Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm
Condemned his remarks, but stopped short of banning him from traveling to their countries altogether. Steve were learning more about the couple responsible for the shooting in san bernardino. They were radicalized two years ago before they returned to the u. S. U. S. They were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online. And online, as late as as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged. Steve all right. That means the radicalization had begun before she applied to come to the united states. Dari the third gunman has been involved in the deadly terror attack in paris. He was identified after his announcing his death as a martyr. She gave police a dna sample to confirm his identity. 89 people died inside that concert all on november 13th. 41 people died in terror attacks across paris that very same night. Steve russia unleashing a round of deadly strikes in syria against isis. This vi
London. Im francine lacqua. Im manus cranny. The chinese premier says the country still has the policy tools to deal with pressures on growth. He announced that china will open up its onshore currency markets to foreign Central Banks. He spoke at the World Economic forum. Were integrating ourselves into the wider world, and china will open up even more. Our policy of investing abroad will remain unchanged. These specific policies will continue to encourage more Foreign Investment in china, and they will expand access to markets. Francine the speech came as china reported the fastest Consumer Price growth in a year. That will compound challenges to policymakers. Lets cross live to our beijing bureau chief. Did he map out a plan to jumpstart the economy . Nick there were no specific proposals this time around. What you heard more was the voice of reassurance. There has been so much uncertainty in the last few weeks about the governments intention to valuing the yuan and how it would resp
21st century fox prepared to offer for the 85 a share for time warner. E joins us now with more. Another big deal Rupert Murdoch is known for, but he got rebuffed. Jeff bewkes, who runs time warner inc. , he thinks it is better for the company to remain independent. He has been selling off assets. When he first took over, he sold aol and timeun off warner cable. Recently, hes been off recently, he spun off time inc. It is a much cleaner and more focused company in terms of being a pure play Video Entertainment business, which would fit in with fox. Was in google rumored to be a better for time warner . Bit mores a farfetched. We dont have reporting that the kids anything real with any kind of Silicon Valley company. Philosophically, it makes sense that some of the emerging Silicon Valley companies with want more content. Youtube, it is a business that has not found its footing. It is growing but it is unclear what the Business Model is. Time warner has a great Business Model. Whether i
Several fires knocked out transformers. Spencer christian has a look at the rain totals around here today. I want to let you know weve had up to 1 2 an inch of rain in many locations around the area. Over in the sierra, we have rain in the area of the king fire. Thats really good news. 77, and its still falling. Heavy rains falling on the firescarred earth there, Flash Flood Warning in effect for this area until 6 15 this evening. Lets travel back to the bay area, where i was talking about the 24hour rainfall totals. 43 in mount st. Helena. Half an inch here in San Francisco. 018 over in livermore, where we thought there would be very little, if any rainfall. We still have Little Pockets of showers scattered through the north bay. Very widely scattered. However, theres active weather offshore moving our direction. That means we may get a little more out of these systems this evening. Ill show you when and where the next showers will fall in just a few minutes. Dan and cheryl . Spencer,