Ifill plus, can replacing classrooms and lectures with video chat seminars create a more engaged learning environment . How one San Francisco startup is breaking down the walls of higher education. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill from holy places to battlefields, christians and others made ready today for the coming of christmas. In bethlehem, thousands
Flight from seoul to dallas, the crew forced to make an Emergency Landing. This morning, those tense homes in the cabin caught on camera. And the winner is Craig Wayne Boyd the country star from team blake crowned the voice and he flew across the country to celebrate with us today wednesday, december 17, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, with matt lauer live from studio 1a. And savannah guthrie, live from washington, d. C. And good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a split edition wednesday. Im matt lawer in new york, we have natalie, tamron and al here with us and savannahs down in the nations capital. Hi, savannah. Hey. Good morning to you guys, a lot going on here. Of course, jeb bush yesterday dipping his toe in the 2016 president ial waters, we have a new poll and talk to chuck todd in a few minutes. See you in a few minutes. Get to our top story on a wednesday morning, police on alert, theater owners on edge a that is massive hack against Son
Ifill plus, can replacing classrooms and lectures with video chat seminars create a more engaged learning environment . How one San Francisco startup is breaking down the walls of higher education. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill from holy places to battlefields, christians and others made ready today for the coming of christmas. In bethlehem, thousands
And im your mother. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, december 17th, 2014. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in fur annemarie green. The fallout from that massive data hack at Sony Pictures is escalating. The group that says its responsible for the cyber attack is threatening violence against theaters showing the movie at the center of the attack. Don champion is at the new york city theater where the premiere of the interview was supposed to bheld tomorrow. Good morning. Don. Good morning, lauren. Growing fall outhas led to the cancellation of the premiere. More than 200 theaters are canceling plans to show the controversial firm. You want us to assassinate the lead over north korea in. Yes. Whaaat . The interview was a comedy but the leadup has been anything but. Theyve decided to cancel its planned showing of the movie. It comes after a chilling message posted by cyber hackers guardians of peace warning moviegoers to stay away from theaters when it sh
Voted to fasttrack and the vote failed and he did not get the vote. In 2001 under president bush 21 democrats voted for fast track. That didnt prevail with the republican votes. There was a tie it was 215 to 214. The republicans were equally divided. We said you can consider these bills in the congress on a fasttrack if you abide by the maids have an agreement which we work with the administration on that honored the ilo principles and list of standards that had to be met as well as issues that relate to endangered species montreal protocol and other Environmental Issues that were contained in that. I want just to say that weve always had the lively debate on the subject regardless of who was president of the United States. Its not a question of well democrats stuck with president clinton but didnt stick with president obama. That is just not the case. We need to ask what this does to the paycheck of American Workers. This is the debate were having. What is being put forth is that bett