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Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions woodruff resistance from House Republicans delayed action on a fiscal cliff compromise passed overwhelmingly by the senate in the wee hours of this new years day. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the stalemate plus we hear from republican tom cole of oklahoma and democrat Chris Van Hollen of maryland. Woodruff Jeffrey Brown has an update on some of the areas hit hardest by su...

Raising taxes to give the president more money to spend. Reporter president obama has promised to work with congress to find more spending cuts in the future. But he urge them not to play politics with the debt limit. I will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they have already racked up. Reporter treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has warned congress the country is just a few months away from defaulting on its loans for the first time i...

On one end and shady on the other. We were hoping for the water feature to be on but i forgot i was off. Its nice though i love the heat. Reporter pg e says its gearing up for its most intense heat tomorrow thousand it does not expect any demand on the grid. Were going to maintain all hands on deck, readiness approach. Reporter another live look out at stinson beach, theyre worried that higher temperatures wednesday will mean bigger crowds here. Pg e is also looking for special requests for busi...

Halfway around the world, in california, are clues to understanding the fall of mesopotamia, as farmers here struggle to overcome a threat to this fertile garden land. The ruins of ancient societies may hold keys to our own survival as, out of the past, archaeologists explore one of the greatest of mysteries the decline and fall of grand civilizations. Mission control ignition. And liftoff. Liftoff. Keach for more than five millennia, humankind has seemed to dominate earth, both creating and des...

The picture. She was texting friends that she was going to commit suicide, she might as well commit suicide. I think i should have known the police would get involved but i didnt think about it until, you know, i got called in or 4 Police Officers standing there, like, bringing me into a conference room, interrogating me about it. I was just, it was one of the scariest things ive ever had to do. Thats when it hit me, oh, my god, were in trouble. Later we heard from a Police Officer little pieces...

Contractor on board as we design and they participate in the design. It brings a lot of collaboration. The department of public works decided to try a more Team Oriented approach with this project. The best value approach. They really went to to us come on board as a team member and work with them. What that meant was the contractor allowing key subcontractors such as the electrical, mechanical, plumbing systems, would always be reviewed and looked at for constructability, for cost constraints, ...

Department. Sergeant Heather Randall admits other departments have a competitive advantage because they can offer higher salaries and more benefits. She says the department is not aware of any Academy Graduates who are planning to leave. We do what we can. We try to make it a positive work environment. We encourage people to stay. Were looking at career developments. Mentoring opportunities for people. And just doing what we can to keep people here and retain those officers. Reporter the city sp...

Indication about the developer will be responsible for all project funding and altogether, the port is required to pay, and to decide for that appraiser, and the increment and costs of putting that public, and parking garage, in the project. An, allocation and that is allocated to the parking garage and it is sticking out from the housing and of course, the cost of getting approval from the state and commission, since that is our area. The proposed mlu, very quickly, determines that we are hopin...

And the are controvers contrt could be right in your pocket. We begin tonight with a growing divide between the u. S. And israel. A new Magazine Article reports an unidentified u. S. Official directed a crude insult at the israeli Prime Minister, it is a term we choose not to use on the air but there has been a lot of name calling most of it over the expansion of israeli settlements. Nick schifrin reports. Bmentbenjamin netanyahu visid the knesset. Were i not to defend the state of israel were i...

Officials warning people to get vaccines against the measles. This after a second student came down with the illness. Allie will have more on this story in just a bit. Good morning. Welcome to mornses on it. Good morning. Im dave clark. Claudine said i can come in. Good to see you. Good to see rosemary. How is it looking . Its looking, take a look. Its a beautiful start to the day. The sun is up. We have just a little bit of patchy fog out there this morning and partly part cloudy skies. We are ...