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And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie, and it is an anxious morning for folks up and down the east coast. Hurricane sandy strengthened over the night. Want to give you the information we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of 85 Miles Per Hour. Its located about 285 miles east of cape hatteras, North Carolina. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Had taking unprecedented actions to deal with this storm. Thats righ the mass Transit Systems shut down, schools cancelled....

This is an hour. We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. I have a couple of things to mention, and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel, which we are thrilled to hear from. The first thing is i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are excited about it here on the podium. The other thing, i think it is really critical to know that right after the election as everyone knows, we have been in a fairly multiye...

We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. For coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. Have a few things to mention and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel. The first thing, i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are very excited about it. The other thing i want to tell folks about, because i think it is really critical to know, right after the election and as everybody knows, we have been in a fairly multiyear period partisanship. The Go...

We are starting to see some success with the Iraqi Government in reducing payments to iraqi citizens who were living in isil controlled area. There is a downside to that. When they do that, that alley and eights them further from the Central Government in baghdad. To me, the important aspect here and the important theme would be to sustain the pressure. One of the sources that has been surprisingly consequential is blackmarket antiquity sales from the looting that has occurred. Its my understanding that the u. S. Has sanctions that it can impose on anyone who imports antiquities stolen by isis...

A huge challenge in iraq. We have succeeded in combating daesh on the ground. The area we have liberated so far is more than half of what was occupied by daesh before. Now we have almost all areas liberated from daesh apart from two areas. We intend this year to make it the final year and the last year for the existing of daesh in iraq. This reflecting of the area which is occupied by de daesh and this is a huge moment as oil has dropped in price. It is a huge drop in two years in a country where the budget relies 90 on oil. We have many during the 2015 where oil prices were also very low. The...