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This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. We are getting a new sense this hour of the extent of the destruction in Northern Illinois after tornadoed touched down. The governor says two people were kills dozens of homes destroyed. These images in fairdale tell the story, massive piles of debris everywhere. I signed a proximation a decoration this morning of state disaster decoration that allows us if we need to visit with the federal government about federal support. We dont believe that will be necessary at the present time. It allows us to streamline the procur...

Supports the right to bare arms whether any gun laws need to be changed . We begin this hour with what is shaping up to be major mie style in the relationship between the United States and cuba. On the heels of a telephone call between the two leaders, they are now expected to meet facetoface tomorrow. It will come at the sum milt of the americas conference in panama. This will be the first meeting since the Obama Administration in december moved to normalize ties. Mike viqueira is in washington. And mike what does the white house now expect will be achieved with this meeting . Well that big s...

Egypt. All the countries are part of this huge undertaking, but please allow me to be very clear. Either the tribes do this, or no one is going to do this. The only way to reach peace is for the tribes to accept that they are going toward stabilization and peace. And our work is that of looking for this to favor this at all levels so that this effort does indeed lead to peace. The diplomatic initiatives you are aware of are the ones we are doing and the once the Foreign Ministers are also trying to support and study. Obviously, this is not a job that starts in libya. I would like my Italian Jo...

One issue is even if there are no abuses the industry cannot handle having a best interest standard applied to these recommendations. Thats what the dol is doing. Its almost the standard that is applied to broker dealers under the suitability standard. The recommendation must be consistent and you look under the hood and it turns out these are some of the worst violations that you can find. In one case the court said this was egregious misconduct. These are cases if many if not most broker deals. The unsuitable recommendations are accompanied by other Violations Including failure to supervise,...

Chance of winning. We have the expense of millions worth of dollars worth of discovery. The news press is out there covering this. Depending on a law firm, you get to know, good friends in the press, and they will start this drumbeat and they will make it harder and harder for you not to say, this is stupid. I have had contentious cases. They said, wait until you see what will happen, i will tell you we have talked to these consumer advocate groups and this is what you will see next month and tell your friends. It is a very implicit threat of blackmail. When we come after them, they should fin...