U. S. And cuba hold the first formal meeting in 50 years. Also. Im wayne hay reporting from auckland and why the innovative art gallery is about to be thrust on the International Stage in new york planes fired rockets at the president ial palace in aden. There has been clashes between former president ali abdullah saleh, and local groups. The Saudi Defence ministrys three of its soldiers were killed by mortar shells fired from yemen, and the attack took place in najran. The fighting left hundreds without basic supplies. A second red cross plane loaded with aid landed in the capital. There has been a call in the fighting to deliver aid. In a Daily Briefing the spokesman for a Saudi Led Coalition says the fighting is escalating. The pressure is increasing day by day. At the beginning there was 35 air strikes. In the second phase there was 50 a day. Then we moved to 80 when we targeted Coalition Supports and blocked the supplies. We are on the ground chasing the enemy convoys supplying th
Question of whether vaccinations should be required for schoolchildren is up for a vote in the state senate. A controversial bill would eliminate exemptions for personal or religious beliefs. Kpix 5s kiet do is in san jose with more on the bill thats already been amended to improve its chances of passage in the full senate. Kiet. Reporter good morning. Thanks to some political maneuvering this bill is fast tracked through sacramento and could be voted in the senate today. Antivaccination parents have been flooding the capital in recent weeks. They say this latest move is cheating the law making system. The authors of senate bill 277 amended it so that it wont cost anything. They got rid of the portion that would have required schools to notify parents of vaccination rates. Now this allows the bill to skip the Appropriations Committee altogether saving time and if it ultimately becomes law, california would be the third state in the country to eliminate these exemptions. Our approach to
The days following the 2011 nuclear disaster. And International Drone exhibition has opened in japan with new technologies on display from 50 different manufacturers. A Japanese Association made a key decision that determines its future. It will revise how to acquire dolphins and stay with a global zoo body. It was facing expulsion from the World Association of zoos and aquariums. Translator member facilities of our association will not acquire dolphins caught by dry fishery . The Board Members made the decision on the issue. A majority of member facility wanted the association to remain part of the world body. Member aquariums had 300 dolphins by the end of 2012. Many were captured through dry fisheries off the town of taji in western japan. The method involves using sound to herd dolphins in to koefs. Officials argue the japanese facilities obtained dolphins that ran counter to ethical rules. And they suspended their membership a month ago. It gave the group until thursday to present
Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch
President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage. Ashur protection withstand storm surge in better then baked circe wells while also enhancing the environment. Although the project on our coast of their job, they were weakened or in the storm not require repairs so were not for mobility future storms. Unfortunately the northeast midatlantic received more frequent and larger storms like standing in the future. The 70 to find costeffective ways to