Someone came out. He had information of a prisoner, came out. He had information. In some cases somebody goes into to something and the person he comes out and he says ive seen westerners. We had some cases of syrian prisoners been released escaping, seen westerners. Unfortunately, a lot of this wasnt realtime. Most of the time its like a hollywood movie. They slipped through our fingers. We have been in the location a week or two ago. We didnt have definitive realtime information until the hostages began being released. When you talk about fbi its a Law Enforcement thing for them. When they debrief hostages theyre more interested in putting together a case against the hostage taker as opposed to finding the hostage takers trying to get a solution. A problem for People Like Us is that we saw the government, the government and the agency as an iceberg. We dont with so few people above water, above ground and they interact and interface with the other agencies so we did know what was goi
Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strategic implications are enormous, so i appreciate the senator raising the question. We have to put the discussion into context in terms of your budget. This chart, which im sure youre familiar with, is the last 50 years of defense spending as a percentage of gdp. Starting in 1962 at about 9 , today it is 3. 3 and headed down , at a time of increasing threat and payroll for our country. Often we get confused about the absolute dollar amounts, but a percent of gdp as a way of comparing apples to app
Math. In june, 2011, Governor Rick Snyder was secretary of education education introduced a revolutionary experiment to improve michigans lowest performing schools, taking the bottom 5 and consolidating them into a staterun district. As a result, 15 schools formerly part of the Detroit Public School system are now in the hands of the Educational Achievement authority. Many have cited the lack of a democratic process to elect board trustees. Whenever you have a governor who takes and consolidates all of that and says, i, the governor, can decide on behalf of all, thats problematic. Because youre really diminishing diversity. Youre diminishing different views, perspectives, peoples ability to weigh in and have their voice herd. We think of anne arbor as so beautiful and diverse and we dont really have in our picture that one in four students comes to us with so he shall owe economic needs. It creates an opportunity for success we know without opportunities to go to museums, do extra scie
Newsroom starts right now. It is 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. It is good to be back with you this day. We begin in the u. S. State of hawaii. Teams there on the ground set to resume the search for one person still missing after a tourist helicopter crash. The remains of six others on board have been recovered. Our Josh Campbell has the latest for you. The crash site in a remote area inside a state park in the northwest section of the island of kauai. This tour helicopter was one of many that you typically see here in hawaii, a popular attraction that allows tourists the ability to look inside volcanos, of water falls, to get an idea of this states wildlife. This all began on thursday afternoon. The coast guard, the u. S. Navy as well as kauai fire and rescue were alerted after the tours and helicopter failed to return to base in its allotted time. That launched a massive search and rescue effort involving multiple agencies throughout the night working some 16 hours by sea, air a
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