[ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the full court press this Tuesday Morning january 8. Good to see you today. Good to be back with you. Im here with 100 brain and heart and 50 voice but well try to struggle through it with the help of our friends today. Good to have you with us. Lot of big news to talk about. President obama completing the nominations for his National Security team yesterday. Nominating chuck hagel to be secretary of defense and john brennan to be the next director of the c. I. A. The critics are already out with their sharp swords. They intend to do to chuck hagel what they were able to do to susan rice but its not going to work this time because the white house is fighting back. Theyre already doing so. Weve got to join that fight. Well talk about that and a whole lot more. First, we get the latest, todays current news update, here she is, Lisa Ferguson out in los angeles. Hi lisa. Hey bill. Welcome back. As bill mentioned obamas new appointments
Says chavez is still president , but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and elections. We host a debate. A victory in the campaign against stop and frisk. Going to the store in coming from the store, theyre going to stop you. They stop about 90 of the people coming in. I dont mind the police being here, but not the harassment. New york police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside private residential buildings in the bronx. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least five people have been killed in u. S. Drone strike in pakistan earlier today. The strike hit a home in north waziristan. It was at least the seventh u. S. Drone strike in less than two weeks. The attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the Obama Administrations drone warfare overseas. In his remarks at the time, brennan had said there was not a single colla
Says chavez is still president , but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and elections. We host a debate. A victory in the campaign against stop and frisk. Going to the store in coming from the store, theyre going to stop you. They stop about 90 of the people coming in. I dont mind the police being here, but not the harassment. New york police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside private residential buildings in the bronx. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least five people have been killed in u. S. Drone strike in pakistan earlier today. The strike hit a home in north waziristan. It was at least the seventh u. S. Drone strike in less than two weeks. The attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the Obama Administrations drone warfare overseas. In his remarks at the time, brennan had said there was not a single colla
Remains hospitalized in cuba. The Venezuelan Supreme Court says chavez is still president , but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and elections. We host a debate. A victory in the campaign against stop and frisk. Going to the store in coming from the store, theyre going to stop you. They stop about 90 of the people coming in. I dont mind the police being here, but not the harassment. New york police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside private residential buildings in the bronx. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least five people have been killed in u. S. Drone strike in pakistan earlier today. The strike hit a home in north waziristan. It was at least the seventh u. S. Drone strike in less than two weeks. The attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the Obama Administrations drone warfare overseas. In his remarks
Before december 10th. A wild card in is another support ongs caltrans is still recrewing but the shims are being made, and could see the shims allowing the bridge to open earlier than december without saddle work being done. Stay tuned as the Toll Authority told us last week, as far as opening date goes, everything is wide open, anything is possible. Do expect shorter advance notice than hoped. Just four days left to reach a deal between bart and unions. Negotiations underway right now but if a contract knlt be hammered out workers could strike again as soon as monday. This morning a spokesperson says management was ready to burn midnight oil, excuse me, sorry. Two unions involved in these negotiations also said the same and it really depends on the mediator and whether or not he thinks progress is being made. They have not come out this morning so we have yet to get updates on the progress f any of the negotiations. The Budget Committee was spending bart of the morning and afternoon e