years working with you. as i said, we will always be friends and i look forward to seeing you in new york. i will see you there soon. the next chapter. one more day. i ll be here tomorrow. so will i. i ll see you then. t.j., thank you very much. good afternoon, i m alina cho. fredricka is off today. it s saturday december 24th. thanks so much for joining us. two big stories today. politics and the christmas eve shopping crunch. in virginia, two candidates not making it onto the ballot. newt gingrich and rick perry. what happened? and last-minute holiday shopping. will it be the therapy that retail needs? let s start with politics and a surprising announcement from the republican party in virginia. newt gingrich and rick perry will not appear on the state s presidential primary ballot. the region? the candidates did not submit enough signatures to qualify. athena jones joins us from washington. athen ark, how did this happen? a lot of supporters of these two candid
kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to the house where the house expected to follow up with a vote and at the top of the next hour and, according to a house republican leadership aide, leaders do expect that this bill will go through, which means that both the house and senate both chambers of congress will have passed this two-month exteng, but, again, we caution with this procedure it only requires one member to stand up in the cham
specialists anywhere in the lik know what this is or what this child has, they can call the children s hospital and hook up through the telemedicine program and then they can read the charts and they can look at x-rays and they can examine the child and do so many things where they can actually help save a child who wouldn t normally have that type of health care. so, that s what the telemedicine program is. and children s hospital of los angeles has been developing it and talking about it. and when we came to them with the maribel foundation, we said we i ve been involved with the children s hospital of los angeles for many years. i know. and helped them raise money and all this kind of stuff. we decided to do our own foundation, we went to them for years, what can we do? what could really make a difference in this world for health care for children, for moms, for everybody? and they were like, well, there s this thing called the telemedicine program we re really excited about a
able to give their children, the kind of health karntd level and qual wit of care that you want to have available when it s your baby and we wanted that for every single mother everywhere in the world. and maribel was a real inspiration for us thinking that and thinking we wanted to do more from there for children. larry: which every mother wants to do. so, jennifer what is the foundation s missions? the foundation s i mean, we have a lot of missions, but right now, what we are focused on with the children along with the children s hospital of los angeles is called the telemedicine program. what that is, it has a very, very big dream, larry, which is to bring the best, most advanced health care to every child in the world, on the planet. and through this through this technology. what this is it allows specialists from anywhere in the world, so long as they have the it technology in the clinic setup, go to remote areas of the world, they have one of these machines, they can ta
to get the clinics out there. we re going to have to raise a lot of money and we re going to have to have great partners like samsung help us. larry: i want to ask about that. you know, larry larry: this interview was tape taped tuesday afternoon, but because of the president s address, we re playing it wednesday night. the gala happened last night. the four seasons of hope, give me the background, lynda, of you and samsung getting together on this. you know, they actually found out about what we were doing and were excited to help. as jennifer said, it s a very specific kind of technology and very specific kind of equipment. we want doctors at children s nopt los angeles to be able to have video conferencing and some kind of technological hookup to places like puerto rico where we re setting up the telemedicine program, pan marks other countries we re going to move into. we need to get all of that equipment to any site that we need to set up so that children can have that ca