To the east coast. 124 million americans across 16 states, in its grip. Look at what some families face this weekend, cars, no match for the slick icy highways. Neighbors pitching into help out. Power lines dangerously caked in ice. So are the car windows. Sidewalks turned into skating rinks, roads icy enough for sleds. Our extreme weather team is in the storm zone tonight. And Abcs Steve Osunsami starts us off in arkansas. Reporter black ice. White ice. Theyre calling ice friday, stretching some 2,000 miles across the middle of the country. Turning roads in illinois into ice rinks with massive blowing snow, shutting down more than a dozen airports across seven states, and killing at least six people. In Northern Arkansas today a man was killed when an icy tree fell down on his home. And this was the ice versus a power line in fayetteville, the ice won. There are flashes. Reporter back in the city the driver of this little rock bus nearly lost it on a slick road. Families stuck at home
Heavy weaponry moving across into Eastern Ukraine. Across that border. So this is an extremely worrying situation, according to nature skro and according to officials in that region. And it begs the question as to why. You know, some people have suggested that putin is either playing a double game or hes lost control. And that would be pretty, you know, pretty worrying. Others are saying they on all counts do not want ukraine to win the battle for Eastern Ukraine. And if you remember, before the shooting down of mh17 and before the shooting down of several ukrainian fighter jets by the separatist rebels, ukraine, the military, was making a very severe in roads into the separatist control of that area. Had already taken back one down and was moving on to donetsk, et cetera. So it was beginning to mute neutralize the separatist threat. And all of that came to a head when the separatists started firing much more heavy weaponry and tanks and artillery and other such thing was coming over.
Who is accused of stashing rocks as the schools . And multiple claims that looters have been using credit cards stolen from the wreckage of flight 17 in ukraine. Hi there im Brianna Keilar. We begin with the world lead. Its almost with a sense of disbelief i must report for the third time in a week a passenger plane has crashed. This time its a plane owned by swift air by operated by air algerie. Reuters is reporting the wreckage has been spotted in the west african nation of mali. According to the president of that country, the plane took off from the nation of burkina faso bound for the capital of algeria but lost contact near mali which is now where it lies according to reuters. Thunderstorms were in the area during the flight. Burkina fasos transport minister says the plane was asked to change course. Mali is in turmoil with islamists can fighting the government and French Forces there. This crash comes a day after a Transasia Airways an flight crash while trying to land in rain. T
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western addition. There was no escaping the war today, not for the palestinians who sought shelter in a United Nations school in the northern gaza strip. The school was hit by shells. Each side the israelis and the palestinians is blaming the other. Palestinian Officials Say at least 15 people were killed, dozens more were wounded. We have two reports tonight. First, Barry Petersen in gaza. Reporter there was only one question amid the chaos how does this kind of war makes sense . A child, who looked to be in shock. Two children brought in together. They looked bewildered. When we first saw sevenyearold shahhead, she seemed unconscious. But then a good sign opened her eyes. The hospital was overwhelmed. From everything weve seen, most of the casualties are children and women. Ibrahim shinbarry lost three cousins, his son wounded. No warning, he said. No warning. Eight days ago, residents took shelter at th
The hour here in houston. Where floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey may have peaked but new dimensions of the disaster are coming into view and others exploding back to light. Late today the arkema Chemical Plant in crosby was rocked again. You see the fire theres. What began as flooding became a power outage. Cooling equipment shut down. Chemicals heated up and erupted in flames. Thankfully that fire has died down. Officials warn new explosions are about certain. Well have more shortly. It is just one of the string of different developments here tonight that should signal loud and clear this is not over. I know people think the weather is fine and the the rest of the country is moving on. Folks here cant move on. This is not over by any means, including at the airport where gary tuchman discovered an airlift under way. Take a look. It is an emergency airlift. Hurricane victims who have lost their homes, their belongings, everything, bussed to a tarmac at a airport that serves port arthu