As if alcohol was a contributing factor to. A dallas cowboy is dead and the driver under arrest. Listen to this. God blesses us so why cant we bless other people. He returned from the battlefield broken homeless, but things have changed for this iraq war vet. Now hes giving back one blessing at a time. Youve got to see that. Its december 9, 2012. Good morning. Im Susan Hendricks in for randi kaye. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com we begin with a developing story, venezuelan president hugo chavez telling the world his cancer is back its shown up in the same affected area. We have had to look at the diagnostics and check with with a expert and dehave decided it is absolutely essential and necessary to undergo another surgery. Chavez also spoke publicly about a sec sayser for a first time saying his Vice President should replace him if he now worsens. We now go to cubic where patrick joins us. Good morning. Good morning. It was a stunning announcement. It could have major impact on this
Talk about the fiscal cliff was more than three weeks ago. Just after midnight on sunday gay couples in Washington State made history. The voter approved referendum was signed into law on wednesday. Venezuelan president yugo chavez is returning to cuba for more cancer surgery. This time he is making sure a new leader is in place in case he doesnt return. He named the Vice President as his choice for his choice in case something happens to him. Hes scheduled to be swarn in for a new sixyear term on january 10th. Some very sad news for fans of music superstar jenny rivera. They have found the wreckage of the private jet believing to be carrying the popular mexicanamerican singer and six others. The plane lost contact early this morning. So far, no cause has been given for that crash. The menorah has been illuminated tonight, marking the start of hanukkah. Of course, no hanukkah celebration would be complete without the spinning dradel. Youre getting slammed right now by a major winter st
Topping the news this hour, president obama speaking out today on the crisis in iraq, saying an operation to free thousands of religious refugees trapped by terrorists will take time. The president also calling a series of u. S. Air strikes targeting militant positions a success but saying its not a crisis that can be solved in just a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, the u. S. Conducting a new humanitarian air drop for those desperate refugees. Doug joins us live from the white house with more details. Doug, what were seeing is a humanitarian effort like we havent seen before in iraq. Reporter especially under this president. Thats the key point there. Some very frank dismisses by president obama just moments before he took off with his family for a twoweek vacation to Marthas Vineyard. He basically admitted that intelligence analysts underestimated isis. He basically says theres no doubt their advance over the last several months in iraq was more rapid than policy makers both inside and ou
Could shake things up for the democratic race for 2016. It is interesting to see as this all comes together. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im George Howell. Im christine romans. Good morning, george. A lot going this morning. First, three humble americans honored in france after preventing a possible massacre on a high speed train from amsterdam to paris. Alek skarlatos and Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler took down the man who has ties to islam. The trio is speaking out for the first time. I feel our training mostly kicked in after this assailant was subdued, frankly. When it came to medical care and things like that and providing security and making sure there wasnt another shooter. Mostly it was gut instinct. Just gut instinct and survival. The three americans and british citizsicitizen meeting presiden hollande. And painting a different picture for us is correspondent Nic Robertson live in paris. Nic, it is different to see these difficults up on the podium with the french
A drop of rule of law indicators as a result of the war on terror and drugs. Perhaps it will be a nudge for the leaders of the land of the free. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. I will see you next week. Happening right now in the newsroom, a heros story. I tried to shoot him. He did. I turned around and i saw he had what looked to be an ak47. He looked like it was jammed or wasnt working. He was trying to discharge the weapon. Alec hit me on the shoulder and said lets go. Ran down, tackled him. We hit the ground. Alec came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand while i put him in a choke hold. Three Young Americans save the day and lives and humbly call it instinct. Newsroom starts now. Hello and thanks for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. Were hearing from all three american who say helped prevent what could have opinion a massacre on a european train. Spencer stone, anthony sad her and alec garlotto shouting lets go. Today the three are being hailed as