Another theme park in Southern California that began in late december and has spread to six other states, including utah washington oregon, and colorado. Measles has reached or teen states, according to the director of the Cdcs National Center for any nation and respiratory diseases. It has generated fierce criticism of people who choose not to have their children immunized. It has prompted 2 School Systems in california to ban unvaccinated students from school. That is our question for this opening segment. Should Childhood Vaccinations be mandatory . We have divided our lines more difficult. Parents, educators, and medical professionals 2027488000 four parents. 2027488001 four educators. Medical professionals 2027488002. All others can dial in at 2027488003. You can join the lately conversation lively conversation. Send us a tweet at cspanwj. Or you can send us an email. Back to the Washington Post. The cdc held a briefing thursday. In an attempt to prevent measles from getting a foo
Take place this morning at 11 00 eastern. Reports say that while romney would not formally announce a run, he will tell supporters on whether he intends to move forward. Again, that from an online story from the hill website this morning. Coming up, the Democratic Caucus meeting in philadelphia. At about 10 30 eastern, joe biden will speak with members who have been meeting to examine policies and strategies after the losses in congress. At noon, House Democratic leaders are hosting a News Conference, as they wrap up that retreat. We expect to hear from nancy pelosi. Live coverage also here on cspan. That starting at noon eastern. President obama was in philadelphia last night, talking to the Democratic Caucus. He outlined some of the Budget Priorities reiterating some of the proposals for what he calls middle class economics. Involving free tuition at committee colleges, rebuilding the nations infrastructure, and Rewarding Companies who keep jobs here in the u. S. Minority whips will
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because
Once known as the face of the mtv movie awards, he has since become one of the most prominent voices of the british left. He has taken part in antiausterity protests, spoken at occupy wall street and marched with the hacker collective anonymous. A recovering addict himself, Russell Brand has also become a leading critic of britains drug laws. It is not important we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and there is a pragmatic rather than some bolick approach to treating it. I think [indiscernible] it is kind of symbolic and not really functional. Id. See how it especially helps. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from london. The top military officer in the United States has said he is considering sending u. S. Combat troops back to iraq. Testifying before a house panel, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general Martin Dempsey said the United States could send a m