Contributors to the books from democracy to freedom and no wall they can build. Watch coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday starting at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. Wildfires in the west where the focus of an environment and Public Works Committee hearing in the senate yesterday. Members served on Forest Management experts on the impacts wildfires have had on the environment and the economy. From capitol hill, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, i called his hearing to order. So far in 2017 as all the guests on our panel know, in 2017, fires have burned more than 8 million acres in the United States. We need to find solutions to address this threat to our communities and wildlife. Today the committee will hear testimony and three bills related to catastrophic wildfires across the west. Senator daines introduce the litigation relief for Forest Management projects acts which w
Microsoft technology fair. Former president bill clinton talks about the opioid emepidemic. Hillary clinton rallies supporters at the home Rights Campaign and jeff bezos receives an award for his work fighting for samesex marriage. The the communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year. Heres one of two of them at microsofts washington, dc headquarters. My name is jackson, im a researcher at milwaukee research and work on project premonition which is using mosquitoes as devices to predict the next epidemic. 60 to 75 of caused by pathogens in animal populations. Very difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola is from fruit flies. How do you monitor the population of egyptian fruit bats. The projection premonition imagines using a mosquito as a device. They bite all sorts of animals taking blood samples. There are 3600 known species of mosquitoes mosquitoes and they bite everything from reptiles couple humans and chickens. Why would mi
Week for the fed chair. Looking like a lower open for right now, but fight upward movement in record territory. Months and months for the stock market. By the way, speaking a record territory. Bigname tech Stocks Holding off to Massive Gains for friday. Amazon come alphabet, microsoft new highs and halfhour from now the market will open. We will have three hours for your sabbatical. Varney company will start right now. Charles back to the breaking news. Paul manafort, judge napolitano witness. A scuttlebutt over the weekend but it still a shocking bit of news. The New York Times is reporting one of the account said the indictment is for tax fraud. Tax fraud is not failure to pay your taxes and tax fraud is lying to the government about what you owe. That may or may not be related to his activities in russia. I suspect it is because his codefendant, rick gates didnt work with them on the campaign, but worked in its business when he was an american agent and an american lobbyist from tim
The world series. He got pumped and i hid him under a blanket and mom came in. What is this over here. I said it is something special. Congratulations to the astros. Their first world series. A special moment. Unfortunate for the dodgers. They will get back there. They have a great team. Im happy for houston. I am happy for houston and everyone who resides there especially after hurricane harvey. Karen chen will join us live in the studio. We will begin with the investigation into the terror attack in new york that left eight people dead. Yesterday Sayfullo Saipov, the 29yearold suspect in the terror attack appeared in court and was formally charged with providing Material Support so isis. Was handcuffed and in ai wheelchair after being shot after the attack on tuesday by a police officer. Federal prosecutors say he picked halloween for the attack on a bike path because he expected crowded streets to be, well, more crowded than usual. Also prosecutors say he planned to continue the ram
If you are taking any of those flights, get to the airport a little early. Welcome everyone. Pam cook is here and i know you are excited about the snow because you love to ski. I have my season pass ready to go. I dont normally get the season pass but this time i did because we get discounts for the family and it looks to be good. We are so lucky to have lake tahoe right here. Just 4 to 6 hours depending on the traffic. Lets check in with Rosemary Orozco because it is looking like snow this weekend. It will be nice eventually. If youre traveling today be prepared for the Winter Travel because it could be treacherous at times. The Weather Service has issued an advisory for later today. Lets look at what is going on here at home because yes we started with some wet roadways with scattered showers. Where we stand now, lets take a closer look at the Santa Cruz Mountains picking up on light showers. Over the south bay a little bit of light rain over the 101 and 82. Sunnyvale through san jos