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Washington who is author of tonights book , boss of the grips, the life of James H Williams and the red caps of Grand Central terminal. This is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. If youve not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. There are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot...

Where protestors gathered overde the weekend. Eekend good morning. Reporter good morning. Ooni well, last weeks killings arein still being felt by people allea across the country and flags fla like this one behind me heree above the white house are being flown at halfstaff infsf the wake of last weeks wee killings and this is also the scene where a protest will happen later this morning. Mni several other protests werel held in our area over the weekend inn response to thenset shootings in louis...

Area proved fruitless on tuesday. Pursuit around homes including one sighting in a persons yard. It is certainly nerve racking particularly in this environment these days. Reporter schools were on lock down and residents in barnegat and surrounding towns were told to lock doors on their homes and cars and shelter in place. That is crazy, just nuts, never really seen anything like it, lived here my whole life and hopefully they catch him soon. Reporter barnegat mayor john no vac has a message to ...

The left of the nation. And the agenda is more to do with the National Agenda than the state or favor with various interest groups. The democrat said the governors goal was to put lawmakers to work. I think hes being realistic and what he was doing is laying out what he accomplished with the help. Its the legislative process. Werep certain as to what people are willing to support and not willing to support. Reporter the next two months will reveal what lawmakers will and wont support. The Genera...

Focus back to the economy. A day after the dow closed above the 14,000 mark for the First Time Since before the financial crisis. We are poised to grow in 2013. And the real signs of progress. Home prices are starting to climb again. Car sales are at a fiveyear high. Manufacturing is roaring back. Our businesses created 2. 2 million jobs last year. And we just learned that our economy created more jobs over the last few months than economists originally thought. Now, former senator scott brown s...

Im chuck todd. Pac show for you, i promise. My first reads of the morning, nearly two years ago, president obama gave a speech in el paso calling for Immigration Reform, stronger Board Security and a path to citizenship. El paso, the question is whether those in congress who previously walked away in the name of enforcement are now ready to come back to the table and finish the work that weve started. Well, now that a Bipartisan Group of senators have come back to the table, the president today ...

Shield program, one that can be individually tailored to make our schools as safe as possible. Its time to throw an immediate blan ket of security around our children. About a third of our schools right now have Armed Security already because it works. And that number is growing every day. Right now state officials local authorities and School Districts in 50 states are considering their own plans to protect children in schools. In addition, we need to enforce the thousands of gun laws already o...

Terrorists, it does not extend to criminals, and it does not extend to the mentally ill. While Wayne Lapierre struck a posture less combative than Previous Press conferences, his views remain questionable, calling for an immediate blanket of security at schools, lapierre dismissed universal background checks, saying criminals would never submit to them. Chairman leahy pressed lapierre on background checks and whether and how the nra head had changed his mind on closing gun show loopholes. Should...

It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you. Kelly, obviously that was a gripping way to start the hearing. Where do we go from there . It is rare you have something so emotionally and politically charged and have a witness like Gabby Gifford that is the panel can relate to so personally. That made today more compelling. Key issues, democrats and many of them are supporting the idea of universal background checks to expand ...

The massacre in newtown, connecticut. Proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime. Ifill then, we assess the state of the economic recovery, as key indicators show trends both up and down. Brown from jerusalem, Margaret Warner has the latest on the attack by israeli warplanes inside syria. Ifill Judy Woodruff talks with newly elected senator Tammy Baldwin, a democrat from wisconsin. Brown we examine how some...