Candidates hit the debate stage. The candidates throwing nasty jabs at each other in a crucial, conservative state. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Doug bitter and dangerous cold weather gripping the region right now. The frigid temperatures creating a pretty cool phenomenon on the ocean. Karen youre looking at sea smoke on boston harbor. Thats what happens when the arctic air blows over the warmer ocean water. Happy valentines day. Im karen anderson. Doug im doug meehan. You saw boston harbor. Its dangerous cold out there, danielle. Danielle doug, karen, that is correct. Weve set new records in boston and worcester this morning. You can see why the air temperature, nine below zero in boston. The old record was three below zero. 15 below zero in worcester. We havent seen this cold of temperature readings since 1957 right now were all below zero across the area. Nantucket is one below zero. You factor in the strong winds out of the
Running away. The officer then handcuff scott as he was lessft face down, and the officer then shows the officer planting a taser. Then to ferguson missouri, which hold its first municipal election since the shooting of michael brown. For the first time in fergusons 20year history, the sixmember city council will have three africanamericans. And to chicago where mayor rahm emanuel has survived a runoff against progressive challenger chuy garcia. Mayor emanuel to all the people of chicago who have given me the privilege to serve as your mayor for another four years, thank you, god bless you, and god bless chicago. Amy and we will speak with broadcaster tavis smiley about his new book, my journey with maya. Maya angelou you may try todod me in the very dark, but still like dust, i rise. Amy all that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A White South Carolina Police officer has been charged with murder after a video show
Police officer is charged with firstdegree murder after a cell phone video showed him shooting eight times into the back of a 50yearold africanamerican man named walter scott who was running away. The officer then handcuff scott as he was lessft face down, and the officer then shows the officer planting a taser. Then to ferguson missouri, which hold its first municipal election since the shooting of Michael Brown. For the first time in fergusons 20year history, the sixmember city council will have three africanamericans. And to chicago where mayor rahm emanuel has survived a runoff against progressive challenger chuy garcia. Mayor emanuel to all the people of chicago who have given me the privilege to serve as your mayor for another four years, thank you, god bless you, and god bless chicago. Amy and we will speak with broadcaster tavis smiley about his new book, my journey with maya. Maya angelou you may try todod me in the very dark, but still like dust, i rise. Amy all that and more
Then it will be added to the case file. And just today, police announced that they found that the van with freddie gray inside made a stop that police hadnt been aware of before. Hear someone walking behind us and give a sense of what they believe in the city. Shes yelling they killed freddie gray. That remains to be determined. The state attorney will be going through this and deciding whether or not any charges will be filed and that could take days or even weeks. In baltimore, brad bell, abc 7 news. Alison ok. Thank you very much for that breaking news. Riot stemming from frustration over this case led to a strict curfew, of course, in the city of baltimore and now there are questions about how this citywide bedtime could hurt businesses on whats expected to be a busy weekend there. Kevin lewis live in baltimore with reaction from Business Owners today. Kevin . Kevin hi there, alison. Hull street cafe here in baltimore on locust point certainly feeling the financial pinch here. The
Afghanistan. The discussion hosted by the Stemson Center in washington, d. C. Included analysts like stuart bolin, Inspector General for iraq reconstruction and his recent report arguing that a the u. S. Does not have a well executed plan to implement and oversee the reconstruction efforts. Defense department and u. N. Officials also participated in the discussion. This is an hour and a half. Good morning everyone. I am Ellen Laipson and im delighted to welcome you to the Stimson Center for this muggy of this conversation about war and peace new tools for messy transition. We are gathering at the time that we can see the end of both the iraq and afghanistan engagement, and this event in a way is pivoted around the offer by the special Inspector General for the iraqi reconstruction to present some of the findings for the final report so the special Inspector General office created in 2004 is now completing its work so it is a moment of reflection and looking back at what are some of the