Northeast Hit by Winter Storm
LIN: In the headlines, flames engulf another Alabama church. Tonight, firefighters battle the blaze after - at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church. Investigators are now trying to determine the cause of ten recent church fires, and whether they're connected. Israeli doctors say there is no immediate danger to the life of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon following today's emergency surgery. Doctors removed part of his intestine after tests showed severe damage. Sharon has been in a coma since suffering a stroke back in January. And you may remember the tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border discovered last month and visited by our own Anderson Cooper. Well, now the U.S. border patrol reports finding another tunnel nearby. This one is three feet wide and incomplete. It runs from just south of the border fence to a point 23 feet inside the U.S. Well, a major winter storm is bearing down on the Northeast tonight. The heaviest snowfall is expected along the I-95 corridor from Washington to Boston. More than a foot of snow is predicted in some areas.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're watching CNN, your severe weather headquarters.</s>LIN: So let's get the latest on this winter storm. Checking in with meteorologist Monica McNeal at the CNN Weather Center - Monica?</s>MCNEAL: All right, Carol. As we take a look at radar and show you what's going on, you can certainly see earlier this evening, there was some rain and snow. Now we're starting to see - we're seeing all of this turning over to snow. As we zoom in a little bit closer across all of Washington, you're getting some snow. Just light snow at this time, but as we get into the midnight hours and into the early morning hours, that's when you're going to see some of your heavier snow. Right around the Philadelphia area, you will see some of your heavier snow into the midnight hours. The area of low pressure's just south of the coast of Norfolk, Virginia at this time. And it will continue to intensify. Right around Mainland, New York, light snow at this point, but really starting to intensify right around the Long Island area some. We'll continue to monitor this. All of this stuff continues to drive its way toward the north and east. And you know what else is driving? These winds. I've seen winds gusting up to about 35 miles per hour in parts of New York. Right now, it feels like on the skin 17 degrees in New York. It feels like 21 in Philadelphia. In D.C., it feels like it's 23 degrees. And this is just some of the snowfall totals that we are expecting over the next 24 hours - Carol?</s>LIN: All right, thanks very much, Monica. Well, his case drew national attention. A starving boy was found picking through garbage two years ago. Well this week in a New Jersey courtroom, he faced his adoptive mother who starved him.</s>BRUCE JACKSON, VICTIM: You were mean to me my whole life. So you deserve the same thing that you did to me the rest of your life.</s>CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): In a packed courtroom in New Jersey, Bruce Jackson confronts his adoptive mother, who starved and abused him and his younger brothers for years.</s>B. JACKSON: You wouldn't let us eat as much as the other kids got. And you weren't going to take us out like the other kids.</s>LIN: Bruce is now 21 and weighs 140 pounds. Two years ago, when he was found scavenging among garbage, he weighed barely 40 pounds. Even now, he's just 5'3. Vanessa Jackson struck a plea deal with the prosecutors, admitting to one charge of child endangerment. She was sentenced to the maximum seven years in jail. For Bruce Jackson, that is not enough.</s>B. JACKSON: Ms. Jackson, you verbally, emotionally, and physically abused me. You know that this was wrong. That's why you pleaded guilty.</s>LIN: Bruce told the court how he'd not been allowed to bathe and had been fed on dried grits and pancake batter. As some in the courtroom wept, Bruce's brothers also told of their horrific treatment in videotaped statements. Their new adoptive parents told how at first they had to be hospitalized because their stomachs were so small. The case focused attention on New Jersey's child welfare system, but the judge told Vanessa Jackson that the shortcomings of the system were no excuse for her cruelty. The more telling verdict was a look. Bruce Jackson's look at the woman he had come to loathe.</s>LIN: Since being removed from Jackson's home, Bruce has grown 15 inches. He and his brothers received $12.5 million in compensation from the state of New Jersey. Time to check stories making news around the world. For that, Shannon Cook - Shannon?</s>COOK: Hey, thank you, Carol. I want to start by talking about the heightened concerns over bird flu. The virus has hit in new areas of Europe. Greece and Italy report that birds have died from the disease. It was also detected in Bulgaria. Now Italy's health minister says five cases of the H5N1 strain had been confirmed in dead swans. We're told two cases were confirmed in southern Italy and three on the island of Sicily. No reports of bird flu there in humans. And also in the latest fallout from the Mohammed cartoon controversy, Denmark is now urging its citizens to leave Indonesia. The Danish government says an extremist group has made threats. Denmark has already pulled staff from embassies in Indonesia, Iran, and Syria after violent protests. Meanwhile in London, thousands turned out at Trafalgar Square to peacefully protest the drawings. The rally was also aimed at condemning the violence that has erupted around the world. To Iran now. More tough words from the president. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinted that Iran may withdraw from the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty if foreign nations keep trying to interfere with its nuclear plans. His speech came during ceremonies marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Meantime, the Associated Press reports that the U.N.'s nuclear agency has removed its surveillance equipment from Iranian sites, as demanded by Iran. All right, shifting gears a little bit now. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, as we know. And for ladies who've been looking for love in all the wrong places, there's now a new place to look. It's inside the love bubble. This is a plastic bubble set up in a busy London department store. And inside it sits an eligible bachelor. So curious ladies can ogle him. And if they're interested, they can e-mail him from a computer terminal outside the bubble. So Carol, it's kind of like window shopping for your made. What next, I ask.</s>LIN: Oh, my gosh. All right, so what if, you know, the two message and they like each other? Can the bubble boy get out of the bubble?</s>COOK: He cannot get out of the bubble. He must stay in the bubble for the full day. And at the end of the day, he reviews all the e-mails he got from the ladies. And then he picks the bachelorette that he wants to go out on a date with. And they go out on an all expenses paid date, which includes a nice romantic cruise down the Thames.</s>LIN: If only it were that easy, Shannon, all right?</s>COOK: If only.</s>LIN: You know, new purse and a guy. All right, hey, follow-up and let us know if any of them hook up.</s>COOK: Sure.</s>LIN: All right.</s>COOK: Or maybe the bubble bursts.</s>LIN: Well, that could be true. All right, thanks, Shannon.</s>COOK: Thank you.</s>LIN: Well, did the terminally ill widow of Martin Luther King, Junior fall prey to a fraud? Coming up, CNN travels to the hospital in Mexico where she died. You'll want to stick around to find out what we saw. You're watching CNN SATURDAY NIGHT.