Blowing and everybody everybody on the planet or has some horror story some horror story about the weather gone bizarre we have this wacky weather everywhere you go on the planet Earth you see the fact that it s not a typical year or typical decade we re seeing a new normal we re seeing 100 year storms 100 year hurricanes 100 year droughts 100 year forest fires recently for example I was touring through Europe where the media was dominated by the fact it was massive flooding in eastern Europe and also in Germany and they had to go back 500 years 500 years to find anything comparable and of course the records petered out during the Middle Ages you can t go much farther back than that some people are saying that was perhaps the worst flooding in a 1000 years we really don t know we just know that it was off scale. So everybody has a horror story for example in the southwest we have tighen forest fires fatal forest fires that kill 5 firemen and also create droughts which could raise the
Problem and what I learned by watching them or in Carbon Project is they found out what works and then they kept supporting what work so often times in our jobs or in our lives we fight what s bad and we spend a lot of energy fighting let s add we have to find what works and support what works because where our attention goes there and I think our. Cities are one of those things that really work because they are responsive to people s power at the local level. John Wick and color under know that what happens in California doesn t stay in California that s certainly their intention for the Carbon Project but their view of what it means to take something to scale has changed radically It starts by asking nature. And so for me one of the big personal discoveries was in the beginning of the many Carbon Project we were clearly told that anything we had to do there and federal agencies were going to participate in everything we did had to be replicable scalable and broadly applicable that m
Troops to help with recovery efforts Caroline Koch lives in hard hit Putnam County New York ally and downed trees on calamine it has not been one truck trying to get the trees off the wires as of Saturday night over 1300000 on the East Coast remain without power President Trump son in law an advisor faces a shrinking role in the White House following chief of staff John Kelly s review of security clearance procedures Gerrard Kirshner appears to have been downgraded from access to top secret material Jared Kushner s influence in the White House maybe to ending for one thing the potential conflicts of interest seem to have tied up his security clearance and that means that as of this past week he no longer has access to top secret material he s been downgraded to secret material that clips as wings a bit and limits what had been a wide ranging portfolio to a few narrow interests A.B.C. s David Wright at the White House West Virginia Teachers vow to keep schools closed until they get a 5
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By the agent who s since been removed from bowler s team Wal-Mart is further paring down its corporate operations cutting as many as 1000 positions over the next 2 years the steps are part of the company s efforts to be leaner so it can better compete with online rivals N.P.R. s Yuki Noguchi has that story Wal-Mart which built its empire on enormous stores has a great deal of overhead costs that it more recently has been trying to reduce Wal-Mart s sales are healthy but if this is fierce competition from Amazon and other online sellers Wal-Mart shut down $63.00 Sam s Club warehouse stores this month as it tries to restructure and lighten its real estate and personnel costs but even with such news Wal-Mart c.e.o. Doug McMillan has said the retailer is not where it needs to be the company says it will try to transition those losing their jobs to new positions within the company Yuki Noguchi n.p.r. News Washington makes close on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 14