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Of some 370,000 residents from areas near the sea and new york city. Officials have there have suspended subway and bus services. Sandy is disrupting corporate activity with Many Companies not opening for business. None of the theaters on the citys famous broadway will be running performances on monday. The u. N. Headquarters will be closed and the New York Stock Exchange will stop all trading on monday. Internet trade willing also be suspended. Well have more information on the hurricane from r...

Today in beijing in the shine of 1949 china turned 70 on Tiananmen Square there were no stains from the past as a soon to be superpower paraded its military might for the world to see but today in hong kong in the shadow of 989. 00 violence own the streets and a policeman fired a bullet into a protester tonight chinas split screen reality is one country 2 systems condemned to a future with one more massacre im bored golf in berlin this is the day. When your good news there is no you fool speck a...

Global pandemic. Lawmakers were told this week that the virus would continue to spread in this country and that the worst is yet to come. We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. How much worse well get will depend on our ability to do two things, to contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country. Bottom line, its going to get worse. Paul dr. Borio, the former director for medi...

Were awatsi inawaiting todays at a moment when Public Health officials and even the president , in his own way, seem to be leveling with the public about how widespread the threat is and how many people could die. The u. S. Has now surged well beyond italy to become the country with the most confirmed cases in the world. The number of cases continues to rise exponentially. The white house is now warning that every metro area is going to be hit. The president has basically admitted through his ac...

Accelerate and peak in the next coming weeks. Heres what the president is saying about extending the shut down. We are thinking that around easter, thats going to be your spike, the highest point we think and then its going to start coming down from there, that will be a day of celebration and we just want to do it right. So we picked the end of april, april 30th as the day where we can see some Real Progress and we expect to see that, and then by a little short of june, may be, we think its a t...

Serious challenge. We all took an oath to protect the nation and its interests but to do so we must work together. I know everyone on this Committee Takes the isil threat seriously. President obama and everyone at this table does as well. We encourage a serious debate but i urge you to pass the president s aumf because it provides the Necessary Authority and flexibility to wage our Current Campaign and because it will demonstrate to our men and women in uniform some of whom are in harms way righ...

Yearold law. Military and intelligence personnel defending against the terrorist threats to reface one decade after 9 11. Including u. S. Citizens. Of course in addition to the Statutory Authority granted by congress, the president has Broader Authority to take necessary actions to defend the United States against terrorist threats. The targeted killing of american citizens, certain Constitutional Rights under the fourth and fifth amendments, even when they are up said the United States. The ext...

It is about doing Work Together. There are plenty of people that you work with and you dont like. Thats what we need to do in this congress. Speaker boehner and the republicans who control me to say it is not time for a weekend break. It is backed that get us back into the session. Host that was the last call. What happens once Congress Comes back into session . Guest i am looking forward to hearing about the results of the meeting at the white house today. In my own office, we are facing as wel...

For those kind words. We go way back. Im always worried when doug introduces me. He knows an awful lot of stuff he could say. But he always kind of he is on his way to the Supreme Court to i guess a woman we know, great lawyers, going to argue the dna case, and its something we probably ought to win 90. Dont you think . So dont blow it. [laughter] ninezip, you know. Now, as some of you know, as doug said, we worked noth the u. S. Attorneys office, but the notion i was his boss is a complete joke...

For the next seven months. If the yearlong sequestration goes into effect. That is just one of hundreds of examples. Were going to hear today that the military service was are already taking actions to mitigate the impacts of the continuing resolution and the impending sequester. For example, the department of defense has instituted hiring freezes, reduced or eliminated temporary or Term Employees and deferred Facility Maintenance and began postponing or canceling maintenance of ships, air and g...