those on the scene there said it was an opportunity to honor the dead and embrace hanukkah s theme of survival. the festival of lights lasts for eight days. and a wedding proposal in new york could have ended very badly without assistance from social media. this is when the engagement ring fell off the woman s finger into a sidewalk grate in times square. the new york city police department tweeted video showing the man dropping to the ground to try and retrieve the ring but no luck. police found the ring and then courtesy of an all points bulletin on twitter located the foreign couple, john and daniella in their unidentified home country. i am not sure why we are protecting that. i don t know. the nypd tweeted the case was closed and arrangements are being made to reunite the couple
down in new york city sidewalk grate will get it back. they asked for help on the scene but thought it was a lost cause and left. they went back home to england without leaving names or contact information. well, the nypd launched a twitter campaign to identify them. john and daniela are thanking the officers who retrieved the ring. sandra: thank you, twitter. it s amazing what twitter can do now to find someone across the ocean. you drop something in the grates in new york city there is a lot of stuff down there. jon: they ventilate the subway system down below and there are passageways and everything. sandra: happy for the lucky couple there. crisis talks underway to france in the wake of violent anti-government protests that rocked paris. more than 100 people injured and more than 400 arrested over the weekend during france s worst urban riots in a
he had a warning yesterday. he said if the shutdown continues, veteran benefits checks will not go out in november. the aid included military hardware and $260 million in cash. morsi is set to go on trial next month on charges that he incited the killing of opponents last august. courtesy of the u.s. coast guard. this happened over the pacific. a crew flew more than 1,000 miles to drop off blood. the doctors needed those supplies so the coast guard dropped them off and looks pretty cool doing it, too. now to a scary situation in northern virginia just outside of washington, d.c. a man fell through a sidewalk grate that was covering a vent for an underground garage. the man fell 15 feet down a shaft. he was conscious and brought to the hospital in stable condition after rescue crews pulled him to the surface on a stretcher. investigators are trying to figure out what caused that