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today facebook said that it is partnering with fact checkers and news organizations to crack down on fake news, which plagued the election. stories with little credibility will now be marked disputed and will slide lower down in users news feeds. tonight millions in the midwest and the northeast are getting a visitor from the north pole in the form of arctic air and blinding snow. there were whiteout conditions across upstate new york. on a pennsylvania interstate 59 cars and trucks piled up more quickly than the snow. demarco morgan is in a town where gusts whipping off lake ontario make it feel well below zero. reporter: officials in jefferson county, pennsylvania blamed whiteout conditions for this massive pileup on people. 22 tractor-trailers and 37 cars lost control on the slick, snowy highway. the winter blast continues to pound much of the country. lake-effect snow warnings, watches and wind chill advisories are in effect from northeast ohio, where the s ....
know is there a cost for this kind of meddling. the republican nominee for president was encouraging russia to hack his opponent. because he believed that would help his campaign. this foolish guy, josherne earnest. i don t know if he is talking to president obama because he is so dad. by saturday morning, you can see the snow totals. a pretty thick blanket here. reports of renewed violence in epalpo, a.syri the evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians was suspended. a guilty verdict for the gunman in a shooting rampaget a a church in charleston, south carolina. dylann roof could get the death penalty. you take this and you burn it. it s not any part i can keep? the sports world is mourning the loss of craig sager. is there no person that i ve ever met in my life who wanted to live more. water is headed to corpus christi, texas, after the none of thisas w caused by the city. lockett, touchdown! the seahawks will clench the nfc west. all tha ....
but it s coming. we have ice to deal with for tomorrow morning. we will talk about this in detail. let s get you through the rest of today first. 30 degrees. we are not making it above freezing for most places. cloudy skies. the clouds make it feel colder. winds are out of the southeast. notice what that does to the temperatures. at midnight we are increasing the temperatures but that creates a problem. warm air, precipitation heading our way. i say precipitation because it will be different. we are looking at the potential for sleet then more importantly so freezing rain. that will create issues on the roads if you are an early riser getting on the road, relax your plans a little bit. 9:00, 10:00 will be just as good as 7:00, 8:00. looking at winter weather advisories. check out garrett county. they are under an ice storm warning. that is where it will be worse. this is an overview. i will detail. freezing rain turning to showers, warming up, drying out, showers then r ....
the sacrifice of a navy s.e.a.l. that was killed sunday on an al qaeda fight in yemen. owens was married, he had three children. white house officials say he was on his 12th deployment when he was killed. and that is just one development in another busy day here in our nation s capital. that included push back from democrats on the president s new supreme court nominee. tracie potts has that part of this story. reporter: republicans want to make sure that judge gorsuch gets a fair hearing, democrats are concerned about whether or not they may end up getting cut out of the process. judge neil gorsuch returned to the senate today, a decade after being unanimously confirmed to the federal appeals court, this time, might not be so easy. he smo the big leagues here. president obama s nominee never even got a hearing. that s a sore spot with democrats. we have to recover from it, we have to go on. let s give the man a chance, talk to him. don t shut it down befo ....
pelley: this is our western edition. dylann roof alone decided who would live or die when he opened fire on a group of african americans who had invited him into their bible study. he killed nine of the 12. now a jury, nine whites, three blacks, will decide whether he lives after convicting him today of all 33 charges in a federal hate crimes trial. mark strassmann is at the courthouse in charleston, south carolina. reporter: dylann roof s jury took two hours to find him guilty of gunning down nine bible studiers in a church because they were black. oh, my goodness, i could go on and on about tywanza. reporter: felicia sanders survived the attack. her son tywanza was killed right in front of her. during her testimony, she called out roof for refusing to look at her. that goes to show you how cold and callous he is. you slaughtered nine people and you sit there and don t even look? reporter: this morning in closing arguments, federal prosecutor nathan william ....