The news in the middle of the hour is short senators in the Federation Council today begin discussing the candidates proposed by Vladimir Putin for the posts of heads of Law Enforcement agencies and the ministry of foreign affairs. The president , in particular, believes that Andrei Belousov should head the ministry of defense. Previously, he worked as first deputy Prime Minister. Early morning russian. Air defense shot down several air targets over belgorod and the belgorod region. In belgorod itself , they have completed clearing the rubble at the site of the collapse of the entrance to a highrise building. The death toll by this hour had risen to 15 people. In the omsk region due to the flood, a state of emergency was introduced in three areas, about 800 houses were flooded. The most acute situation is in the ust and shimsky districts. Rescuers are evacuating residents of nine settlements at once. In primorye , a local resident was detained on suspicion of espionage. According to th
Attention. Ask the mayors that are in the room to please be seated and at the table. Others please feel free to sit in chairs along the wall. Were going to go ahead and get started so we can make an attempt to stay on schedule. Welcome, everyone, wish you good morning to the special climate secti section. The staff gave it the title. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. Ill talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Im the mayor of carmel, indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence and Climate Protection Task force. I want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair, san jose mayor sam liccardo in just a few moments. Let me ask all the mayors who are present here this morning to introduce yourselves that are speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im greg stanton, mayor of phoenix, i chair the mayors Conference Energy committee. Good morning. My name is Javier Gonzalez. Im the mayor of the city of santa fe, and
Let me have your attention. I asked the mayors that are in the room to please be seated at the table, and others please feel free to sit along the wall. We are going to go ahead and get started, so that we may make an attempt to get ahead of schedule. I wish you good morning to this special climate section special climate session. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. I will talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Carmel, mayor of indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence in Climate Protection Task force. Colleague,oduce my san jose mayor sam mcardle. Let me ask all of the mayors present here to introduce yourselves, so that speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im the mayor of phoenix, and chairman of the Energy Committee. Good morning. I am hobbie r gonzales, mayor of the city of santa fe. Javier gonzalez, mayor of the city of santa fe. Good morning. I am david miller. I am former mayor of the city of toro
General of the criminal division, michael hirst, christopher myers. Billy williams from the district , and i want to thank you all for being here. We are pleased to announce two indictments, marking a major milestone in our battle to stop deadly fentanyl from entering the United States. Chineseindicted fentanyl tropicals who have been using the internet to transport these two drug traffickers. These cases reflect a new and disturbing trend. Crisis wee opioid face here, more and more citizens are being held i fentanyl. These are synthetic opioids that are much stronger and more dangerous than heroine. Heroin. Than are rains of sentinel fentanyl are lethal. Americans were estimated to have died of drug overdoses 015. 0 fentanyl is coming directly from factories to u. S. Customers who make this purchase is over the internet. The president has made it a priority for us to come back this opioid crisis. The Justice Department is playing a leading role in those efforts. In july, we announced
Staff, theyre going to stop leaking. Stern warning from president trumps new communications director, meanwhile, president trumps soninlaw, jared kushner, heads to capitol hill. He has closed door meeting with the Senate Intelligence committee. And i now pronounce you still husband and wife. May you live for the another zero six years. And renewing their vows over the weekends, celebrate their zero six anniversary at the Senior Living center in philadelphia. I love. That will i love love. Turning now to the forecast, matt, dont have as much love for this mornings forecast, i have to say. No, we want to distance ourselves from this forecast. It is a definite morning where you want to take the umbrella, because even though precipitation starting to fade out, here in center city, were going to be watching for another round of some showers and thunderstorms as we get toward the end of this afternoon, and then maybe into the evening hours. So on the road this morning, of course, there are s