Its been a particularly difficult holiday for millions of americans. Nearly 11 Million People are unemployed. 4 million have been unemployed for more than six months. As of today, nearly a third of those people are being cut off from a federal lifeline. 1. 3 million americans lost longterm Unemployment Benefits. On average, each person got a little more than a thousand dollars a month. The benefits began in 2008 at the height of the recession. Since then, the payouts have cost the federal government 225,000,000,000. Congress had renewed them regularly until this year. Rebecca dixon said the government should do something. We would need to have a robust job creation program. There have been lots of ideas that have been out there that have been part of the president s budget, that have been part of different budgets from both parties. But there seems to be this gridlock in congress and an unwillingness to take it on. In america, we dont look at problems like this as too big. We cant just
Antarctic beings average but, another ship is on its way. Fancy in iran this is one cool place to chill. I think its really nice, so much better than in germany. Welcome to al jazeera. A blast has killed at least ten peel in a train station in the south of russia. Around six others have been injured in a explosion in the city of volgograd. Lets go life to peter sharpe. He is in london. What do we know about the injured and dead . Ten injured six dead. Metal detectors used by metal detectors, probably the most busy weekend of the year, people traveling to be with their families in the upcoming new years holiday. Volgograd known as stalingrad, is only six meerdz from sochi. Meters from sochi. The russian Authorities Say they deployed 37,000 Security Forces in the area. This is just the sort of authentic that would be worrying them. Peter lets remind ourselves, there was also another explosion about two months ago in roughly the same place by a russian female suicide bombers. Thats right,
Past two months. Heres a live look outside at downtown san jose. You can see the brown sky there. Meteorologist anthony slaughter joins us. When will we see winterlike weather out there . Its not on the horizon any time soon. Things continue to remain dry all the way through 2013. But i want to bring your attention to why its been so hazy over the past month or so. An area of High Pressure over the bay area. That creates a lid. When you get spare the air warnings, you have to have High Pressure aloft and you also have to have calm winds at the valley floor. Thats what were looking at. And a lot of that calming of the wind allows for the pollution to get trapped. Because of that were talking about another spare the air alert for tomorrow. Categories in the unhealthy levels. Heres the other thing you have to have for a red flag warning, strong winds. They kind of counterbalance themselves. We had a cold front come through yesterday that stirred up the atmosphere. Now we have that cold ai
Comments. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Alongside jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. Good morning, everyone. We have been watching the stalled ship at the bottom of the world and fascinating to see what is happening. We are learning the latest on the slow Recovery Efforts in the south pole and really the efforts focused right now in getting everyone safely out of there. Martin fletcher has been following this for us from london. Martin, good morning. Good morning top. Reporter so near, yet so far. Now the chinese eyebreaker six northern miles from the trapped ship is all but stuck itself and cant move forward in ice. Australian icebreaker is on its way but shirts are said to be high. The people on board are a Research Team from the australian yuveuniversity of so wales and telling their families not to worry and save they have enough f
Conditions getting worse. Incoming storm further hampering efforts to get to that russian strip strand inside a sea of ice at the bottom of the world. Another attempt to reach it as they reassure family and friends they are pok. Safe and sound. Four u. S. Personnel in libya okay. A e makes an aboutface that Phil Robertson will return to the tv show after he was suspended for making antigay comments. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Alongside jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. Good morning, everyone. We have been watching the stalled ship at the bottom of the world and fascinating to see what is happening. We are learning the latest on the slow Recovery Efforts in the south pole and really the efforts focused right now in getting everyone safely out of there. Martin fletcher has been following this for us from london. Martin, good morning.