Live, today from noon until 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Be sure to watch indepth with author lee edwards next month. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Our guest on newsmakers this week, we are joined by stephanie schriock, of emilys list. Working to elect prochoice Democratic Women to state and local elections. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. We should tell our audience that you had a big announcement that you are committing 20 million to 20 races to flip state legislatures in 2020. We will talk about that and lots of other electoral politics questions. Let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the ballot, im sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency after 2016. Have you detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or sinc
Professors. This portion is an hour and 10 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This subcommittee is convening our third in the series of Climate Change hearings, focusing on recovery, resiliency and readiness with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Y as i mentioned, this hear suggest the third in a series of hold to congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the today the subcommittee turns to the impact of claimant change on Natural Disasterrers. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent, due to Climate Change. Climate change is real and were constantly reminded of that fact in terrifying ways. Just two weeks ago, it was reported that greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice
More than 20 allegations. Waterspouts and flooding in Louisiana Residents of new orleans are urged to leave the city or take shelter as a powerful Tropical Storm bears down on the coast. And englands commonwealth champion netballers start their World Cup Campaign tonight with a match against uganda in liverpool. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im Rachel Schofield the American Military says its trying to put together a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the gulf after the royal navy had to intervene to help a british tanker which was being confronted by iranian vessels. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has promised to reverse cuts to the size of the royal navy if he becomes Prime Minister. Rising tensions with iran have led to uk merchant vessels being placed on the highest security alert near the strait of hormuz. ani on one side are the arab states including a number of key allies. On the other iran. Between them the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point its onl
Of Climate Change and Natural Disaster preparedness efforts. The House Oversight and reform subcommito environment heard from witnesses including james wit and Atmospheric Science professors. This portion is an hour and 10 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This subcommittee is convening our third in the series of Climate Change hearings, focusing on recovery, resiliency and readiness with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Y as i mentioned, this hear suggest the third in a series of hold to congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the today the subcommittee turns to the impact of claimant change on Natural Disasterrers. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent, due to
Following the weather so first is getting weirder and wilder and greater extremes and second the forecaster is better at predicting what will get us. But their accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timeliness of their reports. These days not only one weather model but those simulating the future space of the atmosphere the north american model, european model and those over the next ten days. And then to get interested in this and then supercomputers with a knack of making complex systems accessible and he saw a similar kind of story. His new book, the weather machine is an engaging book behind the scenes International Collaborative effort to recount the forecasting to the Un World Meteorological Organization with a satellite in supercomputers to make up the conversation with one of the forecasters the editor of Washington Post in those fascinated by the weather growing up in the dc region and to recall this for year the chief meteorologist from the local nbc affiliate to stu