Bowl. With just over 24 hours to go, a look at everything from the incredible security effort here in new york to some ads that are literally out of this world, today, saturday, february 1st, 2014. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. Big weekend here, huh . Big weekend. Its a new month, february 1st. Yeah. Weve got the super bowl. Groundhog day. Groundhog day is tomorrow . Tomorrow, yeah. Got the olympics starting in a few days. Keeping us busy. Are you guys going to the super bowl . Youre not going. Are you going . No, ill be watching. Youll be there, right . Ill be there, yeah. Id rather watch it at home with the food and the commercials is that because i said im going . Dont take it personally. That means she had no shot at tickets. Anyway, well talk more about that coming up. Well, speaking of football, actually, could his future be in trouble . More and more parents now say they dont want t
More effort to figure out how can we list fewer americans on the beaght field. Peace things are coming down the road. On energy, the breakthrough in hydraulic frackerring and horizontal drill, we take a place like north dakota which went from 800 Million Barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today. And rising. North dakota has a high employment rate we have gone up 50 in the last eight years. And mcdonalds now pays a bonus if you will sign up to work. That actually should be the conservative answer to income and equality. We would like everybody to rise up. Were not in the business of tearing down. We should be in the business of helping every person rise up. And north dakota is a pretty good case study. If the federal government were actually encouraging it. We would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. We are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 well be the Largest Oil Producer in the world. Thats an enormous shift of powe
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You know about this. And it leads to the question, are they misof informing congress, do you think . And if so, why . Well, first of all, they havent been asked the right question, so they havent misof informed congress. But there is such a thing as to missive misrepresentation to missive misrepresentation. And if you knew there was a terrorist getting your money, you would with duty bound to report it. And our country, our administration should not be vibrantly and robustly allowing american taxpayer money to be fungiblely financed into terrorist salaries. We should just abruptly say this has got to stop. Now, let me give you a similarly. The biggest simile. The biggest demonstration in the history of man kind occurred in egypt some months ago. The biggest petition in the history of mankind occurred in egypt some months ago. The Muslim Brotherhood was dethroned. The question was, and i have my own tv show, i asked this question, everybody in the media was asking this question, was it
High school. Woodruff and mark shields and Ramesh Ponnuru analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ni supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdat;and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Oro o and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. nr this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight washington headed into the final weekend before a potential Government Shutdown with the outcome still in doubt. The senate adopted a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running past monday, but the battle over Health Care Reform showed no signs of abating. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. Lord, deliver us from gove