Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning, lawmakers in arkansas and indiana are working on changes to religious rights bills that caused a fire storm of criticism. The governor of arkansas backed away from his promise to sign the bill. This morning, indianas legislative leaders are set to meet with Business Leaders including representatives of the Indiana Pacers eli lilly and sales force marketing cloud. Governor mike pence, who signed the indiana bill faces stiff pressure from the business and sports world to give ground. Mark is in washington. Good morning, mark. Reporter good morning, annmarie. The white house is weighing in. The indiana and arkansas legislation is, quote, not consistent with the values of the vast majority of americans. Indiana lawmakers say they are close to an agreement on new legislation that would clarify the states controversial religious freedom law. They worked into the night on wednesday. The question is denial of service, facilit
Good morning, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning, lawmakers in arkansas and indiana are working on changes to religious rights bills that caused a fire storm of criticism. The governor of arkansas backed away from his promise to sign the bill. This morning, indianas legislative leaders are set to meet with Business Leaders including representatives of the pacers eli lilly. Governor mike pence, who signed the indiana bill faces stiff pressure from the business and sports ground. Mark is in washington. Good morning, mark. Good morning, annmarie. The white house is weighing in. The indiana and arkansas legislation is quote, not consistent with the values of the vast majorities of ameicans. Indiana lawmakers say they are close to an agreement on new legislation that would clarify the states freedom law. The question is we are moving the spectrum that has been raised. Discrimination and denial of service, facilities and other things. Thats what we are focusing on. Reporte
Suzanne malveaux continues with newsroom. Happy new year. Welcome back to cnn newsroom. Im suzanne malveaux. We have a lot going on. A deal on the table but not out of the woods yet. All eyes on capitol hill, as the republican controlled the house, rather, convening this hour for the fiscal cliff negotiations. Now Vice President joe biden, he is heading to the hill for talks with the House Democrats. This is a critical moment for the country. Talking about 12 hours after the deadline for the Government Action has passed. The senate okayed a deal wee hours of the morning, prevent middle class income taxes from going up but raise rates on income of more than 400,000 a year for individuals, more than 450,000 for couples. Now, Unemployment Benefits for 2 million americans would be extended for a year. What it does not address is the spending cuts. Lawmakers plan to revisit the difficult issue. That is delayed two months from now. Going to bring you all angles of the story here. Of course f
Outside the memorial hundreds of Law Enforcement officers stood in silence giving their final salute to their fallen comrades. [ taps ] nearly all of santa cruz paused today to honor the fallen officers, as well. Many who couldnt make it to san jose gathered to watch a live broadcast at Kaiser Permanente arena. In fact, that was the original site for the memorial before planners realized it was simply too small. While most area Law Enforcement officers were in san jose, others put their own grief aside to protect a community in mourning. Kpix 5s len ramirez on the ones who stayed behind. Len. Reporter well, ever since the two officers were gunned down, the santa cruz Law Enforcement community has seen tremendous support both from other allied agencies and the community as a whole. And that continued again today. But while the officers were away honoring the fallen officers, the criminal element apparently came forward to take advantage. Just minutes after most of the regions Law Enforc
Investigation program of National Security adviser Michael Flynn and his conversations with the Russian Ambassador. Not getting his way, trump fired the fbi director. Again, thats the story out tonight. Its come on the tail of the news that trump himself gave classified information to the Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador when they met in the Oval Office Late last week. What do the American People make of this kind of news, that the president tried to get the fbi director to kill his investigation of trumps top security adviser, then proceeded to fire the fbi director because of what he called what trump called the russian thing . What do we think of a president who conducts his public presidency now in a twostep pattern of denial followed by defiance. If he cant get away with hiding the truth, they hunker down and defend what can no longer be denied. Well, first they denied firing comey, for example, over russia. Then the president admitted himself. Then the presiden