Situation room. Wolf . Thanks very much. Happening right now, an emotional and very historic day on capitol hill. A brand new United States congress is sworn in and with it a new hope for reaching across the aisle. Some of the cases may be knew, but many of the tough issues that have to be tackled certainly havent changed. So is is there any real chance of getting anything done . And nearly three weeks since the devastating massacre, sandy hook Elementary Students return to school. Well go there for a live report. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. An extra ordinary nar day here in washington. The 113th Congress Takes office ushering in, in a moment, what appeared to be a renewed push for bipartisanship on the heels of what has been an extremely tumultuous week of gridlock. One of the most striking moments of the day is this, a very emotional House Speaker john boehner taking the gavel after being voted in by his colleagues to another term. Put simply, worse than not to be s
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown congress stepped back from the brink of financial turmoil, at least for now, after the house passed a tax plan late last night and sent it to president obama. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we look at how the vote came about and sort through some of the political consequences as a result of whats in the bill and whats not. Brown then, new killings in pakistan, we look at the uptick in violence against aid workers and women teachers with Washington Post Foreign Affairs reporter pam constable. Woodruff paul solman takes us inside a company that turns a profit by employing an unusual workforce. A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the questi
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown congress stepped back from the brink of financial turmoil, at least for now, after the house passed a tax plan late last night and sent it to president obama. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we look at how the vote came about and sort through some of the political consequences as a result of wts in the bill and whats not. Brown then, new killings in pakistan, we look at the uptick in violence against aid workers and women teachers with Washington Post Foreign Affairs reporter pam constable. Woodruff paul solman takes us inside a company that turns a profit by employing an unusual workforce. A massachusetts Manufacturing Firm founded in 1932 where the median age is 74 and Rosa Finnegan over there, is 100. Brown and ray suarez talks with journalist and author Claudia Kolker about what she calls the immigrant advantage. I began to ask foreignborn people what i call the question
Welcome to world news america. Financial markets around the world have a good start to the new year after american politicians come up with a last minute deal to avoid falling back into recession. The tortures nature of the political negotiations suggest washington is going to struggle over future economic decisions. Todays excitement might be shortlived. Smiles of relief on wall street today as the New York Stock Exchange reopens. Relief as a lastminute deal averted a looming economic crisis. Markets around the world were cheered by the news. In asia, shares jumped and the pattern was repeated across europe. This was the moment of truth late last night, the first and new years day vote in Congress Since the korean war 60 years ago. A vote on a compromise agreement that Neither Party loves. Virtually no 1 believes that what we have before us tonight is a longterm solution. It reminds me of the jokes were used to have, where someone stops hitting you in the head with a hammer and youre
States . Yes. Yes. Yes. Im afraid. A couple of days ago we had all of our computer models running. The Hurricane Center does. Ten of them turning the storm out into the ocean. One model turning it back up toward new york city. We went, wow. 101. Lets probably think the ten is right. Not. It just hasnt been how it happened. All these other molgzs are turning the storm become to the us. Anywhere from canada to washington d. C. Not just new york city. This thing could make landfall. We wouldnt want any type of a landfall at 70 or 80 miles per hour. Anywhere from d. C. To massachusetts. Its not the perfect storm. It doesnt work that way. Its not going to turn into a noreaster, per se. As a hurricane moves on shore, especially here in the northeast, with cold air being dragged into it from canada, it could turn into a snowstorm as well. At least on the back side. We are beginning to see the eye again. The eye went away as it crossed over cuba. I saw 118mileperhour wind gusts right there as