> and finally from us tonight, we like to think of ourselves as a classy news operation, after all "america tonight " originates from the museum, classy enough to have a sense of humor, especially when it takes place in our own backyard. "america tonight" sarah hoy went in. >> the legend of ron burgundy. >> i love scotch, i love scotch, scotchy scotch scotch. >> that 2004 comedy quickly became a cult classic. now almost a decade later, the highly anticipated follow-up anchorman 2, the legend continues, is in theaters. >> we're starting a 24 hour news channel. we want you. >> do the thing that god put ron burgundy on the earth to do. have salon quality hair and read the news. >> promoting the film when had farrell appearing on a number of tv shows as the over the top ron burgundy, promoting a fake book. >> there's tips in here i wouldn't expect to come from a newsman, one is how to survive a prison riot. >> or interviewing nfl quarterback peyton manning for espn. >> peyton, can you hear me? >> i sure can, ron. and it's an honor to be talking to you. >> peyton, can you hear me? >> and even re

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what's happening in america is happening all over america and it is happening in a way that has to do with the fact that that wages median wages are going nowhere and rents are going up and there is absolutely no response in washington or elsewhere particularly particularly newt i'm surprised you are not here as we are unfortunately out of time as usual secretary rice is right on the money good to see him calling out speaker gingrich is. b.s. too bad mad schultz i was republican secretary of state has spent one hundred fifty thousand dollars over the last year and a half investigating you guessed it voter fraud or schultz as the voter fraud is a big problem is much vaunted ballot security initiative has yet to find any concrete evidence of mass vote. five people charging voter fraud have actually had their cases dismissed and of the five who have lied to the pleaded guilty most broke the law by accident destroyed story reporter one woman death and gallagher cast an absentee ballot on behalf of her daughter but recently moved to minnesota and but she wouldn't be eligible to vote howeve

analyst told it all america was spying on citizens world leaders friends and foes alike and the man has broken the laws and i damage the country i think is a traitor snowden quickly became the most wanted man of the year with the us ready to stop and search a president's plane just in case. my first thought when i was forced to land was how can your opinion countries obey the will of the us i imagine these nations would defenders of democracy snowden made moscow's airport his home for weeks before finding a way out and it was not as planned and up here there was united states made him stale us by revoking us passport and russia to its credit actually recognised international law and granted political asylum the whistleblower remains in an undisclosed location in the russian capital we know exactly. just this one last. night vision why to somebody want. to suck a. person someone told the truth snowden promises to keep the leaks coming through twenty fourteen together we can find a better balance and mance surveillance and for a mind of the government that if it really wants to know how w

wind wake up call that the ultimate revelation of twenty thirteen the former nsa analyst told that all america i was spying on citizens world leaders friends and foes alike were never broken the laws may damage the country. he's a traitor. stoning quickly became the most wanted man of the year. the u s ready to stop and search a president's plane just in case we need to mail my first cold one on the folsom and was held in european countries and play the winner for us. i imagine these nations were defenders of democracy. snowden made moscow's airport is home for weeks before finding a way out the nose eyes and end up here the united states made of stainless by revoking s passport. and russia to its credit archer recognized international law and grand temples. the whistleblower remains an undisclosed location in the russian capital. and it is a us has long been lost. scientists lying to congress the us. i know curse. the truth. the it promises to keep the leaks coming through twenty fourteen. together we can find a better house. and mass surveillance. why the government really wants to know how

my family's community is on an island, the oldest continuously inhabited community in all of north america. it's between 8 and 12,000 years old and now the school was shut down in 2009, and the community is shriveling up. the families are leaving because they need their kids in school, and yes, it's the -- patrick is right. it's the death nell of the village. >> speaking of that, the communities make a parallel between school and urban: >> the geography plays a huge role. i spent three weeks up there with reporting and you have to understand the distance involved. >> and i think that people don't appreciate that. >> can i add to that distance issue? the community where i raised my children, in the allutian islands, the closest school is 100 miles away, but in order to get there, you have to either charter a plane out of alaska, which costs between 5 and $6,000, or you hop on a plane and fly and hundred miles into anchorage and fly there, which costs $2,000. >> not a practical solution to commuting to school. coming up, the length that teachers and students try to go to to stay in the class

and al-qaeda last week revealed washington's no longer insisting on bridge change their reports america's all good partners saying america's next if they were in syria appears to have got even a little nervous for the doc to get out as phone calls interventionism just murder by another name get a joins us it's great to speak to you so if the u.s. stops intervening what about all the other poor people in the world waiting for the u.s. to bomb and save the intervention isn't. it a recipe. disaster and this is something that we see in iraq. and i've got to be let to let. people find their way if we maybe. want to be liberated. to walk out and i did it when my wife wants something from me you know she knows how to die humanitarian imperialism using schuman rights to sell war a keynote book on the subject rights hellholes poster boys for intervention kosovo and yugoslavia was actually prove the opposite horrific consequences of u.s. interference in fact by its very definition in the us intervention all to most sickly means a country is no longer exercising national sovereignty although democracy w

a lot of americans have depended on the emergency room for their health care x that has cost all americaust depended on emergency room checkups. with the affordable care act, everybody has a chance to get health care meaning across the board prices go down for all americans -- >> they don't. they have a chance to get health insurance. >> they finally get a chance to get preventive care so they don't end up costing millions of american dollars. martha: richard fowler, mike slater, thank you very much, guys. i think we're going to be doing a little bit on this in the new year as well. bill: trouble onboard the international space station, a malfunction that could force the crew to make an emergency space walk. we have an update on that. >>> also alabama's kicker criticized for his performance during the iron bowl gets a positive note from a former commander in chief. martha: alabama kicker kate foster has been on the receiving end of a lot of hate mail, even death threats since missing three field goals in his team's stunning loss to auburn, and what an exciting win that was for auburn, ri

america. my final thoughts go out to m mcdoubled's franchise owners trying to unload a lot of chicken wings. millions of pounds of them which customers don't much want. mcdonald restaurant owners all across america bought some 50 million pounds of frozen wings for a limited time mighty wings promotion this fall. today they still have 10 million pounds of wings unsold. earlier in the show we talked about the perils for businesses that extend a lot of money on inventory to stock their shelves and warehouses but then have trouble unloading that inventory. whether commuters find the mighty wings too spicy, too expensive or both, owners have been told they have been told to participate in a new mighty wings promotion at a lower price or pay for all that inventory. what a flap. a race to make christmas a salesman act. i'm ali velshi. thanks for joining us. hans-dietrich genscher >> hello everyone, welcome to al jazeera america, i'm david shuster in new york. president obama is heading home for the holidays. he and the first family are on the way to hawaii. on friday the president said a vacation and the sleep and rest will help to prepare him for the year ahead. before leaving washingto

rise while of almost quote nation building in afghanistan funding new schools and teachers all across america school budgets are being caught and teachers fired while spending has more than doubled since nine eleven going to places like afghanistan iraq and now al qaeda in syria pentagon claims it takes just five percent of your tax but economics professor you discover divorced expenditures from military repayment to veterans affairs nuclear weapons and many many other direct will cost the taxpayers all knowingly paying for profound and astonishing sixty eight cents of your every tykes dollar now goes on for a bull's educational. a new generation of americans gets five for the pizza cruise next kohls of the untold history of the united states with hollywood director oliver stone for screws and he joins us this great to see you what happens in states the choose war over school spending thing that threatens the united states more than terrorism more than anything really is the failure of our educational system so worst of both we're all they have debt and they don't have the education that's go

we have to lie all the time in america. >> what have you wanted to say? >> i'm afraid to say it on tv. there are so many obvious things in america you are not allowed to say. >> there is a different standard -- >> no one is telling me what to say. >> are you kidding? what american doesn't self-censor himself constantly? >> i don't. >> i think you do unless -- >> i say things that are politically incorrect all the time. i don't care. >> what politically incorrect thing the can you think of? >> i can't think of any. >> i'm not going there. >> this is a symptom of a bigger problem here. hollywood doesn't get middle america. why is a show successful? think about it. the kardashians get all of the media attention. >> filthy and awful. >> "duck dynasty" has better ratings. but they get no national coverage unless something like this happens.

. >> it was a huge event in america, and all america's hearts. you don't mind my parents went through that in that time. i talked about it with them. it's something they were honoured to do. >> while most of the coaches and none of the players involved in this year's game at lincoln financial field were born before the 1963 classic they are part of a lineage to a time when a game helped a nation recover from a dark tragedy. >> thank you so much. one more update. a minute to go. michigan state 34-24. ohio loses, florida state like i in the title game. >> maybe the underdog will come through. >> very close, we'll see. >> weather when we come back. tÑ >> right now it feels like it's below zero. all the cold air from canada dropping temperatures down. it feels like 9 below zero. 3 degrees below zero for nebraska, where we have been getting snow, working in. iowa will have a bit of snow - 2-4 inches expected. as we move to what snow can look like in the mountains, it's great for skiing and snow boarding, but you'll contin to get snow at the higher par

and for us here at al jazeera, it all began when we signed as al jazeera america.some of the stories we have covered for you around the world. and what a year it has been. ♪ [ gunfire ] >> the war machine is relentless. >> this people are the victims of attacks using chemical weapons. >> as we were interviewing the leader we could hear migs flying overhead. everybody scrambled. >> 11-year-old mohammed is the survivor of an air strike. these children are traumatized and scared to go back home. >> the screams demanding that president mohammed morsi leave office are getting louder. >> this election more than any other represents a turning point for kenya. >> it's a transition almost unheard of in the modern arab world. >> i barack hussein obama do solumly swear -- >> people very pleased that sharif declaring himself the winner. >> with a farewell bow from the outgoing president, the power transfer in china is complete. >> ukraine's government has lurched into his biggest crisis in almost a decade. >> let me stop now, peter because we are seeing smoke coming out of the

in the world and the people of america need to be informed he says nobody is talking about what's happening in gaza in west fact what israel is doing we're talking about all other things here in america there's a deliberate attempt to keep the people ignorant god forbid the americans should stand up and say i don't want my money to go to people who committing heinous crimes borderline genocide and i can't eat here i'm hopeless but i'm contributing not only to the people of israel that are there at the moment but anybody who wishes to come with us from africa whether it's from asia they can everybody can go there and my tax dollars will fund them this is what americans don't know and it's it's about time that the other media started concentrating on this but then of course the media goes well we know who the ownerships are norman you know convince me that netanyahu is going to pull you could he goes to china. try to convince me. peter i think there is a misunderstanding here and i'm doing my best to try to clarify it number one just let me get back to the point that was just made ok of course i agree that israel unless it's forced to won't change the afric

was declared a day of reflection and prayer. >> now al jazeera america commemorates nelson mandela from the people who knew him. >> i think all of those people who were inside that stadium were very lucky to be there. >> an emotional look at the life and legacy of nelson mandela. >> only on al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. while you were asleep news was happening. >> welcome to the news hour. i'm darren jordan from al jazeera americnewsal jazeeraa and london. in south africa nelson mandela's body is headed to his home where he'll be buried on sunday. >> news from europe including uncertainty for germany and europe with

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let's harness all the social meow media and when school starts let's go rally all of america and have launch b-1. it's launching today, it's launching with a massive amount of social media and snoop lion has tweeted about this. snoop dog changed his name to snoop lion because he changed his image around the gun issue. mc hammer as tweeted and governor brown and, of course, jack dorsey will tweet and what's important in the conversation that we had we said one of the bad things about social media it does allow you to communicate to people without talking to them. so finally today, we're going to use social media to increase conversations between grade school and high school kids and use this to stop isolation. i think today is a very, very important day and congratulations to you the ask the >> yeah. and, welcome for the historic meeting between the small business commission and the transportation agency. >> these are two meetings. >> director brink man? >> present >> lee. >> present. >> nolan, >> present. >> rubke? >> present. >> direct heinieke will not be able to be here. you do

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the free speech rights of american citizens are under attack all across america but if you're a corporation you have all a free speech you want. yesterday for example the supreme court heard arguments and u.s. versus apple the case centers around john donne a staple an anti-war protester who was arrested on a california military base even though he was in a spot that had been designated as a freeze speech zone for public protests people went to the supreme court arguing that is first amendment rights have been violated after he was arrested for protesting in that designated protest area however a majority of the justices seemed in the arguments to think that his case was really not about a violation of his first amendment rights in fact justice scalia went so far as to say if you can raise the first amendment but we don't have to listen to. first amendment reads congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of those of speech or of the press or of the right of people to peaceably assemble and to petition

america. my final thoughts go out to m mcdoubled's franchise owners trying to unload a lot of chicken wings. millions of pounds of them which customers don't much want. mcdonald restaurant owners allacross america bought some 50 million pounds of frozen wings for a limited time mighty wings promotion this fall. today they still have 10 million pounds of wings unsold. earlier in the show we talked about the perils for businesses that extend a lot of money on inventory to stock their shelves and warehouses but then have trouble unloading that inventory. whether commuters find the mighty wings too spicy, too expensive or both, owners have been told they have been told to participate in a new mighty wings promotion at a lower price or pay for all that inventory. what a flap. a race to make christmas a salesman act. i'm ali velshi. thanks for joining us.

all time. and yes, that is the same gay-blind mountain climber who will be motivating america's republican members of congress tonight. and the best thing about all of this is that eric wayanmare, the first blind person to climb everest and who is the most famous blind athlete in the world and who is not gay, he has demonstrated the best attitude about this blooper since he first heard it happening, as it was happening. this is reportedly the video of mr. wayanmayer listening to that tease from the albuquerque station during that broadcast as he waited for the interview. as you can tell, it's bad quality video, but you can see him dying laughing as he hears the anchor say what she said. since this became a famous thing, he apparently even runs the video of that blooper when he makes his motivational speeches. he finds it hilarious. so, house republicans might be seeing this right now. a couple years after the blooper happened, that anchor who did it moved to a dallas station, and her new station staged a reunion. so, years later, she finally got to explain to eric why she said what she said. >> ri

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(vo) and follow it no matter where it leads, all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. >> now here is a sobering statistic to consider. more than half of all americans will spend a year in poverty or near poverty at some point in their lifetime. in our series the other america we are looking into the lives of americans who are having serious trouble making ends meet. i spoke to our digital producer about the series and the responses she has received from the people that can relate. >> this is a look at how far reaching and mainstream poverty is. a mother of three who commutes four hours a day to get to and from work. we put her story on-line and we asked americans to share their stories and we received it 2* 00 200 responses i want to show an an excerpt of sta stacey's story. >> at 2:00 i go in to wake my youngersteryoungsters up. >> last minute check and hair is combed and faces washed and we are out of the door at 6:30. if all goes well. most morning prayer is essential. mobility and reliable transportation because i don't have a car. because i

america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through allr energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested over $55 billion here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> we're back with donna brazile and kevin madden. in terms of how we deal with the rhetoric around this, and the conversations we need to have and i think we had a pretty good one at this table, all things considered. i'm a gun rights activist. what do you tell me to change my mind on this issue? >> you know, i have always respected the second amendment. but i also believe we must make sure we have responsible gun laws, gun safety laws. that we can find common ground. on back ground checks or some other way. i want to end with this. there is been 27 shootings since newtown sandy hook. the families of newtown have access to spend tomorrow in acts of kindness. let's have acts of kindness. not just newtown but chicago and new orleans and all across thi

helens volcanic eruptions and its beneath one of the biggest tourist havens in all-america.udy quickly that finds them massive magma chamber beneath yellowstone national park is two and a half times larger than had previously been determined. that means this super volcano, it is that come a super volcano, it has the potential to erupt withf course some 2,000 times more powerful than that of the mount st. helens 1980 eruption. the last yellow so interruion occurred 640,000 years ago. experts, however, say it is now overduee. back with the "a-team," and i want to turn to you to remind me that president clinton's approval ratings were higher during his impeachment then president obama's. >> i represent the democrats during the impeachment of president clinton, the democratic judiciary committee. we were watching the things every day. and remember, there were midterm elections in the stands. the republicans just out waxed because it looked like it was -- there were going after clinton for personal reasons. that's it. exactly. so shocking. actually lower now, and there is nothing

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visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> today all across america massage parlors now populate thehe glittering home of the golden gate, to the sleepy suburbs of boston. the fbi and anti-trafficking advocates say criminals forcing women into sexual slavery is on the upswing. >> this isn't just one or two girls. these are thousands and thousands of girls being sold for sex all over the country every single day. >> andrea leads a non-profit that tries to restore women to some semblance of normalcy. >> you should come and look inside my office and see the over 125 girls who we have served in 2012 who were sold for sex as slaves in the united states and you can't ignore this any more. this is one of the biggest human rights issues that we're facing nationally and globally. >> among powell's 125 clients are asian women rescued from massage parlors, like this 19-year-old who we'll call may lynn. >> she was from a very, very rural town in china. she was an unwanted child by her family. they didn't want a girl. she was treated like a domestic slave growing up anyway and an uncle came to he

it was a movement that was all throughout america. it touched many campuses. the labor movement played a big role. and the caucus at the african embassy played a role. i don't think berkley should be singled out. the pro tests were larger at berkleigh. berkleigh -- berkley but it was a broad national movement. >> how did it play out on your campus. it was a response to the struggle heating up in south africa. for the first time it was a very big public boycott of the election and we saw police beating down demonstrators and the brutality of that government and there was in return a response to the united states. that rekindled the anti-apartheid movement in this country. it started small and grew and grew. on the berkley campus it went from a handful of students to being thousands of students and faculty and staff and i. >> were you having conversations with your parents explaining to your parents why you were doing this? >> many of us did. particularly when we were arrested and we were seen on tv confronting the police. these were tense times and it was a bit

. >> chase is the grinch that stole christmas from families all across america. >> reporter: a target spokeswoman telling abc news that the company has enacted more fraud protection and is answering customers' questions. they're said our customers need to be vigilant. it's an all-out effort to salvage a holiday nightmare. >>> this is an important day for the president's health care plan. shoppers must sign up today if they want to be covered by insurance on january 1st. the trouble-plagued website cannot handle any last-minute rush. the administration set a goal of 7 million signed up by march. the president announced on friday that they hit the 1 million mark. >>> he says he may take further military action in the violence-plagued area of south sudan. about 400 americans were evacuated. meanwhile, thousands of civilians have been hoping to be air-lifted to safety. >>> 70 u.s. sailors who claim they were sickened by radiation from the fukushima radiatii nuct are suing. many say they're suffering from thyroid disorders and cancer as a result. the pentagon says the crew members were not

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