and when police found cracks in the ladder, they theorized the breaking ladder startled the kidnappere baby by accident. but john douglas disagrees with this scenario. and so does this man. he's former north carolina chief medical examiner john butts, an expert on suspicious child deaths. john butts: it has been proposed that the injuries this child suffered were the result of some type of accident. this is problematic for me because while it might explain some of the injuries, it doesn't explain all of them. on the left side of the child's head there was a fracture line extending from the anterior fontanel the soft spot in the front top of the head to back behind the ear. now, on the right side of the head he described a rounded approximately half-inch in diameter defect behind the right ear. to me, this second injury, the one on the right side of the head, is the one that's most intriguing. narrator: police reports stated that an officer trying to extricate the baby's remains accidentally poked a hole in his skull with a stick and this created the round impact-like injury on the rig

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in the ladder and that saved him. >> he somehow caught himself from falling all the way down the ladder. >> so much worse, if it just knocked him to the left or right. >> look at the window. the only place where the chunk of snow is, above the window. >> apparently the fire caused it to crack off and knock the firefighter away. the worst possible time. >>> this is not only a visually beautiful fashion show, it's also tasty. >> you're seeing these beautiful dresses, right? but notice the color. they're brown. that is because they're made using chocolate. ♪ >> are you saying that's chocolate or chocolate was used to dye the colors, or all of the above. >> oh, no, no, no. those are chocolate pieces that make up those dresses. >> we could eat these dresses? like i could eat that dress? >> soon as you get off the runway, you could break off a piece and start having at it. >> you're saying that veil is edible? >> not the entire thing. they put pieces of chocolate in different places. they're not all chocolate. this is celebrating 0 wone inind in china of chocolate. >> why don't they do that h

. >>> and -- >> i was saying to myself, got to hit the building because if the ladder came all the way down he was going to die. >> when "caught on camera: extreme rescues" continues. >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. professional rescuers try to train for every scenario. but by its nature, a rescue usually involves some element of danger. so what happens when things go horribly wrong, when things are turned upside down and it's the rescuers who need rescuing? a deadly accident. nine mountain climbers tumble one after another into a crevasse at mt. hood in oregon. a helicopter swoops down for a daring rescue into thin air, 11,000 feet up. >> it is amazing that we have the kind of folks that will go up on a mountain like this and put their lives on the line. >> but the situation quickly goes from bad to worse. >> oh, that's horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. my goodness. you're watching this live, folks. if you know a prayer, say it. >> and now it's the rescuers who need help. just moments before the rescue chopper came crashing to the ground, its arrival was t

. >> basically when you are using a ladder out there, make sure you keep the ladder 10 feet away from wires. make sure the ladder is secure, that it's on stable ground, that it's even. if it's on a hill, we really don't want you to use it on a hill, but if it's on a hill, make sure it's shimmieed with something stable. make sure it's at the right angle, we suggest 70 degrees. if you stick your hand on a rung, the angle of the ladder is about the right angle there. never let go of the ladder. stand in the center, climb straight up. if you climb on the edges of the rung, the ladder will go this way. look up so you know where you are going and you can see where you're going to climb. walk vertically. don't step off to the side of the ladder. kind of common sense. make sure you read chapter 7 through the . >> this class is managing a disaster. what happens and how do we fit in? emergency operation plan, everything is going to go through the mayor. you have the office of emergency services, everything is supposed to come together over on turk street. that's where the ham radio base station

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and here is a wooden ladder. about six months ago, the board of supervisors passed a law that said every wooden ladder must be removed. that follows the unfortunate death of somebody who fell backwards and died. you cannot use these, and i would never encourage somebody. i certainly could not climb one of these. who knows what is holding it on? rusty nails? let's talk about groups. we did not expect homeowners to get on the route to often, but sometimes you can get up on your flat roofs. what do you have to do for routine maintenance on those? >> you can always tell, if groups are starting to bubble, that is a sign, it protect the roofing membrane from the sun so if there is none, ultraviolet light will be deteriorating, and it will start to bubble. all of the route jacks are the first signs of with a member in fails, so you want to check around those. all of those areas you have to check. anywhere there is penetration, those are the areas you really want to check. >> a flat roof like this with reflective coating

. >> basically when you are using a ladder out there, make sure you keep the ladder 10 feet away from wires. make sure the ladder is secure, that it's on stable ground, that it's even. if it's on a hill, we really don't want you to use it on a hill, but if it's on a hill, make sure it's shimmieed with something stable. make sure it's at the right angle, we suggest 70 degrees. if you stick your hand on a rung, the angle of the ladder is about the right angle there. never let go of the ladder. stand in the center, climb straight up. if you climb on the edges of the rung, the ladder will go this way. look up so you know where you are going and you can see where

i hope. >> if they get a bigger ladder. >> i'll loan them my ladder. ok. so now let's look a little more detailed at exteriors of buildings. an exterior door, it has exterior door hardware and we can see it needs maintenance. peeling paint, we see windows where the caulking is exposed. typically do you have to paint over caulking or on glazing around windows? or is that snok these windows are grazed -- ok? these windows are glazed. >> the glazing compound doesn't have any u.v. protection. you have to put paint on them to protect them. >> so we see -- >> or they'll crack. >> we see painting coming off where the windows are glazed into the door. so that needs to be painted and maintained as well. i was talking about durblet. this is a new environmental window about 10 years ago. replaced an old wood frame window that was 100 years old. and this 10-year-old window you can see it is damp inside and the reason is that the seal between the two sheets of glass, it's a double-pained glass. the -- paned glass. the seal has failed. you say, i'm going to put double-p

it is ridiculous. >> it is ladderous. what if you don't know what a ladder is?can send cat videos anywhere in the world. aren't we better off than we were? even if gas prices are $10 a gallon and there are still people that can't vote and we still have cats? >> i think it is correlating to a certain level. you have to understand the greatest sports team of all time, the san francisco 49ers are about to be in the super bowl. and everybody knowss -- >> true, joe manhattan. >> a -- joe montana. >> a guy from notre dame. everything will be good. >> can you name the quarterback that was injured that allowed joe montana to play? >> i was negative 4. no i can't. i take that back. i was working on the carter administration. >> that was after watergate and things hashed out. >> i grew up with the 49ers and the oakland raiders and a harry guy named vic. he brought me to the games and did terrible things. imogen, you moved here so it can't be as bad as your silly island nation across the popped. across the pond. >> it was a lot of effort to be here. the financial times put

a 20 foot ladder. >>reporter: ladder had been left there by maintenance workers. still propped up against the apartment building. it's what 2 adults used to climb to their safety. the fire ravage the entire building and destroyed several cars. right now fire investigators trying to piece together exactly how the fire started but one thing is very clear. they say trevor quick action saved lives. one of his long tame neighbors is a fire captain who responded to this blaze. >> given the amount of damage. amount of fire. he made a difference. >>reporter: for trevor, the gravity of his quick action didn't hit him until hours later when he talked to one of the women he helped save. >> yes basically she was like oh, the one who saved me you are my hero. still like i said i'm not used to it. i don't feel like what i did was heroic because i did what had to be done at the time. >>reporter: this is abc 7 new news. >> thanks to alert citizen 3 people are in custody for kidnapping a man at gun point last night in

he grabbed the ladder. >> put the ladder up there and tried to get up to the lady. we were hearing her voice and all of a sudden we didn't hear it anymore. the black smoke consumed us all, the whole entire building. >> reporter: police ordered the men to away. when firefighters arrived, they confirmed what many of the good samaritans already knew. >> one victim was found on the second floor due to smoke inhalation and thermal burns. >> neighbors said the unidentified victim was a large woman who at times had to use a well claire to move about. they said the last moments were spent begging them to get her out. >> knowing she did pass away and now i'm really hurt by that. >> reporter: in west baltimore, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> within the last hour they have identified her as brenda giddings sewel. >> a woman drowned in a flooded cam. the woman was found in a wooded area at 198 and the laurel race track. a second person was treated for hypothermia. up to six inches of rain fell. >> abc2 broke the story on hour website and twitter. you can sign up for alerts on abc2ne

it's a firefighter climbing a ladder to rescue a child in a burning building. look what happens right there. a chunk of snow knocks him off the ladder. we're going to show you what happened next. it was extraordinary. >>> we're going to start with the breaking news on the harrowing hostage situation in the african desert. this morning, we have more information about an american killed by the islamic militants. and we know several other americans are in danger right now. abc's investigative correspondent, brian ross, has been covering this from the jump. he's with us, now, with more. brian, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the death toll continues to climb with at least 1 american and 11 other hostages reported to have been killed. the algerian military has twice stormed the natural gas facility. but authorities say the situation this morning, is still not resolved. and a number of western workers, including americans, apparently remain hostages. the state department has now confirmed that 58-year-old fred buttaccio of suburban houston, was killed a

and they said put up the ladder, behind me on the ground is a 20 foot ladder. >> ladder had been leftre by mainlt nens workers. it's what do two adults used to climb to safety. the fire destroyed several cars. right now, investigators are trying to peace together how the fire started but one thing is clear, they sate quick actions saved lives. one neighbor is a fire captain responding to this blaze. >> given amount of damage, amount of fire he made a difference. >> for trevor, gravity of the quick action didn't hit him until hours later when he talked to one women he helped safe. >> yes. she's like, you know, the one who saved me. you're my hero. i said i don't feel like what i did was heroic. i did what had to be done at the time. >> the woman who tossed her two children out to trevor then jumped herself, he tells us she suffered an injury to her ankle. he says she jumped out he didn't catch her she landed on him and he broke her fall. >> what he did is remarkable. thank you very much. several people are under arrest accused of beating and shooting an

they've climbed up the side of the tanker with the ladder and are trying to -- to hose down right in -- >> oh, wow. >> i'd have a big truck way ladder and a helicopter. >> there are power lines you see in one of the videos. lots of stuff around. again, only two of the tanksers were on fire, but the train in all was tearing ten. this could have been a lot larger. >> maybe they know something we don't know. that the tanks aren't under pressure or something? >> or maybe this is just russia and this is just how they do it. >> they had it know something, because no injuries were recorded. >>> i'm continually surprised at what bad guyless less will do get -- gretcigarettes. check this out from spokane, washington. a stolen suv into the doors of a convenience store. jumps out of the car, runs through the door. the store closed. the till empty, but stole cigarettes. then he drives away. >> how much did they get away with? doesn't even look lie the guy has a bag. they're just going in and taking whatever he can carry. >> he's probably thinking i'm going to eventually wind up in jail. so i got

. >> ladders, cranes. >> ladders, cranes. >> it's china they will figure out a way. how about the cold beer. >> well, that's always good. we cannot build anything that is ice or snow related. look at how mild the temperatures are. 38 to 43 in the city. annapolis is at 41. that is interesting map. this tells the tale. where we were yesterday morning it's 6 degrees warmer. 12 degrees in the last 24 hours in dover. it's mild across-town. but this will not stick. in fact we are expecting cold air to come pouring in by tomorrow. a lot of cloud across the area right now. and again you notice the cold air pouring in off ohio and into the lakes that's what's going to be coming in our direction by tomorrow. 35 in town. 28 in buffalo and 14 below zeroright now international falls. the cold air will be in our area as we head into tomorrow. we will show you that in the seven-day coming up. >>> an argument over a parkingspace gets heated quickly. what a teen claims happened to her when she was trying to save a spot for her friend and what someone else says happened after they wan

the man was able to grab onto the ladder about halfway down while another firefighter rescued the family. luckily no one was injured. >>> some sad news to report in the baseball world tonight. hall of fame manager earl weaver, legendary for his feisty temper, died today. the earl of baltimore spent his entire 17-year career with the orioles taking them to four world series titles while getting ejected from 94 games, an american record. weave died while on a cruise. he was 82 years old. >>> some remarkable video taken out of hawaii by a crew member on a tour boat. two humpback whales treated tourists to the show and a shock of a lifetime, swimming alongside the 24-foot boat for ten minutes. one apparently used the boat as a backscratcher. humpbacks migrate to the warm waters of hawaii every winter to mate and give birth. >>> when we return americans celebrate the inauguration, and honor the memory of dr. martin luther king jr. by giving back. >>> as you heard earlier today was billed as the national day of service. something president obama started four years ago. it's a salute to volunte

you don't have to be leaning over the ladder or moving the ladder. you can get in one safe spot and let the robot do the dangerous work for you. >> reporter: how much does this cost? >> $299.99. >> reporter: and you've got this for life. >> yes. >> reporter: you're not just outside in the gutter. i understand you are soon to be or already in the pool as well. >> correct. we're getting wet cleaning pools. this is the new mira 530 pool cleaning robot. it's our latest robot -- it's designed for most residential inground pools and cleans the entire pool, the floor, the walls all the way to the water line scrubbing the stairs and everything. >> reporter: this is like you set it and forget it? >> you hit the clean button, it goes in, it's got sensors and layers that allows it to go in and size up your pool, takes measurements and gets approximately how big your pool is and decides what's the best cleaning cycle. >> reporter: all right. is this available now? >> it's going to be available this spring, pool season. >> reporter: what is the price point? $1,29

the ladder is not made for convenience of short-legged fellows like me.emember looking out and thinking, my god, i'm not getting any lower. it seemed like i was at the same level. >> for more than two hours, with news helicopters circling, bill chappel and his young companions carefully descend the 700-foot tower. finally, near the bottom, they reach a point where rescuers can reach them from the ground. >> how do you climb down such a long ladder? >> it was a long haul. i'm getting a little weak in the knees, but we did it, and these kids were an inspiration. they did fine. nothing like terra firma, i tell you, the safety of the crew, the safety of the arms. we were all crying and just glad to be alive. >> bill presents both boys with a smokey bear pin as a tribute to their courage. meanwhile, 10-year-old aaron whitaker is shaken but in good spirits. >> would you ever fly again? >> probably when i'm older. a couple years away, yeah, probably. but this year, no. >> sir, what about you? >> you betcha. >> you've been flying for a long time. >> you bet, yep.

just like on the outside a person will try to move up the social ladder. it's the same in prison.the bottom of that ladder is segregation, the hole, where the inmate will spend most of their time by themselves without any privileges. at the top of that ladder is general population, where an inmate will have about as much freedom as you can in prison. >> serving a 60-year sentence for several crimes including rape and with a long list of violent offenses inside indiana state prison, inmate brian collins was fortunate to have been moved out of the intensive detention unit to the less restrictive chronic care unit. but not long after the move his luck ran out. >> mr. collins has been accused of assaulting another inmate. there was never a verification of that, but the accusation was there. >> brian had a history of aggressive behavior, a history of getting into fights with inmates and staff. he was a convicted sex offender, obviously in jeopardy inside a prison, so i think a lot of his aggressive behavior was a means of protecting himself. >> prison officials allowed us to give colli

on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. single policy. we should view it through the lens of how does this impact those if he bottom of the economic ladder? and listen, our policies work. the other side's don't. and yet painfully, so many republicans don't seem to understand that. let me suggest an experiment to you. the next time you're watching television and you see a republican politician come on tv and the topic of race or class comes up, turn off the volume. most republicans think we're wrong. if you look at their body language, republican politicians are saying please stop talking about these issues, can we talk about capital gains? i can talk about capital gains. i have to tell you every time that happens i want to put my boot through the television set. i've had to buy a lot of tv sets. our policies work! why is it that for two centuries, millions of people have come from all over the world to the united states? because we are a land that allows unlimited opportunity. it allows people with nothing to work to achiev

the firefighter was climbing the ladder to the fourth floor window. look at that. a chunk of snow breaks off the roof right over his head. he fell backward but managed to cling to the ladder as his fellow firefighters came to the rescue. >> unbelievable he didn't go down. >> one climbed over him and saved a child from that window despite that. the firefighter believe it or not was not seriously hurt. i'm sure he could use a trip to the chiropractor. >> a nice drink or something. that's incredible. unbelievable the way he just stuck on that ladder. thank goodness everyone is okay. then went and saved the kid. firefighters always in harm's way. appreciate them. christina loren is telling us we have a nice looking weekend ahead. >> we do. we always salute our heroes. firefighters and of course police officers. temperatures this morning cold enough for ice. it is a wintry morning. however, we'll see a springlike finish to the day. 36 degrees in san jose. 31 in gilroy. 33 in livermore. of course the coldest santa rosa at 28 degrees. now, as we head throughout this after

let's help him but we don't have a ladder. okay. so, somebody, let's bring this across with a big blanket to catch him with. let's help him, hurry up. bring something. there are so many people down there. is it the kind of festival today? i don't know. a big cloth. what's that for? they are shouting but i can't hear anything. louder there, please? what? jump? jump from here? whoa they are telling me to jump? they are going to catch me with the big cloth. okay. yes i'm ready to jump. i'm scared but the only way to get down from here so i try it. he jumped and the man hit the cloth waiting for him to land. fortunately the man hit the blanket. in the big center but unfortunately the man hit the cloth and he bounced up high into the air and land on the exact same place again. [music] >> a story with o odu noodle. [singing] get your noodles, how about your noodles. in japanese. in english, get your noodles. how about your noodles? hey! mr. welcome to my noodle shop. it's very cold isn't it? yes it is especially cold tonight. i can't stan

he's climbing up the ladder and then boom, a huge mound of snow and ice falls off the building.an somehow managed to hold on as fellow firemen helped him. they ended up rescuing the family and that firefighter was not hurt. very brave and the presence of mind to hold on. >>> it's 4:21 right now. let's take a look outside if we can. city cam showing you the district and there's no snow on the ground. we didn't -- that's not surprising here in the district. not at all. tom told us that. but south of here, got a little snow, tom? >> yeah. got a lot of snow south of washington. right now, we are off to a clearing start. there was the snow from yesterday. heavy snow all across central southern virginia. now it's exiting. getting a few scattered flurries, north and west of the metro area. northern montgomery county, parts of howard, carroll, frederick counties in maryland getting a few passing quick flurries. they make their way south as far as washington. it's at 38. north and west, in the low 30s. south and east where the snow fell. it's down near freezing. fredericksburg at 33. we'

a temple god must have taken my ladder away. the man started pacing back and forth wondering how to get down. so, the sunlight made one of the birds wake up. bird:i can't breathe. so i must be catching a bad cold. i drank too much, saki rice wine last night. was a little tipsy. i don't remember. any way. think an

chutes and ladders or candy land, which is more competitive? >> chutes and ladders definitely. candy land is for babies. >> they are both brutal. they send you right back down. that's reality. >> my theory -- >> never mind. >> we will close things out with a post game wrap up with andy levy and to see clips of recent shows go to fox news.com/red eye. look for me. >>> you can watch "red eye" this saturday at 11:00 p.m.nd p. that's right. 11:00 p.m. my mom can watch. a new show returns on monday. guests next week include dana perino and rick leventhal and kurt loder. time to go back to tv's andy levy for the post game wrap up. andy? >> thanks, tom. jedediah, what you got? >> next week a bunch of fox business pretty much every day. just tune in and check out my website and you will findu

. >> i started up the ladder and i looked down at my final foot print and i knew i wasn't coming backway. i looked at the earth and multi color blues and the oceans and the clouds and not tumbling through space, but with purpose and an order and turned on an axis and started up the ladder. i was looking for that perverbial freeze button because i wanted to keep this moment going. >> america's challenged of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. >> you were the last human being to touch that surface. how does that make you feel? >> humble. >> we leave what we came and god willing that we shall return. with hope for all mankind. god speed to the crew of apolo 17. >> i am convinced that the space program will come back. >> the country needs to have something to look forward to, to look up to, to be proud of. look how far we went in seven years. my grandmother on a farm in michigan had a ring telephone, no electricity, an outhouse, and she watched the first guy walk on the moon in her lifetime. >> i would like to see the next generation leave footprints like we left on the moon. >> i

down the ladder much the man somehow managed to hold on as his fellow firemen rushed to help him. officials say the firefighter was not hurt. >> snowstorm hid the mid-atlantic yesterday. these are from norton, virginia, roanoke area. working to clear streets. you can see the snow piled up to the side of the roads there. still covering some streets. they got, i think, and tom will confirm this. i think they got upwards of 12 inches of snow this that part of the state. >> yeah, indeed. southwestern virginia. that was the area that got the heaviest snows. there were some locations on the north carolina border. they got 14 inches of snow there. now, as we take a look at what has been happening, this is the way it looked about 12 hours ago. 6:20 p.m. heavy snows at southwestern virginia. west and north of richmond, it was starting to change over from rain to snow. the storm track was about 50 miles farther south and anticipated as a result we had a no impact storm here in washington. we had that snow around southeastern virginia around 2 to 6 inches from richmond down south. it's cold.

fortunately he hung onto the ladder as a fellow firefighter rushed to help him.y were able to get back and successfully help the victims of that apartment fire. >>> coming up next, mariah carey versus nicki minaj, wasting no time taking shots at each other. >> and at 11:00 find out what you're paying for at subway. >>> now your capital rundown with tom fitzgerald. >> we're back with your look at what's upcoming, new and noteworthy, your capital rundown for the week of january 21st, 2013. monday is inauguration day. president obama will take the oath of the oval office at 12 noon on the west steps of the united states capitol followed by the parade down pennsylvania avenue. tuesday, january 22nd, the president and vice president will attend the inaugural national prayer service featuring prayers, reading, musical performance starting at 10:30 a.m. at washington national cathedral. wednesday, january 23rd secretary of state hillary clinton will testify about last september's terrorist attack of the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya taking place at the house foreign

the body of the 21-year-old was found in a dumpster in mountain view in 1985. 28 years ladder police finally got a dna match. >> if you scratch someone, whether you're trying to defend yourself in any sort of struggle, there's a good chance that person's skin cells will wiped up under your fingernails and that's as good as a fingerprint in identifying somebody. >> the d.a.'s office say the dna led them to 53-year-old daniel garcia of fresno. he was arrested on friday after questioning him the day before. >> his statement certainly was consistent with what we believed happened in the case, and gave us more information that allowed us to make this arrest. >> investigators had revisited this cold case over the years but only recently advances in technology helped the crime lab develop a dna profile from the fingernails. the database of convicted felons helped find a match. for the victim's family, this long awaited arrest has brought a huge sense of relief. >> the family was thrilled when they were notified by our seth, -- by our sergeant, and they're happy. it's a good thing to do. >>

walking up a ladder until friday. 68 degrees.g to max out with some phenomenal conditions as we round out the workweek. this weekend temperatures come down just a touch. we'll keep that pattern in the mix. barbecue is on. throw shrimps on for me this weekend. >> anything you can barbecue. turn it and burn it. looking to the south bay, traffic is moving nicely right now. we see 101 north of 680 and that's why you see a tad bit of slowing. burst he'ses up over the next 15 minutes and kicks in at 6:15 if that goes as plan. south 17 over here we do have report of a stalled vehicle blocking your slow lane. i haven't seen a lot of slowing over the last ten minutes. i did see something going on for a few but then it cleared up. waiting for the chp update. hopefully it means everything has cleared. here out of the altamont pass, smooth once you get into livermore and toward that dublin interchange. there's your commute direction. there's your traditional slowing. live look outside to show you fremont smooth drive but southbound at dakota

it through a rousing lens, how does this impact those at the bottom of the economic letter let -- ladderand listen, our policies work. the other sides don't, yet painfully so many republicans do not seem to understand that. let me suggest an experiment. the next time you see a republican politician, on tv and the topic of race or class comes up, turn off the volume. most republicans think we are wrong. if you look at their hottie language, republican -- body language, republicans think " please stop talking about these issues. can we talk about capital gains ?" everything that happens i want to put my boot through the television set. i have had to buy a lot of tv sets and our policies work. why is it that millions have come to the united states? it is because we are a land that allows unlimited opportunities, people with nothing to work to achieve anything, and the policies of the people on the left -- there was a fabulous article that ran in "national review" called the "tale of two cities" talking about detroit and houston. in the 1955 detroit with a more prosperous city, and many peop

you can see the man climb the ladder to reach the people who are desperate to get out. suddenly that huge mound of snow and ice fell off the building, sent the firefighter down the ladder apiece there. you see that. the man somehow managed to hold on as his fellow firemen rushed up to help him. they ended up rescuing a family and officials say the firefighters were not hurt. >> hard to watch. >> it's amazing. he hit it hard, too. look at that. >> he held on. glad that was a good ending. >>> 5:11. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. meteorologist tom kierein here with the cold day. tom sm. >> that near miss winter storm unloaded tons of snow in southern, central virginia. a few scattered flurries north and west. in pennsylvania, many locations teens and the cold air will be filtering in on a blustery northwest wind. we're in the mid and upper 30s. we'll stay in the 30s the rest of the day. the wind gusting to 30 miles an hour. then, after we get to the latter part of the afternoon into the early evening, the wind diminish. clear tonight. it will be cold, near 30 near

reach people trapped in a willing when a giant chunk of snow broke off and knocked him down that ladderappened in siberia eastern russia. one of them saved a child from the apartment window as bad as that might look no one was hurt. four people dead and dozens more rescued as heavy flooding hits a capital city. our top story as we go around the world tonight in 80 seconds. indonesia. floods in jakarta. some 20,000 people evacuated. the city's governor issued a state of emergency through next week. this year's monsoon season has brought some of the country's heaviest rain fall in five years. mexico. deadly attack on the city of acapulco. gunmen ambushed the vehicle. forced off screaming passengers. shot the driver and his 14-year-old assistant. then poured gasoline on the bus and set it on fire. the gunman got await a minute police are investigating. india, rescuers save an elephant calf that had fall noon a well in an eastern state. villagers alerted crews who used a small bulldozer to dig an escape route for the calf. it eventually climbed out just fine and locals chased it back into t

emergency crews had to use both a harness and a ladder to free the elk. no word on how much time the animal spent in the cold water before rescue teams came there. with. bet he was awake after that one. >> he should have chosen the heated pool next door. >>> time for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day on nbc. the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments on whether police can force suspected drunk drivers to have blood drawn. at issue is whether a blood test constitutes an unreasonable search. which is prohibited by the fourth amendment. >>> the world's oldest underground rail celebrates a milestone. the london tube opened in 1863 to help alleviate overcrowded streets. we know that here in new york. >>> and another birthday across the pond. catherine, the duchess of cambridge, celebrates her 31st birthday. duchess kate is expected to spend her birthday with family. happy birthday to her. >>> all day long stay on top of the stories and the best political analysis on msnbc. tonight, be sure to watch "nbc nightly news" with bri

climbing the ladder to the fourth floor, the ice falls right on top of him. falls back, manages to catch himself. unbelievable. clings to that.ñr other firefighters climbed over him, savered the child. and the firefighter was not seriously hurt. amazing stuff there. >>> we will be right back. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or why it doesn't have to be an adventure to stick to your new year's budget. because safeway gives you real big club card deals each week. right now, a case of arrowhead water is just $3.33. folgers is $7.99 for the large size. that's a huge deal. rise and shine. simply orange oj is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> just in time for his inauguration, the white house is releasing president obama's official portrait for his second term. >> how he looks after four years in the white house. taken back on december 6th. seems like he is feeling pretty good about everything. what a difference after four years. not quite as gray in the first one, but t