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march 2014, doctors without borders said we are overwhelmed. this is obviously in west africa and the context of ebola. we are overwhelmed, this disease is out of control. we need help. end of march 2014. in august, the w.h.o. declared a health emergency. about march, 300 people had died. by august, the disease had become far more widespread. that delay is what a lot of us have focused on and have asked hard questions about why was there that delay? and how do we make sure that doesn t happen again? i do think as a response, w.h.o. has been far quicker. there have actually been some people who said it was too kbik to declare this time. it s not the same disease, it doesn t spread the same way. w.h.o. did it very narrowly. they did it in the context of microcephaly and said this is a public health emergency. i personally don t think they overreacted. i think it s a personally reasonable call, but it doesn t reassure me and i ll tell you why. right now, there s a spotligh ....
say is under the control of extremist groups like isil? isil and daesh control the area in and around sirt. i couldn t give you exact percentage. the other places have transitory effect. would you consider libya at this point a failed state? yes, sir. thank you all very much for your service. thank you, mr. chair, and thank you to the witnesses. i echo the comments about the appreciation for the service. the many times you have been before this committee. general rodriguez, i want to ask a couple of questions touching on each of your expertise about the training we do with foreign militaries and in africa i know the u.s. military is a preferred training partner in many nations seek our assistance. i kind of like to have you talk about the success of those training efforts over the course of your three years in the position and what other nations do significant training of african military? i view this as one of the most cost effective investments that we make. ....
the opportunity to strike a new grand bargain that leverages more efficient donor action to parallel changes and u.n. agency so that collectively we are more strategic and more effective and more efficient and more nimble. we will also have the opportunity and the obligation to grapple head-on with the sharp decline and adherence to basic humanitarian doctrine and the fact that the greatest impediment to reaching people in need in chronic conflicts today is the willful denial of humanitarian access by all parties. second, in september, president obama will host a summit on refugees on the margins of the u.n. general assembly. there s no question that the global refugee crisis putting the host countries to the test and it is also putting people to the test. most refugees face futures without education or jobs or the hope of normalcy, often for a generation. unfortunately, the debate on the global refugee crisis has sparked has been more about rhetoric. some of it hatef ....
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voted unanimously tonight to repeal a vote made last year that would change school start times. wdbj7 s noell live with more details. months parents have been asking the school board to rethink the decision to adjust school start time. tonight this long fight came to an end. a packed room with a lot of voices to be heard dozens of montgomery county parents go before the school board to ask them to keep school start times as they are. (nats) under the new time change, elementary students would start an hour earlier at 8 a.m. and middle and high school students would start at hour school leaders have been doing research to prove that secondary students would be more productive if they had extra time to sleep. i believe that you are pushing one generational problem to one generation to a younger generation that doesn t know any better safety and the well- being of their children was the main concerns at the meeting. just the idea of having three, four, five year olds ....