To secure a bailout deal. This is al Jazeera America, good morning. Im Randall Pinkston in for stephanie sy. President obama today is beginning his hard sell of a nuclear deal with iran. The agreement cant be implemented until Congress Gets 60 days to review it. During that time the president cannot lift economic sanctions that iran desperately wants eased. Lisa stark is live for us on capitol hill this morning. Vice President Joe Biden was standing with president obama yesterday when the announcement was made obviously a big deal for the Obama Administration. Now hes going to be meeting with democrats, some of whom are skeptical. How is biden going to convince them. Reporter he is meeting with them even as we speak. One member said the meeting is packed. Virtually every member of the caucus 207 strong there to at ten this meeting. He said it is highly technical, they are talking about the very specifics of the deal. He also said that biden told them he was skeptical when these negotia
Instructed him to come out and he did, but thats when he advanced towards him with their gun. They tasered him but he kept coming. So police had to make a decision to fire at hem. Fortunately no officers were injured in this incident. The man was immediately transferred to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. After, the scene is cleared. 287 is back open at this time. The investigation is ongoing. Live in fort collins, jaime leary, cbs4 morning news. A number of known dead keeps at least 267 people have lost their live and rescuers are facing dangers as they try to find anyone alive. Heres our jonathan vigleali with the latest. Reporter officials trying to find those trapped. The earthquake in amatrice shows destruction. Homes without roofs and others barely of missing parents. After hours of searching, rescue teams pulled their bodies from the rubble of the home. Francesco was left in shock after saying damage to his home yesterday having lost many friends, and now he has no hom
If youre not sure how you feel, you can call us at 202 7458002. You can also send us your thoughts on social media. We are on twitter, cspanwj. Beer on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Here is some recent research from the Pew Research Center that did a study on how americans feel on medical marijuana and Recreational Use of marijuana in the United States. A study found a majority support legalizing marijuana in some form. 53 of americans felt that pot should be legalized, as opposed be43 , who think it should illegal. Support has grown to radically from 1990 when only about 60 supported legalizing pot. The study found that Many Americans have actually tried. Ot, even when it was not legal the report found that nearly half of americans have tried marijuana, and 12 say they have smoked marijuana or tried it in some form in the past year. We will turn to the phone lines. Be will write we will go right ahead and get started with patricia from
Morell provided Intelligence Briefings for president obama, and in his first tv interview, he gave us a briefing on syria and what that complicated civil war means to the United States. In the broadest sense, where is this syria thing going to take us . I fear the breakup of the state of syria. The collapse of the central government. Sectarian warfare, opportunity for al qaeda to have a safe haven. Kroft if you want to know what legalized marijuana might look like, the place to go is colorado, which has the most developed medical Marijuana Industry in the country. When patients arrive this is where theyll have to put their registry card and drivers license to gain access to the actual Marijuana Center itself. Kroft you can smell it. Its not a joking matter. 20 states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and in some cases as a way to raise money for their cashstrapped state budgets. All of those people are violating federal law. Exactly. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im morley s
Consequences, there will be consequences if the assad regime makes a terrible mistake by using these chemical weapons on their own people. Earlier today, leon panetta. Well have a report from the pentagon on syria in a moment. First, shock waves in washington. A powerful republican senator suddenly calling it quits. South carolina senator jim demint will step down december 31st to lead the heritage foundation. Its a powerful conservative think tank in washington. Demint says he can be more effective outside the senate. A lot of my role in the senate has been stopping bad things and saying no to bad things. But we need to do more than that and tell americans what were for. One of the mistakes i think the Republican Party made the last two years is trying to make obama the issue without sharing with america bold reform ideas that get people inspired to get behind us. Senator demint, huge tea party supporter. Sometimes clashes with his own partys leadership. He is leaving with four years