A man is killed by a hit and run driver. Details on the car police are looking for this morning. The race for the white house heating up in new york and the candidates are stepping up their attacks with less than two weeks to go before the primary. And big changes ahead for the costume characters and pained ladies in times square. Good morning im lori stokes. And im im meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. Reporter we are going to be looking at very warm tem. 49 right now. Yesterday at this time it was 20 degrees colder so we are looking at warm air surging from the south. 50 at nor walk. 56 lake hurst. 59 islip. Rain developing in here as we get to really the end of the morning commute ask a temperatures will approach the upper 50s to near 60. Heather is looking at your commute. It is weather and heather every 6 minutes. Reporter an ongoing accident investigation, all lanes are closed down although i am looking at a web cam and looks like the shoulder is getting by, the westboun
Controversial law. Why the fight could move to arkansas next. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy. It could be a historic day for relations between the u. S. And iran. Secretary of state john kerry and other top diplomatics in switzerland have until midnight local time, thats about 11 hours from now to reach a framework deal on limiting Irans Nuclear program. Lets go to james bays in lausanne where the talks are taking operation. James, what is the sense youre getting there are the differences narrowing . I think the differences are narrowing, but theyre still trying to work out something that they can present in the form they can present it to the public. As you say, 10 and a half hours left. This has been such a protracted and complex and controversial series of negotiations, on and off for 12 years, for the last couple of weeks, 12 days of negotiations, seven different delegations in the hotel behind me, they are getting close but they are not there un
Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about
City and had the County School system that has a County School board, a city that controls Early Learning and a number of other initiatives. That segmentation does not give a realistic picture of a childs needs, which should be our first priority. One of the things i did when i got into office was try to realign City Government so that it paid more attention to children. Because we did not have schools before, we stayed out of the education space. I took all of our Recreation Centers and i love shooting a basketball as much as anybody but i renamed every one of them a youth and Family Development center, renamed our parks and rec departments as Family Development, because i wanted people to think about the development of families of young people, not about recreation. Then we started making sure that a reading initiative, mostly computerbased, was available in each one of those centers, and now we have gone from zero in two years to about 3400 kids reading at least 26 minutes every wee
On the next washington journal, a look at states tightening rules for food stamps. Then, a convention of states cofounder, on Grassroots Efforts to amend the constitution via article five. And advice for people filing federal taxes ahead of wednesdays deadline. We will look for your call and take commons on facebook, starting live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. On newsmakers this weekend American Medical Association president dr. Wah. He talks about the socalled doc fix, the senate will take it up next week. He also discusses the Affordable Health care act in its second year. Newsmakers, sunday at 10 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern. On cspan. Here are some of our featured programs this weekend. On cspan2s book weekend Grover Norquist says that americans are tired of the irs and the tax system. Sunday night at 8 00, author susan butler on president Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin allies during world war ii and their partnership beyond. Saturday night on cspan3, home lectures in history. Th