john terret has more on what is fueling their age are. >> the violence in venezuela began on february the 12th, when three people were killed. but that violence has spread nationwide. opposition group members are seeking policing reforms and an end to severe shortages of goods. venezuela imports nearly all the goods it needs and it wants guaranteed freedom of speech. venezuela would you believe has the largest oil reserve in the world, even larger than saudi arabia. policies means the country sells the oil domestically to its people at rock bottom prices and the huge debt to china, is its ability to make money from the oil is pretty limited. this man le leopoldo lopez, has been charged with murder but they rolled that back to conspiracy. charges that nicholas maduro has faced in his 11 months in office, protege of this man, hugo lopez. protesters are an infection that needs to be cured and he has pointed the finger to the united states. accusing washington, d.c. of plotting to destabilize his government in caracas. this week three u.s. diplomats were given 48 hours to leave the countr

john terret has the report. >>> thank you, tony. give you an idea of what life is like in north korea. there is some stuff here that is reasonably fresh. spending the people's money literally in buying the country, king jong-un, the her mit leader of north korea, as james was saying in his report took over a couple of years ago, and in violation of the nuclear capability and also for test firing those rockets that are capable of caring nukes maybe one day. using cash from secret or parallel funds that may otherwise help the starving and there are many people starving in north korea, have included quite eye poppingly, high class cognac, high class whiskey, and equipment for 1,000 seat movie theaters including projectors like this. there have even been reports to import mercedes benz vehicles from germany. high end musical equipment and dozens of pianos, according to the report, the spending rose to $645.8 million just last year under ci kim jong-un, as spent y his dad kim jong-il, the previous spreed -- spree supremr of north crea. e

john. >> john terret. thank you. the drug organization that he is accused of running stretches all the way to chicago. here is ashhar quirashi. >> his involvement with the day-to-day drug trade, in chicago, is of a major significance, and it controls the street gans by supplying them with the drugs. >> in chi the u.s. drug enforcement agency estimates sinaloa supplies 80% of the city's cocaine heroin and meth. this is not the first time guzman has been captured. in 2001, he escaped using bribes and a laundry truck. in 2009, guzman was indicted in the most significant drug importation conspiracies in chicago. he has been indicted in a number of other cities. hemmed in u.s. federal custody, their trials will take place here at the federal building in chicago. over the weekend chicago's dea head told the sun times, i think we have the strongest case and i intend to have him tried here. eric holder will determine where he will face trial. whether or not guzman's arrest will have any effect on the flow of drugs in the uni

. >>> now john terret is standing by in the nation's capital and shows us the impact it has on transportation. john. >> good evening, john from washington, d.c, the famous union station, amtrak hub. amtrak says none of its trains will head southeast, and the northeast corridor which is the businessest part of the service, they are running restricted. new jersey transit, long island metro? are following by the hour. the number of flights that have already been cancelled. according to flightaware.com, 3700 flights have already been cancelled and that will have a massive knock-on effect thursday, friday and into the weekend with delays at airports as they get the planes back into place and the airlines struggle to get back onto schedule. in washington, d.c, as emergency has been declared, anyone who is parked in an entrance or exit point, will have their vehicle towed overnight. there is a 75% chance the federal government will be closed tomorrow. >> for now john it looks like the cars are moving behind you right? >> at the moment the cars are moving. the snow began about 60 minutes ago here but

john. >> john terret, thanks very mu much. ing us now is ambassador robin sanders, welcome. >> thank you, john, good to be with you. >> how does nigeria fight boko haram? >> i think that there are a couple of things that need to be done. i have actually thought about a containment issue first to ensure that the issue with boko haram remains in the northeast quadrant of the country rich. that's by far one of the most important things so that you don't have a pervasive issue in the country. secondly the fear issues -- feeder issues. what i mean feared issues, unemployment. lack of wealth inclusion, education and health system delivery issues. and so fundamentally you have economic development issues in that part of the north. where the indicator, the human index indicators are the lowest. so addressing some of those fundamental feeder issues can possibly help the government stem the tied of young people going in to boko haram. >> but all violence is horrific. but just to hear the description of what happened to these children is

john terret is in washington for us, john, if you would tell us more about this senate hearing today.reporter: there was a lot of anger today at this senate hearing on tap come hill. you have the national guard recruiting assistance program which got underway at 2000 knife. right at the heart and the height of the iraq war in afghanistan as well. and now the figures are alarming. i have more on the top of the ones that you have just given. for example, we know that 1200 people send elicit payments. 200 officers are involved. two, two star general generals u believe. there were 106,000 individual payments made over the eight-year life of this scheme. $29 million paid out in total wrongly, as you said and, if you add the whole scheme together the bit that was legal with the bit that was illegal. you get $500 million they recruited around 150,000 people for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. well, now bring in claire the senator from missouri, she's spitting tacks over this, hopping mad about it and called together today the financial and oversight committee and they really grilled a pane

john terret is in washington.ur top story so fill in the blanks for us. >> reporter: tony, good afternoon. the first blank to fill is to to say when news came through everybody was caught by surprise. we weren't expecting this from cvs it's a surprise and a very important decision. here say giant u.s. corporation making a social, a political and a business statement all in one. go, which could well have ramifications for many years to come. rained mark decision from the nation's second largest pharmacy chain, vcs has 7,600 stores in 43 states. its decision to stop selling all tobacco products this year could be a retail game changer. >> when we asked ourselves where we peck to be in the future as a health care company. it became clear that removing tobacco products from our stores is the right thing to do. >> reporter: cvs says its decision will cost the company around money, $2 billion, shares slipped on wall street with the news, but vcs sales account for 125 always a year$125 billion as a small piece of that. t

john terret here. john. >> members of the military who have been charged with helping fellow soldiers, coping with sexual harassment and rape. the number of personnel disqualified from counseling far higher than it had previously acknowledged. >> last summer, the army said it was disqualifying, from child abuse and drunk driving that was after an initial review ordered by defense secretary chuck hagel. after almost a year on and combing through the records of another 20,000 soldiers and now says it disqualified 588 in total. that's a tenfold increase. in a statement the army says the army continues to ensure that those in positions of personal trust have the right tools skills and background needed to carry out their duties effectively. we will continue working to better ensure we select the best persons for these posts. >> kim says she was sexually assaulted by this army colonel. >> i opened my eyes and he was in bed with me with his hands down my pants. >> wilson was quighted in a courts martial. dism

john terret is here to tell what this fueling the issue. >> seeking policing reforms, end to severe shortagef goods. venezuela imports nearly all its goods and guaranteed freedom of speech. venezuela has the largest oil reserve in the country. even bigger than saudi arabia if you believe that but it has an aging infrastructure. it also sells domestically as rock bottom prices and the country's debts to china means its opportunity to make money off this valuable natural resource is actually quite limited. now the face of the demonstrators has been this man, called le leopoldo lopez. the protests are the largest that the president nicholas maduro has faced in his 11 months in office. former bus driver is a protege of this man, hugo chavez. maduro calls the opposition far is and like an infection that needs to be cured and he points the finger at us in the united states. he accuses washington, d.c. of plotting to destabilize his government. and this week three u.s. diplomats were given 48 hours to leave the country, accused of bringing down the government in caracas. maduro shouted, yankee go h

john terret, good to see you, what are the numbers on this, and how did it pass? 221 yays, they got two more than they needed including speaker john boehner, and people who invested in u.s. debt like chinese and others country around the world and companies around the world who have taken on our debt, they won't get their interest payments, and that could have a very serious knock effect on the economy. the full faith and credit of the united states is at risk, and no lesser organizations of the businesses around the round table told congress you got to raise the debt ceiling and the house voted in favor. >> the republicans trying to ring some concessions out of democrats, is that why the vote went forward? >> part of that, and the snow. that is a big issue here because we are going to get snowed in tomorrow and thursday and next week is a holiday for congress, so they decided to get this out of the way today. they did try to ring concessions out of democrats on things like the keystone pipeline and in the end the democrats said no, we're not playing ball. we want