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A. A. A. Saying because of the low gas prices so many people expected to travel and this day is expected to be the worst of all of that Holiday Travel between now and just after the new year. We do expect that nine out of ten people traveling 50 miles away from washington will be doing so just like we are behind the wheel. So it is slow go Getting Started in the everything rush. And the rain only complicating matters here. We will continue to update the traffic throughout the evening in mobile t...

Now, officials are vowing to intensify their fight against terrorism. Palestine has decided to seek membership not vengeance. Implications for israel and the palestinians. And with the new president. We, the grass roots we are sovereign in this country. Nigerians are turning their hopes to the future. Good evening im antonio mora we begin tonight with thousands of syrians lives in a refugee camp, many of them starving and with no medical carey. Kim vanel has more on the besieged refugees and the...

A month after the devastating earthquake children in nepal get to go back to school. Lets begin on the italian island of sicily where bodies of 17 people are arriving at port augusta. They were found during a largescale operation to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. More than 5,000 have been rescued since friday. We go live to the port to hoda abdelhamid. The picture behind you of the coffins, it tells the story of how dangerous the migration is. Absolutely i mean its a telling picture. Th...

Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. Thank you for joining us this thanksgiving morning. It is gold, 31 degrees. That wont stop 3 Million People from lining the route of the macies thanksgiving day parade. The big question is will the balloons fly in 3 hours from now. If its too windy they may be grounded. As soon as the turkey dinner is done, a lot of americans will start a new thanksgiving tradition shopping. Well look at the debate over Stores Opening up. Well show you how to use t...

Of the reason for the backlog is simply the vast increase in the numbers of applications. So, and theres usually a backlog in hiring people to catch up, you know. It takes six months to hire people. Having said that, i think your point is well taken that the letter can simply suggest that, that we need to reevaluate it midstream or [multiple voices] the increase will be 2 next year and 1 thereafter. If we see a 10 increase, there should be some mid course correction. Right. How do we what wed ha...

Through mr. Frye, maybe, with the pack log. Is that any point in time . If i could, commissioner, youre suggesting that it simply suggest that the letter say that we evaluate it kind of periodically through the year to make sure so next year were at 600. With the goal of reducing the backlog, of course. Thats all our goal. Exactly. [speaker not understood] make sense. Is it that each fte will account for tentative backlog or something, is there a way to attach that . Were adding 6 or whatever th...

Division chiefs and the divisions Management Team on allocating resources accordingly to what the projected work load will be. But i believe mr. Frye and staff monitor it much more frequently so that if staff arent working on legislation coordination activities, they can be utilized in some other capacity. Like landmarks . Yes. Tim frye, department staff. Just to followup on that, the team leaders meet on a quarterly basis and go over the backlog and also whether or not we need to reallocate res...

To do general searches or get information. So, again, really broad access to the public for almost everything they would need to be doing, but obviously for filing certain things or any kind of transaction, we want to log in need an account that we can then track and do need to log in. One example of a feature were excited about is the ability to search the tracking system for a wide range of information. Again, this search would cover both planning applications and permits all in one. And one s...

Copyrights. The court ruled 63 in favor of he broadcasters. Ice scalia wrote but what is the future of pay tv with this decision . I spoke with John Erlichman who has been following the story from the very start. And joining us is bloomberg contributing editor paul kedrosky. His ted by asking bill take. From the very beginning it was going to end up in the court system. Any type of telecommunication threat, whatsoever, you have two large institutional masses that know how the litigate and lobby ...

But what is the future of pay tv with this decision . I spoke with jon erlichman, who has been following the story from the very start. And joining us is bloomberg contributing editor Paul Kedrosky and bill gurley. I started by asking bill his take on the ruling. I think from the very beginning it was going to end up in the court system. It was designed for that. It really was. The bottome line, whethere youre looking at big media out of hollyword or any type of telecommunication threat, whatsoe...