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Sreenivasan and its friday. Mark shields and Michael Gerson are here, to analyze the weeks news and look ahead to the year in politics. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this prog...

Police have surrounded the home of an elderly woman where a burglar may be barricaded inside. This is happening in the 900 block of elsinore drive right now. Sky 7 hd was overhead a few minutes ago where the burglar was originally seen in the back yard of this house. He entered the home where a woman in her 90s lives. The woman got out safely and is now with officers, but Police Believe the burglar is still inside. Theyve been trying to coax the person out peacefully. But its unclear if officers...

The president s and the secretarys real commitment to this to ensure that we have some resources for innovative programs that are happening across the country for those local programs that are really changing the way their schools function and their communities see their schools and promoting those and scaling them up. Very quickly because i know we want to move on, the attorney general launched a defending childhood initiative, i know theres a lot of philanthropy in the room, we want to work in...

It was remarkable to me because we did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity an...

Another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspi...

The full house not even expected to return to work until sunday. Here is the guest list for todays showdown. The president , Vice President biden, Senate Majority leader harry reid and House Minority leader nancy pelosi on the democratic side. House speaker john boehner, Mitch Mcconnell representing the republicans. Brianna keilar live from washington. What do we expect to happen today . Any new offers from the president or House Speaker . We dont know. Right now, all eyes on the senate to see w...

Happening now in the newsroom just four days until we go over the socalled fiscal cliff. Why that deadline could hit unemployed americans hard. Training teachers to defend themselves and their students. Hundreds of educators attend a free gun class in utah. Its the latest response to the Newtown School massacre thats attracting a lot of attention this morning. Thousands of dockworkers could put the u. S. Economy at risk if they go on strike on sunday. Well take you inside the crisis some are cal...

Hi, everybody. So glad youre with us today. Im alina cho. Lets get started. Four days before the fiscal cliff. Four hours before a lastditch meeting at the white house. Its still not clear whether a lastminute deal is even possible or whether this is now all about shifting blame. President obama and Vice President biden are sitting down with house leaders. The guest list includes harry reid, who this time yesterday said he didnt see any way the fiscal cliff could be avoided. Whatever the case, o...

Hi, don. Hi, suzanne. Thank you very much. Im don lemon. Brooke is off today. The eyes of the world are focusing now on the white house. Within the next hour, congressional leaders will begin to arrive for what is likely to be a very tense meeting with the president. This is perhaps the final effort to avert the tax increase that is expected to cost the average family several thousand dollars a year. Four days remain to reach an agreement, get it passed by the house and the senate and signed int...

Celebrate, not just embrace, our diversity. Celebrate all our interesting diversity but also celebrate the things that bind us together. Ruslyn, does can urriculum need to change or is that not yet where you are. The federal government cant 10th amendment. Change it. That would be federal overreach. Well stated. No, but, but, so we are not funding or digging into can urriculum in that way. But you certainly have seen superintendent caranza happened about what happens with the kinds of conversati...