The u. S. And under the obama, you know, under president obama, we reached this monumental agreement, this Bilateral Agreement between the u. S. And china to make dramatic cuts in our carbon emissions. That sort of set the stage for the very successful paris summit where nearly 200 nations from around the world made significant commitments to loring their carbon lowering their carbon emissions. If we now unilaterally back out, its going to send, obviously, the wrong message to the rest of the world. Its going to say that the u. S. Is a country that goes back on its agreement. And its really, to me, its loftier than the issue of climate change, are we willing to be a constructive and good faith partner in this larger effort to make sure that we leave behind a has habitable wod for our children and grandchildren. Ter middle east, what do you mean . Well, im talking about a very large swath of the islamic world. I could have called it americas war in the middle east but it seems to me to
Substantial forces in europe. After world war ii we were prepared to fight in east asia and have fought before 1980 pretty substantial wars in asia one in korea and one in vietnam. We havent been fighting that we are prepared to fight in the islamic world since 1990 strikingly virtually every american soldier whos been killed in combat has been killed in that part of the world and i believe its something americans should be more attentive to what the geographical specificity. The numbers are on the screen if you want to chat with the retired army officer. For those in the mountain and pacific time zones we will get to those calls right away. Oil is always defined the race for the war on the greater middle east. Lution on is the iranian revolution that perceived to be a great threat to u. S. Interests in the region. The second events occurring in 1979 was the soviet invasion of afghanistan and the perception that washington is together those threatened our access to the persian gulf at
8u[5jjy the driver of the car was transported to the hospital. In montgomery county, despite the large volume of 911 calls, no one was reported injured. Id say within an hour period we handle hundreds of calls and went on condition red. You know, we were on condition red for a little while. But the good thing is im not aware of any serious injury that occurred in any of this. Reporter youre looking live at this house in silver spring. Goes without saying these people have to find somewhere else to live. Montgomery county fire excuse me told them they are not allowed to go back into this house. Coming up at 6 00, we are going to tell you about a case where a truckdriver was actually trapped inside of his vehicle when power lines and trees went down all around him. That is the latest. Back to you in the studio. This damage and there was a lot to survey. Check it out. This is the view from above in gaithersbu gaithersburg. Crews are using a chain saw to chop it up and get it out of way. T
Below freezing temps and heavy snowfall. Busine blizzard watches from new york city to boston. Blizzard conditions in spots and more than a foot of snow possible in others, as old man winter isnt giving up without a fight. We thought we were in the clear from winter, but everyone in the storms path needs to expect delays, cancellations and closures as the snow moves through over the next day and a half. Spring begins in one week on march 20th. Janay norman, abc news, washington. The storm is causing airport delays. Lets get to jessica at the live desk. Morning. Brace yourselves if you have a flight anywhere today. Already this morning, we have more than 700 flights cancelled all across the united states. I want to show you the misery mapaware. Com. The storm is centered around chicago and thats where we have the most cancellations and delays now. More than 400 flights cancelled out of ohare, a hub for united and american. Nearly 200 at midway, which is the hub for southwest. We will st
Theres a huge muslim fundamentalist population in pakistan and the reason that the pakistanis never said anything publicly about having them is when they told us, he came in, it could be earlier. The pakistanis kept them secretly because the public will go nuts. The public loved bin laden. 450 of the country saw him as a hero and so as long as they had bin laden they can privately tell alqaeda groups and both pakistan and afghanistan, we have your guy, pay more attention to us, keep us informed, they had more control. That was their argument, the second argument they made is explanation for keeping them is the saudis paid him a lot of money. The Saudi Arabian came from big construction family, not royal family but major constructionists in building and very wealthy and the assumption we make and i make is that nobody wanted an american Interrogation Team to talk to him. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Book tvs Live Programming from the Miami Book Fair conti