The heavy rains and Severe Weather that hit parts of north and east iowa are making an impact this morning there are a number of schools that have been affected. Affected. Right now north butler schools are closed for the day. That area was hit hard by heavy rain. Schools in charles city nashua plainfield and rockford are all starting two hours late closings head to our website cbs 2 iowa dot com. Com. Youre now looking at a photo of a funnel cloud that was seen yesterday evening in charles city. Ellie kew sent in this photo. Now heres video from damage left after last nights storms in floyd county. Powerful winds knocked trees into roadways closing some of them down. Other large tree branches also fell onto powerli. Powerlines. We want to thank the cbs 2 ne shared their pictures of the storms. A number of people posted pictures of the tornadoes that touched down, including this picture taken by sean britt near greene in butler county. You can track storms anytime by downloading the cb
On the next washington journal a look at the president s strategy for combatting isis. Well talk with American University law professor Steven Vladeck and Charles Stimson and also Lou Anna Simon. Begins live at 7 00 a. M. On cspan. The Congressional Black Caucus opens thursday in washington. Well be live from their National Town hall examining the impact of voting, starting at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. This weekend on the cspan networks. Friday night in primetime on cspan. Featured speakers include ted cruz and ran paul. And saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a National Town hall on the critical and historic impact of voting. And sunday evening at 8 00 p. M. On q and a, sally kwin. Friday night at cspan2 just before 9 30, daniel green and william mullen, two freedom veterans talk about their experiences in iraq, isis and the use of american force. And saturday night at 10 00 p. M. On book tvs after words, matt richtel. And sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern the ninth annual brooklyn b
It is my hope i know the president would welcome us. I hope their team will realize that it is not just a matter of welcoming. They should realize it is more likely to work out better if they do it with congress. The pay for, very tough question. We have a cr as well as a syrian authorization on the training of equipment, but we will have to grapple with a longerterm appropriations, not another cr. I am fully expecting, as part of that for there to be funding requests. But that is another reason why congress should debate the stuff up front. We ought to be asking the question, how much will it cost and how are we going to pay for it . Iraq and afghanistan were the first wars that United States decides to do on a credit card. Iraq and afghanistan were the first to where we said, we can kind of do this, members of Congress Kids wont get drafted now. We can get blackwater or a thirdparty to do stuff we dont want to ask troops to do. There has been a progressive executive overreach by putt
Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not just in washington. And that she grew up in West Virginia. One day, i found myself in a hard hat, deep underground in West Virginia in a coal mine with sylvia, barbara ven and rich trumka. I was not the only one who noticed that sylvia was competent and levelheaded hearing the president notice to that, president clinton. By the end of the administration, she was the director of shes had a distingu
Support the United States and ukraine have given the government. He said the u. S. And other western nations are behind ukraines political turmoil. And he criticized the western governments for putting pressure on countries that dont agree with their policies. Putin said ukrainian authorities should immediately begin substantial talks with the prorussian separatists. The Ebola Outbreak in west africa has crossed another bord border. Senegal has their first case. He traveled from the capital of guinea. Officials there had warned authorities they lost track of a student who is likely infected. They said he disappeared three weeks ago and may have entered senegal. Then officials found him in the hospital in the capital. The student had not told hospital workers he might be infected. Sen it egales Health Officials are trying to track people who have come into contact with him. The World Health Organization reports over 3,000 confirmed or expected cases in guinea, liberia, nigeria and sierr