Good evening. Outfront tonight, egypt on edge. Is a new dictatorship on the horizon . Tonight, president morsi clarified, but really largely stood by his decision to grant himself sweeping powers. Including freedom from judicial review for what hes calling president ial decisions. The announcement was made today after morsi met with members of egypts judicial body, which has been very critical of his position and u. S. Officials who were praising the new leader for his role in negotiating a cease fire between israel and hamas, well now when he took all these powers away from judges, theyre in a tough spot. Have some concerns about the decisions and declarations announced on november 22nd. Democracy depends on strong institutions and the important checks and balances that provide accountability. So, today, there were nationwide protests continuing in egypt and a million person march of anti morsi protesters is scheduled for tomorrow in tahrir square. The very spot where the revolution t
Of their critics. We will hear from one of them tonight. They raise new legal questions. We will look at those as we reveal breaking news on how Police Released the report that brought this story to the nation. And they prompted new allegation allegations in their interview with us of a coverup. We will get to all of that. But, first, we begin with some of the duggar interview you did not see last night. I think about going back to those 12 years ago, if people have seen us on tv and now theyre questioning whether the duggars fake all this time or whatever. No what they were seeing theyre seeing our family actually went through this and our family was broken and family was humbled by all this you see a family instead of losing our faith, actually we were drawn so close together to god and to each other. All of you . All of us. The girls, too, with respect to josh. The girls have totally forgiven josh and gone on. Josh is now a wonderful husband, father hes a godly man. Its just like yo
Of their critics. We will hear from one of them tonight. They raise new legal questions. We will look at those as we reveal breaking news on how Police Released the report that brought this story to the nation. And they prompted new allegation allegations in their interview with us of a coverup. We will get to all of that. But, first, we begin with some of the duggar interview you did not see last night. I think about going back to those 12 years ago, if people have seen us on tv and now theyre questioning whether the duggars fake all this time or whatever. No what they were seeing theyre seeing our family actually went through this and our family was broken and family was humbled by all this you see a family instead of losing our faith, actually we were drawn so close together to god and to each other. All of you . All of us. The girls, too, with respect to josh. The girls have totally forgiven josh and gone on. Josh is now a wonderful husband, father hes a godly man. Its just like yo
Important, timely issue that the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs on africa, republican chris smith, decided to hold this hearing, called combatting the ebola threat. He put out a statement saying, the ebola virus had been contained in one small area of Central Africa for years. Even when there was an outbreak such as in uganda, International Cooperation was able to prevent a broader spread. This hearing will examine Current International efforts to meet the challenge of the worst outbreak of ebola in history. Among the witnesses today, director of the centers for disease control. Then a second panel representatives from samaritans purse and s. I. Mimplt, the two organizations whose missionaries were infected with ebola and returned to the u. S. What about this experimental vaccine, i would suspect theres going to be some questions on that, as well. Reporter likely. Is it working and ask there more of it . Spanish officials are saying theyre watching to see if it helps the america
More snow burying the northeast. Is there any relief from the brutal winter in sight . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. John berman has this monday morning off. It is february 16th president s day. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Egypt launching air strikes against isis in libya following the release of the video. A video claiming to show the mass beheading of 21 egyptian christian christians. Egypts president vowed to avenge the murders. Cnns ian lee live in cairo for us. Ian. Reporter christine, we are hearing now from the egyptian foreign ministry. We know the target the city that was targeted by egyptian f16s this morning. The city of durna. The city that isis has controlled for some time. A city with a long history of sending militants off to fight in iraq and syria. Under the cover of darkness the f16s struck warehouses and arms depots and isis training camps. This comes hours after the Group Released the horrific video of the beheading of 21 egyptian christians