Flee a city. This is unsafe on the american highways for all of us. A renewed focus on how tired truckers are while driving on the nations roads. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. It is one of the most stunning election upsets in congressional history and could have ramifications for the republican leadership. It is huge. Stephanie. House majority leader icon tore was defeated by david brat in the virginia primary. The loss is more surprising when you consider cantor outspent his opponent by five to one. Brat an economics professor took 56 of the vote to cantors 44 . The loss is significant, because cantor was the number two republican in the house and the likely successor to Speaker John Boehner. For more on the political upset, Mike Viqueira joins us from washington. I it was a bolt from the blu. Not only was eric cantor expected to become the next speaker of the house, perhaps as early at next year, but this was a year that the tea party was in retreat, a series of stinging defeats thi
Taxpayers. The issue that we seek to address is known technically as corporate inversion. The details of inversion sound complex, but the principle is not. Inversion means avoiding potentially billions of dollars in u. S. Taxes by changing a corporations address for tax purposes to an offshore location. What we have here is a taxable scheme, an enormous loophole that allows companies to avoid billions in taxes without any significant change in where they operate, where their profits are generated, where the location of the executives who manage and control these corporations. A recent prominent example involves pfizer, a u. S. Drug company, and astrozeneca, a u. S. Based company. This corporate takeover which pfizer makes abundantly clear is all about avoiding u. S. Taxes has gotten a lot of attention and for good reason. It would cost the United States about a billion dollars a year in tax revenue. But this is not just about two companies. This is not just about one merger. Even a mer
Surprise. And each of their reactions is more priceless than the last today, saturday, march 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. We do want to get you right to todays top story, and that is the Malaysia Airliner that we first learned went missing overnight. We first heard last night that it had gone missing. As the hours go on, the airline says it still has not found any evidence of wreckage. Lets bring you the latest as we know it. There is a massive effort under way right now to find the plane. Searchandrescue crews were deployed as soon as authorities realized the plane was missing. And air Traffic Control lost contact with that plane about two hours into what was supposed to be a sixhour flight. And there were 239 people on board the plane, including 3 americans, one of them an infa
And federal troops will be on hand to make sure everyones safe. Todays swearingin is ceremony real for the public. The constitution requires the official ontario of office to take place january 20th. The president was officially sworn into Office Yesterday at a small ceremony at the white house. He followed that up with a Candlelight Service sunday night where he said todays parties are not about him. What were celebrating is not the election or swearing in of a president. What were doing is celebrating each other. And he talked about what he called the most significant event of the inaugural weekends celebrations, his wifes new haircut. I love her bangs. She looks good. She always looks good. The celebrations wont end until late monday night when the president and first lady attend three different inaugural balls. The theme of this years president ial inaugural is our people, our future was selected by the president ial inaugural committee because they say president obama draws inspir
Nominated now somethings somethings wrong. Somethings rigged. Will you be watching the oscars . I will indeed. A lot of good movies this year. Always part of the fourth hour. Have you seen lincoln . I have not. But im told its amazing 37 hes number two, by the way. Daniel day lewis. Tommie lee jones is brilliant in that film. And a hell of a nice guy i hear. Are you still winning, charlie . Today i am with you. Absolutely. Its been brilliant to see you again. Likewise. Thank you so much. Come back soon because i absolutely. Its been brilliant to see you, again. Come back, again. I appreciate it. From cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, this is early start weekend. Gun owners stocking up for fear of a potential ban. Well take you to a gun show that is booming. As brazil readies itself for the 2014 cup, its not just restaurants that stand to profit. How businesses for preparing for a business boom. The sag awards are tonight. Well give you a preview on who is likely to win one of hollywoo