Jennifer lets start tonight in flint, michigan. The city about an hour north of detroit. This is my map of michigan and its a place with a long list of dubious distinctions. It has the highest crime rate of any Michigan City the highest number of abandoned properties in the nation and last year it was the number one most violent city in the country. It also is one of the poorest cities. Compare that to michigan overall which is at 16 , the 14 is the national figure. It is a sad picture, even more so because of flints history as the center of the American Manufacturing industry. Its the birthplace of this countrys Labor Movement. In 1960 flint was michigans second largest city 200,000 people. It also had a vibrant middle class, its Public School system was a model for the nation and that was due in large part to the strength of its labor unions and the large number of manufacturing workers living in flint. They took over a factory and they didnt leave until they reached a deal with mana
There could be an aboutface with the United Nations concerning iran in the syrian peace talks. The u. N. Now expects the u. S. To withdraw the are invitation to iran, expected to begin wednesday. John tret is in iran and ban kimoons invitation causing controversy. Thats putting it mildly. Backed by other governments around the world, u. S. Including britain and saudi arabia, very unhappy that the secretarygeneral of the u. N, ban kimoon, has invited iran to peace talks on wednesday. Promised that they will come with a positive attitude, no preconditions but the United States has said look they havent publicly signed up with the communique of geneva 1 that these talks will create a icial Traditional National governmen government transitional interim government. Here is the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha power. As of this morning, iran has still to demonstrate its willingness to explicitly and publiclpubliclypublicly subscrie communique. That is a minimum are are prereq
Contradictory message from each of them. But theyre hoping that they reach their targets. Listen to some examples. Four more years like the last four years would continue to have a president playing hide and seek trying to find a plan to get the economy going. To create jobs. This is a president whos whose approach to croating jobs is another stimulus. 000 the first one work out . You can choose a Foreign Policy thats reckless and wrong, or you can choose one that is steady and strong. You can choose to turn back the clock 50 years for immigrants and gays and women, or in this election, you can decide we will remain an inclusive, generous country. Now there is a pretty big map of battleground states right now. And you have eight of them. Eight battleground states that are really too close to call, soledad. But it not just states like ohio and nevada and iowa and so on. Theres also one very interesting state in the northeast that is never a battleground because its always democratic and
Our lives hanging 10 the best surfers in the world ride the waves in one of the sports biggest competitions. [ music ] good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. As we begin ukraines capital is tense. A fragile truth has fallen apart. The governments made some concession, including an agreement to amend protest laws. Protesters say its too little, too late. Jennifer glasse reports from kiev where the clashes intensified. Antigovernment protesters in ukraine believe they have momentum as the unrest spreads from kiev, across the country starting in at least 12 regions. Protesters are taking over government buildings, barricading themselves in. A message to Viktor Yanukovych, they are unhappy with their rule, and they want change. They have offered some concessions, he said in an emergency suggests on parliament. He will consider amending laws cast last week and went into effect this week and criminalized many aspects of freedom of speec
For grabs and it may rest on the strength of obamas firewall. Its 281 obama, 257 romney. If romney wins two of the sfooifts i mentioned, romney will win. I dont want to get drunk on hypotheticals, because lets be honest, thats more of a kornacki thing. Steve, tell them whats the deal. I think theres a lot of different ways to look at athe electoral map, but the way i narrow is down is this. Theres four obama states starting to lean towards romney. He really needs them and lets say he gets them. Thats north carolina, florida, colorado and virginia. That puts him at 257. At that point to win the election there are two paths for mitt romney, and these are the fooift states to Pay Attention to. The first path is to win the state of ohio. Hes your next president , but hes not doing that well in ohio. Lets say he loses ohio. Heres the next path. Wisconsin may be more winnable at this point for the Romney Campaign than ohio is. We went over the reasons yesterday. If you win wisconsin all you