Administration more on that later also a fan. There is any perth by him and watch im an irrigated youre wanting to hurt america. We did today with the latest in so many of the art speaks with a series on military way east. The us military is now strategizing ways to drive down the troops in afghanistan at the end of twenty fourteen but when the american person now isnt the only task at hand. After a decade of war pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to drive down billions of dollars in military equipment while he was looking and we are the pentagons spending went wrong. Art evening and lopez has more. When it comes to text you money. Snell agency knows how to spend it with earth and the us military the pentagon led to its own device will spend money on anything over the past decade defense spending has claimed they were part of the federal budget with aggression is ramping up first in afghanistan and then iraq. In fact the United States spends more money on defense than the
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Germanys chancellor Angela Merkel speaking out calling crimeas referendum on joining russia illegal. Lets get to jim maceda of nbc news in moscow. We are looking at all the different ramifications and details. And one of them, jim, is the lock that russia has on energy in ukraine and the west would have to there eticly make up for that if they dont go with russia. So now we are looking at the details, and once again, a lot of it is about money when it comes right down to it. Reporter its about money, its about energy, and right now its about president Putin Holding all of the cards, joe. Were only six days away from the referendum you referred to in your lead. Taking place in crimea. But with those international monitors now prevented for the third time from entering the peninsula over the weekend, theres no reason to doubt that the final result will be a vote in favor of seceding from ukraine and becoming part of russia. Those russian or prorussian, if you will, troops continue to con
New york 20 miles from the canadian border. John yang is there. The question were still asking a day later power tools at a maximum security facility. How did this happen . Reporter its a building like any other. It has Maintenance Work to do. The prison did check its inventory and found all tools accounted for so now they are looking at contractors, especially because this escape showed knowledge of the interior inner workings of the prison building. Theres suspicion about contractors likely to be a focus of the investigation. This really was a plot right out of the movies. Down to putting clothes in the bunks to make it look like they were sleeping. Heavily armed police and state troopers use dogs on the ground and helicopters in the air to search for the two convicted murderers. This is an ongoing investigation. I can assure that you no stone quill will be left unturned. Richard matt was serving a life sentence after beating a man to death in 1997 and 34yearold david sweat sentenced
Are joining together. Hillary clinton has a new answer to the 2016 question. Obviously im thinking about that right now. [ applause ] good day, the white house is highlighting the dangers of Climate Change in a major new report today that says the average temperature in the United States has gone up at least 1. 3 degrees. Thats a big deal since Record Keeping began in 19 1895. More than 80 of that temperature rise has happened just since 1980. The report says Climate Change is real and it is already happening. The north and southeast could get more coastal flooding and severe hurricanes and plains and midwest drier winters and more wildfires. On the west coast, drought is straining water use and creating tensions over water rights. What steps should we be taking . Im joined by the nations administrator for the Environmental Protection agency, jena mccarthy. Very good to have you with us. First of all, the key points of this report as far as youre concerned and science is concerned, the