to a local hospital to make sure he was okay. after going through the high powered x-ray machine. the cops also said something like this happens about once a year. police investigating an apparent drug-related massacre, suddenly find themselves in a shootout in the middle of town. our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. mexico. locals ran for cover as bullets flew across this suburb in the center of the country. police say it was only hours after they had found 14 bodies dumped on a nearby highway. they say three suspected members of one of mexico s biggest drug gangs died in the fire fight. china. a typhoon causing massive floods in an eastern province, stranding thousands of people in the mountains. among them, according to local media, more than 2500 tourists. rescuers working to get the people across mountain streams to buses, which brought them down the mountain.
very good friday morning to you. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started here. some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. new details on whitney houston s funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see these images all the time, don t you? distracted drivers endangering you and me. the d.o.t. department of transportation is going to crack down on this. no facebook until you park, folks. it s a huge mystery. have you been following this, it s all over twitter. the stephen colbert show mysteriously canceled some shows. we re going to try to dig deep and figure out what happened for you. we want to b
does happen, and i hope it doesn t. martha: thank you, mike emanuel, merry christmas. bill: the cbo which is the nonpart son congressional budget office says it would reduce the budget by $3 billion over the next year. it will make unemployment benefits 99 weeks. and it would extend what they call the doctor fix. fox alert weather alert for you now. a snowstorm making its way up the plains, fierce winds, heavy no stranding thousands of travelers the days before christmas. the crews are out there urging folks to use caution if they are
of the power has been restored. it was out for 13 hours or so, shutting down schools and snarl link traffic as you can see from the pictures. thousands of traffic lights in the region were out. reports of minor accidents, even people stuck in elevators. officials are stressing that there was no sabotage here. we had an employee carrying out what is called a switching procedure in a yuma area substation, but we will need to take a little bit of time over the next day or two to try to figure out exactly what the relationship is if any between that procedure and the outages in yuma. reporter: all flights were with grounded at san diego international airport stranding thousands of passengers. the airport back up and running this morning, as is all public transportation in the area even the reactors at the san onofre nuclear power plant north of san diego went off line.
the weather is being blamed in the deaths of at least nine people across the region where life has come to a virtual standstill and temperatures won t get much above freezing all week. yunji de nies has the story. reporter: the sun belt is more like the snow belt as many parts of the south are snowed under. it s tough going with motorists slipping and sliding. a half a foot of snow in some areas is making travel nearly impossible. without snow chains motorists are going nowhere fast. pulled right out of my driveway and as soon as i left my whole back end slid around. reporter: this storm has packed a wallop. the mix of snow and ice has caused hundreds of accidents. in atlanta alone authorities reported more than 240. snow paralyzed the city s main airport, stranding thousands of travelers. the airlines have made the decision to reduce the travel schedule by about 60%. it just came tumbling down.