Tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. The lemelson foundation, committed to improving lives through invention in the u. S. And developing countries. Supported by the john d and catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy it has been a long and damaging day along mustve the u. S. Gulf coast with much many flooded homes, plus broken bridges and rain by the bucketfal. Bucketful. Hurricane sally has weakened, but major damage is piling up. Stephanie sy has our rep
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a
the democratic national committee s unity reform commission was created in 2016. it s meeting this weekend for its final session here in the nation s capital. the committee s recommendations will be/ed to update the d.n.c. s rules and bylaws and the committee will consider them for the 2018 election. it looks like it ll be a few minutes to get under way as members make their way to the room. we ll show you some portion of this morning s washington journal , congress this week passing the stopgap spending measure, funding the government through friday, december 22. we talked about that on this morning s washington journal and what s ahead. host: what exactly is in this measure? guest: it s a clean stop gap spending bill. almost nothing in this except keeping the funding going. there s a small technical fix for the children s health insurance program. this is just kicking the can down the road until the 22nd. host: why do this now? guest: they don t have a spending agreem
so powerful was this quake that i felt it 100 miles away in rome. you can see behind me scenes of devastation this ancient town that had withstood the time of centuries now virtually a no-go zone. buildings collapsed. rescue workers are digging through the rubble, trying to get to any people that may have been trapped underneath. one local police official told nbc news that he estimates at least 50 people may have been killed in amatrice alone, those numbers likely to rise as rescue workers try to figure out who is trapped under the rubble, who is dead, who is alive. we ve seen tragic, awful picks in front of us, people s bodies pulled from the ground, take n n stretchers. ambulances were going in and out. local officials have been begging for rescue equipment, blood donations and basic food, medicine, diapers, water, equipment for the residents who have survived the earthquake in order for them to be able to continue with their lives. a lot of people have lost their homes. t
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