[ cheers ] picture of miami this morning as we wake up on this sunday morning, december 6th. Good morning to you. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. A surge upon a surge. Dr. Anthony fauci warns that we have not yet seen the effects associated with thanksgiving as the u. S. Is setting a new record nearly every day. Today several california counties are going into a lockdown. Cases there and across the country are skyrocketing. There is hope on the horizon. An Fda Advisory Committee is meeting this week to discuss pfizers coronavirus vaccine. First this weekend, all eyes are on georgia, though. That state is determining the balance of power in the senate as of january 5th. Several gop leaders are worried that the president s relentless attacks on the election in georgia could lead to a number of Republican Voters just simply staying home next month. Lets begin there. Cnns Sarah Westwood with the latest from the white house. Several conservatives worry that the p
The u. S. Military says it carried out more air strikes against the Islamic State group in northern iraq. Sundays air strikes targeted a convoy moving towards kurdish forces. Deputy Parliament Speaker forming a new government snubbing Nouri Almaliki. Jane ferguson has more from erbil in iraq. Finally after weeks, Islamic State nearly at the kurdish capitol erbil, there is now a new government in iraq but Nouri Almaliki is not going out without a fight. He has made clear he will launch a political challenge to this, a constitutional basis for him not being allowed to form a new government. Believes that this will be a positive step in bringing the country closer together, other countries as well are welcoming it. And ordinary rawk iraqis are jut relieved that there is perhaps an end in sight over this political dialogue. Curvekurdish forces trying to re areas they have lost, the yazidis members of that small ancient minority still trapped on sinjar mountain are coming down in small numb
All the data as creepy as it sounds, is being accumulated. There is different ways to bundle it and look at anomalies and trends. It gives us information that we used to have. The Atlanta Public School story started out as a discovery that test scores had dramatically turned around in a short time. Data allowed us to discover it was statistically impossible for that to happen. That was what the team uncovered. Putting those scores together paint a picture that was impossible. They had dated different from data different from the data of others that you recall. I would Say Something about families. The Sulzberger Family owns the New York Times. Those families have maintained their commitment to quality. That is an exception in an america today. So many families, for many reasons, tax reasons, sold their companies. Thank god for the sulzbergers and the coxs. I cant tell you how many few owners would make the statement that alex just made. We understand the role of the watchdog in our new
Just say, we are thinking about those people like certain muslim religious leaders in this country, the wonderful imam from Catholic University that is certainly not meant to be an oxymoron but others who could serve as individuals, who could relate messages, create understanding, build bridges, be part of what we would call the unofficial, but now much more employment put it this way universe of diplomacy that we could use in that particular fashion. I think it makes a lot of sense. Retirees are fine, but maybe active individuals in their own area who know the problem very well from a religious angle want to now be part of the official quotient in moving the question ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up on cspan, a look at the government and the media. First, a discussion from the National Association of black journalists conference. And then, the fut
Doingrnalists had been that work we would have known about it. These are disclosures that are important for the public to know about. Spoke earlier about how many different Media Outlets there are out there now. They are all covering the same story. The things that are exclusive and distinctive are important. There is no better way to set yourself apart. To become somebody who breaks news that editors can get from any other source. Was a great conversation. Want to thank each of you we are going to take a short break. We have the newsmaker with the dnc chair scholz. Thank you. [applause] thank you. It was a pleasure. Coming up, views of the obama administrations fiscal policies. Then a discussion on the 45th anniversary of the woodstock music festival. Then the changing demographics of the 65 years old and older population. Washington journal is live. Friday, a look at the continuing conflict between russia and the ukraine. The center for the National Interest on cspan. Here are highli