One for the history books. That does it for us live from you and i as citizens have the power to set this countrys course. And now a message of moving forward. President obama gets to work today on his second term agenda. Harry taliban hunter. The prince home from afghanistan. He has war stories to tell. And Winter Weather alert. A big chill and a big snowstorm forming. It could mess up travel in a huge way this morning. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman, barely. Hes back. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Were in the beginning of the second term, jason wus second term. Over the pan of 18 minutes, president obama made his vision of his second term crystal clear, making mentions of past civil rights struggles on that Martin Luther king day, seneca falls, selma, stonewall and laying out his vision for the future, advancing gay rights, tolerance toward Illegal Immigrants, social welfare programs and stopping Climate Change. Dan loathian was there watchi
Objects and i think well be okay. Thank you for being with us. Coming up tomorrow on starting point the president and creative director of just fab, Kimora Lee Simmons will join us. Cnn newsroom with Carol Costello happening now. Missed opportunity with the inauguration speech . Sharp reaction to the president s inaugural speech. Then a night to remember. Ladies and gentlemen, my better half, and my dance partner, Michelle Obama. The first lady stepping out in ravishing red, a dashing dress by designer jason wu. Well talk to him live later this hour. Arctic blast, dangerously cold air plunging south, bringing with it heavy snow and bonechilling winds. This deadly 86car pileup, a scene of absolute chaos. Combat ready, prince harry on the front lines in afghanistan. Our job is make sure the guys are safe on the ground. If it means shooting someone who is shooting at them, that will do it. Gunning down taliban insurgents, plus remember this, asteroids on atari, a video game original and a
Still here. Look behind me. They, worked throughout the night on seminary at 17th. This section of the street is still blocked off. They are looking for two other men. They are looking for evidence. They are still at it this morning. This shooting happened last night at 6 30. Police say the officer was, working undercover. They have not released his name. He was on seminary near 17th. He was investigating another shooting when the chief says he was shot. During the course of the followup he was confronted by three armed and very dangerous individuals. During the confrontation the officer was shot in the arm. The officer suffered a nonlife threatening injury. He is expected to have a full recovery. Police say they arrested one person and are looking for two others who were possibly involved and they could be armed and dangerous. This neighborhood is just east of the colisieum. It has been on lockdown through the night. They have let in one family who spent the night in the car. They let
It was an accident, ran into it. Sky 7 hd was over the bridge this morning. This work started first thing in morning and is being done on the tower behind me. Its the further one closest to Treasure Island there. The process of removing fenders will be the first order of business. Lets show you what it looked like this morning. Caltrans contracted with a private company specializing in doing this work. One official told me its not like you can just back up a truck in this location. First order of business will be removing the damaged fender section when bar pilot apparently veered off course and side swiped the tower so this could reach as high as 3 million. They call it mobilizing the equipment they need to get the work done. Unless they do that. Firgs order of business is going to be removing damaged fend yir system autos caltrans says the same company that did repairs after 2007 accident is also performing in this work that is supposed to take up to four and a half months, nearly th
The reason for that is we have very dry air over d. C. And that set up an atmospheric roadblock, did not allow the precipitation to get much closer than about the fredericksburg area during the evening hours. When the cold air started, thats where the snow was. Well start off with radar tonight. The heaviest snow by far has been south of interstate 64 and west of 95. It is still snowing down in that area, although some of it has been melting. Iolite you where we have an issue is ill tell you where we have an issue is in the richmond area. A couple inches has come down pretty past. I saw some thunder and lightning down there and it was enough to cover the roads, so some slip and sliding there. That particular snow is headed over to the Hampton Roads area. Next stop is going to be ft. Blackmore in southwestern, west virginia. Snow totals topped out at 11 inches, around blacksburg 6 1 2, roanoke with 7 inches. Check out the storm on sentinel radar. Its a very impressive system. It just di