Reports from the head of the ministry of emergency situations, the governor in the orenburg, kurgan, and tyumen regions about the flood situation and the measures being taken. President ial press secretary peskov has Just Announced this. The president ordered the creation of a special commission, it will be headed by minister kurenkov. The day before, another river, vorski elshaka, overflows its banks. The evacuation of the surrounding streets of the city has been announced, the mayor of the city, vasily kazupitsa, announced this. Reports. Institutions are now deployed temporary accommodation points. According to the latest data, in orsk, where the flood situation is most acute, over 10 thousand houses and about 18 household plots are flooded, more than 200 people have already been evacuated. In general, there is a vacuum in the orenburg region. Refused to evacuate. Now rescuers use allterrain boats to evacuate people and animals. In general, our people in the flood zone retain maximum
Are moving towards new territories, while the peak of the flood is ahead, the authorities are announcing unprecedented flooding. The ministry of emergency situations reported that the current level of flood in the urals in the volga region has never been recorded at all in history. More than 10,000 residential buildings, or more precisely, 10,400 residential buildings, remain under water right now in 39 regions of russia. A state of emergency was introduced today in the tyumen region; the day before it was declared in the kurgan region. There is also flooding in the ivanovo and samara regions in the altai territory, but the most difficult situation is still, of course, in the orenburg region, there about 300 houses were flooded, 6,100 people were already evacuated. The city of orsk suffered the most, but even what is happening now is not. Flood. The mayor of orsk said today that the situation will get worse in the coming days. You can move around the city already at these moments exclu
Who serves on the judiciary and commerce communities. The text that opposition to the merger. This was hosted by the georgetown law institute. Good afternoon. Welcome im so excited to see this crowd, to talk about the merger of the future media ownership. My name is gigi and im a fellow with the Georgetown Institute for technology. I want to thank a couple of folks, the institute for public representation which is part of georgetown law center, the Benton Foundation the mozilla foundation. Also senator blumenthal of connecticut who your be hearing from soon and jamie was a Research Fellow at georgetown and alexander who is head of the institute for you may have heard she broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping. A shoplifter knocked them over. I was in there the day before. Anyway if you could send well wishes to her. Also the other georgetown students gathered by andy, panelists helping today with logistics. The me set the stage. In may Sinclair Broadcast Group ann
Congress actually asked the gao to study a number of years ago and even the gao concluded they harm the Public Interest or contravene the ownership rules, time to do this topic to bed. For the people not so deeply steeped in sec lingo, we are talking two way consolidation might take place, two ways the consolidation grows scale. What is a horizontal point which is the combined company would own more stations across the country and therefore cover a large part of the country, the question is what percentage is okay for broadcasters to have as a horizontal matter across the country in a world where many distributors reach 100 of the country, in the old days only broadcasters could reach mass audience, now the internet is changing that. The second question is within each market, how many stations can you either own or have a significant relationship with such as socalled js as and when it comes to the individual market it is important to remember there are two screens any deal has to pass
[inaudible conversations] the afternoon. I am so excited to be in this crowd to talk up the sinclair tribune merger and ownership if you dont know me i am a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Institute on foreign policy. Before we start early to think a couple loved institutions in the institute for public representation that is part of Georgetown Law Center and of those alleged foundation for sponsoring this event also senator Richard Blumenthal we hope to hear from soon and also jaime who is a Research Fellow here georgetown and by personal locklear cantering a fabulous job and also the head of the institution in that you may have heard broke her leg when she and her child was shopping when shoplifter knocked them over down a flight of stairs. So of people could send her well wishes she is doing a fabulous job running the institute also other georgetown students and who will be helping today with logistics. So let me step set the stage. Whether we talking about . Made the shares