Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
Meeting with conservatives over charges of news bias, and apples ceo tim cook fielding tough questions on working conditions in china. Donald trump punching back at jeff bezos, saying that bezos is using his ownership of the Washington Post to slam him so that politicians dont tax amazon as they should. With me now, former republican president ial candidate, successful businessman herman cain. Herman, it is great to see you. Happy friday. Thank you. Happy to be here. Deirdre you are always a wonderful guest for us to have, but particularly today because there are a lot of issues. That is to say, the Business World and the political world overlapping. Yes. Deirdre so i want to ask you first and foremost if you look at a boxing ring with donald trump in one corner, jeff bezos in the other, what do you think . Billionaire against billionaire. Deirdre thats right. I think donald trump is going to come out in this particular fight, and heres why. The big question isnt whether or not bezos i
Thon dan frank toss to break over picture of car cancer is the number one cause of death by disease for kids 14 and younger in the united states. That statistic is the reason st. Jude Childrens Research Hospital in memphis exists. We see the patients everyday. And it really reminds us what were trying to do doctor stacey ogden, a cincinnati native is a lead researcher in the department of cell molecular biology. The research were doing can make a difference in someones life dr. Ogden shares the vision of late actor danny thomas. In 1962. Thomas made it his mission to create a facility dedicated to children and saving their lives regardless of faith, race, gender or the ability for families to pay for care. Nats of danny thomas dedicating the hospital from that point to this. Intense research and new treatment protocols are winning the fight against all kinds of cancers. In fact, since st. Jude opened. The survival rate for leukemia, the most common form of the disease, is now at 94 per
Real money on twitter. Its day two of the government shut down. Congress has bigger fish to fry in the coming days. It needs to pass legislation before october 17th after which the treasury says it cant pay the governments bill. The legal debt limit is 16. 7 trillions. The treasury already hit that money in may but has been using extraordinary measures to keep paying the bill. October 17th is really, according to trerb try secretary, the end of the line. Democrat want to raise the limit. Republicans in the house propose year. That is a very interesting proposal. A lot of strings which taken list. I will give it to you. Heres what the republicans want. Delay implementing obama care for one year. Sign off on the excel pipeline to bring more oil in from canada. Allow more offshore the oil drilling. Allow more on travelly protected land. Reform the federal Employee Retirement program. Overhaul reform and reign in the Consumer Protection bureau was createed in the wake of the financial cris
Radio cohost, carol massar. Thank you. The ceo of Sony Entertainment america is the down. Sony says it was a a mutual agreement to not extend his contract. He oversees the Playstation Game console. Boeing will pay pensions for 69,000 nonunion employees and an executive. They are shifting benefit payments to a 401 k style plan as it works to cut costs. The changes will take effect january 1, 2016. And these headlines are just crossing that allergens is buying safeway for about 40 per share. Albertsons is owned by cerberus capital. Back over to you. Thanks, carol massar. I want to move into the business of the airline industry. Air canada and others operate in north america and they have had to deal with Winter Weather. Just last month, the airline forecasted a drop in First Quarter profit because of the storms. Also, theres the weaker Canadian Dollar. The president and chief executive officer of air canada joins us now from our toronto bureau. Great to have you on taking stock. Outlined