Disappearing honey bee. The american soldier held in afghanistan for nearly five years has been freed. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was 23 when he was captured by the taliban in 2009. Now, 28, he was handed over to a u. S. Special Operations Team this morning. In exchange for his release, five detainees from guantanamo guantbay were transferred to the custody of qatar. Randall pinkston is joining us. Tell us more about sergeant burgdahls case. He was a private first class when he held infell into the happened near the border with pakistan. Tonight, he is finally, on his way home. Freedom came. Officials say at 10 30 a. M. Eastern time saturday, special Operations Forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead surveillance and intelligence executed the operation. The exchange took place in eastern afghanistan. 19 Taliban Forces were present, but there was no confrontation, no gunfire. Defense Officials Say bergdahl was able to walk to u. S. Forces and communicate with them. He is
2,600 homes came from our own facilities. Gsa is also working to improve our partners understanding of their energy use as directed in the december 2013 president memorandum on federal leadership on energy management, gsa is partnering with the department of energy and epa to prepare a Green Button Initiative that will increase our partners ability to reduce energy consumption, reduce greenhouse emissions and meet sustainability goals. Taken together these efforts have led to a significant reduction in the energy use intensity. In fy 2013, gsa reduced energy usage per square foot by 20. 8 ahead of statutory targets. Since 2011 these reductions saved 192. 7 million in avoided costs. Also in fy 2013, gsa achieved an approximately 50 reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions, exceeding our 2020 target. This amount of energy we no longer use is enough to power over 60,000 homes for one year. Gsa is also preparing for the potential impacts of Climate Change as part of the president s Climate Ac
Brown and ray suarez reports on the plight of Syrian Refugees whove fled to lebanon. At this tent camp in almarj, in the eastern part of Lebanons Bekaa valley only 25 miles from the Syrian Border refugees are struggling to adapt to a new, impermanent reality. Ifill and we close with a look at whats happening with the boy scouts, as they struggle to decide whether to lift a longstanding ban on openly gay members. Brown thateaalahl d on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown the u. S. Postal service announced today it plans to end saturday mail delivery beginning in aust. Ah under the plan, post offices alreadopen on saturdays will remain so. Packages will also continue to be delivered on saturdays. But home and business mail would end. The move would save an estimatee 2 billion annually. The Postal
Todays decision was criticized by several members of congress who may try to overule the agency. And the head of the Letter Carriers Union called the move a disastrous idea that would have a profoundly negative effect. Joining us now is postmaster general patrick donohoe. And welcome to you. You spoke today being in a very scary position financially. How scary . Well, heres where we are right flow. Now. As you mentioned we had a pretty substantial loss last year and those were accounting losses. 11. 1 billion of the 15. 9 is attributed to prepayment for Retiree Health care that we didnt pay. We defaulted. You have to count that in terms of your accounting rules. So what happened last year, when all was said and done, we had a loss of about 2 billion are a little over 2 billion from an operating revenue perspective. The problem that you have Going Forward is each year that weve had these losses brings the cash levels down farther and further. At one point in october we had four days of
Who may try to overule the agency. And the head of the Letter Carriers Union called the move a disastrous idea that would have a profoundly negative effect. Joining us now is postmaster general patrick donohoe. And welcome to you. You spoke today being in a very scary position financially. How scary . Well, heres where we are right flow. Now. As you mentioned we had a pretty substantial loss last year and those were accounting losses. 11. 1 billion of the 15. 9 is attributed to prepayment for Retiree Health care that we didnt pay. We defaulted. You have to count that in terms of your accounting rules. So what happened last year, when all was said and done, we had a loss of about 2 billion are a little over 2 billion from an operating revenue perspective. The problem that you have Going Forward is each year that weve had these losses brings the cash levels down farther and further. At one point in october we had four days of cash on hand. Thats entirely too small amounts of money for an