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Mr. Thompson if that freshwater doesnt run through and to the ocean the saltwater runs back in. I have two major cities in my district that relies on that for the source of water. If this bill passes, their water supply is in jeopardy. You cant drink salts water. It just doesnt work. California is in the middle of an extreme drought. Its not due to a lack of pumping. Its not because our states water regulations and its not because were putting fish ahead of farms and people. Its because theres no rain and theres no snow. No bill can make it rain but this bill makes a bad situation even worse. ...

I was publisher of the wall street journal. I spent quite some time overseeing the Digital Businesses of the journal. I consider myself, in fact, maybe the oldest possible digital native. I oversaw businesses that were based on what we then called electronic publishing even before the internet in the 1990s, so i lived in a time before the internet, before Technology Policy was aimed at encouraging innovation back in the 80s and 9s 90s and before government was heavily involved in regulating communications telephones, other technologies. The internet was different in the 1990s. It was liberatin...

Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The images coming out of tianjin china are of breathtaking devastation. Virtually destroyed by two enormous industrial explosions seen and felt for miles around. Right now the death toll already well into the dozens still rising. Many people are still missing, and the search and recovery is being carried out amid serious concerns over whats in the air. Nbcs ian williams is there. Reporter its a scene of utter devastation. Fires still burning, smoke sti...

Still burning. This is a city in shock, but also, a city in fear of the potential toxic threat from this smoke. Ian williams in china, thank you. In this country, warnings tonight of a onetwo punch from nature that could devastate parts of the west already in the midst of a historic drought emergency. Today fire officials raised the threat level to the highest fire danger possible, and that move comes as forecasters warned of whats being called a godzilla el nino event this winter that could trigger storms we havent seen in decades. Reporter this is what they call level five. The highest fire ...

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