good morning, and thanks so much for joining us here on al jazeera america. live in new york city i m morgan radford. it s a waiting game in greece where people are lining up to take money out of atms. banks are closed today and will be next week as the dead approaches to solve the debt crisis. they owe nearly $2 billion debt payment tomorrow. they have schedule add a referendum on saturday to decide whether or not to accept a deal. john, what exactly are people doing today ahead of that deadline? reporter: well people are thinking of their household expenses and keeping themselves afloat rather than the national obligation to pay a creditor on tuesday. so they are still lining up at cash machines as they have been all weekend, but as of today if they find a cash machine with money in it and the government says they have been refilled they can withdraw up to 60 euros, about $66 per card per day. it is a subsistence amount to keep people from going hungry. people have with
[applause] good evening it is great to have you. i am the executeiveexecutiveive producer of the writers on stage and the executive director of the music hall. e our guest tonight is the celebrated journalist tom brokaw visiting with his new book hot off the press a lucky life interrupted. we are honored this is going to be the only book-related event he is doing in the country. [applause] there is so much to say about this remarkable man but he asked me to keep it short and i will. he is an award winner in many categories, he is a favorite of television audiences, a familiar face and a calming voice and for years he manned the anchor chair at nbc news and he is the author of six best sellers. he is a native of south dakota and graduated from the university of south doakotdakota and began his journalism career in omaha. he was the editor of nbc nightly news with tom brokaw from 1983-2005. i am give you the barest highlights here. he is still producing movies and providi
attacked you. so there is that aspect of it. there is concern about catalytic for silly of a crisis between two countries and also all of a sudden one is being hit hard by cyber attack and this assumes is the other country, its rival it could be a third party. you have that kind of issue, another issue of the ability to get nuclear weapons and overtime they build up an arsenal at the north koreans are doing missile flight times between israel and iran are five or six minutes. early warning is the problem is what happens if a few of the israelis iranians confidence the early warning system is a corrupted that your system is an saying the israelis are attacking you have to launch a counterattack when in fact it is just a cyber war. so you know, how do you begin to supplement this problem? and it is a challenge. we will be interesting. marshall has retired. not scheduled to pick a new director for the office sometime soon. it s going to be done well. we can help the secretary
welcome, i m bob abernethy. it s good to have you with us. a week after the presidential election, the u.s. catholic bishops vowed to remain active on several hot-button issues, including gay marriage, which, despite the bishops opposition, was legalized by voters in three states. at their annual fall meeting in baltimore, the bishops also voted down a statement on poverty and the economy. those opposed argued it was not strong enough and failed to significantly highlight church teachings on social justice. meanwhile, the bishops voted unanimously to push for sainthood for dorothy day, co-founder of the catholic worker movent. day died in 80. she spearheaded a nationwide effort to help the poor and homeless. according to new figures from the census bureau, more than 49 million americans, close to one in six, lived in poverty last year. that number reflects a new approach to calculating poverty that takes into account money spent on healthcare, childcare and other living
the kron 4 morning news hist we picked a big 70s yesterday. we saw a 70 degree readings and oakland and sonoma. i think was seymour and with 70s. i think was a 70 again in oakland 66 degrees in san mateo. 69 for those of you and sunnyvale here s the 7 day around the bay forecast expected similar conditions as we have into the weekend although it might not be as warm still plenty of sunshine to go ride on. coast of a fog like a sunday morning. center will start to close as we head into next week spent mostly cloudy conditions in looks like gray retires to the bay area wednesday paris stay even next friday north bound a 80 the on ramp to murray avenue at car went into a ditch and looks like emergency crews are trying to extract it. as for the bridges looking good as your mcllroy to the bay bridge right now. none of that traffic coming from the nimitz freeway approach. all of the cars were seen are coming from the shore freeway pretax westbound 5 80 m in lights are off and you