Sara. Okay. Let me get started as everybody is coming in to sit down and make sure first we need to really thank david and carrie have put together a Wonderful Program and theyve been good at nudging people to do what they should on time. I want to just start out with some general comments and then turn to specifics. So first off, education is an excellent investment, both for individuals and for society. I think we can i want to make this case in terms of an efficiency argument. Failure to close the gaps, which are really big and growing in Educational Attainment is likely to both hinder Economic Growth and also increase the burden on tax payers over the long term. I think there are just two big takeaways from this first. Money matters enormously in education, but thats a necessary, not a sufficient condition. Secondly funding really needs to be matched to a commitment to accountability and in the education space innovation. The federal government has a big role here. Okay. That said,
Temperature swings in the southeast are taking a heavy toll on crops. A warm february followed by a march cold snap has farmers scrambling to keep produce from freezing to death. Mark strassmann is there. Theres a lot of loss here. More than a Million Dollars this week. The fifth generation farmer pulled back these protective tarps and winced. 1 3 of his strawberry crop is dead. Bad or worse than expected . The strawberries are actually a whole lot worse than i expected. Reporter his 140 acres of peach trees got it worse. All that pink blooming are vulnerable peach buds which opened three weeks early because of the unusually warm temperatures this winter. The deep freeze killed half of echols peach crop. Across the region farmers are counting their losses. Gary black is georgias agriculture commissioner. It would be easy to say that were in hundreds of millions of dollars. Reporter North Carolina peach farms looked like a winter wonderland. Overhead irrigation tried to insulate the cro
they were working for a danish company called danish refugee council, and they were helping people in somalia deal with land mines. in essence, they were teaching. they were telling them how to defuse mines and make harmless these mines. it s not an easy job, as you can imagine, and in that area, i ve been talking with some aid organizations that work in that area. some parts of somalia are relatively okay, but this was right on the border of areas that could be dangerous. and they have fighting on the ground, there is al shabob, which is a terrorist organization, then you have just the general mayhem of groups like this who want to kidnap people and make a lot of money in doing that. jill daugherty, thank you. i want to talk a little more about this. jill was just talking about jessica buchanan, the young woman who was rescued from those pirates in somalia. we have brian todd who joins me at valley forge christian college in pennsylvania. jessica was a student there on t
ill, that she had some sort of problem that could have become serious and they decided to go in. and we now know this is what president obama was talking about in the washington state of the union coverage, and you hear him say good job tonight. to panetta. to panetta, right. they were working for a danish company called danish refugee council, and they were helping people in somalia deal with land mines. in essence, they were teaching. they were telling them how to defuse mines and make harmless these mines. it s not an easy job, as you can imagine, and in that area, i ve been talking with some aid organizations that work in that area. some parts of somalia are relatively okay, but this was right on the border of areas that could be dangerous. and they have fighting on the ground, there is al shabob, which is a terrorist organization, then you have just the general mayhem of groups like this who want to kidnap people and make a lot of money in doing that. jill daug