[ theme music ] stephanie who is our first caller today . Oh, she gets a sherrys berries gift card oh no you are not a caller. You are here every day. Good morning, Jacki Schechner. I want a sherrys berries gift card. Stephanie hey, john kasick just undouched himself. He is going to accept the obama Medicare Medicaid expansion. Amazing. I love when governors and lawmakers do things that actually benefit the citizens of they state. Stephanie right. The only reason not to do it jacki is you are a douche. Pretty much. And you want to be like rick scott. Stephanie its a technical term, douche. Here she is Jacki Schechner health care geek of the current news center. Good morning, everybody, president obama is showing his administration can multitask. He is tolding two separate meetings at the white house. This morning with labor leaders and this afternoon with business leaders. The idea is to try to find some consensus when it comes to Immigration Reform and this coming while the president
Will yell at me even more about that last welfare story that we did. And the insane subsidy that the nfl is getting from us the taxpayers. You can check out individual clips and good luck. Viewpoint is next. [ theme music ] john Wayne Lapierre testifies before congress that making mentally unstable people submit to background checks before they can buy guns wont save lives because when it cops to lowering the bar this man has raised the bar. Israel has and syria continues to massacre its own people. And egypt replaces the guy w who replaced the guy from to years ago and this is why we have to bomb iran. Gym nabors is gay as he happily marries his longtime partner. No surprise, no surprise, no surprise. Today is the bird of president roosevelt gene hackman and dick cheney. And 43 years ago the beatles gave their last performance. Which is too bad. If they had lipsynced they might have been invited to do the super bowl. This is viewpoint. [ music ] whether or not good evening, im john fu
Morning where a School Bus Driver has been shot and killed and a 6yearold child is missing. Authorities say shortly after 3 30 tuesday afternoon a man reportedly boarded a school bus in dale county, alabama when a bus driver would not release the child to his custody. The unidentified man shot the driver and left with the young child. There are reports that the man is holding the 6yearold. But police will not confirm the hostage situation. Many in washington are still reacting to president obamas immigration speech in las vegas yesterday where he said now is the time to fix what he called a broken system. Republicans are only willing so far to compromise on the issue. Nbcs tracie potts joins us live. Reporter hi, mara. Good morning. Now on capitol hill begins the process what could be a tedious process of sorting out what is is different for the president s proposal after the speech yesterday and also with the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers, democrats and republicans came up with the br
And im barbara harrison. Its wednesday, january 30th, 2013. 20 first graders and six women who tried to protect them at sandy hook elementary school. The hearing was set for sparks but the hearing took a more even dramatic turn when former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was there. Giffords led off with a statement that lasted about one minute. Speaking is difficult, but i need to Say Something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. Giffords resigned from Congress Last january, one year after she was shot in theead at a Public Outreach meeting in tucson. She and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly have formed a Political Action group aimed at strengthening gun laws. On to the big story this morning. Traffic is still a mess thanks to a major crash on the beltway early this morning. This was from about 90 minutes ago. You can see cars slowly getting by on route 50 in lanham. It involved a fire truck and an suv and sen
At this factory in adairsville, workers scrambled for cover. Neighbors had to rescue families trapped inside their crumbled homes. One man was killed. There was no warnings, no sirens, no nothing. Reporter we talked with the family of the man who died. They were at home looking for a lost pet. Jessica cantrell told us she cant bear the loss. I wouldnt want nobody else to live through this. Its tragic. Its hard. Because you never know if youre going to have somewhere else to live, if youre going to be able to get back on your feet. Reporter im sorry. The tornado left behind what looked like a junkyard, with twisted semitrailers, more than 100 cars flipped by the winds. Travis richardson was in his 18wheeler when the tornado lifted his truck off the ground and threw it off the road. I couldnt believe it picked my truck up and flipped it over like that. I mean, i cant believe it. Reporter the storm still stretches more than 900 long miles, and as it marched across the country, it brought