Womens rights, and more. The debate opened with biden sparring with california senator Kamala Harris on their healthcare plans. Anytime somebody tells you you are going to get something good in 10 years, you should wonder why it takes 10 years. Under our plan, we will ensure everyone has access to health care. Plan by contrast leaves out almost 10 million americans. Amy we will air highlights from the debate and speak to professor cornel west who has endorsed Bernie Sanders and the legendary labor leader dolores huerta. She is cochair of Kamala Harriss campaign. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In detroit, 10 president ial hopefuls took the stage wednesday evening for the Second Democratic primary debate with nine contenders taking aim at former Vice President joe bidens record on criminal justice, the iraq war, immigration, and womens rights. With bidenopened sparring with Kamala Harris on their Healt
it is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead this hour, the welcome surprise from the december jobs report showing the u.s. labor market closed out 2023 with a bang. plus, former blade runner, oscar pistorius out on parole after serving almost a decade in prison for murdering his girlfriend. how her family is responding. the latest from iowa where that horrific school shooting has rocked the community of perry. new reporting on how the school s principal acted to save his students. and house democrats and their push to get supreme court justice clarence thomas off the key 2024 ballot. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that new jobs report. nbc senior business report christine roman is with us. give us the big adnes. look, it was a sol i woul - solid end to the year, 216 new jobs in december. they eected the job market to keep slowing because of the fed rate increases, and the job
it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good afternoon, everyone. it s good to have you. election day, it s tomorrow, and the biggest names in both politics both political parties i should say are crisscrossing the kucountry in frenetic pitch to get out the vote. republicans believe they ll have what it takes to regain the house. all 435 house seats are up for grabs. 35 senate seats also on the ballot. control of that chamber is anyone s guess at this point, plus three dozen governor seats will be decided, and scores of other state and local positions. let s start in wisconsin and cnn s lucy kavanaugh. republican senator ron johnson fighting to hold onto his seat from mandela barnes, the lieutenant governor there. how are they making these final pitches to voters? reporter: that s right, victor. there is a close race for the governor as well, but all eyes on the senate race. the outcome of which could determine the balance of power in congress. we have two-term
Once the Iran Nuclear Deal moves forward. The gulf coast remembers the wrath of one storm as another churns in the caribbean. Forecasters say Tropical Storm erica has the potential to dump several inches of rain on florida next week. As that storm moves west, the u. S. Is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast. More than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in american history. Former president george w. Bush returned to new orleans today to praise the citys comeback. His administration was severely criticized for its response to the storm. Jonathan martin joirnzo joins us live from new orleans. Good evening, jonathan. How was the former president received . Reporter erica, good eveni eveninging to you. He was received pretty well by the people he came in contact with. Its important to point out this was a very brief stop for the former president. He made one stop here in new orleans at a Charter School, a Charter School he visited before on t
Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l