david shuster up for ali velshi. thank you for visiting us. >> let's say you were in the construction industry, supermarkets or trucking, and you've been paid in a benefit plan, and you would have got then benefit plan because of collective bargaining. there are ten million americans who are expecting an amount in their pension each month. what congress has done is this pension is underfunded. it's due to run out in ten years. we're going to eliminate 40 years of law and allow the people who were on the hook for these pensions, to cut them by 50%. some folks are thinking i should be getting $4,000, now boom you get $2,000, and by the way there is nothing you can do about it because congress is closing the law that would enable you to sue the benefit plan. that's what's is at stake. >> will anyone take this out of the bill? >> this is an agreement between congressional leaders, and even people who are opposed to this pension system being slashed they don't think they have the votes to make it happen. oh the flip side

. >> i'm david shuster in for ali velshi, and this is "real money". >>> consumers rejoice, oil prices are lower than they have been in years. the main reason is lower supply and decreasing demand. economies in europe and asia putting the breaks on growth. at the same time america's fracking boom adding to the supply. you can't talk about oil without talking about saudi arabia. the one party that can swing prices upwards. saudis can keep prices flow ag is the current levelsful all meaning the consumers benefit more. analysts think that lower prices are here to stay, and gas prices will fall further. you can't have winners without losers, in this case they are se sending mixed messages. we have this report. >> reporter: as the price of crude oil plum et cetera, one question -- plummets, one question is on the mines of energy producers. could america's fracking make it a victim of its own success. fracking, breaking up oil and gas using a high pressure cocktail of water, sand and chemicals made the u.s. the leading oil producer. america is churning out 9 million barrels a day up from 5 m

i'm david shuster in for ali velshi, and this is "real money". >>> the environmental protection agency unveiled the first federal regulation governing the storage of coal ash, the waste left over after power plants burn coal. the new rules are weaker than environmentalists hoped for. they fail to classify coal ash as hazardous waste or deal with sites. one incident fresh in the minds of north carolinans saw tens of thousands of coal ash spill into the dan river after a storage unit bebelonging to duke energy ruptured. robert ray reports on how cope. >> reporter: tonnes of waste from cole-fired power plants. plants. >> arsenic chromium and lead. >> reporter: poured out of a cracked pipe into a major river in north carolina last february. >> duke energy cannot fail, we take the responsibility seriously. river. >> reporter: duke energy is the largest electric company in the u.s. after the spill a federal grand jury began to look into their relationship with north carolina regulators. miles away from the dan river spill a shuttered goal planned overlooks the river, as toxic ash seeps into

i'm david shuster in new york. john siegenthaler is off. tonight expanded search. indonesia is now asking the united states for help in finding the missing air asia jet, as hopes fade for the relatives of the 162 passengers and crew. >>> the u.s. military coalition formally ends its combat mission in afghanistan. >>> tanking oil, this was the 95th consecutive day of dropping oil prices. it's great news for u.s. consumers, and increasingly bad news for a few u.s. states. >>> and fight for freedom, today marks 365 days behind bars for three of our al jazeera journalists in egypt who were jailed and remain in prison in egypt for doing their jobs. ♪ >>> we begin with the grim expectations now for air asia flight, it has been two days since the jet disappeared, and so far there has been no sightings of the wreckage. the uss sampson is on its ways to help in the search mission. indonesia has been leading the mission since the airbus a-320 vanished sunday morning? east asia it is tuesday morning and the daylight recovery

i'm david shuster. on behalf of everybody here at real money, including our families and extended families, thanks for joining us and have a great weekend. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. oil rices tumble, what it means for the economy and your money . budgets battle if congress. what's been done to prevent a government shutdown. crisis in the air. a computer glitch creates chaos in britain. new protests expected, latest reaction to police shootings of african americans. firearms and fine art, guns in a museum with a message

i'm david shuster.watching. >>> jon stewart moving from punch line to the director's square. >> the definition - regimes are arresting more people. >> another comedian is passionate about her role. >> no one played a bisexual comedian. >> from performers. we take you inside. and how a priceless painting was uncovered. >> plus lucy lawless on her most important role yet. >> inevitably not everyone will great. you know, harden up. >> all that in more in with our spotlight conversations. >>> hi, i'm john seigenthaler, art can be anything. we explored all aspect of art. we look back at some of the most unforgettable conversations. beginning with peter max, a pioneer in the world of pop art. his psyche-dellic shapes and colours defined the '60s. five decades later he is creating iconic masterpieces. i talked with him where he gave me a glimpse into his colourful world. . >> bold strokes and colours are in the studio of peter mack. you are known for your brightness of colours. >> i grew up in shanghai china,

let's bring in david shuster and jamie floyd. our legal contributor. i've been asking people all day since the decision was announced, are you surprised? are you surprised? no one has been surprised? how about you? >> not surprised. >> why are you not surprised? >> well, as we discussed in the ferguson case. >> there is video this time. >> yes, that's distinctive. >> it shows most of what happened. >> it leads us to think that we know what happened. >> what are we missing? >> well, you know, this case, the one reason i would not have been surprised also had there been an indictment, which is slightly different way of answering your question, so maybe a little bit more surprised than ferguson, but here you have a police officer charged, and there is almost never an indictment in those cases. there are some exceptions. remember the sean bell shooting. that's here in new york. and here we had a trial. >> yes, yes. >> and some conviction. it could have happened here. and i think in the context of ferguson, i thought maybe even though outside influence is n

david shuster. over the last couple of days we heard president obama's legacy and maybe the move forwards a normalized relation with cuba has something to do with it. but there is a political side of it. now we have north korea and the president making big moves. >> this is a huge political benefit for him. you heard president obama. you heard people say he was a bad negotiator or that he is weak. when you declare cyber war against north korea that shows toughness, and he was unequivocal in saying that it was wrong of sony to pull the movie. when you have a president rallying against north korea that will help politically. the president had time to point out that the economy is picking up, creating jobs, and something else that helps him politically. there was not a single question about the 2014 mid terms and the pasting that his party god. it was as if the president could put that in the rear view mirror and move on. >> speaking of that, after his 17-day vacation, of course, we mentioned the congr

i'm david shuster in for ali velshi. and this is "real money." >> a little more than a year since the disastrous government shut down by a do nothing congress. they agreed on a spending bill that will keep the government funded through september. lawmakers have until tomorrow evening to read it before a suspected vote hours ahead before the trigger point of another government shutdown. republicans only approved funding for the department of homeland security until february. homeland security handles immigration, so the bill will give republicans a chance this winter to block president obama's executive order that protects five million unauthorized immigrants. in this bill however, there is a lot more from federal spending. in the horse trading that prompted this preliminary agreement, both sides agree to the ten-fold increase to what donors can give to the international party. they prevent the district of columbia to use it's own money to regulate marijuana, which voters legalized last month. it legalized swaps and regul

i'm david shuster in new york.ohn siegenthaler is off. recovery effort today off of the coast of indonesia, crews found wreckage and bodies from flight 8501. we will have the latest from the ongoing search and from investigators trying to determine why the jet liner plunged into the sea. >>> an outspoken kremlin critic was just arrested at a rally in moscow. we'll bring you an update. >>> line of fire the united states a new report shows there was a big spike this year in police officers killed by gunfire. the data come as tensions simmer over police tactics nationwide. >>> and the new football coach in college who asked for less than expected and is still one of the highest-paid public employees in the country. ♪ >>> we begin tonight in southeast asia where the grim retrooifal of bodies and debris continues in the java sea. harrowing concrete proof that the flight plunged into the ocean killing everybody on board. it is not far from the spot where the plane last had contact with air traffic controllers. scott heid

david shuster has the details next in power politics. >> updating one of our top stories. police in russia have detained a well-known government critic as part of a crackdown on protests in front of the kremlin. he violated his house arrest. about 130 people in all were detained at the demonstration. navalny received a sentence for fraud while his brother got prison time. alexi navalny is a threat to vladimir putin. he led mastiff protests before and after putin's run for president. navalny has political aspirations of his own. he lost the election for mayor of moscow and said he'll run in 2018. we spoke with the director of the center for russia and eurasia at the rand center. i asked her why he was a threat to vladimir putin. >> i think of all the opposition leaders available in russia, he has not just name recognition but standing as a nationalist standing with the russian public as a whole. he does not present himself as this egg head divorced from the public. that's not his image. he has been a fighter against corruption. because he does have a nationalist way he thin

david shuster reports. >> yes! yes!> $112,000. >> reporter: the first tuesday of every month this is the scene on the steps of the courthouse in georgia. >> 86,000. >> reporter: hundreds of distressed properties sold in the blink of an eye. >> sold, $86,000. >> well, it's very exciting, somewhat like herding cats. >> reporter: it's bryce's first time at the auction. he and his wife were hoping to buy a home on the cheap, but he wasn't expecting the chaos. >> i see there's several different locations. >> reporter: or the big investors who are driving up competition and the sale price of the foreclosed homes. >> i have sold. >> i go up in $500 increments. they go up $5,000. i'm trying to get it to 150, they are like 155, 160. and you are just looks at them and saying that house isn't worth that. >> big investors going into distressed communities and buying homes the banks have repropossessed. sha reis a local realtor buying properties for some of the wall sfreet landlords. >> hedge funds are realizing that our market are

i'm david shuster in for ali velshi, and this is "real money." ♪ >>> just hours before the federal governments out of money, a preliminary spending deal has proven to be just that, preliminary. john boehner pulled the bill from the floor after he realized he didn't have the votes to get the bill approved. democrats bolted over controversial items known as riders that had nothing to do with government spending. congress could still approve a temporary stop-develop measure, but even that agreement is not guaranteed. months of negotiations may go out of the window. the office of management and budget began briefing on the protocols for government shutdown starting at midnight. the biggest item that riled up the republicans was the big b k banks. congress passed the dodd-frank law in 2010 to protect from future shocks and the bailout of americas banks. but the bill would have undone a provision in that law requiring big banking to separate derivatives. it would have late banks trade swaps. some say the change would leave tax payers on the hook. thor issue was a tenfold increase in what political

i'm david shuster in new york. john seigenthaler has the night off. just ahead... ..the ascertain for clues. -- search for clues, recovering groups are finding more debris and bodies to airasia. the search for the black box recorders is under taken >>> a top house republican steve scalise regrets giving a speech to a white soup rem sift group. house speaker regrets it too, buts says his deputy will remain in the leadership. working over time boston is making school days longer and what officials hope to achieve and why some think it's the wrong approach >>> disappearing act. >> we should be able to figure out how to preserve the institutions in new york. >> with sky rocketing rent the fight for the heart and soul of new york city >>> we begin in south-east asia where it's wednesday morning and the daylight retrieveal of bodies and debris is under way again. proof that airasia plunged into the ocean, killing everyoning on board. crews are searching through the its. search teams are making grim discoveries not far from the spot where the plane had conta

david shuster is in tonight with ali velshi on "real money." >> america's economy is in overdrive.hy we're seeing the biggest growth in over a decade. we have all that and more on "real money." >> in central america an official groundbreaking on a transocean canal. the project will occur in the city of nick agua. it will span 173 miles. construction is expected to last five years and cos cost $50 billion to complete. the project is stirring up mixed feelings. >> for decades, shoe makers have sold their product locally. he inherited the shop from his father and plans to give it to his sons, but he does not have the skills or resources to expand his business. >> i think the building of the canal will expand jobs. >> the world food program said that 4% of the population live under the poverty line. the canal could offer a lifeline. >> the canal may not benefit small businesses like these, but they hope it will bring many more tourists. >> economists saying nicker augusnicaragua's growth rate to double and large scale exports like coffee will make good use of the water way, which will

i'm david shuster.n behalf of everybody here at real money, including our families and extended families, thanks for joining us and have a great weekend. >>> isil fighters take over more territory in overnight fighting in iraq's anbar province. ♪ ♪ >>> hello and welcome to al jazerra. i am elizabeth in doha. also on the program. the u.s. senate approves a new defense budget expanding the fight against isil. rescuers dig by rubbles for survivors after a man slide sweeps way over 100 homes in indonesia. and we report over how fears of afghanistan future rai

. >>> i'm david shuster in new york. "consider this" recovery mission, divers search off the coast of borneo for more wreckage of airasia >>> steve scalise gets support from his boss despite addressing a wight soup rem sift group years as soon as. -- years ago >>> till death do us part - many more couples get married. and school days - should they be longer. coming up after "consider this". >>> as we look forward to the new year we look back at some notable people we lost. the icon irk voice of joe cocker was silenced after a battle with lung cancers. it was the latest for some important artistsers thinkers and leaders. antonio mora takes a look back. >>> white house press secretary james brady barely survived an assassination attempt on president regan, and became advisor on senate matters. the great conciliator may be remembered for the question during the watergate hearings, the scandal exploded thanks to "the washington post", and executive editor ben bradley's leadership. jeb went to prison for his role and became a

let's bring in david shuster. we're talking about the fourth quarter of president obama's presidency. it has been an active period just since the mid terms. with these most recent events north korea, cuba, specifically, how does this play out for the president? >> any time the commander in chief essentially declares war on another country, americans tend to rally behind the commander in chief, and this could be considered the first cyber war that we've had. there is the president saying yes, there will be a response, some sort of cyber current attack against north korea. he was unequivocal about that and about sony making a mistake. on issues where he usually gets criticism that he is weak or a bad negotiator, some of that gets pushed aside. the economy is doing better now. it's creating not a record-pace of job creation, but in the past five years it's enormous. and another thing that aids the president, no question, no discussion whatsoever in the political discourse right now about what happened in the 2014 mid

i'm david shuster. inside story is next.hey're discussing president obama changing policy with cuba. "inside story" is next right here on al jazeera america. >> turning their backs on a half century of u.s.-cuba relations, presidents barack obama and raul castro announce that their two countries are on their way to normal relations. that's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. one of the final chapters of the cold

i'm david shuster in new york. up next our special report "journalism is not a crime." >> when lives hang in the balance. journalists are there. but right now, journalism is under attack. tonight we're taking an in depth look at the assaults on press freedoms worldwide. our special report: journalism is not a crime. >> good evening everyone, i'm john siegenthaler in new york. this has been a year of unrest around the world. from the mid

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. >> david shuster is here with more for ali velshi. we thought that lower oil prices would be good for everyone. but not so. who are the winners here? >> the problem is as we have guests coming occupy tonight, there are some countries so heavily dependent on oil that they're in danger of collapse such as venezuela, investments in russia. russia is having some problems. the theory is that while americans may be benefiting right now from cheaper prices, the geopolitical costs are unknown and could be severe if some of these countries start collapsing or investors aside, and again it's much more complicated just the idea of cheap oil is great for the american consumer. >> we're seeing that oil-produ oil-producing nations are taking a hit here. but what about the affect of u.s.-oil production. >> well, it's harmful to a certain extent because of the margins are different than say the middle east. u.s. oil producers have been making money hand over fist with record profits. they can afford to have the prices drop, and they'll be okay. but t

david shuster for us. david appreciate it, thank you.econd night of protests getting started in new york city. i think these may be the live pictures, and we'll get some of the political reaction coming up. office chuck hagel reveals a new report of sexual assault in the military, the numbers, and what he says needs to change. ♪ >>> significantly more u.s. troops have been speaking up about sexual assault in the military, according to a report released by secretary of state -- make that secretary of defense, chuck hagel. the pentagon announces new ways to deal with the problem. >> reporter: depending on who you listen to, the pentagon report either shows substantial progress has been made, or it shows not enough as changed in the past year. outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel hailed the report he sent to the president as showing improvement in the way the military handles sexual assaults in the ranks, but not enough. >> it threatens the lives of men and women who serve our military. >> reporter: it was a survey of 145,000 service memb

david shuster has more. >> oboyo ryan moved to ab abu dhabi. she was teaching for a program called footprints which places teachers abroad. she wrote her travel was unique because i want i wanted to experience the arab world and their daily life. >> changed monday afternoon. authorities say she visited the upscale boutique mall where she was stabbed to death with a butcher knife in a public bathroom. finding her killer seemed like a challenge. certain vail answer video released showed the suspect wearing a cap and vail but thursday mornings announced a break in the case. >> late at night and after strong investigation, the main branch of our security-for-forces arrested the female suspect. i want to give you the good news. the female suspect is in police custody. >> authorities also saying that soon after killing ryan at the mall, the suspect planted a crude bomb in fronts of the house of an american doctor who liz in abu dhabi, authorities say they found bomb making material when the suspect was arrested. in october, the u.s. embassy in egypt

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government about how we can possibly find and bring him home. >> reporter: david shuster, al jazeera, york. >>> coming up, next more on our top stories new doubts about reported rape at the university of virginia fraternity plus. >>> just a month ago washington voters approved the gun control measure, i'm allen and now people who use firearms in the normal course of business are trying to figure out what it means. >>> crucial three hour space mission is a success and how it could pave the way to mars. ♪ this is al jazeera america, i'm john and casting doubt about the campus rape allegations in the "rolling stone" magazine article and what lawyers for the fraternity say. gun control, the strict new law in washington state, why some say the rules aren't clear. gruesome task, calculating the value of human life but who decides? and test flight, the launch and landing of the orion space craft and what it could mean for the goal of putting man on mars. ♪ now a new questions tonight of accusations of rape at the university of virginia and the article in "rolling stone" magazine that made i

david shuster reports. [ auction call ] >> reporter: the first tuesday of every month this is the scene on the courthouse in georgia. hundreds of distressed properties sold in the blige of an eye. >> sold. $86,000. >> very exciting. >> we'll do this one. >> it's bryce's first time at the auction. he and his wife hoping to buy a home on the cheap. he was not expecting the chaos. >> how do you find out who is different. there's locations. >> or the big investors driving up competition and the sale price of the foreclosed homes. >> i go up in there 500, they go up to $5,000. so, you know, i'm trying to get it to $150, and they are 15, 160, 170. you just look and see the house is not worth it. >> reporter: it's a phenomenon happening nationwide. big investors going into distressed communities buying homs the banks repossess. >> we are here to capture as many products. >> sheree is buying property for wall street. >> hedge funds are realising that our market is going from what they refer to as an owner to renter nation. the rental nation is huge. >> local broker says the institutional invest

i'm david shuster, in new york. john seigenthaler has the night off. just ahead - missing plane - the expanding search and the possible new clues as the united states calls the international effort to find a lost air asia jet with 162 people on board. >>> great fire wall. google's gmail blocked in china, why they could be cracking down on the company's services. >>> shot three times - the new

. ♪ >>> i'm david shuster these are the top stories we're covering in the next 30 minutes.allies across pakistan to remember the victims of the school siege. >>> political turmoil in haiti, protesters take their demands back to the street. >>> and football's governing body, fifa says it will release its world cup bidding corruption report after a unanimous vote. ♪ >>> in northern iraq kurd irk forces are fighting they say to secure significant gains which they believe they have made against isil in the sin yar mountains. that is where at least 10,000 people from the aagencydy community have taken refuge. sue has this update on the peshmerga offensive. >> reporter: the head of the national security forces in northern iraq have announced that the peshmerga, the kurdish fighters have managed to take lands that was originally isil controlled. it stretches from a town just south of the mosul dam all the way to the mountains. this land is made up of pockets of villages and towns that isil has been holding. we know many of these areas are sunni, and they could disappear into those

. >>> i am david shuster. this is "talk to al jazeera."are speaking with robert kennedy, jr. >> there is a campaign against the islamic state and what do you make about how the obama administration is handling it? >> i think the obama inherited, you know, a dismissal situation. you know, the original problem was us going in to a iraq in the first place, which was probably the worst foreign policy mistake in american history to attack a country a that had not attacked us andposed no threat to us. i think it's a bad use of american military power. i think that you the kind of problems that need to be solved in the middeast are problems that don't need more guns and weapons and bombs. i think probably the more appropriate response to .9-11 would have been a commitment by george bush to get -- go before the american people and say we are embroiled to wars in the mid east because we are addicted to oil. we are borrowing a billion dollars a day from nations that don't share our values in order to import a billion dollars of oil a day and in many

. >> i'm david shuster in for ali velshi, and this is "real money".

david shuster has more on efforts to bring him home. >> luke summers was working as a photo journalists in sanaa when kidnapped by the al qaeda philliate al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. the group released a message with a threat he would be killed within days. his plea: it's unclear when the message was recorded. a rescue mission was agreed weeks ago. members of a team raided a hideout. >> as soon as the u.s. government had reliable intelligence and an operational plan, the department of defense was authorised to conduct an operation to rescue mr summers. regrettably when the operation was executed, he was not present. >> summers had been moved two days earlier, the white house learnt. six others were rescued. the family of summers is speaking out asking al qaeda to spare his life. >> you have taken care of luke. we thank you for that. please show mercy. allow us to see luke again. he is all that we have. >> reporter: following the attempted rescue, al qaeda and the arabian peninsula is threatening to kill summers if demand which are not known are not met. they cautioned: summers fam

david shuster, al jazeera, new york. >> let's go to our professor of campaign management at n.y.u.eb bush running, but when he officially files, is he going to go to the top of the pack? >> i think he will. right now, polls show him, and it's hard to trust polls at this point, but when mitt romney is out of the picture, polls show him with a slight lead over some other candidates. i think him getting into the race means somebody like mitt romney is going to have a tough time running. certainly marco rubio will have a tough time, maybe even chris christie. he did get a head start. >> it is said his banking ties will hurt him. is he being a friend or is he shooting friendly fire? >> i think he's telling the truth. it is friendly fire, but i think he he's telling the truth. this neutralizes a big issue for hillary clinton, who can be hit on that. that's why i think some republicans a little nervous about jeb bush getting in. he has executive experience, wimp is a great advantage, but the disadvantage is this tie to big money, and these ties to these offshore banking and all these othe

i'm david shuster in new york. "america tonight" is next. ♪ >> >>> on "america tonight" - losing track of airliners. as the wreckage of airasia comes to surface - we ask why has a safety recommendation been delayed for years. could a simple piece of technology have saved lives. >>> also - shot and killed by police - now months later the l.a.p.d. releases the autopsy. >> the coroner's autopsy identified that the death was caused by a gunshot wound to the flight flank and a contact wound to the back. >> searching for the truth. and the growing divide between police and community >>> fleeing troubled waters. "america tonight" discovers inequality in the rebuilding after superstorm sandy. >> do you look at the demolition and think of some of the memories you have raising your kids in the house. ? >> of course. playing in the background for christmas, birthday parties >>> working class dreams demolished while the wealthy move back into the path of danger thanks to your tax dollars. >>> good evening, everyone, thanks for

david shuster in today's power politics. coming up on the program.o end corruption around the world. where it is most prevalent right now, and how people are protesting against it. that is incomes, and then it is "real money with ali velshi." >> coming up on "real money," your tax dollars at work. interrogating terror suspects. sometimes america pays others to do its dirty work. plus balancing competition with global cooperation in the business of space. all that and more on "real money." teach for america is supposed to educate poor children. >> schools where kids need grade teaching the most. >> can unprepared teachers make a difference? >> why are we sending them teachers with 5 weeks of training? >> the supreme court said that workers at amazon cannot get extra pay for the time spent at screening. justices say that workers at a nevada facility can't claim compensation going through screenings since it's supposed to stop people from stealing. it could help companies like apple and cbs that face similar lawsuits. >>> ines? >> reporter: i want to yo

keystoni asked our very own david shuster how the showdown is likely to play out. >> this will likely be the first major class. it as all but signaled it's going to pass keystone or approve it. but it may be perhaps be one of the first legislative items that the republicans will vote on. it's still a highly symbolic clash to start the year. >> what other clashes do you see at the beginning of the year? >> you can look at clashes over all kinds of economic issues, but there is a major point of potential agreement coming in the midst of all this. both the republicans and president obama agrees yes, we need to redo you the corporate tax rates and simplify the tax code. there is agreement on doing that. there is disagreements on how to get it done. you may have this weird situation, perhaps no so weird given it's washington, but they're fighting tooth and nail over keystone and then they're shaking hands and reach a deal on tax reform. >> there was a very contentious item in there that rolled back a really key provision in dodd-frank that would have forced banks to separate out risky trad

and in power politics with david shuster a fall out after a communications direction after they take shot at sasha and malia obama. >> as we mentioned at the top of the newscast attorney general america holder is in atlanta talking with police and leaders about building trust between the community and police. earlier i spoke with reverend rafael warnock, the senior pastor at ebenezer church where holder is speaking, and i asked him his thoughts about the protests erupting all over the country. >> you're seeing a new generation of activists, who have been awakened by this issue of police brutality. the flash point is michael brown in ferguson. but people who think this is all that this is about is missing the point. this is part of a larger narrative of what we've been dealing with of police brutality. >> you have a vigil coming up tonight. what are you expecting? >> well, we started planning this town hall a couple of weeks ago. we were awaiting the decision out of ferguson. i said to my staff and others regardless of the decision this is an important point in our country's history.

i'm david shuster in new york. john siegenthaler is off. tonight expanded search.now asking the united states for help in finding the missing air asia jet, as hopes fade for the relatives of the 162 passengers and crew. >>> the u.s. military coalition formally ends its combat mission in afghanistan. >>> tanking oil, this was the