near the cambodian capital. on the top of the world. cbs news remembers lempdgendary reporter bob simon. during the beginning of the first gulf war bob and his cbs crew were captured for 40 days in iraqi prisons. i thank god that the four of us are alive. reporter: republicans and democrats are not seeing eye to eye as the u.s. appears headed towards stepped up action against isis. isil is going to lose. a cease-fire deal reached according to president putin to put an end to the fighting in eastern ukraine. three winning tickets in powerball sold in north carolina, portuerto rico and texas. the lucky winners split $564 million. and a chase in dallas. that ended when the drive irplowed into two vehicles. people dragged the suspect out of the car. my mom taking down a high-speed chase guy. the fbi joining in the investigation into the fatal shooting of three muslim sunts students in chapel him, north carolina. a potential blizzard. places absolutel
i don t think we will quite get there but we can at least expect to ease up on the thermometer. we have that going for us. we will have much more tea tail on that here as we progress throughout the the show erika back over to you. back to our top story, aftermath of this unbelievable explosion that leveled a home in ocean county, new jersey. the video is incredible. this dash cam video from a police cruiser captured the blast as it happened. utility crews are continuing to work on that damaged line this morning. fifteen people were injured two of them remain hospitalized in critical condition. we spoke with two neighbors who were home when the explosion happened. it was terribly loud i never heard anything so loud, and i thought a tractor trailer hit this porch. the that is how much the house shook. the whole neighborhood was shaken unbelievably. we heard the big explosion you felt it, the whole building shook our whole house shook and you felt it was big. it shook
the board cuts. let me tell you, if sequester happens, it is going to damage the readiness of the united states of america. we have the most powerful military force right now. it s important to providing stability. if it goes into effect and we have to do the kind of cuts that will go right at readiness, right at maintenance, we are going to weaken the united states and make it more difficult to respond to the crises in the world. joining me now, peter alexander. with a good sunday to you, my friend. we have the president talking about gun control proposals, what is he saying? reporter: it s as much about what he is doing and what he is saying in his trip to minnesota. this is a state that has a long history of gun ownership in that community. nearly one in ten people in the state of minnesota have licenses to hunt in that state. minneapolis is an area that is familiar with gun violence as well. a mass shooting that took place in september. the president is going to lay
parks was born. she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in montgomery, alabama. an act of resistance that launch the modern-day civil rights movement. today, we spend the hour looking at her life. we have one of the most famous americans of the 20th- century treated like a children s book hero, not seen as being worthy of a substantive, scholarly treatment. that is what surprised me and continues to surprise me, the ways that we diminish her legacy by making it about a single day, a single act, as opposed to the rich and lifelong history of resistance that was actually who rosa parks was. we speak with historian jeanne theoharis, her new book, the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks. all that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the obama administration has granted itself the right to launch a pre-emptive strike on foreign targets. cyber attacks would be carried out, should the
bowl win. good morning everybody. i m aaron gilchrist. i m eun yang. welcome to news4 today for this tuesday, february 5, 2013. we caught a bit of a break with the weather this morning. that snow that threatened to slow down the commute was a no show. meteorologist tom kierein is here on what to expect had morning. no problems weatherwise this morning. ha system came and went quickly. right now it s in the upper 20s to near 30 in montgomery county. much of prince george s county right now low to mid-30s. that same thing in washington. arlington, in the low 30s and much of fairfax county in the upper 20s near 30 degrees. farther west, southwest, across northern virginia, only in the upper 20s to 30 degrees. that storm system quickly passed through. it went north of us. just a few flurries from it. did put down some snow in pennsylvania and new england. right now getting a few sprinkles of light rain eastern parts of the northern neck. 6:00 a.m. temperatures, upper 20s. f