concussions in sports we are look back at the year that was. al from snap chat, social media continues to penetrate every aspect of our lives. with he break down some of the biggest changes in the world. and we ll take a look back at the notable people who left us this year. welcome to the special holiday edition of consider this. we begin with the stories that made the biggest headlines. the the government shut down that no one really wanted but no one could really stop to the birth of a royal baby who is a long way off from inheriting the throne, but who everybody wanted to talk about anyway. we will start with the top political stories then move on to security, the international scene, and some of the top water cooler stories of 2013. david road, prize winning reporter, and tony karen, senior on line executive producer and senior editor at time.com. great to have you with us today. i want to start with the government shut down, was arguably the biggest is story of the ye
we have three people rolling joints for two days straight. giving new meaning for rocky mountain high. today smoking pot for fun is legal in colorado. [ music ] good morning. welcome to al jazeera america. on this january 1st, 2014. i m stephanie sy. after watching millions around the world celebrate the new year it was america s turn to ring in 2014 with midnight fireworks and festivities, the celebration on the west coast took place three hours ago. thousands watched as the space needle went up. further down the coast san francisco had a 15 minute fireworks show over the bay and in chicago they brushed off a snow storm to view the fireworks over lake michigan. in new york more than a million packed into times square. revellers packed in to see the ball drop. supreme court justice so. onya sotomyor returned to her home town, pressing the button that triggered the ball jot. she was at the center of a last-minute legal decision, hours before the affordable care act w
mo rocco went to cairo to look at this. the inept egyptian sits in the st. louis art museum and egypt wants it back. it was from egypt. they re not the only ones making demands. today our museums are much more cautious about making acquisitions. the call to bring art home ahead on sunday morning. osgood: thinking about a new look. the latest twist. one of history s most popular hairstyles is making a come back. braids are back. it is universal, it s timeless, it s practical and endless possibilities. later on sunday morning the latest twist on braids. osgood: a new movie harkens back to the day where folk singers held court in greenwich village. the subject of a new movie and anthony mason will talk with the man behind the music. music producer t bone burnett needed to recreate the folk scene for the new film inside llewyn davis. what is it about producing for film that you find so satisfying. putting image and music together is very powerful thi
after they returned to the table to discuss that. mike has the details. reporter: here are the tentative agreements signed by all the parties involved dated today as this got done very early this morning. we got word around 3:00 this morning from the unions that this deal had been reached. you might remember this all stems from the disputed family medical leave act that bart management said was included in error during the last contract. it would have allowed bart employees to get up to six weeks of paid family medical leave, the bart board did not ratify that contract and thus the two sides went back to the negotiating table to resolve this, that is not in, more leave and how employees can use time off including sick leave and those and it expands bereavement leave policy to low paid time off for the grandchild or stepparent of a child or spouse or domestic partner and they will see employee break rooms at three stations, something unions have called for. in a statement
welcome to a very special awards show. with us mike duffy from time magazine. bbc s katty kay. new york times helene cooper and abc s sam donaldson. first up, tis the season for year-end political awards. best and worst. last year part one of our political awards and this week part two and this is pure fun. our first category president obama s smartest political decision of 2012. which one of these four choices will our roundtablers pick? was the smartest obama decision to campaign relentlessly on raising taxes on the rich? or was it the early takedown of mitt romney in all those ads last spring that painted him as a rich guy? or the high-tech multimillion dollar back room operation to identify every obama vote and then turn it out on election day? for finally, was the smartest obama decision just bring it in, bubba? no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. chris: was that stack