Evacuated. The exterior of one Apartment Building was slightly damaged. No one was hurt. Four firefighters wounded, one seriously while battling a wildfire in the sierra foothills. They were airlifted yesterday to Uc Davis Medical Center in sacramento for burns. The lowell fire began saturday and burned about 1,500 acres near alta and nevada county. That fire is just 15 contained. About 1,800 structures are threatened including homes in nevada and placer counties. In madeira county the willow fire has grown to 1,500 acres. Its just 5 contained. People have been evacuated from 450 homes and a campground southeast of bass lake. There are concerns about rising temperatures forecast for later this week. Heres a map showing the major wildfires in the west. Much can be blamed on the lingering drought. Last year at this time 1. 6 million acres had burned in the u. S. , that number has more than tripled this year to about 5. 6 million acres. I was up in the sierra foothills over the weekend ne
Is the generational transition which holds great promise. Still as i mention the ongoing problem it is hard to imagine that despite all the efforts, more than 70 of afghans over the age of 15 cannot read or write. Half of all afghan girls are still not in school even though they are 40 and 9 million are back in school. Of those who are back in school, if you stay long enough to make it through secondary school, forced marriage, Child Marriage is still a reality. So how do we address this, what are what are the tools in our toolkit . The afghan women, i often get asked by audiences dont we try to take solutions, or possible solution and we try to prescribe something that would never work in their culture. There is never a onesizefitsall. One of the best approaches that we have used in afghanistan, the lowcost, sustainable effort effort has been because the partnerships. Judy mentioned before my basic approach to a lot of International Global issues and challenges, is is finding a way to
Good afternoon welcome to the hearing did foundation and the auditorium and on the web site for our guest sees to a courtesy check for your mobile devices said in your questions or comments at any time. Leading a our discussion in is the senior fellow for National Security affairs and also in his fifth term as a head of Security Review Commission prior to harry j. J. Deputy assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs also serving on the Committee Staff with the cia and the state department and active duty naval officer. [applause] get afternoon welcome to heritage the Nuclear Agreement with iran has continued the troubling policies with syria against sirach antiemetic steadying the influence of these countries is the talent facilitated by a those nuclear question is like shed how should United States respond . How can they target the Iranian Regime at home . Joining us today with a Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern Affairs that the studies here at the Heritage
Harass, just to give you a concrete example from a couple weeks ago the california Highway Patrol officers arresting women for drunk driving and taking their phones and share them with each other. He didnt even want her to find out about it so they are simply going to be located with stalking and grass meant and thats not going to be enough so for those that think the laws are adequate i would ask the victims if they think that is true. Ask what has happened, and he times theyve been told its your own fault for taking these pictures and gets turned away by lawyers who say yes we could go after this but hes operating this out of his basement. Theres no money and no reason to pursue this. For all these reasons we are responding to an issue where victims have come forward and said we cannot get any relief and im not going to secondguess the victims because they are the ones experiencing this firsthand. If Law Enforcement is telling women its your own fault this is happening to you, thats
Untimely death. When its error after error after error after error after behavior that you cannot even begin to get your head around, you get mad. This morning, rivers talks about her lawsuit and her legendary mom. And back to where it all began, savannahs in australia, the country where she was born, taking her mom on a very special journey. Can you hear can you hear that thunder this is the room that you took your first breath in. Oh, wow today, monday, may 4th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. Savannah in sydney with matt lauer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And Savannah Guthrie live from sydney, australia. And we welcome you to a special edition, split edition of today on a monday morning. Savannah is in the land down under, sydney, australia, where it all began. Savannah, good morning. Reporter good morning. I should say good evening. Its 9 00 at night here in sydney. We have a beautiful evening. Not a bad view, right . You saw it as th