[speaking foreign language] it is a long way from iran to fort bragg, north carolina. Halfway around the world, you might say. But that is where the story begins. It is my story, but it could be the story of a great number of other u. S. Army advisors. They served in nearly 50 countries overseas. My name is captain paul weinman. My assignment with the military Assistance Advisory Group in iran is as an advisor to the Imperial Iranian Army special forces group. But before you teach you have to , learn the hard way. At fort bragg, we learned our special forces lessons well. Lessons that would make us into tough, welltrained soldiers able to handle any situation in some faroff land. North carolina, or north iran. A jump is a jump. The same intention as you go out the airplane door. The same big lift in your chest as you see that parachute billowing out. When you land, it may be the safe ending to a flight, but your job is just beginning. Your students know your part five in this exercise.
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F
Headlines today. A discussion of usled airstrikes in syria. Developments at the white house. We begin with yang yang and word that ebola cases could reach 1. 5 million by midjanuary. That covers just two countries. That is right. Sierra, just post he does estimates that without better containment of the Ebola Outbreak, there could be as many in the twoion cases west african countries by january. The third country hit hard by the virus was not included because the number of cases there has fluctuated too much to make modeling valid. The model estimates 550,000 cases on the lower end. The reason why the range is so large is because Officials Say they believe the cases to be significantly underreported by a factor of 2. 5. The latest tally from the World Health Organization shows 2800 asths and 5800 total cases of monday. To give you an idea of scale, 1. 4 million would be 240 times the current case number. Also today, the World Health Organization released a separate that predicted there
The speaker pro tempore the chair the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this moment of prayer, please grant the members of this peoples house as they meet with their respective constituents. The gifts of wisdom and discernment, but in their words and actions theyll do justice, love with mercy and walk humbly with you. We ask, as well your blessing upon those who are especially impacted by the Severe Weather Winter Weather in this city and throughout so much of our country. May those who work to address the needs of the weak and vulnerable at times like this know they do your work. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 2a of House Resolution 100, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
It topped speeds of 200 miles per hour. Not sure where you would be driving 200 miles per hour. West side highway anyone . Robert will be joining us with the story in the next half hour. Joe mentioned that today is the last day of the First Quarter. We had a really big rally yesterday although volume was light but the dow and s p back in positive territory for the quarter and noticeably the s p is trying for the ninth straight quarterly gain. That will be the longest quarterly winning streak since the mid to late 1990s. Check out the futures and it doesnt look like theyre cooperating. Theyre down by triple digits. Its a decline of 103 points. S p is looking like its indicatinged to open down by 13 points and the nasdaq is down by 22. Its triple digit moves. Heres the other big stories were watching. Today is the deadline for the u. S. And five other nations to reach an agreement over the nuclear program. Theyre back underway in switzerland and look to be going down to the wire. Well ha