On many essential attributes of a plan. It would be extremely challenging too used to document as a document to hold the iris, the Treasury Department, or anybody else accountable for missteps. The few things it almost entirely lax are quantitative targets to measure against, backup data to analyze, and various key operational details including, for example, who at the irs or Treasury Department is ultimately responsible for making decisions on any particular issue. This does not give any detail on how the irs will implement secretary yellens 400,000 dollar pledge. And details really matter here. It also does not estimate what any of the 42 initiatives or 190 odd key projects are expected to cost or clearly answer the basic question of which initiative or key projects can be fully implemented with the 80 billion dollars in funding. What the document quietly admits is astonishing. Despite contrary rhetoric, the irate did not give the irs enough funding to fully realize the plans divisio
On many essential attributes of a plan. It would be extremely challenging too used to document as a document to hold the iris, the Treasury Department, or anybody else accountable for missteps. The few things it almost entirely lax are quantitative targets to measure against, backup data to analyze, and various key operational details including, for example, who at the irs or Treasury Department is ultimately responsible for making decisions on any particular issue. This does not give any detail on how the irs will implement secretary yellens 400,000 dollar pledge. And details really matter here. It also does not estimate what any of the 42 initiatives or 190 odd key projects are expected to cost or clearly answer the basic question of which initiative or key projects can be fully implemented with the 80 billion dollars in funding. What the document quietly admits is astonishing. Despite contrary rhetoric, the irate did not give the irs enough funding to fully realize the plans divisio
Look like . Tom ok. That will be the end of the laughter for the friday show. Lets begin with our top headlines. Here is the wounded Olivia Sterns. Greek lawmakers are backing a bailout. It is up to their european neighbors to get on board. The parliament approved a threeyear plan. Must make a big payment to the European Central bank six days from now. Ministersrea finance are meeting today in brussels to diss to study the latest terms. New figures out this morning revealing a slowdown in euro area growth. Rose by. 3 . The economist expected a slightly stronger showing. The weakness was clear in france. Consumers stagnant and spending is flat. It is the first time in a year the French Economy has failed to grow. Germanys economy grew by. 4 . Clinton may yet faced serious democratic challengers in the president ial race. Associates of al gore says he will not says he will not run. Buzzfeed report over the weekend said his supporters are talking about the idea. While the former Vice Pres
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The images coming out of tianjin china are of breathtaking devastation. Virtually destroyed by two enormous industrial explosions seen and felt for miles around. Right now the death toll already well into the dozens still rising. Many people are still missing, and the search and recovery is being carried out amid serious concerns over whats in the air. Nbcs ian williams is there. Reporter its a scene of utter devastation. Fires still burning, smoke still rising, more than 24 hours after this. New video shows the first blast light up the sky over tianjin followed by a far more powerful explosion captured on cell phone from a nearby Apartment Building until a photographer retreats in terror. Among the american eyewitnesss, english teacher drew. All of a sudden there is a loud, like a shock wave sound. The first thing people thought it was was an
Still burning. This is a city in shock, but also, a city in fear of the potential toxic threat from this smoke. Ian williams in china, thank you. In this country, warnings tonight of a onetwo punch from nature that could devastate parts of the west already in the midst of a historic drought emergency. Today fire officials raised the threat level to the highest fire danger possible, and that move comes as forecasters warned of whats being called a godzilla el nino event this winter that could trigger storms we havent seen in decades. Reporter this is what they call level five. The highest fire danger rating in the nation triggered today. Signals tinderbox. This year of extremes feeding on each other, fired by crippling drought compasser baited by a heat wave and the forecast calls for a monster el nino this winter, storms capable of triggering floods, mudslides and more. We had late spring rains and conditions firefighters have never seen. Reporter for now, the biggest threat on the fir