The Bipartisan Policy Center and the Concord Coalition all offering their views. Live coverage on cspan2. The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in the case balancing federal whistleblower protections against National Security. The case involves robert maclean, a u. S. Air marshal fired for telling a reporter that the tsa canceled missions on commercial flights that required marshals to stay overnight. His supervisor told him that the cancellations were to save money, believing the tsa action risk passenger safety can maclean leaked the information to a reporter prompting congressional criticism and leading to the tsas reversal of his decision. Next up, the oral arguments in Homeland Security department versus maclean. Will hear arguments first this one in case 13894 of the department of Homeland Security versus robert maclean. Spent mr. Chief justice, and may place a corporate in section 114 r , congress directed tsa to promulgate regulations prohibiting disclosures that would
Runway in that snowstorm. We have the very latest on that situation. 16 people injured, two taken out on stretchers. Now, billionaire mark cuban making waves today, publishing a blog saying we are in a tech bubble that is quote, worse than the one 15 years ago. Cuban will join us exclusively about an hour from now for more detail on this provocative thesis, bill making the rounds today. Dont miss it. One of the real you cant even call mark a survivor of the dotcom boom a thriver. He was a winner. He created broadcast. Com and and sold it for billions before the dotcom bust came and hes been playing ever since. Thats why well be interested to see what he has to say about the cycle this time around and who stands to be helped or hurt. Always outspoken. Later, banks stressing out. Literally, the government releasing the latest results on those stress tests for the banks, whether they prove they could withstand an economic meltdown again. Well have those results the moment that they are av
Welcome to Al Jazerra America i am stephanie sy. A cloud of uncertainty was lifted on thursday after the 16day political standoff finally came to an end. A sense of normally returned to washington and the nation. As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees went back to work. The day was billed as a political win for president obama and the democrats. But some question if they can capitalize on the victory. Mike viqueira has the details from the white house. Reporter well, in the aftermath of the overwhelming victory that the president scored political victory any congress on wednesday night the president wanted to build momentum towards his agenda for the rest of the year. He started off by declaring that there were no winners in the debate and the impasse and the crisis that had preceded everything that happened before the vote and certainly if you look through the eyes of those who suffered the 20 billion in economic loss, the 800,000 government workers furloughed at one
And why the long search for water, one of kenyas driest regions could soon be over. People knew there is water under ground, this area is called the local language for land of water. Reporter lebanon president is appealing for more money to deal with the strain that syria refugees are putting on the country. More than two Million People have fled the conflict and the no other country has taken many more and 800,000 refugees in lebanon and another half a million are not registered and this means that 14 people in lebanon is a syrian refugee. In a moment we will talk to the person in capitol beirut and we are live in the valley and andrew . Reporter yes, im in the valley and this is one of four refugee points where they register for a series of areas of help. But its a critical situation, its diminished beyond recognition in lebanon now. 14 people in this country are syrian. That is choking the economy. Its also putting major strain on a whole variety of factors such as ethnic tension an
Gold. First more than 20 bush fires are burning out of control throughout the state of south wales in australia and it is concentrated around the State Capitol sidney and are described as worst in a decade. Reporter this is what firefighters are up against in the state of south wales and bush fires are burning out of control, manned by strong winds and made worse by unusually high temperatures. The activity that is being reported was extreme and certainly we had flames in access of 2030 meters. On the outskirts of sidney with the famous Blue Mountains and the north on the central coast. This is a far emergency which could go on for quite some time. There are hundreds of people who are grieving the loss of property, tragically there has been it seems one life lost further north, someone who was defending his house. We grieve for everyone impacted by these fires. Reporter this family this was all that is left of their home. The fires have forced hundreds of people to spend the night at e