C. E. O. Of the Washington Posts parent company, Donald Graham. Warner i am the shooter, declared Army Major Nidal Hasan at the start of his trial in an attack that killed 13 at fort hood, texas. We look at todays opening arguments and early testimony. Ifill the pentagon eased financial pain for its employees by cutting unpaid furlough from 11 days to six. Ray suarez discusses the budget cuts and Terror Threats with deputy secretary of defense Ashton Carter. Our effort to deal with the current budget situation, we believe, has to be driven by strategy. That is, a view of the future. Terrorism is one of those things thats going to be around. Warner and more than 1. 5 Million People have fled the bloody syrian civil war. We have an ontheground report from the worlds second largest refugee camp in jordan. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william a
We have really never known what to do with our first ladies and that is particularly true in more recent times. On the one hand they are expecting to have causes. We can imagine a first lady been without a cause. On the other hand those causes are not permitted to intrude upon lawmaking or an official capacity. So its always been a tightrope and seeing how each of these women walk that tightrope tells you would not tells you a lot not only about them but about the institution and about society. The Washington Post company agreed monday to sell its flagship newspaper to amazon. Com founder and chief executive jeffrey these those. Ownership of the paper after four generations. Next week at back at former Washington Post owner the late Katharine Graham discussing her biography, personal history. Cspan author personal history did your children learn anything from this book about you . Guest thats a hard question. Im sure they probably did but i couldnt tell you exact a wife. Cspan all of t
Tonight. Charles . Reporter according to the california Highway Patrol, around 5 45 monday morning, a big rig truck coming off the bay bridge in San Francisco got a flat tire near the fremont street exit. The driver pulled over to the right hand side of the road and got out to check the tire. He then noticed smoke coming from the engine and within minutes the truck was engulfed in flames. The Highway Patrol says the driver acted accordingly. He did nothing wrong. He actually did what he was supposed to do and pulled over onto the right shoulder out of the lanes. Reporter the San Francisco Fire Department arrived shortly there after and put out the fire. The Highway Patrol had to shut down 2 to three lanes of west bound 80 during the morning commute. That caused a backup on bridge that extended for miles into the east bay. As a result, some drivers saw their normal commute times triple. Taken me about three hours today and this morning. It has been very backed up. Reporter crews were fi
Welcome to our views on Public Television in america and also around the globe. After shattering 21 diplomatic posts across the islamic world this weekend due to increased chatter about a possible al qaeda attack the United States has decided to keep 19 of them closed until the end of the week. Only the embassies in iraq and afghanistan will reopen. Today white house spokesman jay carney said the Obama Administration decided to take the steps out of an abundance of caution. We take the threat very seriously and have taken action because of that. Im not in a position to discuss specific intelligence but we believe that this threat is significant. The threat is emanating from and may be directed towards the arabe ban peninsula but it is beyond that potentially and that is why we have taken some of the actions we have taken. For more on the alert in place and the threat behind them, i spoke a brief time ago with the Senior Policy Adviser for National Security at the thirdway. Inside the c