On women. More than a quarter of a million, 280,000 women, have served in iraq, afghanistan, or neighboring countries in support of those two wars. Susan mcginnis is in washington with more. Good morning, susan. Good morning, annemarie. Todays announcement overturns a 1994 ban on women serving in battlefront operations and it opens up about 230,000 military jobs that until now were closed to women. The new pentagon policy makes women eligible to serve in army and marine infantry units. Theres also the potential for them to be part of an elite Operations Team like the navy s. E. A. L. S and other forces. Working side by side with special forces teams with pretty cool. But in order to join women must be able to withstand the rigid strength requirements with those units. There are jobs women cant do physically because they dont have the physical strength to do it. The pentagon is opening the door to more women being killed or wounded in action. Conflicts have cost more than 130 women thei
Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Question number one, mr. Speaker. Prime minister . Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 12 members of the tragic terrorist attack on new yorks twin towers. Im sure the whole house will wish to join in sending our condolences to all those who are affected by this aborted attack including the families of the 67 british citizens who lost their lives. These terrorists seek to divide us but they dont understand their actions only make us more determined and more united in our resolve to defeat them. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Im sure the whole house will wish to associate himself with the Prime Ministers comments on this anniversary. We ar are haunted of its imagesy see. Millions needing a day, children dying. I thank the Prime Minister for his leadership at the g20. Will he now prepare a con
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And excitements we have to capture channel the future of our communities. To get people in school. Teach young people how to read. If we get people at grade level reading we will be strong. First learn to read and then lead to report read to learn. The person that reaches out learn so much more about the preconceived notions and how long they work. That makes us all better to be the mayor they say that poverty is an education. The strategy for violence is education. And i think intolerance you could say the same thing. Its education. I have to bring this to a close. Please join me in a flanking the panelist and i will turn it back over. Thank you for your kind introduction and for your wonderful leadership with sacramento and as Vice President the wonderful leadership in the United States conference of mayors. I wore a bulletproof vest on the walk to columbia which made it a little more difficult for. And when of the proudest moments in my life. Reverend price, my fellow mayors , citiz
Simply that . [ applause ] pick it up yeah. [ applause ] male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Good morning. It is tuesday february 5th. We are taking a live look outside from our roof camera here on van ness avenue. Looking back at San Francisco. Good morning, im anny hong. And im james fletcher, thanks for joining us. Good morning, james. Yes is the foggy morning but not quite as bad as what we saw yesterday. We are seeing 30s and 40s as we go for the afternoon. Partly cloudy with temperatures in the 50s. Later tonight there will be some cloud coverage but most locations will be in the 40s. 46 in concord 40s in antioch the afternoon highs with a few degrees and what we saw yesterday mid50s for Downtown Office San Francisco. Here is the satellite and radar. Some cold to contend with. There rainfall is headed to the bay area of later this week. With the kron 47 day around the bay. Plenty of sunshine to go around. A pretty nice and the mild conditions