Condolences to the families of would two hostages one american dr. Warren weinstein and an italian, giovanni lo porto, who were tragically killed in a u. S. Counterterrorism operation. Warren and giovanni were aid workers in pakistan, devoted to improving the lives of the pakistani people. After warren was abducted by al qaeda in 2011. I directed my National Security team to do Everything Possible to find him and to bring him home safely to his family. And dedicated professionals across our government worked tirelessly to do so. We also worked closely with our italian allies on behalf of giovanni who was kidnapped in 2012. Since 9 11 our course terrorism efforts have prevent terrorist attacks and saved innocent lives, both here in america and around the world. And that determination to protect innocent life only makes the loss of these two men especially painful for all of us. Based on information and intelligence we have obtained we believe that a u. S. Counterterrorism operation targ
Western countries to the economy of ukraine is the most important thing. Thats not my responsibility. But i just wanted to say, i think thats the most important thing. We are supplying military assistance to the ukrainian military. The president just made an announcement about a week ago about military assistance and a number of categories, vehicles and so forth that i think will be of material assistance to the ukrainian military. There are also under consideration and, yes, it is under consideration some additional categories of assistance which are defensive lethal assistance and those are being considered. I think they should be considered. And ive said that before. But it is a complicated decision that involves other kinds of assistance that were giving and the paramount fact which is that we need to support the ukrainians politically and economically and in particular our nato partners and our european allies need to support ukraine economically. In the end, thats the key to keep
Tonight new Details Behind the tragedy in arlington, and why neighbors Say Something has to change. A family portrait ends with a trip to the hospital, and months later, some are still recovering. See what went wrong. News4 at 11 starts now. Its going to get cold again. And there is a chance for a bit of snow tomorrow. Chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer is tracking the changes from storm center 4. Doug, what is coming next . I tell you what, the changes are really very, very big when you consider the fact that we hit a high of 64 yesterday. And right now some areas already down to about 24. Your storm team 4 radar is all clear at the moment. But all you have to do is widen out to the west. And we are watching that snow making its way down from places like omaha, in through portions of omaha, south of chicago that little system will move through during the Early Morning hours tomorrow after your morning rush. Your morning forecast looking like this. Down towards the city well start seein
Another leg of the search for mh 370 which disappeared nearly two months ago and nothing has been found. Paul allen is with us from sydney now. Where do they go from here . The think that will be number one question they will be asking themselves. The chief of the australian effort, angus houston, this meeting is to figure out where you go from here. Officials are putting their Heads Together to decide what to do next. 58 days in and absolutely nothing has been found. They owe itn says to the families of the missing to continue with the search. He is confident that theyre focused on the right area. They announced that the Aerial Search for debris is done. Anything floating is presumably no longer. The search is now exclusively underwater with the submersibles covering 400 square kilometers of the ocean floor. Yete said, nothing found and this is now the longest search ever for a plane in aviation history. Thes a longer this goes on, more it will cost. Its a matter of time before the qu
Expenses if somebody was willing to go to a provider. We have four tiers within the network. And we leveraged the blue cross and blue shield centers of excellence and tiered it even further. We started with quality and added a cost component, so this is some of the results from 2012 and 2013 when we implemented that. About 264 joint replacements or back fusion surgeries in the last 18 months or so. In the middle blue bar, you can see the impact to the cost of someone who chose to go to the highest quality, most cost efficient providers around the country. We saw about a 20 to 30 reduction in costs. When you include travel, so we plaid for travel and a companion to travel. Similar to what health purse is doing. Again, about a 30 perts decrease in cost and from a quality perspective, no adverse side effects. Potentially avoidable complications, there were none, by someone maybe not going to a facility in their hometown. Where they had to travel for that knee replacement. We had people tr