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it seems to have made the perfect cup and holds a lot. >> this comes to us from wvit in west hartford, connecticut, a blizzard was no match for one baby. lauri wood went into labor after three feet of snow was dumped on her neighborhood. neighbors used a luggage carrier to pull her to the hospital. i'm richard lui. this is your "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> what do the small towns of liberal, kansas, and oleny, england have in common? a 60-year tradition, the pancake day run, as racers are clinging to frying pans as they speed 415 yards to the finish lines. participants come decked out in aprons and costumes. the anyonish times from the u.s. and uk are compared. this year with the time of 56 seconds, the prize goes to england. >> the world record setters show it's hip to be square. 5,000 people gathered in thailand to hoola hoop their way into the record books. seven minutes straight of simultaneous hoola hooping. participants demolished the previous world record with twice the people continuing twice as long. >> how long can you do it? >> maybe four

that's what adam lanza is believed to have used in the newtown, connecticut, massacre of 20 school children and 6 educators. in its time of grief, australia actually did something about weapons like the ar-15. it banned them. joining me now from sydney, the man who made it happen, australia's former prime minister john howard. mr. howard, welcome. >> thank you, fareed. >> when you hear about this terrible tragedy, what was your reaction? >> well, my reaction was one of horror and shock. if was the largest single loss of life from one murderous incident by an individual until the slaughter in norway a couple of years ago. i thought to myself and many of the people around me that we just cannot leave a stone unturned in trying to prevent it from happening, again. that's why i resolved it. i had only been elected prime minister to ease the authority of my new position to try to bring about change. can i say on the philosophy of it, this is not a left to right. or to use the american terminology a liberal conservative issue. it's public safety common sense issue because that is the attitude tha

in california. something other than him being fired had to upset the officer of his shooting spree. host: let us hear next from pamela, who is watching us in connecticut, a republican. caller: i would like to know from these people -- i am in small business. i am an interior designer. i am a third generation small business owner. dwight is that the administration and senators have not paid more attention to small businesses? we are trying to save the jobs of people with young children. we are trying to get tax breaks and incentives. why is it we are struggling so far to save small businesses, and we are failing at it? we are not going to survive to the next generation. how can this administration and the senators, who are so enthusiastic -- how can they help us? host: we are beginning to hear, at least in this town, talks of green shoots in the economy. things are trending better. are you seeing any of that? caller: i have seen a little of that. i see the difficulties of families who have reduced incomes. they have higher taxes. there was an increase in connecticut in state sales tax. we are a bricks and mortar store, so i see the problems of being a

in boston. but gio benitez is out on other roads for us tonight in hartford, connecticut. >> we're making the drive up to hartford, connecticut, the governor here has already declared a state of emergency. he's also ordering people off the roads. as conditions deteriorate into a blizzard. >> please stay off of 95, 84, merit park way and any other limit access road in the state. only emergency personnel and response personnel should be using that road system. >> reporter: national weather service has warned of whiteout conditions throughout the storm zone. that means visibility will be near zero. 800 state and private plow crews are ready to take on the snow and so are utility workers, everyone hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. >> thanks so much, geo. >> and now to the people hit so hard by hurricane sandy, 102 days after that blow, in the bull's eye again. as one survivor of sandy said today, it's as if mother nature is mad at us and abc's ron claiborne is there in the rock away tonight. ron? >> reporter: this is one of the dozens of homes here that was destroyed during hurricane san

erica live for us in hartford, connecticut. >>> it's a much different weather picture here in the bay area. >> it is a good weather picture if you like sunshine, but it is chilly. here's elizabeth with our first look at the forecast this morning. >> thanks, guys. those temperatures are hovering right around the freezing mark this morning. the next couple of mornings are going to be pretty cold. concord right now coming in at 30 degrees only 32 in santa rosa and livermore 31 dprees. so by this afternoon we will warm things up. shiethly warmer today than even what we saw yesterday but yeah, no rain in our forecast. any rain through president's day looks like should stay well north of the bay area. we'll show you luke at that 7-day forecast coming up. >>> thanks. tomorrow a very heated public debate continues over the opening of a gun store in los gatos. the owner has been threatened by people who don't want it there and at the same time a lot of others are patronizing the store. the store opened just weeks after the newtown school mas massacre and it does sell assault-sthiel rifles. the

in our great country. this week all of us have watched with horror the events in newtown, connecticut, with great sadness as we learned the devastation that one person brought on that quiet community. i've seen the devastation that guns have visited on victims of crime. my heart goes out to all the victims and their families as they struggle to understand what has happened over the last week. san francisco general hospital is the only trauma center in the city and county of san francisco and in the u.s. it is, in fact, i think, the best trauma center in the united states. we stand ready 24/7 to care for any injured patient in the city and county of san francisco. we also at general hospital are caring for uninsured and underinsured people who come in after injured. we also represent -- i also represent thousands of dedicated physicians, surgeons, nurses, administration and therapists who care for the hundreds of thousands of patients who come to our hospital. i have dedicated my life to providing care for injured patients in our community. it is truly a team effort to provide care for the victims of vie ler

in the state of connecticut. he is a wonderful man. so, i am not stuck on just being a republican. my parents raised us that way, but they were pretty independent toward others. we believe in loving one another. host: let's take a listen to one of the issues president obama spent time talking about tonight. immigration, from the state of the union address. >> real reform means stronger border security. we can build on the progress my administration has already made , putting more boots on the southern border than any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to the lowest levels in 40 years. real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship, a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning english, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally. [applause] and, real reform means fixing the illegal immigration system to cut waiting periods and attract highly skilled entrepreneurs and engineers that will help create jobs and grow our economy. [applause] in other words, we know what needs to b

people in connecticut can show us. they got it in this blizzard of 2013. that is the most anybody saw from the storm and a record for th town. payloaders had to be brought in to remove all that snow. hamden is just one of the towns still digging out tonight. >> reporter: sounds of a chilly cleanup echoed across new england. work that dragged into a second day as road crews deployed across the region. >> we're working very hard to make sure that it's fully functional by tomorrow's commute. >> reporter: the blizzard dumped more than three feet of snow in some areas and pushed icy water over coastal sea walls. today in massachusetts on plum island, reconstruction began as thomas pieced back together his battered deck. >> sun rise in the morning with big waves and every once in a while you get hit. >> reporter: power crews were working to restore electricity to the more than 200,000 still in the dark. the airports and train stations hope to be back to capacity by monday, as well. at the city's south station transportation center, trains are slowly getting back

[applause] the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut showed us all that our nation's educators put the welfare of their students above everything, even their own lives. you may have heard the story about the parent who was in the principal's office when the sounds of gunshots began in connecticut. that parent said she ran to get under the nearest desk, as most people would have done, but the educators in the room ran another way. they ran toward the sound of the gun fire. they did not return. it is my fervent hope that the country sees the sacrifices made at this one school, in this one state, as entirely consistent with what teachers and educators do every day, in every school, protect the children in their care. we should honor them today. [applause] the tragedy at sandy hook was unimaginable, but not unfamiliar. we have lost too many loved ones in washington state. in a seattle caf, in lakewood,-- cafe, in lakewood, at the seattle jewish federation, in a house in carnation, all victims of a lethal combination of untreated mental illness, evil intent and easy access

uses this season. on another note with what happened in connecticut over the holiday, so many of us wanted to support the families about the question of gun control, and many of us thought, it is wonderful we can educate ourselves by reminding each other where we can read and who we can call and what letters we can write. that was the first inspiration. it is a great way to utilize communicating with fans of the show. >> i was late to the game on the entire social media thing. now there's a lot of good that can come of it but a lot of silliness. a lot of cyber hates and nastiness, but i think on balance i have come to appreciate the social media thing. are you starting to appreciate it? >> i am. i am looking forward to it. i am like, wait a minute. no one has tweeted me back. >> the third thing, i read an announcement there is going to be jurassic 4. what do you know about that? >> i am not signed up, and i think there was a lot of back- and-forth and still is. the think there is an opportunity to do a new world and dinosaurs, and i think they are figuring that out. it is a great joy for those of us who

hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students, peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ifill: the 500-year-old bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer george saunders.

in hamden, connecticut. more than 11,000 people land in emergency rooms every year from shoveling snow. and gio benitez joins us from hamden, connecticut. >> reporter: in hartford, take a look. this is a whole lot of snow. and one of the big problems is the whipping wind. literally, the wind is painful. all roads here in connecticut, shut down right now. in connecticut, a state of emergency. >> if you don't currently have a reason to be on the road, if you're not emergency personnel that's required to report to work somewhere, stay home now. >> reporter: a warning in hopes of preventing scenes like this, the aftermath of a tractor-trailer accident on snow-swept i-95. but some residents are braving the storm to fill up their gas tanks before gas runs out. >> we have a generator. a lot of people don't. >> they're not getting trucks or anything until after the storm. that could be until sunday. >> reporter: across the state, 235 national guard troops are helping with roads, health and welfare checks and emergency transportation. as emergency crews try to get through, officials don't want them to hit heavy traffic

marley hall for cbs news, hartford, connecticut. >>> it's going to be rough overnight and high tide comes in the morning and that could result in coastal flooding. top, give us an idea, where is the snow and how much is piling up? >> some reports of 10 inches know in coastal connecticut. here are the heavy bands of snow. you can see the banding moving from the southeast across to the northwest. now it is filled in, even around northern new jersey. they were dry for a while and now they are looking at some more snow. the heaviest bands of snow are still right along the coastal connecticut area and into rhode island and the winds are beginning to pick up as well. see the whiter colors. those are your heavy bands of snow. a heavy band of snow up i-91 from hartford towards bridgeport. it's a snow magnet. already had 12 inches by 7:00 this evening. so they are december destined to have 2 feet of snow. they had a 62-mile an hour wind gust last hour. 31-mile an hour wind gust in hartford and 24-mile an hour wind gust toward new york. 32 as you move out on long island. our wakeup weather, we have an effect of this. wind advisory has been expanded. windchill is at 6:

the horrific pain that all of us in connecticut have suffered. i was very privileged to have as my guest, the first woman from newtown, the mayor of new town who has been inspirational to all of that community and even a. she has such strength and courage. the family and first responders and the first elected woman. she is the face and voice of this tragedy. the victims, whether at tucson, virginia tech, and as was said, it is so compelling. this time it is different. and i think that struck a chord with everyone. >> former attorney general of the state of connecticut, senator now. what measures have you seen the changes gun violence, reducing the number of guns on the street? >> there is no single factor that is attributed to gun violence or no simple solution. there is no prospect of getting it perfect and preventing all gun violence. as the president said so well, we were not sent here to be perfect, but to make a difference. there are measures that can and should avoid. such as banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. the shooter

area community is using to scare away the fowl and get rid of the droppings covering the sports field. >> a lot of snow back east, two feet of snow on the ground in new york, connecticut, massachusetts, for us just a lot of sunshine, beautiful shot in oakland looking towards san francisco. how warm do we get this week and can the sunshine stick around all the way into next weekend? i'll have the answer coming up. >> and a bad credit report may not be your fault after all. coming up in tonight's consumerwatch, what's behind millions of credit report mistakes that could cost you a loan or worse. 880 in hayward this afternoon. this was around 3pm... near the west "a" street on ramp. >>> a mercedes-benz caught fire slowing down traffic on interstate 880 in hayward this afternoon. this was about 3 p.m. near the west a street on-ramp. it took firefighters about an hour to get flames out. >>> los angeles police are combing through hundreds of tips trying to pinpoint where ar ex-cop on the run is hiding. there has been no sign of christopher dorner for days and he is eluding police as well as a murder charge. cbs reporter edward lawrence with more on the manhunt. >>> reporter

in connecticut. come on, topper, find us a snowstorm. bring it on. believe me, coleen, he is looking. and we had similar statements from karen. i was raised in pittsburgh, so going through a snowstorm is part of winter. so i am disappointed. i could have used the time being with my children. karen, that sounds wonderful. however, if you're in our business, a storm like that means you are out in the elements and sometimes there is the wonderful bonding experience of actually sleeping right here. it is part of st job and we love it, but we don't love everything about it. i love most everything you send me in your e-mails. the address here is mailbag@wusa9.com. that is our report. i'll be back here at 11:00. lesli and topper will be here, plus, an added bonus for you singles. a live chat on how to date online more successfully. a couple words could make all the difference. we'll see you later. bye bye. >>> who cruelly called melissa mccarthy a hippo? >>> plus, is rihanna engaged? i'm nancy o'dell. >> and i'm rob marciano. ♪ >>> adele. beyonce. taylor. backstage at the grammys. >> rihanna

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in sandy. many of us waiting for days. my town was dry in connecticut. couldn't get gas for days. there are blizzard warnings in effect for these states. connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, maine and new hampshire. there are coastal flood warnings along with the blizzard warnings. it seems weird to connect those two, but they have them. they're expecting the floods to be three to five feet of storm surge along the coastal areas as well. and here's the thing, it's like sandy all over again in terms of patterns converging. cold air coming up the coast and a big wind restorm from the midwest. jennifer delgado is monitoring the science of this much better than i did. >> you did a good job. i think you've been studying with chad myers. we're following the storm and we're watch twog areas, as ashleigh just said. one is the low off the coast. then another merging in off the great lakes. what this is going to do, this is going to produce a tremendous amount of snowfall. we're talking crippling. potentially historic. and some of the locations are going to see three feet of snow but y

in connecticut. >> it is. alexandra, thank you so much for keeping us up dated. >>> other news now. big announcement by aol. they announced an increase in revenues in the fourth quarter. so, why is this big? well, it's the first overall growth in eight years for aol. they say an increase in ad sales is responsible for the uptick. >>> michelle obama will attend today's funeral for 15-year-old ad adiapendleton. she was gunned down a week after performing at president obama's inauguration. she had no gang affiliation, was likely not even the intended target. we'll have a report from chicago coming up later this morning. >>> a judge in cleveland sentenced an amish man behind the beard cutting attacks to 15 years in prison. several of his followers received shorter sentences. >>> wikileaks founder julian assange has waded into the drone debate, slamming the u.s. government saying it has the right to kill, that is, u.s. citizens perceived to be, quote, imminent terror threats, unquote. >>> for the huntative suspected cop killer, is that suspect hiding out in a popular ski resort area in california? go live to los

us. >>> the mass shootings in newtown, connecticut, and other places united advocates and lawmakers. calling for better screening for mentally ill people that could turn violence. ed lee announced plans to put in place a version of little known state law that aims to prevent another tragedy. >> it's time to implement san francisco's version of the so-called laura's law. to help the severely mentally ill who we too often see on our streets. >> for more than ten years, california has had laura's law on the books, but until now, it's in effect in just nevada county. spencer michels of the pbs "newshour" reports. >> i wanted the world to know what a wonderful, incredible person she was. >> reporter: for more than a decade, nick and amanda wilcox have been advocating timely treatment and early intervention for the severely mentally ill. in the hopes they won't become violent. 12 years ago, their 19-year-old daughter, laura wilcox, a college sophomore, was murdered while she was working over christmas break in a mental health clinic in nevada county, california. >> at about 11:30, a client

reporter dan bowen is live with us now in stanford, connecticut.ion there right now? >> reporter: absolutely. we're about 28 miles northeast of new york city. in the tri-state area, new york, new jersey, and connecticut we're getting the worst of it. look behind me. you can see where connecticut governor dan malloy issued a state of emergency in connecticut and signed an executive order prohibiting any traffic on the roadways because he felt conditions would deteriorate overnight to a point it would be dangerous to have too much traffic on the roads. you can see the plow there, that one vehicle probably not supposed to be out. those plows have been out all afternoon and evening at stanford. they started working earlier putting down salt, but there's still a slick layer out there. earlier about 5:00 i took a measurement of just about how deep the snow was. it was about 5 inches then. now let's go ahead and look to see how far it is. we're about 7 inches, 7 1/4 inches now, so certainly significant from a few hours ago. they're saying it could be up t

we will clearly end the use of that not only in california as we are now in maryland very soon i think in montana it is very close you know hampshire is looking at it connecticut as you know just did it and the use of the death penalty so the the tide is in the tide is in our favor everybody is beginning to understand that as you segregating innocent people that it's a it's a racially biased hugely expensive system that is going to just corrupting as they are committed barbarity and then the name of the state we all become a little more barbarous and that's a real tragedy if your society like feral thanks so much for being with us tonight my pleasure will be right back with your take my. this is. going to take three months for charges three. arrangement three. three. three. three bars. for your media project c.e.o. don dart dot com. wealthy british style. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the globe.

in the morning. that morning walk of the dog -- >> it could have been worse. we could have been new haven, connecticut. >> yes, and that's where i used to live. i used to work in new haven where they had 3 feet of snow yesterday. and even for connecticut, even for the hearty new englanders, that is a big deal. they are glad to see that blizzard departing. here at home, we're in good shape. taking a look at the weather cam, we have clear skies, a new moon by the way tomorrow, and 33 degrees right now. it feels like 25 because of that wind out of the north, northwest at 9 miles per hour. overnight tonight, it will continue to become less windy. so i think we'll only see 5 to 10 for those winds during the overnight hours. but that's going to allow our temperatures to get very cold. it's going to be a really sunny sunday. on monday morning, we have some rain arriving. i'll show that to you in just a minute. current temperature is down to 23 in frederick. 24 in martinsburg and 25 in winchester. it's already down to 27 in luray and culpeper and manassas at 27 degrees. that's before you factor in the winds. the winds have really settled dow

hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students, peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ifill: the 500-year-old bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer george saunders. >> for me, the approach has become to go into a story not really sure what i want to say, trying to find some little seed, crystal, an interesting sentence or an image that leads to an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance

hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ifill: the 500-year-old bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer george saunders. >> for me, the approach has become to go into a story not really sure what i want to say, trying to find some little seed, crystal, an interesting sentence or an image that leads to an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance a

as we just saw, we had the vice president just this week speaking in connecticut making sure to use that white house bully bull pit to keep this -- bully pulpit to keep this discussion going. you had the president's former campaign apparatus now known as organizing for action. organizing a day of action -- gwen: today. >> today trying to mobilize that grass roots army that the obama campaign turned out so successfully, turn it towards this issue. this is the one issue that we are targeting at this time and really try to put pressure from the constituent level on lawmakers to make the move on this, to not let this be another missed opportunity where the issue falls off the radar as it so often has in the past. gwen: is the same thing happens outside of state capitals or outside of washington? >> it is happening outside of washington. nearly there have been hundreds of bills introduced in legislatures across the country. this is an excel spread sheet of all the bills introduced since newtown, hundreds of them. half a dozen to each page from california, to new mexico to illinois, to connect