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Years, this is unlike anything i have seen. Having seen the path of devastation irma left behind in the caribbean. This is nature at its most fierce. We are on the sixth floor the flooding is amazing and the win and rain is bringing it through the sliding doors. And florida is preparing for a direct hit and miami sits right now in the bullseye. Floridians are running you of the necessities. The manager told us they dont have water in yet so ill pick up other nonperishable items and get prepared ...

About the danger of the historic hurricane. Were being very aggressive for this storm in every floridian should take this seriously and be aggressive to protect their family. Possessions can be replaced. Your family cannot. This is serious and we cannot take chances. It is lifethreatening. This is not a storm you can sit and wait through. The details coming up this morning. President drunk pushing his plan saying it can create millions of jobs. Taking a closer look at the timeline coming up afte...

Retailer slashing prices on thousands of items what this could be signaling about the company and its rivals power lunch starts right now im brian sullivan, stocks are mixed this hour but on track for first losing week in three weeks. The dow is the only major average that is higher meantime the u. S. Dollar, the greenback weakening against most of the world major currencies, the dollar index now at its lowest level since january of 2015 kroger beating estimates but the shares getting pounded ap...

Plans saying it does not go far enough to address the deficit. Lincoln and temple are among five universities caught in the cross hairs. Now a total of 600 million for those institutions are on hold. We collaborate our Veterinary Health care with the Human Health Care and really kind of intertwine our treatments and diagnostics. The university of pennsylvanias vet school says services at its two animal hospitals, Research Programs and overall assistance to. Students would be in jeopardy. Were th...

Deputies about why this mission is close to home. And, this is a live look this morning, outside, from our Parkway Central Library camera. There is some fog out there in our area this morning, we will tell you how much longer it will stick around. Today is sunday, october 15th, good morning, everyone, im jan carabeo, let s get right over to the forecast with meteorologist, Matt Peterson. Hi, matt, good sunday morning, nice to see you. Unfortunately, you dont bring me great news in the weather de...

Minutes three days of National Mourning after a bombing rocks somalias capital killing at least eighty five people. Some myself fighters leave rocker as part of a deal but others vow to fight on as the battle for the syrian city enters its final stages. The academy expels the disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein condemning hollywood heris months of women. Also ahead why the people of venice dont like tourists and how theyre fighting back to reclaim their ancient city. At least eighty five peop...

For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite ou...

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Challenge. Next years farm bill deliberations, we have an opportunity to do more with out having to spend your money. Little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill in our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from u. S. Farmers. Half of which must be shipped on u. S. Flagged vessels according to the rules. These restrictions result in spending as little as 35 35 40 cents on the dollar on food. Let me say this one more time. Because ...

To 162 more per metric ton than foreign flag carriers for usda programs. If u. S. Flag carriers had matched the average foreign flag rate in each these years, we would have spent 23. 8 mmm less for shipping. And we did a little back of the envelope map and we think that comes out to about 500,000 in foodd theyd we could have helped. Extra money spent on shipping is money not spent feeding hungry people. Im not qualified to judge whether the cargo preference requirement achieves the necessary Nat...