Federal communications commission. In proceedings which lasted over four hours the commissioners considered and voted on several issues including rowboat Call Blocking regulations. Media ownership rules into the a new broadcast standard for television. Good morning welcome to that november 2017 meeting of the federal communications commission. Good morning to you and good morning commissioners. You will hear eight items for your consideration first you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of robo calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls. It would prohibit Voice Service them blocking the 911 calls under these rules. To provide a mechanism to allow subscribers whose legitimate calls are blocked an error to stop such block it and clarify that providers may exclude. You will consider a report in order. Order on reconsideration. Provide four gigahertz for satellit
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im del walters. President obama back at the white house this morning. His first order of business will be trying to End Gun Violence in america. We know we cant stop every act of violence, but what if we try to stop even one. What if congress did something, anything to protect our kids from gun violence . The president will meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch later today with hopes of getting guns off the streets. He said hes tired of congressional inaction and hes willing to use executive action to close loopholes in current gun laws, and the president throwing down the gauntlet. Youre absolutely right. Hes coming out of the blocks on the new year, and happy new year to you. The day after hes going to be having this meeting with attorney general Loretta Lynch, and it springs from the frustration. The president said this has been his number one frustration in office, his inability to pass tougher gun safety laws as they termed it
Tonight the reward money has increased, and we have new details about the wanted man. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is at the scene where that deadly where that crime turned deadly. Kris . Reporter hi there, raj. San jose police on friday night had six different crime scenes within just 90 minutes. One suspect is behind bars, but this is where Armed Robbery turned into homicide. The other suspect still on the loose tonight. And now 20 grand on the table for anyone who leads police to a man they say was very close to being a cop killer. A collection of things that remind rory parkpettifords friends of him are collecting near where he was killed, randomly, senselessly by two suspects on a Violent Crime spree on friday night in san jose. It just sucks, like, you know, seeing this and having him just be gone. And i cant call him to see what is good and just chill. I dont know. Its just really sad. Reporter Steven Moseley says his friend parkpettiford was good at music, full of life, and helpf
State. Well, the polls have closed in several states includes new jersey, massachusetts, what voters is a decided today offers an intryinging look at the parts. Governor races in new jersey and virginia, and six states have more than 30 battle measures ranging from a hike in the minimum wage, new taxes on the sale of marijuana, and 200 million bond issue to save the houston astro dome, and there are cities electing mayors like atlanta, detroit, houston and new york. Lets begin with the governor races, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie said hes not concerned about lack of support from the states tea party republicans, and from the looks of the polls he has no reason to be. Christie is expected to win in a landslide over democrat barbara bono. We just heard that the Associated Press has just called the race for governor Chris Christie in the state of new jersey. But its been a different story in virginia why Terry Mcauliffe faced off against a conservative opponentopponent ken cuccine l
Iraqi city, even worse, using them as human shields. Desperate attempts to flee. The fierce assault to drive isis out. With terror fears sky high and the Holiday Season in full swing, how did the guy manage to sneak on to the tarmac undetected at a new york city airport . Hello, welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Politics lead, negative campaigning, its american as apple pie. Dates back to at least 1800 when jeffersons allies called adams a hideous character. With that said we never seen a Campaign Like this one, nor a candidate such as one mr. Donald j. Trump. In michigan, playing to a packed house, trump broke into an attack on Hillary Clinton. Instead of sticking to questioning her truthfulness or polysis or record, he invoked the bathroom break that clinton took during the democratic debate. He called it disgusting. And then trump went even further, talking about her loss in the democratic primaries in 2008 saying clinton, quote was favored and win and she got schlonked. Dana bas