Communitys perks to urban neighborhoods. When we initially started beacon hill village, there were 11 of us who got together on a cold november day with this abstract determination that were not going anywhere. Ifill a veteran political reporter looks back at the transformative 2012 election and how it permanently changed politics. We talk to the Washington Posts dan balz about his book, collision 2012. Everything changes from one cycle to another. I dont think ive seen as many changes in one cycle as we saw between 2008 and 2012. Brown and can apps for babies be educational . Or are they harmful entertainment . We look at one Advocacy Groups complaint to the federal trade commission. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21
A largescale water barrier by freezing the ground, is unprecedented anywhere in the world. We believe it is necessary that the country steps forward in supporting its construction. Brown meanwhile, a university of Tokyo Research team has found multiple radioactive hot spots on the sea bottom, near the fukushima plant. translated we have detected over 20 spots around with levels of radiation five to ten times higher than the surrounding areas, with diameters ranging from tens to hundreds of meters. Brown the news dealt a further blow to the regions already struggling fishing industry. translated just when i thought people had started to want to eat fish again, this news is going to hit our reputation as fishermen once more. Its once again just typical tepco. Brown for now, tepco is going ahead with its 40year, 11 billion cleanup of the plant. The government could end up spending 400 million in the effort. And were joined by arjun makhijani, an engineer specializing in nuclear fusion. He
the democratic and the republican came up with on background checks, that this was finally the grand bargain. but it wasn t. what happened to that? well, i think that there was never really enough votes, as we saw today, to pass their proposal, and, you know, we believe senator manchin s intentions were honest and he s not trying to infringe upon second amendment rights or asking like that. the problem we had from the industry s point of view with the legislation, the bill prioritized background checks for gun shows over those taking place at storefront retailers, and that just wouldn t work for our members. we represent thousands and thousands of firearm retailers, and so we thought that was a problem. and it actually was worse than that, because the way the language was drafted, it would require all background checks at gun shows had to be completed before you could do a background check from a storefront f.f.l. dealer. so that would shut down background checks on weekend
with peace. and pursuing a more hopeful fu as equal partners. to borrow words from this agreement, we are committed to seeking a future of justice, peace, security, and opportunity. and i m confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? well, we only found out just shortly before he arrived. there were rumors he was coming. but it was a complete surprise, i think, to almost everybody in afghanistan that barack obama decided to come here on the anniversary of osama bin laden s death to sign this agreement. ifill: tell us what you can about this agreement. how significant is it? well, the deal is not
with peace. and pursuing a more hopeful fu as equal partners. to borrow words from this agreement, we are committed to seeking a future of justice, peace, security, and opportunity. and i m confident that although our challenges are not yet behind us that the future before us is bright. ifill: later the president spoke to u.s. troops he plans to address the american people from afghanistan at 7:30 eastern time tonight. for more on all this, we turn to patrick quinn, kabul bureau chief for the associated press joining us now by telephone. patrick, when did you learn that a presidential visit was imminent? well, we only found out just shortly before he arrived. there were rumors he was coming. but it was a complete surprise, i think, to almost everybody in afghanistan that barack obama decided to come here on the anniversary of osama bin laden s death to sign this agreement. ifill: tell us what you can about this agreement. how significant is it? well, the deal is not