And a few cucumbers into a global business. Im ali velshi in washington d. C. Tonight, and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show. Tweet me on ali velshi. Com. I am here in washington d. C. , where the white house today released an 800 page gorilla of a report on Climate Change. Now, this report describes the damaging present and future affects of global warming, warming temperatures on the United States. And its called the National Climate assessment. Its the result of three years of work by more than 300 scientists and other experts, and this report says that extreme weather linked to Climate Change like prolonged heat, heavy downpours, floods, and drought is disrupting peoples lives and damaging some sectors of our economy. Like everything in this town, both parties will try to score points by praising or bashing this report in the leadup to the midterm leaks. More on that in a moment. But right now, i want to focus on some of what is
Great to have you here. Time for theis newsfeed, the top stories from around the world. In india, a historic defeat for the family that has governed the country for most of the past several decades. Outsition bloc led by modi that the congress party. Raul gadhi conceded defeat. Modi promised overhaul of the economy. Uber in talks that could end up tripling its valuation. According to people familiar with the matter, it is trying to raise more money in a round that would value the company more than 10 billion. Uber thus far rolled out its service in 115 cities around the world. Los angeles clippers owner Donald Sterling is fighting back. According to sports illustrated, he reportedly told the nba he will not pay the fine from last month and may sue the league. Nba banned him for life for racist remarks. Leagueow shot the itself cannot force them to sell the clippers, only the owners can. It is amazing, his resistance on this. Really interesting to see if he will succeed in fighting that
Additional aid to a fragile ukrainian economy. As secretary kerry, former senator kenry, john kerry, he wants this aid that is in our bill now. But he also wanted what was in our bill, i. M. F. Funding. He said if i cant get both the most important thing we do now is the funding that is in our bill and hes probably right. We already know theres been many signals from the house that they wouldnt accept i. M. F. The republican leader said that he was concerned about the i. M. F. So i am really pleased that the sanctions inside this legislation i hope will pass on thursday is something that is going to help ukraine. Im confident it will. Sanctions inside ukraine and russia wilil undermine ukraines sovereignty and stability, as far as im concerned, well have more legislation on this in the nottoodistant future. As far as im concerned i think there should be more sanctions we look at. I think they need more aid. I heard on the sunday shows, republican senator ayotte and democratic senator d
The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearly an area in which recent observations have been born out, have borne out our previous projections. A warm atmosphere would hold more moisture. We measured that and indeed it is happening. We predicted increased in atmosphere of water vapor and more rain comes down in heavy events and now weve seen that happen. Some regions like the northeast and midwest have seen very large increases in the rainf
Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , earlier this morning it was suggested that republicans are creating a problem on the portmanshaheen bill because were insisting on amendments. Im stunned that anybody would think insisting on amendments would be unusual or out of order. Thats what we used to do in the senate. We had amendments offered and we had votes on them by both sides. One senator, it was suggested, insisted on an obamacare amendment. That was dropped five days ago. Nobodys insisting on an obamacare amendment on the portmanshaheen bill. Senator vitter suggested that earlier but decided that was not a good idea on this particular bill because it was the opportunity we hoped to get four or five votes on important energyrelated amendments. And senator durbin actually objected. So i think i