Year 2015 budget. It closes that 200 million budget gap with different means. Finding efficiencies in agencies across the district and talked about tough choices that her staff made looking at reducing medicaid reimbursement rates in the district, making them closer to the national average. Thats a savings of about 9 million, for example reducing funding for university of the District Of Columbia by 5 . Same with reducing Facility Maintenance funding by 5 . She also discussed the need for new revenue. In all about 26 million would be generated by increasing d. C. Sales tax from 5. 75 to a full 6 . Increasing fees on parking by 4 to incentivize use of mass transit and hiking the tax on e cigarettes in d. C. To the same rate as other Tobacco Products here. She says her staff was innovative and creative but at the same time cost sensitive. Mayor bowser we closed the budget gap with some tough decisions and im going to ask you to weigh those and weigh those heavily. I know that you take yo
Gunmen from the Group Alshabaab reportedly targeted christian students at the school. Heres the story. I hear the gunshot. We heard someone screaming. Reporter a horror that lasted 13 hours and left at least 148 people dead. Gunshots shattering the quiet on thursday morning, jolting students at the Garissa University college out of their bed, as four gunmen from alshabaab stormed the campus now. Survivors are relegalling what it took to walk out of the school alive. Me on the plant. This young man emerging from one building, saying he covered himself in his classmates blood and played dead. Only man who survived the whole place. This young woman hid in a wardrobe and covered herself in clothes. I was scared. She said she heard the gunman ask her fellow students about islam. If they couldnt answer the question they would be executed. She remained hidden for two days without food or water. I was feeling hungry. Now, 48 hours later, the broken glass and bullet holes still visible. Police
Been to arms control expert william hartung, how the Obama Administration has approved more arms sales than any u. S. Administration since world war ii more than half the sales have been to the middle east and persian gulf, with saudi arabia topping the list at 46 billion. Then to cowspiracy. A vegan diet produces half as much co2 1 11 the amount of fossil fuels 1 13 of water. I realized i had the choice every single day to save over 1100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of force did land, the equivalent of 20 pounds of co2, and one animals life. Amy as california experiences a massive drought, we will speak to two documentary filmmakers about the link between Climate Change and Meat Consumption. Then we look at how the tsas Behavior Detection Program is being used to target undocumented immigrants, not terrorists. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations has demanded acc
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight lester holt. Good evening. Few things have rattled the world quite like the prospect of iran developing a Nuclear Weapon which is why all eyes this week have been glued on a small city in switzerland where today nearly around the clock negotiations with iran and how to curb its Nuclear Program finally produced the framework of a deal. One that president obama quickly proclaimed would ensure iran will never be able to develop a bomb. But then theres the issue of what iran gets in return and whether any deal will hold. Our team has it covered. We begin with Andrea Mitchell in lausanne. Andrea. Reporter good evening, lester. Its been 18 months of tough negotiations ending with an allnighter that still left several key issues unresolved. But tonight the United States could be entering a new era in its relationship with iran. And president obama is telling critics this will make our world safer. After m
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