After spending years calling on congress to take action today president obama is unveiling his plan to reduce gun violence using his executive powers to put the focus on background checks. Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im dell walters and part of a push for the final year in office to tackle what he is calling the most frustrating issue of his presidency and Al Jazeera Libby Casey is live for us in washington and libby there has already been republican push back ahead of announcements and what are politicians where you are saying . Immediate reaction dell from republicans both on the campaign trail and from washington lawmakers with House Speaker paul ryan calling this a dangerous level of executive over reach that americans wont stand for but the white house says these are common sense moves that are in line with existing law. And the president s executive actions are being called modest and small steps because without congress on board there is only so much he c
Will stay at what effectively is the vaticatts embassy here in washingttn which is just across the street from the vice esidents residence. Will come to see the president in person at his residence tomorrow morning just after 9 00. Matt and savannah. By the way, well be live at the white house tomorrow morning for the show. We expect to hear the pope speak about 18 times in all during his six days here in the United States, mos tly in spanish, his native tongue, but he will speak at least four times in english, motor notably when he addresses a joint meeting of congress. Joint Security Operations as you might guess in all three of these cities are absolutely massive involving tens of thousands military police and counterterrorism personnel. In philadelphia alone, get this, there will be enough traffic barriers to close off a four and a half square mile area and the mass that peter talked about will have more than 40 jumbo trons so the crowd can catch a glimpse of the pope. The pope is
The Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority in philadelphia has it did i know. Know has it done. Metro link, theyve got it done. How were they able to do it, but other major railroads have not . Reporter in a letter to the Senate Committee on commerce, science and transportation, the mta chairman said while significant progress has been made, new yorks heavily congested Commuter Rail environment has challenges. He wrote ptc was not an off the shelf product. This is a complex technology. Reporter this is the director of Government Relations for the American Public Transportation Association and skyped with us from washington, d. C. He say high costs are among the reasons. The scale of this, especially across the country, is enormous. And we want to make sure that ptc is implemented correctly. Ultimately thats the goal. Folks just need more time. Now commuter advocates like jim hope that railroads will make the 2018 deadline. This is a technological solution. Its not easy to install. I
Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where its needed most. But i know youll still find it, when you know where to look. Rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose James Cameron is here one of hollywoods interesting directors, avatar and titanic the highest grossing films. He said his purpose to making movies is make enough money so he can die. He has two passions which follows his extradition of the trench into the western Pacific Ocean which is the lowest point on earth. His two passions are diving and making movies. Heres the trailer for the film James Cameron deepsea challenge 3d. Director James Ca
Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where its needed most. But i know youll still find it, when you know where to look. Rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose James Cameron is here one of hollywoods interesting directors, avatar and titanic the highest grossing films. He said his purpose to making movies is make enough money so he can die. He has two passions which follows his extradition of the trench into the western Pacific Ocean which is the lowest point on earth. His two passions are diving and making movies. Heres the trailer for the film James Cameron deepsea challenge 3d. Director James Ca