Past 18 years, it is time now to form a comprehensive policy to further strengthen our relations in various areas. President obama met this week at the white house with the president of the socialist republic of vietnam. At the top of the agenda was bilateral trade between the two nations now at 24 billion how to enlarge that trade volume. The summit comes as vietnams trade with china still its no. 1 trading partner is cooling. Chinas economy is in an incipient slump. At the same time tensions have developed between vietnam and china due to chinas territorial interest off vietnams 900mile coast south of chinas province. The United States is vietnams second largest trading partner and also in japan Prime Minister minister abe won with big numbers having run on a policy with dramatically increasing japans defense spending to counter chinas military buildup. Against this back drop the United States and vietnam have agreed to establish a Constructive Partnership on the basis of equality, M
Past 18 years, it is time now to form a comprehensive policy to further strengthen our relations in various areas. President obama met this week at the white house with the president of the socialist republic of vietnam. At the top of the agenda was bilateral trade between the two nations now at 24 billion how to enlarge that trade volume. The summit comes as vietnams trade with china still its no. 1 trading partner is cooling. Chinas economy is in an incipient slump. At the same time tensions have developed between vietnam and china due to chinas territorial interest off vietnams 900mile coast south of chinas province. The United States is vietnams second largest trading partner and also in japan Prime Minister minister abe won with big numbers having run on a policy with dramatically increasing japans defense spending to counter chinas military buildup. Against this back drop the United States and vietnam have agreed to establish a Constructive Partnership on the basis of equality, M
His pants down again. Him, ive forgiven believe in him. The attorney general pushes back on Voting Rights. Last week the Supreme Court issued a deeply disappointing and flawed decision that struck down a key part of Voting Rights act of 1965. Also, a lovely show of support from a former president for a twoyearold leukemia victim. And welcome to the world, prints George Alexander louis of cambridge. In illinois this week, president obama began a summer sales pitch on the economy, the first of a series of speeches aimed at revitalizing the american middleclass. I will lay out my ideas on how we build on the cornerstone for what it needs to be middle class in america and what it takes to work your way into the middle class. The speech turned out to be all season and no steak, assuming there is anything left after you have repeated it so many times. What is new . We are about to have another fight about the budget and there is this thing called the bully pulpit, and the president is using
That Evacuation Order has been called off. We turn to cheryl hurd. Reporter the road is now open to traffic. It has been open for about an hour or so. This gas line break is causing a lot of problems here, as you can see the chevron station is closed. It has been closed for a while. And other businesses in the area have also been closed. The gas line break causing a lot of problems. Crews are working to repair the gas line here. The Fire Department got the call around 10 30 this morning. East bay mud was here repairing a Water Line Break when one of their crews accidently hit the gas line. The Fire Department called for an evacuation covering a 1,000 foot radius. I actually didnt know it was a gas leak until i tried to get home from danville which is a five minute drive that took me 40 minutes and i had to get a Police Escort to let me in because my kids were home. An emergency warning went out. The area was not identified in that notice. Reporter so that is why people far and wide got
July 25th, 2013. Its thursday. Im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer. Breaking news over seas, that horrific moment twwhen the tras that video posted on youtube things but they are going to to figure out what caused this lets get right to nbc at the behind me, a shocking scene. What you can see is the crane lifting these train cars, these but perhaps more shocking, matt, about to see because a fixed camera on the line behind me trains derailment as reports say, that two people on board were from houston. 247 people were onboard. Twisted at 9 00 p. M. Local time. Carriages piled up. Smoke pouring from the wreckage. Deadly fire as people try to escape. Windows, carried away by first as through the night, paramedics battled to help the injured. Make it covered with blankets. Relatives left in tears by the capital pra madrid coming off the rails of santiago de compotala in northern spain. It was the eve of the local festival. All celebrations were canceled. Hospitals, many of the dead hav