Better relationships with the mta. And lots more of a collective approach to our city wide transportation issues. And i think that those were the main points that i wanted to just give appreciation for, and acknowledgment of all of the great work that is being done. Great, thank you. So, just want to make sure that we are going to call a roll call vote on each of the items 3 and 4 but i want to make sure that the colleagues that we agree not to disclose the content of the closed session. Okay. Very good. So when it comes to item number four, recommend annual compensation, and what we had decided was that you know coming in as step five and some of the you know allowances that were provided as well we wanted to see more time leading the agency before going to the next step and so we were going to continue at this step, but it is something that we felt that the work certainly warrants you know, getting there with time. And continue on the same trajectory that we are on now and so i would
Computer challengers in japanese chess game known as shogi. Ministers from asia and africa are gathering together to discuss how to stengthens ties. The asianafrican summit marks the 60th anniversary of the historic meeting called the bandung conference. The participants includes the vice minister of foreign affairs. And his counter parts are looking to promote closer ties between asia and africa. They are helping to set the tone for a meeting that begin wednesday between the leaders of more than 80 countries. Those attending will include japans Prime Minister shinzo abe. The leaders are expected to adopt a statement calling for Economic Cooperation including increased trade and investment. They are also likely to call for closer coordination on issues ranging from terrorism to poverty and economic disparities. The bandung conference in 1955 brought together leaders of independent asian and african countries. They showed their opposition to before chinas president visits indonesia hell
Melissa first lets take a look at the days market headlines. Stocks recover from session lows but mixed Economic Data and fiscal cliff weigh the dow down for the sixth time in seven sessions walmart disappointed with Third Quarter earnings. Target shares rose 2 after forecasting a Bright Outlook for the holiday season. Now to our top story. A possible bailout for fema. Yes the federal Emergency Management agency says, it only has 850 million left in the bank and in cash, thats it. They expect to burn through that by the end of this month. Meanwhile, flood related claims are stacking up. Were looking at losses of 6 to 12 billion. This all coming as president obama visits damage here in new york to see the recovery efforts. With me now is david williams, president of the taxpayers protection alliance. David, thanks so much for coming on the show. What do you make of all this . What happens if fema runs out of money . Well, if fema runs out of money, dont worry, people will be helped. Wha
One of them is here to explain it to me. Even when they say it is not, it is always about money. All right. To our top story, a possible bailout for fema, the federal Emergency Management agency says it only has 850 million left in the bank. And they expect to burn through that by the end of this month. Meanwhile, we are looking at losses of 6 12 billion. This all coming as president obama visits damage here in new york to see the recovery efforts. With me now, david williams, president of the Taxpayer Protection alliance. Thank you for coming and michele what do you make of all this . What happens if they run out of money . Well, dont worry. People will be helped. What will happen is congress will step in to make sure that they get money. Then what happens after that, what we really dont know, how they pay that money back to the federal government because it is only borrowing the money. That is what they did to borrow it up to 20 billion, both through 18 billion of that. They have abo
Author of a book called lincoln and his admirals. To his right is Richard Norton smith, who might be the dean to have president ial historians. Hes headed several president ial libraries. Hes here today to represent a kind of overarching perspective. Michael lynd, hes going to give us that special mix of history and policy expertise that were looking for. What we wanted to do in this panel is try to a semester course. Several of the questions from this course called understanding lincoln. Ill begin with a couple of questions from our k12 educators. Before i ask the first question, though, let me say a few words of thanks. First of all, lance warren is the producer of the course. Hes done a marvelous job of putting it together. At the new america foundation, Becky Schafer has been very helpful. At dicken son college, we have a student interning who has been working hard to promote in on social media. Thanks to all of them. Of course, thanks to the First Congregational United Church chri