If you have ever been up in the arctic, its a difficult environment. When your car breaks down it, you just leave it there. Imagine the massive military might that was up there. All along these islands, you see it. Military all over the place. They have announced projects to clean some of these spaces. Its going to take a long time. They are doing it. They created more preserves and sanctuaries and so forth. In that sense, its not like russia ignores the environment entirely. Really the soviet tradition. Easier to create National Parks that are protected from any kind of human activity. Territory. Huge it it is free of charge. The decision does not tackle the big issues, but there are some initiatives in terms of waste from the soviet system. Modest. Ry theireel pressure by issues globally. , i dont think nato can be a solution in the arctic. Cooperation,of russia is cooperating with japanese and korean. Korea is becoming very active. The three Asian Countries plus russia have fishing
[indiscernible] after visiting and neighborhoods he spoke at a Community Center in an area of the city that was once under 17 feet of water. He spoke for proximally 40 minutes. [indiscernible] president obama every have a seat. Hello. Where are you . In the bigto be back easy. And, this is the weather in august every summer. Soon as i land in new orleans the first thing i do is get hungry. When i was here at the family a few years ago i had shrimp, at the bakery. I still remember it. Office maybe leave i will finally get a rebirth at the maple leaf on tuesday night. See theet a chance to mardi gras and celebration. Now, i just go to meetings. I want to thank michelle for the introduction, and more importantly for the great work she is doing, what she symbolizes, what she represents in terms of bouncing back. I want to acknowledge the great friend and someone who has , worked tirelessly on behalf of the city. He is following a family legacy of service. Your mayor, Mitch Landrieu. [appla
First thing is that the city of San Francisco should not intervene with the matter dealing with foreign polictics and we should be foreign and free from the power of propaganda. I love this beautiful city of San Francisco, and what we are seeing today may not be the future of San Francisco, so i ask you, board of supervisors, please do not make decisions here please do not address the issue that is before the board and the decision that has already been made. Im not making this so please continue. Im not making an issue about the comfort women. Im asking you that please make decisions that is not for your vote or your money or your fame or your powers. This is what i would like to say. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for this opportunity. Id like to talk about yoshida. In 1983, japanese Prime Minister minister yoshida [ inaudible ] before that, there had been no such story. Later, it became clear that the yoshid
Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
Into the afternoon, passing showers and even an isolated storm today. No change in the Temperature Department this morning. Were in the low to mid70s. Its 75 in tampa, 71 in brooksville. What xhul la is at 72, and we should aum be around 68. This is an aboveaverage start. A lot of thunderstorms 75 miles to our west and even towards Cape Canaveral. In between, im not seeing any rain, although i cant rule out a light sprinkle or shower between now and lu showing were locked into the east wind. A little more upper level energy in play today, though. So i keep the rain chance primarily this afternoon at 30 . Until then we warm until the clouds fill in. We hit about 86 today. If youre ready for cooler changes, that cold front we discussed is on track for next weekend. You dont want to miss the sevenday forecast coming up. Alcides developing this morning. Mosaic is dealing with another contaminated water at plant city phosphate facility. Anjuli the pump that has processed water leaking about