Host that does it for todays washington journal. The American Enterprise institute is hosting epa administrator andrew weaver. That conversation is beginning now. Administrator we were, he will have some opening remarks and then i will have questions. You can ask questions to pitch as you can see on our event page and or youtube page, and questions on twitter at hashtags airandwater. First, his opening remarks. Admin. Wheeler i want to thank aei for inviting me to be here today. Month, i provided reflections on the past 50 years of the amber mental Protection Agency and laid out a plan for its future at the nixon library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past 40 years, how we are going to get to this future. It is incontrovertible that today, the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it. Air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Manyyear, the apa delisted superfund sites. And we will ddelist another 27 this year.
unresponsive in her california home. brian: the lead actor winning best actor award. todd piro joins us with more of her life and legacy. todd: tributes pouring in overnight follow the news of lisa marie presley death. her mother i priscilla releasing to magazine it is heavy heart that i must share the beautiful news that my beautiful daughter lisa marie has left us. most passionate strong and loving woman i have ever known. we ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. thank you for the love and prayers. lisa dying thursday after being rushed to the hospital earlier in the day. first responders were called to her calabasas home 11:00 a.m. for a woman in cardiac arrest. they performed cpr regaining signs of life. presley then taken to a nearby hospital but later pronounced dead. celebrities sharing touching tributes for the singer and songwriter. tweeting i m heart broken lisa did not have an easy life as some may think. may she be at peace resting with h
In the california mudslide. At least 20 others are missing and dozens of homes have been destroyed. This is the town of montecito. Rivers of mud flowed down the street. Now, this area was also hit by wildfires last month its thought the scorched earth those fires created prevented the rain from being absorbed into the ground. As you can see in this photo, it wasntjust mud and trees that was washed away so were huge rocks. And all of this has blocked roads and railways. This is Santa Barbaras county sheriff. The only words i can really think of to describe it, was it looked like a world war i battlefield. It was literally a carpet of mud and debris. As always with natural disasters, there have been stories of terrible loss and of survival. Trees are just coming down. We trees arejust coming down. We ran into the house, and right then the boulders blustered through our house. We got upstairs and we got to about eight feet, nine feet up the stairs and we crawled out a window to the roof.
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