people who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder but however it is not in my opinion a mitigating factor when you deal with the murder of so many people. harris: you ve given us the two sides of this case. if you need to take a quick drink ever water, go ahead. now i want to move onto something else. the u.s. military has not executed anyone since 1961. bales s case meets the requirements based on what you just said for the military to consider putting him to death. but you know, dan, so does another case. we re not seeing this kind of movement on that one. i m talking about the fort hood shootings and accused mass killer, main jar nidal hasan. he killed 13 americans on the army base in texas. it has been 2 1/2 years. will we see the death penalty against him? better question, will we see any charges against him? certainly he is being prosecute and there are court proceedings going on. there was just an appeal decision whether he can have a beard during his trial. he will
that of white voters, won t be confirmed until the spring until the census bureau publishes its results of the election. matt damon, in an interview, damon said that he sometimes feels the game is rigged and no matter how hard you work to change things it doesn t matter, end quote. t54% of americans have a favorable view of the gun owners group. a usa today/gallup support that is higher for stricker gun controls. he was appointed e wednesday replacing the late daniel
amid the fight over the fiscal cliff, as a temporary deal is reached to avert a strike at u.s. ports, for now anyway. major ports in more than a dozen states up and down the eastern seaboard would have been affected with potential losses estimated to be in the billions. and now it looks like they will have 30 days, anyway, to come up with a permanent plan to avoid a strike that could potentially put thousands of americans out of work. phil keating is live for us in miami with the very latest on this phil? reporter: hello. good afternoon and this just goes to show that two sides on two ends of the spectrum can negotiate and an agreement. this of course involves all the east coast and gulf coast ports that deal with containers. there will not be a strike and there will not be a shutdown this weekend. however the key sticking point had been, and the details that remained murky as to what the resolution has been, but the key sticking point was with international longshoreman s
than released a statement saying that the white house said we ll let the federal mediator continue to do his job and try to get the two sides together and the white house not prepared to do more than that. the last strike we had about 11 years ago on the west coast. these two groups have two different agreements. the west coast and gulf coast ports operate separately. there was a ten-day strike 11 years ago disruptive and predicting if these guys strike on the east and gulf coast costing about a billion dollars a day to the economy, even so two or three-day strike with huge impacts. these royalties are critical to the families. $15,000 a year bonuses if you will. and that s significant income that they don t want to lose. all right. thank you, sir. you bet. heart break and anxiety of hundreds of parents as russia s president signs a bill banning americans from adopting children from that country. we re going to hear from some parents whose dreams could be
welcome back. some stories making news this morning this just in russian president vladimir putin has signed a bill banning americans from adopting russian children. scientists plan to study the dna of adam lanza, the 20-year-old who shot and killed 26 people at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut december 14th. they hope to find an abnormality that could possibly point to an inclination toward violence. hillary clinton will return to work next week after the stomach flu and a concussion sidelined her for three weeks. some good news for law enforcement. the number of police officers killed in 2012 fell by 23%.