Tonight, we have tremendous honor of hearing one of the most veteran world reporters feels a little silly he has an incredible, incredible record and id like to share of Stephen Kinzers background with you. He joined the New York Times in january of 83 after serving several years as latin american correspondent for the boston globe. From 1983 to 89, stephen was firsttime bureau chief in nicaragua. He covered war and social upheaval in central america. He next spent six years in germany as chief of the New York Times bureau in bonn and in berlin. He covered german unification and events in other parts of europe including wars in the former yugoslavia. In 1996, the New York Times opened a new bureau in istanbul in order to provide readers with insight into turkey, a country which as you well know has become increasingly important in world affairs. Times named Stephen Kinzer as the first Istanbul Bureau chief. Prior to moving, stephen spent four years in istanbul for the New York Times. F
What took us 50 years to build since the war on drugs from nixon will take us decades to undo. We are thrilled to be working with koch industries. We are thrilled to be working with the american legislative executive council. We are thrilled to work with Interest Groups who come to this not just for the economic imperative but with a moral imperative. At the end of the day this is not just about balancing budgets. This is about to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is about turning the other cheek. This is about whether or not america is a country that believes in the value of redemption and whether each one of us should be judged for the rest of our lives for the worst act we have done on our worst day of our life. And if we dont believe that rule should apply to us than it ought not to apply to her criminal justice context and that is where i think the opportunities are enormous and i look forward to working with anyone else with whom i was i disagree on other fr
Ahead on sunday morning osgood as the year 2012 comes to a close this morning, we continue our holiday tradition here at sunday morning. We take time out to remember some of the remarkable people who have left us in the year just pending. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,. Take a load off. Osgood they made our hearts sing. They made our spirits soar. Thats one small step for man. Osgood some saved lives, some gave their lives. And all touched our lives in ways great and small. We remember those who left us in 2012. On these cold winter days, what could be nicer than a trip down mexico way. In mo roccas case make that way down. Reporter the beaches of cancun, mexico, are known for girls and guys going wild. Its art in the wild. I have a whole little team of helpers underwater that do the finishing work. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, art that lives underwater. Osgood the fast draw asks why we dress boys in blue and girls in pink. Well travel to scottland to order up some world class scot
Get it done before january 1st. Even congressional leaders are skeptical. The American People have a right to be very upset with this congress. President obama has invited nancy pelosi, john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and harry reid to the white house this afternoon for a fiscal cliff summit. Here we are five days from the new year, and we might finally start talking. Todays white house meeting might be the last chance to come to an agreement. Thats because it takes time for a bill to work its way through both chamber of commerce. I dont know time wise how it can happen now. Under senate rules, the only way a bill could make its way through the procedural hurdles in time is if every senator agrees not to. Theyll have 24 hours. Outside the beltway, carlino will be watching. Everyone is kind of in a waitandsee and fingerscrossed per expect tichb right now. Since 1930 this is only the fifth Time Congress has worked after christmas. And todays summit is the first time president obama has me
If you have got travel plans today, nice and quiet as we get into late night tonight and saturday, that is a different story. Well be talk about that all morning as we have more snow in the forecast. Lets get started with Current Conditions and wear nice and quiet. Do have some clouds rolling through. Kind of a partly cloudy overnight period. That is helping to hold the temperatures up a little bit. We havent had any freezing temperatures yet. What is going to happen today . Well see partial sunshine. We should be nice and quiet. Storminess off to the south and west will be developing. Monday and wednesday, it hooks like well be doing a snowrain it looks like well be down a snowrain mix. More on that coming up. Forecast for today, partly sunny, highs about 40 degrees. Soon, only hours will be left to reach a come nice in the fiscal cliff talks. President obama is holding a summit at the white house today with congressional leaders and members of the house have to be back to work by 6 3