The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. 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 this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
Postchristmas shopping travel today cold sticking around for a while still monitoring snow chances heading into the last weekend of 2017 today partly to mostly cloudy. Highs 3641 winds nw 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Flurries possible. Lows 2531 winds n 510 mph wednesday am clouds, pm sun. Colder and breezy. Highs 2734 winds nw 1015 g 20 mph breaking overnight. Alexandria gutted by a massive fire. Firefighters had their work cut out for them christmas night. John gonzalez is live this morning john we understand some of that fire is still burning . New overnight. A rough landing at bostons logan a jetblue plane skidding off the taxiway moments after touching down. Sam sweeney is at the live desk with the details. Sam. Passengers on jetbl f georgia got quite the scare last night. During its landing in boston the plane skidded off the taxiway, fishtailed and ended up facing the opposite direction. Earlier in the day a snow storm temporarily shut down runways at logan. The good news no o
Decision to retire at the end of his term. We will also hear from minority leader Chuck Schumer who discusse President Trump and Foreign Policy. S sen. Mcconnell as we open the second session of the 115th congress, we are pleased to welcome my colleagues back to the chamber. Welcome the two new senators just wanted. First senators doug jones will have take shoes to fill. His estate has sent distinguished legislators to washington including jeff sessions. Second having served served as a prosecutor in the Northern District of alabama and we welcome it. We also welcome tina smith. She searched the people of minnesota as lieutenant governor. Representoin and them in the senate. I welcome them both and look forward to working with them i make progress and find Common Ground on behalf of the people. Ae senate will need to tackle number of important issues this year. It is my sincere hope to do so in a spirit of collegiality and bipartisanship. I know colleagues on both side the hope andhare
Hillary clinton celebrated victory in the South Carolina democratic primary. Easily defeating Bernie Sanders. When we stand together there is no barrier too big to break. Weve now gone through four early states and i want to congratulate senator sanders on running a great race and and tomorrow this Campaign Goes national. The win comes as redemption for president obama in 2008. This time, clinton dominated sanders among African American and women voters. Bernie sanders congratulated his opponents very strong victory. The vermont senator wasnt in carolina saturday. Instead, campaigning in texas and minnesota. Hes vowing to scoop up more delegates on super tuesday. I congratulate secretary clinton on her very strong victory. Tuesday over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many many of them. Both democrats and republicans are holding primaries and caucuses this coming tuesday. Thats when voters in thirteen states and one territory will make their picks for president. In polk