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Eight years of primary school you have to pay. kids enroll and by the time they reach 8th grade, only one out of four will actually reach. so they drop out for many reasons. but even worse, very few go on to secondary school. and its secondary school they have to dig into their pocket to pay for school fees and so on. the challenges are completely huge, you know. and we understood very clearly that the desks were going to mean a lot to the kids. you cannot travel through malawi, go from school t...

Every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. and by the way it happens on the streets of chicago every day. >> and to joe johns we go. i mean, the element of the emotion there obviously in that room and then lets get speci c specifically, joe, to the presidents proposals. can you explain what hes doing with regard to also expanding background checks here. >> absolutely, brooke. hes been described as no drama obama. this was not one of those moments. rare when you see any president of the ...

Today is black monday for nfl coaches, where the season could end with a trip to the unemployment line. the cleveland browns fired their coach yesterday, so did the san francisco 49ers. their coach was on the job for just a year. cnns coy wire joins us now. coy, not a good day and all eyes now on the new york giants. >> absolutely, deborah. cell phones of those coaches hope they do not ring. giants management will meet to discuss tom coughlin. he would not discuss his future but he had his exten...

Citys snowiest christmas on record. for more on the forecast and the rest of the days weather headlines, heres msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. bonnie, another wallop of severe weather could hit the south again this weekend. is that right? >> absolutely, dara. were also ramping up for a major snowstorm in the southwest. first to the southeast, where we do have thunderstorms rolling through little rock, into memphis, into paducah, kentucky. this is the last thing we need. weve had so much ...

Texas while it is now 80 degrees in dallas. thats why weve seen this outbreak of severe weather. the confirmed tornado. navaro county just to the south of dallas tomorrow we will be talking about blizzards, ice and extremely different weather than were speaking about today. >> absolutely, karen, thank you very much. for all of us watching, well keep you posted on the confirmed tornado just outside of dallas. thank you, karen. donald trump says super pacts are a disaster and a scam. many republic...

Religions, if we censor the internet the terrorists will have won. >> which is won? >> rand paul, absolutely. you cannot win it by shutting down internet and oppressing your own community. what happened today is the anniversary of the arab spring. five years ago, a man in tunisia set himself on fire and changed the arab spring. they were asking three things, freem do, democracy, and social justice. these are american values. we need to tap into those values and promote them in these countries so...

Middle east, that she was an architect of, as secretary of state. we look at the president of the united states, with the emptiness of serial red lines drawn in syria, that have unleashed chaos, threatens to destroy the islamic state, but the islamic state is not destroyed, the islamic state is on offense. and so tonight, across this country, you see the anxiety and you see the fear, because the american people see an administration that has consistently underestimated the nature of the enemy an...

Might use as a tipoff? >> well, you know, by and large, no. that doesnt really fit into what i would expect. more than likely it, you know, that almost sounds like a hoax or something specifically to win of the school board members if that is the case. listening to the press conference, what made a difference to me, they get threats all the time. there was something different about this to raise attention plus get everybodys attention. i think it is combination of they have got something differe...

Are it might be pretty good. we are sort of in a new era, jim, of how we treat these cancers. its not just chemo, surgery, radiation, its using these medications that harness our own bodys natural immune system to fight cancer. its been happening for some time, but now were getting some real proof that it could potentially work. well have to wait and see. doctors say that a lot, patients dont love to hear it but its probably the right answer here. weve got to wait and see. >> for folks back home...

>> absolutely. 89 people a day are dying from gun violence. 2/3 of those are from suicide. there are so many people being harmed, families being harmed. and we need answer pms. >> how much buy-in do you have for the lifting of the ban on research? >> there is a lot of outcry among, certainly among the medical and public health community. i think there are a lot of people in this country that dont know a ban is in effect. what, we cant do research on gun violence, that doesnt make any sense. we n...