Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
The hail multiple launch rocket systems coped effectively. The accuracy of the rocket launches was helped by Drone Operators. The us considers the situation in the isu incredibly desperate. This the statement was made by the state department. The british building cardian in turn celebrates. The offensive of Russian Troops in the kharkov region proved that the kiev regime is incapable of defending itself. Russia has launched military satellites into lowearth orbit. Harbin today will mark the second day of Vladimir Putins state visit to china. The program, like thursday, is extremely intense. The president s plane landed in the city late the night before, and in the near future the head of state will honor the memory of soviet soldiers who died in battles for liberation of this country. Russia and china, as well as the russianchinese expo. The president is also expected to meet at a high level and communicate with students and teachers of both countries, after which he will sum up the re
Well stay tuned for that. Thanks. New this morning. One person is dead following a car crash in the east bay overnight. Chp officers say it happened just before 11 00 last night on highway 4. One car flipped over on the arnold industrial exit. Authorities say at least one person was killed. An investigation is under way. A south bay woman accused of running over her childhood friend and killing her remains in jail facing murder charges this morning. Meanwhile that victims family and friends h held a special memorial in her honor. More than a dozen custom cars did a pro session for sally munoz who was a big enthusiast in the low rider community. Investigators say munoz and her lifelong friend had been out for a night of drinking on tuesday night in campbell when they got into a fight. They say de la rosa intentionally ran over munoz with her car. She was arraigned in court yesterday. The victims father spoke exclusively with nbc bay area at the arraignment. He says hes kiconflicted beca
To hearing from stake holders at additional hearings throughout the country this fall. I would like to first welcome both of our witnesses, dr. John quinn, chair of the Council Coordination committee, the ccc, and mr. Chris oliver, n. O. A. A. s assistant administrator for fisheries as the nymph administrator. And creating the ccc, the ccc convenes the Regional Fisheries Management Council to discuss areas of common industry and discussing concensus views on the msa reauthorization. Im also pleased to introduce chris oliver, first ever alaskan to permanent hold assista assistant, and working at the Fisheries Management council, last 17 as its executive director, as an alaskan, i can tell you we are thrilled to have you in this very important position. Based on his work in the gulf of mexico at the beginning of his career and extensive experience overseeing the largest and best managed fishery in the country, i have confidence under his leadership alaska and the u. S. Will be well repre
Saturday 23rd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im alongside jenna wolfe. We have precious cargo on this set. We do. We do. Who is the precious cargo. I was like are you pregnant . Yeah. What are you trying to do to me. You have five children . Three, you have two. I have two. Im going to bring up the rear with one. I am expecting my second. Thank you very much. We are not doing that. She is guesting here. She has no idea what shes talking about. Its wonderful news, we are so, so excited. We are going talk more about it later. Coming up, we have been keeping a close eye on a high profile murder case in texas. The man who killed his two sons. Emotions are running high on all sides of the case. Well have the latest. We are going switch gears. Two Small Businesses were weeks away from going out of business. We brought in an