Theres no complaints from the public. Maybe theyll get to Police Officers and everybody who needs ambulances on time, right . Sam the mayor says fire and e. M. S. Employees would give additional training on their communications devices. And that is because there is a fire company in northwest, not these people but a fire company in northwest that keyed the wrong information into these tablet devices like this. So the 911 center did not know it was available three blocks from where a toddler was choking to death on a grape. The child died late last week and the right information in one of these devices could have made a difference. Reporting live from southeast washington, sam ford abc 7 news. Maureen there were no injuries in a fire at an abandoned house in leesburg tonight. News chopper 7 flew over the scene on dry hollow road. Firefighters had to pull back because of the intense flames. Theres no word on a cause. Just in from the district Surveillance Footage shows persons of interes
Another winter storm blasting the u. S. This morning. The second in more than two weeks in two dozen states. More than a hundred million americans feeling the brunt of triplethreat weather, ice, snow, and rain. And expected to dump yet another foot of snow in the northeast. It is causing a nightmare in the skies. Thousands of flights have already been canceled, so check ahead. Visibility outside on the roads is poor. Icy roads turning deadly. Making it dangerous for anyone who decides to venture out. Thomas brayton reports. That all too familiar sound and sight is back again. I cant remember it being so cold or so much snow for one season. Reporter another blast of snow slamming over two dozen states with kansas and missouri taking the brunt tuesday. Blizzardlikes and near zero visibility on the great plains, had ever plow and snow truck out on the road trying to stay ahead of a constant snowfall, and now there are concerns things could get worse on the highways. Kansas ci kansas city
West Orange High School outside of arsenal. The schools principal said student had been shot and was en route to the hospital. Law enforcement officers were at the scene and they were observing all safety procedures. Well bring you more information as we get it. In a matter of just ten days the nation will mark the one Year Anniversary of the sandy hook massacre. Today brought a painful remind reminder. Prosecutors have released 911 called. Al jazeera will not air those calls. Reporter we did listen to seven calls shortly after fires were shot inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. A woman called the Police Dispatcher and said she had glimpsed someone running down the hall with a gun saying they were still shooting. And glass had been shot out but the school was on lock down. Officers entered the school nine minutes after the 911 call. By then the shooting was over and adam lanza had killed himself after takings lives of 20 children and six educators. Were not playing the calls and for o
Speaks at a washington think tank in just a few minutes. Mike viqueira joins us from washington. Mike, good morning, what are some of the main points the president is expected to address . Reporter you are right, the president turning a page now after the last two months healthcare. Gov debacle. He is going to talk about the grows gap between rich and poor. Its not a new story or a new subject for president obama. He talked ariel castro it two years ago in a benchmark speech in kansas. And he spoke a little bit about in this years state of the union. The top 1 in this country have seen their income triple over the course of the last 28 years, meanwhile the middle class has scene their income grow at a modest 1 on average over the course of that same time annually. So the president will be talking about that. Hell be talking once again renewing his call to raise the minimum wage. A lot of talk about that here in d. C. Where the city council is voting to raise the minimum wage. Democrats
And the need to slim down is not unique to citi; its industry wide. A financial industry runs into huge problems. It happened in the 30s, and it happened in the last five years. When you go through these periods, you go through a lot of change. That industry is now trying to figure out what is the right size of the industry. Reporter still, economists say citis action today is not the start of a new wave of mass layoffs across corporate america. The nations job market may not be robust, but its not frozen, either. In fact, today, the payroll firm a. D. P. Reported 118,000 new private sector jobs were added in november, fewer than in october. The blame for last months slowdown in hiring falls squarely on Hurricane Sandy, not on any new or widespread weakness in the economy. I would expect that by december, were going to see some bounce back. Much of the disruption from sandy was people simply not being able to get to work or firms not employing people that they ordinarily would have. Re