a hail of bullets covered this city just near the border near brownsville, texas.ied, tony " the store. his blame for no. coastisrael with even the headings. >> this was a significant step to a war on the mexican drug fight. pam with shootings, murders, continuing on drugs. >> and with seven people, that were attending a family party in another part of mexico people found a human head and a gift wrapped box. and the note made reference to a drug gang. and through 51/san diego, this is the 75th in the u.s. border and four years. >> i do not pretend that this particular seizure is going to end the problem of tunnels. and with the 75th tunnel is a seizure of 30 t of marijuana. a very bad day for the cartel's perspective. still, things are so bad in parts of mexico that very few residents are going out at night. stay with us. we will be back after this break. can a smartphone be its own guardian angel ? can it keep an eye out for itself, literally show and tell you where it is when you don't even know yourself ? droid can with lookout mobile security, one of thousands

it happened earlier in a park that is across from miami shores there in brownsville in miami. going through the streets and then got on what looked to be a major thorough fair. . it goes on and on. a line of some 30 police vehicles that were involved in this pursuit in miami. 11:17 a.m., getting close to lunch in that area. just swarming this blue expedition. one suspect, what we can see, in the white shirt there. he is limping a bit after was a head-on collision with splng. let's show it to you again. it looked to be in sort of an off ramp situation and getting in contact with that, yeah, that tanker and not winning in that situation. stopping cold the blue ford expedition as he has now move under to a police vehicle. not needing to use some of those procedures you were alluding to there, chris. which we have seen many times on air during these pursuits, which is the tapping of the rear bumper of the vehicle that is being pursued, causing it to spin out. that didn't seem to be one of the procedures that they were attempting, at least from what we saw. we also did not see, nec

cities like dallas, houston and brownsville were into the 50s. devastated island to show solidarity with seoul. >>> drug gang leaders are being blamed for five days of violence in a slum in rio de janeiro. police are using military armored vehicles to patrol the shantytown. at least 23 people have died so far. the police moved into the drug-ridden slum earlier this week to clean it up before the city hosts the soccer world cup in 2014 and the summer olympics just two years later. >>> three teens who had been given up for dead have been rescued in the south pacific after nearly two months at sea in a small boat. they were found not by the extensive search crews that had looked for them, but by a fishing boat taking a shortcut home. abc's david muir has the story. >> reporter: the three young castaways who spent nearly two months lost at sea are finally on their way home. they spent 50 days not knowing if they'd ever go home. the boys went missing in early october, trying to row their tiny 12-foot aluminum boat between two islands near their home o

>> reporter: just before dusk a hail of bullets rattled the mexican city across the border from brownsville, texas. (gunshots) . >> reporter: the shoot-out sent residents ruing for cover while the special forces with the mexican marines stormed an area believed to be a hideout for a powerful drug lord. authorities say after a two- hour long gun battle mexican forces killed this man, 48-year- old antonio, believed to be the leader of a powerful cartel. >> this was another significant step towards dismantling criminal bands that have done so much damage to the people of our country. >> reporter: authorities accused him also known as tony the storm of being responsible for a wave of violence in northern mexico that included shootings, assassinations and beheadings. the u.s. state department had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. mexico offered an additional $2 million. (gunshots). >> reporter: in a fears shoot- out back in 2003 his brother guillen, who was then the leader of the gulf cartel was captured and extradited to the united states in 2007 and is current

tonight there are frost and freeze warnings down to houston and brownsville.ll winter weather advisories in anticipation of the latest snowstorm. what a banner year it's been. the fact so much of the country is covered by snow versus 10% this time last year is why a cold air mass like this one managed to get into the area. see how it's warming out in the plains? well we pushed the worst of the cold into the arctic. and won't tap that until early next week and pulls some of the colder air in again. look how much of the united states is warmer tonight than 24 hours ago. and by significant margins. des moines is 18 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. that's the warm-up headed this way. it will be a springlike quality to the air here. that will be nice before the next cold air mass comes in here with rain turning to maybe snow showers tuesday. it's bitingly cold out there tonight. single digits up north. the lake snows stacked up to 15 inches in michigan today. and there were other snows lower michigan today. winds are west at 13. humidity is 63%. there's the rains

our district includes brownsville and the border.s real issue with the violence starting to spill over. we've got to work on intelligence ways to get operational control of the borders. we have to find a way to work with mexico to deal with some of the internal problems. we have to work domestically to reduce the demand for drugs that keeps the price so high and puts all this violence, makes it all worth while for the gangs. >> there are several key steps there and a lot of agencies and people involved with making that happen. any concrete steps that you want to start in the process that would help. >> well, yeah. there are a whole lot of ways, but we're taking the simple common sense solutions. we've got to kick up the enforcement of the drug laws and take care of the demand issues. part of that i think is going to be jobs, too. as you get people back to work, there's less time to sit on the couch and smoke pot or do drugs. if you're happy, healthy, and working, you'r you don't have to kill doing drugs. >> well, maybe the next time

the gang leader, tony tormenta, was killed in a shoot-out across the border from brownsville, texas. ordered lori berenson to be freed from prison after serving 15 years for aiding leftist rebels. she could be released this weekend. but she would have to remain in peru until the end of her 20-year sentence. >>> tonight is a blessed occasion for those us of us who get up early in the mornings on weekends. at 2:00 a.m. sunday, we turn the clocks back and gain a beautiful extra hour of sleep. we return to standard times. if you're one of billions of iphone users, be warned that you have to manually reset the clock on your iphone. it will not happen, dan, automatically. >> we just gave away the abc number. >>> on that note, we'll have a quick check of the weather. it is cool in the east. in detroit, 44 degrees. atlanta, 50. and near-record warmth out west. colorado springs hitting 77 degrees. rain and mountain snow on the west coast by later today and tonight. sunshine in much of the plains and midwest. dan and bianna? bianna and dan? >> i prefer dan and bianna. thank you, ron. appreciat

captured this to a word gunbattle that ended up with a hail bullets near this mexican city border near brownsvilletexas. this is the drug lord who died, 48 known as tony the storm. the is planned for a wave of violence in northern mexico with shootings, assassinations and even be heading south. >> this was another significant step towards dismantling criminal bentsen of done so much damage to the people of our country. >> nobody is pretending that this will be doing too much with shugrand more crime, cliv connected to the drug activity, and in other areas of mexico, a human head in a gift box with a note referencing a drug gang. and another tunnel, near the san border. seven defects found. >> i cannot pretend of this particular seizure is going to end the problem of tunnels. with the 75, and the seizure of 30 t of marijuana ending up in a bad day from the cartel's perspective. the violence has been bad but it has been escalating started that is because of a three year turf battle between two different drug cartels. >> an important building and the roman city of pompeii collapsed on a saturday morn

we get to brownsville, texas, six-lane hoirkz perfectly paved, you could do cruise control, fall asleep and, rife in new york, unless a police officer pulled you over for going two miles an hour over the speed limit. mexico for me was you have to keep your eyes open because you're never totally safe. and i think that from the life they came from, it's something that's just been hugely valuable in my life. >> rose: good for you. john mack, book title "revealing mexico." captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

look down to texas, you can see warm front separating two air masses so you've got 81 degrees in brownsville dallas, 20 degrees chillier at 62 degrees. rest of the country, we have 30s in the plain states throughout the western great lakes, 70s in the southeast 50s in the pacific northwest. as far as weather conditions are concerned, we are looking at surge as you get through the southwest and on into the plains states, sunny skies around the great lakes, showers through the southeast where they need the rain, more windy and rainy >> there is a little bit of fog to start this morning. it will burn off as we head to the morning. slight chance for a couple of >> and if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, you can go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com online. >>> too close for comfort, those new airport screening procedures, mat procedures. >>> we're back at 7:43, if you have flown in the past couple of weeks, you have had to deal with the ta s's new screening procedures. we're going to talk to the administrator of the tsa in a moment, but here's tom costello. >> joh

and this district is the corpus christi/brownsville area.epublican taking over that seat and as i said, four house seats up for grabs and the alaska saga continues on between joe miller and lisa murkowski. they're fighting over that seat. looking at this scoop from ed henry last night. david plouffe, cam pan manager for barack obama's very successful 2008 presidential campaign is moving into the white house. david axelrod, a senior adviser is going to be moving back to chicago to take over the campaign. we'd always heard that plouffe would return to the white house at some point and didn't know when. ed broke the story last night saying he is going in this january and some overlap between plouffe and axelrod. plouffe known for being a very organized individual and the white house has to deal with a new congress and new organization at the congress and changes at the white house, kyra. >> all right. speaking of obama confidants, you know, his former chief of staff rahm emanuel got competition in the race to be mayor of chicago. >> he does. a

look down to texas, you can see warm front separating two air masses so you've got 81 degrees in brownsville, dallas, 20 degrees chillier at 62 degrees. rest of the country, we have 30s in the plain states throughout the western great lakes, 70s in the southeast 50s in the pacific northwest. as far as weather conditions are concerned, we are looking at surge as you get through the southwest and on into the plains states, sunny skies around the great lakes, showers through the southeast where they need the rain, more windy and >>> here's a view of the golden gate bridge. mostly pleasant weather thanks to offshore winds with temperatures climbing into the 70s and low 80s. gorgeous day much like we saw the weekend. we will see changes. you will notice the changes around wednesday and thursday and see cooler temperatures by the weekend. notice the highs. cooler than the temperatures we are seeing outside right now. mid 50s for the weekend and scattered showers on the way. >> and if you want to keep track of your weather all day long, you can go to the weather channel on cable or weather.com onli