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it s ”pm in london, 7am in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. his republican party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of sexual misconduct against him. it leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, it s worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. that was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didn t turn out for their party s radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many don t much like donald trump either. it s a rejection of donald trump. tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. it was also a protest vote against the president. i do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. you don t know what s ....
a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. i m lester holt, and this is dateline. here s keith morrison with heart of darkness. reporter: they lay in wait, unseen under a thick green canopy, armed to the teeth. immersed in their defiant extremist belief, hunting, stalking, deadly, in this particular heart of darkness. it was the summer of 2011, a jungle-clad island in the southern tip of the philippines where they prepared the place. and the news of the terrible deed committed here flashed halfway around the world and came crashing down, out of nowhere, on a modest working-class family in lynchburg, virginia. i got a phone call from my mother. the first thing she said was gerfa and kevin were kidnapped in the philippines. reporter: kidnapped? sherry hutter tried to wrap her head around the inconceivable. gerfa was her aunt. kevin, gerfa s 14-year-old son. they were due home from a philippine vacation. instead, they were in the clutches of ....
them in places in the country where they would be much less likely to be engaged, but if they were engaged there were not only have the right to defend themselves, my themselves my presumption would be re- would assist in. is that a fair estimate? that is my feeling. it is what i said. i think we have an obligation to do so. i do not expect that occasions arise anytime soon. to get to the chairman s. and the very first vetting the thing, mr. chairman that made the number so small, and i said the i said the number 60 and can look at your faces. the same reaction i do. why is that number so small. the reason for that has to do with the criteria we applied. some of this is the law to these recruits. we do counterintelligence screening. we make sure that for example they aren t going to pose a green on blue threat to the trainers that they don t have any history of atrocities. these are all things that are required of us. they re willing to engage in the campaign in a way ....
the wake of tropical storm isabel. in 2003 isabel caused widespread flooding and equipment damage throughout the yard. the total cost of that for repair was $120 million. we ve taken several measures to ensure a similar event will not have the same detrimental impact. we ve raised the ground floor elevations of new construction. for example, wesley brownfieldhouse was built above the flood level and acts as a flood wall. we reelected the chiller plant and moved the hvac equipment to rooftops where feasible. we have raised electrical outlet on ground floors and installed check valves on ubd ground tunnels and storm lines. where suitable we ve identified opportunities for quote wet, flood proofing unquote where we designated billings and fields that will be allowed to flood once in a 100 years. they can handle flooding with minimal damage and using costs to keep them dry would not be cost effective. and we have protocol for equipment relocation in classrooms and labs in t ....
the mets were caught off in the bernie made off scheme. i go back to 1962 and casey stumble, when they had no place to go bat up back up. when you look at the coast guard, you can relate to the mets. you have no place to go but up. you have the mets destined for the world series and you have the coast guard doing the same thing. [applause] how about another round of applause for the admiral? [applause] we will see you back here hopefully on august 12. would like to thank the national press of staff including our broadcast center for organizing today s event. if you would like a copy of today s program or to learn more about the national press, please go to www.press.org. thank you. we are adjourned. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites destination to hear from local his friends, authors, and civic leaders on cspan-2 s booktv and ....