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Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Secretary of state john kerry traveled today to cairo to try to enlist egypts support in what the white house describes as americas war against the Islamic State, also known as isil. Egypt is the most populous country in the arab world. It will be our goal in every meeting that we have on the international basis, together, working to degrade and ultimately to defeat isil. Sreenivasan in his weekly radio address, president obama also emphasized the need to build an Arab Coalition to fight the extremist group, which has seized significant portions of syria a
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Secretary of state john kerry traveled today to cairo to try to enlist egypts support in what the white house describes as americas war against the Islamic State, also known as isil. Egypt is the most populous country in the arab world. It will be our goal in every meeting that we have on the international basis, together, working to degrade and ultimately to defeat isil. Sreenivasan in his weekly radio address, president obama also emphasized the need to build an Arab Coalition to fight the extremist group, which has seized significant portions of syria and iraq. But the president cau
Now i was doing it for free. Its not right, and you can do something about it if you want to. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs 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 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight neither side gave ground in washingtons war over preventing a Government Shutdown next week. The senate worked on a bill to Fund Government operations, while republicans in the house kept demanding an end to funding for president obamas Health Care Reform law. Newshour Congressional Corresponden
Vote to unionize. Theres also a lot on the line for big labor if it goes down in defeat. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, february 12th. Good evening, everyone iim sue herera. Susie gharib has the evening off. Im Tyler Mathisen and i am not a winterholic. I am so done with it. Our lead story tonight is not about me, its about the economy and how its being affected and in a big way by the most brutal run of harsh Winter Weather in years. Another massive ice and snowstorm called winter storm pax slammed into atlanta and North Carolina today and will be making its way through virginia into the northeast tonight and tomorrow. Some forecasts call for up to a foot of snow in and around philadelphia, new york city, boston. About one out of every three americans will feel this storm. It will close schools, snarl traffic, ground planes and more important for business, exact a toll on Economic Activity. So what is the real cost of all this wicked Winter Weather