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Reporter frank and julie, we have a front row seat to the power and devastation of this fire. That is still burning out of control just outside of Yosemite National park you look over my shoulder, the flames are burning about a half mile to 3 4 mile away from us. Fires generally lay down at night and that has been happening here but every once in a while well see what is called torching where individual pine trees or groups of trees will suddenly burst into flames and believe it or not in the mi...

[applause] mayors and ladies and gentlemen, it is, of course, my distinct honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our good friend, my good friend, Vice President joe biden. Throughout his career as a public servant, the Vice President biden has championed issues that are critical to the prosperity and growth of americas cities and he has engaged directly with the u. S. Conference of mayors on a regular basis. During our annual meeting this past june in orlando, Vice President bid...

The president to take a much stronger stance. Tomorrow seactd joh secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel will speak to the senate. Paul beban is in washington. He joins us with the very latest. Paul, do you get a sense that the senate will play ball with the president on syria . That remains an sop question, and thats why senators like senator mccain are so important. He has been very critical of the administrations position on syria pushing for more comprehensive strate...

Proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. Now, this despite the white house doing an aboutface on its plan changes to the medicare partd Prescription Drug program. It is sticking by its looming cuts to the popular program. Joining me now, ovik roy, of the manhattan institute. Always great to see you. Before we get to the medicare, two medicare stories actually i want to talk about some news that broke this afternoon coming from Kathleen Sebelius at health and human services. They released february to...

Princess faces questions over a corruption scandal. Russia said it will hold off giving aid to the ukraine until it pays its debt. The first gold medals have been won at the winter olympics. Highlights from sochi coming up later in this hour. The United Nations has revealed new evidence of an escalation in taliban attacks in afghanistan. Leaving thousands of casualties and dramatic increase in the number of children who have been killed or injured. It concludes that 2013 was one of the deadliest...

Child soldiers. Sochis fireworks spectacular a burst of light heralding the start of the most expense games in olympic history. And crickets world order. India takes a leading role in controlling the global game. They are the incident victims of war, women and chinnldren killed, wounded, maimed figures show a total of 9,259 civilians died, on increase of 7 . 5,500 injured, 17 up. 561 children lost their lives. That was a rise of 34 in the total number of child casualties. Improvized explosive de...

They took off in an a maroon colored car. There is a bar nearby. And police say this stabbing began as an argument early in the morning. We will talk to other people who are in the neighborhood and see if we can learn any new information. Of course we will bring it to you throughout the morning. Live in San Francisco im tara moriarty. Also new this morning one man is fighting for his life after a shooting in hayward. That happened shortly before 10 00 last night oniria veer avenue. Police say th...

Wednesday morning, december 19th. Good to see you today. Welcome to the fullcourt press here on current tv coming to you live from our nations capitol with all of the big stories of the day all of the big news of the day on the fiscal cliff front and on the gun control front as well as whats happening in syria and other news around the current tree and around the globe. We will take your calls at 86655press. The president has made a big compromise, raising the tax cuts to the first 400,000 dropp...

Americas women grab gold and bronze. As the showdown in sochi looms, two of americas best skiers ever, bode and ted finally about to face off. And good morning, america. Boy, you see the snow on the lens this morning. Boy, a lot to celebrate in sochi for team usa today. Gold, silver, and bronze in mens slopestyle. Only the third time the u. S. Has ever swept the medals in an olympic winter games event. You said the winter games. It seems more like the summer games there. We want to look at the p...

Rebels. Now, takeovers at military bases given them a new arsenal of heavy weaponry. In this attack, they used rockets and as cnns arwa damon reports, the rebels claiming this as a major victory. Reporter children on the back of a tractor made off with a sizable tangled lump of metal. What was all too often the cause of nightmares now a trophy of war. Proudly shown off by this man. We want to take these pieces to show them to the other villages, he says. Let them see what happened to these plane...