The eastern third of the country facing Severe Weather while ice falls on the northeast tornados hit the gulf coast leaving a trail of destruction and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im del walters and millions waking up to the storms on mondays to slick commutes in new york to even tornados. Snow, sleet, strong winds and heavy rain and al jazeeras John Henry Smith has more. Reporter 1200 mile long winter storm stretching from the south to the northeast will head off shore today. Right on the heels of a storm that brought record cold to the east coast over the weekend, the winter storm began the workweek with enough snow and wind to cause virginia and North Carolina to declare states of emergency. Some parts of virginia got nearly a foot of snow and the traffic problems that go with it, hundreds of accidents. I hit the inside rail of the bridge and spun around. The posted speed limit through her was 60 and i was doing 55. The roads look good but they are black ice a
Suit news at 6 00 starts right now. We begin with breaking news. Hillary clinton won the nevada caucus. Its a big win after being beaten in the New Hampshire primary. The democratic duel in the desert has been settled. Has been a big turnout and in the last hour kurt clinton got the victory. Daniel nottingham is there live and she has the latest for us. Danielle . Reporter 10 and kate after splitting ken and kate after splitting the last two contest Hillary Clinton has won where is she is expected to address her supporters shortly. Nevada was seen as Hillary Clintons territory but Bernie Sanders put up a really good cbs news declared hillary the clint Hillary Clinton the winner of the nevada caucus. She started saturday visiting casino workers on the strip. Clinton held a commanding lead for months in nevada in the polls showed sanders had closed the gap. This was the first tast for the democratic candidate. A. Sanders kicked off his day with culinary workers. The vermont senator said
Colorado and minnesota, most of this clears out. The bigger problem i would say some of these temperatures, sub zero, northern parts of minnesota, minus 13 in international falls, that might keep you home instead of off to the polls this morning. Nicole, thank you very much. Weve been talking about super tuesday, but lots more to get you caught up on, including a showdown over security. Apple and f. B. I. Go to congress in a fight over unlocking the San Bernardino shooters phone. President obama meets with senators to talk about filling the open seats on the supreme court. Apple and f. B. I. Now taking their fight over unlockle that encrypted iphone to congress today. Lawyers from both sides will testify a day after a judge said apple does not have to unlock a phone in a separate case. What is apple said main argument today . Steph, del, ahead of the hearing, an apple executive wrote an open letter saying that he has no sympathy for terrorists but creating a back door to iphones would
Hearing today as the debate over National Security and privacy intensifies. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy, millions of americans have all right started casting their ballots on super tuesday. A a few hours ago, Bernie Sanders voted in vermont and he talked his campaigns goals. What i have said from day one is that our campaign does well when millions of people stand up and fight back for social justice, for economic justice, for environmental sanity. I am confident that if there is a large voter turnout today across this country, we are going to do well. If not, we are probably going to be struggling. Today could be a potential game changer for him and the for the republicans. There are hundreds of delegates at stake, the dems are vying for 865 in 11 states and american so mow i cant, the republicans for 595 delegates today. Jonathan martin is following developments in alabama but we begin with Heidi Zhou Castro in san antonio, the accident, a pivot
[ gunfire ] at least 27 iraqi soldiers have been killed today trying to push i. S. I. L. Out of ramadi. As the u. S. Calls for help in the fight gains the group. Welcome to your world, im stephanie sy. And im del walters. The pentagon wants others to step up. Lawmakers question the wisdom of a campaign focused on the air. Dictry Ash Carter Says hes been working to form a larger coalition. I wish that the sunni arab nations of the gulf would do more. They are willing to do so. I had lengthy conversations. So have i. Lets go live to imran khan. Iraqi forces, as we have been forting out fighting to take control. How closer they . What they are is theyve taken over the southwest of a key neighbourhood. That is a number of bridges taken directly to the center of ramadi and the stronghold of i. S. I. L. Fighters and surrounded the city on three sides. This is key. One of the big ways that i. S. I. L. Had to defend, and in ramadi. They had a bridge that was collecting them. Once the Iraqi Sec