President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage. Ashur protection withstand storm surge in better then baked circe wells while also enhancing the environment. Although the project on our coast of their job, they were weakened or in the storm not require repairs so were not for mobility future storms. Unfortunately the northeast midatlantic received more frequent and larger storms like standing in the future. The 70 to find costeffective ways to
Talking about the entertainment in the street and American Values. While he was in california, president obama told members of the industry there that they play a part in transferring culture and values and giving us a sense of what america is like for the world. We want to know if you agree or disagree with that statement. Here is how you can call in this morning about 25 of you posting on our facebook page. Some of you, especially on the twitter pages, you may remember it was all in california for several days that mr. Obama spoke at the dreamworks studio, talking to members of the Entertainment Industry and talking about the culture and of the Entertainment Industry. The headline again, we are kind of using that question, what he spoke about in the industry, that is the larger question about the Entertainment Industry. You may agree or disagree but here is how you can reach out to us this morning. Feel free to tell us yes or no and feel free to tell us why. At theesident spoke dream
And we saw republicans vote along the democrats. Nine is a bigger number than ag. 6436, thats one of those super majorities, right, that. This now goes to the president for his signature. Expect him to sign it before he leaves for hawaii on friday. Those are the headlines, im tony harris. Inside story is next on al jazeera america. An ease or not to ease. What that means for the economy in 2014. Decoding the just concluded Federal Reserve meeting is the inside story. Ray suarez. What the Federal Reserve decides has a direct impact on the economy, and your pocketbook and effects felt around the world. Since the Great Recession the Federal Reserve has taken Interest Rates to historic lows and used its power to stimulate the economy using quantitative easing. Ben bernanke announced the feds will scale back the program next year. Well decode the feds actions, look ahead to the tenure of incoming fed chairman janet yellen and look at the recovering economy. The Federal Reserve wrapped up tw
Federal reserve has taken Interest Rates to historic lows and used its power to stimulate the economy using quantitative easing. Ben bernanke announced the feds will scale back the program next year. Well decode the feds actions, look ahead to the tenure of incoming fed chairman janet yellen and look at the recovering economy. The Federal Reserve wrapped up two days of policy meetings and concluded the u. S. Economy is Strong Enough to start tapering the banks Investment Program known as qualitative easing. Starting in january well purchas scale back purchases. Reporter the positive signs are few but strong. Unemployment reached 7 in november. The s p 500 gained 25 just in the past year. The highest in a decade. And Congress Passed a budget for the first time in four years. Todays policy actions reflect the committees assessment that the economy continues to make progress, but it has much farther to travel before conditions can be judged normal. Notebly despite fiscal head winds the ec
Services have not been targeted by the u. S. Government such that our enemies will seek them out. However, it has always been the Case Companies that havent received National Security demands can say they have not received National Security demands as was most recently demonstrated just last week when apple revealed it has never received an order under section 215 of the patriot act. The second argument is that reporting will reveal which services have been targeted such that their enemies will avoid them. However, this concern rings somewhat hollow when top intelligence officials such as nsa current nsa director Keith Alexander have repeatedly and publicly announced the names of various services such as google, facebook, twitter, and yahoo that they believe terrorists are using. Senator frachken also mentioned a comment by former nsa director michael hayden. Put simply, these generals recognize that saying someone on a service is being surveilled is very different from identifying who