fired at the scene were from officers in pursuit of the suspect. The Capitol Police officers injured in this incident will recover. While all of this was happening, Miriam Careys 1yearold little girl was in the back of that speeding car. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams has been following this story from the very beginning and joins me now. Pete, what more do we know about the background of miriam carey, what her family might be saying about the possible motivation for why she had come to d. C. . Reporter well, in terms of her background, she was a dental hygienist who had been recently fired from her job in stamford, connecticut. She did have this child just over one year old. And what her what police tell us is that her relatives and family members have told them that she had a real tough time with the pregnancy and suffered from postpartum depression and that just recently she had begun to become delusional, that she had
Jennifer more than 30 michigan schools will close two days early for the holiday break this year. Why . Well, it is not to give students an early Christmas Gift. It is because officials are concerned about copycat killers following the newtown tragedy. Now, the superintendent of one of the districts issued a statement saying. John fuglesang my friends has it really come to this . That kindergarteners cant go to school because we, as a country cant ensure theyll be safe from semiautomatic weapon wielding lunatics and the solution from our far right wing friends . Arm the teachers. The very teaches theyve called union thugs. We should pay to train these teachers. The people who scream us to about fast and furious and said gun proliferation and mexico was dangerous are still telling us gun proliferation in america makes us safer. Welcome to the u. S. A. Where of some you will find its easier to buy a weapon designed to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time than it is to marry who
Who was calling the shots . Why was this process interrupted . You know, things like the shop and browse portion were turned off. There are so many questions. But now id also like to know from Kathleen Sebelius how am i going to respond. I am getting thousands of requests from reaching out to my office telling me that their Health Care Premiums are going up and that their Health Care Plan that they have is being cancelled. How do i respond to that. Those are the questions id like to know. Have you asked anyone in North Carolina why the state didnt start its own exchange, knowing that there was going to be a 3. 5 increase on all those people in your home state of North Carolina that would seek insurance that that bill would be larger than other states . The reason that the exchange was not set up in North Carolina is because of the vast failure that weve seen. Weve seen but you wouldnt have known about any glitches or gaffes. You wont have known about any glitches or gaffes going into i