It is a lousy way to run a serious investigation. The committees spent nearly a year and a half and more than four and a half million taxpayer dollars. Investigating why four americans died in the 2012 this. Effort to derail clintons campaign. Clinton began by focusing on ambassador Chris Stevens and the four americans who died. I took responsibility, and as part of that before i left but she argues. To keep terrorism from growing, diplomats must continue to work in dangerous areas. They cant do their jobs for us from bunkers. Retreat from the world is not an option. Later this afternoon. Tough questions about emails. Security and inevitably politics. 1 22 speaking on politics, hearing, calling the benghazi failures a stunning example of incompetant foreign policy. And he says Hillary Clintons role in that deserves to be scrutinized. Tracie potts, nbc news washington. Clinton began speaking this morning before 10. As many as eight hours of testimony is expected throughout the day. A br
You know all types of injuries shaking up shaken up and bloody faces like walk dead. Reporter a neighbor describes the scene last night. This is today, you are looking at rid wrote ntsb just released giving us a firsthand view of what investigators are seeing more than 20 hours after amtrak train 188 careen odd off the track apps plunged into darkness and chaos. This happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting it felt like the train was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeff cutlers of brooklyn new yorks head is where he bounced around hes sat in the second car. The ntsb is down loading info from the event recorders. They are like black boxes. The hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it rounded the sharp curve where it jumped the tracks tournament turning a simple commute into play kate complicated chaos in seconds. The speed limit is 50 miles an hour. Thats from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is sail pre
Deficit sequestration, and of course, the fiscal cliff. Listening to breathless elected officials discuss the fiscal cliff can be terrifying. As the story goes, weve made some bad choices over the years. Weve tried to outrun it, but in the ends were trapped and it sounds like like our country is facing this. But lets just take a moment and breathe. Because fear is not going to help. And facts will. Here are some of the facts. If a new plan for the federal budget is not reached between congress and the white house by the end of the year, january 1, 2013 will be the first day that significant spending cuts and meaningful tax increases take effect. Adding up to about 500 billion in 2013 alone. Now, lets remember this cliff is manufactured. The result of lawmakers tying each others hands back during the 2011 debt ceiling debacle. First all of the bush era tax cuts would be eliminated. Bringing taxes on nearly every taxpayer and many businesses back to the preet2001 rates. The payroll tax c
To minimize the importance of our testimony. I want to thank my fellow commissioners for the work they did last year in serving on committees and going out of their way for public febt and spend time at organizedometers that dealt dealt with park. But every standard of measurement from bond issue to report cards from audits by the city the parks have never been in better shape and i want to congratulate the staff the government didnt only a the systems difficult meeting where the public weighs in and ive said before and again everybody in San Francisco loves their parks and they all have something to say and railway do two people agree so we try to do our best. So on many not happy new year i landmark to a prosperous commissioner did you want to hear 12 a and b together. I want you to explain you how many minutes. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 3 the general managers report happy new year commissioners and at the for your comment
To stop. No matter what you do, they just keep on coming after you, hungry and ready to tear you apart. You can never just sit back and relax, because after these zombies, the ones right in front of you, there are thousands more right behind them and a thousand more behind them, and theyll all want a piece of you. Maybe you have a plan for the zombie apocalypse. The cdc certainly does. No, really, thats a real post from the federal governments zombie preparedness campaign, but what about if the government defaults on its debts . The way some are talking about it, it sure sounds like an apocalyp apocalypse. In order to admit default would be, and im quoting here, insane, catastrophic, chaos, these are the more polite words. Warren buffett likened it to a nuclear bomb. But the real zombies in this metaphor arent the countrys debts, the real zombies are the congressional republicans. See, no matter how much you think theyve been defeated, they just keep coming back. The Affordable Care ac