You raised to give his opening remarks of wanted to issue to present a co ambassador mark. Thank you. [applause] thanks for the introduction and thanks for the great work that you are doing. Welcome everyone. We are unique institution in foreign policy. We are congressionally chartered. Scholarship driven and we are fiercely nonpartisan and independent. I always say that special status rings with a special obligations, not duplicate what others are doing but instead to prioritize the most important issues and opportunities, and those places which we believe we can add value and make a difference. So there are few topics that more fit the bill while picking High Priorities in the subject of brings us here today and the discussions on iran, the middle east and u. S. Involvement in the region. Our work is focused on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. I can tell you that weve done more briefings and responded to more requests for briefings on this subject than any other in recent months. Ou
Oakland wants to include San Francisco in its new name. Plus im really happy for the people that are actually hardworking in the fast food industry. Fast food workers getting a raise effective today. The minimum wage now up to 20 an hour, but businesses are warning of higher prices and hiring freezes. Were talking to a local Franchise Owner. And we go behind the scenes at kaiser. Could this be the future of catching and treating genetic diseases earlier . Good evening. Im raj mathai. It is a beautiful monday night. Well get to all those stories in just a few minutes. But first lets catch you up on some of the headlines we are watching at this hour. Where will the as play after this season . Weve been asking that for months now. Tomorrow another big meeting in this backandforth between the team and the city. The bitter divorce continues. The as lease at the coliseum ends at the end of this year, but their ballpark out in vegas, so we think, wont be ready until 2028 at the earliest. So d
Messaging app. Contact me there. So our task to find needles and a nationwide haystack becomes complicated by the fact that the needle goes invisible. We cannot break strong encryption. People watch tv and think the bureau can do a lot of things. We cannot break strong encryption. Even if i get a court order under the Fourth Amendment to intercept that communication, i will get nothing. The needle remain dark to me. Isil does something al qaeda would never imagine, they task people. Kill someone, and we will see if youre really a believer. These people react in ways that are very difficult to predict. What you saw in boston was flashed a bang being very close. You had a guy in touch and then encrypted way. He woke up one morning and decided he would go kill somebody. Thank her this we were able to confront him. They had to use their weapons. That is an example of the applicability of this. If you combine the blindness with this broad reach. And we face a challenge if not seen before. T
They had to use their weapons. That is an example of the applicability of this. If you combine the blindness with this broad reach. And we face a challenge if not seen before. This is not your grandfathers al qaeda. This is a very new threat that we face. Some people say you have all kinds of other information. We live in the golden age of surveillance. I think of it differently. I think with over the golden age of communication. Osama bin laden would never have dreamed that he could speak simultaneously to hundreds of americans, find them, and the task of them in ways that Law Enforcement could not see. The golden age of communication is posting enormous challenges for us. Im not here to scare folks for us. There is a problem. I do not know the answer. A whole lot of good people that said it is too hard. It will all fall down and we will have a disaster. Maybe that is so. My reaction is, im not sure we really tried. I think Silicon Valley is full of great people that were told their d
Fire crews are gaining some ground. The fire has spread across 136 square miles of El Dorado County. It has a plume of smoke so big you can see from space. More than 5000 Fire Fighters are working double shifts. It cost 5 million a day to fight this massive blaze. Crews got a small break yesterday with overcast skies and some drizzle. But the fires burning in the tinder dry area that has been under Drought Conditions for three years and drizzle does not help that much. Rain like that makes very minimal impact on the fire of this size. Fire crews may catch another break. More rain is in the forecast, but not until wednesday. Take a look at this time lapse a gives you a better idea of the sheer volume of smoke. This was taken over 15 minutes. The air quality is so bad in some places it is classified as hazardous. Ryan i know the air quality has been really bad, especially up in lake tahoe so much so they had to cancel a pretty big event. Yes they canceled the ironman triathlon. Managemen