thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets yesterday in the southern city of daraa where the eruption started not quite a year ago. forces killing at least two people there. for the 13th straight day, the city of homs is the target of

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fighting is intensifying in the southern city of daara. the activist group says more than 300 people were killed over the weekend. >>> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan, post-march 11th. we have two perspectives on the fallout from the tsunami and earthqua. "nuclear watch" and "the road ahead." don't miss "nuclear watch" and "the road ahead" on "newsline." >>> workers at fukushima daiichi are trying to cool the plant's number two reactor. they are injecting water into the facility but the temperature remains high. spokes persons maintain it is in a state of cold shutdown. tokyo electric power company issues say a thermometer at the bottom of the reactor monday read above 73 degrees celsius. the temperature has risen more than 20 degrees in the past four days. spokespersons say two other thermometers stayed at 44 degrees. tepco has been injecting more than ten tons of water per hour into the reactor. spokespersons say the temperature rise indicates the flow of water may have changed direction after plumbing work was

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more clashes in the southern city of dara, where army tanks rumble through the streets. something syria's army categorically denied just yesterday. not tanks? no tanks, the general told me. we will not use them. and we will win. some aren't so sure. these men are being ordered to fire on their own people. many have deserted. some of their men are struggling to survive. shot by rebels, they cling to life in a military hospital. there are many deserters in this new brigade of rebels. the latest to join the free syrian army. this war is beginning to look like iraq with roadside bombs targeting tanks. but there is a price to pay for the games of the revolution. these young men, the latest to be arrested by troops in damascus. in the neighborhood where we filmed them protesting just four days ago. do you feel that you are winning this battle? that this uprising is working? >> 100% we will go. >> reporter: this battle now in its 12th month is a civil war by any standards. and it's deepening. bill neely, nbc news, damascus. >>> we received word from syria last night one of the

protests against the government started in the southern city of darwa. security forces renewed attacks on rebel strongholds. a human rights activist told nhk tanksed attracted an area near a mosque, then exchanged gunfire. an increasing number of troops deployed in and around the city. between 15,000 and 25,000 soldiers that fled the forces formed the backbone of the army. the government soldiers number around 300,000. more than 6,000 people are said to have been killed since the uprising began in march of last year. a former syrian official says they are bending under economic sanctions by the west. he was inspector with syrian ministry of defense. he is staying in the egyptian capital, cairo. he said they cut the health and education budget more than 30% since protests began. he said those funds are now being used to finance military operations. >> translator: the economic impact of western sanctions on the petroleum energy sector prevails across the country, and state finances are essentially collapsing. >> some analysts say the government is intensif

a suicide car bomb killed at least one policeman and injured four other people in the southern city of kandahar. the bomber rammed the gate of a police station near the governor's house. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but foreign analysts believe the taliban is behind the bombing. >>> nuclear officials from the international atomic energy agency arrived in iran to discuss the country's suspected development of nuclear weapons. this is the second time in less than a month that the iaea is in iran. the visit comes as military leaders and diplomats from the united states and britain have urged israel not to attack iran. they say an attack would cause major problems for the entire middle east and that international sanctions against iran need more time to work. >>> a new national survey shows momentum building for one candidate in decision 2012. rick santorum leads by eight points. 36% of republican voters sided with the presidential candidate. 28% supported mitt romney. newt gingrich received 13%, and ron paul received 11%. santorum is defending a comment he made abou

was a southern city and so close to virginia. he was worried if the bodies were returned to their families they would become martyrs and the graves would become these sites of tribute. he did not want that to happen. he wanted this to be over. he wanted an example to be made of them. and he wanted the country to move on. so that sort of wraps up this level. and, of course, mary surratt was the first woman to ever be executed by the federal government. and to this day, there's a lot of controversy over how guilty or innocent she was. so after the assassination of abraham lincoln, mary had a long and difficult journey before she finally made it to springfield, illinois, where she lived with her sister until her death. initially she stayed in the white house, actually longer than she should have. she just wasn't ready to move. and andrew johnson was very understanding and forgiving of this and just waited until she was ready to move out of the white house. she was very worried about not having enough money to live on and so she trie

and so as a result of that, in the southern -- particular southern city, the entire society mobilizednowballed more violence on the part of the regime and firing at demonstrators and basically triggered other cities and other parts of the country to start demonstrating and organizing basically and, you know, this syrian revolution in motion. >> it is a familiar dynamic in terms of demonstration being met with brutal repressive force, brutal repressive force then igniting more opposition. >> exactly. >> see brutality of what's going on. >> the first month most people, i mean, the -- most common slogans were basically we want reform and democracy ar. no one said we want to bring down this pick president and regime. as a result of the violence, as a result of the intense repression people basically lost hope this particular president, regime, will be able to lead this process. he gave an extremely disappointing speech at the parliament where basically he blamed everything going on americans and on the world and this is a foreign conspiracy. these people are infiltrators and radical its l

it happened in the city -- the southern city of kandahar. the bomber rammed the gate of a police station near the governor's house. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. but foreign analysts believe the taliban is behind the bombing. >>> today family, friends, and co-workers of a missing new yfe worker will hold a vigil. pamela butler vanished three years ago when she didn't show up for a valentine's day dinner she had planned with her mother. the 47-year-old worked as a computer expert for the epa. she lived in northwest washington. the family hopes for answers about her disappearance. >>> and -- >> a newspaper says how police calculate the d.c. success rate at closing murder cases is misleading. d.c. police chief kathy lanier says there is a 94% homicide case closure rate in washington. according to the "washington post," police records show the city had 108 homicides last year. 62 were solved as of year's end. that is a 57% closure rate. the paper says d.c. police also counted 40 cases from other years that were closed in 20

in november, in the small southern city of tumkur, they pulled together the wedding event of the seasond you ask them to come quickly? >> pitts: two of the town's elite families joined through the marriage of nivedita keshavmurthy and akshay bavikatte, both doctors. >> agarwal: unlike western cultures, where it's about the bride and the groom, here, it's about anything but the bride and the groom. >> chauhan: yeah. >> agarwal: it's about two families coming together. >> chauhan: together. >> pitts: half of the gold that indians buy each year is jewelry bought for a wedding. and this was one of the estimated ten million weddings that take place in india each year. but few rise to the level of this lavish affair, stretched over five days. the tent was custom-built for the ceremonies. water piped in for fountains, and musicians flown in from mumbai, the entertainment capital of india; the lighting, audio and video orchestrated like a bollywood movie set. the families spent over $200,000 just on gold. hidden in the corner, behind a curtain, was the other india-- a full kitchen that could ha

an explosion rips through a polling station in the southern yemeni city of aiden, one day before the country holds presidential elections. gunfire was also heard in the city. yemen's vice president is the only candidate in tomorrow's vote after a year of protests for president saleh to end his 33-year rule. a strike by ground workers at frankfurt airport has forced the cancellation of 231 flights. the action at europe's third busiest airport is due to continue into tuesday. they're unions are increase pressure for pay raises and reduce hours. the man tipped to be the next president of china, xi jinping has wrapped up his visit to ireland before he heads to turkey. he finds new deals on trade and investment and got something of a taste for ireland. >> ireland always gives a warm welcome to its v.v.i.p. guests, but this business is particularly special. the last time mr. xi was in ireland was nine years ago. he returned as one of the most important men in the world. there's genuine delight in irish government circles that hosting china's next leader. ireland is the only european stop o

southern cities like atlanta will stay on the warmer side. l.a. see you. sally, welcome in from texas. we appreciate you being here. back to you inside, lara? >> i like your correspondent, sam. >>> here's what's happening on our "gma morning menu." high school panic. could online videos be the key to solving it. >>> and red hot valentine's day. the seductive new trend. >> and peeking of. >>> get ready for anything. ali wentworth, here live, to take us inside the pages of her new memoir. [ female announcer ] introducing coffee-mate natural bliss. ♪ made with only milk... cream... a touch of sugar... and pure natural flavors. ♪ who knew being natural could be so delicious? coffee-mate natural bliss. from nestle. add your flavor naturally. ♪ [ female announcer ] the sun has always powered life. ♪ and now it powers our latest innovation to heat and cool your home more efficiently. ♪ introducing the world's only solar-powered home energy system, which saves you up to half off your heating and cooling bill. ♪ lennox. innovation never felt so good. - nei

southern cities like atlanta will stay on the warmer side. l.a. with 68 degrees today. this morning and will we yesterday at this time. war were this morning and yesterday it this time. 40 in chantilly. 46 in frederick. cooler air moving into town, near 40's tomorrow with a little bit of light snow early afternoon. minor accumulations are possible. clearing up by thursda >> nice to see you. sally, welcome in from texas. we appreciate you being here. back to you inside, lara? >> i like your correspondent, sam. >>> here's what's happening on our "gma morning menu." high school panic. could online videos be the key to solving it. >>> and red hot valentine's day. the seductive new trend. >> and peeking of. >>> get ready for anything. ali wentworth, here live, to take us inside the pages of her new memoir. [ female announcer ] introducing coffee-mate natural bliss. ♪ made with only milk... cream... a touch of sugar... and pure natural flavors. ♪ who knew being natural could be so delicious? coffee-mate natural bliss. from nestle. add your flavor naturally. ♪ [ female announc

there was some snow showers in annapolis, southern maryland, ocean city, south of dover.e have some flurries around baltimore but the accumulating snow was south of us. you can see some snow flurries still on the radar on the eastern shore counties. you guys may have some snow flurries for the next few hours. the skies are going to clear. we have some cloud cover this morning. it will turn mostly sunny. 36 at the airport. 30 in westminster. temperatures will make it into the 40's. we will become mostly sunny. a little on the breezy side, at 10 to 15. mostly clear tonight and temperatures will drop back to around 30. we start at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. dry conditions expected. we have a 30% chance for a rain shower on tuesday afternoon. same thing on wednesday. that one will miss us. 30% chance for a shower tomorrow. the big story is the change in the temperatures. upper 50's on wednesday and thursday before a strong cold front moves in on thursday and friday. the oil and not the temperatures to where they should be this time of year with afternoon highs in the 40's -- that wi

a better chance to see any accumulation will be from southern maryland to ocean city.ven that will be minimal and mostly on grassy areas. the big bull's-eye, the snow back into central virginia. some places from 2 inches to 6 inches of snow. futurecast showing all of this staying mostly to our south. just a thin banding of rain and snow south of baltimore into tonight. then the storm clears out. beautiful weather for president's day. for tonight, gradually clearing. lose downs -- lows down into the 20's and 30's. high up to 48. up to 50's the rest of the week. even near 60 as we look into thursday. each and every day this upcoming week, a slight chance for rain showers. >> thank you, ava. singing super-star whilt any houston will be laid -- whitney houston will be laid to rest today next to her father in newark, new jersey. >> a look back at witness houston's home going. >> we celebrate the life of whitney houston. >> for almost four gospel-infused hours, nearly 1,000 invited family and friends did just that. >> she was a beautiful human being. >> you wait for a voice

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you ever spend any time in charlottesville it's an upperly mobile, liberal, very well educated southern city jury will have any sympathy for domestic violence or a narcissistic arrogant jock who went and bludgeoned this beautiful young lady. the reason why the computer is so important is the judge will have instructed this jury, he's already done so on the issue of consciousness of guilt, that you can look at a defendant's actions after the crime to determine what his intent was. in this case whether or not he went there with the intent to steal the computer, the computer shows that he had the presence of mine, he knew to kick it to destroy the evidence because that computer contained evidence of his intent when he sent the emails a week before when he said i should have killed you when you got involved with this other lacrosse player from north carolina. martha: it's a tragic case. do you think the defense has any chance of coming back with a not guilty verdict in this case, kelly? >> only on first-degree. i think he's going to be convicted but i think they are doing a great job for trying

thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets yesterday in the southern city of daraa where the eruption started not quite a year ago. forces killing at least two people there. for the 13th straight day, the city of homs is the target of extraordinary shelling. 13 people killed there and dozens of others wounded. look at this satellite. this is the oil pipeline in homs that exploded, filling the sky with massive clouds of black smoke. the syrian government's revolt on the stronghold in the southern part of the country is an entirely different situation than the north. which has been under the government's control for many months and that may be about to change. cnn's ivan watson is there with an exclusive report. take a look. >> reporter: the countryside is in open revolt and this is a rebellion of farmers, carpenters, high school teachers. entire communities, villages, and towns and stretches of northern syria that tell us that they have not seen presence of syrian government authorities in months. they have effectively been governing themselves and clearly have established

county, one to westminster, and the one to the inspector general's home all the way down in southern maryland. cityuncil member carl stokes wants to keep city vehicles inside city limits. >> i am opposed to people with desk jobs taking these cars outside the city limits. >> we ask them to recall the last time they were called in after hours. >> what is this january, february? i think it was december of last year. >> there are plenty of people that are on call 24-7 that do not have the luxury of a take- home car. >> we estimate a weekly cost of $854 just to cover fuel for commuting, but the mayor said today she sees no reason to change the take home policy. >> you are ok with city employees taking vehicles, to places that are 15, 20, 30, 50 miles away? >> again, we are constantly evaluating efficiencies. the fact that this cut is less than 1% of the budget suggests to me that it is being done efficiently. >> in addition to fuel costs for all but one of the vehicles, taxpayers cover maintenance, wear and tear, and insurance costs. it includes -- those who get the vehicles include some of the city's h

i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. much smaller organization. completely different type of agency. but one of the things we found was to my career and particularly at the beginning, there was really no classis% -- classes pe se, and we started a course on how to be a successful chief. a very strong component of that was an ethics, and what is the chief's responsibility within their department relating to at the experience included in that, it had to do with the abuse of power and misconduct. i was -- i guess you could say "a whistle-blower." i put together a case in which three officers i have worked with had been nearly to deaf a game and what they were off duty. -- nearly two -- to death a gain man -- a gay man when they were off duty. i dealt with the consequences for many years. it was very lonely in that position. very lonely getting death threats. very lonely worrying more about the people behind you than the crooks in front of you. not a nice situatio

earlier numbers where culpeper, the last time we checked, was at 57 degrees and at least for our southern tier cities temperatures were approaching 60 with all of that sunshine and i think a nice evening, 47 or so at 7:00 and 44 at 9:00 and that is meaning, you know, it will probably be in the upper 30s to lower 30s in the suburbs and cooler there and by 11:00, a few more clouds. still cool, though, the temperature in the lower 40s and the ups and this -- upper 30s and this is what is going on. we're nice and have had nothing but sunshine. the great west-northwesterly winds keeping us nice and sunny, nice and dry with all of that brilliant blue sky and some wonderful sunshine. the clouds are to the north of us and we have clouds to the south of us and we remain clear. they will move on across and as we look to the west, this is that storm system coming through missouri right now and that is into illinois. not a lot going on with this storm but it looks like there is a general concensus and not only from our in-house model, but most of the other ones that we look at and this is going to hole together

i spent 21 years in the city of torrance in southern california before coming up here, a city of to under 50,000, about 350 personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel. personnel. -- 250,000, about 350 personnel.

i do daily city, that was part of the lake. it was huge. >> the southerna [inaudible] but there is a different area. >> there was a creek that came down basically through west portal and said that particular lake. >> that was filled in when they develop west portal, and they had the brilliant idea when they dug but,, they needed a place to put it, so they build the creek in with the tunnel muck. >> you can see in 1910, we are talking about after the earthquake, but outer richmond is still pretty sparsely settled. >> or anyone who ever wondered what richmond is named after, it was a guy by the name of marsh, who was from richmond, england. >> australia? >> australia? >> george turner marsh. >> no trees at all. people see trees in the city and think they may have been made. sand and scrub. at some point, these are the lives were used recreational -- these outer lands were used recreational lly. . >> there is. we hoave -- what, the third? >> depends on it you are coming the addition. but they all burned down. that was around 1900, so if you are ever stuck in

. >>> as many as nine people were killed today when a suicide car bomb exploded in the southern afghan cityblast occurred near a police headquarters. a doctor at the local hospital said at least five of the victims were police officers. afghan president hamid karzai called the explosion a cowardly act of terror. >>> the pentagon is investigating the death of the highest ranking soldier to die in afghanistan. brigadier general terrence hildner died friday in afghanistan. he was deployed in afghanistan to assist the that i tnato trai mission. >>> helicopters are being used to evacuate thousands threatened by tragic floodwaters. a woman was swept away minutes after she was able to hand off her 7-year-old son. hardest hit is the eastern australian state of queensland. >>> unreasonably warm temperatures for much of the united states. jacqui jeras, i shouldn't say unreasonable, unseasonably. nothing is unreasonable to me about warm temperatures. >> i know. in fact, we were looking at this on the break. this beautiful shot of atlanta. >> it's so gorgeous. >> if you could pick a perfect day -- >> w

many older cities and settlements can be found in the southern russian forests and steppes. many are linked by the trans-siberian railroad. in this satellite mosaic of the earth at night, urban lights look like pearls strung on a long necklace along russia's southern border. as remote as these cities are, bratsk is not even on the main rail line, but 120 miles farther north. so how do 300,000 people suddenly come to reside in such an extreme climate in the middle of, well, siberia? and what does the future hold? we will explore several ideas. russia harnessed key natural resources provided by her physical geography. centralized cold war planners tried to boost soviet power and prestige. now, economic privatization offers a new challenge to bratsk to survive without large government subsidies. the reasons for bratsk begin in lake baikal, the deepest lake in the world. its mighty waters drain through the angara river to the north. bratsk was built where the oka river joins the angara. but this satellite mosaic was captured in e summer. much of the year it looks... like this. n

at least nine wounded in a suicide car bombing in the southern afghanistan city of kandahar. interior ministry did not provide details about the possible target, though witnesses said the explosion occurred near a police building. >>> the lib dwran interior ministry tells cnn that saif gadhafi, son of muammar gadhafi, could go on trial within a few weeks. >>> heavy snow has forced london's heathrow airport to cancel about half its flights today. no word on how many passengers were affected. london is the latest european capital to be hit by winter storms across the continent. >>> it is super bowl sunday, and from that we drew our inspiration for this week's edition of "the campaign trail." >> are you ready to go out there and take what's yours? >> yeah! >> what you worked hard for? >> yeah. >> that's duane "the rock" johnson in "the gridiron gang." one of the inspirational locker room scenes that hollywood routinely pumps out, and if you have covered enough presidential campaigns, you begin to know that candidates sound a lot like football coaches at halftime. >> i'm convince

. >> a southern california city is at the center of a class action lawsuit that alleges that the camerasiolate the law. what does that mean for the cameras here in the bay area? let's bring in kris sanchez who joins us tonight from san mateo. and kris, the peninsula and the south bay is filled with those cameras. what now? >> reporter: oh, yeah, this is the biggest provider and operator of red light cameras for all of the bay area. you know, none of the police departments that i contacted today said that they had plans to change any of their programs because of this pending class action lawsuit. but for the people who are fighting to get them taken down, for them, it is all about getting a little bit of validation. running a red light can be catastrophic for many police departments. red light cameras put the brakes on red light runners. >> they have been very effective here in san mateo and around the state in getting the public to really realize that you do have to stop at a red light and that they do cause so much damage when you run those red lights. >> reporter: most of the red light