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Magnificent city made entirely of ice. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. The first major snowstorm of 2014 has arrived in full force and it pummeled on new years eve is now crippling the northeast with heavy snow and bonechilling temperatures and blamed for two deaths in illinois and another in philadelphia. New york and new jersey have each declared a state of emergency with blizzardlike conditions expected through the morning and new york city cancelled school for nearly one million kids but the sub freezing temperatures moving into the area that are the most c...

A. Theres certainly no shortage of professional health care in the news right now. Weve got democrat seriously defending the Affordable Care act, republicans. The attacking it. I think we would all argue that they are missing at the Health Care Care system is broken. Spend more and get less than virtually every other country and Neither Party are really talking about what we would do about it. I would argue that our ability as a country to rein in Health Care Spending is going to determine this is the largest single factor driving our debt. It is bankrupting this country. If were not able to g...

[applause] booktv is on facebook. Likes to enter act with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos. Facebook. Com become tv. And now on booktv, npr media correspondent David Folkenflik talk about the rice and near fall of rue bert Murdoch News Corp and how mr. Murdoch was able to survive the recent bribery and phone hacking scandal in england. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you for coming. Just turn the lights up. You have to make noise every now and then and well know youre there. Right now we cant tell. I get to introduce david so let me just bear with me a minute ...

We explore the World Wide Web at twentyfive. Talking about the internet is like talking about whether electricity is good or bad, or oxygen is good or bad. Its just this powerful thing that connects all of us and that has become an invisible part of our lives. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions...

This would allow unemployed individuals to take a job paying 18,000 dollars a year, which on its own is not enough to make ends meet, but then they receive a federal enhancement to make the job a more enticing alternative to simply collecting unemployment insurance. Unlike the earned income tax credit, my proposal would apply the same to singles as to married couples and families with children. It would be a preferable means of distributing benefits, since it would arrive in sync with a monthly or biweekly paycheck rather than a yearend lumpsum credit. It is a better way of supporting lowincom...