partially broke through. the driver was able to climb out of his window to safety. explain that to the boss. no respite from the winter weather for the folks in tiffen, ohio. another round of snow moves through portions of western ohio as people try to dig out from the earlier storm. parts of florida, water is the problem. a rainstorm last night leaving widespread flooding in south florida. the national weather service says the area received 17.7 inches of rain just yesterday. jenna: fox news alert and a big story today. the white house declaring a federal disaster after a chemical spill in west virginia. residents rushing to buy bottled water after fears the water supply is contaminated in nine counties. we re told a chemical foaming agent leaked from a coal facility into the elk river near a major water treatment plant yesterday. the spill basically shut down the capital of charleston. as we mentioned nine counties are affected. laura engel is watching the
then they headed for the hotel restaurants. at tiffen, a popular eatery, fahaddula murdered 13 diners. rashe kiani was shot five times and left for dead beside her family and friends. the whole place was very silent. i couldn t see my friends. whenever i tried to look, i also saw shihad. she was in the same position from the time she got shot and so was my cousin and his wife. i tried to nudge my cousin s leg because i was close enough to do that. i think i succeeded, but he didn t move. bewildered by the ferocity of the attack, the police made no organized attempt to storm the hotel. rishma kiani would lie bleeding
on the floor of the tiffen restaurant for the next 16 hours before she was finally rescued. hearing the gunfire, hotel guests bolted their doors. fear drove some of them on the window ledges. the terrorists detonated a bomb in the tea lounge and rounded up survivors from the hotel restaurants. a group of 15 were marched to the top of the service staircase. among them was a turkish businessman and his wife. the one in black fahadulla told the woman to go up the stairs so we were pressed there like in a crowded bus. and all of a sudden he raises his gun, and at that moment my wife screamed out, stop, stop, he s from turkey. he s from istanbul. he s muslim or something like
that an individual who voted 95% of the time for every budget that came before you, you ve raised the debt limit nine times in washington, d.c., and to stand here in front of the people in the state of texas and say, trust me, i m going to balance the budget, that s a little tough to understand. up first, though, breaking news tonight in libya. there are missing missiles, thousands of them, and mounting concerns here in washington they could fall into the hands of al qaeda or other terrorist groups. and as we speak tonight, the libyan rebels who forced moammar gadhafi from power claim to have their former dictator surrounded. they won t say where, but they insist he won t escape this time. cnn s ben wedeman live for us in tripoli. ben, the rebels have claimed to be on gadhafi s close trail before. do we view credibly these indications tonight from their spokesman that they have gadhafi surrounded? reporter: i m approaching these claims with a certain amount of skepticism.