You see her there, the 85yearold grandmother recounting her harrowing experience. Her daughter was by her side translating. Yoesh shed lifshitz said hamas stormed her kibbutz and abducted her on the back of the moto motorbike. Each captive had their own doctor. There are huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spider web. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and theyre not going to hurt them. And that they shared they ate the same food that hamas was eating. Hamas has now released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault on gaza they say by ground, sea and air. The Israeli Military says it struck more than 400 targets across gaza in the past day killing hamas commanders and fighters. More than 200 hostages are still believed to be inside gaza. And as we learned from israels president overnight, that includes 30 children. Go to erin burnett she joins us live in tel aviv. Erin, to you, incredible to hear those details of how t
Crossing operation critical and urgent need. Without electricity this hospital will be a mass grave. We desperately need a humanitarian cease fire. The troops are ready. Theyre ready to go. Well, good morning, everyone. Im Phil Mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. Erin burnett is live in tell aveef. We heard from one of the hostages released by hamas yesterday. The grandmother described her abduction in captivity. Her daughter was by her side translating. Hordes of Hamas Fighters Storm Herd Kibbutz and kidnapped her and beat her with sticks once in gaza. She was held under ground with five other hostages. She said they were treated well by guards, a doctor and paramedic who made sure they had the medicine they needed. She says hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries ready for them. There are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spider web. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and theyre not going to hurt them. And that th
The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net
Issues. And president ial candidate Mike Huckabee campaigns in newton iowa. President obama has nominated Lieutenant General Robert Miller to head the u. S. Marine corp. At his Senate Confirmation hearing, members of the Armed Service Committee Questioned general miller about the marine corp budget, military Sexual Assaults, and the militarys strategy in iraq and syria. We want to consider the nomination of Lieutenant General Robert Miller. General miller we thank you for joining us this morning. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service to the nation and for your continued willingness to serve. As our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce any family members that are joining us. As our nation confronts the most diverse and complex array of global crisis, the next commander after more than a decade of war in afghanistan and iraq, our marines have remained in high demand performing a range of services across the globe. Tension gripping
Goods or Something Like that. It is effective but just a different level of intensity. All right well, we have a lot of green cards here to which we were not able to get for which i apologize. But i think that also reflects the level of engagement of our consumers of Health Policy information here. Thank you for spending your beautiful friday afternoon inside a very cool hearing room helping us grapple with one of the most multifacetted set of problems in Health Policy these days. Thanks to anthem and the National Consumer league for helping us think through this topic and assemble a great panel. Speaking of said panel help me thank this panel for some wonderful discussion. [ applause ] well come back to this topic in september. Thanks very much. Tonight ot the communicators, Michael Oreilly on key issues before the fcc like Net Neutrality and regulating the internet and influence on policy making making. When an item is made before an open Commission Meeting and presented to the commi