And if youve never heard of them, youre in for a big surprise, because the reserves are so vast that theyll help solve Americas Energy needs for the next century. [ticking] if you were waiting for the day Global Warming would change the world, that day is here. Its happening far from civilizations notice in a place about as remote as you can get. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. We live on an increasingly endangered planet, from the glaciers of antarctica to the rich prairie lands of canada. And the ultimate disaster may be financial as well as environmental. Later in this episode, scott pelley reports from antarctica on the wideranging effects of Global Warming. And later bob simon has a story from canada on the environmental damage caused by the next great oil rush. But our first story involves a controversial waste product that could have damaging effects on the environment. There are more than 600 coalfired power plants generating electricity in the u. S. , and those
Be very liquid, but youre not guaranteed you will get paid back in full. I would think it would be a wonderful future where our grandchildren look at these plain vanilla bond Bank Deposits like they look at dvds, that that is, what am used to do that . That is a crazy. We do not do that anymore. There is really a scope to do that. I think we need more Public Education about the Financial Sector, about finance in general , and i speak certainly of public tv, radio, internet, but much more broadly about hopefully providing balanced analysis, and then a be helping them understand some of these, located contracts that they now have to buy because we do not have anything except an atm at the bank. And then finally, of course, the mythical system is at the core of the political system is at the core of all the financial crises, and we need reform here. Can we ever not have financial crises, depending on how you look at it . I think the imf will always be in business. We have a Human Element
It was a dramatic event. Our hands on this are not completely clean either. Theres a brief period of time where we were trekking off and selling weapons to the iraqis. It was a horrible regime up there and evil, if i may use that word. The assad regime in syria. Third, the United States favors israel. What iranians believe is that the u. S. Favors the jewish faith over muslim states. States that are populated primarily by muslims. You may not agree. It may not be too. This is the perception. This is what they believe. After the revolution, they took an embassy and they gave it to the plo. They celebrate jerusalem day in tehran. Iranians believe that we as a country favor the jewish state over the muslim state. Therefore, muslim states, we are antiislamic. There are arguments against that. The u. S. Has a lot of chaplains in the military. Ok. Ok. This is what iranians believe he read that we do not like muslims. A guy was murdered because someone thought he was a muslim. We have reasons
General and the and director clapper be put in the record at this point. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Under the previous order, the question occurs on the ayotte amendment number 2255. Mr. Levin ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer on this society, the yeas a 43, the nays are 55. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed is not agreed to. Is not agreed to. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the levinmccain amendment 2175. The senate will be in order. The senate will be in order. The senator from michigan. Mr. Levin madam president the presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin this amendment, ways levinmccain the presiding officer the senate will be in order. Please take your conversations outside. The sen
Between an elder going to the doctor or not. And no one knows better than americas tribal leaders that a safe, Reliable Transportation system is a key to accessing good jobs. Its why last year the federal Transit Administration awarded more than 15 million from from our Tribal Transit Program to help 72 tribal governments provide the critical Transportation Services that thousands depend on every day. Its also why a total of 30 million has been authorized for tribal transit rams for fy2013 and fy2014. Thats a doubling of available funds. Were going to leave this program now to go to the white house for todays press briefing just beginning. Happy friday. Thanks for being here. Did i hear a yea for friday . Yea for friday. A little premature. It is friday. [laughter] wait, are you are you questioning the premise of the assertion that its friday . [laughter] [inaudible conversations] wow. [inaudible conversations] youre bitter the president had a press conference . He was in cleveland. Ma