Join me this sunday for my oscar preview from the red carpet. Immediately after the academy awards, i will be joined by an all star panel as we look at the winners, styles and surprises of the night. Here are my personal picks. Best supporting actor, tommy lee jones, best actress, jennifer lawrence, best director, steven spielberg, best movie, argo. Take that to the bank if you want to lose a few dollars. Thats all for us tonight. An inspiring hero, a beautiful model its a fun production and watch it. We start this morning with a shocking valentines day tragedy. A nation in shock. Its devastating, tragic. The world renowned olympian Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend. For a week, the world has watched the triumphant story of Oscar Pistorius turned to tragedy. Just last summer, this was Oscar Pistorius. The first amputee ever to compete in the Olympic Games. And a source of enormous pride for a sportscrazed nation. Today, a totally different scen
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with Immigration Reform and the stir caused by a leaked white house proposal. Critics are blasting the plan. The Administration Says the alternative proposal is just a backup in Case Congress cant agree on a deal. As reported by usa today, the president s plan would allow Illegal Immigrants to become legal permanent residents within eight years. They would have to pass a background check, learn english and u. S. History, and pay back taxes. Susan mcginnis with more now from washington. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. It is not clear whether the white house leaked this plan on purpose or not, but either way, lawmakers here on capitol hill want that plan tabled so that a group of senators known as the gang of eight can continue their work on a bipartisan bill. The white house is responding after a draft of its version of an Immigration Reform bill was leaked to the press this weekend. The white house says its simply a backup
Pick up the pieces for weeks on end. Its a really difficult time. The minute the nominees are out designers are tripping over themselves. Then the nominees are tripping over themselves while they wear the dresses backstage. And trying to accept the award. Lets cut to the unmentionable. She gets hammered on social media. I think because people think her speeches are insincere. Theres a bit of hate out there and it doesnt seem well deserved. Theres hate for everyone. Social media makes it easy to attack people at random. I find her charming and endearing. What is it about anne. Is she hamming it up too much . I think shes a theater kid. Shes a girl that loves to be in front of a crowd. Shes a performer and eager to please. I think some people are rubbed the wrong way by that. I think she wants to succeed and wants everyone to love her. I thought seth was great. I love the fact that brits were all over the place as usual. We kicked hollywood butt. Thank you. Thats all for us tonight. Good
Weekend, but not before his weekend address. Time to finish the job by cutting the deficit 4 billion. You can make bigger cuts to education and job training and Social Security benefits. Senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction, while the wealthiest are asked to do nothing more. That wont work, we cant cut our way to prosperity. Republicans arent holding back, criticizing the president over the upcoming threat of sequestration, if nothing is done to avoid it, massive funding cuts to the federal government will be triggered march 1st. In his state of the union address, these cuts were a really bad idea. What the president failed to mention was that the sequester was his idea proposed by his administration, and the debt limit negotiations in 2011. And now we in the house on behalf of our constituents are calling on the president to join us in replacing the sequester with better, more responsible spending cuts. Meanwhile, a glimpse of the president s pe
Border security. This is the president torpedoing his own plan and shows me that hes really not serious. Florida senator marco rubio says if the plan is sent as it is, it will be dead on arrival. His colleagues have had to smooth things over. Weve talked with marco rubio and hes fully on board with our process and im hopeful that in march well have a bipartisan bill. In march is when the president wants to see a bill in congress thats ready for a vote. Now, despite this latest commotion, washington has not come this close to Immigration Reform in 20 years. Annemarie . Susan mcginnis in washington, thank you. When Congress Returns from break next week, it will have just a few days before those dramatic acrosstheboard spending cuts known as the sequester. Some republican lawmakers warn there is no way to avoid them and as bill plante reports, the administration is also warning of the dire consequences. What our friends in the house have told us is that they will not even consider anythin