Good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. My name is toby dershowitz. Many of you know we are a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for research, and analysis and policy options for congress and the administration and for the media and certainly for the National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online lifestream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which we will be live tweeting fdd. The center on economic and financial power. We provide actionable recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives. In a moment well hear from our featured speaker, david peyman, deput,deputy assistant secretarf state for counterpart finance sanctions. Mr. Pe
To maintain and enforce sanctions specifically those aimed at iran and venezuela. This was held at the foundation for the defense of democracy. Good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. My name is toby dershowitz. Many of you know we are a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for research, and analysis and policy options for congress and the administration and for the media and certainly for the National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online lifestream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which we will be live tweeting fdd. The center on economic and financial power. We provide actionable recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives.
Engines. David kerley covers aviation. Reporter the frightening flames right outside the united jetliner soon after takeoff from newark. Passengers could also hear and feel the trouble coming from the engine. Suddenly it felt like being shot at, like pow pow pow pow pow. Four, five of the loudest bangs i had ever heard. Loud shaking, whole plane. Reporter the pilots of the 757 quickly decided to turn around. Just may have had a compressor stall on the right engine here. Reporter what the pilots described is a compressor stall, in essence, a jet engine backfiring, which is alarming. It was very scary. Even the flight attendants, you can see when theyre nervous. Reporter nerveracking indeed, as weve seen in previous cases like this 777 flight in november. A father catching the compressor stall and his young daughters reaction. The newark to los angeles flight did land safely with united only confirming that it was an engine issue. David kerley, abc news, Reagan National airport. Terrifyi
I initially thought it was like an earthquake or something. A tragic christmas accident in muir woods, falling trees kill a hiker. Hear from a man in the woods when a tree came crashing down today. Its been a rainy christmas across the bay area, a look at when the clouds will clear and when the next storm may roll into town. Christmas confusion, why the homeless here on wood street are told its time to go. After christmas many shoppers will be headed right back to stores looking for a good deal. Many stores wont be around for much longer. Thanks for joining us at 11 00. Im juliette goodrich. Im brian hackney. We start tonight with a deadly hike in muir woods. Kpix5s andria borba spoke with a man who was in the woods when the tree started falling. I initially thought it was like an earthquake or something, no idea, but i never heard a sound like that. Reporter it was around 4 30 Christmas Eve when the majestic innate stillness of muir woods was shattered when five trees near hillside tr
Into town. Christmas confusion, why the homeless here on wood street are told its time to go. After christmas many shoppers will be headed right back to stores looking for a good deal. Many stores wont be around for much longer. Thanks for joining us at 11 00. Im juliette goodrich. Im brian hackney. We start tonight with a deadly hike in muir woods. Kpix5s andria borba spoke with a man who was in the woods when the tree started falling. I initially thought it was like an earthquake or something, no idea, but i never heard a sound like that. Reporter it was around 4 30 Christmas Eve when the majestic innate stillness of muir woods was shattered when five trees near hillside trail collapsed like dominoes. Alex shepard visiting from new york was hiking with his mother when the trees fell. Just finishing our hike when we heard this colossal noise about 250, maybe 200 feet away and watched a huge redwood fall from the hillside down to the trail below. Reporter they hiked out to meet rangers