Now at eight. With a second bart strike looming. Kron four checks in on the negotiations. Three days is a very long time. Pam checks up on public opinion. Gonna have to get to work pam and checks out the best strategies to beat the gridlock. Reporter how much for a ride from fremont to San Francisco . Gonna be 100 to 110. Pam happening right now bart unions and management. Are still at the negotiating table. Trying to work out a deal and stave off a second cripple the bay area. We begin our Team Coverage stone. He is live in oakland with details on where the talks stand right now. Jr . Reporter the talks are just wrapped up. Every time we are at their we are trying to work hard. We are trying to work as much as we can as a settlement. We are far apart on it pension, medical, and retirement. Even if we do not have a deal struck on midnight there are a lot of avenues that can be pursued that do not have to end in a strike. We can continue talking we do not need to strike. We can continue
Im betty nguyen. All eyes on congress as they return to a hard sell of military intervention. President obama is gearing up for the sixth Network Interviews that he is going to be taping this afternoon. Very busy man all part of his fullcourt press strategy and ahead of the nationwide address tomorrow night. A new moveon. Org commercial is urging congress to reject the proposal and its apparently how congress is leaning right now as it returns today from a fiveweek recess. In the house, 227 are against military action or leaning towards a no vote. 25 are for military action. 181 still undecided. Now, in the senate 27 are against it or leaning no. 23 are in favor, with 50 undecided. We have Team Coverage with nbcs tracie potts in washington and nbcs jim maceda in turkey. We begin with tracie. Lawmakers facing a momentous vote there in washington. What do you know about that. Reporter that process starts this afternoon, betty, good morning, everyone. Thats why the obama administrations m
Storm wreaking havoc on americans. The northeast is getting the brunt of the storm as we speak, including heavy snow and freezing rain. Places like boston still cleaning up from last weeks storm could get an additional 58 inches of storm before the day is over. But it isnt phasing some new york residents. I love it. It makes me feel like im back home in kansas in the winter time. Here it comes boom. And this is breaking records, especially in the midwest. The storm dropped 16. 7 inches in the city of detroit, making it the third heaviest storm and in chicago 19. 3 making it the fifth heaviest. And according to flight aware. Com, 4,000 flights have been canceled. Nbcs ron allen joins me live from boston where he is driving around through the sleet and the snow and the sludge for your entertainment. Ron allen, what is going on out there . Im riding around not driving around which is an important distinction. And it is pretty bad out here. As you can see, this is mass avenue in the south
Committed to something called diversity. A concept that nobodys willing to explain but that nonetheless we must celebrate enthusiastically and perpetually. Listen to nancy pelosi explain. Biodiversity, that is our strength. Diversity is our strength. Our diversity is our strength. I always say that diversity is our strength. And i stated to the caucus, our diversity is our restraint. The fact is, our diversity is our strength. Tucker okay. Got it . Diversity is our strength. They made up her crystal clear. What is still unclear is what exactly diversity is paired what is it . Well, for one thing, diversity is the reason that allison child but was forced to resign her dog job in hers grace period until 24 hours ago, she was the executive director of the Democratic Congressional campaign and yesterday she quit in tears. She asked her colleagues to forgive her as she packed her things. What did she do wrong . Well, nothing, actually. She didnt hurt anyone. She didnt hurt anyone. Insane th