We wish both of those obama daughters only, only the best in these coming four years and indeed throughout their lives. You can follow what is going on here in the situation room on twitter, tweet me wolfblitzer, and like us on facebook as well. The news continues next on cnn. Hello everyone, don lemon, you are in the cnn newsroom, lets get caught up on the headlines of the day. Riots erupted over a court decision, sending 21 people to death. At least 30 people were killed in clashes with Security Forces today. This all happened after the Court Sentenced 21 people for their role in a post game soccer riot last year, more than 70 people were killed in that right. Thousands of people marched in washington today demanding tough new gun control laws, its the first antigun demonstration since the newtown shooting. Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong said he is ready to cooperate with a agency tasked with cleaning up doping in the sport. This announcement as the head of the u. S. Antidoping ag
Good evening. For all the drama of a long, hardfoutd campaign, it took all of a half a minute for president obama today to take the oath that officially starts his second term in office. Without pomp or pageantry, it was a simple affair in the white house blue room, with his wife and daughters at his side. The president fulfilling you the constitutional requirement of being sworn in on 290th of january. Thousands have descended on this city tonight to share in tomorrows traditional public swearing in and inaugural parade and witness the start of the second half of Barack Obamas historic presidency. We have full coverage of the second inauguration and we start with nbcs Peter Alexander across the street from the white house at lafayette park. Peter, good evening. Reporter lester, good evening to you. The first family will watch that inaugural parade right behind us. That is pennsylvania avenue and the thank is the reviewing stand where they will i is before the festivities can begin, th
President of the United States will protect and preserve and defend the constitution of the United States. Will protect and preserve the constitution of the United States. So help me god. So help me god. Thank you, mr. Chief justice. We have Team Coverage of the 57th president ial inauguration, and luke russert is with us on the washington mall, but we start with Peter Alexander on the north lawn of the white house this afternoon. Pete, we know that the first family attended the historic Metropolitan Church this morning, and what are they up to right now . Well, they get some quiet time together as a family which compared to the hundreds of thousands of people now converging on the capitol ahead of tomorrows public swearing in and the president ial address, the inaugural address to take place, we believe they are here at the white house right now. We have a good look at sasha obama, the youngest daugt e of the oobamas today after the swearing in took place and she looked at her dad and
Shorter than advertised. Ron claiborne is drawing up litigation as we speak. We were able to get an official response. Wait till you hear how they are playing this one. Food on set to test this out. But first new details are emerging about how the deadly stand off in algeria ended. A raid by special forces with dozens dead including militants and hostages at least one of whom we know is an american. Brian ross has been working his sources and what do we know . Reporter good morning. Of the ten americans at the bp facility, seven got out but at least one died and the fate of two others is of growing concern this morning in the wake of the bloody attempts by the Algerian Army to rescue them from their al qaeda captors. The Algerian Armys final assault came after four days. In which the hostages were held under the threat of death by the terrorists. The army recaptured the bprun facility but not before the terrorists apparently executed the remaining seven hostages. Over the course of the
The white house on the eve of the inauguration, a reminder, ill be back tomorrow night at 9 00 live on my Inauguration Day special from washington. Ill be joined by the president s inner circle, david axelrod, jim macina, Stephanie Cutter and many others. Thats all for us. Have a good night tonight. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this very special edition of early start weekend. It is sunday, january 20th. Glad youre with us, im randi kaye. Im john burrman. Glad to see you here this morning. Were live on the National Mall as we gear up for the 57th president ial inauguration. Today is the official swearing in of president barack obama for his second term. That will happen at 11 55 a. M. Eastern time this morning. In just two hours, Vice President joe biden will take his oath of office and all day long, cnn will bring you the ceremonies, the concerts, the celebrations and, of course, the political and the Historical Context of the day. First, we want to bring you up to date now on t