Returns to earth after a botched First Mission. And if christmas was a competition, this familys recordbreaking light display might win. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Im Errol Barnett. The countdown is now on, a record 115 Million People are traveling for the holidays and nearly all of them doing so on the road. That can be dangerous. Take a look at what happened in virginia today. Ice and fog are blamed for this massive Chain Reaction interstate pile up involving nearly 70 vehicles. 51 people were taken to hospitals and two of them are in critical condition. It is a cautionary note for anyone heading outside as many did today searching for those lastminute gifts. Our Laura Podesta is among them. Reporter nationwide shoppers are making a list and checking it twice. Ornaments, cocktail stuff, i guess. Whatever catches their eye. Reporter hanukkah is already here and christmas just days away. I have coupons. I have cash kohls. Reporter if you hate c
Is fine its also on the grid what looks like another blow to the two state solution israel could party has approved a draft resolution calling for the annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank those would be the parts illegally occupied by Israeli Settlers from arab and hes exploiting the tension the end of the explosions and kim jong. Un his threats against the United States but this time he adds an ominous footnote saying not only does north korea have Nuclear Weapons which could lead to the u. S. But that the launch is always on this time. China says instead it was being a dumping ground for foreign waste and its ban on importing rubbish to reduce pollution has thrown the global waste into industry into chaos im satisfied and you can tweet me throughout the sharing your thoughts using the hash tag a. J. Youre with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com fourteen deaths at least that is what we are hearing from
Granted but more than anything just so much moisture in this atmosphere that these clouds have formed. It is a mild start. Muggy start. In the terribly windy start but i dont think you have to deal with too much in the way of fog. That is some good news. Storm scan three quiet as can be. I want to take you on a tour here and you will see we have wet weather rumbling through and just the form of granted a line but it is pockets within that line, of some showers and right now you can see lightening strikes that fire up here outside pittsburgh area. That is what will happen for us, we are looking ahead to noon, as we go on the air at Eyewitness News at noon, we will have something to track at least over central a pennsylvania, and it is mainly an afternoon and evening event for rest of us say two or four or 5 00 p. M. Those speckles start to show up for our area and then we will see pockets moving over philadelphia, notice timing 5 00 p. M. Prime time for some folks to be out there travel
Right now at 11 00, donald back in the headlines, why the white house released a portion of his 2005 tax return the noreaster is gone, time to clean up. The new concern is ice, find out how cold its going to get. Major winter storm knocked out power to thousands across the region. Many remain in the dark. The effect of the storm still being felt. Im jessica dean im Ukee Washington. Philadelphia Public Schools will be open on time tomorrow. But archdiocese schools will be on a twohour delay 400 closings and delays at bomb of your screen, Live Team Coverage of the storms aftermath. We start with lauren casey whos tracking falling temperatures and also lauren, the threat of ice. Thanks so much jessica, temperatures across the Delaware Valley right now are sub freezing, all of that snow, sleet we saw is now refreezing. That will create hazardous travel conditions as High Temperatures will struggle, as far as the precipitation, most of that has moved off our noreaster to the north and east
Being felt. Im jessica dean im Ukee Washington. Philadelphia Public Schools will be open on time tomorrow. But archdiocese schools will be on a twohour delay 400 closings and delays at bomb of your screen, Live Team Coverage of the storms aftermath. We start with lauren casey whos tracking falling temperatures and also lauren, the threat of ice. Thanks so much jessica, temperatures across the Delaware Valley right now are sub freezing, all of that snow, sleet we saw is now refreezing. That will create hazardous travel conditions as High Temperatures will struggle, as far as the precipitation, most of that has moved off our noreaster to the north and east a few scatter the snow showers parts of delaware like we didnt have enough today, as far as snowfall total, Monroe County picking up 19 inches. Lehigh county picking up over 15 inches, bethlehem 14, drexel hill five and a half inches of snowfall, more coming up in a little bit later in the show. Also along the i95 corridor we saw snow.