Unbelievable. cheers and applause i appreciate it. I dont know how youre going to get home. Look outside our studio right now. I saw this outside on the sudden river ten minutes ago. Not making this up. Thats my ride home. My ubear. Now, theres not only a storm here in new york city. This was another storm gathering at the box office this weekend. American sniper is really hitting its mark. The blockbuster details the life of Legendary Navy seal chris kyle. The deadliest sniper in u. S. History. Hes played by Bradley Cooper. You got a grenade, handing it to the kid. Now number one for the second weekend in a row already bringing in more than 200 million in the u. S. Larry 200 million . Man thats the cost of, like, 40 seconds of the actual iraq war. applause so american sniper is already the biggest january release ever and is on pace to beat passion of the christ as the number one rrated movie of all time. Its official. Bradley cooper is the new rrated jesus. cheers and applause hallel
Inalternativement camp. Booktv, 48 hours of books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next on booktv from the gershman y in philadelphia Matthew Christopher presents photos from his book, abandoned america. Mr. Christopher spent ten years documenting ruined institutions throughout the country from schools and churches to factories and military installations. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] all right. Sounds like the mics on. Thank you so much for coming out tonight, folks, on behalf of hidden city philadelphia. Id like to welcome you to this event, this celebration of Matt Christophers new book abandoned america the age of consequences. Before i forget, id like to point out that this event is actually being recorded by cspan. Everything that happens tonight will eventually appear on booktv. Now, what they need you to do is turn off your cell phones. Its like going to the ritz. [laughter] and to remember that were going to have a q and a session
Pretty good clip. Right now the heavier showers towards west caln and towards downingtown. 75 now in northeast philadelphia. Everybody is in the 70s with the exception of the poconos. Everybody is steamy. You can see it in the air. Occasional showers, some areas of light fog. Then just mostly cloudy and muggy at 9 00 and at lunch time, 86 degrees and climbing. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood when i come back. First katy zachry has traffic. Theres a new accident into our system on the Atlantic City expressway westbound on the ramp from the black horse pike, which is exit 2. The ramp is blocked. Its a single car accident. It hit a pole. Some downed wires are involved. So the entrance ramp to the ac expressway westbound is blocked at the black horse pike. Center city philadelphia, a lot of road closures to tell you about associated with cleanup from the made in music festival. Inner and outer lanes of the parkway from 20th street to eakins oval closed through tomorrow. A l
Hub. We have a reporter on the front line. Reporter were standing on one of the front lines here. Were only about 5 kilometers away from debaltseve. We are hearing reports some ukrainian troops may be leaving the town but were also hearing the regular sound of artillery with the fighting still going on. Hqsbc launch inging an investigation after claims of Money Laundering. Hundreds of chinese head home for the lunar year whats thought to be the biggest migration. Hello. Ukrainian troops have begun withdrawing from debaltseve in the east of the country. The town has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in recent days and is strategy liq important because of the railroad hub that links the town and donetsk. Showing several ukrainian troops on the move with their weapons from debaltseve. Russian foreign minister gave a News Conference and said ukrainian troops tried to bolt out of debaltseve rather than negotiate with the rebels. Translator were trying to relieve the ukrainian
Welcome. It could be the final act of a greek drama, with eurozone finance ministers due to meet in a couple hours time and try to reach a deal on the countrys bailout. Lets have a look at some of the figures in play here. In total, greece owes more than 320 billion euros in debt. Thats a huge 175 of the countrys gdp, its annual economic output. And as a proportion thats one of the highest in the world, because if you were to split up greeces mountain of debt over its entire population each person would owe almost 30,000 euros each. And so far, greece has received 240 billion euros in bailout deals. But those agreements as we know, have been tied to strict austerity measures. And those measures is have hit the economy hard. The majority of young people are unemployed. So, greeces Loan Agreement will expire on the 28th of february. And without a deal it would be unable to pay its bills within a matter of weeks. In a moment were going to hear from the street of athens. But first, heres t