No Peace: Rioters smashed windows and burned a police car again last night in Ferguson, Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon had more than quadrupled the number of National Guard troops in Ferguson last night, bringing the number to 2,900.

From Boston to Atlanta and Los Angeles, protesters marched by the thousands over the decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting the unarmed Michael Brown. They shut down the FDR drive on the east side of Manhattan and the West Side Highway. About 130 people were arrested in Los Angeles.

Calling for calm President Obama said yesterday he had no sympathy for the violence. “I’ve never seen a civil rights law, or a health care bill, or an immigration bill result because a car got burned.”

In his first public interview since the shooting, Ferguson officer Darren Wilson described to ABC News how he was overpowered when the teenager reached for his gun through the window of his car. “I just felt the immense power that he had,” Wilson told George Stephanopoulos. “And then the way I’ve described it is it was like a 5-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan. That’s just how big this man was.”

Wilson described how when they were both away from the car, Brown charged at him. “He gets about eight to 10 feet away, he’s still coming at me in the same way. I fired more shots. One of those, however many of them, hit on him in the head and he went down right there.”

Brown’s mother said on CBS This Morning, “I don’t believe a word of it.” She said Wilson “didn’t do what he had to do, he did what he wanted to do.” The Brown family says it will sue for wrongful death and a federal civil rights investigation is underway.

Travel Alert: A winter storm warning is in effect today from Virginia through Maine. A nor’easter is moving up the coast from Florida with rain turning into snow. Expect travel delays and flight cancellations.

Executive Order: The Obama administration today is expected to release a disputed regulation to curb the emissions of smog-creating ozone into the atmosphere. The regulation targets mostly smokestack industries. While the administration says cutting ozone will save lives, but industry says it will reduce profits and jobs.

Special Ops: A pre-dawn raid led by American Special Forces rescued eight hostages from a remote cave in eastern Yemen and left seven members of al Qaeda dead. Although none of the hostages were American, the raid involved about two dozen US troops and only a handful of Yemeni special operations soldiers. The hostages were six Yemenis, a Saudi, and an Ethiopian. American involvement came at the request of the Yemeni government.

Docked: Citing continued Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine, France has delayed indefinitely the delivery of a helicopter assault ship it built for the Russian Navy. France has a contract to build two of the ships, but President Francois Hollande said, the “current situation in eastern Ukraine still does not allow for the delivery of the first.”

Calorie Count: The Food and Drug Administration announced new rules requiring restaurant chains, pizza shops, and even movie theaters to post the calorie content of the food they sell. That includes the popcorn with the fake butter. It’s part of an effort to fight obesity.

The rule applies mostly to food chains with more than 20 outlets. Pizza chains will have to perform the calculus of calories in a slice even before the customer adds pepperoni and extra cheese. The federal food police will also require calorie counts for alcoholic drinks listed on the menu.

And we’d like to point out that the Commissioner of the FDA is Margaret Hamburg.

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