The efforts they now face to replace homes to basic infrastructure. [ screaming ] check out this new years tradition as people across the country take the polar plunge. Extreme temperatures in some places nearly brought the activities to a complete halt. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. This morning the political world mourns the passing of former new york governor mario cuomo. He was 82. He burst on to the political scene in the 1970s, rising to become a three term governor in new york and a shining star in the Democratic Party. He dazzled an office during the Democratic National convention. He became a front runner for the presidency but twice turned down offers to run. Lets go to libby casey in washington. Cuomos influence transcended state politics. He was known nationally for his passion for liberal values and pragmatism in politics. He was first and foremost a new yorker. He was a democratic superstar, a three term new york governor and unabashed liberal. He was pro c
Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address ethnic and Racial Disparity in the criminal Justice System, explore the impact of militarization of the nations Law Enforcement infrastructure, rein in overcriminalization and promote the restoration of rights and status for those who have had a brush with the criminal law. All of this is a reflection of the core mission of americas criminal defense bar, libertys last champions as we define ourselves. Fairness is the bedrock principle of any society and of any judicial system. The reforms ensuring
Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
Of the individual from where they are to a hospital ready and waiting for them. They were cared for safely in that system. Yesterday, we notified people that starting today, we will be doing that same kind of active monitoring for everyone who arrives in mali. Not because we believe there is widespread transmission but because there are so many contacts there and we are not yet confident that they are all being identified and monitored daily. If one comes here, we dont want to take the risk that they may become ill and the Health Care System would not be aware of it. We dont know that we have the perfect response but like everything in Public Health, everything for clinical medicine, everything in science, we use data to continuously improve practices. That is the approach we will take. We work with the Health Care System to strengthen control. They have visited three dozen hospitals all over the country and a dozen states to assess the ready. They provided the tests for ebola. Usually
Every one of those cases needs that kind of response that i described. Going to be incredibly difficult. A reminder that cases are still growing. Despite some progress, there was more cases in west africa in october than there were in september and though the numbers decreased in liberia, we believe, there are so many cases that we are not able to do the kind of outbreak control as needed and so many communities that have not yet had cases that need intensive control measures. In october, west africa had more all of the than in recorded ebola outbreaks over the last 40 years. We have a long way to go but we do have proof of principle and we do have tremendous commitment from societies. My team was describing how many communities themselves were taking action among they identified buildings or schools to isolate and care for people with ebola. They tracked the contacts so they would be rapidly isolated and would not further spread disease. This is outdated because it is from yesterday.