Rescue in San Francisco. After three teenagers fell off a cliff at china beach. You are looking at video from the hour long rescue operation. As it happened this afteroon. A coast guard helicopter was brought in. To airlift some of the teens to safety. Reporter another was taken away on the water. Now a closer look at where all this all happened. In the citys seaside neighborhood. Thats not too far from the presidio. Kron 4s scott rates is live unfolded. Reporter here are the steps were you call down to the beach but this happened weight off into the distance. That is where these three teams were walking on routes and apparently that is where they slipped and fell. We are told that the speaker. I happen around 12 00 this afternoon it happened and they fell around 50 ft to the ground the area they were walking and is off limits brett with it were done and that limit in that area is still a big mystery right now. The three of them did fall down there. Pam microphone issues pam right now.
With the Winter Weather. A snowy day is on tap for us. Lets get right to lou mowser to tell us all about it. Some folks were expecting to see some snow when they woke up this morning. We were expecting it. Some areas are seeing flurries right now. Most are not. I think this is going to start a little bit later on them than what we anticipated. Starting to show up on radar. Lets show hd doppler right now. Currently, the areas that you see in darker blue, thats where snow is falling. But, the whiter areas thats snow is coming down, but its not hitting the ground. When you can see areas south of the dc area around annapolis. Were seeing a rain snow mix that is starting to fall there. Whats interesting is you see this area, this open area start to hagers town and comes down around winchester. That area is moving in here and will actually pass by our area in the next several hours. So im thinking that were really not gonna start to see any of the hard stuff for probably the next several hou
Is alivelshi and have a great is alivelshi and have a great weekend. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com it is 4 p. M. In the east 1 p. M. On the west coast, im Martin Savage in for fredricka whitfield. Thank you very much for joining us it is great to be with you. These are the top stories we are following now in the cnn newsroom. Cnn has learned that president obama has nominated chuck hagel to be defense secretary to the former senator from nebraska is a vietnam war hero and served on capitol hill more than a decade but his confirmation process wont be smooth sailing. Athena jones is at the white house. And athena, hageling anered some lawmakers, especially because of the positions he has taken on middle east issues. What has he done that could cause challenges, say, for him here . Were vernely has proven to be a controversial figure, even thoughs republican. You would think this would be a bipartisan choice that could maybe please both said by lets listen to what South Carolina senat
Tweet me, high handle is ali velshi and have a great weekend. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon. Im Martin Savidge. Thank you very much for joining us this hour here in the cnn newsroom. Hugo chavez is fighting for his health interesting way of putting it according to venezuelan officials. The 5yearold leader has a severe lung infection. His fragile health has a lot of people wondering whether he will be able to go through with his inauguration next week. Moments ago, venezuelan lawmakers elect elected a president of that countrys National Assembly. Joining me is Senior Latin Affairs Editor rafael romo. This National Assembly election is really crucial. Tell me about it. It is crucial because it ensures continuity. Those people who are loyal to president chavez at least have the certainty that whatever happens and there are two possibility scenarios either the Vice President or the president of the National Assembly in this case the man who was just reelected, would have
Preview from white house adviser Kellyanne Conway who talked about the ramping up of operation warpspeed which is a way to speed up the vaccine development. That comes quickly on the heels of them being able to allow us to create therapeutics and vaccines. Reporter kellyanne is talking about a former pharmaceutical executive who will be the chief adviser, g gustov perna who will be the head of operation warpspeed. The question is how fast is w p warpspeed. He talked about a 12month timeline, which would be january, but there has been progress on the multiple vaccine candidates that are being explored from Oxford University to nih. Scott gottlieb, the former nih commissioner, says there could be Vaccine Doses Available for emergency use in september if we get outbreaks in particular areas. The question, really, is going to be then how soon after that could we massproduce vaccine to give to people who are vulnerable in this country and if there is Additional Details on that today, that w