And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis pleased to welcome aimee mann back to this program. The grammywinning and oscar nominated singer songwriter has just wrapped up a nationwide tour in support of her most recent project. Its called charmer. Following her success with til tuesday in the 1980s, she is about to enter her 20th year as a solo artist. Wow. [laughter] you startled me. Tavis yeah. [laughter] startled me when i read it. [applause] [laughter] a lot to get to tonight, but first here is some of the very funny video for her song labrador featuring someone you may recognize from a show called mad men. Take a look. I really did not want to do this video. I thought it was a stupid idea, and the director was incompetent. I thought i was being pranked. She had so many ideas. We were talking back and forth. It was so collaborative. The director basically tricked me into signing a contract that gave him total control of everything. I was on the
Russian counterpart in geneva and these discussions will take place. Separate from that, there are discussions in new york at the framing aions around Security Council resolution on this issue and on the removal from assads control of his chemical weapons stockpile. I donte clear want to suggest, because it is certainly not the case, that we are interested in delay or avoidance of accountability here. And there are steps in this process if it were to succeed, and that is obviously a demonstration of sincerity and a verifiable way to secure the weapons and remove them from assads control, ultimately to destroy them. In the fulfillment of that process would certainly take some time. But the implementation of it could begin obviously before its completion. And we are going to work with the russians. It would be irresponsible not to explore this potential diplomatic resolution of this very serious matter. Former secretary of state clinton commented tuesday on syrias use of chemical weapons
Billefense appropriations puts in much of the dollars back in. Much of this in that readiness accounts. Dulles had to immediately go back to those accounts. Billing address it for one year. Do tok what we have to put certainty in place is to say, here is our solution to the sequester for the military budget. Youre looking for a for your solution . Solution . A 4 year exactly. You can see the interview with representative rob wittman and its entirety tomorrow on newsmakers at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan. Former secretary of state clinton three clinton is this yours recipient of the Liberty Medal award. Hillary clinton is this years recipient of the Liberty Medal award. Formerpeakers include Florida Governor jeb bush and michael nutter. This is a little less than an hour. [applause] thank you. Welcome and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us on the spectacular occasion. The 25thot only anniversary of the Liberty Medal, but also the 10th anniversary of the Natio
Good evening, everybody. Im larry beil. Dan and carolyn have the night off. A neighborhood evacuated in san mateo after volatile materials were discovered in a home on parrot drive. Abc7 News Reporter alan wang is there and joins us live with the latest. Alan . Let me show you the hole that the san mateo bomb squad dug up to detonate and bury some highly volatile chemicals. They also boarded up the windows to protect them from the concussion of the blast. But i am told the shock waves were so strong they still shattered every window. It started out as a Hazardous Materials clean up project called in by the wife of the former chem mystery chem mystery teacher who passed away. After analyzing the jars and jars of chemicals hazmat evacuated the met neighbors because two of the jars contained highly volatile chemicals. That was period we were told that was stuff that was taken care of on site. The acid is considered an explosive just like tnt and ether can be explosive. 500 homes are issue
Elsewhere on capitol hill today, its back to the bargaining table for lawmakers facing a yearend fiscal cliff. Yesterday the white house took a hard line insisting tax rates have to rise on the rich and warning that anymore delay on the deal could ruin Consumer Confidence and hurt Holiday Retail sales. Nbcs tracie potts joins us from washington with the details. Tracie, good morning. Reporter good morning, lynn. Today well see a continued push by the white house. In fact, for the rest of this week, new details released this morning, still pushing for those taxes on the rich. Meantime, here on capitol hill were seeing some small signs of compromise. Today president obama meets with Small Business leaders continuing his push for higher taxes for the wealthy. A new xhous economic report warns if tax breaks go away, the average middle class family will owe uncle sam another 2200 next year. It seems to be the thing we can agree on, that middle class families should see an extension of these