Republicans call in at 202 7488001. Independent colors callin at 202 7488002. And a special line this morning for recent immigrants 202 7488003. You can always catch up with us on social media on twitter and on facebook. Good Tuesday Morning to you. The country waking up to a new head of the department of justice today. Dana been taken appointed by donald trump as the acting attorney general after sally gates ordered her staff to refuse to enforce the president s temporary ban on entry to the United States for citizens of the seven muslim majority countries. The Washington Post story said that the white house said that yates betrayed the department of justice. Dana boente said he would enforce the president s directive until he was replaced by senator Jeff Sessions. There is a markup for his nomination taking place this morning at 9 30. We will show that live on cspan3. We will be with you on washington journal until 10 00. Barack obama injected himself into the debate, doing so in the
7488002. Guantanamo bay prison, what should be done with it . Withary miami herald the story. Sixdeal that dropped detainees in uruguay is seen as the vanguard of future south american settlements in attempts to close guantanamo. Rogers, who is currently the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on cnn cost state of the union yesterday. [video clip] them are not from uruguay. There from all over the rest of the world. Some of the services that do these agreements cant do it. We pay money. To these countries who take these prisoners that is not their culture or they are from. The services are supposed to monitor these people. What we have found in the past is that it does not work very well. I do not think that surprises anybody. Maybe we ought to rethink what we are doing here. Some past released prisoners are reengaged in the terrorist fight. Those of us who try to do the review of this were so concerned because they were so interested in getting them out, they forgot due d
Storm trudging across the country right now dumping tons of snow and icing over roads along the way. Its being called the worst storm, worst snowstorm of the season, millions bracing across texas and oklahoma on the move and is expected to make a mess of things along much of the east coast which already got a taste of whats to come. Heavy snow from the boardwalk in ocean city, new jersey, to the plains of amarillo, texas, and its this storm in the Southern Plains bringing a foot or more of snow that has the attention of millions of americans. Forecasters say it could be the worst storm of the season so far in the Southern Plains, and it could gain strength as it barrel as cross the country potentially forming a noreaster this weekend and dumped a few inches on denver before moving south and east. New mexico road crews were out early chains at the ready. As the temperature drops, im going to be in the house. You dont want to be on the roads then. I dont want to be on the roads. Reporter
The middle part of january here. Getting specifics for an hourly forecast for tomorrow. Sunshine, just a few clouds. Somewhere in the lower 20s. And i enjoy sharing that kind of good news and theres more of it coming up shortly. Look forward to that. Thank you. We do. All right, were following breaking news today and this is out of falls church where crews are on the scene of an explosion at a shopping center. This happened about an hour ago at eden center at Seven Corners where route 7 meets wilson boulevard and route 50. Joce sterman is live on the scene with the breaking details. Whats going on . We have just confirmed with the city of falls church three people were killed in this explosion. None have life threatening injuries. We want to show you the scene. This centers on princess diamonds right here, you can see the windows at the front of the Jewelry Store have been completely blown out and heres basically what happened. Witnesses tell us just after 3 00 today, theyre standing a
900 part per million, and dang. And convulsions within a few minutes of exposure. Fire officials believe a faulty heater may have caused the house to fill with Carbon Monoxide. Langfords the par to a church of christ in wins low township credits god with saving his family. He says they are recovering fine but what didnt protect the langfords was a Carbon Monoxide detector. The the Fire Department says they didnt find any in the house. Officials say is there an extremely important lesson to learn, make sure you have working Carbon Monoxide detectors. If they did not have medical emergency or call 911 when they did it could have been fatal. Reporter fire tenth actually installed a Carbon Monoxide detector for the langfords after ventilating their house. They say it is safe as taras being clear of Carbon Monoxide but langfords cant return home until they have their heater check by a licensed technician. We are live from winslow township, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Cleve, thanks ve