High pressure systems to the north. What it is doing is putting the squeeze on the Hawaiian Islands and allowing those winds out of the east to gust. We just checked, over 40 Miles Per Hour in some of those locations. That is going to complicate fire efforts. Look at the aerial video that you are seeing on your screens right now. This is imperative. The fire that impacted the west side of maui, the location, the economic hub of hawaii where all the resorts and businesses are generally located, where people go as tourists to visit, well, the fire ran out of room to burn. It literally moving into the ocean as it had nothing else to char. It was incredibly harrowing. Adjectives use like dyer and apocalyptic. You can see exactly why with some of these first aerial visuals that we are getting. Now, everyone in hawaii knows how to handle a hurricane. Everyone knows how to handle volcano as well. As difficult as it can be. This caught people off guard. As a meteorologist, we were watching Hur
funding childhood cancer studies, when it comes to child nutrition, when it comes to day care, and on and on. i do not quite understand why it honestly, i know democrats are more in favor of social program spending than republicans in general but this problem does not go away when democrats control all three branches. it consistently goes on. as you noted in your op-ed, the united states is 33rd out of 37 and spends 13 billion on childcare compared to 712 billion on defense. why? yes. you know, i think it is because children just don t have a voice. they don t vote. they don t have political action committees. they don t have lobbyists. and yet, investing in our children is how we build a future. you know, we understood this
taxpayers have been unfairly labeled as lazy. and the criminaled cruise line is pushed finally pulled into port. we re live in the seychelles for that. first up, let s get straight to the european stock market action. these markets have been open for the best part of just over an hour. this is how the indices are performing. a little die cot many between the two eurozone markets. the cac is trading down about .25%. ftse 100 up. what has got their attention. ben bernanke s comments are weighing heavily on sentiment not just across europe but also across the world markets as well. this is because he s offered a down beat assessment of the recovery. it is one of the things that has these markets pausing for the moment. european leaders and finance ministers are also in brussels today. over the next two days to come. what they ll be doing is hosting a series of summits designed to strengthen the region s finances and also to prevent another greece-like situation from happenin
president obama and the first lady paid tribute to them at ft. bragg. the commander in chief has spent a week saying a long good-bye to the war he once described as dumb. iraq is not a perfect place. it has many challenges ahead. but we are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, self reliant iraq. reporter: during the nearly ten-year conflict, the u.s. lost more than 4,400 troops, over 32,000 were injured. by the end of the year the total price tag will exceed $712 billion. hopefully the next stage in the iraqi people s lives they can move on. we can step back and take a purely advisory role, and hopefully, they can make it on their own. reporter: not everyone is happy about the timing of the withdrawal. senator john mccain accuses president obama of making his decision based on politics not national security. i believe that history will judge this president s leadership with the scorn and disdain that it deserves.
and over 32,000 have been wounded. all at a cost of more than $712 billion to american taxpayers. it s a war that many of us warned would be a horrible tragic mistake. a war that was packaged and sold to the american people with lies and fear. we don t want the smoking gun to an mushroom cloud. the czechs alleged that the lead attacker met in producing with a senior iraqi official five months before the attack. saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities satisfy cap about. we will be greeted as will be rate tors. we re dealing with a country that can finance its own reconstruction. which in the battle of iraq, the