Make her big debut today, saturday, january 18th, 2014. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. And we want to get right to todays top story, that suicide bombing in afghanistan. Annabel roberts is following developments for us from london. Annabel, good morning. Reporter good morning, lester. Well, it was friday night, the restaurant was busy when a suicide bomber burst in and detonated explosives. Eyewitnesses say two gunmen followed, firing indiscriminately. At least 21 people were killed, 13 of them foreigners. Among them, two u. S. Citizens from the American University of afghanistan. That organization has issued a statement, saying they are devastated by the news. Also killed, the imfs top representative in the country and four u. N. Personnel, making this the deadliest attack against foreign civilians in afghanistan since the war began nearly 13 years ago. The restaurant was conside
Are calling it the polar vortex. And it is on the move. 140 million americans facing windchills below zero degrees. Breaking records from chicago to tulsa. So, how low will the temperatures go . And how long will it last . Our abc news extreme weather team is out in the deep freeze all across this country tonight. And abc meteorologist ginger zee starts us off with the big picture. Ginger . Diane, that big picture is a wickedly cold one. Even here in new york city, where we started the morning in the 50s, were going to drop to the Single Digits by tomorrow morning. And look at that. The width of this cold. All the way through the northern rockies, to iowa, through the gulf coast. And even miami will get cold tonight. Lifethreatening, school closing, recordbreaking cold. Thats incredibly cold air in western iowa. Weve got brutal cold everywhere you go. Its still going to feel like 20, 25 degrees below zero. Reporter the scenes from our sub zero nation are stunning tonight. From zero vis
Theyre looking for their own turnout as well. And continues to be stirred up. And benghazis part of that process. They want this to go on forever. Reality is its going to be a colossal waste of taxpayer money. The question becomes are we likely to learn anything new . Hi, im ari melber in for lawrence odonnell. And tonight we are back to benghazi. Many republicans said the 2014 campaign would be all about repeal. You remember that. And that was back when the a. C. A. Was a political idea that had not been tested. Now the aca is working with 15 Million People covered. An actual repeal would take Health Care Away from an awful lot of voters. A report out today in fact shows the rate of the uninsured in america is now down to 13. 4 . That is the lowest since gallup started polling that data in 2008. But House Republicans dont want to deal with that. So it is back to benghazi. Today they promised a vote as soon as this thursday to do something about benghazi. That means doing something if
Saturday night live. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone, thanks for joining us im don lemon in for erin burnett. A major vote in washington postponed tonight blamed on the weather but did either side have the vote . Its a bill that affects 1. 3 million americans and whether they get their unemployment checks. A vote to proceed would have been a huge victory for the democrats. They needed 60 votes. That means the democrats needed the support of five republicans. And tonight they didnt have the bodies on capitol hill. Straight now to joe johns who is on capitol hill for us. There was uncertainty about the vote and now the reason we are hearing is the weather. Would the democrats have had the votes . We dont know. I got to tell you, if all 100 senators were here at the United States capitol tonight, everybody working, it still still would have been a cliffhanger by almost anyones assessment. The democrats need five republicans to go with them. We have counted four republicans who ha
The question becomes are we likely to learn anything new . Hi, im ari melber in for lawrence odonnell. And tonight we are back to benghazi. Many republicans said the 2014 campaign would be all about repeal. You remember that. And that was back when the a. C. A. Was a political idea that had not been tested. Now the aca is working with 15 Million People covered. An actual repeal would take Health Care Away from an awful lot of voters. A report out today in fact shows the rate of the uninsured in america is now down to 13. 4 . That is the lowest since gallup started polling that data in 2008. But House Republicans dont want to deal with that. So it is back to benghazi. Today they promised a vote as soon as this thursday to do something about benghazi. That means doing something if you count convening politicians to repeat talking points as doing something. Their new plan is literally to form a committee devoted especially to this topic. A House Select Committee on benghazi. There is only