Flooding in Harrison Okene and a tornado in oklahoma and a tornado. If you start to register for Health Insurance at healthcare. Gov, you can complete registration tomorrow and be covered by january the 1st. The extension was granted because of long waits and problems on the website. Those are the headlines. Im tony harris. See you back here at 11 eastern. Consider this with antonio mora is next. You can get the latest information on the website aljazeera. Com. U. S. Troops are photographed shuttle more poised to shuttle more americans to safety. Does the evacuation put america at risk of being caught in the middle of another countrys civil war. A holiday gift an unpopular legislative year. If you think this year was bad, wait for 2014 an election jeer december 25th a sweet idea to get some folks home for the holiday tripled in size thanks to reallife santas. N. A. S. A. Set for a spacewalk, but space suit issues left the astronaut with cold feet. Im David Shuster in for antonio mora.
Couples are free to tie the knot hello. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im David Shuster in new york. President obama is heading home for the holidays. He and the first family are on their way to hawaii. The president , himself, said on friday a vacation and the sleep and rest it entails will help him prepare for the year ahead. Before leaving washington president obama had a News Conference and talked about what went well and poorly in 2013. Al jazeeras Mike Viqueira has the story the president had the tone of putting 2013 in the rear view mirror. There were setbacks, he talked about them openly. Next year, 2014, things are looking up. Good afternoon everybody with calls for reform coming from the courts and his own advisors president obama defended the n. S. A. s collection of millions of phone messages, but left the door open for changes. Whatever benefits the configuration of this program may have, maybe outweighed by the concerns that people have on its potential abuse. If thats th
The worlds youngest country south sudan may be on the brink of a civil war. Hundreds have been killed in factional fighting and earlier today gunman fired at american planes with stopped esubcontract uses. Nicole johnston has more. The crisis with south sudan is becoming more dangerous. The government is sending troops and tanks to Jonglei State to take on the rebels. It says rehn gait soldiers taking control of the state capital are attacking people. On saturday gunfire hit three u. S. Military aircraft as they were about to land and evacuate american citizens. Four u. S. Servicemen were injured. This the middle of this are civilians looking for protection. 35,000 are camped out at u. N. Compounds in bor, juba and bantu. Bor is a strategic location. And therefore within the crisis both factions and the Government Forces are using it as a point that they want to dominate. However, even the United Nations has become a target. On saturday it meld a Memorial Service for two indian peaceke
Welcome to Al Jazeera America on this thursday morning. Good to have you with us. Im Thomas Drayton. We begin with the Prime Minister of turkey facing calls to resign. After a corruption Investigation Force the him to shake up his cabinet. The mood comes from the meals of highprofile resignation. Police use tear gas and water canons on protesters who took to the streets, demanding that the Prime Minister step down. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing a lot of pressure. Hours after three senior cabinet ministers resigned over a Corruption Scandal. It was announced a major cabinet restructure replacing 10 of his ministers. Translation some of the ministers asked to resign because of ongoing developments and some quit as they contest the elections. Some of the changes are my j earlier interior minister armando gulouza, and economy commirns Zafer Caglayan resigned. But a third erdofrksan bayraktar announced his resignation on local television. He asked recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, a call the
Least 22 states facing the big chill. The map says it all, winter storm warnings, heavy snow, powerful winds and a temperature whiplash as the thermometer plummets in just a few hours. Abcs meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all tonight. Reporter the whipping winds in california. The snow slowing traffic in nevada. A major winter storm and the coldest air of the season is gripping much of the west tonight. Citrus farmers near fresno, california, prepping crops. Were worried about anything getting close to 32 or below gets our attention for sure. Reporter as temperatures dive into the 20s and 30s overnight potentially breaking century old records, threatening their 2 billion business. In northern minnesota, they expect cold, but it doesnt make it easy. Its wicked actually. Ive never seen it like this before. Its terrible. Its terrible. Its too wet, its too heavy but well get it. Reporter all that cold will only keep diving south. Check out the high temperatures the next three days. Mi