Good wednesday morning, everybody. We begin with the biggest political upset of the year. Oh, boy. Eric cantor, long expected to become the next speaker of the house, has lost his primary to tea party candidate, dave brat. Abcs Tahman Bradley has more from washington. Reporter its one of the most stunning upsets in political history. Eric cantor, the secondmost powerful house republican, defeated by a virtually unknown tea party challenger. I know theres a lot of long faces here tonight. And its disappointing, sure. Reporter the man who took down kantor, College Economics professor, who outspend 501. Kantor spending 5 million. Brata mere 100,000. This was not just basic man values and virtues. Reporter kantor was seen by many as the next speaker of the house. Biding his time until john boehner leaves his post. His loss will have sideismic political consequences in washington. He was viewed as too close to president obama on Immigration Reform. Reporter kantors loss means Immigration Re
From the studios in lincoln center, new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Good evening. Im john larson. Hari sreenivasan is off. Bells tolled in newtown, connecticut as the town remembered and honored the 20 children, six educator and xloo employees gunned down one year ago. In virginia protesters demanding new gun control laws marched outside the headquarters of the National Rifle association. President obama led the nation in mourning. He and the first lady lit candles and observed a moment of silence to mark the event. In a denver suburb today police searched the home of karl pierson who shot and critically wounded a 15yearold girl in their high school yesterday and killed himself. Authorities first visited the home last night. Police believe the gunman was targeting a teacher with whom he had the dispute. The navy may first have its first female admiral. The president s nomination of Michelle Howard requires senate approval. Howell has been quoted as saying the best ambassador is
Same way joe biden. Something to keep in mind. Women, as important this election, women healthser use critical to watch and see how the parties respond to this today. Moving on, sad news, two new jersey brothers are charged with murder in the death of their 12yearold neighbor. Police say the teenage boys lured autumn pasquale into their home and one of them strangled her. The middle schoolers body was discovered in a recycling bin next door where the suspects lived with their mom. Her treasured bmx bicycle and other belongings were found in the home. Investigators believe they lured her just to get parts of her bmx bike. Less than a week after googles earnings were released ahead of schedule. Another big corporate announcement accidentally made public too soon. Dow chemical was forced to show its hand on a big restructuring and 2,400 layoffs when it sent a draft of the press release to a reporter two days early. Apple unveiled its latest musthave, 7. 9inch. Ipad mini. The minias thin a
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Over a street creature and lots of dirty words are thrown around. Shut your [ bleep ] the story behind the showdown turned meltdown. And the perfect prank for friday the 13th. I know this is awful but you guys know the saying nothing good ever goes down after 2 a. M. A group of guys in the boston streets in lincolnshire, england, it looks like something not good is going down, out on the town,aybe doing a pubra doing something good. That is bent because a car reversed into it a few weeks ago and you can see its slanted down so these guys at 3 a. M. Said lets straighten this up. Lets bend this thing the right way. Something good did happen after 2 a. M. In this case. It was the one time something good happened after 2 a. M. They say you become the real version of yourself after youve had a few drinks. So these guys really are nice guys. Weve got two of the guys, Simon Mcmillan and dan butler. Good work first of all. What made you want to fix this in the first place . We saw it bent so w