Pelley dylann roof alone decided who would live or die when he opened fire on a group of African Americans who had invited him into their bible study. He killed nine of the 12. Now a jury, nine whites, three blacks, will decide whether he lives after convicting him today of all 33 charges in a federal hate crimes trial. Mark strassmann is at the courthouse in charleston, south carolina. Reporter dylann roofs jury took two hours to find him guilty of gunning down nine bible studiers in a church because they were black. Oh, my goodness, i could go on and on about tywanza. Reporter Felicia Sanders survived the attack. Her son tywanza was killed in front of her. During her testimony, she called out roof for refusing to look at her. That goes to show you how cold and callous he is. You slaughtered nine people and look . Reporter this morning in closing argument, federal prosecutor Nathan Williams called him a man of immense hatred, committing an act of tremendous cowardice, shooting them wh
Today facebook said that it is partnering with Fact Checkers and news organizations to crack down on fake news, which plagued the election. Stories with little credibility will now be marked disputed and will slide lower down in users news feeds. Tonight millions in the midwest and the northeast are getting a visitor from the north pole in the form of arctic air and blinding snow. There were whiteout conditions across upstate new york. On a pennsylvania interstate 59 cars and trucks piled up more quickly than the snow. Demarco morgan is in a town where gusts whipping off lake ontario make it feel well below zero. Reporter officials in jefferson county, pennsylvania blamed whiteout conditions for this massive pileup on people. 22 tractortrailers and 37 cars lost control on the slick, snowy highway. The winter blast continues to pound much of the country. Lakeeffect snow warnings, watches and wind chill advisories are in effect from northeast ohio, where the snowfall caused massive delay
Will have it until 10 00 a. M. The fog is very patchy. It improves this morning. This afternoon, you will want shaved for the sunshine. Shades for the sunshine. We have a three mile visibility in the dark. If you are jumping in the car, you are looking pretty good. No reason to speed. Your travel times look pretty go back to you. Melinda the curse is broken. Chicago cubs of the 2016 world series championships. Ben it took 10 innings to do it, but the cubs beat the indians late last night. Tim a lot of cubs fans doing this this morning. The most important game of the year. It is been more than a central more than a century since the cubs took on the title. [applause] celebrate they did. The alcohol shower after the game and the cubs locker room. Comes fans c out to see their team win. Many fans flying this w after an astonishing comeback. Here are some of the highlights. Dexter fowler got things started with a home run in the top of the first. David ross capping off his last game with a
Ben . Melinda lets go to Jeremy Nelson. Jeremy come good morning jeremy as a make our trip on we had to get past waukesha to find any type of fog. These inland counties do have a dense fog advisory. They are some pockets for you to get below a half mile visibility. Then you will go off a hill and come down into a lower spot to find more i encourage everyone to have low beam highlights on. Low beam headlights on. It has cooled off quite a bit and we are in the 30s. Nothing too unusual for this time with those cooler morning lows. But it is the afternoon highs in the 60s. That is unusual. This morning where talking fog. Minute ago and it has settled back in. I am meteorologist Jeremy Nelson. Ben lets turn to traffic. Matt, we have been following an accident back of mecca we do have a crash on 41 northbound accident . Matt we do have an crash on 41 northbound. It may have just been cleared. Right now, putting on from highway q down to the zoo. That is a look at the morning commute. Melind
It is really a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. I just said to a couple of people that the best memory is to write it down. And so, this important history, the people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. One german historian said that history always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and until we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He had visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them