At them come in, sean donovan housing and urban development there in the gray suit, arne duncan with education a lot of these people have served four years. This is not exactly a new team. He didnt clean house by any means. There are some new people, john kerry but its a very familiar group of people. Is there fresh vision there . Thats one of the things well be able to judge tonight. Woodruff a good point, mark. The president is replacing about half the cabinet, about half of them have announced theyre leaving. We know some of the new names but most of them havent taken their jobs yet. You know, there were some conversation that, you know, as david was just saying that some of these folks are exhausted from four years of partisan warfare. I think it is. I think its always difficult to replace somebody who is enjoying her work or his work. For any president. This is a president that, quite frankly, is comfortable with a smaller circle of people. Woodruff if i can just interrupt, the ge
Finally what you reported tonight that he will call for withdrawing 34,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year and, of course, were still scheduled to be in afghanistan until the end of 2014 to have some troops there. Pelley were waiting for president to enter the chamber here. We expect that in another minute or two. Nancy cordes is our capitol hill correspondent and nancy, after the president makes his remarks tonight, well be hearing the republican response from senator marco rubio of florida. Reporter thats right, scott. Hes expected to say he hopes the president will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and hell say president obama believes that Free Enterprise is the source of all of our problems. Mr. Rubio is really going to be focusing on the middle class were told, in his speech tonight. He is going to make the argument that the republican party, not the democrats are the party that is better situated to help the middleclass and to help more people get into th
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
Cabin, there has been no other gunfire. And what can you tell all the residents of big bear and the surrounding area at the moment as the sun is about to set. This guy still on the loose . I cant answer that for you. But its a possibility . Cindy, thank you. Thank you for talking to us. So you just heard an update from syndrome Cindy Bachman with the Sheriffs Department. Theyre not exactly sure through all the shooting that anned earlier today there you saw the most interesting question of the night. Christopher dorner on the loose or not, or did he burn in that cabin. John yang still with us from the l. A. Bureau of nbc news. John, that was quite a news conference, leaving us with nothing really except the possibility that the person being pursued here, Christopher Dorner who may be responsible for four killings right now is on the loose again. Thats right there. Is no indication. I mean clearly they say this is the cabin where he was holed up, that the fire, theyre not sure how the f
You. We welcome you, as we gather with you to watch president obamas state of the Union Address. As he challenges congress and tries to harness Public Opinion behind his plan of action for the first year of his second term. The focus will be on the economy, diane. Creating jobs. Thats been the struggle of his presidency. The president believes he has the public on his side on that issue. Most of the speech will be about that. But he has a new mission for his second term. Ending gun violence and so much emotion around that issue tonight. Emotion in that room and also this convergence with the drama we have seen unfolding today out in california. Just to bring you up to date right now, the gun battle that was under way in big bear lake, california, you can still see the flames at that cabin where Police Officers believe they had trapped Christopher Dorner, the excop who had been on a murderous rampage for the last nine days, vowing to bring war to los angeles. And tonight, his fourth cas