saturday this comes amid allegations of hundreds being killed in a new crackdown in the city of holmes obama calls on president assad to step down immediately. more than two hundred thousand people braved the bitter cold across russia to ensure their views on national politics are heard one group demanding fair elections marched through the streets others rallied in support of the current leadership. europeans demanding a free internet is people flood the streets in protest against an anti-piracy act being signed across the continent activists want to prevent the new law be ratified in the european parliament. next we put the russian prime minister's economic thoughts under the spotlight that's coming your way next. i. hello again and welcome to the spotlight play into the show on our t.v. i'm older now and today we're talking about economic challenge despite the recent global turbulence and crisis russia has managed to keep it stuck on a me and a lot but even the most efficient models become obsolete one day and new ways are to be found to meet new challenges prime minister and presidential

holm left 200 people dead. this is news according to the activist on the ground there. president obamad a statement saying i strongly condemn the unspeakable assault against the people and of holm and offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones. amust stop the kill category cripes against his own people now. the syrian government is denying the killings and saying it is a ploy to gain the support of the united nations. >>> and turning to other news it is not the way most people want to spend the friday night trapped undera massive airplane. a washington man is recovering after being trapped under the of a boeing jet at an airport in everett. crews were towing the plane. the helicopter crew rushed him to the hospital for leg injuries . boeing is investigating how all of this happened. folks in colorado are digging out today after a massive snow storm hit that area. the snow shut down hundreds of miles of highways and cancelling 600 flights. maria molina is more on that and where the big storm is headed next. >> hi, uma, good to see you. the storm brought a lot of snow ou

obama contraception rule. here is council woman eleanor holmes norris taking on darrell issa directly. >> i asked me the staff to get me the rules, mr. chairman. one thing mr. chairman, deny the right to have a -- >> general lady -- >> i want the right to make a parliamentary inquiry. >> state your parliamentary inquiry. >> greta: ten minutes later, norton, maloney and congressman qugley stormed out of the hearing. congressman issa joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> they didn't storm out of the hearing. they stormed to a press conference to make an issue over what they didn't like which was religious people, religious leaders, of many denominations coming in to talk about tim pact of the president and secretary's decision to not give them the normal broad exclusion of what is considered to be religious freedom and their execution. that simple. we had ministers, we had a lutheran minister, obviously a catholic bishop. we also had a jewish rabbi for whom none of the things talked about or against their faith. yet, he was saying for the same reason that this is a bad precedent. >> greta: all right. were they giv

obama. a distinct, unique, great honor. fabulous honor. but while you're all dignitaries i would like to make mention of the fact that oliver holmes norton,of you have helped achieve this significant mile stone. thank you for taking this journey with us. one of the things i like to do because nobody gets anything done by themselves or even with an able and beautiful partner, we have a council who has been with us on this journey and with lonnie, all supporting and advising. i'd like the members of the advisory council to stand and receive your applause and appreciation. and if i can be allowed just one moment of personal reflection before i turn it over to linda, the personal significance to me. i've read it many times that history is written by the winners. history is written by the winners. and to me,b the reality of this museum puts an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence that after 400 years of struggle, of triumph, of tragedy, of turmoil, of turbulence, we won. >> well said, well said. as members of this council, we have had the pleasure of witnessing a vision take shape. one that as lonnie bunch has indicated will encourage u

obama's latest campaign ad in michigan. we are back with michael reagan, amy holmes. people were saying i'm looking unkept.higan. michigan and arizona coming out. it's big for all particularly romney. we will win michigan, no doubt, no we might, we will win this. it is big, isn't it? this is his backyard, where he spent a lot of his life. if he lost in michigan, it's a bad thing, isn't it? >> it would be a disaster. last night was a good night for him. momentum is leading in romney's direction. what conservatives are looking for is he's saying the right thing these days. do people believe what he's saying? he's a convicted conservative. he's saying the right things. what they are looking for is him not to pivot like gingrich but start going not just at the media, but after barack obama. somebody is looking for romney to show he has the fight. what you saw in that ad is going to be replicated millions of times over, hundreds of millions of dollars that are framed. the narrative has been framed by the framing of the occupy movement, the haves versus the have nots. >> his ratings are beginning to slip. amy, l

president obama has offered a compromise to have insurers pay for the contraceptive coverage rather than religious groups. >>> today d.c. mayor vincent gray and congresswoman eleanor holmes norton will protest a proposal that would ban most abortions in the district. the measure would bar abortions in d.c. unless the life of the pregnant mother was endangered. under the proempofol, the docto who performed the procedure would face up to two years in prison. >>> nearly 1,200 protested the strict anti-abortion bills advancing through the general system. the protesters stood in slems as lawmakers entered the building. they're concerned about the bill that defines life at beginning at conception and another that would require women to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. >>> maryland could approve same-sex marriage legislation by the end this week. lawmakers erupted in cheers when the house barely cleared its version of the bill on friday. today the senate judicial proceedings committee is expected to vote on the bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry. the full maryland senate could take a final vote later this week. opponents have vowed to make the issue a

holmes nor on the representing the district of columbia. good morning. >> good morning. >> noneigious groups that support the obama station is going to be speakingtoday he's hearing. what's the point? >> i just walked out of the hearing because it's a wrong hearing. as member of the minority ruler we are entitled to one witness. that once was a georgetown university law student. she was denied the right to testify. i am still attending professor, congresswoman, of course, but i taught full time at georgetown. georgetown is perhaps the flagsh flagship, catholic university in the united states. it does, in fact, allow cont contraceptives for students and its faculty and staff in one of that is going to come out at this hearing. it's a total romp one-sided hearing. we protested, asked that she be allowed to come. she was sitting right there. her story would have been a very compelling one. she has a friend who has lost an ovary and may not be able to have children because she did not have access to contraception. >> let me give you an opportunity to respond, but what we're hearing, including from the lead witness, bishop william who we just heard f

delegate eleanor holmes norton walked out today during a congressional hearing on contraception. the hearing stemmed from last week's controversial move by president obama. it would require religious in-laws constitutions that provide health care to make contraception available to women. insurance companies would foot the bill if it was against the religious organization's beliefs. norton left because the first panel didn't have any women on it and because the majority denied her female guest. >> they were violating our first amendment rights to talk about that aspect of the controversy that by the way is what most women and most families were concerned about. >> reporter: the second panel for the hearing did feature two female guests. getting the stomach flu this time of year is pretty common. what is uncommon is one local college is reporting an unusually high number of cases on two of its campuses. news 4's derrick ward has the story. >> reporter: it's been a relatively mild winter in our area but the viruses don't seem to mind. this is their season especially the pesky norovirus and especially here on the campus of george washington university where

many conservatives are feeling that barack obama is attacking the concept of the separation of church and state and instead played in unfortunate form. >> amy holmespositioning himself as the real conservative here. if you're going to do that, you're going to pound away on a clear, coherent message, don't you? >> i think you are going to do that. arizona in particular, those voters who thought that the economy was the number one issue and a percentage that was by far the largest, they went for mitt romney. i think that rick santorum getting pulled off message with the social issues that it did muddy his appeal to those michigan voters. do remember that polls showed that mitt romney or santorum, rather, was up nine points. he came from behind, got that 12-point close. i don't think it's -- obviously it's not a ringing victory this evening but it's no small thing. >> carol, michigan is a huge car industry place and a big debate raging. you and i debated about this the other night. i assume you came to my way of thinking. have you changed your mind? >> i have not changed my mind, piers. have you changed your mind? >> i have not. those that argue that

obama's plans for free contraceptives. >>> pleat bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. >> i am ken wayne. >> i am heather holmes. >> we begin with a new clue as search teams discover more human remains. they were looking for bones near a well. a small town east overstockten after bones were found yesterday. a live look at the operation. here you can see crews at it again. authorities were guided to this location by information from contradicted killer wesley shermantine. ktvu's ken pritchett has been that search location all day and joins us now with the very latest. ken? >> reporter: we are a mile away from the search location. we can zoom in and show you where it is taking place. underneath that tree. that is where they are digging. we have close up video of the search effort. more bones have been found today and a woman's ring. >> reporter: a traffic cone blocks the road that leads to the search sight. one camera was allowed in. you can see the dig site. a 30-foot deep hole and where investigators were shifting through the dirt. >> so far we have found several bones today, different sizes. >> reporter: inves

another fox news alert, president obama accusing syria's president of quote, a disdain for human life and dignity. new reports of more than 200 people killed in the city of holmesand some now calling it a massacre. meantime, the u.n. security council failed to pass a resolution calling for syria's president to step down. leland vittert live from jerusalem. what's the vote in the u.n. mean? >> essentially, kelly, china and russia's veto of this u.s. resolution calling for president assad to step down, in syria. take a lot of wind out of the sails of international community, he was trying to build a consensus against syria, in fact, the u.s. ambassador now says that china and russia will have the blood of dead syrians on their hands for vetoing this. the past 24 hours has brought the issue to a head and this is why, out of homs, unbelievable violence, tragic, tragic astrossties and the french have called it, a quote, crime against humanity as more than 200 people were killed and president assad surrounded the city with heavy army and mortar and fired away through the night and hospitals burned, residential communities burned and they were unable to pick up some 5

president obama has offered a compromise to have insurers pay for the contraceptive coverage rather than the religious groups. >>> today d.c. mayor vincent gray and congresswoman eleanor holmesn will protest a proposal that would ban most abortions in the district. the measure would bar abortions in d.c. unless the life of the pregnant mother was in danger. under the proposal, a doctor who performed the procedure would face up to two years in prison. >>> nearly 1,200 people held a demonstration in richmond against the strict anti-abortion bills advancing through the assembly. they stood in silence as lawmakers entered the building. they're upset as a bill that defines human life beginning at conception and another that would require women to have an invasive ultrasound before getting an abortion. >>> city, town, and county employees in virginia could soon store guns and ammunition in their cars while at work. one of several gun rights bills that cleared a subcommittee monday. the bill would allow employees to store guns in their cars as long as the farm was inside a condition -- firearm was inside a container and the car was locked. it does not apply to those who work for me

holmes walked out of the hearing today. we want to talk to her first. tempers flaired at that hearing. lines were crossed. separation of church and state. that was the name of the hearing. has the obama administration trampled on freedom of religion? caroline maloney criticized the premise of the hearing and the makeup of that all-male panel. let's listen. >> where are the women? when i look at this panel, i don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventive health care services including family planning. where are the women? of course, this hearing is about rights. contraception and birth control. it's about the fact that women want to have access to basic health services, family planning through their health insurance plan. >> u.s. congresswoman eleanor holmes took on the panel. watch this picture of an all-male panel there. let's listen to the delegate. >> one thing, mr. chairman, we have been denied the right to have a witness -- i want to have the right to make a parliamentary inquiry. >> the chairman of that committee from california is a republican. he defended the panel. let's list