3 years ago i came from germany to Fort Mcmurray at that time the only thing i knew about the place was that it is the biggest industrial project and the 3rd Largest Oil Reserves on the planet be all the Major Oil Companies i hear. People from all over the world cliff and work in Fort Mcmurray to extract the oil from the sand. I came to this place to understand who these people were and why they had decided to be here back then i never would have thought that i would decide to stay in Fort Mcmurray and that defy our would end my time here. My name is Robert Picardo i run the i love all sense campaign and i believe that the all slams are the best thing this is happening to aboriginals albertans canadians and potentially the entire world. When i say. My name is Robbie Picard and i run the i love oil Sands Campaign i believe that the all sense of the best in has ever happened to Aboriginal People albertans canadians potentially for everyone in the world a bit of Fort Mcmurray for 13 years
That we keep thinking we hit rock bottom. I suspect we thought that two years ago, and we are bottoming out again. So, governor, congratulations on the book and thank you for making time to talk about it. Thank you, dahlia, great to be here today. Host i wonder if we could start with the question that hovers a little bit over your first couple of chapters in book and then hovers over so much of the debate were having right now in america and its this question of place. I think its not an accident that you start the book saying that when you wanted to run for novembers virginia, people said to you, youre from new york, youre from florida, youre not from here. I lived in charlottesville for 17 years and heard, youre not from here asian lot, but i think it has a funny echo in the things say when people protest immigrants. Youre not from here. And you clearly anxious about establishing that, look, im from here, lift here most of my life. I live and work here. Why are we having this convers
Melt away. All three major averages were at record highs early in the session. The russell 2000 late the declines. 5 . Caps down with the catalyst for this pullback today . What was the catalyst for gains earlier in the session . We did have earnings reports that came in stronger than estimated that there has been this continuing momentum trade where we just see more and more traders piling on including more participation from retail investors. Now it seems that is turning at least for the moment as we head towards the close of todays session. I noticed the 10 year yield. Earlier in the session we had seen it lower. Only by a small amount. Now we are seeing it unchanged. At one point it has been up slightly. A little bit of rejiggering in today in the major averages and other assets as well. At the groupsook on the move and was responsible for the pullback. We have real estate that has been strong throughout the session. Positive analyst commentary on the tower operators has sealed tha
That the drive is true the unstable. Crews have worked to clear downed tree on burdick drive. Jacqueline bennett welt am when not quite done with this firstround its canteen now, heres what we got going right now is a mean you can see some light rain over the coast line, also the shoreline. Right over 8580 at this hour. Its pretty steady and not too heavy but if youre driving be careful. You can see the main wave passed through the southeast today, a few isolated showers to enormously draw like,y. Pam moore continuing our Team Coverage tonight tonight here staff, jeff bush weld and the weather in the south bay has been pretty unpredictable, around 8 00 it was coming down pretty hard. As far as driving is concerned like jack flynn said, the driving conditions were not very good tonight. Coming down u. S. 11 it was white knuckle, i talked to some drivers at a gas station and some said that they were over. This featu newspenew speakei like califori like the sun, i like the bay area. But s
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f