become the first hurricane of the season, too, and the path it is on could send it straight into sandy territory right up the eastern seaboard. seconds ago, the national weather service released an update on the storm and where it s headed. let s go to atlanta and chad myers crushing the numbers for us. how big is this arthur and where is it going? earlier today, it was nothing. it was 35 miles per hour. now the hurricane center s latest forecast says by the 4th of july around 2:00, a 90-mile per hour still category one but on the boarder of that. there is the storm. much more menacinmenacing. the radar is not that impressive, that s because the radar doesn t go that far. satellite looks down, radar looks out, by the time the radar gets there, the rainfall is on the other side, can t see it. some of these showers are to tampa and sarasota, one of the outer bands will get many, many more bands. the biggest threat with this storm will be the rip currents. all the way up the e
heads down! heads down! heads down! this is what passengers aboard flight 772 from toronto to panama city heard after a flight that included threats of fighter escort and when what you witnessed. pamela brown has the latest. what happened here? as we saw, anderson, a chaotic scene, dramatic moments caught on a cell phone video as a swat team stormed an airliner after what the airline told us was a quote agitated passenger who threatened the plane. the sun wing flight was only 45 minutes into the route this morning from toronto to panama city when one passenger made a direct threat against the aircraft. we listened to audio. it appears to be a bomb threat, so the plane turned around and two u.s. military jets in the air were dispatched to escort it back to toronto s airport where it made an emergency landing and that s where the security team stormed the plane. they arrested a 25-year-old male, a canadian citizen that remains in custody tonight. he ll have a bail hearing t
white house. a big executive order from president obama and a call for congress to take action as well. this time the president says it will be different. this is all unfolding on a day after a weekend of protests around the country with students walking out of class, protesters clashing with police, players on the st. louis rams walking on to the field with their hands up. all the angles tonight starting in atlanta where the attorney general is speaking shortly. martin savidge is there. great to see you. what do we expect the attorney general to say? good evening, john, yeah, a number of things, but you ve already alluded to one of the most prominent features. he ll unveil guidelines that will be disseminated to law enforcement to greatly limit racial profiling, again, by federal law enforcement. that s something many civil rights advocates have been pushing for for quite some time. it s anticipated that the attorney general will announe those steps coming up. just a short
when we start stories about crazy cold, it usually goes something like much of the country is in a deep freeze but tonight we can actually say that all of the country is in a deep freeze. this morning all 50 states had at least one location that was below freezing. even hawaii. they re getting the worst of things, though, in and around buffalo, new york where arctic air and the great lakes have come together in a way that stands out, even for this part of the country. new york governor andrew cuomo has declared a state of emergency throughout the area and called in the national guard. our martin savage is battling the elements there for us right now. martin, you re right in the thick of things, one of the hardest hit areas of buffalo. describe to our viewers how bad it is there. reporter: this is the south of buffalo and we re on the edge of really the bad area. you can t even get into that. i wanted to show you the snow pile here only because, one, it s huge, it s got to b
of the wife leading up to it, and whether it should play a part. watch. i have lived here my whole life. i have never had to go through anything like this. don t none of all know me, but i don t e do nothing to nobody. anybody say so they re a liar. they a damn liar. bull p [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. that was somebody s son. that was somebody s child. burn this bitch down. burn this bitch down. so those are the words at issue and the context surrounding them. and so this is what was said to laura ing ram, and the rest of the rioters sghch er rioters. you hear that sound bite and what is your reaction? he should be arrested and charged with inciting to riot. and why has n t that already happened? i mean, there should be mass arrests, and nothing quite says civil rights outrage like a fifth of jack daniels or a new plasma. or you know e rnoe know, ros my photographer and my producer not far from where this was all happening, and it was tense from where it w