Four the further north you go. But the timing being overnight into tomorrow morning, this to maybe 6 00, 7 00 at the latest, could be just enough to interfere with schools and certainly your Tuesday Morning commute. Good news, once this passes though, looks like we got a little warmup headed our way. Thats in a few minutes. Police are now questions the copilot of an ethiopian plane, the jet was headed for rome but was hijacked and forced to land in switzerland. We have more on what happened. Reporter passengers held their hands aussies Police Escorted them off the airliner one by one to safety. Officials say the Ethiopian Airline was headed from ethiopia to rome. But made an unscheduled landing in switzerland instead. Authorities say the hijacker was the copilot who sir rendered to police asking for asylum in switzerland. Authorities say the copilot locked the cockpit door and took control of the plane. No passengers were hurt in the incident. Cbs news. Genevas airport was closed for a
Recommendation recommends that the military reduce the number of people carrying security clearance, and recommends ongoing and continue can yal background checks for the men and women who hold the clearances to better catch the red flags like those shown by aaron alexis. We called, but we did not receive a call back from the firm that employed him, but they said that fire and Emergency Rescue teams responded quote swift swiftly and heroically once the shooting began on december 16th. Scott macfarlane, news desk. And now two people dead after a helicopter crashed near the space needle in downtown seatt seattle. The chopper had taken off from affiliate komo when something went wrong. Cameraman bill strothman and reporter Gary Pfitzner were kill kill killed. And flames from the crash engulfed a car where the man was taken to the hospital with 20 burns to his body. And the helicopter dove over the trees and crashed on the other side of the street there. We have also learned that the helic
Have not been altogether successful. Potentially could be very challenging. Reporter wusa9 traffic expert Monica Centanni expects trouble. If you look closely, you see the shoulder and then none and is in only one car going by. Imagine tomorrow morning what this could look like with a full on morning commute. Reporter monica says a lot of roads still need the snow pushed back. Look at this person right here. Were looking at a pedestrian Walking Around this mound of snow straight onto the street. Reporter speaking of pedestrians, some of the sidewalks remain unshovelled including these sidewalks along foxhall road, one of d. C. s swankiest neighborhoods. Sidewalks arent very good right here. Reporter this is another of those huge piles of snow that are blocking your sight lines. This one is in bethesda. The crews are exhausted just trying to get a breather before the next snow hits. So this will likely be here in the morning when you are trying to pull out safely into traffic. In bethes
Harold the first double he hit down the line, that carlos pena dove for down the first base line, this one he takes the other way, down the corner in left. Covering the whole diamond tonight. Tom bottom four hitters have been on base ten times in this game for the angels. Thats what i meant about the depth. Obviously trout, pujols, hamilton, that gets your attention. But man, they dont need to turn it over to hurt you. Joe batter now is cowgill. When we talked about ron washington, the manager of the rangers who got to the world series in 2010, 2011, and asked him to size up the American League west and what he liked about the top three teams heres a bunt that may have come back and hit cowgill in the face. And it did. Oh, wow. Wow. Harold one of those heat seekers. I dont know if he fouled that off or not. Joe applying pressure on that wound as that looked like skin on the nose just opened up. Harold that was ugly. Joe you could hear the home plate umpire say first base, so theyre say
We start with the final countdown to the olympics and those lingering concerns about security. Give you a live look now at sochi. Todays Opening Ceremony takes place in the stadium there on the left. It starts at about 11 00 a. M. Eastern time. Thousands of americans are in sochi, and more will be arriving in the coming days following the warning about terrorists smuggling explosives onto planes in toothpaste tubes. Homeland security is now banning liquids in carryon luggage and direct flights from the u. S. To russia. Now, these are the most expensive olympics staged, an estimated 51 billion, and as abcs Hamish Mcdonald tells us, theres a lot at stake. Reporter and for vladimir putin, the president of russia, he has staked everything on being able to carry out these games successfully, but with just a few hours to go before the big event, as it were, the Opening Ceremony, a lot of lastminute work being done, a lot of those final bits of preparation at the venues and some of the accomm