have gone into the building, have stormed the building. the building is on fire. crocus city hall is on fire. some reports say there s concern that one of the floors could collapse and concern that there are still people trapped inside. so this is very much, as you say, an ongoing situation. the moscow mayor, sergei sobyanin, has called this a terrible tragedy. the russian foreign ministry has called it a bloody terrorist attack. all sporting, cultural events, mass public events have been cancelled in moscow in light of this and security has been stepped up at airports and train stations, places like that. and some reports suggest that possibly at least one of the gunmen may have escaped and is being looked for now by police. again, a chaotic situation, not clear exactly what is happening right now. what is clear is that there are going to be a lot of casualties from this and certainly a shocking incident in moscow tonight. within the last few minutes, it has been announced t
you northeasted a roof, a roof protects a build and can the idea was in russia comes from the mob, everyone was a roof. so he became a roof essentially, and he became a billionaire by worming his way into the kremlin and into yeltsin s family with a capital f who ran russia. a roman is a toy saysmen from siberia, making rubber ducks and children s toys. an orphan, again, jewish from nowhere. has an idea of privatizing the oil industry and creating an oil company. they partner up. just like the facebook story. there s no shares of lawyers but he is the roof and they create the second largest oil company in exchange, roman makes this human payoff. every week they would send over a suitcase of cash, $3,000,005,000,000, whatever he asked for. $100 million one year. and that was their relationship. and that kind of the beginning whenever the story the money gets bigger and bigger, rompan becomes a billionaire, and then yeltsin starts to fade. starting to die and with this time s
i m so thrilled to see all of you here in centennial hall. also i d like to welcome all of the people in the overflow area which is in the back of the second floor. and if any of you get tired of standing, there are seats still available there. actually, i am just absolutely thrilled that dale russakoff chose the newark public library to launch her brand new book, her much-anticipated, her absolutely fascinating, brand new book, the prize, with the subtitle, who s in charge of america s schools. this is the very first event that she will be doing. she ll be doing a series of programs and interviews as she travels across the country to introduce her book to the public, so we are really honored to be the first. and we re also honored to be the venue where an extremely important community conversation will be taking place tonight. after all, a critical role of libraries as you know is to invite community members to engage in discussions of important issues to that com
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addressed in a deal, it certainly went part way, but leaves a number of issues still on the table. would you care to raise that as an additional fiscal cliff that is facing us? would you think that it s not as concerning as it was when you raise that term initially? as i said the fiscal cliff, if it is allowed to take place, it probably would have traded a recession this year. a good bit of that has been addressed. nevertheless, we still have fairly restrictive fiscal policies now. it is estimated that federal fiscal policy will we have quite a bit to do to address the their long-term sustainability issues. there s a lot more work to do. let me be very clear about that. it s going to be a long haul and it s not going to happen overnigh3 it s going to be a long haul and it s not going to happen overnight. we because the government budget represents the values and priorities of the public and the decisions being made about what to spend and tax and someone, they are very diff