Tonight lester holt. Good evening. It just keeps coming. Winters parade of misery from snow bound new englanders at their wits end to snow and ice in the normally mild south. And now the next shoe, or should we say snowshoe to drop. The rush of arctic cold sweeping from the other side of the north pole through the great lakes. Tonight, places like chicago and milwaukee are already in the single digits. And the northeast and south wont be far behind with temperatures 25 to 35 degrees below average tomorrow. In so many places life as people know it is frozen in time. Paralyzed transportation its knocked out power and put a lot of people in some very real danger. Nbcs tom costello is on it for us tonight. Reporter from a frozen niagra falls and lake erie in the north to snow in the south, the eastern third of the country is locked in the deep freeze with even colder temps on the way. In eastport maine theyve had a record of 109 inches of snow in just 23 days. Its pretty much overwhelming.
You wont find them saying the islamic state, alqaeda, iraq has not regained, obviously, we know they regained footholds, but the truth is they regained foot hots around iraq. No one argues theres large alqaeda affiliates in syria. That was one of the reason given traditionally for why we dont support, i dont find it a persuasive reason, but thats an argument made. Thatst a large and powerful franchise, and its clear with operations in north africa that we have a vibrant franchise in alqaeda, and so on and so on. The question of whether we have affiliates out there and whether they continue to be strong or capable is not really in question. The real question that our policy debates focus around is just the United States needs to care. How much of a problem is it for us if these local groups do well or poorly, and is this something to be concerned about, and that is how do local groups relate to what the Administration Group calls alqaeda core, the group around formally bin laden, after
Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. Some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. We have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind of citizenship examp
Voters realized he was not the mitt romney the democrats were portraying creating this sense or movement or the swing in the polls that although president obama had a much better debate in the second debate than the first one, that didnt move polls back. Theres a sense of romney momentum, and thats something the president has to stop, especially in the last couple weeks. Neil well watch closely. After all the handlers are there, sometimes getting there 1520 minutes before the debate is done. This is it, final exchange of the candidates of 2012. Wrapping up then three president ial debates, the Vice President ial debate, and at times they are very consequential, moving the needle, both try to do so tonight. Heres bob shieffer. Moderator this is the fourth and last debate of the 2012 campaign brought to you by the commission of president ial donts. This is on Foreign Policy. Im bob schieffer. The questions are mine, and i have not shared them with the candidates or their aids. The audien
Shooting them. Arent they still just as dead . Isnt he still in power just the same to keep slaughtering . Weve determined its the humanitarian thing to do to intercede when dictators act inhumanly, but only how they kill their people, not whether they kill the people. Chemicals office, but anything else, not as awful. Bashar, next time, use bullets. Thank us in the mirren time we give you plenty of time to prepare for our missiles, Donald Rumsfeld on the dangers of administration promising its quick and dirty when it could leave more questions than answers. Secretary rumsfeld, great to have you. What do you make of this and why were going to do this . Its difficult for someone on the outside to know, first of all, whats happening on the ground, and, second, whats in the mind of the administration. As you point out properly, the idea of demystifying what youre going to do for the enemy is mindless. I cant imagine what they are thinking, why they want the assad regime to have crystal cl