Arabia and well speak to one man volunteering to receive 100 lashes on behalf of a saudi blogger found guilty of insulting islam. But first, snow is still falling in new england and the impact of this storm will be felt for days to come. Yes, it will. The massachusetts coastline got the brunt of the storm. Hurricane force wind gusts and a storm surge caused flooding and Property Damage as well. Power is back on for some people on nantucket island. Thats good news. But thousands more remain in the dark and in the cold. The flooding was more intense and a lot higher than predicted, and it wasnt until late last night that we realized although it was 35 degrees, it was going to continue to snow. Thats when we really started realizing that we had a bigger problem than what we originally anticipated. But we were prepared, but i dont know how anybody can be prepared entirely when you lose all your communications and electricity electricity. The blizzard dumped up to three feet of snow more th
Windblown tidal surge breached the saw wall in marshfield and forced evacuations in the coastal town of scituate as well. But overnight, the worst of the 2015 blizzard has now passed. In massachusetts, the statewide travel ban ended at midnight. I want to bring in our National Reporter nick valencia. Nick reporting from scituate in massachusetts. Nick. Reporter its coastal communities like this one in massachusetts, scituate that bore the brunt of that Severe Weather system that moved through massachusetts. The bad news for this community is that they may not be out of it just yet. A Coastal Flood Advisory is still in effect for scituate until 7 00 a. M. And high tide happening between 5 00 a. M. 4 00 a. M. And 5 00 a. M. So there still could be more problems to come. But for now it seems that they may be in the clear. Less than 24 hours ago, that wasnt the case. So much so that the National Guard sent two teams in here to rescue some families families that chose not to evacuate despit
A japanese hostage. And a smashing success. Apple posts the largest profit in corps history, massive sales of the iphone 6 and surging demand in china. Thanks for joining us everyone. It is 4 00 p. M. In tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe says his government is working together to win the release of isis hostage kenji goto. Isis released a new public of new picture of goto holing a picture of the jordanian pilot captured last month. The message says isis will kill both men in 24 hours unless jordan release a female prisoner convicted in a series of bombings in 2005. We want to bring in will ripley now who is following developments from tokyo. It is a race again time now for japan to convince jordan to cooperate and consider releasing a convicted terrorist in exchange for the two hostages. What progress has likely been made at this snow shower. Reporter we know that all of those discussions continue to happen feverishly behind the scenes. You mentioned it is a race against time.
Says has been negotiating in back channels. And this is after a failed negotiation for custody of a jordanian prisoner. This after a group who says they have not reveled in taking hostages and celebrating it. So what is the latest on the ultimatum ultimatum . Well, this is tweeted out, and this is the latest audio recording which purports to with be the surviving hostage voice of kenji who says that by 9 30 a. M. Tomorrow mosul time that if they are not at the Turkish Border with the jordanian hostage, they will not release the hostage. For jordan, this is a hard prisoner to give up, because she is a prisoner, and attempted to give part of the terrorist attack and the vest did not go off. Yes shgs, and this was devastating in iman,r and the capital of jor dap and this is an operation ordered by the then leader of iraq al zarquawi and the only reason she did not kill anybody is because the suicide vest didnt go off and the jordanian view is twofold, it is a Prisoner Exchange and she is
Island all the way up to maine. Catastrophic flooding flooding in massachusetts where a windblown tidal surge breached the saw wall in marshfield and forced evacuations there as well. But overnight, the worst of the 2015 blizzard has now passed. In massachusetts the statewide travel ban ended at midnight. Lets bring in National Reporter nick valencia. Nick whats it like where you are . Reporter good morning, christine. It still is very cold and that wind is still a factor here. Its in scituate where we saw some of the nastiest wind about 60 Miles Per Hour more than two feet of snow. Just behind me here is the Atlantic Ocean. And that caused a problem yesterday morning when flooding hit this community. This is a coastal alal community. So theyre used to seeing major flooding in this area but even residents that weve spoken to throughout the day in the past couple of days that weve been sear say that its remarkable what they saw here over the course of the last 24 to 48 hours. So much so