carrying weapons for the rebels. there are mixed messages about this. state department officials say they are there to protect the shipping lanes. and military sources are telling fox news that our war ships are there again, keeping a close eye on the iranian convoy because of the ongoing situation in yemen. that remains on land and sea a precarious one. we have not heard any more air strikes, but we ll monitor the situation and developments. if it changes get back to us. john thank you. pope francis making a stop in another country on the way to the united states later this year where he plans to visit before sitting down with the president in washington. and thousands of migrants attempted dangerous crossings
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provided initial compensation to the familieses of $24,000 each, if they want it. that would say hopefully the insurance market is going to do the right thing and compensate the families. but that remains to be seen as we move forward. without that it changes not to focus on the monetary aspect but it changes how much they could get. singapore, indonesia have different compensation. absolutely. under indonesia law they were party to an old treaty which limits compensation to a smallment amount of oh money. indonesia singapore was the more mo attorney treaty. i think the insurance market will make decisions. they need to do the right thing and compensate the families. doug, thank you so much. you re welcome. thank you. the centers for disease control are describing this season s flu season as a bad one. it s an epidemic. spreading now to 36 states. coming up, we ll tell you how to protect yourself and your family
terms of how the locals are reacting. jacob. they don t want to talk about politics. the political consequences of a cuba-us relation. they re concerned how does this affect my life on a day-to-day basis. some people talk about baseball and ballet. many cubans are got goode at that. but to do that in the u.s. they have to defect. now that might change. for the most part. will this change the phone that i carry, the food that i eat or the car that i buy. they are concerned about how the economy will change and for most people, most of whom have only known life under the castros, they believe this is a step in the right direction. they seem genuinely excited. again, they don t want to talk about politics. some fear retaliation, if there s any tension. it s apprehension whether it changes, will actually come to
but the fact is, if you want reform, you need to have the justice reforms and you need the crime numbers to stay down. the whole movement for it go away the minute it changes. that demands some aggression and under real pressure from the police unions and others. a reason bill de blasio brought him in and asked him to do that. bob mcmanus in the post column today made a very intelligent point near the end. he said, look, in 2013, 225,000 misdemeanor arrests. that number, in my opinion, was way too high. you have to go into the 500,000s to find something this terrible happening. so, to some extent. if you re going to have policing, the kind people want and people aren t constantly fearing getting robbed, you ll have a lot of interactions. apparently one of them will go wrong. harry segel, thank you for that piece and for your time