a sixteen people are dead in the u.s. state of california as wildfires continue to spread for a third day the fires have scorched the state s famous wine country and forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes. as always plenty more news on our web site al-jazeera dot com and in the news we ll continue here after techno i.o.p. to say with a sense of watching. al-jazeera . where ever you. are the rain forests of the sea prize for their beauty and resorts is the wildlife. also one of the most fun ecosystems a threat to climate change and no place better symbolizes their importance on their plight than australia s great barrier reef. this is technically a show about innovation and change not we re going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity made during its unique way this is a show about science i signed. on. every week oh yes. ok so this commercial they see behind me is a bunch of people already getting ready to dive in the great barrier for the firs
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duty. at times speakers struggled to control their tears honoring 18 police officers who died protecting the city of alexandria alexandria. they all share a memorial steps from the police department. this is where darcy spencer was at the dead kigs. private eugene yokum. reporter: 18 officers who died in the line of duty in al alexandria since the 1800s read one by one. private whitfield lincecum. reporter: those officers forever remembered on a glass memorial dedicated in their honor outside the police department. men and women of this police department i hope this is always a place of reflection and may we never place another in memorial at this location. reporter: one of the names, detective conrad bernie her daughter who later became an officer spoke at the ceremony. i was 12 years old when he died and 42 years of his death he is the most important person in hi life. reporter: the memorial was years in the making and looked like it might not happen. ken ho
our area. i m meteorologist jim cantore in boston, massachusetts, right here in the cross hairs of a 3407bster storm. i m darcy spencer on the scene of a hit and run. one teenager rushed to the hospital. a cab driver may be to blame. out for revenge. tonight, the manhunt intensifies for a former lapd cop on a mission to kill. first tonight, though, a winter weather advisory is now in place for parts of our area. there s a major storm barrelling up the east coast. it could be an historic snowfall for parts of the northeast. strong wind, pounding rain, up to three feet of snow expected. and hundreds of flights have already been cancelled. tonight, jim cantore is in boston. but we re going to begin with doug to tell us what we can expect here. the storm is moving into our area right now. and it will be here through early tomorrow morning. and that does included rush hour and our winter weather advisory has actually been extended into other parts of the region. making
charlottesville. west of charlottesville you begin to see a little snow and sleet on the western side of this precipitation. it s all moving south to north and will overspread us overnight. if you live far enough west tomorrow, you might not see a lot of moisture, but you will get the backside of it when things develop off the coast. we do have a lot of rain that s just down to our south. of course, as we ve talked about this throughout the last hour, that this is part of a system that will develop and become quite an impressive storm for new england and in particular, eastern new england, but locally we do have some winter weather advisories that will kick in at midnight and this does include now montgomery and howard. it gets up to baltimore, over to frederick and includes loudoun county and northern faquier county because there could be just enough of a combination of snow, sleet and freezing rain when this begins to put down maybe a small coating on some grassy areas and