Will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else. If youre an athlete how do we treat you fairly without turning it all into minorleag
Reporter carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the Nustar Energy facility down the street from their home. Turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. I thought oh, gosh, i hope they dont explode our whole town out. I thought oh, hell. Weve had it now. My dads 81. Hes had three strokes, and he is on oxygen. And it was just a terrible, scary night. Reporter tonight fire crews still have a foam blanket over the explosion site. They want to make sure there is no threat of anything reigniting before they begin removing it. But theyre wasting no time trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on nustar. Reporter contra costa fire says their investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department, cal osha, and the d. A. s office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance. They are all working as one team to investiga
India, a country of more than a billion people is expected today to begin an initiative to clamp down on single use plastic including bags, cups, straws and disposable cutlery by 2022 but at a time when the government is concerned aboutjobs its rumoured the Modi Administration will hold off from introducing an outright ban. India creates almost 26,000 tons of Plastic Waste a day, thats roughly 115 times the same weight as the statue of liberty. And they arent alone. According to the un the world throws away 300 million tons of Plastic Waste each year thats enough to fill 65 million shipping containers. A lot of that ends up in the ocean, with Marine Plastic pollution estimated to costs the world between 500 billion and 2. 5 trillion a year in lost earnings. But even the thought of a proposal to limit plastics in india has already spooked businesses and manufacturers. Suranjana tewari travelled to gorakhpur in northern Uttar Pradesh to speak to some of them. India has one of the Fastest
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A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Today were looking at new research from consumer champion which . Into suspicious five star ratings on the worlds biggest travel website. Tripadvisor say theyre very aggressive in catching fake reviews but the question remains can you trust the Online Reviews of the hotel youre looking to book . Tell us what you think. A bill designed to rule out a no deal brexit without parliamentary approval will today complete its final stages in the house of lords, the Upper Chamber of the British Parliament. The bill will then return to the commons and could become law on monday. Prime minister, boris johnson, hopes that this will be enough to persuade the labour opposition to support his plan for a snap general election. But after suffering setback after setback in the last couple of days, he seems to be on the back foot. Our political correspondent, j