Oak. Reporter hopes fade for finding refugees missing off the coast of greece. The Kansas City Royals go 20 up in baseballs world series. China has announced the end of its onechild policy. The government says all couples will be allowed two children. As bob mcbride reports, it could take years to address the imbalance. The announcement came at the end of the communist partys fourday gathering of its leadership. The strategy sets brood economic goals for chinas developments. It had already been partially relaxed, allowing families where at least one parent is from a onechild family themselves to have two children. Now that is being extended to all couples. The importance of the measure is not so much demographic in terms of encouraging vast new numbers of children to be born, but it is the lifting of a highly restrictive and at times coercive policy. Reporter a number of couples like this couple, havent decided to have another child. For them careers and living costs in beijing are the
News 4 midday starts right now. Wisconsin congressman, paul ryan, will soon be taking the reigns as speaker of the house. In just a moment, he was just actually elected. You are looking at live pictures from capitol hill where that vote wrapped up minutes ago. John boehner just stepped down from the post before he was hired tomorrow. He said just moments ago, he has a couple of regrets or few regrets as he leaves the office he has held for five years. Anything can happen if you are willing to make the necessary sacrifices in life. If you falter, and you will, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and do it again. Hope always springs eternal. In just a moment, minority house leader, nancy pelosi will present speaker elect reason and he will be addressing the house here and then later take that oath of office. She is starting right now. Lets listen in. Today, as every day, we come to this floor strengthened and inspired by the support of our colleagues, the trust of our constituents and th
[ applause ] my dear colleagues of the 114th congress of the United States, today, as every day, we come to this floor, strength and inspired by the support of our colleagues, the trust of our constituents and the love of our families. My special thanks to my husband paul, our five children, nine grandchildren and entire pelosi families for their support. My deep gratitude to the people of San Francisco for the continued honor they give me to represent them here. And my heartfelt thanks to my democratic colleagues for extending to me the honor of being nominated to be speaker of house. Thank you, my colleagues. [ applause ] today we bid farewell to a speaker who has served his constituents and this congress with honor for 25 years. Speaker john boehner. [ applause ] in his story we are reminded of the enduring exceptional promise of america. This hardworking son of an ohio bartender and owner, who grew up to be the speaker of the house of representatives. John boehner talked about the
up the hard way. he d like to enjoy life now for a while. my dear colleagues of the 114th congress of the united states, today as every day we come to this floor strengthened and inspired by the support of our colleagues, the trust of our constituents and the love of our families. my special thanks to my husband, paul, our five children, our nine grandchildren and the entire pelosi and delasandro families for their support. my deep gratitude to the city of san francisco for the honor to represent them here and my heart felt thanks to my democratic colleagues for extending to me the honor of being nominated to be speaker of the house. thank you, my colleagues. today we bid farewell to a speaker who has served his constituents and this congress with honor for 25 years, speaker john boehner. [ applause ] in his story, we are reminded of the enduring exceptional promise of america, this hard-working son of an ohio bartender and owner who grew up to be the speaker of the house o
tuesday, last night s vice presidential debate, which depending on who you ask is either pulling president obama s case for re-election off the critical list or vindicated mitt romney s choice as paul ryan as running mate. depends what side of the political aisle you stand on. keeping them honest, each debater had moments that didn t quite stand up to closer scrutiny. first, paul ryan on the stimulus, which vice president biden called him on. they said that right now if we just passed the stimulus, the economy would grow at 4%. it s growing at 1.3. i love my friend here. i m not allowed to show letters but go on our website, he sent me two letters saying by the way, can you send me some stimulus money for companies here in the state of wisconsin. we sent millions of dollars. you know why you did ask for stimulus money, correct? sure he did. on two occasions we advocated for constituents who were applying for grants. that s what we do. we do that for all constituen