Darya morning mark a good day before Christmas Eve james this is that adds up to date riklis has taken this item as a folk. And a cloud in the sky so why men are missing delayed as the fall on his visits to a potentially 23 minute delays because of construction is not whether it is something else. James that is the cab to the Pacific Northwest that is what to break down this a little bit as we get into more and for that reason we have rain in the mix your Christmas Eve for task. Their Christmas Eve to have light rain in the afternoon hours. Prisms they the rain is all were back to is sunny and mild for as a cold glass of breast ourselves the timing of the ring james here is a glance at whatever to look like in the afternoon were looking to lead to up six is generally around the bay, 715 not to traffic. George much better conditions at the bay bridge we saw we did have a backup in the heart of the toll plaza no back of no delays no waiting no problems to macarthur maze is not as bad as
Also tieing some record lows in reading and breaking a record low in georgetown, delaware. We have bright blue skies now. The records were like this. 18 in Atlantic City, 20 in philadelphia. These were the existing records. The actual testimony, theres the tieing in philadelphia. Theres the tieing in reading. Theres the beating the record in georgetown, came within two degrees in Atlantic City and four degrees in wilmington. The temperature at the moment, all the way up to 29 degrees. The windchill is 20. So its obviously not as brutal as it was this morning. The temperature is not going to get as cold tonight as it did last night. This is still way, way cold are than average for this time of the year. We are not going to be seeing a lot of change during the day. By noontime, 30 degrees. By 3 00, about 33. 6 00, to 30. And then were kind of leveling off tonight. If anything, later tonight the temperature may go up a couple of degrees. So the windchill staying generally between 18 and 2
United states and a police officer, are killed in jerusalem when two palestinian cousins stormed a synagogue during morning prayers. We will speak with Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, former israeli soldier eran efrati, and israeli journalist alaqsa amira hass. Then to the keystone xl pipeline. Any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change a vote, if not on this road, the yeas are 5 the 60 vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. In a dramatic showdown tuesday, the senate rejected legislation that would have forced approval of the keystone xl pipeline. The measure fell one vote short of the 60 votes needed for passage. Now republicans are threatening to bring the bill back in january. We will speak with cyril scott from south dakota and guardian reporter Suzanne Goldenberg. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate republicans have blocked a sweeping measure aime
United States Senate and u. S. Allies. The plan would be to have a period of iranian compliance and then ask congress to enact sanctions relief under the agreements and i will stop there. Thank you. [applause] imad harb i was asked to speak about iran and lebanon and syria where iran has a lot of influence. The negotiations themselves, as far as we know did not discuss anything outside the negotiations of the Nuclear Program. So there are supposedly no specific connection between irans other issues in this Foreign Policy and the region, or the world for that matter. Everybody knows the Nuclear Program is only a part of iranian Foreign Policy, it is also the negotiations of a Nuclear Program, but no matter how much we denied, there is a connection to iranian influence in other places and that specific negotiation had its impact on other things. Basically, two perspectives, that iran actually used its role in lebanon and syria to try to get a better deal on the Nuclear Program. The other
Listening to ambassador Seyed Hossein mousavian. Thank you. Seyed Hossein Mousavian good morning, everyone. Iran they both consider the deals agreed in switzerland as a winwin deal. To my understanding there is five reasons why iranians would consider a win for iran. Number one is that the deal contains respect for Iranian Nuclear Technology Including enrichment. Number two is ultimately the sanctions would be lifted, even graduate. Number three is that ultimately the Iranian Nuclear would be normalized. And number four is that ultimately the nuclear would be removed from Chapter Seven United Nations Security Council and all resolutions would be terminated. And number four is that iran after a period would be able to have a normal, peaceful cooperation on Peaceful Nuclear with the world powers. This is something iran has been sanctioned from day one. The world powers consider the deal a win for themselves. I would like to give you five reasons why they believe this is a win for the wor