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Danger and the red cross is helping a Temple Terrace family forced out of their home overnight by fire. The flames sparked in the rear of the home. It took 33 minutes to put out the fire. All people did get out safely. The cause of the fire is under investigation. And the people of alabama are waking up to massive destruction this morning. N the wake of one monster tornado. Morning in this wake of one monster tornado. Take a look at the the twister that hit pickens county. Luckily only minor inj...

Reporter and moscow pushes Interest Rates to 17 trying to save the plunging russian rubel. Taliban gunman attacking a school in pakistan, 84 people have been killed so far. 81 of them are children. At least another 100 injured. While the school is in the northwest city of peshawar the Prime Minister is on his way there and he says its a National Tragedy. Nicole johnston has the latest. Reporter a few months since they launched an attack like this, six armed men stormed a school in peshawar where...

When we are doing automatic adjustments . With that said i think it would be an improvement however we did it so if we to indexing when it came to when it came to individual parameters that would make sense as well. One thing i would notice we should be sure to index both the benefit side and the revenue side as in fact Peter Diamond suggests. To be critical of such an automatic mechanism would not simply be solvency. Our Current System would probably be made solvent. Congress will just get arou...

Reinstate the subsidies and then they pretty much held protests. And within six days, they took control of the capital. On september 21st they took charge of everything there. Having said that, since they have demanded the creation of a new government, there was a new Prime Minister appointed and new government selected. But the new government they created in november of 2014 actually consisted of technocrats and tribal leaders refused to participate in this government, which is probably why the...

Of isis. The idea of libya as a base, as a haven for extremism is not new. Obviously it existed under gadhafi with the city of durna and syria. After the revolution, you had the growth of Al Qaeda Affiliated groups, and, indeed general heftars campaign was designed to root out those groups. I think what youve had in the wake of the campaign is not the decisive defeat of those groups, but rather their mutation. And this is what were seeing now with isis. Isis in libya is really peeling away a lot...

With racism. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell im Norah Odonnell. Scott is on assignment in havana and well hear from him in just a moment. It was the bestkept secret in the world until president obama went on National Television today to reveal it. Today, the United States of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. Odonnell nearly 54 years after president eisenhower severed diplomatic ties with the communist dictatorship, ...

Meaningful action. He was notified by Homeland Security advisor john brennan. He ordered flags lowered to half staff. This is about 5 minutes. I spoke with governor malloy and fbi director muller. I offered governor malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate this crime, care for theirctimw and families. We have endured too many of these tragedies. Each time i learned the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else ...

Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington ...

Form 1040, they have a pie chart that shows this goes to defense, this goes to social spending, paying interest, but i really think it could be much more detailed. I think that kind of education, letting taxpayers know where their money is going, will make a more informed citizenry and update the debate on where you want your money to go as the tax paying public. That is something that i am strongly advocating. I think that will go far. That is the first step to saying, wait a minute, i do not w...

And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was e...