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This was the scene just a few hours ago. New york city, a Million People range in the new year. Well be wrapping up all the celebrations from around the world in just a few minutes. Before we do that, lets head over to eric whos monitoring the weather situation. Are we going to start off dry . We dont have any rain in the forecast. Were taking a live look outside. This is our freeway camera in downtown San Francisco. More cars on the road. Allow yourself a little bit of extra time if youre heade...

Male announcer live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. The bay area counting down the remaining hours of the resolutions for the new kron four has a preview of tonight. Five thousand fireworks. On the east coast, the new years ball drops just one hour from now. One million new yorkers are crammed into times square. It is a chilly night it is frigidly cold, but in the nations capital, no ones breaking out the champagne. At least not in public. It looks like im gonna be spendin...

The mississippi runoff is being described as a fight within the gop between Establishment Republicans and the tea party. Quoting from the story the race has the feel of an alamo moment while the establishment has poured money in and outside groups raised money for mcdaniel. We will bring you the result and the Election Night speeches as they come in. First, todays hearing on the merger between at t and directv that would create a 48. 5 billion merger. The chair of the house subcommittee on antit...

It is heating up as we extend extend into the next couple of. Of days. Inland areas, daytime highs are expected to get into the triple digits just like that. Daytime highs are pretty average. 60s along the coast and and 68 in San Francisco. Things are changing because High Pressure is pushing its way in from the desert. That hes us u. Us up. So lets talk about this. This. Our heat risk today is really not that bad. Mostly in that low to moderate section. Look what it looks like on saturday eveni...

Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. Fi...

Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy...

A life full of work, they have opportunity to engage in that. The 50 plus population in this country is growing rapidly and projected to increase by 21 by 2020 and those over 65 growing by 33 by 2020 which is just a minute away. All the communities of this nation need to go to work can find ways to keep this large and vibrant growing 50 plus population not only engaged but also connected. We would like to talk about the technology infrastructure, broadband, implications and impact to this popula...

Roadways into waterways. The flooding was so suden and so severe, fire crews had to pull people from their vehicles. The storm brought lightning and high winds that downed power lines. In western texas were getting a first look at devastating flooding. Look at this after the picos river overflowed its banks earlier this week, cars stuck in the mud and mobile homes simply flooded and more rain expected in the region today. The u. S. Military has expanded its aerial campaign against isis targets s...

Will work to cut off their financing and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region and already over 40 nations have offered to join this coalition. Today i ask the world to join in the effort. Right now the president is meeting with iraqs new Prime Minister and in a few hours the president will hold the other major event at the u. N. Today. Hell chair a Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters. All amid new u. S. Are strikes in syria and iraq. In an interview on today ...

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