Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good eveni
A new deal for yorkshires economy will be debated in Parliament Today. Steph will be there to see what it will mean for the economy. In sport, heartbreak for wales. Their dreams of playing in the world cup end with defeat to the republic of ireland in cardiff. Ive been chatting to Michael Fassbender about his gripping new film, the snowman, his love of surfing, and his incredible impersonation of a red breasted robin. Birds. He tweets. To the birds either . They do actually. That is quite good, that, isnt it . Very good. And matt has the weather. Thankfully, no snowman in the forecast today, fairly mild across the country, some rain but overall it isa the country, some rain but overall it is a brighter day than yesterday. All of the details coming up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Sweeping inequalities between different ethnic groups in areas such as education, housing and health are expected to be exposed in a government study later today. The findings will show t
The other top story of the day. We are hearing from the mother of a man killed in a deputyinvolved shooting in prince georges county. The answer she is requesting from investigators. Alison new problems for George Zimmerman. We will have details on the violent incident that left him wounded. But first manufacturing. They werent answering my phone calls. Its very chaotic. Leon a rough morning for thousands of metro riders. A all right of smoke in the tunnel between the rosalyn and foggy bottom station forced metro to suspend Service Leaving riders scrambling to find other ways to get to work today. A big mess out there. A few hours ago metro issued an apology for the major delays and the crowding at the stations. Alison we want to give you a look at some of the conditions that riders faced this morning at the claridon station, outside the rosalyn station as well. Several ride herbs said it was hard to find alternate transportation like taxis and uber. Leon Stephen Tschida has more on wh
Night at the concernedKennedy Center last year as the kennedy eye wards were awarded to Dustin Hoffman and talk show host david letterman. There was one sole protester out in front of the Kennedy Center jay leno. He had a big sign saying what about me . Why dave . What about me . We will tell you more about the Kennedy Center honors and a lot more. Lets get the latest. Todays current days update lease a ferguson standing buy in los angeles. Hey, good monday morning, lease a. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Hope yall had a good weekend. The president gets to take a little bit of a break from the fiscal cliff today. He got that around 11 eastern last night after hosting reception for the ken see center awardees. It celebrates talent in art and music. The recipients included david letterman, Dustin Hoffman and the surviving members of led zeppelin. The president is the addressing defense issues nationally and globally. He told boyko borisov, they talk plan on talking abou
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