Highways, plumbing, electricity in the wall, nitrogen fixing fertilizers, vaccines, clean water available with the turn of another near home. When all these things appear what is undeniable and really apparent immediately thereafter is a wave of improvement and wellbeing for people. Vast portions of the population start getting better, also all kinds of things are opened up. I was certain now was going to happen with digital networking, but it is not exactly the way things went. Starting around the turn of the century i started to notice a pattern that was really bothering me which is that my friends who worked in the industries that were most affected by digital networking first, and im thinking of musicians and journalists and photographers, were not finding the world of new opportunity that i had for so long anticipated would appear. Instead i ended up almost every week having to be part of a fundraiser to help somebody get a crucial operation in needed and they did not have insuran
Renewed hope foundation. Is an agenda professor at Georgetown University and the institute of World Politics and to serve as a visiting professor at the National Defense university as well as Georgetown University. He has written several books, the most recent being his coauthoring of a textbook on Homeland Security and, of course, he coauthored for heritage, our book on winning the long war, lessons from the cold war for defending terrorism and preserving freedom. Lease join me in welcoming jim carafano. [applause] thank you. Im going to be extremely brief so we can get right to the top of. I want to start with a thank you but i want to thank our panelists, chris, kim and Michael Ohanlon. Put this together on the fly yesterday. I want to thank all of you for coming out in this but we thought this is such a critical issue as youre trying to follow over the weekend of a lot of people talking about a lot of things that nobody had chance to catch their breath. And have a dialogue. And i t
Turkey and the e. U. And all of that, it might create for lebanon an investment in its stability and its longterm viability because of the importance of energy. Similar to what, how the gulf sort of gets its stability and security. The gulf countries are, you know, strange tribes, but they survived because they have important resources. Other parking lots of the world parts of the world sometimes have that as well. Thats very important for lebanons geostrategic environment. If the east and west agree that this must be a peace offul zone because there are important resources here, now actually moving forward on whats the economic value of this, the first thing is to figure out how to get it to market. The market is effectively europe. The original approach was or the plan was certainly to take it over land to turkey which would mean through syria as long as the war there is raging, you cannot do that. But that is the most Cost Effective i way. And i would indicate that part of the war f
Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im claudine wong. Good morning. Im mike mibach. It is a chilly morning out there. Lets check in with rosemary on the temps. Good morning to you. Good morning. It is a gloomy start. How about a look over the oakland estuary this morning. Partly to mostly cloudy skies, patchy drizzle and fog. Temperatures on the cool side, not too bad. When we have all that cloud cover overhead, definitely going to feel cool if youre stepping out this morning. It will be widespread through the morning hours. By afternoon, even by noon time, partly cloudy to mostly sunny away from the coast today. Temperatures this afternoon will actually be slightly warmer. The onshore breeze is going to continue. Fairfield gusting to 25 Miles Per Hour. Some of that low cloud cover has pushed all the way through the delta, into portions of areas like solano county, into the Sacramento Valley. Giving you a look at the numbers, 53 in walnut creek. Napa, youre checking in at 53. Mount
Former naval station have been concerned the ground under their feet is radioactive and dangerous. Mark kelly reports, a final test to be done this summer doesnt make them feel any more at ease. Reporter on the surface, Treasure Island is paradise but people who call the island home say scratch the surface and its anything but. Do you think its safe to live on Treasure Island right now . I absolutely unequivocally do not believe its safe. Reporter Catherine Lundgren lived here a decade and says the side effects from radiation are one reason she moved off the island. Hair loss, rashes, cancer. Reporter the u. S. Navy insists radiation levels pose no threat to Public Health. In fact, the plan is to turn the island over to private developers to build this residential complex over the next 15 years. Its going to be one of the premier addresses in San Francisco. Reporter bob beck with the Treasure Island Development Authority explained that before New Buildings go up, the island must be dec