miles per hour. that s because it s changing over from rain to snow. not going to be a big snow event. but the roads are wet from the rain. temperature now in new york city, 33. especially western suburbs. when the snow comes down, it will evaporate and as the sun sets, 5:00, in one hour, the bridges are going to be a mess. too bad, john, i was hoping for better news. looks like a lot of people are going to be late for thanksgiving. we re going to turn to shannon travis in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. woo were talking earlier, you said the roads are being cleared up by the plows. they are. i talked to a transportation official earlier. he said exactly, we dodged a bullet. meaning in a sense that the wicked weather, the downfall of the icy rain on the roads, they didn t quite get that here in pittsburgh as we expected.
independence day. a transportation official says it was not caused by human error. thanks so much. fox news alert for you because it was a dramatic day in court as lawyers made their final arguments in the george zimmerman trial yesterday. george zimmerman is not guilty if you have just a reasonable doubt that he acted in self-defense. trayvon benjamin martin is entitled to the truth. well now six women are left to decide george zimmerman s fate. but how will having an all female jury impact the decision and what do we know about these women. joining me to weigh in is a jury consultant. so let s start with the first question. all female jury. do you think that affects their decision make being or are we stereotyping? i think sometimes when we focus on the gender that is a bit of over simplification.
politico. everyone seems more at interest of i told you so. people are too happy it blame it on the other haparty and i thin that will run for a while. your reaction to, the unnamed transportation official there. tamron, that s why we should get on with the conference committee. the whole purpose is to try and iron out your differences. to try to negotiate a common budget solution and we would like to do that in a transparent way, in the light of day. the so-called regular order. our republican colleagues have been calling for that for months and months and months. now we don t really understand why they don t take the next step in the process. that the next step to avoiding exactly what caller said. that s the next step in trying to resolve our differences as opposed to, you know, trying it further divide us. all right, congressman, chris van hollen, thank you very much.
interstate 70 in vail, comlorad, is closed in both directions because of a 30-car accidents. authorities have not been able to find out if there are injuries or fatalities. the state transportation official says it will be a fairly lengthy closure. let s hope for the best. when a couple hires a surrogate, they entrust that person with their hopes and their dreams for a baby. one couple, the journey turned into an anguished ordeal. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us from the cnn center with more on this very, very painful story. elizabeth, what happened? reporter: surrogacy stories usually have happy endings. but in this case, the arrangement went horribly wrong. crystal kelly was thrilled when a couple hired her to be their surrogate and carry their baby. the husband and wife were ecstatic too. finally they d have the child they d been longing for.
and vigil to mourn the mexican american singer who was killed in a plane crash sunday. mexico s top transportation official says rivera s plane plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and may have hit the ground at more than 600 miles per hour. in russia s far east, a fiery sight as a dormant volcano started erupting after almost 40 years. red-hot lava poured out as an alert went out for planes to stay back. a giant asteroid known as 4179 tutotis is passing by earth within 4.3 million miles. that s close enough to view through a telescope, and it s more than 3 miles across. that s about half the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. now let s get a check of wall street. the dow closed at 13,248 after gaining 78 points yesterday. the s&p added nine. the nasdaq jumped 35. overseas markets also ended on a