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News. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Charles Schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff more americans went looking ...

That does not mean that you cannot do it in a thoughtful way. That is what we try to do. Lots of other organizations try to do the same thing. So, you just have to decide. Where are you going to expend your energy . Some people spend all day long with cable news on. It palays a role. That is a great place to go on a breaking story. But, there are also a lot of talking heads. We said, toasy as tune into the people that you agree with. There are people on both sides of the spectrum. People are gui...

That down first trading day and expect us to turn around. What is the real story on this economy . Is it on the upswing . Or was that a jobs number foreshadowing were in for a rough patch. Some warning we got ahead of ourselves and things could be dicey. Well try to separate the fact from the fiction. Yes, we will. Youre welcome, america. And it turns out that if you shop at target, your private information may be more of a target than we knew before. That stock is lower today as we learn the Se...

Memorial, israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The people of israel bow their heads for the departure of ariel sharon, the former Prime Minister. A warrior. I believe he was one of the greatest military leaders we had in modern days. We will get reaction from noam chomsky. Israeli historian avi shlaim, and Rashid Khalidi. Ariel sharon began his career as a military commander with atrocities in 1953 and continued through masterminding the lebanon war in which 50,000 became casualties. He en...

Sidewalks and streets icy this morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has joined us. Tom, has the winter mix moved out . Yeah, it has. Temperatures have warmed up a little bit above freezing, just a couple of degrees, and that has made a huge difference. Still, there are icy spots on sidewalks and steps and some driveways and parking lots that are untreated. Looking at storm team 4 radar, you see all the areas of pink that you mentioned earlier pretty much dissipated. Heres the pink, th...

Good morning to you. Im richard lui. Embarrassed and humiliated. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie fires his aide and apologieses for the scandal, but could still face future trouble. Today, thousands more internal documents are scheduled for release, with the president ial hopefuls future on the line. He insists he had no knowledge or involvement in the traffic backup on the George Washington bridge. The worlds busiest connecting new jersey with new york. Now, christie, along with the state of...

Litigation regulate speech in order to give adversarial parties a fair and equal thertunity to persuade decisionmaker to roll in their favor, rules regulating political campaigns should have the same objective. Theelections, decisionmakers are voters. Not judges or jurors. That does not change the imperative or the equality of opportunity. Second, all elected officials would lead happier lives and be better able to perform their if theyesponsibilities did not have to spend so much time raising m...

Massive traffic jam was orchestrated at the George Washington bridge to force an endorsement of the local mayor. Governor Chris Christie wasted no time in firing the staffer and adapting the worsening scandal headon with the media. I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue or its planning or execution and i am heartbroken that someone that i permitted to be in that circle of trust for the last five years betrayed my trust. I am responsible for what happened. I am sad to report that the peo...

May be its biggest challenge yet raising money to fight ebola. Welcome to Market Makers. I am Erik Schatzker here at bank ofattan america were minutes from now, i will be interviewing the ceo and recently named chairman of the bank, brian moynihan. I dont need to tell you what is bank has been through. 70 billion is what bank of america has paid as a result of its role in the mortgage meltdown of the financial crisis that followed. Today, there is light at the end of the tunnel. It was a three d...

Recently the former director of the cbo has estimated that designating Asset Managers could cost investors as much as 25 of their return on their investments over the long term. Approximately 100,000 per investor. In other words, as it operates in the shadows, fsoc can take away the seed capitol necessary to launch a Small Business or to send a child to college. That is both unfair and unwise. And while fsoc seems dead set on trying to find Systemic Risk where no one else seems to find it, a rev...