Rightanton here to my grew up in fort worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job when he was a student at houston filton college. That began a long career stretching out some 54 years in the nations service. Bottom in at the grantee 10 National Park and worked his way all the way to the top, when president bill clinton appointed him director of the National Park service from 1997 through 2001. He wasthat superintendent of National Capital park in the d. C. Area. And the Virgin Islands National Park. He then served as regional director to the National Capital region. Then he made the mistake of retiring, which meant he was in even greater demand. Senioras served as advisor to the Secretary Department of the interior, and then was appointed by president obama in 2014 for a four year term on the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation. , who is supposed be here, is unfortunately home in bed. Home in bed with the flu. She sends her regrets. This is no longer a legal session becau
Came, the fight had been stabilized mostly by the United States air force and, look, let me also remind you that mr. Erdogan was livid about American Bombing of kobani to support the pyd, because if you remember he came out and says he said Something Like whats in kobani . Oil . Gold . Diamonds . And in a way, as if the president of the United States would only intervene when theres gold or diamonds and in a way it was a very, shall we say, demeaning attack on u. S. Intentions in that particular case. And anybody you talk to at the time will tell you in turkey maybe you know, too, that kobani was not a place that turkey wanted to defend. It came it allowed the peshmerga to come after both World Opinion and kurdish opinion in turkey changed. Kobani was the main waking point for turkish kurds. Irrelevant respective of what happened with the peshmerga, the peshmerga operation was a way to signal to those conservative kurds i mentioned earlier who eventually defended from the akp to stabil
California will not rule out terrorism as motive for the shooting that left 14 people dead. Not far from the center for the disabled, the citys police chief spoke last night. We initially put out that we have information that there were now,ds of three shooters, when we get the witness statements it looks like we have two shooters. We are comparable with the two shooters we believe went into the buildings are the two shooters that are deceased. Vonnie the suspects are identified as syed farook and tashfeen malike. They were described as being dressed for battle. British warplanes have carried out the first rights on the Islamic State in syria, the planes took off from cyprus not long after the British Parliament approved the actions. The Defense Ministry said it was going to release details later. In south africa, and Appeals Court has found guilty of murder Oscar Pistorius lt of murder. Hisuilty of murder, he shot girlfriend to death and faces a minimum of 15 years in prison. More on
I wish i had better news. But we are dealing with this storm off the coast. Janice the good news is that we are not seeing the big snow totals and we are seeing random snow through philadelphia. And we are seeing the snow lines and pouty conditions and we are expecting this snow event as we go through the evening. The delays, an hour or two hours, three hours at newark, new jersey. Hundreds of cancellations not only in the northeast but across the country very we have the Ripple Effect with delays and cancellations across the interstate 95 court order. The worst of the storm will be out of here by thursday at 6 00 a. M. And upgrade should go off about very close to on time. Then we will deal with gusts, 40 Miles Per Hour along the coast, so even if conditions are improving we are going to have blustery conditions. Thanksgiving day, much improved across the upper midwest and the great lakes and its going to be cold, very nice for the southeast and then when the conditions for new englan
Im in arizona where nate tiff americans are protesting a deal that allows a multinational Mining Operation to begin a copper mine on public land. Our top story, the somali armed group, alshabab has claimed responsibility for the two explosions in the capitol. The Central Hotel was the target. Its popular with somali officials because its near the president ial palace also known as via somalia. Translator i was in the mosque when the first explosion went off. I saw a lot of people lying dead on the ground. I was shocked. A spocksman updated us on the situation a little while ago. The terrorist of alshabab have attacked the [ inaudible ] and killed a number of innocent citizens in a mosque. So far we are trying to get the confirmation as to who was injured and [ inaudible ] very clear that al alshabab [ inaudible ], and we are going to find this terrorism that is destroying the country and the people of somalia. At least 45 people have been killed in several exmotions in eastern libya. T