ends, peter greste calls on egypt to release his colleagues. and should parents be able to opt out of the measles innoculation? this is live in new york city i m tony harris. middle class economics president obama is sending congress a record $4 trillion budget taxes on the wealth, free tuition and sick leave benefits. everybody is playing by the same set of rules. the budget that the congress has in its hands is built on those values. that is why president obama is pushing for paid sick leave and today 43 million workers in the private sector don t get paid if they call in sick. that would change in the president s budget. libby casey has more on the president s wish list. libby. tony, the president s blueprint is a clear example of where he wants to go with his priorities. changes where taxes would come from and where exactly spending would go towards. the biggest line item as is standard is defense spending to the tune of nearly half a trillion dollars. sending b
martha teichner s cover story. then on the store radio of three american hikers strayed across the border in to iran. coming their inside story to tracy smith. they walked free after two years in a tehran prison. some still want to know how the iran hikers got there in the first place. you must have heard comments from people saying, come on, you were naive, you were stupid. to make this mistake. what i would say to people that criticize me for going to the middle east in the first place that something terrible could have happened to me in my own back yard. their inside story ahead this sunday morning. catherine da knew is a legend on the screen. known for her talent and beauty talk about it with bob simon of 60 minutes. catherine! she has been acting for 57 years. in her early days she was known as the ice maiden, elegant, distant, reserved. but then things changed. what was it like for you when you acted in your first really steamy movie? a steamy movie?
controllers. those final words were all right. good night. the hunt for flight 370 turns to the men in the cockpit. investigators removing a flight simulator. . malaysian police say they re investigating a flight engineer, one of the passengers aboard that plane. an earthquake struck california north of downtown los angeles. so far, no reports of any majormajo majorly damage. some areas could see 10 inches. like an april fool s joke, right? maybe we ll do of the snow. delta 757 losing part of its wing while in the air from orlando to atlanta. everyone is okay. crimeans voted to become part of the russian federation. president obama said that the united states rejects the referendum result. it s corruption. russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. the navy s.e.a.l. rescue in the mediterranean sea took control of a tanker seas. a black man named oreo is back to safety after being stranded on a seaside cliff in california. all that. we re
hostage in iran recalled her harrowing ordeal. for 410 days, mostly in solitary confinement. held for 26sh were months. their memoir is being published today. it wasn t until six months or so into it that we saw a new sticker, american spies to go to trial at some point. we kept telling our interrogators, what are we being charged with? they would say, we don t know. and we will look at what they ve been doing since the release. once i left prison, it didn t feel over. i thought about the people i was in prison with. i thought about prisoners around the world. it made sense to me to start looking into prisons in this country. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. russia is formally recognized crimea as an independent state, paving the way for the annexation and define new sanctions led by the united states. in a speech today, russian president vladimir putin announced his support for itsxin
strike tomorrow night and there s a danger that if they are somewhat on the fence that would change their mind. what argument book as we said the time it with what the red lines are. that is when we should take military action. if iran is emerging to 90% and kicked out inspectors at that point it ll be clear and if we don t do anything they will build nuclear weapons of taking action will be the only thing that creates the possibility of a nonnuclear outcome. uniting the iranian people. i think that s almost certain the short term it would create a rally around the flag effect. the other thing we know about it is they tend to be relatively short-lived and many people understand avesta policy much better than me from a u.s. military strategy and national security strategy point of view that those who know domestic politics very well say the long-term it will create opportunities for operation figures to criticize the government for mismanaging the problem to this point that