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Off a stunning shift in u. S. Policy with cuba, with the freeing of alan gross who had been jailed for five years. President obama has announced plans to normalize relations with the communist state. Hes spoken with the cuban president raul castro. The two countries will be opening their embassies and the United States will ease an embargo that began half a century ago. That sparked a protest in miami. Some republicans are accusing president obama of appeasing tyrants. Also, there are stunning n...

This man suspected of killing six people. Later for you, bill cosbys wife comes to his defense, why her statement has some people raising their eyebrows. But first this hour i want to update you on breaking news coming to us moments ago out of pakistan. At least four students are dead and more than a dozen wounded after gunmen stormed a school in pakistan. This is tack took place in the northwestern city of peshmerga. Police sources say at least six terrorists entered the school after scaling it...

Smile and response. Plus breaking news. State of emergency in ferguson. The National Guard on the way as a grand jury gets closer to a decision of what will happen if the streets in the streets of ferguson if officer Darren Wilson is not indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown. And why is a grand jury take so long . Weve got a lot more to get to but i want to begin with the ak sigss against bill cosby. Joan tarshis joins me now. She accuses cosby of raping her when she was 19. Joan, than...

More still to come on the show today. We begin with this. Jordanian fighter jets taking off in the last few hour s to launch a second straight day of air strikes against isis targets in syria. They come with isis claiming that yesterdays strikes killed a Young American woman who was being held hostage by the group. The hostage has now been identified as 26yearold aid workerer Kayla Mueller from prescott, arizona. U. S. Officials are looking into the report. They say they have no confirmation tha...

Two shots and then a flurry of shots. At least five, six, seven shots. We all ran out. The attackers tried to escape, but were killed in a shootout with police. Take a look. Israeli police are calling this a terrorist attack saying it was carried out by these two men, two cousins from east jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu promised israeli would respond with a heavy hand. Secretary of state kerry condemned the attack. This violence has no place anywhere. This is the middle l east corr...

Youd be hardpressed to find a republican in washington today. Theyve all gotten out of town but what theyre up to is driving talk in d. C. Gop lawmakers making their way to hershey, pennsylvania for a twoday type of soul searching retreat in parts of deep blue california turning red as the rnc convenes its winter meeting in san diego. Well hear from mitt romney there tomorrow. Ahead of the rnc meeting kickoff, a potential game changer. Ellering up the convention now in midjuly instead of late au...

5 30 a. M. Cal tile. And then the captain asked to climb higher because of storms. And nouw, family, of course, they are desperate for any sign of what may have happened to the plane. No american ss were on board. Almost all of the passengers were indonesian nationals. The ntsb is monitoring the situation, and of course, they are prepared to assist if asked. Despite a Massive International search effort, there is still no trace of the aircraft or the 239 people on board of mh370 which crashed in...

Techniques like water boarding. Also slamming detainees into walls, sleep deep elevation, dousing them with cold water, even alleging threaten one with a buzzing power drill. It was not used in that case. Prosecute bush who authorized the program insisted it saved u. S. Lives and Vice President dick cheney telling the new york time it was, quote, absolutely totally justified. He said when we had that program in place, we kept the country safe from anymore mass casualty attack which was our objec...

Train in the town of hall just south of boston. So youre stuck, youre actually stuck . Reporter we are stuck metaphorically and literally. The very end of the road here. If there were any light here we would be able to see boston just on the other side of the quincy bay here. But this is a snowdrift. The atlantic over there, quincy bay over there, and the wind is just whipping through here. Were in hull massachusetts. Over two feet of snow. Roofs have collapsed in quincy and areas in the south s...

This is a longterm operation not a short term one. We believe everyone including the governing process is moving in the right direction. It is on the hill where much of the criticism is coming from. Listen carefully to Michael Mccall when he was asked if he thought the administration was taking the threat seriously. Not enough. It is radical islamist extremism. Air strikes have been limited as limited success of the contain pment not a policy to degrade and destroy the enemy. If anything the lig...