Ok. Started. Ng to get were waiting on the last panelist, david coleman. We can mock him when he sweeps his cape. His t i am frederick hess. Come in court has been adopted by 45 states common core has been adopted by 45 states and the District Of Columbia. The notion that these reading standards have the opportunity to improve. There has been in the last 12 to 18 months it rising chorus of skepticism, concerns about how these standards will impact instruction. Whether the standards are good or bad. The reason is my own personal bias. I think most efforts to alter standards or instruction or assessment turned as much on how they are done as on any grand design sketched on the front end. I could be wrong on that. But that is the bias that im coming from. We want to talk about with joanne weiss, who is in the middle of so many reform conversations, david coleman, from the College Board is what are some of the challenges ahead as states seek to make these things deliver on their promise. W
Such. No backing down huge protests on the streets of thailand despite the fact that the minister has called for snap elections to get reactions from bangkok french troops began to disarm fighters in the Central African republic a country hit by an outburst of deadly sectarian violence and brought to break out during the football match in southern brazil. Hes been raising concerns about safety for next years world cup expert reading your post to thank anna molly home. First a sea of protesters on the streets of bangkok thailands political saga continues this monday the countrys embattled Prime Minister in what she wants has dissolved parliament and call for snap elections. But its done little to calm the anger of demonstrators for weeks now people out on the streets calling for his resignation. Shes accused of being under the influence of her brother. Exiled former Prime Minister tax and housing tax is not wealth is in bangkok and he says protesters say that ministers concessions are t
February 14, 2013. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. This news coming out of south africa is hard to believe. Weve been shaking our heads the last hour or so. Oscar pistorius, one of the bright e brightest from the london games and inspiration to all. He was been charged with murder. They found 30yearold model reeva steenkemp suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and Oscar Pistorius was taken into custody. We have a reporter in pretoria. Good morning to you. What can you tell us . Hello. Rohit, can you hear me . Apparently he is having trouble hearing us. He was taken into custody and in court and taken for medical examination. According to the police in pretoria, we learned there had perhaps other incidents of violence at that home and called for domestic violence. I want to bring in our nbc sports analyst. First of all,
February 14, 2013. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. This news coming out of south africa is hard to believe. Weve been shaking our heads the last hour or so. Oscar pistorius, one of the bright e brightest from the london games and inspiration to all. He was been charged with murder. They found 30yearold model reeva steenkemp suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and Oscar Pistorius was taken into custody. We have a reporter in pretoria. Good morning to you. What can you tell us . Hello. Rohit, can you hear me . Apparently he is having trouble hearing us. He was taken into custody and in court and taken for medical examination. According to the police in pretoria, we learned there had perhaps other incidents of violence at that home and called for domestic violence. I want to bring in our nbc sports analyst. First of all,
Hi, mr. President. Pres. Biden how are you . I think weve got everyone here, so over to you to kick us off. Pres. Biden thank you for joining us for this important and timely discussion. We are here to talk about the importance of passing the chips for america act, to strengthen our National Economic security. Later the senate will hold a vote to advance this critical legislation and im glad we have an opportunity to hear from the industry and labor leaders about this important topic. Im going to turn this over to brian to get it started. Thank you mr. President. We are joined by members of your economic and National Security team, as well as business and labor leaders from across the country. We thought that we would try to divide this into two categories. The first being the National Security implications in the second being the Economic Security and opportunity embedded in this legislation. We wanted to zero in on both the urgency of acting and of congress as you say acting without