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Climate change. That is the major challenge of the 21st century. Time is past where humankind thought it could selfishly draw on inexhaustible resources. We know now the world is not a commodity, it is not a source of revenue. It is a common good, it is our heritage. The consequences of Climate Change are fully known now. Were not talking about theories anymore. Were talking about certainties. If nothing is done, then we are talking about increasing temperatures for degrees by the end of the cen...

You know, to expand our airports, we are increasingly relying on passenger facility charges for the capital we need. How can we support the administrations proposal to raise that cap and how can we support your efforts and vice versa on that . Well, this is a vitally important issue. Right now, theres a its a 4. 50 cap on the pfc charges. We proposed lifting that cap to 8. Which would provide these are moneys that airports can use flexibly to improve their facilities. It takes a little bit of th...

So just keep that in mind with those temperatures at or below freezing. We are looking at the concern for that black ice across the area. Temperatures have been holding pretty steady or below freezing. Folks have been sending in pictures as well. You can see that picture coming in from melinda showing you what it really look like as far as parts of the area dealing with that icy concern. So were monitoring those Winter Weather advisories as well as the temperatures throughout the rest of the eve...

For the First Time Since 2010, president obama has used his veto in the controversial Keystone Pipeline bill back to capitol hill. He was very clear in his reasons to do so. And republicans were quick with their criticism. Mike viqueira, we knew this was coming and why it. The president veto this bill . Tony, its only his third veto in the entire administration. Supporters of construction of this pipeline, they of course passed the bill as promised, what they took over to the congress was a hous...

Plus. [ singing ] dot dot. Pope francis names palestinian saints and barcelona win the Spanish League title. Lionel messi a match winner as barca set to win a trophy treble hello, fighters from Islamic State of iraq and levant claim victory over iraqi forces in the city of ramadi. Its the second provincial capital to fall, it holds mosul in the north along with raqqa, a syrian capital. Video posted online showed iraqi army humvees, trucks and other equipment speeding out of ramadi. Soldiers repo...

Problems. Medical teams from japans selfdefense force has been examining survivors at the square in central kathmandu. The square has become a makeshift campsite. Six days after the earthquake, many survivors are still too scared to stay indoors. People lined up to receive medical treatments. Translator its been impossible to take my child to hospitals since the quake. But finally we saw a doctor. And im happy. Translator were just the initial responders, so what we can do is limited. But the ma...

Well this teacher took that letter of recommendation and brought it to the school he applied to work at in West Virginia, got hired and over time became the principal. Well these kinds of pedophiles, they dont change their ways and he didnt change his ways in West Virginia. He continued to prey on kids. Eventually he raped and then murdered a 12yearold boy named jeremy bell. Well justice eventually caught up with the killer and hes now serving a life sentence for that murder. But for little jere...

The promotion of the drug started 72 years before drug comes on the park and while its illegal for company to market a drug before its been approved by the fda its not illegal to market a disease. So Check Companies have sometimes invented diseases or exaggerated the importance of certain conditions or exaggerated the importance of a particular mechanism of a drug for example and then blanketed medical journals and medical meetings and other venues with these messages that are meant to prepare t...

The transatlantic space to support ukraine. And i do think that our leadership in this is recognized. We are having as spirited a debate as is going on theres also a transatlantic debate so that question gets asked also in our diplomacy. But europeans come at it from both sides, depending upon where they sit. With regard to ukraine and the things that need to be done, and that has been appreciated, very much by my by most of us, i would have at this point significant difficulty coming to work ea...

Misdemeanors and those convicted of three or more misdemeanors. So heres my ask. We want to work with you to restore this relationship. Weve replaced secure communities with a new program for the benefit of Public Safety. But i need a partner. In those in this room, in governors and mayors county commissions, and so forth. Weve done our part to end the controversial secure communities program. Now i ask that you and others get with your city attorney, your city council, your police commissioner,...