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The use of genetically modified organisms on farms and in food products. In august a federal Aviation Administration missed a deadline for writing rules for drones to prevent interference with regular air traffic. This week an faa official testified at a house hearing that the missed deadline means e comprehensive rules wont be made until 2017 at the earliest. This hearing of the subcommittee on aviation is two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. Would like to ask unanimous co...

Now todays House Oversight committee. Secret Service Hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. Congressman Joseph Chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. Without objection. Without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Appreciate everybody being here. Reforming the United States secret service is not a partis...

Has gone on, diplomatic for example, and as part of a lot of international forums. Our government is trying to adopt some norms to get the chinese to go along with them. But it is my function the fbis to understand what theyre doing, develop the factings and then show our government heres what we see. I understand, you know, that the cyber threat is real and i think congress and the American People are recognizing that its real and its clear and present danger. I hope were doing everything that ...

Darya here is video in this hour that showed a landslide that was caused by the second quake that hit this morning and all this comes less in three weeks after the deadly 7. 8 magnitude quake in nepal will have more than a thousand people were killed in that quake that hit on april 25th the epicenter of todays new quake was about 50 mi. East of katmandu which is the nepalese capital that is what many buildings were destroyed from the first earthquake mark lets go to James Fletcher for more on th...

Straw poll and got out pretty early on in the race. It is a big fundraising opportunity and the chairman talked about the importance of having it. It was interesting to hear him say that is not necessarily the direction its not necessarily going to give us direction as to who will come out on top. Steven finally, to both of you if you look at february, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, it is conceivable that you have four different winners in each of those states. Caitlin i think there are a few diff...

And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill a major winter storm surged into the midwest and northeast, fouling flight schedules and ruining Road Conditions on this day after christmas. The huge weather system left a trail of destruction in the Gulf Coast Region and at least six people dead. Oh, wow, oh jesus, look at that tornado. Ifill the calm of christmas night was shattered b...

Of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill a major winter storm surged into the midwest and northeast, fouling flight schedules and ruining Road Conditions on this day after christmas. The huge weather system left a trail of destruction in the Gulf Coast Region and at least six people dead. Oh, wow, oh jesus, look at that tornado. Ifill the ...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill a massive winter storm disrupted travel today for tens of thousands of americans across the country. Good evening, im gwen ifill. Warner and im margaret warner. On the neho tonight, we t the latest on the snow sleet and rain that have snarled roads, knocked out power and delayed flights. Ifill then, with images from the connecticut massacre still raw, Spencer Michels looks at a California Law that aims to head off such violence. Reporter t...

The Alameda County board of supervisors is about to vote on a new lease for the oakland as. Mark kelly joins us from oakland. Reporter they are about to vote. We dont have the final vote just yet. They are upstairs talk about this right now. Supervisor miley who also sits on the joint Powers Authority for the oakland as calling this a solid deal this morning. Of course, this final vote is in favor of the new 10year lease for the oakland as at the oakland coliseum. Once we get the final vote well...

Area to make sure this doesnt spread and hop to her to fire. Theres been a huge response from san jose fire and cal fire because its so close to these homes. Helicopters dropping water on the ground and of course those ground crews, and they have had an extremely dangerous job. Two firefighters were taken to the hospital for heatrelated issues, and not only is it extremely hot out, but theyve got that gear on thats so heavy, the steep terrain that theyre triening to maneuver through, the brush i...