addiction. he's so special -- >> five seconds, dr. drew. >> they idealize them and they then delude themselves into these kraszsy thoughts. >> that is is. thank you, guys. i'm don lemon. see you back here tomorrow night. "a.c. 360" starts right now. good evening, i'm jim sciuotto. anderson is off tonight. thank you for watching. breaking news on every front tonight including what could be a truly massive auto recall affecting millions of vehicles. almost certainly your safety. breaking news on the weather as well. parts of upstate new york now under 2 feet of snow. 3 feet. 4 feet in places. with nearly 6 feet now in the forecast. and it is still coming down as we speak. also, what began with the massacre of four rabbis including three americans at prayer in a jerusalem synagogue has now claimed another life and is threatening to ignite a religious powder keg. we begin here at home. 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 declared a state of emergency throughout the area and called in the national guard. our martin savidge is battling the elements there for us right flo now. martin, you're in the thick of things, hardest hit areas of buffalo. describe for our viewers how bad it is there. >> reporter: this is the south of buffalo, jim, and actually we're on the edge of really the real willed area. you can't even get into that. wanted to show you the snow pile here only because, one, it's huge. it's got to be up to 10, maybe 12 feet in height. there was no snow here at all

yesterday. this is all what was coming in the past 24 hours. now, yes, that was stacked up there by the plows, but the rest of it here, this is all that has been falling. mostly today. it started late last night, but it's been piling up ever since. and, again, this is not the worst area. you cannot get into the hardest hit areas. driving bans are in place. road blocks are there to enforce it. and emven if you made it throug, the roadways are clogged by vehicles that have been abandoned and emergency crews can't get through to remove them. they're trying. this is considered to be extremely hazardous tonight. wind gusts 30-plus miles an hour. windchills below zero. and the snow keeps piling. lake-effect is odd. you can now have a clear moment like this, 30 seconds to a minute later, sudden whiteout. it's like that in many areas south of buffalo. major thruways are closed down.

trucks and people are trapped. and if you're in a vehicle authorities say even if you're out of gas tonight, do not abandon it. it's just too dangerous. jim? >> you know, i can hear the cold in your voice and the pace you described is just incredible. explain how exactly lake-effect snow is different from a traditional snowstorm? >> reporter: lake-effect snow is something that usually comes this time of year. you need an open body of water. in other words, once the lakes freeze over, they aren't the supply of the snow machine they're creating here. what it is, you get very cold temperature moving across a relatively warm body of water, in this case, lake erie at about 40-some degrees. as long as the wind blows, it's going to snow. and it's blowing like a freight train, and it looks like it's going to continue this way off and on through friday, but it's a very narrow area. maybe 20 miles wide. if you're in north buffalo, you might have a dusting. if you're here, you could have 5

feet or more by tomorrow 6 feet. they say later in the week, another 30 inches. that's 90-plus inches, staggering even by a buffalo measure. jim? >> that's incredible. we feel your pain, martin. and, again, we're just -- it's only november. thanks very much on the scene there in buffalo. so is there relief in sight? we want to get the latest from meteorologist chad myers at the cnn weather center. chad, i can't believe i'm saying this after seeing martin in all that snow in buffalo, but buffalo should actually be gearing up for round two now, is that right? >> that's right. it's going it snow tonight. it's going to stop tomorrow. then it's going to kick back up on thursday. and we don't know where that 20-30 additional snow would be. could be farther north, could be farther south, but there's a potential for somebody, some area to have 7 or 8 feet by the time it's done. every single state this morning had one city or more below freezing. even hawaii. the top of montaca was 31

degrees. obvious louly you get to flagst it was 13. pensacola down to 32 almost all night. where i grew up, chektawaga, new york, the loser or winner depending on your point of view, 51 inches of snow in less than 24 hours. not that far from cheektowaga, a difference between 3 inches and 42 inches of snow that and point today. a dramatic, you saw sunshine on one side of the street and blowing cold on the other. it warms up a bit on saturday, but here comes thanksgivinging and here comes another cold shot all the way across the eastern part of the country. a lot of people are going to be driving in this weather. tonight we still know that people are stranded on the thruway, some other highways out there. buses are stranded. you need to stay with the vehicle like marty said, you need -- the windchills out there are so cold tonight you don't want to be venturing out in whiteout conditions and not really knowing where you're going. and make sure the et pets are

safe, too. they can't be out very long and can get lost in 51 inches of snow. keep that in mind. >> only nine days until thanksgiving. i'm imagining that travel day in weather like this. chad myers, thanks very much, in the weather center. now the recall story involving your safety and a truly staggering number of cars and trucks. millions of vehicles in all from ten different carmakers, any of which could have an airbag prime to explode. explode and shoot sharp pieces of metal at drivers and passengers instead of saving lives. people may have already died from that. late today federal safety authorities took new action. rene marsh has been working the story and joins us now with all the details. so, these airbags, and you've described them to me before, but what makes them so wrong exactly? and how big could this recall have just gotten? >> well, jim, it just got potentially very large here. we're talking about, this is an estimate, millions and millions of additional cars are recalled

here. here's the issue. these exploding airbags, they are shooting out in some cases metal shrapnel and in some cases it's caused injuries, and it's been reported it has caused deaths as well. up until now, there have been 8 million vehicles recalled by ten different automakers, but this recall up until now has been very specific. they are looking at vehicles in hot and humid states because they felt that the humidity triggered this defect. but today, just hours ago, nhtsa came forward and said they're demanding that the manufacturer of the airbag as well as the automakers expand this even wider. meaning don't only recall vehicles in hot and humid states, but recall vehicles nationwide, jim. we do know from nhtsa that tacada, the maker of these airbags is resisting the nationwide recall. nhtsa says it will put the

pressure on to make sure everyone concerned about these airbags get it fixed. >> it's incredible they thought climate would play a role in lessening the risk in the north and south. now that they expanded it, which automakers are we talking about here? i know people at home want to know if it affects their car. >> on top of the ten automakers we know already have issued recalls because of this issue, today we know they are looking specifically at ford, honda, chrysler, mazda, as well as bmw. these are vehicles made before 2008. so that's the focus of this new recall that we're hearing from from nhtsa. >> all right. easy for our viewers to take note of that at home. rene marsh, thanks very much once again. >> sure. as always, quick reminder, set your dvr to watch "360" whenever you like. coming up next, breaking news in the killing of four rabbis, three who are americans, in a jerusalem synagogue.

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followed claimed a fifth victim. a policeman wounded in the attack has died. tension in jerusalem tonight could scarcely be higher. four rabbis dead. three americans. one british. president obama today called for calm. >> too many israelis have died, too many palestinians have died, and at this difficult time, i think it's important for both plalestinians and israelis to work together to lower tensions and to -- >> that is growing difficult. israeli prime minister netanyahu is promising to crack down hard in response. on the palestinian side, some see this latest gruesome attack as retaliation of israeli attacks against them. also a new skirmish in a sectarian war they believe they can win. before we go further, though, a warning, some of what you're about to see is difficult to stomach on many levels. the attackers, two palestinian cousins struck at 7:00 a.m., morning prayers in this ultra orthodox neighborhood of jerusal jerusalem. they were armed with a gun and butcher knives when they went

into the synagogue taking aim at anyone they could. when police arrived minutes later, four people were dead, eight others were wounded including an officer shot during the shootout that followed. he subsequently died. as did the killers. this comes as just the latest in a string of attacks on israelis seemingly carried out by lone wolves as well as alleged reprisal attacks on palestini palestinians. the natural we is, what happens now? joining us, spokesman mark regev, and mr. miller of the woodrow wilson center. advised secretaries of states on the region. also the recent author of "the end of greatness: why america can't and doesn't want to have another great president." so mark regev, if i could start with you, is there any indication of involvement from hamas, for instance, in either organizing or funding or supporting this attack in any way? >> i at this stage cannot point

with certainty to a specific involvement, a specific terrorist organization, that gave a specific order. i do know the following, groups like islamic jihad, and unfortunately also the palestinian authority, have been praising these sort of attacks, have been putting these sort of murderers up on a pedestal, and there is a culture being furmented by these palestinian groups and also, unfortunately, by the p.a., which lends support to hatred and violence and conducting these sort of terrible murders. >> aaron david miller, you've made the point that there are extremists, far right politicians in the israeli government, who are attempting to change the status quo on what's known as the temple in israel, the holy sanctuary, to try to change the status quo there. is it your position that those

far-right politicians contribute to this atmosphere of violence? >> yeah, let me just say, first, jim, there's no rationalization or justification for what occurred today. it was a willful act of terror, and frankly, it probably wasn't lone wolf, either. there were at least two, maybe three. so my explanation as an analyst isn't an effort to justify. there is no justification for this. if you ask me why is this happening now? i think you've got a perfect storm of events. you've got the events this summer. both among israelis and palestinians. gaza is now quiet. the west bank relatively so. jerusalem affords an outlet for israeli/palestinian contact and i suspect there's a view growing among the palestinians. i do not believe it is an intentional policy of the prime minister of israel to change the status quo on the temple.

some of the ministers, some of the members are, in fact, dedicated and determined at least to create a political atmosphere. so, yeah, if you ask me, this is part of the storm here in addition to the incitement of hamas and very unwise words on the part of the palestinian authority, yeah, part of this is, in fact, a consequence of the perception among palestinians that there has been or is an ongoing effort to somehow change the status of these religious sites. and perhaps jerusalem as well. so, yeah, i think it is part of the picture. >> mark regev, i want to give you a chance to respond. again, to be clear, i'm not creating a false moral equivalence here, but i just wonder as both sides look for a way forward, which is the message from the white house, finding a way forward to calm these tensions, do you believe that there's any validity to that argument? that there are some, that you

need, in effect, calming statements from both sides now? >> but my prime minister has repeatedly, as the leader of israel, has repeatedly said there will be no change to the status quo on the temple mound. now, it's true you do have voices in israel, minority voices that want that change, but the prime minister speaking in the name of the government he has said unequivocally and repeatedly we won't allow a change. we won't support any change. we are committed to the religious status quo, whereby muslims can pray there and non muslims, christians and jews, can visit. now, we are very steadfast, and that's not going to change. what's the problem? that you have these radical islamist groups that come out with all these, how shall i say it, this language, this rhetoric where they say the jews are threatening the temple, the jews are out to destroy the muslim

holy sites. it's ridiculous. nothing could be further from the truth, but this gets out there and out there, and unfortunately it's believed by some -- what was particularly disturbing, as aaron miller just said, is you saw some solof thi repeated by palestinian leaders who consider themselves mainstream leaders. if president abbas says the jews are polluting or desecrating the temple, that's language that's very, very problematic. it's not true. the government of israel has no such intention. less this is repeated and repeated until some people unfortunately believe it. >> marx regev, aaron david miller, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. >> pmy pleasure. find a lot more on this and many oath stories on cnn.com. just ahead, breaking news on officer darren wilson. a newly released video appears to snow wilson arresting a man last year for videotaping him, which by the way, isn't illegal.

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breaking news tonight in ferguson, missouri. we haven't seen our heard from officer darren wilson since he shot and killed michael brown. tonight, though, a newly released cell phone video appears to show officer wilson threatening to arrest another man for videotaping him back in october 2013. officer wilson showed up at the man's house to check out a complaint about derelict vehicles on his property. here's cnn's sara sidner. >> what's your name, sir? >> reporter: this is video posted by a ferguson resident who says that is officer darren wilson. cnn obtained a police incident report from october 28th, 2013, that shows wilson is the officer who responded to the home of michael ramarmon. wilson wrote in the report resident armon removed his cell phone and began recording. this is what the resident posted on youtube. a brief but confrontational

interaction with the officer. >> [ bleep ]. >> sir, i'm not taking picture. i'm recording this incident, sir. do i not have the right to record? >> no, you don't. >> reporter: the police report says michael arman was eventually arrested on other charges. the city of ferguson would not confirm that it is officer darren wilson. citing the poor quality of the video. the aclu said no matter which officer that is, what he said was improper. >> can't physically interfere with an officer's actions, but absent that, you have an absolute right to make a document, a recording of interactions with the government official. >> sara joins us now from ferguson, missouri. sara, you get a sense the neighborhood there, the community is such a pressure cooker right now. what are people saying about this video? >> reporter: look, a lot of people are talking about it. some people are talking about the fact they feel like that shows the character of some of the folks in the department. there are a lot of folks who really do think that is officer

darren wilson, himself, and as you know, wilson is the officer who the grand jury is looking into whether or not to indict him for the killing of michael brown. it kind of adds a bit more fuel to the fire. people talking about the way that he hand tled that situatio and the word he used in that situation. i also want to tell you a little bit after the governor basically went and declared a state of emergency here, we did notice that more businesses have decided to board up. there is certainly worry that things are going to explode in violence. however, the protesters have said time and again that they are planning peaceful protests, though they will be quite loud as they have been over the past 90-plus days. jim? >> let's hope that cooler heads prevail there. certainly a greet deal of nervousness. sara sidner in ferguson. coming up next, along those lines, protesters in ferguson gearing up for what they expect will be the decision not to

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also in full swing on the protest side. stephanie elam reports from ferguson now. >> bottles of water. gloves. scarves. hats. anything to keep us warm. >> i believe that we will win! >> reporter: protesters are gearing up to react, staging dry runs of peaceful demonstrations like this one in clayton, missouri. >> back up, back up. >> we're not waiting on the decision. we're prepping for the future. even after this decision. >> reporter: a sign of the times, these activists connect via social media and text blasts. for weeks throughout the st. louis area, they have held meetings to prepare for the grand jury's decision. the people i spoke with don't

think wilson will be indicted. >> he's going it be brought up on charges, they would have done it the week michael brown was killed. >> this is what democracy looks like! >> reporter: it's clear the protesters are organized. >> that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: take a look at this wedding registry for supporters to buy them supplies like surgical masks, cameras and swim goggl goggles. >> who's the leader? everyone is. we're all very active and we all take our roles very seriously. >> reporter: max peterson came all the way from seattle to participate in the demonstrations. he's staying at a house with other protesters. why does a young white guy from seattle feel motivated to come to st. louis and be here for a month for this? >> i didn't understand before august 9th how oppressed black people were in this country. i am white, so it's not my

struggle, but i'm here to help them out. >> reporter: when a lone darren wilson supporter showed up at this pro-michael brown rally -- >> all lives matter. your life matters. >> reporter: a shouting match ensued. >> black lives matter. >> reporter: yet for some people in ferguson, it's less about wilson and more object the protesters' response. this white resident is afraid to show her face on camera because she fears retaliation for speaking her mind about the protests. she doesn't appreciate out of towners disrupting life for the people who live here. >> if there's peaceful demonstrations, that's fine, but to have the violence that we've had and from people that are outside of ferguson in the name of ferguson, no, we don't like that. >> buying groceries. how long are you preparing for? >> several days. i think that we need to plan and have those plans in place, but hopefully we won't need it. i hope that we can return to a

normal life someday. and after the rioting is gone. >> stephanie elam joins us now from ferguson. stephanie, there was a moment in that piece where you had the supporter of officer wilson clashing with the protesters there, and you got a sense of just that, the rawness of that emotion. with all these preparations we're seeing on both sides, do you have a sense there that both sides are preparing enough to keep those emotions under wraps when that decision comes through? >> reporter: that's the million-dollar question at this point, jim. you hear people preparing, you hear them talking about what needs to be done. and one thing that keeps coming up when you talk to the protesters is we don't want something small escalating into something big because police overreact. then when you talk to the people who live here in ferguson, they say they want to know more about what the police have in store, what they're planning to do if

things do escalate. they want more information. but obviously there's a disconnect right now because no one wants to show their cards ahead of this grand jury decision coming to light, jim. >> stephanie elam, thanks very much for being there on the ground for us. more now on the law enforcement side and their notion of preparing for the worst. some call it sensible. others see it as overkill. st. louis alderman antonio french for one who tweeted, i'm quoting here, "the national guard is called in when policing has failed. military presence in my city will mark a historic failure on the part of government." moments later, this. "this started on august 9th with government overreaction to black youth and it continues. this is not a war. there is no military solution." alderman french joins us tonight along with the reverend robert white, pastor of the local peace of mind church of happiness. antonio, i'd like to start with you. i want to ask you to explain why you believe calling in the national guard means policing

has failed. do you see this as a military response like we saw just after the shooting? >> yeah, so what i worry is we may be repeating some of the mistakes we saw back in august. we want police to deal with individuals who commit individual crimes and not punish entire crowds of people like we saw back in august. i worry that the military presence of national guardsmen will actually escalate the situation as we saw occur several times back in early summer. >> pastor white, i wonder because when you look at the fbi bulletin issued, it warns about individuals infiltrating, exploiting the demonstrations to, quote, in the word of the bulletin, insight and engage in it. i'm wondering, how concerned are you that that will happen again in. >> well, a little concerned that it could happen again. i agree with antonio, more concerned with the response of

our military being on the ground. i mean, our government, our law enforcement agencies are more than capable of finding out who those individuals are and preventing them from being a part of this protest. they've made it very clear that the majority of the protesters are peaceful, and so why would you have a military responses to 95%, 96% of the people who are peaceful? >> to that point, antonio, you tweeted earlier today, quote, in your words, it's hard to keep people calm when officials use words like "state of emergency." what are you hearing about residents' reactions there? how are they reacting to the preparations? do they have the same fears you have of a military-type response as we saw last time? >> well, i think what we've seen in the last few weeks is fear spreading through the community. >> absolutely. >> not only yesterday's announcement that we're in a state of emergency, but notifications sent home by local government officials telling people to stock up on water and

food. i think that fear drives people apart, and at a time when we need to be trying to work out how we come together as a community, both in the short term and the long term, i think these actually are counterproductive. it's just too much fear going around. >> i mean, those warnings do sound alarming. how do you react when someone tells you to get basic supplies to get through this? pastor white, i know you've been meeting with protest organizers, talking about how to protest safety within the law. what are you telling them to do, exactly, to avoid what we saw last nigtime? >> the first thing is if the governor and his staff would have really paid attention to the organizers, they have access to go out and communicate with the community at large. rather than issue a state of emergency, maybe they would have understood that the state is actually emerging. we've been meeting with the protesters. there's been several groups of protesters who originally were planning to respond and react

and maybe in a violent way, but they've asked for opportunity to dialogue with the police and to meet with law enforcement to find out nonviolent ways. the martin king center from atlanta has been in the city. we've taught nonviolent response. so the city has actually been emerging toward nonviolent and toward peaceful protesting and then we had this thrown in our faces. >> listening to both of you throughout, it seems that you're saying that the protesters have learned lessons from august in terms of how they're going to protest, limit, or try to prevent a violent response, but law enforcement may not have. i'm wondering if that's your view, and perhaps we could begin with you, antonio. >> well, i worry. you know, one of the things that the protest groups have been asking for is real change within the police departments, both ferguson and some of those departments that made those awful decisions to bring in the heavy artillery early. none of that happened.

so in many cases, the same people who were in charge last time are going to be in charge this time as well. i hope we don't repeat the same mistakes. what i do know from being on the ground in august, many times it was the police presence which actually changed the mood and escalated the situation. and so i worry, and we have an opportunity here to do it right and i hope we do it. >> antonio french, pastor robert white, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. coming up, head-spinning allegations by pennsylvania's top prosecutor. she says some state officials who worked on the jerry sandusky sex abuse case were, themselves, sharing hardcore porn an state computers. also ahead, more breaking news. another woman is alleging bill cosby sexually assaulted her decades ago. this latest accuser is a former supermodel whose name you might recognize.

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tonight, stunning allegations about dozens of pennsylvania officials including some who investigated former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. sandusky as you probably know is now serving a 30 to 60 year sentence for sexually abusing more than a half dozen boys over a decade. it took years before he was charged and brought to trial. a lag that's drawn fire from

many people. pennsylvania's attorney general claims many of the officials who worked on the sandusky sex abuse case were at the exact same time breaking the law by using their work computers to share hardcore porn. on top of that, a gag order is keeping her from completing her investigation. here's cnn investigative correspondent sarah gannon. >> reporter: dozens of state officials in pennsylvania, many who worked to bring down the infamous child molester jerry sandusky, have been caught exchanging crude pornographic e-mails written on state e-mail accou accounts, state computers, and on state's time according to the state's attorney general. in all, more than 4,000 sexually explicit e-mails were circulated between about 50 people, many state employees over a four-year period starting in 2008. some of them at the very same time that the very same people were building a child sex abuse case against sandusky. and the porn being passed around

was not for the faint of heart. >> when i saw them, they literally took my breath away and they are deplorable. hardcore. graphic. sometimes violent e-mails that had a string of videos and pictures depicting sometimes children, old women. some of them involved violent sexual acts against women. >> good morning. >> reporter: the e-mails were discovered by state attorney general kathleen kane who ran for office on the promise that she would investigate why it took three years to charge sandusky after his first victim came forward. while looking into that, her office uncovered the pornographic e-mails. those involved in the scandal include some of the biggest names in pennsylvania's justice system. a state supreme court justice shamus mccaffrey, state police commissioner frank noonan and one of the main sandusky investigators randy feathers. the e-mails are so graphic the

chief justice of the state supreme court wrote that they are clearly obscene and may violate the crimes code section on obscenity. but now, incredibly, kane says she can't do a thing about it. can't investigate further. can't name any names that haven't already been made public. but are you investigating this right now? >> we are not investigating. >> reporter: why not? >> i cannot investigate. i am being stopped from performing my duties as attorney general. my office is being stopped from certain investigations. and we are being stopped even from telling why. >> reporter: so i'm hearing you say that your hands are tied. why are your hands tied? >> my hands are tied, and this will be frustrating for you because it's just as frustrating for me. my hands are tied because there are court orders that don't allow us to say certain things which i believe the public needs to know. >> reporter: to understand why, you have to go back to a public and very bitter feud between attorney general kathleen kane and the main prosecutor in the

sandusky case, frank feena, started with her criticism of how he handled sandusky. whether several cases have been handled directly. as a result, kane is now being investigated about whether she improperly leaked a memo about a case from 2009 that feena handled, and according to the "philadelphia inquirer" a gag order in that case is keeping kane from moving forward on the porn e-mails. as the state's top prosecutor, you're saying there's a court order keeping you from investigating a case you think and the chief justice on the state supreme court thinks might be illegal? >> that is correct. >> reporter: kane says she believes she did the right thing. frank feena would not comment for this story. do you feel that the system is being abused to protect certain people? >> i knew that i was walking into public corruption which, again, is why i ran, but i will tell you this, even i am shocked

at the level of public corruption. i am shocked at how deep it goes, and i am shocked at how powerful it is. i have never seen anything like this. it's breathtaking. it has been described by the people familiar with what is happening as shameful. >> sarah gannon joins us now. sarah, great reporting. what can you tell us happened to the state employees involved in these e-mails? >> jim, most of the people who have been publicly shamed lost their jobs. either resigning or being forced out. the state police commissioner, frank noonan, you saw him, he still has his job because according to published reports, the governor says there was no proof he opened the e-mails. there are also people in the public sect who are still have their jobs. >> what's next for her? >> she testified yesterday in front of the grand jury. now she waits. that's a whole other case about a grand jury leak.

she's under investigation for that leak. sources tell us that the order that she says that is preventing her from investigating these e-mails, it doesn't actually name any names. it's vague. she says she believes she can't take any chances because she could be held in contempt of court, possibly even jail. jim? >> alarming case. thanks for much to sarah ganim. another woman came forward saying bill cosby sexually assaulted her. this time it's someone you may recognize. janice dickinson, a supermodel in the 19d 80s and recently appeared on "america's next top model." she came forward to say cosby sexually assaulted her in 19 82. she joins more than a dozen other women who say cosby raped them. we need to point out he has never been prosecuted. jean ka sar resz joz joins me w more. jean, alarming to say the least. what is dickinson saying exactly

happened to her? >> we have her in her own words. let's first talk about that, a number of women have come forward. we've heard from them. the stories are strikely similar. the mode of operation. and now janice dickinson spoke out tonight on "entertainment tonight." listen to what she said. >> after dinner, in my room, he'd given me wine and a pill, and the next morning i woke up and i wasn't wearing my pajamas and i remember before i passed out that i had been sexually assaulted by this man. the last thing i remember was bill cosby -- patchwork robe, and getting on top. and i remember a lot of pain. >> now, bill cosby has only really spoken out once in all of this. it was in 2005. it was actually to the "national enquirer" and he said, "i am not

going to give into people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status." his lawyer, though, nine years later, just this weekend, spoke out saying that just because people are bringing back these allegations and they are saying these things are years gone by, it does not make them true. >> it is shocking, for sure. charges, to be clear, were not brought in any of these cases. do we know why that is? >> i think for a number of reasons. number one, we haven't heard but for one woman that any of them went to police to then document and have a criminal investigation. but the one woman, andrea constand who filed a federal lawsuit and there was a settlement, undisclosed amount, she did go to police in 2005 alleging something happened in 2004, and the district attorney, then-district attorney of pennsylvania just came out yesterday speaking for the first time really in-depth saying that a year had gone by and he didn't have the dna evidence, he didn't have blood samples he needed to see if there were any drugs in

her body. he didn't have that evidence and so he didn't believe, as he must under the law beyond a reasonable doubt, he could prove his case, plus no charges. >> jean casarez, we know you're going to keep reporting on this. thanks very much. >> thanks. coming up, an update on our bra breaking news tonight. city of buffalo bracing for 90 inches of snow before this lake-effect storm is over. a live update from buffalo right after this. check on a claim...you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that's so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you're on the jumbotron! whoa. ah...yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app.

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breaking news story. more than 70 inches of snow expected to fall in buffalo before this early lake-effect storm is over. the may wror says the city is ready, open and operational with the exception of south buffalo. martin savidge joins me now live with the latest. martin, the mayor is saying the city is open and operational. is that, in fact, the case that you're seeing there? >> reporter: yeah, it is. from what we've seen. this is a storm that's gone right down through the center of buffalo, so the city, itself, actually is pretty much okay. in fact, we were landing at the airport, they only had, like, 3 inches but it's when you go south and not far south, by say, a couple miles, maybe five, you start running into this. again, this is not the bad area. we got a bit of a break here, so the plows have been trying to make the most of it. i say plows. it's the front end loaders who are doing the heavy lifting. i had a chat with one of the drivers on his 16th hour. this is too much actually for the regular plows. they've got to lift it and dump it and put it into place. a lot of places they're putting it in dump trucks and hauling it

out of town. they've got more snow than they know what to do with. this band is just a temporary break. believe me, in other places, jim, it is still coming down like crazy. this is historic and dangerous. that oraccording to city officials. there are people they know trapped on the new york thruway. there are also people just trapped on regular city streets. many vehicles were abandoned and that's been the problem. plows can't get through with the vehicles still there. they're trying to haul them out, jim. >> forecasters say more to come. martin savidge, thanks very much. we want to get the latest now on other stories we're following. susan hendricks has a "360" news and business bulletin. >> jim, we start in new york where a man has been taken into custody in connection with sunday's fatal subway incident that killed a 61-year-old man. no charges have been filed yet, but police say the victim was pushed from the subway platform and killed by an oncoming train. the nfl says minnesota vikings player adrian peterson is suspended without pay for the

rest of the season. following allegations that he abused his 4-year-old son. he plans to appeal this. peterson was initially charged with felony child abuse but pleaded no contest to misdemeanor reckless assault. the senate tonight voted against a measure that would have authorized construction of the controversial keystone pipeline. 14 democrats joined all 45 republicans who voted to support the canada to texas pipeline, but the bill fell one vote short of the 60 needed to pass. republicans will likely try again, jim, when they take control of the senate come january. how about this? oxford dictionaries has chosen the word of the year, a noun meaning an electronic cigarette or similar device or verb meaning to exhale or exhale the vapor from an e-cig. the word more than doubled in use in 2016 and beat out other contenders. you readily? vape was on the list, and

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