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murder of 16 afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier accused of acting as a one-man death squad. afghan officials say the shooting spree took place in two villages in kandahar province in the district known as the birth place of the taliban. sara sidner joined us with the latest on this story. sara, what do we know right now? reporter: president hamid karzai has released a statement saying 16 people have been dialed including 9 children, 3 women, and 4 afghan men. he s called this a deplorable 5k9 saying it s an act of terrorism that s unforgivable, and he is has been talking about what has to be done going forward. now, there is a full investigation going on, as you might imagine, from nato officials as well as afghan officials looking into this incident. what we re hearing from the international security assistance forces officials, they re saying there s one soldier, an army staff sergeant who acted alone, who went off base around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, went out ....
For what s coming? well, we re fully mobilized, chris. the main the main message to people throughout our state, because hey, the width of this storm is going to stretch from fredrick in western maryland all the way to the ocean. so this is going to take up probably 80% of the population of our state. and the message is this. look, the first 72 are on you. in other words, every family needs to be prepared to weather 72 hours. in the dark. without electricity. there will be electrical outages. and they will be so widespread that it will take us quite awhile to get to them. so every family needs to do their part to help our state, whether by protecting their family family with provisions to last 72 hours on their own. governor o malley. thanks for the joining us on what i know is a very busy day for you. thank you, chris. while the east coast keeps a close eye on hurricane irene, wall street is keeping a close ....
Tough new sanction on syria coming from the white house this afternoon, but these aren t just the general sanctions against the country. they single out senior officials. this is an attempt to stir the regime, a crackdown on the protesters, a protest that s seen hundreds killed since mid-march. i want to go live to the white house to brianna keilar. why are they going after assad and these other officials? reporter: brooke, it s certainly a stepping up not just of the redrick but really in a very really way stepping up, drawing a link between the responsibility that president assad shares for the crackdown that we ve been seeing against peaceful protesters in syria and the deaths there since mid-march. we ve seen more general measures before. ....
haven t seen in some time. the melting plus the rain, plus ice clogging the storm drains could cause flooding. big problems. tell us about the forecast today. driving along, not see it and come right into heavy water. deep water, perhaps. in some of the ramps and low lying areas, watch out for that this morning. we will have this rain tapering off and ending in another hour or so. mostly snow from iowa, all the way to maine. that is the going to continue there. here, the rain that we had overnight and this morning across maryland and the district, this is all rain. this is passing south to north. should be breaking up and ending in the next hour or two. there are a few pockets of freezing temperatures, haggerstourngs at bwi, and above freezing, pockets of freezing, most on tree limbs and power lines, and much warmer. by noon time, near 50. metro area. even warmer in central virginia, and overnight tonight, much colder. blustery northwest winds, 20s, and patchy ice a ....
Thousands of people are already pouring into the streets of some cities, most internet service and cell phones are out. and it has already turned deadly. at least six people have been killed so far this week. i want to show you some video, and really quick warning. this is disturbing, so i want to give the heads up. it shows a man being shot. he s on the left of your screen. he s picking up a rock and walking several steps and then he s shot by security services. all right. we do, however, want to start now with this story that we re covering from all over. mohamed is at the international desk and ed henry live at the white house. fredrick is live for us in cairo. fredrick, good morning to you once again. this was supposed to be the day of anger today. what are we seeing so far? reporter: well, t.j., we re already seeing some of these demonstrations have already started. i can show you, you can see ....