Australia paralyzing downtown sydney. Several terrified captives managed to escape in two waves, running to the safety of waiting Police Officers. You can see the terrified looks right there on their faces. The hostages were taken by a gunman early this morning in the busy district of australias biggest city. Its not far from the opera house where tonights performances are canceled. We get more from abcs gloria riviera. Reporter these pictures. A hostage situation in a shop in the busy Business District of australias capital city. I heard some witnesses say that they went to go in and saw a man with a sawed off shotgun. Reporter heavily armed police in s. W. A. T. Gear surrounding the area, closing down busy streets and evacuating nearby buildings. We dont yet know the motivation of the perpetrator. We dont yet know whether these are politically motivated, although there are some indications it could be. Reporter australian tv airing this image of people inside holding a black flag wit
And a few other things throughout that continue to fall. How much snow have we seen . Gaugersberg, 1. 2 inches. Winchester, around 4 inch mark. This is right where we were talking about during the day yesterday. Our forecast looking good for this. Back towards the west though, r romney, west virginia, 14 inches. Higher elevations getting more than the six inches. They saw that back to places in the west. The big issue is the temperatures tonight. And notice were very close to freezing. Dulles right now at 33. Reston, 33. 34 in rockville. Many of the secondary roads will become rather slick overnight tonight. Any snow left on the roads farther to the north and west will become rather slick. Watch out there tonight and watch out early tomorrow morning. Ill have more if a minute. All right. And our Team Coverage continues now. News 4s david cukul cull culve tracking the weather in hay market. Vdot crews are out this hour and continuing to treat the roads. Now you remember last winter, i d
Your years of work and your fathers legacy and the rededication of the dr. Charles drew blood center. I feel tied to the American Red Cross in many wonderful ways. Not only because my father dr. Charles r. Drew was so involved in the storage and delivery of blood at the request of the American Red Cross for the blood for britain project in 1940 and 1941. But also because my mother introduced all of us to the American Red Cross as young people and to its work with the candy stripers and to its devotion to good. My mom was Lenore Robins before she became lenore drew. My dad and mom met in atlanta, georgia in 1939. My mother was teaching at Spellman College and my father had gone to make a presentatio at atlanta university. They met at a party and my dad had to leave to go make his presentation but he was so submiten he went back to the United States last night and demanded he see my mother who was living as a dorm mother essentially and he was not permitted to see her but he insisted he
Husband more of the Sexual Assault allegations are still coming to light. Good day, it is a tuesday, december 16th, already, good morning. Good morning good Christmas Gifts purchased, ready to go, cards are out. Can you just believe how few days we have until christmas and it is hanukkah tonight. Hanukkah starts tonight. Sue, we have the tree but not a decoration or light. Not an ornament. Nothing. Okay. We have to get to work. Well, there are some people who wait until Christmas Eve anyway, so you can always do that. Lets take a look at our the satellite and radar picture and get you started for your day. Quite a few clouds showing up on the satellite this morning because we are getting ready for this rain. This is warm front we told but yesterday that will come through, later in the day. We dont expect it to arrive until afternoon. We will check future cast next time but for right now it is colder out there this morning then it was yesterday. We dont have much of a win, sunrise at 7
Lets go over here. Back hear. The daily foundation. It has been a really strange week in the realm of ideas. We had an article earlier in the atlantic. The Islamic State is very islamic and its foolish to talk about these things without entering realistically and seriously in the realm of ideas. To what extent does the allergy have consequences . What role does the United States playing talking about theology . Do we combat the seriously theologically driven threat . Well, i want to say one thing you. Do we have a general in charge of ideas . Do we have somebody who wakes up every day and looks of the ideological war and says this is our going to play the battlefield . We dont. [inaudible conversations] so it is not just that piece. All of the other things that we are putting into the bucket of the soft power that that person doesnt actually control. And so the integration of both of those things i mean, in my view is we think about all of these pieces, including the theological piece