The latest warnings came over the potential impact that furloughs would have on air travel, starting in april. Transportation secretary ray lahood said travelers could face new delays of 90 minutes at major airports in chicago, new york and san francisco. More than 100 air control towers at smaller airports could be closed, lahood said. Airlines likely would cancel flights. And congress, he said, would hear of the fallout. Its not only the impact on the passengers, its the impact that it has on airports, control towers, people who work there, airports. And their phones are going to start ringing. Why does this have to happen . Nobody likes a delay. Nobody likes waiting in line. None of us do. If we cant get our hamburger within five minutes, if we cant get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. They start calling their member of congress. Suarez more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts.
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions woodruff the United States top transportation official warned today that automatic Government Spending cuts would severely disrupt the nations air travel system. Good evening, im judy woodruff. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, Washington Post reporter lisa rain walks us through the reality and the hype surrounding the timing and impact of sequestration, as the countdown for a deal enters its final wee woodruff then, Margaret Warner looks at todays summit between president obama and japanese Prime Minister abe, where japans tensions with china were very much in the forefront. Suarez our week long focus on guns, after newtown wraps up tonight with a report from chicago on the Public Health crisis in the city in the wake of rising gun violence. The people who come in after having been shot are some of the highest risk folks. These are people who have been shot, who may have been shot before, and really without some inter
China were very much in the forefront. Suarez our week long focus on guns, after newtown wraps up tonight with a report from chicago on the Public Health crisis in the city in the wake of rising gun violence. The people who come in after having been shot are some of the highest risk folks. These are people who have been shot, who may have been shot before, and really without some intervention, without some life changing moment, the trajectorys either going to be jail or death. Woodruff mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Suarez and, as a magistrate grants Oscar Pistorius bail, we talk to Charlayne Hunter gault about how his arrest has focused attention on the unusually high rate of violence against women in south africa. Domestic violence is shot through the entire society from the highest of the highed in socioeconomic terms to the lowest of the low. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also co
Polluter in the world. If youre the new chairman of the Senate Environment committee, all of this is just a hoax, just like evolution and others advances. More than that, its an affront to god, an abomination of scripture. Here is james inhofe on the impossibility of climb change, as long as the earth remains, there will be seed time, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night. In other words, no matter the destructiveness cannot hurt of health of the planet. He cannot affect the environment, this a man who claims to represent oklahoma, the dust bowling of the 1930s when fields turned to dust so people couldnt see and had to flee to california. Droughts alone, by the way, didnt cause that. It was mans abuse of the land overgrazing and exhausting the toptoil now china is pledging to cap the Carbon Emissions by 2030, in exchange, the u. S. , which is currently the second biggest carbon polluter, to slash emissions by up to 28 New York Times described the deal as remarkable. Associat
Here is james inhofe on the impossibility of climb change, as long as the earth remains, there will be seed time, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night. In other words, no matter the destructiveness cannot hurt of health of the planet. He cannot affect the environment, this a man who claims to represent oklahoma, the dust bowling of the 1930s when fields turned to dust so people couldnt see and had to flee to california. Droughts alone, by the way, didnt cause that. It was mans abuse of the land overgrazing and exhausting the toptoil now china is pledging to cap the Carbon Emissions by 2030, in exchange, the u. S. , which is currently the second biggest carbon polluter, to slash emissions by up to 28 New York Times described the deal as remarkable. Associated press called it groundbreaking. On the republican planet of the apes, however, the deal is being shaud a charade. Just hours after announced Mitch Mcconnell called it a failure and partisan attack. The problem is the pre