Honorable john roth Inspector General for the department of Homeland Security. Ms. Jennifer grover acting director security and justice of at the Government Accountability office and mr. Rafi ron president and ceo of new Age Security Solutions and also has extensive Airport Security work that he has personally participated in in israel. We welcome you all pursuant to Committee Rules all witnesses will be sworn before they testify so if you will rise and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the truth the testimony were about to give a bigger truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth . Thank you let the record reflect at all witnesses answered in the affirmative. In order to allow time for discussion we would appreciate it if you would limit your testimony to five minutes and your written record will obviously be made part of the record. We are liberal on your verbal comments but try to keep a close to five and we will start with you mr. Roth. You are recogni
Wild horses are a symbol of the american west. How the Government Shutdown is impacting these beautiful animals and what is being done to make sure they can always run free. Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Good to have you with us. In less than 24 hours, the u. S. Government will lose the ability to borrow money for the first time in the nations history. Congress has until midnight tonight to raise the debt ceiling or risk severe economic consequence heres and around the globe. Leaders are close to a deal that would raise the debt ceiling and Government Shutdown that is now in its 16th day. The fate of that Senate Proposal lies with the republicancontrolled house, which failed twice on tuesday to produce its own plan. President obama said the Tea Party Republicans are to blame. The problem we have right now is that on the other side, theres just a faction of the Republican Party, it doesnt represent all republicans that have decided to take a very extreme p
Share. More than 30 people have been killed aafter a blast rips through a market in china gin jiang region. When you look at what has happened in russia, if you dont have the guts to invest here, you better stay at home. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. A warm welcome today, this is Worldwide Exchange. Well be in ukraine and st. Petersburg fairly shortly. The health of the ecb. The flash composite pmi coming in at 53. 9, exactly as expected according to the reuters poll. It was 54 in april. The composite output price index, 58. 7. Flash pmi 52. 5. Thats a dip down from april. It was 53. 2 in the poll. The services pmi 53. 5. Its a tick higher from the 53 in the reuters poll. Its weaker than we might have expected. But that all means that the composite number has come out on the same. Its worth pointing out this morning that the french composite pmi flash was estimated at 49 3. In the First Quarter we saw france was flat gdp growth. Th
Assets. But there are also quite a few with little more, a little more than a charitable arm of a small family enterprise, and their assets number in the thousands rather than the billions. Think about the constellation, 81,777, small ones, large ones. There are also then a handful of older foundations led by carnegie that have been dispensing grants and forwarding agendas for more than a century, all the emerge in the last decade with articulated vision about purpose, intent, scope. If carnegie symbolized the perpetuity foundation whose boards, missions and goals changed over decades, but whose work endured generation after generation after generation, among the more subtle changes that have really given birth in the last two years is the creation of a number of sunset foundations. These sunset foundations symbolized by gates or atlantic philanthropies which is about to cease operations in a few months, they are designed to close before the death of a benefactor, or in a specified num
All. A small earthquake will cause the accident starting over again. You realize the reactors so radioactive workers cannot even get in for more than a few minutes at a time. They sent in robots. Robots are not smart enough to wiccan high radiation fields, total failure. At the pentagon the u. S. Pentagon made it a priority to create robots that can use a hammer, robots that can use a saw. We dont have those robots yet. So the next thing they are going to do is to ensure cameras into the water to see where the melting is. We dont even have a picture. We dont even have a picture of the melted core. We know it is 100 melted. And the water. The radioactive water builds up. Swimming pools when you visit fukushima you see all these swimming pools of radioactive water. The agony is unending. Just remember that it will take 40 years to clean up that nuclear accident. Japan after world war ii made a faustian bargain. Faust was the legendary figure whose sole was sold to the double for unlimite