Crash. Presidenscratch. President obama says no to the keystone xl pipeline from canned. Two men and an historic handshake with weve just seen live when chinas president xi jinping greets taiwans ma lin jo. They call each other mr. Because china does not recognize taiwans independence. Whatever side you sit on, sahil ramaan speaks to us from singapore. Reporter you touched on some important points, jane. 12 months after both sides said they wouldnt see each other on the sidelines of a reefnlg regil conference in beijing. China has become more assertive in the last months. Taiwan itself, the dispute of the South China Sea has been really the top story here in the region for quite some time and therefore the dialogue that taiwan needs with beijing is very important. And when you have the chinese president inviting you for talks youre not exactly going to say no if you are the incumbent president of taiwan. What also is significant is the location here in singapore. The scheduled meeting
A little boy who vanished 13 years ago in alabama discovered in ohio kidnapped by his father and living under a fake name. How the boy helped find himself. His moms reaction when she found out he was alive and well. And we do say good morning, america, on this friday morning. And what an incredible story. Can you imagine searching for your child for 13 years . No. Wow. Unbelievable. The family is overjoyed right now and i can only imagine as youre talking about what that first hello was like after all that. Well get to that. But right now, lets get right to the steppedup security at the worlds airports. Look at three of the busiest airports in this country this morning, hartsfieldjackson, atlanta, l. A. X. And washington dulles, a crackdown on security involving luggage handling expected there, and at the hundreds of overseas airports that fly directly to the u. S. , as investigators try to figure out what took down that plane in egypt. Abcs brian ross starts us off. Good morning, bria
Right now, theres a little bit of a cloud cover and theres a breeze rolling through the city. But its 71 degrees in central park, and were on our way up into recordsetting territory. The tree, p to 78 feet, the temperature, up to 77 degrees. Well send it back to you adve have a full forecast in just a little while. All right, both incrheible numbers there, thank you. The trees going to be decorated with 45,000 colored lights. You can watch the Tree Lighting live wednesday, december 2nd right here on nbc 4. All right. Turning now to a horrific and a deadly hitandrun in queens. A tour bus slamming into a woman, it never stopped. That investigation now stattching from flushing all the way up to madison, connecticut. Nearly 90 miles away. That is where Police Stopped a bus that they thought mig. T be connected to this case. News 4s Tracie Strahan was the first to report. Any breaks . Reporter they tell me for sure that it was a White Charter bus that struck the woman. They do say that it h
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties, each party limited to one hour, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall the debate continue past 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Courtney, for five minutes. Mr. Courtney madam speaker, today i rise to remember one of eastern connecticuts most generous caring, and devoted citizens, stanley israeliite. He patched away this past december at age 89 and leaves behind an enduring legacy in his native nor witch and throughout connecticut. I asked the u. S. House to join me in expressing condoences to his wife and children, michael, wendy, and john. After his passing a Memorial Serv
It is an exacerbation of competition leading to less predictable world. Its upset the post cold war paradigm in dangerous ways. We have seen unsettling risktaking. Between china and japan and china and Southeast Asian countries, particularly the philippines. We can go into why. No one knows why there is any effective Early Warning mechanism. The second trend is the jihad he group is growing. They are reinforcing one another and producing brutal acts of terrorism. I think its important to recognize we have not been able to deal with one of the scariest aspects of their ability to recruit new members from large disenfranchised, disenchanted youth populations around the world. That partly refract reflects governments failure to provide an adequate sense of opportunity. The International Community continues to accept imperfect peace processes and to be accessories to failed transitions in which the u. S. You can look at sudan, south sudan. Hopefully the current secretarygeneral mandated ex