Cairncross whos the ceo and president of the millennium challenge corporation. After a long wait, we have a fully installed that something of applause. Why do we give our friend a round of applause. [applause] congratulations. I think you get the prize for sort of saintly patience and diplomacy, and i think really, really glad you were in this job. I think its really important that Government Agencies have Senate Confirmed leaders so its really important you have, youve you been entrusted with this role. So i wanted to give you a chance to share some of your reviews with our friends here about how you see the future of the mcc. But before we do that, maybe not to just give this group, i think everyone probably in this audience if theyre here in mid august knows all about the mcc, but maybe just so were all on the same page if you might just do sort of the mcc 101 from your perspective. What is the mcc . How does it work . Then i have a couple of softball question for you we can take fr
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Democratic party who says right now 200 people signed up to be poll observers which is normal for the democratic party. Live in phoenix. Cbs5 news. Thank you. And breaking news just coming into the news room. We have just confirmed the dee i steals feel of first Lady Michelle obamas visit to the valley. We are told she will be at Phoenix Convention center. Doors open at 11 30 again this information just comiin story coming up for you at 6 30. With less than a month to go until the election, 36 states are now asking the federal government for help with Voting System cyber security. 20 states including arizona have reported attempted hacks surrounding state election systems. Here there have been more than 190 thousand hacking attempts just in the last month. She has an Old Fashioned solution to prevent hacking. So this is not in any way connected to the internet. No, no, no we use paper ballots so even on touch screen machine, you have a tape of everything that happens on that machine so
Philippines. We are following breaking news coming out of wisconsin. There are reports tha that a Childrens Hospital there is in lockdown. Its in the city of wauwatosa. It follows the shooting and when we get more details well bring those to you. This are stunning numbers coming out of the philippines. 4460 people dead. Those numbers are just coming in. The Philippine Government is saying the death toll is lower 4357. Well have more on the death toll of typhoon haiyan in a moment. If you like your plan you can keep your plan. President obama is admitting the white house fumbledded the ball twice. But the president said the game is not yet over. Mike viqueira is standing by at the white house. A contrite president it seems with a solution to those that their Insurance Companies have dropped their plans. The president came out and faced the music. He was retenant. Last week in a oneonone interview he apologized and today he came out before the full National Press corps and said this is o