Tuesdays state of union address. Tomorrow night its time to restore opportunity for all. Its the indication of a new bipartisan spirit. We need it. One of the things that president barack obama ought to do is look in the camera and say, im sorry. This is a year of action and work and bypass congress where necessary. A u. S. Citizens was gaoled this dubai after putting out a parody video. I did nothing wrong, there was nothing illegal about the video. For once im somebody nobody thought i would be. The feeling you get back from them you cant scribe it. We begin with president obamas fifth state of union address, expected to focus on income and equality, Immigration Reform, the environment and education. The president offered a sneak peek of what is to come on monday. Tomorrow night its time to restore opportunity for all. Its an opportunity to try again on unfulfilled goals in the state of union. Lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works fulltime should have t
Thing to wrap your mind around. Especially for this age, this is not something they deal with every day or should have to deal with. His school had counselors on hand before the first bell rang today. We will have more on that part of the story at 6 00 p. M. Thank you. To the ebola virus. The first nurse infected with the virus just left the dallas hospital and will be flown to baltimore. Ktvus julie haener is here with that and the grilling the cdc received in washington. Reporter nina pham was the first person infected with ebola in the United States. She was taken by ambulance to a jet to fly there the National Institutes of health in maryland. She left minutes ago. The facility has one of four units in the United States. She is said to be in good condition. The director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention defended himself in a hearing today. He said stopping this in africa is key to preventing the spread in the United States. I will tell you as the director of cdc one
Good morning. Im dara brown. Breaking news. Olympian Oscar Pistorius guilty of manslaughter. Having the totality of this evidence, in this matter, the unanimous decision of this court is the following on count one, the accused is found not guilty and is discharged. Instead, hes found guilty of culpable homicide. Pistorius faces 15 years in jail for the killing of reeva steenkamp. As for the weapons charges, he was found not guilty of two, but guilty of shooting off a gun in a restaurant. That carries a five year sentence. Nbcs Duncan Golestani is outside the courthouse in pretoria. Can you tell us whats next . Reporter good morning, dara. I can tell you right now court has just started again and they are discussing bail. Remember, for the last 19 months, since Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp, he has been a free man. But this morning, the prosecution arguing that he should not be able to go free, that he is a flight risk. He has now been given bail. We just have be
Subpoenas without Court Approval for documents relevant to an authorized inquiry. In addition, grand juries have authority to subpoena the records potentially relevant whether a crime has occurred and the grand jury also dont require Court Approval. In addition to for the amendment doesnt require a warrant when the government seeks purely transactional information or medved ai as the states content of communications. This information is voluntarily made available to the phone company to compete the call and for billing purposes and for the courts have therefore said a reasonable expectation as private. I would stress however section 215 is more restrictive than the constitution demands because it requires the approval of the federal judge. While the medellin is extraordinary in terms of the amount of data required its also extraordinarily protective in terms of the strict limitations placed on accessing the data. For these reasons i think the program is entirely conducted in a manner t
Newsroom with his plan that could have a dramatic impact on prison overcrowding. Reporter the attorney general is pushing for less to no prison time and more rehabilitation for some low level drug offenders. Attorney general eric holder spoke to the American Bar Association in San Francisco this morning calling for major changes because of massive overcrowding in the federal prisons. There are currently 40 they are currently 40 above capacity. 219,000 inmates with nearly half of them serving time for drugrelated crimes. Holder says nonviolent offenders with no drug gang ties should get lesser sentences. I have today mandated a modification of the justice departments charging policies so that certain low level nonviolent drug offenders who have no ties to largescale organizations, gangs or cartels will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. Reporter the attorney general says money used for prison construction should be diverted to programs