Due to lung cancer. Hi there and a warm welcome to our arts and culture news and before we start with a fantastic news ical project from south africa lets have a quick look at what else is coming up on todays program. Its flower time in the belgian capital brussels and the city hall at the center. And if you bend it like beckham well youre sure to like the latest film from british director chad out blinded by the light blends a u. K. Coming of age story with the music. Well it was in 1998 that Peter Guy And American Double Bass Player who had moved to
south africa started the Ball Toby Last String project it began with 18 kids from the black townships around. And since then hundreds of children from disadvantaged backgrounds have learned to play a String Instrument Well Today the orchestra travels the world and we took in their performance at the right angle festival in western germany. Far away from home south africas bunch of String Orchestra plays a piece of music called the nelson.
Shoreline, up to five communities now with voluntary evacuations because of the strong winds, the high tides. There has been some coastal flooding, so people are keeping an eye on that. You can see how angry the storms are. The winds blew over this 18wheeler perched precariously along the guardrail and in tindly park, illinois, wind and snow combined to push this school bus off the road and into an apartment building. Thankfully, no kids on the bus. The driver walked away without injuries. We take a look at the northeast, you can see heavy rain and snow making its way through the northeast. Well probably see about 3 to 5 inches of snow in the new york city area. In eastern connecticut, and also parts of new england. We may pick up about 3 to 5, maybe 8 inches of snow, as well, as this pushes away. We do have coastal storm watches and warnings as the system moves away. We expect that to finally die down. As you can see there, coastal flood threats, looking at strong winds and coastal fl
11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. We have been meeting at this hour for sometime now, and each night weve been counting down the days. And it is time to say this. This was day 365, a full calendar year of the trump administration, and we find ourselves quite literally in the 11th hour of a high stakes standoff inside the u. S. Capitol in washington and stretching across town to the white house. A Government Shutdown threatens to take effect less than an hour from now on the oneYear Anniversary of Donald Trumps inauguration. A short time ago a senate vote failed as you know if youve been watching our live coverage, and that cleared the way in effect for this shutdown. Throughout the day congressional leaders from both parties have been in talks with each other and with the white house in an attempt to hash out something. At one point President Trump summoned the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer to the white house for a meeting that lasted about 90 minutes. Subsequent reporti
All the democrats fault. Mr. President , what about the daca kids . Should they worry about whats going to happen . They had this great opportunity. Democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Fact check. Undocumented immigrants who come into the country now cannot, as he said, take advantage of daca. Only those in the country before 2007 are eligible for the program. Its written down, its on the books, its all right out there. President trump was also the one who originally pulled the plug on the program. Remember when he wanted to Work Together on a deal . I feel having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital, because this should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. Truly, it should be a bill of love. Lets debrief with our team of reporters. Katherine lucy is a White House Reporter for the associated press. Ashley parker is a White House Reporter for the washington post. And an msnbc political analyst. And ken vogue
Mika has the day off with her family, a longplanned family event which shes sorry shes not here because well be talking about baseball most of the morning. Im just joking. Were doing politics. So along with willie and me, we have mike barnacle, john heilman, Donnie Deutsch is here and guru, advertising guru and all around good guy wearing baby gap tshirts in all black this week only, Donnie Deutsch. Actually, thats he week. Also the aps legendary jonathan okay. Right. Washington anchor for bbc world news america caddie kay and White House Correspondent for pbs news hour, yamish. Willie, i know mika would agree with me and Jonathan Lamere would agree with me this morning that you got in the Boston Red Sox, like we understand the yankees are going to probably win by 15, maybe 20 games next year. Thats right, yeah. So were kind of playing and lamere, feel free to chime in. Were kind of playing for maybe third or fourth place. We have joe kelly who is our best pitcher. We know were never g