Fire inching closer to homes in hawaii just hours away from major destruction on the big island. President obama speaking out on ebola. He thinks quarantines could make the outbreak worse. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Nasa is trying to figure out what caused an unmanned commercial rocket to explode just after liftoff. It was loaded with supplies for the International Space station. We have the details. This was a major setback for nasa and the companies it trusts with these critical missions. This morning, nasa is coming out in support of the private Company Responsible for this launch. Seven seconds after liftoff, tuesdays rocket went down in flames. A rocket explosion seen and heard for miles began as a routine flight to delivery supplies to the International Space station through this unhand rocket, but seconds after liftoff, the rocket exploded, debris falling in flames over the launch site in virginia. Onlookers watched in shock. Oh
Island and for the last 20 years have kept you working, but this downturn closed your company or pushed you out, those skills are out of date. Good workers, long work history, they need not only the help to retrain but they certainly need the help to get from day to day to day until they get back into the work force. With that, madam president , let me again commend and thank the sponsors and the authors of this legislation and yield the floor. Mr. Isakson i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Harkin i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. The senator from iowa. Mr. Harkin mr. President , i ask consent that if the final vote on passage is successful the statement of the managers for the Work Force Innovation and opportunity act be printed in the record immediately following the text of the senatepassed bill. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Harki
Leader of an Opposition Party is sentenced to death. And. Engines normal. A flight rocket explodes on the way to the International Space station reporter Kurdish Forces who are battling to hold off i. S. I. L. In the Syrian Border up to of kobane are getting reinforcements. A Kurdish Force has made its way through turkey on its way to the syrian town. The syrian town is across the border from turkey, and used to be home to thousands of people. A fraction of the number is in the city, the majority armed and fighting. Air strikes in kobane are continuing. Support coming from other sources too. 35 Syrian Opposition fighters cross to kobane. Another 35 are waiting to enter. Bernard smith our correspondent adding up the Free Syrian Army fighters, and the peshawar. We talking less than 200 fighters. I imagine its symbolic that we are going there, and its the weaponry that is important. Yes, its the syrian kurds in kobane. What they need is heavy weapons, holding i. S. I. L. Back. Of course t
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Involve hiring a staff of people to do the work and they say that the big banks can do that better. We hope that congress would look at that. There are a number of other things in the regulatory area that are bad. If they carry it further, it will make it dangerous for Community Banks to get any in the game. If congress will look at what the real needs are in the Banking Sector and and perhaps make it a lot easier for Community Banks, we certainly would like to see them thrive. It is not, from what i hear, that they are too big to fail. They are too small to compete with regulators. Take a look at the material the gentleman who asked the question it begins on page 53 or so of the report or its bills of the scale and the hope that this could reach very deeply into institutions. Barry, you had a thought on this question . Barry is with the commission and, it is with the consumer federation. I wanted to make the point that this issue of access and affordability credit is a strong theme in