more than 6500 flights cancelled from tacoma,Ñi to tampa.tens of thousands of travelers sleeping in airports lounges and when planes are finally flying again, chaos. >> there's many more people flying than there would be any other week of the year. so that translates into packed planes. now when there's a mass disruption that causes in this case more than 6,000 flight cancellations, there are very few available for stranded passengers to get into. >> reporter: the vast majority of american, of course, traveled this holiday season by road. and drivers in southern california have their hands full tonight. a section of i-5 north of los angeles is closed in both directions because of snow. and los angeles itself is expected to be hit with plenty of rain overnight and monday, perhaps as much as an inch and a half. troy? >> tony guida in new york city. thank you. >> bad weather is creating havoc for thousands of people in australia. mark phillips has more on the huge stretch of countryside that is underwater down under. >> reporter: after a ten ye

the other was a young woman who died in a tacoma hospital. >>> in tucson, arizona, today, jared loughner will be arraigned on federal charges growing out of the shooting rampage two weeks ago. six people were killed and 13 others were wounded. the most seriously wounded, of course, was congresswoman gabrielle giffords who is now at a rehab center in houston. don teague has the latest from there. >> reporter: at houston's memorial hermann hospital, the painstaking process of rehabilitating gabrielle giffords' injured brain is under way. doctors said even in the intensive care unit, giffords has undergone two rounds of therapy. dr. gerard francisco is leading giffords' rehabilitation. he says she's responding well to therapy but still can't speak and suffers weakness or paralysis on her right side. >> we're improving. >> reporter: giffords is in the icu because excess fluid is still draining from her brain. in the past her medical team might have waited for her to heal completely before beginning rehab. but the bullet that injured giffords penetrated the left hemisphere of the brain, the a

terror warning system after monday's suicide bomb at most cars damaged at the airport in which the tacoma died several airport officials have already been fired over thirty is linked to the outrage. taking almost start reduction treaty between moscow and washington and signed by president made that of the first such agreement in two decades that most expected to come into force of the start of next month's cutting weapons ban that. goes to headlines up next to his technology update and welcomes you to the world of high tech discoveries and scientific breakthroughs. hello and welcome to technology update we're often on a bit of a different beat than our colleagues here in our newsroom and while they work together to bring out today's breaking news we're going into complete isolation to prep for the future of long term space exploration. if you takes two years roundtrip to get to mars and back could you stand the test. and we're could you train for a dad kind of mission and the end of an ominous corridor in the basement of a siberian institute. and throw away to keep. future a cramped space

a would-be robber with a gun emerged from a bank in tacoma park, maryland. a woman as a shield from police, who took up positions in the parking lot. as the officers held their fire, a dye pack exploded in a bag holding the gunman's loot, releasing a cloud of red smoke. then, trying to back away from the police, he slipped and fell, losing his hold on the hostage. she ran for it and as he pursued her, the police opened fire. the gunman was hit and later died. now to an even more shocking video released today. security camera video of a wild shootout last sunday inside a detroit police station. the gunman took a shotgun into a precinct headquarters in northwest detroit and started shooting. ( gunfire ) the shooter, 38-year-old lamar moore, was being investigated for a sexual attack on a 13- year-old girl. he fired his pistol-grip shotgun again and again as wounded police officers scrambled for cover and others returned fire. at one point, split-screen video showed moore scrambling over the duty desk and opening fire again. at the most dramatic point in the sh

the images of the robber holding a gun to the head of a teller as he uses her as a human shield in tacomaark, maryland. you can see the red cloud of the security pack exploding. the robber chases after her gun pointing at her back when six officers opened fire on him. >> the suspect came came right toward them. >> the suspect died at the scene. a bullet grazed an officer's leg but the wound is described as minor. chillier temperatures this morning and i hear rain could be on the rain way. >> the rain moving in this evening. some neighborhoods north of the golden gate, you see all the cloud cover. 27 minute delays at arrival flights at sfo and possibility of rain for the rest of your weekend. >> also next, steven jackson returns to his old stomping grounds to stomp on the warriors in overtime. larry beil has the highlights in this morning's sports. [ female announcer ] back to school means back to busy mornings. that's why i got them pillsbury toaster strudel. warm flaky pastry with delicious sweet filling my kids will love. plus i get two boxtops for their school. toaster strudel. the one

robber holding the gun to the head of a teller as he uses her as a human shield outside a bank in tacomaark, maryland. you can see the red cloud from the security dye pack in the money exploding. the robber then slips on snow and ice, the teller bolts but the robber chases after her with his gun -- my goodness -- pointed at her back. that's when six officers opened fire on him. >> a very dangerous situation. something these officers have probably never seen in their career and will never see again. >> the suspect died at the scene. the bullet grazed an officer's leg but his wound is described as minor. very lucky teller there. lisa with her forecast. >> plenty of low clouds out there. not going to see too much in the way of sun. a live look from our roof camera. sun not coming up until after 7:00 but rain on the way this weekend. >> next steven jackson returns to his old stomping grounds to stomp on the waiters for the final seconds and overtime. larry beil has highlights. [ female announcer ] these are the crescents you love on a holiday. and these are the ones you'll love on a friday.

david kerley has the story from the scene in tacoma park, maryland. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. it was all caught on tape. it was less than 24 hours that the man walking into the bank. he made a fatal mistake. surrounded by police, the robber took a hostage, walking out of the bank, trying to escape. listen to a radio call posted by the examiner. >> he got a gun to her head. he's got a gun to her head. >> reporter: within seconds, the security dye pack and stolen money exploded. creating a red cloud. then as officers yelled to drop his weapon, the snow from this week tripped him up. the robber slipped on the snowy curb, the teller ran. surprisingly the robber chased her and six officers opened fire. >> he lost his footing, then as she was leaving, he just zeroed at her, pointed that .9 millimeter to her back. went right towards them. >> reporter: the robber was killed. the teller who ran threw her hands up to her ears as the shots rung out. she was unhurt. but, watch, a police officer hit by a ricocheting bullet. hit in the leg. h

joel brown, cbs news, washington. >> tacoma park, maryland, police were among the first responders to the scene. joining us is the police chief who was there as the hostage drama unfolded. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing just fine, sir. give me a time line of what happened. started at 9:30. what happened at that point? >> well, the call, the robber entered the bank at 9:22, we got the call three minutes later from the someone inside the bank who saw the package on the counter, called in a suspicious package. when we attempted to get more information, they hung up on us. seconds later we got a call from one of the tellers who had run out of the bank and reported it was an armed robbery in progress. then the alarm went off and we got a third call. within 45 seconds we had three units on the scene. >> the hostage who was taken out of the building by the suspect. what is her condition this morning? >> she's fine. obviously she's going through a lot of trauma as a result of the incident. but she was checked out at the hospital and released yesterday afternoo

. >> as a teenager, what was the first job for pay held by that mow ma -- tacoma mayor strickland? have -- and the clock is going to start ticking -- you now have 75 seconds, tables, to figure out what mayor marilyn strickland did as a teenager. so as you're talking, frank, what was your first job? >> my first job was a bag boy in a grocery store in new york. >> how much did you make? >> i think it was a dollar and change. >> can a dollar and change. what did you learn from that experience? >> i learned how to bag food proposerly. [laughter] -- properly. and i learned how to interact. you know, you can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. never thought i'd be mayor. there i was preparing for mayor by bagging food for people -- >> so you were shaking hands, registering voters. >> yes. >> okay. hopefully, everybody has registered their response. they have four possible answers. mayor strickland as a teenager delivered papers. she groomed horses, she may have been a ticket taker at a movie theater or a cashier at mcdonald's. and we're down to about 19 seconds. what do you

moment yes it is true we do charge a lot in the united states because this is where we can recover our tacomacost and we can't have if they're going to be drugs for the world almost all of which are in the united states, and if american companies companies are not allowed to recover all of their costs inside of the united states which the campy, they will have to be recovered somewhere else. and this is a think i sea real area of future aberration. >> one of the things i was fascinating about the health care debate here was the extent that canadians got dragged into you. it is funny because the united states and if the -- past couple of years is ideological. at present somewhat by the utopian on the other side's disaster. ordinary commonsense people want to say well, in between all of those dire and utopian predictions what is going to happen? in canada, it is similar enough for americans and no insult intended, that they feel it to work there why can't it work here? of the debate had to get into the details of the canadian system. people want to know, canadians haven't tuedommuni. ey havet g

let's go to tacoma, washington, caller: welcome i would vote for michael steele because he is a moderate and i think he did a good job. he was demonized a bit in the media. it looks like reince preibus is pulling in other groups. either way, i hope the moderates of the party use their heads and don't let the extreme right- wingers take over everything and get us out of this debt. host: this is washington, d.c., go ahead caller: previous caller said that reince preibus should probably will because he is a good friend of michael steele. reince preibus was a salaried employee of the rnc under michael steele for two years. i think he was the chief of staff. it was a high administrative position. if he had differences with like a steel he never reads them -- raise them while he was employed. when his employment was about of, he took on michael steele and criticized him. one of the big criticisms is the debt and money raising. what happened was the rnc did not raise less money. republicans did not give less money, i should say, other organizations like crossroads america, and karl rove, raised

moment yes it is true we do charge a lot in the united states because this is where we can recover our tacomaost and we can't have if they're going to be drugs for the world almost all of which are in the united states, and if american companies companies are not allowed to recover all of their costs inside of the united states which the campy, they will have to be recovered somewhere else. and this is a think i see a real area of future aberration. >> one of the things i was fascinating about the health care debate here was the extent that canadians got dragged into it. we were talking with you about health care and we were talking about you. it is funny because the united states and if the -- past couple of years is ideological. at present somewhat by the utopian on the other side's disaster. ordinary commonsense people want to say well, in between all of those dire and utopian predictions what is going to happen? in canada, it is similar enough for americans and no insult intended, that they feel it to work there why can't it work here? of the debate had to get into the details of the cana

moment yes it is true we do charge a lot in the united states because this is where we can recover our tacomacost and we can't have if they're going to be drugs for the world almost all of which are in the united states, and if american companies companies are not allowed to recover all of their costs inside of the united states which the campy, they will have to be recovered somewhere else. and this is a think i see a real area of future aberration. >> one of the things i was fascinating about the health care debate here was the extent that canadians got dragged into it. we were talking with you about health care and we were talking about you. it is funny because the united states and if the -- past couple of years is ideolical. at present somewhat by the utopian on the other side's disaster. ordinary commonsense people want to say well, in between all of those dire and utopian predictions what is going to happen? canada, it is similar enough for americans and no insult intended, that they feel it to work there why can't it work here? of the debate had to get into the details of the canadian