美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-12-14

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Snow, freezing wind and dangerous ice. Oh, my god. 

 

In F Texas,  residents catching⁴ these video showing sheets of ice cascading⁵ down from the roof tops. Oh, my god. And another early winter storm is reeking⁶ havoc⁷ across much part of the nation. The frigid⁸ storm put Dallas at a deep freeze over the weekend and make a mess from the Ohio valley to the northeast. Road cruisers were out of full force plowing⁹ and salting streets.

 

We are not going to stop working until the roads are clear. 

 

The wintry weather created tragic¹⁰ conditions on major road ways.

 

I think they aren't really rough. I think every people forget how to drive in the snow. 

 

The dangers make the snow and ice cause this fifty car pile upon the Pennsylvania turn pike, killing¹¹ at least one person. Roads and high ways in the Milwaukee area also have their share problems. Three separate wrecks¹² involving over a hundred cars, buses in ditches,  some ice trailers are jagged, causing a number of injuries.

 

It was bad like you could barely see out through, just over through  your cars and end up in a ditch. 

 

But it is not just the drivers feeling the impact, over 2800 flights were canceled nation wide on Sunday, and the number of cancellations continue to grow. This morning the trouble would be  airports along the busy I 95 court including Washington DC and Philadelphia. Heavy snow was the headline at least 4 NFL games on Sunday. Blowing snow made it nearly impossible for fans to tell exactly where the ball was. The football feel look more like ice ring players play slipping and sliding. And the eagles / games in Philadelphia, snow measured as high as six inches in the middle of the field.

 

Next up today we are heading to the east of Europe, where countries are being  pulled in opposite directions. For decades, Ukraine  was under Soviet¹³ rule.  It gained its independence in 1991. Now some Ukrainians think their country should lie with west Europe, and others wanna stay more connected to Russia. When Ukraine president recently refused to make a deal with European Union, the pro³-Europe site started protesting calling for change in the government. On Sunday these protests brought down the monument of the former Soviet Union leader. 

 

Well it was a symbolic¹⁴ activity sign, when the pro-European protesters toppling that statue of the Russia revolutionary Lenin in the center of Kiev, hacking¹⁵ it into pieces with hammers. The pro government supporters staged  their own demonstration¹⁶ nearby and made concerns that Ukraine, a country of nearly 45 million people is increasingly divided.  Hundreds of thousands have gathered in the capital of Kiev calling for the government there to step down. It is a wide spread anger after the Ukrainian president rejected closer ties with the European Union in favor of a trade packs with Moscow.

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