military promotions. the senator describes as a draw with his contentious fault with the pentagon. we are describing it that way, let s go to cnn live on capitol hill. what are you hearing? there s a lot of relief, it s a bipartisan opposition. he has very little support from the senate republican congress for trying to block all military promotions. something that has never been done before, nothing that any senator can do under the rules for the senate. what he has done is hold up every military promotion until the pentagon grants him a policy requiring reimbursement for military personnel to travel out of state for abortions, the pentagon said it would not do that, after some time, an increasing number of republicans is tommy turberville needs to back down, they said that he would in fact back down. they decided instead of holding up and all nominees. he would release them, about 450, that would allow all of them, they are four star ranked generals and those are people
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. A massive Suicide Attack killed at least 95 people in afghanistans capital today. Officials say an ambulance packed with explosives detonated in a busy area in central kabul around lunchtime. At least 158 people were injured and the Foreign Ministry said the majority of the casualties are civilians. The taliban is claiming responsibility for the blast, which is one of the deadliest since the start of the afghan war. Todays bombing comes just a week after an attack on Kabuls Intercontinental Hotel that killed 22 people, including four americans. The taliban also claimed respo
Bingo fuel meaning hes almost dry. Youve got allgaunt pilot saying hes funning out of fuel. There will be a window of opening in about 20 minutes for landing. Yeah i dont have 20 minutes. This is 426, roger, and thats unless it is an emergency, there is grand Forks Airport which is 70 miles to the north. Yeah, listen. Were bingo fuel here in about probably three, three to four minutes and i got to come in and land. This is 426, roger. All right. Youll have to like i said declare an emergency for that with the Minneapolis Center and then we would coordinate to get you in. Okay, im going to give them about an another three minutes to see if we can set 3358894. Then ill see if we can get this coordinated prior to i get down to having to do that, ill do that. Thank you for that. This is 426 roger. Your company dispatch should have been aware of this for a number of months. Okay. Yeah. Its just well follow up on that. It was a very calm conversation, phil lebeau between a pilot and an air T
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Midjuly time, so jumping from spring to summer, so unofficial Summer Season kick willing off feeling like mid summer. Perfect time to hit the beach or maybe hang out to the pool, poconos, niles weather to kick off this holiday weekends, outside it is mild, 69 degrees at the airport, skies starting to brighten up little bit, sunshine, sun coming up in about 20 minutes or so. 69 again at the airport, south wind 7 miles per hour, humidity around once again, it will be a humid day today. Upper 60s to about 70 degrees over most locations, early this morning, and with that sunshine out through the morning hours, we rapidly climb upright around to 90 degrees once again. If we hit 909 this would be three days in a row. So off i shall tray does make it a heatwave. Low grade heatwave, pretty early in the season. Storm scan3 quiet. Fair weather clouds streaming in from north to south. So well have mixture of sunshine and clouds today. The uv index will be very strong. High temperature for philade