good morning, wet and windy start to the day, the good news is the worst of the rain will blow through, come the afternoon the weather will brighten up with spells of sunshine but they will be lots of blustery showers today, particularly across western areas. i will have the full forecast for you later on. it s saturday, 7th january. our top story: the prime minister will hold emergency talks at downing street today to try to tackle the huge challenges facing the nhs. and senior doctors say the health service is on a knife edge, with many a&e units struggling to cope with record demand. our health correspondent jim reed reports. the nhs is under record pressure this winter, where the queues of ambulances delayed out hospitals, rising waiting lists, and more front line strikes planned in the coming weeks. sue front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks. front-line strikes planned in the cominu weeks. ,, , , , ., , coming weeks
Testified about libya that killed for students and three other americans. We will be live touring at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Later, president obama chief counterterrorism advisor and the president s choice to be cia director testifies against the Senate Intelligence committee. That hearing is live at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. President obama announces his nominee interior secretary ken salazar. Postmaster general pastor donohoo announces the end of saturday mail delivery. Washington journal is live. What i have discovered is the war strategy to achieve happiness and life is to make that your primary goal. If you make your happiness what you are striving for, you will not achieve it. You will be knossos cystic, selfinvolved, caring narcissistic, selfinvolved. Happiness is best as a byproduct of other things. It is a five part of meaningful work five part of meaningful work, family, friends, good health, love, and care. We get happiness by throwing ourselves into life projects, involving
Revolution, they believed in the power of prayer to god, and thats why they prayed during that time, but they wanted much to have the chance to worship as they chose. Be they muslim, hindu. But especially judeochristian beliefs where jews and christians had traditionally suffered so much persecution. They wanted the chance for people to worship as they please or not worship, but they knew to make that possible had he had to they had to pray to god. Thats why we are observing once again tomorrow the National Prayer breakfast where our president will speak, where we will have a fantastic testimony from one of the great leaders in our country who earlier in his life, when his life was going astray, dropped to his knees and prayed for help and got it. Well hear about that tomorrow. But if we dont know the history of this country, if we dont know the dream of the founders, if we dont understand the constitution, then we lose it. And people need to understand when there is a global jee hasis
This News Conference is 35 minutes. Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining us. Today, were going to be making an announcement about an important change to our National Delivery schedule. I think anyone who has followed the Postal Service over the past couple of years know that we have been consistently making changes to our delivery schedule. It is an important part of our strategy returning back to Financial Stability and it is absolutely necessary to make that move. Before i get into the details of the announcement, i would like to spend a couple of minutes discussing the financial reasons for this scheduled delivery change. Since 2008, we have seen a steady decline in the use of first class mail. It is our most profitable product and generates the most revenue. People pay their bills online, simple, easy and free. On the other hand, people do still like to receive hard copy statements and bills and the fact that businesses continue to send mail to the homes and thats been pre
The last time the pair split over the fiscal cliff deal, kantor voted against it and even more significant because it involves outreach for a key voting brought. We know the republicans want to bring into the foelld. Kelly, it is fair to say Speaker Boehner praised eric kantors speech yesterday. Is this a tactical move or a real split on the dream act specifically . Some may view it and say this is a split. You can also analyze it and say Speaker Boehner is trying to be gentle in New Territory for the republicans as there were prominent voices. Senator marco rubio trying to move that forward on immigration and for them what has been a difficult issue. For baner to put his stamp of approval on any one element of immigration could have unintended consequences and drive the more conservative members away and could attract more attention at a time when delicate conversations are going on. You can judge it in two ways. Look at it in face value and say they are not sounding the same note and