i would like to mention sequestration on the budgetary cuts and the national park service and the national bureaus. sequestration was designed to be flexibility and discriminate. it is defering important work. to conclude, the national park service will continue to pursue knew and creative ways to address its funding needs. i want to thank our many partners who are here who have come to us with ideas and i appreciate the support of congress to resolve this extraordinary challenge. thank you. >> director jarvis, thanks very much. because of the number of senators here, i'll ask one question to get us started and recognize our colleagues. director jarvis, for decades, the park service has recommended expanding the oregon caves national monument. and one of the primary reasons has been because the existing site is not large enough to protect the site, given the volume of visitors. so in the case of oregon caves, not expanding the site could actually increase the cost of maintaining a very unique resource. my point is that the park acquisition and maintenance costs are not always in conflict,

the creation of the national park which was a national monument that we expanded it to a national park helps the ranching economy in the valley because their water supplies were threatened and it's an example of how lwcf was creatively focused on protecting the way of life and using the marvelous natural landscapes. on a case-by-case basis i still think lwcf has a very important role when it comes to land acquisition. one other comment, a lot of the maintenance needs our buildings roads bridges and water systems and the purchase of additional land sometimes better in holdings to make the national park complete to land land trades in the lake is relatively inexpensive and makes a management job of people like director jarvis easy. so i have a disagreement as to the utility of lwcf when it comes to land acquisition in situations where it's merited. >> but you wouldn't deny the fact that if we don't start catching up this is going to go into an elliptical curve in terms of the cost. but i would make the point for example we have had her recent purchase at the grand teton national park and

the head of the national transportation safety board, deborah hersman, said the jet was going too slowly to land. it was going about 190 kilometers per hour just before making contact with the ground. the target speed for landing is about 250 kilometers per hour. she said the pilots were trying to pick up speed to make another attempt at landing. a u.s. television network aired footage of passengers escaping from the wreckage of the airliner. the footage shows people using two escape chutes on the left side of the aircraft. black smoke is pouring from the fuselage as they flee. the cabin attendant said it seemed like the plane was trying to climb at the moment of impact. >> translator: it felt like we were taking off again when there was a huge crash. then i felt another jolt and the plane swayed strongly from the left to the right. >> she said a fire broke out as the crew was trying to evacuate the passengers and that she escaped after making sure everyone else was off the plane. investigators in eastern canada are getting a closer look at parts of a town where a runaway train exploded.

the nation, 95% of the people were farmers. they really minded their own business, tended their farms, and tried to feed their own families. they were less concerned. the element of the public that was most concerned were the people in the handful of cities, five or six cities along the coast, the bankers, of course, concerned, and these were the concerned people of america, but it was a tiny minority. >> so, all that said, did george washington poisen the relationship with congress for the next several years because of this action? >> no. it was not that he poisenned the atmosphere. i said in the book, "mr. president," he really seized the powers, and by the time congress got back into session, this was -- they tried to fight him, but the public was so behind washington, he was george washington, and no one in congress could afford to have him quit. he was the only man, you know, jefferson said north and south are ready to fight each other, but if they have you to hang on speaking to the president of washington, they'll stay t

national priority policy of the national priority policy is meant to give priority to french nationals of the same skill to tax us positions and came housing in france this is what i call a small deterrent this is a pain from the moment immigrants have no further interest in coming to france then they'll stop coming if they. see me gratian is also a huge issue in russia we talk about all the time when we say we have to have more restrictions they can here's a question who would work in places at very low salaries that russians would never want to work at same thing in france no less. yes i understand perfectly because it's a measure that we've been using since the one nine hundred seventy s. but that was imposed by big companies and keep the real question is why is there no one willing to work in these places is it because they're underpaid and given. the difficulty of these jobs their salary should be higher than those that are given today kids mostly due to the decline of the west where intellectuals have been encouraged more than laborers and working with their hands is seen as some

back to "face the nation." we're joined in studio by dan stein, president of the american -- federation for american immigration reform and janet murguia, the president and c.e.o. of the national council of la raza, she joins us from kansas city. janet, let me start with you. what is the best thing about the senate-passed bill that you think republicans in the house ought to know but don't know. >> pelley: >> well, i think t best thing about the senate-passed bill is that it tries to address the issue of immigration reform in a comprehensive way and that there are real answers for this problem in this bill. we want them to know that there is a path to legalization and citizenship that is a tough and narrow one that allows for criminal background checks, that allows for folks to go to the back of the line and that we make sure we are doing everything from a security standpoint to create a strong immigration reform system and for us i think that's really important. it's clear that there has been a lot of concern

the national leelg starter is matt harvey of the mets. since harvey is in his first full season, jimmy fallon sent harvey out himself to talk about, well, matt harvey. >> do you think anything about matt harvey? >> who is matt harvey? >> who is your favorite player? >> oh, dude, harvey, man. >> really? >> i like him. he's a good pitcher. kind of saw him naked on the issue -- >> is this the one you're talking about? >> oh, that's him. that's you. >> that's me. >> that's me. >> an uncomfortable watch there. a big fan favorite, the celebrity softball game, it brought out some entertainment stares and baseball great like former yankee barney williams who smacked a home run. mike tiatta blasted a homer in the bottom of the first inning. then tv star kevin james hit a shot down the third baseline. the kick of queens rounded first and decide to go for the double. he thwarted on and made an impressive head-first dive into the bag beating the throw and he is safe, everybody. good job to him. i didn't know he could play. >> that's great. he's funny

and the national football league said no to promoting obama care. now the white house is enlisting a new group of people to push the president's landmark health care law. is it in trouble? >>> thousands of libraries across the country suddenly morphing into recruiting centers for the obama administration. it is the next big phase of taxpayer funded health care. fox report. why an army of librarians is on the public front line of this regulation rollout. >>> also, chopper down. >> came in fast and low and smacked right into the water. >> in the same river where the world witnessed the miracle on the hudson, this time a sight-seeing helicopter hits the water. in minutes, the emergency that left no other option. >>> and freedom isn't free. neither are fireworks displays, where some joufourth of july celebrations will not go off, thanks to belt tightening. >>> first from fox, a key american partner in the middle east is experiencing anxiety as people are massing in the streets, carrying a message for the president of egypt. i am harris faulkner. tension

and secede from the nation. and then within a year of that, rand paul had him on staff on the payroll writing rand paul's book. and now that rand paul is getting asked about it, senator paul says the whole secessionist neoconfederacy thing was a youthful indiscretion which this 39-year-old put down months before rand paul hired him. that's apparently all you have to say. that's how rand paul is explaining that he's keeping this guy on with him. salary paid by the taxpayers. as he heads to purple state nevada this weekend to attend one of two conservative movement and republican party vegas events this weekend spotlighting the most ambitious republican federal officeholders in the nation alongside the nation's leading proponents of the theory that our country's first black president could not possibly be american, he must be secretly foreign, his presidency is illegitimate and it's a giant conspiracy. when republicans talk to each other about how to spend their time, especially in states like nevada where electio

nations that own and then and the banks that own the nation more or less determined policy. we are and need of new actors politically that can act democratically across borders and have an impact on the interdependent problems we face, and it's fair that i come to the idea that various in the oldest and a regional political the institution possible potential for a new 21st century interdependent world, namely the city, the town, the entities we first form whenever a free early culture people come together on trade or creativity were living together. of the neighborhoods in which we gather. but the ancient perales which is where we started could conceivably today act as an alternative actor, an alternative agent in the modern world and the great beauty and the great irony and poignancy of that is that this closes the great circle because the western civilization, civilizations everywhere started in towns and townships, trading posts and cities but by the end of the ancient world and time of the middle ages it was clear that those cities were too small in scale, too limited in

nation is the future. it is fitting that on this event of the 50th anniversary of this fine institution we're joined by some of the most distinguished members of our profession, including director clapper and our former international security assistance force and u.s. forces in afghanistan commander general john allen, a graduate of the class of 1984, and i would like to give them both a round of applause. it is an honor to introduce our commencement speaker, the honorable james clapper, the fourth director of national intelligence. he has a long track record of support for intelligence education and is a special friend to this university, as has been highlighted. as both director of dia and the national spatial intelligence agency as well as the undersecretary of defense and now serving as the fourth director of national intelligence, there's no one that has served our nation and continues to serve our nation during so many trying times that director clapper has done. from his first serving our nation as

the jury blame the existing law although president obama called for the nation not to politicize the conflict but his opponents as well as his supporters have done exactly that and from just the black and white issue it is now left and right in through democrats versus republicans and it is once again divided and. that was our teams going. well what animal has no natural predators and is currently in the process of throwing an entire ecosystem into chaos i'm not talking about humans of course but the line of fish is an invasive species that crowds coral reefs and preys on the native fish there this intimidating looking creature has venomous spines and has already wreaked havoc along the atlanta and no one seems to know where they got how they got here they are native to the warm tropical waters of the. c.n.n. south pacific oceans nearly ten thousand miles away from the florida shore experts say that hurricane andrew could have brought them to the shores now the fishing industry is threatened as a result of all of this there is they these fish are such a huge a threat to that marine s

the former washington nationals is known for his craftiness, not power but the two time the nats have faced him, they have been mesmerized by his soft serve. last night it was boring to watch. check it out. at one point you remember lannan. he was the ace of the nats staff a couple of years ago. last night a grounder. grounder, groundout, groundout. he didn't overpower anybody but recorded 12 ground ball outs in this snore fest. davey not happy with the way his current team treated its former team participate. -- former teammate. >> actually you know him so well, you kind of know how he goes after hitters. some of the guys should have had a little better approach. i thought. but i just tip my hat to him. he pitched a good ballgame. >> as a coach of the greatest world team tennis team that's ever played, it's a dream come true. i can't believe i'm in charleston with a 15-0 world team tennis team. billy jean king is in the crowd. i'm about to wet my pants. this is unbelievable. >> this is unbelievable. i can't believe this. this episode brought you to by depends. that was the one and on

calvert: the afghan national forces are the major component of the afghan national security forces and made significant strides toward becoming an independent and effective force in afghanistan. the only path forward to getting out of afghanistan is to make sure that we have effective army, special force, that can do the necessary work to make sure that the fragile afghan governance that is there survives. the purpose of this amendment is not to limit the afghan special forces but to further restrict the use of the helicopter employed to support its mission. the development of the afghan army special operations is a component of the overall strategy to transition to afghan security. in other words, if we want to get out of there by 2014, 2015, the afghan air force must succeed. and it has a history, whether we look it with the mi-17. it is more efficient to expand its fleet, build on their existing knowledge of maintaining that fleet and -- than to completely shift to a different aircraft. and additionally, u.s. helicopters are more technologically advanced. they are a better helicopte

changing about the dynamic of the nation. but the important thing is, we are at the beginning of this transformation. and we've got to seize the moment. >> david and i come from cities where this has already happened, miami and los angeles. where it was blacks and whites. it's a complicated conversation. >> let me get a break in here. we will do that. we'll come back with more including a tribute to the pioneering journalist helen thomas who died yesterday at the pioneering journalist helen thomai like a clean kitchen. the i don't do any cleaning. i make dirt. ♪ i'm not big enough or strong enough for this. there should be some way to make it easier. [ doorbell rings ] [ morty ] here's a box, babe. open it up. oh my goodness! what is a wetjet? some kind of a mopping device. there's a lot of dirt on here. morty, look at how easy it is. it's almost like dancing. [ both humming ] this is called the swiffer dance. woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of w

bomb in the name of national security check out the star at out of. moscow sounds of russia's security agencies and talks with the f.b.i. over the fate of whistleblower edward snowden but a crime and spokesman has once again reiterated that the n.s.a. contractor will not be extradited to the u.s. snowden is seeking asylum in russia and waiting for the paperwork to allow him to leave the transit of a moscow airport has been stranded there for more than a month the government of washington which is battling for his extradition says the leaker won't be tortured or given the death penalty it handed over to the u.s. where he faces a spanish charges that lawmakers there are pushing for a trade or other sanctions to be imposed against any country that grant him asylum russian authorities haven't decided also as request yet but three latin american countries already said they would shelter him make around here is among them and its president explicitly told r.t. why snowden would be welcome that. i think the threats coming from the us work against them it's r

want the biggest banks in the nation to meet tighter requirements, but will the new rules make them safer? >>> but first a look at some of the stocks hitting all-time highs today. >>> grease is the word, the struggling greek government is close to reaching a deal with lenders to get the next big bailout payment by monday. but first, the finance administration will decide if they made enough public sector job cuts to receive another loan of more than $3 billion. >>> while the international fund helps grease rebound it doesn't have good news for the global economy today. the imf cut the global growth outlook for this year and next. hampton pearson has the details. >> reporter: top e conn miconom predicting smaller global growth this year and next. china is leading the way among developing countries seeing a slowdown in economic growth. >> this means that the focus of policies would increasingly need to turn to boosting potential out ward growth in the case of china to achieving a more sustainable and balanced growth. >> reporter: the imf forecasts global growth from 3.1% and 3. % is t

mixed feelings between the syrian national coalition and the u.n. security council to the rebel group for weapons with us. from a studio in moscow to this is. a day so these are live pictures from egypt thousands of egyptians are out on the streets throughout the country and in qatar where these pictures are coming from for and against the ousted president mohamed morsy two people were killed as demonstrators clashed in alexandria and a bridge has been. dozens of injuries have been reported true from egypt's capital. now we have had clashes here in the capital in an area called supra which the peak moment is where from where i'm standing here what happened was why evil marches accidentally cross and angry citizens and up during rocks at each other people still had a lot of violence outside the capital in the nile delta government dummy access and we saw again why the protest because fighting inefficiencies that comes to city of alexandria where they support his opponents all found to be to mohamed morsi supporters in the main running points you see

and indeed the s.n.c. the syrian national coalition. well i think we'll see significant international divisions primarily because the united states and the united kingdom france other western nations have really made clear that they will only accept the fall of the side and despite the fact that they continually try to say that they're for peace negotiations it seems at every turn whether it's sending arms to the rebels whether it's in them quote unquote non-lethal aid money in general supporting the gulf countries that are also supporting them that really all of the talk about peace is disingenuous and unlike russia and other countries they seem very. determined to push forward the syrian rebels as the new leadership of the country regardless of the situation on the ground and talk of peace is pretty unlikely isn't it until those issues of chemical weapons and terrorist activities put to rest because still a lot of discussion over those aspects of what's happening there in syria i think that's one hundred percent correct i mean when th

and signed the national community act. by washington standards, a modest law, involved money, and president bush signed it with little fanfare, but looking back, it sparked a national movement by laying the ground work for the corporation for national and community service and americorp and seniorcorp giving millions of americans the opportunity to serve. thanks to those programs and others like them and to the passion of the leaders like president bush and citizens who found that passion over the years, volunteerism went from something some people do some of the time to something a lot of people do as a regular part of their lives. since 1989, the number of americans who volunteer has grown by more than 25 million. service is up across age groups and regions. it's now a graduation requirement in many high schools and colleges. it's embedded in the culture of businesses, large and small. speaking from my family, volunteering brought joy and meaning to michelle, me, and our daughters over the years, and i know that's the ca

the third victim of the crash. she was a chinese national. two other girls were pronounced dead the day of the crash. the survivors of the crash have returned home. 31 students and teachers from a middle school in east china province were reunited with family and friends today. they traveled to u.s. on the ill fated flight to attend a summer camp. the plane crashed in san francisco killing three people and injuring dozens more. the investigation on how the plane crashed is still underway. when the crash finally goes to court, the potential payouts will probably be very different. a treaty governs compensation for people outside of the country. they have smaller payouts. >>> the swedish team hope to be back in the water soon. art misracing was out of the competition of an accident in may that killed the crew member bart simpson. racing officials says the team will join next weekend. artemis is going to race against the italian team. >>> texas governor rick perry is going to sign in a controversial abortion bill. it was passed late friday. the

the creation of the national park which was a national monument that we expanded it to a national park help the ranching economy and the ballot because their water supplies were threatened and it's an example of how lwfc was creatively focused on protecting the way of life and these marvelous natural landscapes. i think on a case-by-case basis i still think lwfc -- a lot of the maintenance needs or buildings roads and bridges and water systems and the purchase of additional land sometimes to make a national park complete and the like is relatively inexpensive and makes a management job of people like direct reserves easier so i may have a disagreement as to the utility in situations where it is warranted. see you wouldn't deny the fact that if we don't start catching up this is going to go into an elliptical curve in terms of the cost. but i would make a point for example we have had a recent purchase of the grand teton national park and the planned purchase but plus the purchase was made although maybe totally proper the amount of money paid for that small expansion would cut the back

now the all-time series 43-39-2. the national league on top. and a nice moment between mariano rivera, who used to be a setup man. tonight he was the setup man for joe nathan. >> tim: you can hear joe nathan telling his grandchildren, oh, yeah, e took mariano off the hook. >> joe: and he gave him the baseball from the save tonight. with that, a 3-0 win for the american league. we go down in the field and ken rosenthal. >> ken: it was mariano's night. how badly did you want to win it for him? >> that was the plan. we had a meeting earlier before the game. we went out to and tried to give it our all just for him. they have a lot of great pitching on the national league side. we hung in there. got three runs off the pitching. mariano came in. it was a great moment. one of the best pitchers to ever play this game. i'm honored to play behind him in center field and it was a great night. >> ken: reswe saw highlights ofe pregame speech. what was the theme? >> trying to pump the guys up. let them know that some of you guys might not make it back here.

the discussion is already changing about the dynamic of the nation. but the important thing is, we're at the beginning of this transformation. and we've got to seize the moment. >> we come from cities where this has already happened. mine in los angeles. >> absolutely. >> where it was blacks and whites now hispanics and whites. it's a complicated conversation. >>> we'll take a break and come back with more, including a tribute to the pioneering journalist helen thomas who died yesterday at the age of 92. er. would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fifty thousand dollars. congratulations you are our one millionth customer. nobody likes to miss out. that's why ally treats all their customers the same. whether you're the first or the millionth. if your bank doesn't think you're special anymore, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. peoi go to angie's listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can

a community, and a nation. >>> in the wake of the verdict, the strong passions the case had elicited could be running even higher, and that it was important to remember that we are a nation of laws and a jury had had spoken. the president also wanted to ask every american to heed the call for calm reflection from trayvon martin's parents. a rather remarkable request, given how much they have suffered. >>> george zimmerman's lawyers contend -- justice was done. >> i understand people's frustration, but it would seem to be that trayvon martin overreacted to what he perceived to be something going on and he overreacted in a violent way. >>> but is zimmerman out of the woods? this hour three congressman pressing the justice department to pursue a civil rights case against zimmerman. attorney general eric holder says the investigation will continue. >>> the nuclear options. senate majority leader harry reid calls a bipartisan caucus tonight on his proposal to change the senate rules and block routine fiphi filibusters. >> during the four years that president obama has been president, he's

the diplomats did not want the united nations to be within the influential round of the national capital. philadelphians never thought of themselves as being close to washington d.c.. we still don't, right? but they didn't take it very well when they got this news from the united nations. this says hello mom, we was robbed and here is our colonial figure in philadelphia again being unfairly treated or so they thought by the united nations. i have to tell you that all was not lost. it was not lost and i'm going to go back to the map for a moment in order to explain this because as the diplomats looked for sites, they went to the sites where the numbers are here, they did find a place that they like but of all the hundreds of communities that wanted to become the capital of the world they chose one of the few locations in the nation that wanted to have nothing to do with it. they chose initially a site in fairfield county connecticut involving parts of greenwich and parts of stanford. nobody asked the people of greenwich. the united nations encounter so much resistance in the suburbs north

two years since the national constitution center we started with the money. the elections the next elections there is no specific date set for centuries so people have been already frustrated and that is mentioned the economy and the people inside. middle east risk strategist and a boy told us that brahmins murder will create huge problems for the ruling party no matter who is the black this is a very sensitive issue as you know last time we saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets we saw strikes across multiple sectors. we have been identifying such a political assassination as a potential trigger for that kind of thing to happen again the problem is that no matter how much the party leadership try to rein in their supporters there's a very deep underlying political divide here between the secularists and the islamists within two days here this is really all about determining the nature of what to visit is going to look like socially as well as politically following the uprising in the revolution so it's a very contested area that is likely to

national priority policy of the national priority policy is meant to give priority to french nationals of the same skill to tax us positions in obtain housing in france and this is what i call a small deterrent says could have been from the moment immigrants have no further interest in coming to france then they'll stop coming if. any question is also a huge issue in russia we talk about all the time when we say we have to have more restrictions and there's the question who would work in places at very low salaries that russians would never want to work at same thing in france no less. yes i understand perfectly because it's a measure that we have been using since the one nine hundred seventy s. but that was imposed by big companies and keep the real question is why is there no one willing to work in these places is it because they're underpaid and given the difficulty of these jobs their salary should be higher than those that are given today kids mostly due to the decline of the west where intellectuals have been encouraged more than laborers and working with their hands is seen as s

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and, on the eve of america's birthday, the nation welcomes its newest citizen. when the "cbs evening news" continues. >> glor: in a sanford, florida, courtroom today, jurors got a look at the hoodie worn by trayvon martin the night he was shot and killed by george zimmerman. zimmerman is on trial for murder. a prosecution expert testified today that martin's d.n.a. was not found on the grip of zimmerman's gun, which could help refute zimmerman's claim that he acted in self-defense. zimmerman's gun is a nine- millimeter that carries eight rounds. much of the gun control debate in america has focused on weapons with larger capacity magazines, like the one used in the aurora mass shooting. that shooting led to new rules in colorado. magazines can't carry more than 15 rounds. also, background checks have expanded to include all online purchases and private sales. barry peterson in colorado says that new law has led to new controversies. >> reporter: at the firing line gun shop in aurora, magazines carrying more 15 rounds were packed away, but manager richard taylor

years after the end of the iraq war the nation still carries scars from that time one of those wounds is the increase in iraq even birth defects and cancer cases a report on the toxic legacy left behind and thanks to goldman sachs the cost of aluminum is going off the investment group is hoarding piles of the commodity we'll tell you how that works later on today show. it's monday july twenty second find the on the washington d.c. i'm not going lopez and you are watching r t well in the weeks since the world has learned about the precedents its scale of surveillance programs that the national security agency has engaged in over the years we've heard the public outcry and we have seen n.s.a. officials scramble to justify or to clarify these programs national security they cried an absolute must to prevent future nine eleventh's they said and lawmakers for the most part have sat on the sidelines and agree to all of these claims with a few notable exceptions like congressman jim just an amish of michigan and rush holt of new jersey were guard lists none of the criticism has seemed to slo

program in the name of national security check out the story at r.t. dot com. says that russia security agencies in talks with the ever be i over the fate of whistleblower edward snowden but a crime a spokesman has once again reiterated that the n.s.a. contractor will not be extradited to take us snowden is seeking asylum in russia and waiting for their paperwork to allow him to leave transit zone of the moscow airport has been stranded there for more than a month while in washington lawmakers are pushing for a trade or other sanctions to be imposed against any country that grants him asylum russian authorities haven't decided on snowden's request yet but three last american countries already said they would shelter him nicaragua is among them and this president exclusively told r.t. why snowden would be welcome that. i think the threats coming from the us work against them it's ridiculous when a power like the united states threatening a young man who's had enough courage to tell the truth about something with it went against his principles or a man w

the only place you can buy as the national flood insurance plan. that is not completely controlled by the government. they will have private brokers who will help them to sell it, but the insurer is the national flood insurance when within fema. the way we've got to work with insurance companies, it has been the business insurances and homeowners, and homeowners pay very little on this because every homeowners plan that i know, there is a flood exclusion. it is predominate -- it predominately fell on the national flood insurance plan. that is why the real sandy relief package is about $50 billion, because $10 billion of the $60 billion went to the national flood insurance land, it should been underfunded by congress and the administration. we have worked with an fip -- n fip. it is challenging. sometimes it seems they are more concerned about an oig audit than the people that are buying insurance from them. we have worked with the administration to help keep pressure on them. they are the only game in town. >> i think it is really interesting -- th

it's a wake-up call for the nation. take care of your infrastructure before you have the kind of problem we had. biedrzycki: by no stretch of the imagination do i think we're out of the woods. recent cdc statistics indicate that up to 32 million cases of waterborne disease occur each year in this country. roy: but the vast majority of waterborne outbreaks go undetected. when people first get ill, they think, "oh, it's something i ate last night." they don't think, "oh, it's something i drank last night." narrator: the milwaukee incident pointed out the potential vulnerability of our drinking water infrastructure in controlling the spread of illness. biedrzycki: it's incumbent upon us to try to stay ahead of the curve, but it's very, very difficult. there's always another bug on the horizon. narrator: in 2008, the associated press reported that water quality testing across the nation uncovered trace amounts of pharmaceutical compounds in the drinking water supplies of millions of americans. the health effects of these lo

of the seniorone 2007rs since the time in when the national organizing director said the national labor board should be closed until the new board could be accounted by the president and they said it was time to shut the board down and close it for renovation. you testified for hall recalled the card check legislation. you had been a prominent and effective advocate. you also wrote an article in the afl-cio committee newsletter referring to the union as our movement. you have made some statements to reassure employers of your .mpartiality you have moved from position of advocate, fiercely with labor, to any partial -- how can you assure employers that when they come before the board of you are on it, they will do that. >> it reminded me that when i as a fill thenlrb -- feel the journey into private practice, clients assigned our case would say sometimes -- how do i know you will be an advocate for me, you just came national labor relations board. i appreciate the two different roles of advocates and neutral are binge -- neutral harbingers. i believe i want them all to come before the bo

by the united nations by our involvement with the united nations. our ambassadors there have been citizens with american interests at their top priority. , notlobal governance multinational norms. ambassadors are patrick, morning -- ambassadors kirkpatrick and moynahan are american citizens, patriots with those american interests as their top pro worries. this is what samantha power, who is certainly well described as a global is, is unsuitable as an american ambassador to the united nations. there is a big house. she is also almost unenthusiastic for the deployment of troops to trouble in what she terms as humanitarian crises that are completely, they have been completely devoid of any connection to american security interest. if samantha power goes to the united nations of our permanent representative, we will see an increase in aggressive employment of american troops around the world to places that have no relation to american interest. i think this is dangerous, and that is why i oppose her nomination as well. >> diana, thank you. this perspect

and the goals of the national labor relations act. if i am given the opportunity to serve as a board member, i think that my decades of practice as a labor lawyer am a both within and before the agency, will serve me well. i would also be helped in the perspective gained from my 20 years as a co-owner of a small business. with my partners, i had to deal with the challenges of making payroll, paying the rent, providing health insurance for employees, and staying competitive in our market. i have had to discharge employees and i know that it is always difficult and never taken lightly. i believe that these experiences will help me to see all sides of the workplace disputes that come before the board. agent, i i was a board once heard another employee ro- -- pro-act, dedicated to advancing the policies and purposes of the national labor relations act without regard to the identities or alignments of the parties. as anas always struck me apt term of praise for an employee of the board. itt is what i will aspire to i am confirmed as a memb

in the nation. what will the senate do? manuel bojorquez is in austin for us tonight. >> reporter: hundreds on both sides of the abortion argument crowded the state capital as the senate opened a final debate. the new bill would ban most abortions after 20 weeks. abortions would have to be performed in hospital-style surgical rooms. es adoctors would needed a admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. opponents say the measures are unnecessary and the costs would force most of the state's clinics to close. representative jodie laubenberg sponsored the bill. so when people say you want to lestrict access to abortions, you say? >> i say no. i'm not restricting any access to abortions. part ly part of the bill where ream actually stopping the abortion is the five-month ban. that's the only part. and i do feel very strongly about that. he oeporter: there are exceptions for the life of the mother and severe fetal abnormalities. but sara davis, the sole republican representative who voted against the bill,

mixed feelings after a meeting between the syrian national coalition and the u.n. security council a day to beat rebel group bargaining for weapons with the us. live from studio center in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day. these live pictures from cairo tens of thousands of egyptians are out on the streets there and throughout the country in rival rallies for and against the else did president mohamed morsy two people were killed as demonstrators clashed in alexandria and in a bridge has been set on fire dozens of injuries have been reported has more now from egypt's capital. now we have had clashes here in the capital in an area called supra which the peak moment is where from where i'm standing here what happened was why evil marches accidentally cross and angry citizens and up during rocks at each other we've also had a lot of violence outside the capital in the nile delta government dummy after we saw again why the protest be spiking inefficiencies that comes to the city of alexandria where they support his opponents all founds leader mohamed

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is brodeur recall the national good or a national purpose especially in times of crisis. the economic crisis if the country is attacked it is important to rally behind the country to gather together to make the sacrifices we have seen this starkly as recently as world war ii for example, and in order for people to make those sacrifices, they have to value the national good and the sense called patriotism and dedication and patriotism is not in favor at the current time its educational circles there are few efforts to promote a sense of love for the country. >>host: is teaching civics gone? >>guest: it is not gone but marginalize. for those to make policy and national leaders in the department of education, the business community all of these people in a well intentioned way are promoting the goals of success and the sense of confidence of the stem subjects so our students can compete with people from other countries. that is fine of academic excellence -- excellence but people look for a system of testing students with the student a and the teacher that it has monopolized

the care with which the drc government has implemented the national follow-up mechanism as well as national meetings planned for, all of these initiatives bode well regionally speaking. mobilization continues with the authorities of great lakes countries as well as the south african development community. all of these efforts bear witness to the shared desire to halt instability and dedicate resources as well as energy to development and integration. the forthcoming summit of the international conference on the great lakes region on 31, july, in nairobi will be dedicated to matters of peace and security as well as follow up on the implementation of the framework agreement and should be an opportunity to address all expectations and undertake necessary activities for the full, for fully drawing upon the potential of the region. the current security council meeting in the weak of the -- in the wake of the inaugural meeting of the 11+4 mechanism presided by the secretary general of the united nations and the president of the a.u. mission on 26, may, aptly symbolizes a qualitatively new stage a

it's the accountable verse the nation's security. as someone who voted for the bill, do you feel that the country is that much more secure sips 9/11 that such a program like this practice also is no longer necessary? >> i'm leaning in that direction. i don't think there's any doubt that we're more secure than before 9/11 we've had the time squares, the bomber at christmas. we've reported on these stories, plus the 60-plus that we don't know about. >>> i would rather rebuild the program with sufficient accountability. my colleague steve cohen has a bill introduced to actually change the way members of the fisa court are appointed. right now the chief justice appoints every one of them. that's another way to get some congressional accountability. this vote saw unlikely groups coming together. conservatives working with liberals. in fact, you voted with many conservatives, but against mine nor leader nancy pelosi. why is it these opposing factions can come together on an issue like this, but we cannot reach any kind of agreement on, for

also to the muslim brotherhood of egypt the nation to rise up against the military following the ousting of the president and monday's deadly clashes in cairo this is the interim leader reveals a transition time for a new government. and a muslim brotherhood rally is underway currently in full swing outside of cairo where thousands of show of support for morsi who they call the country's legitimate leader still be in fact all the latest pictures live from nasa city looking out there. and also this hour as activists voiced their outrage over the force feeding of guantanamo bay hunger strikers during the holy month of ramadan a popular american rapper finds out first time just how painful this procedure could be. if you just joined us this is r.t. international it's kevin owen here with very good to have you company edward snowden's plea for political asylum looking precisely promising to save me a fugitive u.s. intelligence leaker now has three latin american countries venezuela the correct bolivia all willing to work willing to offer refuge to him from prosecution in his homeland but whi

president, the senate is poised to consider nominations of the national labor national labor relations board. this board is an important safeguard for workers in america regardless of whether their employees are union or nonunion. without the work of the nlrb employees would have no entity to address the wrongs. union elections would remain to employers and employees. i'm glad the senate is moving forward as agreed to confirm five nominees to the nlrb, two republicans and three democrats. the senate will consider three democratic nominees and two republican nominees today. once confirmed the nlrb will have five senate confirmed nominees for the first time in a decade. they are eminently qualified. mark pearce served on the national labor relations board for three years. he was the founding partner of a buffalo, new york, law firm where he practiced employment law. he received his bachelor's degree from cornell and. mr. law degree from suny, buffalo. kent hirozawa worked on state and labor employment law. he has a bachelor's degree from yale and law degree from n.y.u. nancy shiffer has

lou: but the change of the national dialogue and the administration of which had been leading up to the summit in the california with the president of china with the chinese then along comes edward snowden with the leaks, of the zero summit is literally blown off the front pages of the world and suddenly about u.s. surveillance. here we are at this point, in the middle of july ian still there is little public focus on the cyberattacks of china that continue unabated and the focus remains on u.s. surveillance. when will we see a shift? to have the capacity to restore the dialogue that we embarked upon one month ago? >> with a defensive mode rehab left up to keith alexander the director of the national security agencyion to be the spokesperson for the administration has ae policy issue and they shed be discussing why it is necessary in the people'seopl interest to remind them in that dialogue of the threat we have hadea from china thatfrm is prolific andry extraordinary in terms of their reach inside this country. we do not collect on china's technology but intelligence that is of a value

the nation of a prominent opposition leader the second such case this year. our brave young men and women to fight against al-qaeda in some countries and with al-qaeda in other countries us out of the idea of syrian rebels calling it siding with terrorists as the syrian national council plans to weapons shipments during its visit. from a studio center in moscow this is with the twenty four hour a day. so the show must go on and that's the message from american lawmakers who have allowed the national security agency to continue spying both at home and abroad a motion to curb its activities was blocked in the house of representatives by a narrow margin of only twelve votes if a clue bob from listening to the environment made by us for a vote is exposed a major split between both the republicans and democrats let's go live now to new york. katherine. katherine. and i say it's going to be allowed to carry on spying did that decision from congress come as a surprise to you. we were really hoping that they would do the right thing many members of congress have said