Hostage in iran recalled her harrowing ordeal. For 410 days, mostly in solitary confinement. Held for 26sh were months. Their memoir is being published today. It wasnt until six months or so into it that we saw a new sticker, american spies to go to trial at some point. We kept telling our interrogators, what are we being charged with . They would say, we dont know. And we will look at what theyve been doing since the release. Once i left prison, it didnt feel over. I thought about the people i was in prison with. I thought about prisoners around the world. It made sense to me to start looking into prisons in this country. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Russia is formally recognized crimea as an independent state, paving the way for the annexation and define new sanctions led by the United States. In a speech today, russian president Vladimir Putin announced his support for itsxing crimea following vo
all because congress can t agree on another very important issue, that is payroll tax cuts. congress is in a political standoff right now. the senate passed a two-month extension a moment ago. house republicans rejected that in a procedural vote and are pushing a one year extension. keep in mind payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits expire in less than two weeks. our members do not want to just punt and do a two-month short term fix where we have to come back and do this again. we re here, we re willing to work. it s just a radical tea party republicans who are holding up this tax cut for the american people and jeopardizing our economic growth. but what s the real problem? we ll talk to republican strategist ron christy to get answers. if you re heading west, check the forecast. people in a number of states are dealing with, yes, this, blizzard warnings are in effect from colorado to kansas, oklahoma and texas. according to forecasters, travel is danger
over the weekend because it doesn t provide the certainly that americans need, the kind of stimulate the economy in the way that the payroll tax extension they would hope would do. so he made it very clear that they are not ready to budge from their decision. he says they have acted and now it s time for the president and senate democrats to do the same. i think we have a sound bite from speaker boehner. now it s up to the president to show real leadership. he said that he won t leave town for the holidays until this bill is done. and the next step is clear. i think president obama needs to call on senate democrats to go back into session, move to go to conference, and to sit down and resolve this bill as quickly as possible. reporter: in the absolute immediate term, we know that the senators are not here right now and the house, we re told other than the negotiators, the conferees that are in town to negotiate, it s expected that the house is also heading out as it doesn
soon. we are so glad it is not causing a traffic jam and hopefully they will be out of there when they say they will. that looks good coming up to the 80 split and traffic is looking pretty good. now at 4:30 let s go back to the desk. topping activists still in their end campment after a deadline passed without incident. as kraig debro tells us, there is now a large railly outside the board of supervisors meeting, here is more. reporter: there are dozens if not more occupying this spot out here and just for your information there are people still in front of the federal building but there is another group fearing confrontation with police, police gave an order they were to leave by 10:00 last night but the demonstrators are still here. at the time police generally stayed ahead of the protesters who were marching up market street but when they began walking in between cars police began to push people out of the street, drag them out of the street after they refused orders t
baur bauer wbauer whowee hikers depart ed earlier today. muhammad? after three days in oman, american hiker shane bauer and josh fattal finally departed muscat on saturday night. before they left, however, they held a quick press conference at the airport s vip lounge where both made brief statements. getting off the plane that brought us here three days ago was the most incredible experience of our lives. we ll never forget the excitement of seeing our loved ones waiting for us. just hours after we left prison, we were able to swim in the waters of the gulf. we stayed up all night with our loved ones and we watched the most beautiful sunset we ve ever seen. these experiences will be with us for the rest of our lives. we would like to thank oman for welcoming us and hosting our families. also present at the press conference were both men s families as well as sarah shourd, bauer s fiancee. while they refused to answer any questions, they were all smiles when they were