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The American League division series. The oakland as head to detroit and we have Team Coverage and begin with ktvus debora villalon, live at the coliseum, where it was another exciting game for the fans. Reporter ken, can it get anymore exciting . The sellout crowd is making their way out, but they are in no hurry, they are savoring the moment, a walkoff win and Success Story you have got to love. The rookie against the veteran. The curveballs had heat, and exuberant crowd, the 23year old in his 11th big league start more that on held his own, just as hi fans predicted he would. I could feel the energy and excitement. He just has to stay focused. Those boos are for detroits ace, Justin Verlander, coliseum craziness doesnt rattle him, but being meshed by a rookie. Its his calling and his time. Its his moment to be in here. Reporter inning after scoreless inning, the potential skyhigh as fans know what a second loss means. Detroit needing only one more at home. Who knows . We might go dow
Remaining limits on massive spending by wealthy donors on political campaigns. On tuesday, justices heard in mccutcheon versus federal elections commission, which has been referred to as the neck Citizens United. Republican leaders and wealthy gop donor Shaun Mccutcheon want the Supreme Court to throw out aggregate limits on individual contributions in a single two year cycle, saying they violate free speech. On tuesday, the likely swing vote, chief justice john roberts, indicated he is prepared to strike down caps on donations to individual candidates, but perhaps not on donations to political committees. At a rally, senator Bernie Sanders said unlimited private spending is undermining u. S. Democracy. The bottom line here is that if we do not want to move it to an oligarch form of society, where a handful of billionaires can determine the outcome of these elections, then it is imperative not only that we overturned Citizens United, but that we put a lid on how much people can contrib
News about a shortterm debt ceiling sent the stock markets soaring. The dow jones jumping 323, a large gain. There was a reaction in january when congress agreed to a deal avoiding a first call cliff. The market jumped that day. Thats the news this hour, more news later at 11 eastern. Consider this is up next. Remember, you can get your latest news on the website. The white house and Congressional Republicans finally meet over a new deal to avoid defaulting on americas debt obligations. Consider this are the republicans caving or are the democrats backing themselves into a corner . Our wars in the mideast and use of drones to fight terror caused a lot of anger across the region. A new book about special forces asks how the u. S. Can fight extremists without creating more. Parents that push to give kids every advantage are they by teaching them to be cutthroat. Im antonio mora, welcome to consider this. Wall street was soring after mention of a deal. President obama and the republicans
There was word today that power surges have repeatedly damaged a massive new data Storage Facility for the National Security agency. The wall street journal reported ten meltdowns over 13 months destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware at the utah site. The power problems have delayed the facilitys opening. The u. S. Commando raid that seized a top alqaeda suspect in libya is still making waves. Libyan jihadists vowed today to kidnap americans in retaliation for the capture of abu anas al liby. And the u. S. Military said its moving some 200 marines to a base in italy, just in case. In washington, president obama said the libya raid and another in somalia does not mean hes expanding the war on terror. Theres a difference between us going after terrorists who are plotting directly to do damage to the United States and us being involved in wars. But where youve got active plot and active networks, were going to go after them. Woodruff the president did not directly address