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the government is now headed for its first shut down in over 17 years. house republicans passed a bill to keep the republicans going, including a year delay to the affordable care act, known as obamacare. democrats who control the senate said before and after the vote that changes to obamacare is dead on arrival. if republicans could find votes in the senate to pass their plan, which they can t. barack obama promised to veto the bill. house speaker john boehner believes the latest action could reflect some of the blame for the shutdown, and the pr and political battle over who is at fault has begun. a rare weekend session for the house. emotions are running high. the republican majority will vote to shut the government down. republicans say democrats are missing the point because they are too tide to obamacare. why are we doing this? number one, this is a program that is too expensive to afford. as both sides watch the clock and wait the blame game takes cen ....
a busy afternoon for you on capitol hill. the senate just voted to increase the nation s debt limit. and we begin with a major storm that is affecting millions of people from the deep south to the east coast. all up and down the east coast. thousands of flights, trains have within canceled. only a few people ventured out into this mess braving the elements, despite warnings from city and emergency officials, and for good reason as areas from washington, d.c. to new england will see inches, possibly a foot of snow. robert ray is in marietta, georgia. the man is walking on a road. i see you. i don t see the traffic, robert. yes, tony, check that out. check out this road. i m on a bridge on i-75 outside of atlanta. it is completely dead as bbs of sleet is coming down and ice-lanta as people are calling it, my photographer is going to wipe his lens plus it is coming down. getting sand blasted at a hurricane. speaking of hurricanes, the hurricane hunters which go into th ....
and the link between climate change and the most devastating mass extinction in years. action obal day of first, a global day of action. it will be a huge internet protest. it is going to be an opportunity for big websites like reddit and others. over 6000 websites are taking part in a day of action against the nsa and mass surveillance. we will speak to rainey reitman. all of that and more coming back. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. an anti-drone activist and journalist has gone missing in pakistan just days before he was due to travel to europe to speak with parliament members about the impact of the u.s. drone wars. the legal charity reprieve says karim khan was seized in the early hours of february 5 by up to 20 men, some wearing police uniforms. yes not been seen since. his brother and son were both killed in a drone strike. he criticized u.s. drone wars in an interview with filmmaker madiha tahir. you as ....
about the impact of u.s. drone wars. we will speak to madiha tahir, director of the film, wounds of waziristan. then, attorney general eric holder calls for the repeal of state laws that are convicted felons from voting. across this country today, an estimated 5.8 million americans are prohibited from voting because of current or previous felony convictions. that is more than the individual populations of 31 united states. reporters without borders has just published its press freedom index for 2014. the u.s. has dropped 13 spots to just 46 on the list. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. passed a has narrowly new measure to let the debt ceiling until march 2015. 28 republicans joined with democrats, dropping her party s long-running tactic of tying the debt limit to cuts on social spending. this time military pensions, the measure faces an uncertain fate in the senate where it is i m ....
climate change, we will speak with meteorologist jeff masters of the weather underground and bill mckibben. the to north carolina. last week s coal ash spill there is one of the worst in u.s. history. did state regulators intentionally block lawsuits against duke energy in order to shield the company where republican governor pat mccrory worked for 28 years? we will speak with amy adams. she recently resigned from the north carolina department of environment and natural resources. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. at least 13 people have died and inr 550,000 have lost power a massive snow and ice storm across the eastern united states. the national weather service called the storm in event of historic proportions. governors have declared states of emergency from louisiana to new jersey. we will have more on the story after the headlines. president obama has issued an executive order raisi ....