Colorado legalized marijuana this year. I hope it doesnt lead to a lot of paranoid people who think the federal governments out to get them. From commander in chief to comedian in chief. The lighter slide. What we are doing now is helping facilitate the needs of around 700 families, more than 4,000 people have been displaced either directly or indirectly by what happened. A spokesman on the fall out from a catastrophic land slide. Hello and welcome to al jazeera. Its a national day of mourning in afghanistan where nearly an entire village was buried by a wall of rocks and dirt. 2,000 are dead. Officials say theres no hope of finding survivors after the mud slide. Our reporter reports that there are safety concerns for residence of the village. Reporter a mass prayer for a mass grave. These afghan villages have given up on finding survivors of the land slide. Now they want to locate bodies of families and friends. A focus has moved to helping hundreds that lost their homes. Translation
Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Since 2006 when i introduced the legislation that game the Iraqi Special immigrant visa, ive been haunted by the prospect of the brave iraqi and afghan nationals that risked their lives to help american efforts in these troubled countries that they themselves would be victims because of their trust in us. As my friend, kirk
The definition of amnesty is a full pardon with no penalty. No one is talking about that. No one is talking about handing these folks a passport. No one is talking about a full pardon without penalty. That to come forward and do a background check, they have to pay a fine of back taxes, and then they can achieve legal status, if they want citizenship, which not all of them tdo. There is a separate process for that. One of the principals is, they have to get in line and wait their turn. We were beyond dismissing issues of natural consequence and a huge economic consequence of the future with one word. I say that on both sides. Weve got to be thoughtful and be strategic, but i think we are at the stage where we need more than one word here. Weve got to debate this and come to a way of fixing our system. Here are the numbers to call. We have a line set up for legal and Illegal Immigrants. Democrats, 2027370001. Republicans, 2027370002. Independents, 2026280205. Tell us about the group you
People looking out across the strilooking at the situation. People look fairly relaxed, so they appear to be getting that message from police that it does not seem to be another suspect involved as far as the police are concerned at this stage, but part of the strip there cordoned off by police with a man in a standoff with police. Well continue to monitor this breaking situation and bring you the latest as we get it. Im keir simmons at msnbc world headquarters. Our top political story of the day, a white house defiant over the collapse of the Republican Health care legislation. The president pledged in a tweet today not to fix obama care but instead watch it explode first. Vice president mike pence just a short time ago in West Virginia promising yet again to kill obama care. Yesterday wasnt a victory for the American People. It was a victory for the status quo in washington d. C. , and it was a victory for the disaster of obama care. I promise you that victory wont last very long. Th
Charles Zuckerman was one of eight children born to Louis and Celia Zuckerman. Russian immigrants, they came to Winchester in 1917 to open a scrap metal business that became known