Wakey wakey at 6 o clock Thursday morning world going potty this morning potholes to be precise Tell me more they have here a bit now actually because we have this is that Russia is demanding concrete proof that it was behind the poisoning of a former spy in Solsbury the u.n. Security Council s being holding an emergency session to discuss the attack following to reason May s announcement that 23 diplomats are to be expelled from the u.k. Has our security experts golden corral the aspiration is ambitious simply to dismantle Russia s espionage capability here in the u.k. Other measures as well the government wants including the ability to stop suspected spies at the border up or something they can only do with terrorism suspects as well and to do more to check private flights and freight ferry and we can councils are spending a 3rd less on repairing potholes than they were 5 years ago so for council though of increase their spending by 19 percent since 2013 the Local Government Associa
Welcome to today s program of the Commonwealth Club of California I m Gloria Duffey president and c.e.o. Of the club a nonpartisan nonprofit public forum dedicated to airing diverse views on important topics of the day Wall Street has given an electric car maker Tesla a market valuation higher than that of Ford or General Motors despite manufacturing and selling a much smaller number of vehicles to learn more about Tesla and its founder Musk Climate One of the Commonwealth Club recently sat down with biographer Ashley Vance and journalist Peter Henderson moderating the program was Climate One founder Greg Dalton now let s join Ashley Vance Peter Henderson and Greg Dalton in conversation at the Commonwealth Club. From the Commonwealth Club of California this is climate one changing the conversation about energy economy in environment I m Greg Dalton in 2007 I went to the Arctic on a global warming expedition with scientists and journalists aboard a Russian icebreaker experiencing clima
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Crisis may be developing at Houston s convention center no home to fountains of people this morning we went inside the main convention center it is taking care of more than 9000 evacuees that is nearly twice as many as it s supposed to and there are not enough cots and blankets for everybody many people sleeping on the ground officials say Harvey has set a new continental rainfall record of 49 inches Forecasters say the storm will regroup in the Gulf of Mexico and hit land again tomorrow the Euston Chronicle reports a city police officer drowned in a patrol car on Sunday President Trump is due to arrive in Texas within the hour White House correspondent Steven Portnoy it s not clear that the president will actually see any of the flooding today to avoid getting in the way of the rescue and recovery efforts Air Force One will land some 200 miles from Houston Mr Trump will 1st stop in Corpus Christi for a briefing from Fema then the president heads to Austin to meet with Texas governor
He certainly is better than the opposition that was running against him in my opinion President is not made a decision yet on sending more u.s. Troops to Afghanistan White House National Security Adviser h.r. McMaster says the president is still reviewing military proposals present it s not a decision yet on a course of action what we ve done which is what we have done in many cases on the on the North Korea problem set for example as we ve consulted broadly across our government and with allies McMaster says the president will have the opportunity to hear from allies during his upcoming foreign trip which will include stops at the NATO summit and the gathering of g 7 nations. The White House that s the news top prosecutors charged to speeding and track engineer with causing a catastrophe and he counts of involuntary manslaughter and other crimes in a 2015 to remedy the came after he accelerated to 106 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone attorney John Klein who represents some of the Amtr