An emotional battle over allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children. It was enough to make a classic car lover cry. A sink hole does serious damage at a museum. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Another round of snow and ice paralyzes the south, causing gridlock and Power Outages in the region. In North Carolina, freezing rain and snow snarled traffic across the state. Drivers were stuck on roads for hours after ignoring pleas by Government Officials to stay home. Now the storm is making its way north. These are live pictures of washington d. C. , government offices shut down for the days. We have reports in atlanta, washington d. C. And philadelphia. Robert ray has details on the latest storm gripping the region. Southern discomfort as another powerful snow and ice storm socks states from tennessee to the carolinas. Many eyes were here on atlanta, to see if the city could avoid the same mistakes during the last storm that brought scenes like these.
And beatle mainio, the 50th anniversary. In a major milestone for gay rights, the Justice Department plans to expand recognition of samesex couples in federal matters. On monday, li issue a new policy memorandum that will for the first time in history, formally instruct all Justice Department employees to give lawful samesex marriages full and equal recognition to the greatest extent possible under the law. [ cheers ] reporter attorney general, eric holder, received two Standing Ovations during his speech with a fundraiser for a human rights campaign. They called it a victory, calling him a crusader for human rights, and comparing him to robert f. Kennedy. This means that in every courthouse, and every place in the department of justice on behalf of the United States, they will strive to insure that samesex marriages receive the same prokes and rights as opposite sex marriages under federal law. The new policy will protect same samesex couples from having to testify against their partn
Back at how the fab four changed merc. Authorities are realising this weekend millions of pounds of american beef were not properly inspected, sparking a recall of nearly 9 Million Pounds of milk. Regulators worry the animals were sick and unhealthy and no one noticed for month lisa bernard has more. Several corporations found the meat sent from here, came from animals that were unfit or deceased over the course of a year. We are talking about an extremely large amount of meat here. 8. 7 Million Pounds of meet is being recalled from this ranch corporation. Thats a huge escalation from midjanuary, when 40,000 pounds of meat was recalled. It was shipped to retailers over the first week of january. So far no one has reported getting sick from it. I spoke to a food safety expert who says that probably what happened is inspectors came here after the first two recalls last month and what they found, perhaps, was animals that were sick, not walking, on the ground. They were not here when the