Us. For the choices that our parents made. Fighting deportation. A woman waits to find out if her younger brother has to leave the u. S. , which is the only home the two have ever known. Good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its been held as afghans first democratic transition of power. In under an hour when the polls will close, security is tight. 200,000 troops deploy to protect the voters. The taliban is calling the election a sham and threatens to disrupt a process. Outgoing President Hamid karzai cast his vote and a top c contender Zalmai Rassoul cast his at the polling stags. Hes believed to have Hamid Karzais backing, but officials warn of possible corruption in his campaign. Bernard smith has more. Weve had thunder, lightening, its poring with rain and theres the threat of violence. Kabul, the city is on lockdown. There are checkpoints every 200m. Despite all of that we are seeing long queues at polling stations with kav gans d
Worlds tallest observation wheel. Well take you aboard las vegass latest gamble. All that and much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, april 5th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We have a great lineup of guests including tony hail the quirky assistant with Julia Louisdreyfus. Well talk about the feature of his breakout show arrested development. And jen, discovered for her cooking in a camp in North Carolina. And the grammywinning treo nickel creek. Theyll perform new songs in our saturday session. But first our top story the investigation into the shooting at ft. Hood texas. It now looks like the investigation may end like so many other Mass Shootings without knowing the killers true motive. The post commander has said he believes the attack was partially triggered by an escalating argument in the shooters unit. An in westerner has more. Good morning, anna. Reporter good morning. Ivan lopez told his commander he suffered from posttraumatic brain so far they h
Parachuting to the rescue. Tonight, the mission in the pacific to save a sick baby stranded with her family. Good evening, im ann notarangelo. And im brian hackney. Brian webb is live at moffet field. Reporter a navy ship is expeck to get that family back in the next couple of days. This is video from the actual operation. Flying frog men armed with medical supplies dive out of a c130 airplane in the middle of the pacific ocean. The mission, save a little girls life. Whether it is up on a mountain or in the sea. Anywhere, or even afghanistan. In the desert, we can bring the capabilities there. Reporter the kaufman family. Parents charlotte and eric, daughters cora and lyra. Sailing around the world on their 36foot boat rebel heart. But 900mile after the coast of mexico, trouble. The boat lost power and slowly started sinking. At the same time, oneyearold lyra became extremely ill with some kind of infection and severe rash. Charlottes sister. It has been very overwhelming. This is not
Safer. For their part factory owners, complain that their International Customers have talked about improving conditions but havent been willing to pay for it woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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 another school was engulfed by sudden violence today, when a teenager stabbed and slashed 19 students and a Security Guard in pennsylvania. It happened just minutes before classes began at franklin regional high, in murrysville, about 20 miles east of pittsburgh. The 16yearold suspect was finally wrestled down. Police did
Half foot. Heres a live look at the back up as the bay bridge approach in San Francisco. Now consider alternatives if at all possible because it could be a mess for quite some time. Our news room producer was stuck in that jam, she made it across the bridge but it wasnt easy. Thanks for coming on, tell us what it was like. What time did you leave the station today . I left the station around 7 30 and everything was pretty normal until i got within three blocks of the first street onramp from the bridge and sat there for about an hour in that three block stretch. So to go three blocks it took about an hour. Yeah it cycled through green lights and people wouldnt move at all and everyone was blocking the intersections and honking. Layla in the morning news talks about the smack up in the back up, i thought we would have that. But once we made it through the bridge it wasnt a big deal. Once you got on how long did it take to get across the bridge. Once i got on the bridge, that was pretty