不怕暴风雪，尽情打雪仗（视频）
This is AP News Minute.
Washington is buried under a heavy blanket of snow. Roads are mostly impassable. President Obama has called the storm "snowmageddon".
Despite the blizzard, some people in D.C. did venture outside for a chance to play. Snowballs were flying and normally bustling DuPont Circle, a major Washington thoroughfare. Hundreds of people gathered for a snowball fight with words spreading through Facebook and Twitter.
An Iraqi defense official says Shiite militants have released a tape of a kidnapped Iraqi-American contractor，who was abducted from central Baghdad last month.
The Washington zoo's former panda Tai Shan spent a peaceful night in his new home in China. His keeper speaks English, but one of his first tasks will be to teach Tai Shan a few mandarin phrases.
Myra Lopez, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
