Innocence of death and the imperative of replacing hate for something better. The middle east today, my friends, is still marred by the sounds and spectacle of violence, but it need not be. Because the region is also pulsating with life. It is the home of populations that are energetic, youthful, forwardlooking, and far more interested in plugging into the World Economy than slugging it out with historic foes. It is in them than we place our faith. It is for them, and for their horizons that we dedicate a collective efforts. And it is with them, that the United States of america is determined to turn back the destroyers and build a future that is characterized by prosperity, like peace and by dignity for all people. That is a worthy fight. Thank you all very, very much. [ applause ] coming up this afternoon at 3 30 p. M. Eastern time, a confirmation hearing for nominees to a number of Foreign Policy positions, including a new u. S. Ambassador to libya. Also before the Senate Foreign Re
I think you can never market that enough. But i do believe it really comes down to understanding that were all in the same system together. We have different roles to play. But we can play those roles in a complementary fashion. The airlines have been working very hard to enforce the one plus one rule, meaning the one carryon bag and one handbag or briefcase. Their challenge is, well, its not my business 0 address their Business Models, but i can tell you its just a fact that a lot more stuff is arriving, its packed more full of things, people have electronics in there. Screeners have to be very aten ive. But you knew it had the potential to put more pressure on the screeners. I think that would have been the expectation. Do we have a mechanism Going Forward . Absolutely. En and the airlines have worked closely together. Both sides have to be aware of the impact of the decisions they make. And im as interested in the decisions, in the Business Models of the Airline Industry and how it
Good morning. You are watching the pulse. We are here in london. Im guy johnson. Francine is not here today. Fed up, frustrated, and fighting back. That is the line we are going with this morning. French unemployment is at a record high but the big as companies have launched a pr bonanza to hopefully restore the nations reputation as a good place to do business. French]lled [speaking which we think roughly translates as bank on france. Caroline connan has the details. Who is there, what are they talking about . As,ou can translate that lets bank on france. It is all about boosting the image of france when the French Economy has barely grown and is expected to grow by 0. 4 this year. Some comments a few months ago from the ceo, saying that france was finished. The idea here is to fight against these kind of comments, against what they call french bashing. The economy minister had a conference yesterday. We got a very bad unemployment number for the Third Quarter that came out at 10. 4 .
This is the meeting on the commission on the environment it is 5 oclock p. M. The first item on the agenda is roll call. Commissioner arce. Here. Commissioner king. Here. Commissioner stephenson. Commissioner wald excused. Commissioner wan here. The next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes on the commission on the environments regular meeting this is a discussion and action item. Colleagues, any discussion on the minutes . Commissioner wan im happy that on item 2 before you got here, i was trying to use my limited cantonese vocabulary and i meant to say thank you and instead it said excuse me and im glad its not in the minutes and im glad you dont know i did that. [laughter]. Thank you . Thats thats excuse me. Ill never make that mistake again. Anybody else . Thoughts . Any Public Comment on the minutes . All right. Colleagues get a motion to approve . Approved. Second. All those in favor please say aye. Opposed . All right minutes approved thanks. Public comments. For items
As we begin this hour with breaking news, reports of a shooting at or near a school in north philadelphia. We are hearing that this happened at the Delaware Valley charter school, that apparently two people have been shot we will get Additional Information on this of course and update you as soon as we get that information. President obama is ordering the National Security agency to make changes to the electronic surveillance programs. Speaking at the justice department, the president said he will emmed the massive phone records Collection Program as it currently exists. He also ordered the nsa to stop spying on friendly World Leaders but the president didnt scrap the system entirely. What i did not do is stop these programs wholesale. Not only because i felted that they made us more secure but because nothing in that initial review and nothing that i have learned since indicated that our Intelligence Committee has violated the law or is scav lear mike vac e viqui. For some critics, it