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d aana american.a @m anme1rin.m] rh..ñu ;Ñ eiv...r0 i...nm ;] ""am,3.÷ .anfmeacaren ñk i am an american. zei am an ericané& i ad%mericae )oi aam0icga. wñ voic i axanp arican3a. b voi: : am0 an erericaá voe: i axm an ameran . (oi aan arikxcaun we want to take tout breaking news we have been following. big trouble getting out of san francisco right now. three out of the four westbound lanes of i-80 just west of fourth street are shut down. that's after a pedestrian was hit by a car. these are live pictures you can see the huge back up that is now on i-80 westbound heading out of the city. this is traffic coming off the bay bridge from the east bay. the chp says before 11:00 p.m. they got a report of a man who was walking in traffic. a passing car ended up hitting him. that car did stop. the pedestrian has been rushed to a hospital. no word on his condition. and again the chp shut down three of the four westbound lanes while they investigate. as you can see, a lot of red lights in both directions and ma

d aana american.] ""am,3.÷ .anfmeacaren ñk i am an american. zei am an ericané& i am americae )oi aam0icga. b voi: : am0 an ererican. voe: i axm an ameran . (oi aan americaun >>> this morning on "world news now" -- emergency action. a mississippi judge stops the release of 21 prisoners given pardons by the outgoing governor. >> and now governor haley barbour is facing national scrutiny for giving reprieves to hundreds of inmates. it's thursday january 12th. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm paula faris. thanks for joining us. >> and i'm rob nelson. it's been quite an outcry in the mississippi state capital, where victims of crime and their families have demanded a stop to all of these pardons. but thanks to action by a judge just last night, some of those reprieves granted by former governor haley barbour are now being put on hold. quite an outrage there in that state over what's going on there. >>> also this morning, you expect snow in alaska this time of year. but this much? look at that. the state of

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