We also want to update you now on the School Systems which have already decided to close or two open late tomorrow. Within the last half hour we learned that Fairfax Fairfax county schools will close tomorrow. The city of alexandria schools will open two hours late. Prince william, stafford, and loud and counties will be close. Schools in garrett county, maryland, and Prince Georges County will open two hours late. In anne arundel county, schools are expected to be open tomorrow. Well have the complete listing delays and closings at the top and bottom of your screen. The Culpeper Churkin caused equipment we rely on the cold weather can cause equipment we rely on to fail. Whether it is metro or in your own home, we talked to a lot of people today who are doing what they could for getting ready for what will be a cold night. We are hoping we will not have any trouble. Whats opening the cap is under the sink, she is getting her home ready for the arctic blast of cold air that will send te
Accused of being an al qaeda prairve. What it says on social media and the law. Plus soccer fever is sweeping and uniting america with record ratings and rabid fans. Is the United States finally embracing the spors . Sport . They are colleagues, they are not criminals. Three al jazeera journalists held for months in a egyptian jail. They reported the facts. They told the truth. For that egypt condemned them. Sentencing them today to years in prison accusing the three of helping the Muslim Brotherhood. Al jazeera denies the charges. The world is watching and reacting with anger with shock and for our journalists with sol solidarity. It was a verdict nearly six months in the making. The alleged crime, journalists doing their jobs. Al jazeera correspondent peter greste and producers Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have been sentenced to seven years behind bars. Baher was given an additional three years for a spent cartridge found on him. Journalists reacted with anger. And their families
Option much we begin in iraq, where rebel fighters declared the creation of a new islamic country. Sunni fighters in Islamic State of iraq and levant are calling the new county the Islamic State. This comes as the governments counteroffense of appears to have stalled outside of tikrit. Reporter iraqs army on state tv has reinforcements in the battle for tikrit. The military insists that the road from samarra to the town is secure, and the villages along the way are tape and iraqi sold taken and iraqi soldiers are on the outskirts. Independent sources that they are 25km from the town. Translation up to the moment more than 70 terrorists were killed and dozens of vehicles used near tikrit are at the governments office, have been destroyed. All the vast majority of the group belong to a rebel group, the Islamic State of iraq and levant are in control of the media campaign, and they dispute what the government says. His claims are dismissed bli i. S. I. L. Through the social media. They sa
Good evening, one of those suspected of being behind the murder of september 11th, 2012 terror attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya, was whisked into this country early this morning to face american justice. Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured in libya two weeks ago, by u. S. Special forces and was formally arraigned late today in a washington courthouse. He is charged with providing support for the attack that lev four americans dead. And ignited a political firestorm here at home over how the Obama White House responded and first characterized the attack. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has late developments for us. It was a brief Court Hearing lasting about ten minutes, a very significant one. The first suspect making a highly unusual weekend appearance before a federal judge here in washington. Under heightened security, he was brought early this morning to the federal courthouse at the foot of capitol hill. Ending a 5,000 mile journey that lasted nearly two weeks.
The stunning obstacles hes overcome. A star even before hitting the field tonight. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a sunday night. We begin tonight with those flooding concerns stretching across several states. Eight major rivers swollen. More drenching rain and Severe Weather on the way. In illinois this was the picture through the windshield. Drivers faced flash flooding. Roadways suddenly disappearing. In illinois entire neighborhoods surrounded by water. And take a look at mt. Rushmore. You see the famous faces of the president s there and the lightning flashes behind them. And tonight there is more rain coming to minneapolis where that mudslide sheared away the land underneath the hospital. The hospital still standing. The forecast for the rain and possible tornadoing in a moment here but abc outside minneapolis tonight. Reporter along the river in the town of dell know today the water reaching its peek. Just barely protected by a freshly built dike but some busines