Damage due to the construction of roads and communication. Government leaders in neighboring pakistan say 118 people have been killed as of monday. About 800,000 people are being affected by the constant rain and landslides. Heavy downpours also hit china. Video taken sunday in Shanxi Province shows a road along a river had collapsed and several cars nearly fell into the water. Nine tourists were carried away by a flood. Rescue workers in myanmar are also dealing with severe flooding. Officials say they confirmed 46 deaths. Afp News Agency Says more than 200,000 people have been affected. Authorities declared the four worst hit areas in northern and western Myanmar National disaster affected regions. A state run english language newspaper is reporting that landslides have destroyed 700 buildings in the capital of chin state in the north. Rescue crews need some relief from the weather. We are joined now from the weather desk. The good news i can give you is that its not a cyclonic syste
Prominent determinants of class status. It reinforces the socioeconomic gaps, the disparities i know everyone wishes we could eliminate. Applications are going down. At the very moment when we know the skills of college are more valuable. No matter what you read, we know the lifetime earnings of someone with a College Degree are considerably greater. We know the new knowledge economy, the one bursting and growing, the one the country wants to compete in, is requiring the skills of a college graduate. And its not just their stem skills and their programming. Its their writing skills. Its their critical thinking. Its their problemsolving. Without those, we will not bring the 2. 3 Million High School students every year back to be part of a flourishing national economy. So we know we have to do it. And im going to give you some examples of ways i think its working well at unc. Things i think can be scaled. First of all, you have to build universities that draw in the talent of people from
Sun, that we reset nature reset its clock in 2012, and this effected everything as far as our weather goes and as time goes on, the taps will rebuild themselves and it is natures way of resetting the clock in other words. Does he know anything about that . Thank you. You know, there are a lot of theories and there has been a lot of research and things like the orbital wobble of the earth the wobble on its axis, solar cycles, sun spot activity and so on. And i think clearly there is a huge natural variability in the earths climate and over long periods of time these big things, these big astronomical things and sun spots and earths orbit play a role. I would just say in terms of the data that we have we see natural cycles, over 100year periods and over roughly 1,000year periods and were in between the ice ages and the interglacial periods with 10,000 to 12,000 years an the ice age is 100,000 years an were late into the interglacial cycle and that is allowed human beings to develop and f
Its one of the fastestgrowing regions in the world. Africas middle class is projected to grow to more than one billion consumers. With hundreds of millions of mobile phones and surging access to the internet, africans are beginning to leapfrog old technologies into new prosperity. The continent has achieved historic gains in health, from fighting hiv aids to making childbirth safer for women and babies. Millions have been lifted from extreme poverty. So this is extraordinary progress. And young people like you are driving so much of this progress because africa is the youngest continent. I saw the power of youth on my trip. In kenya, Richard Ruto Todosia helped build yes youth can, one of the countys most Prominent Civil Society groups, with over one million members. At the Global Entrepreneurship summit in nairobi, shadi sabeh spoke about how he started Brilliant Footsteps Academy in nigeria, which uses education to fight religious extremism and provide more opportunities for muslim y
The governor was a president ial candidate is speaking up against ilLegal Immigration but Legal Immigration it causes great concern. I am wondering what does Republican Leadership plan to do about this . Do they actually think we can have some change as long as those will vote democrat . I know im not aware of those particular comments of impact youre saying we need to limit Legal Immigration i would show that some surprising given our declining birth rate and we have so many skilled jobs but not skilled american workers. I would find that surprising if that is governor walkers position, i find that somewhat surprising and is not one that would settle with American People. Without knowing more about his position i cant comment on it. Im going to have to feed on the question of what the republican leader. I would just add there are Legal Immigration is what built this country, the great majority of immigrants come here legally either through family reunification or through works sponsor