Earthquake, but there have been big concerns over the bolts holding it together. Spencer michels reports on the troubles plaguing San Franciscos new bay bridge. Its one of the largest Infrastructure Projects in the nation. But just when it opens to traffic still isnt clear. Ifill boston mob boss Whitey Bulger was found guilty of a string of 11 murders and racketeering. How the jury reached its verdict. Woodruff and in our continuing look at surveillance and privacy in america. Tonight, we explore how Law Enforcement keeps tabs on our movements by photographing our license plates. Its privacy, theres no question about that. You dont get the amount of Law Enforcement, you get the amount that you can tolerate. None of these technologies come without tradeoffs. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in t
Earthquake, but there have been big concerns over the bolts holding it together. Spencer michels reports on the troubles plaguing San Franciscos new bay bridge. Its one of the largest Infrastructure Projects in the nation. But just when it opens to traffic still isnt clear. Ifill boston mob boss Whitey Bulger was found guilty of a string of 11 murders and racketeering. How the jury reached its verdict. Woodruff and in our continuing look at surveillance and privacy in america. Tonight, we explore how Law Enforcement keeps tabs on our movements by photographing our license plates. Its privacy, theres no question about that. You dont get the amount of Law Enforcement, you get the amount that you can tolerate. None of these technologies come without tradeoffs. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in t
Nancy pelosi response to squeaker boehners remarks about House Republicans and women candidates. She is joined here by other democrats at this 40 minute briefing. Good afternoon. How are you all . Thank you for coming. Shelling to start telling grandchildren stories. He says greatgrandchildren. We all think our grandchildren are great. To believe. Good afternoon, everyone. Yesterday, as you know, president obama made a call to act regarding income inequality in our nation, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay for women, and in the workplace, earl Early Childhood education and prek have been part of his proposal all along. I was excited to hear what he said echoed. When women succeed, america succeeds, and this is our agenda. Income inequality, as he pointed eroding thely middle class, which is the backbone of our economy. Earlier, a representative from kentucky talked about how it is the right thing to do to improve the health of thousands of his citizens over the next decade. He als
Recent talks to the pope in rome. I think it should be discussed. It should be considered, especially since we know what happened in iraq with the christian community. Fiona . I would actually just want to say to fyodor that it actually is discussed here, but he gets back to what dr. Brzezinski was a saying about a nonsectarian tone to the debate. The u. S. Does not want to take sides in this conflict. As we look about in the balkans, if you think back to the 1990s, various European Countries in particular of standing with historic coreligion, the idea that catholic portions of europe were standing with the coops and others, the serbs because of old religious orders. I think we have all learned from that, so that was not completely accurate depiction of the 1990s that we have to be extraordinarily careful. We are all skirting around the proper ways or the ways of describing a very complex situation. The u. S. Does not want to be seen in the middle of a sectarian conflict. It gets to th
We strongly believe that if every member of congress would take even a few minutes to speak personally with unemployed workers, there would not be any question at all about the need to extend the federal ui program. More than anything else, they want a job. But finding work remains very difficult in an economy that still has one point 5 million fewer jobs than before the recession started six years ago. We have never had anything close to such a sustained job deficit after any recent downturn. It has been said in opposition to an extension that the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program was adopted for extraordinary circumstances that are disappearing. No. No. These extraordinary circumstances continue, as indicated in the report issued just this morning by president obamas council of economic advisers. It highlights that the current longterm Unemployment Rate is at least twice as high as it was at the expiration of every previous extended ui benefit program. The extraordi