County in new jersey. Now, what constitutes a blizzard ve versus just a big snowstorm in the winds hour. The visibility is a quarter mile or less. And the combination lasts for at least three hours. Thats a very hard combination to get in this part of the country. Even the blizzard of 96, if you remember that, wtblizzard. We didnt have those technical conditions. They just kind of called it that. Nothing on the radar close by, but piece to of moisture back to the west and the gigantic piece down to the south. Tremendous amounts of moisture. So its just about the timing and the precip type. 9 00 to 10 00, the snow starts. 3 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. , in general, the heaviest snow. No travel during that period. Tuesday afternoon, snow continues. But the snow showers linger wednesday morning. The hour by hour shows the snow coming in at 10 00 to 11 00 tonight and getting heavy very quickly. This dark blue indicates heavy snow. And were talking potentially up to two to three inches per hour
Small number, high level of education for syrians. If we are reliant on erdogan to push it over the goal line, which i think we all are, he has a lot of other stuff on his mind at the moment. So i think a lot of these issues up and down the turkish bureaucracy, because of the centralized Decision Making that was already in place, will be pushed. So a lot of these things will lose importance as the country begins to deal with the fallout after last saturday. Maybe you can introduce yourself as well. I forgot to make that announcement. Hi. My name is martin. I am from the school of advanced international studies. My question is, so in the past couple of days weve seen weve read at least about the purges that you talked about. I mean they are really disheartening and thousands of coup prisoners are being raped, as Amnesty International reported. Just today i saw that Something Like 60 children, like 14yearold children are being imprisoned and being denied access to talk to their parents.
Benefits tremendously from having secure democratic market economic space from having countries that are willing to go with us to kosovo, bosnia, afghanistan. When we see a need for u. S. Intervention in the world, the only countries that have reliably been willing to do that have been our nato allies. And they bring genuinely military capability. It is still substantial compared to anything else that is available so we derive a lot of benefit. Mary from coronado, california on the democratic line, go ahead. Caller i was just listening about nato and the map and we are the biggest country. We are the leaders of the world so is in it, that is why we put more money into it . Others are smaller countries and they might not have as much money as the United States. Terms, thebsolute u. S. Is always going to be putting in the highest number of dollars but what we are looking at is percentages. If the u. S. Is putting in a certain percentage of its gdp, what nato has agreed on is that everyon
Hamilton, an important contributor to our project over the years. We have done it ends with him before. Job, he was the comptroller of the pentagon, the chief Financial Officer of the pentagon, during the five years of greatest fun one could have possibly had. When we think about stanford these days, we are thinking about katie ledecky. For all the great pain she has gone through in the swimming pool, i dont think it begins to compare to the pain bob has gone through in trying to injure sequestration because he was the guy at the pentagon who found a way to survive it. Some people would say he almost did too good of a job because it almost made sequestration seem. Olerable to remind you, sequestration is the automatic spending cuts that kick in to bring us down to a lower spending level if there is no other deal and this is all necessitated by that budget control act from 2011. Bob has been a distinguished and very patient government servant on some of the toughest issues in finance an
I will just follow behind both comments. I could not agree more that the solution is a political solution and never were our recommendations with respect to the residual nato force intended theive the afghans capacity to wipe out the taliban. Our hope had been to give the Afghan National Security Forces , as well as the police, to give them the capacity to control the taliban and render their potential existential threat to the country, to level that to a level where it can be handled over a long period of time by t he standing afghan forces. And i believe, with the right configuration of allied capabilities, nato capabilities, for the right period of time, and with the right resources, i believe that Security Platform can be sustained, upon which then, as vonda has correctly pointed out, the the political stability can move forward. The Security Platform is irrelevant, except inso far as it creates the environment where political progress and stability can move forward, and were econo