abc's michael barr has the latest. >> reporter: the arctic blast is dumping snow on southern california, shutting down interstate 5, north of los angeles. roads in higher elevations quickly turned icy. >> it's very, very icy up there. kind of dangerous roads. making sure to chain up before i head up there. >> reporter: along with snow and ice, the storm is bringing 45-mile-per-hour to 60-mile-per-hour winds to the west. the blustery weather triggered mudslides near seattle. it's a cold front, sending a chill to the middle of the country. would notice that chill after getting severe weather more common in summer. >> our patio floor is actually over here in the neighbor's yard. we got outside. and we walked out to this. >> reporter: this week's storm damage, of downpours and tornadoes are bad enough where louisiana's governor declared a statewide emergency. michael barr, abc news. >>> and for the very latest on exactly when and where the snow will hit and just how much it will get, we turn, now, to accuweather. >> meteorologist jim dickey is tracking the storm. >> good morning, rob and su

michael barr, abc news, new york. >> so sad. >>> and law enforcement officials are offering a $100,000ard for tips leading to the arrest of a bank robber dubbed the ak-47 bandit. the suspect is wanted for holding up five banks last year in california, idaho and washington. in one heist he shot and wounded a police officer. and the fbi believes that he will strike again. >>> and firefighters in portland, oregon, used heavy cutting equipment to free a woman who was trapped in the tight space between two buildings. she was in there for four hours before being freed. the woman had been smoking on the roof of one of the buildings when she fell into that void which was only eight to ten inches wide. >>> important medical news for moms who are expecting. a new study confirms that the flu vaccine is safe for pregnant women and their babies. that's reassuring news since the current flu epidemic is raging. researchers found, going without the shot is risky. pregnant women who get the flu have a higher chance of fetal death. >>> now, some sports for you. a historymaking night in the nba. we have

michael barr has that story. >> the arctic blast that is dumping store in southern california, shutting down interstate 5 north of los angeles. the roads in high elevations quickly turned icy. >> it was very i see up there. very dangerous roads. >> along with snow and ice, the snow is bringing 45-60 miles per hour winds to the west. the gusty weather triggered mudslides near seattle. as wet snow fell on highways, it slowed down commuters. it is part of a cold front that is sending a chill from the rockies to the middle the country. survivors cleanup from tornadoes in louisiana will feel the chill. >> our patio is in the neighbor's yard. when we got outside we walked out to it. >> this week's storm damage was bad enough for louisiana's governor to declare a statewide emergency. michael r., abc 7 news. >> thank you so much. it is five:47. -- 5:47. >> and looks like delta airlines will get to where you want to go on time. let's get to linda bell, live at bluebird's world headquarters in new york. >> good news if you fly delta airlines. among the biggest carriers when it comes to getting cu

the bizarre details from abc's michael barr. >> reporter: manti te'o, notre dame's star linebacker, nowd the person he called the love of his life, jenae, just six hours later. >> the last thing she said to me was, i love you. >> reporter: keeping his promise not to miss a game. he played that day. he talked openly about his double loss. >> my older brother called me and he was just crying and crying and crying. that's when i kind of knew but i was still in denial. >> reporter: now it turns out lenae did not exist. the story was first reported on the sports news website deadspin. notre dame admitted it had launched an investigation in december and determined in early january that te'o was the victim of a hoax. >> this was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax, perpetrated for reasons we can't fully understand, but had a certain cruelty at its core. >> reporter: he said te'o's relationship was online and over the phone. they never met. he said te'o has been tragically impacted by these events. >> the thing i am most sad of, sad about is -- sorry. that the single most trusting human b

so far after having ended michael barr come having increased in intensity sector after sector of american life has been corrupted by the liberal ethos that aims simultaneously at the political and social collectivism on the one hand, and the moral anarchy on the other. it cannot win. but it can make us all losers. to meditate on the means of this great contest, we have assembled a distinguished panel of chambers intellectual and moral errors. peter berkowitz is the current senior fellow at the hoover institution, where she shares the to hoover task force on a national-security and law and co-chairs the hoover task force on the virtue of a free society. in the past, he has served as an associate professor george mason university school small and an assistant and associate professor at harvard university. she is the author of "virtue and the making of modern and liberalism and the ethics of the moralist." he holds jd and ph.d. from science from this institution, and a and philosophy from the hebrew university in jerusalem and a b.a. in english literature from swarthmore college. norman podh

we will hear remarks from michael barr during this one hour and 20 minute event. >> good evening again. welcome back to the forum. i'm not the one you will be applauding for. you know, we have public events, public forums in our santa monica headquarters campus about once a month. and we have had a former presidents and prime and esters and embassadors and foreign ministers and police chiefs and the occasional school superintendent. we have never come to my knowledge, had anybody that has ever created, let alone start a movie or a tv series until tonight. and we have michael lynton to think for that, politics aside and 2012 just like in 2010, and he of course is a rand trustees we are delighted to have him. he will moderate tonight. with him -- and i will ask the panel to come forward, howard gordon and david nevins and michael sheen. [applause] that's david nevins right there. [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] >> first of all thank you very much for being here and all of you for being here on friday night because i know friday nights are tough to get away particularly if you have kids