A reminder, well have live coverage of mrs. Reagans funeral from the president ial library in simi valley friday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. White house spokesman josh earnest took reporters questions about the Supreme Court vacancy, last nights president ial primary and this is a one hour portion of todays briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I do not have anything off the top so we can go straight to questions. Darlene, would you like to start . Do you have anything to add to your reports that u. S. Special forces are questioning the head of the Islamic State units trying to develop Nuclear Weapons . Unfortunately, i do not. Ive seen those reports. At this point im still constrained im still constrained by some Operational Security concerns from answering them. You do know there are u. S. Military forces that are on the ground in iraq that are part of these forces that are dedicated to carrying out raids, collecting intelligence and where possible getting access to high value targets, but
What are the things we can do right now . We are now on a war footing. It took us there. My sense of hopelessness was that we couldnt do anything in these countries. Thats why we want to put these financial mechanisms in place. When the finance ministers begin to understand the downside global risks to my economy are huge, then they will have conversations. Now, thats my job. Part of my job instead of conversations with ministers of finance. And i think we can put together mechanisms that could protect us from outbreak in the future. This has been fascinating. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. Thank you. So one of the things the nigerian finance minister said that was important to was not just gs addressing fear i dont mean to hold you up, but is there not something that can be done in the in terms of a mobile phone drop or teaching about the practice of dead burials . The u. S. And the u. K. Are putting into place extenders for the cell phone networks. There wasnt a huge amount of
Monica wehby. This debate is courtesy of ok kobi tv. Evening from the nbc studios in downtown medford. Craig craggmullin i am smullin and i will be your moderator this evening. Two candidates running for the senate. Tonight, they will debate the the studio. Onehour live u. S. Senate debate begins now. Live from the studios of kobi oregon, a u. S. Senate debate featuring jeff merkley and republican challenger dr. Monica wehby. Aarp. T to you by discover your real possibilities. The Oregon Association of realtors, protecting your piece of oregon. And working always to better the communities where we live. And now, your host and moderator for tonights debate, news smullin. Grecraig oregon voters will decide who will represent them in washington dc and this is the only schedule debate. The path to capitol hill goes through our studios tonight. I like to thank you both for joining us. Before we begin, lets meet our candidates. She is a mother of four in portland. The granddaughter of a leba
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
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