He claims he miss stook his girlfriend for an intruder. Im karn giannone in pretoria with details about witnesses testifying about a separate gun charge. Egypts attitudes to press freedom under the spotlight. The highprofile trial of al jazeera journalists resumes. Hello everyone. In ukraine there are hopes diplomatic contacts planned in the next few hours between russia, ukraines interim government, the European Union and u. S. Could present measures to ease tensions. Here is tim willcox in kiev. Reporter hello. You join me live in Independence Square here in central kiev. The number of demonstrators and protesters has diminished significantly over the last few weeks. You can see the shrine still erected to those who lost their lives almost a fortnight ago. 88 pictures. There are candles being lit for them every day by people who gave their lives here. Lets talk you through the latest developments because u. S. Secretary of state general kerry is due to meet the Russian Foreign minist
Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with big changes to obamacare. Thousands of americans will get to keep their plans at least for a bit longer. Tahman bradley has the details and Quick Reaction from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter marci and john, these changes would affect as many as 1. 5 million people. Up the new guidelines those people will get to keep their old plans for two more years even if those plans dont meet the requirements of the new law. The new set of regulations helps insurance customers but it also helps democrats facing a political problem in this falls midterm elections. Thats why republicans quickly criticized the president. A spokesman for john boehner said the president is rewriting laws around the election calendar, but the white house says the decision was not political. Without this change, john and marci, there would have been a wave of cancellations of Health Care Plans before the november election. All right, Tahma
Anybody. What is getting him through this excruciating experience. Prince harry takes his girlfriend of two years where theyve never gone before. Why royal watchers mean it could mean a wedding in their future. Hey, good morning. We are covering a mystery and a massive search this morning. Overnight this anguished scene as family members learned that Malaysian Airlines flight 370 simply vanished with 239 people on board while flying from kuala lumpur in malaysia to beijing. Such devastating news and theyre swarming a News Conference held by airline officials. Heres what we know. The flight went off the radar in the South China Sea near vietnam and right now theres an air and sea search and rescue mission for that boeing 777 which never sent out a distress signal which indicates whatever happened happened quickly. Yes, this is going to be a complicated search and rescue mission. There were three americans on board including an infant and were going to begin our coverage with abcs bob wo
Selfie . How you can get hundreds of dollars for the pictures on your phone. And a good evening to you on this wednesday night. It is a rite of passage in american life. And today, we learned it is an extreme makeover. The s. A. T. S, that test millions of High School Students take after sleepless nights and nervous preparation. And the results can make a difference into getting into college. But are those tests really fair . And will big changes make it possible for all children to get ahead . Abcs cecilia vega breaks down the big news. Reporter it is the test taken by millions of americans. Every generation for over 80 years. Now changing to become more modern, relevant and fair. Obscure Vocabulary Words that only come up in multipletest questions, gone. Words like panegyric, occlusion, phlegmatic. That means not easily excited, in case you didnt know. Replaced by words people actually use in College Classrooms and on the job. The redesigned s. A. T. Will instead focus on words stude
Good thursday morning. Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with big changes to obamacare. Thousands of americans will get to keep their plans at least for a bit longer. Tahman bradley has the details and Quick Reaction from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter marci and john, these changes would affect 1. 5 million people. Up the new guidelines those people will get to keep their old plans for two more years even if they dont meet the requirements of the new law. It helps insurance customers but helps democrats a political problem in the fall elections. Thats why they were kritly criticized. The president is rewriting laws around the election calendar, but the white house says the decision was not political. Without this change, john and marci, there would have been a wave of cancellations of Health Care Plans before the november election. All right, Tahman Bradley live in washington. Thank you. All right now, our other major story, an intense diplo