Vets, every place should have Something Like this to turn to. Wooduff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the president of the philippines declared a state of emergency today, in the wake of typhoon haiyan. Vast stretches of the central part of the country lay in ruins, especially the city of tacloban, where officials warned there could be thousands dead. For now, the confirmed death toll stands at 942. We begin with a report from angus walker of independent television news, in tacloban. You may find some of the images di
Forward to taking their money and buy school supplies. But once they removed all of that, by the time my children got to be 16 years old, they in my we call this crack. They started off with smoking marijuana, and then they would put Something Like embalming fluid, where it would make you get a more potent high. Host debra, thank you for that background. Whats the in your view, whats the current status of the situation . Caller the situation is, they have to get back to putting their children in more afterschool programs. They got to get their children with their lives being upsidedown, these children need to find some kind of way to say, okay, the house is falling down, my life is not that my future. Guest absolutely. There has to be more support for kids in all kinds of ways. Something that somebody brought up about the cutting back this is in a prosperous community, too cutting back on the choices i think reaching high school, that you could take art but you couldnt take do athletic
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. 2014, the chair now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. No sooner had the United States recognized the failure of alcohol prohibition by repealing the 18th amendment than the United States embarked upon another failed experiment in prohibition, marijuana. For three quarters of a century, the United States has waged a futile attempt to prohibit marijuana based upon emotion and flawed science. Since 197
On cspan. Bend is a timber town. You wouldnt know it to look at it today. The timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. At the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smell the mills, you would have smelled sawdust. If you went through certain parts of town, youd get sawdust on your clothes. You would here periodic mill whistles from the two gigantic super mills that were on the banks of the river. It would have permeated everything. It would have been ten minutes off from the Downtown Core where all the shops were, but you would have seen the smoke from the smokestacks and the burners, you would have smelled it, you would have known right away that you were in the middle of timber town usa. This weekend booktv and American History tv look at the history and literary life of bend, oregon. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 and sunday at 2 on cspan3. Epa Administrator Gina Mccarth
Good morning everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review department of defense proposals relative to the growth of personnel costs. We welcome the joint chiefs of staff to testify on these proposals to explain why they support them, what their impact is on the force and their impact on other areas of the Defense Budget. Our witnesses on the first panel are general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general ray chiefs of staff of the army, admiral jonathan chief of naval operations, general mark welsh, chief of staff of the air force, general James Amos Commodore of the marine corps and also chief of the National Guard bureau. We will have a second panel consistenting of nongovernment witnesses that i will introduce later. Its not often that all the members of the joint chiefs of staff testify before us in a single hearing. So it is not often that we have the opportunity to thank them as one group. For the contrib