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an army corps but you. can still. be in the. there i marinate this is boston these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up economist george elgin one of the founders of the school of modern free banking theory joins us to talk about inflation the good the bad and the ugly then after that we have a boom bust favorite financial pundit and investor kyle harrington on today's show you won't want to miss it and finally edward harrison and i talk to coin in today's big deal a lot has happened with the cryptocurrency over the past couple weeks and we're taking a look at all of it now let's get to the show. our lead story today. more specifically coverage of the twenty fourteen olympic games in the digital age now i'd like to start off by saying that i am not a fan of reporting on the news and i do try to avoid it at all costs however the proverbial costs of this story exceed my standard threshold for such types of reporting so here we go now estimates are putting n.b.c.'s total olympic profits at a cool one billion

an army corps with the. instrument. to be in. breach of citizen's privacy in germany apparently too much for the country's leading hacker group the chaos computer club says they're suing chancellor merkel in the government for failing to prevent the u.s. and britain from spying on germans or he spoke with one of the activists. we have strong indications that the german government had an order together with the american spies on all of our details to live at the moment even if the whole media blitz covering bad based on a very very passive and they for us it looked like they were just debating until the storm is over and that's why we want to force the federal prison prosecutor to start a real investigation on what is going on and one bound wrong and how would the governments not only the american all the others are in true invading our digitalized it's still not proven that any of these measures really help finding terrorists than all the other excuses they find and that's just a new way of power and which is some of the men pee

an army corps. instrument. in the. corruption pandemic sweeping member states brussels claims one hundred twenty billion euros have been lost to shady deals they figure revealed in a report by the e.u.'s home affairs commissioner who warned that the problem is far reaching and getting worse philip plays an m.e.p. for the flemish nationalist party though says while highlighting bribery on a national level they report ignores brussels overall complicity. problems in some member states are huge and widespread and the problem within the european union is that all the member states are in danger of being contaminated by this problem because when you are in their euro zone for instance and when one of these member states in the eurozone has a big corruption problem well this problem will be felt by the other member states within the eurozone that's a problem with greece for instance so the problems in one country are becoming more and more the problems of the other member states would i find it surprising that with i fun int

an army corps. live in the know. on my leg. it's funny there are approximately over two hundred eighty million licensed firearms in the united states of america female owner seemed to be more and more common today one in five americans own at least one firearm a phenomenon which didn't exist thirty years ago. and i'm not a girl that's for a big until we have a few pieces but i don't wear a lot of it and that what we do together as a family is collect against and target she. the right to carry a gun is supported by the second amendment of the constitution established in seventeen ninety one by james madison after the war of independence. free circulation of guns was one of the first laws put in place by the revolutionaries. even if the time of war has ended for many americans carrying a firearm remains and in a right as important as freedom of religion or expression. they carry out and i. must say probably are at a time. probably. paradoxically while crime levels have lowered since two thousand and five the sale of guns keeps on

review, there will be an army corps review, sometimes a coast guard review and lots of different agencies involved and they don't all roll up to the same agency leader. and what i can tell you is that is a focus for the president. t is a focus that i have and we're looking at ways we can get things done even without congressional action to get things more streamlined. there is good news. the number of categorical exclusions, the nepa more projects are moving faster. the ones that are not moving faster are the big ones, and we have a responsibility to make sure we get as much done as possible. i would like to see us cutting the time as close to half as we could get in terms of projects through our system. ould get in terms of getting projects moved through our system. >> great. next question. >> mr. secretary, what's your personal take on the keystone pipeline? >> that's a very good question. i do have a view on that. my view is that secretary kerry is going to be a great figure to resolve that one for us. >> other questions. they see a couple of hands over there. give these ladies a momen

on the cooperation we have utilized with the army and special operations forces over the last 12 years. we move post-conflict into think the marine corps as an amphibious force has special capabilities and characteristics that could complement the army and special operations forces and this is a perfect fit for us. engaged andyd and ready for crisis and response is what the marine corps is all about. those are our core competencies and we do not see that going away in the future. we think those unique capabilities the marine corps brings and offers can complement the army in the special -- and the special operations forces in the future. >> him around the four we go to all of you. i want to ask a big question about what the task force is orrning, or underscoring relearning. one big lesson you think is the most important. this country is either in danger neworgetting, or something you are discerning in the future, what is the one big idea ? the same order finishing with peter. i would ask peter to combat the general and what he has heard. , what worriestion most about what we are doing wrong? it is already too low. personally, that is about w

a year ago land mendocino held plenty of water, but in a routine move the army corps of engineers followed what many say is aniquated manual dating back to the '50s and released 1/3 of the water in the lake just in case. >> unfortunately it didn't rain after december. >> reporter: mike dilabah with the army corps says it's not that his agency wanted to release the water. it had to just in case forecasters were wrong. >> the last thing we want to do is jeopardize the 250,000 residents downstream because we poorly operated the dam. >> can't make rain, but you can certainly manage the resources you get more efficiently. >> reporter: critics including sean white with the russian river flood control district say the corps is being more than overly cautious. >> there was never any rain in the forecast or on the horizon and if it had the flexibility to still look outside, that water would be in the lake and we'd have twice the supply today. >> reporter: the sonoma county water agency partnered with noaa to come up with a better way forecasting when storms are coming and maybe more importantly when they aren't. the c

it would ensure the right to carry at the army corps water resource development sites and would not force regulation that would prevent an individual to possess a firearm on these properties, therefore restoring continuity to federal law. gun owners need to be able to exercise their second amendment rights when they are legally camping, hunting and fishing in army corps projects. i'd like to thank my colleague from ohio, representative latta, for including my bill in this legislation. i ask my colleagues to support this legislation and the whole. thank you. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from oregon. mr. defazio: i'd like to inquire how many more speakers. mr. benishek: we have one more speaker. mr. defazio: you're counting yourself as one or one more because i'll go just before you close? mr. benishek: i have one more speaker and then i'll close. mr. defazio: so i'd reserve at this point. the chair: the gentleman from michigan. mr. benishek: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. hunter. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. hunter: i want to thank the com

next few years as hap was able to get an audience with -- an eventually, not initially -- sympathetic franklin roosevelt that the u.s. army air corps started to get what it needed. when you start out with 1700 mostly obsolete airplanes, then you've got to imagine that anything you get on top of that is going to be state of the art because it's new. and so he started building up this u.s. army air corps, and he started lobbying for more autonomy for the u.s. army air corps. this leads into this whole idea that this is a man who invented the u.s. air force. he had, he had a unique ally in a man named george marshall, general george marshall, who was the guy who took over from maylon craig. in another one of these weird coincidences of history, marshall took other from craig in september of 1939, which is on the very same week that hitler -- who was going to be satisfied with czechoslovakia and needed no more territory -- blitzkrieged into poland and started world war two, the war that neville chamberlain insisted would never happen because we have peace in our time. so george marshall took over as chief of staff of the u.s. army, bec

was over the next few years as half was able to get an audience, eventually, not officially, sympathetic rank lin roosevelt, that the u.s. army air corp. started to get what it needed. when you start out with 1700, mostly obsolete airplanes, ten you go to imagine that anything you get on top of that is going to be state of the art because it's new, and so she started building up a u.s. army air corp., and he started lobbying, and this leads to the idea that this is a man who invented the u.s. air force. he had a unique ally in the george marshall whofsz the guy who took over for maylan craig, and another wears coincidence of history, marshall hook over craig in september of 1939, and which is on the very same week that hitler who was going to be satisfied with the czech, no more territory, looked into poland and started world war ii,s war that chamberlain insisted would not happen because we have peaces in our time. george mar shall took over as chief of staff and u.s. army because arian knoll's bos. so when they went down the hall, didn't have a pent gone then, but the army building, and tree went down the whole to introduce himself

an unlawful sexual relationship with a teen. police say he met one of the girls at the salvation army korean core -- corps in san francisco. more on the top of the hour on the case. >> the san jose man suspected of setting a dozen arson fires will be in court for a hearing. the 48-year-old was arrested last month and charged with setting 13 fires in san jose between january 8 and john -- january 13th causing more than $6 million in damage. he will appear in superior court at 1:30 this the afternoon. >> a task force looking into racial problems at san jose state university begins public hearings tonight on the heels of a fact finding report released on monday of alleged bullying last fall of a black freshman by his white roommates. the report says the university was slow in keeping the school president informed. after the incident was reported they failed to follow their policies. the 18 member task force will hold six hearings to work on ways to prevent this from happening again. they will release recommendations in april. >>> vallejo high school has a new mascot. starting today it is the redhawks. in november the board vo

an unlawful sexual relationship with one of the teens. police say he met one of the girls at the salvation army korean corps in san francisco. >>> a task force looking into alleged racial problems at san jose state university holds their first public meeting tonight. it comes on the heels of fact-finding report released on monday of alleged bullying after black student by his white roommate last fall. the report found that the university is slow in keeping the school president informed and that it failed to follow its own policies. the task force holes the first of six hearings to work on ways to prevent this from happen again. the meetings starts at 5:30 and we will stream it on our website at abc7news.com. >>> ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the come lotion of construction work along marin's sir francis drake boulevard with the work on the five-mile stretch has been going on for a year and a half with crews repairing pavement, cleared storm drains and fixed retaining walls. the project was decided into three phases to deal with the environmental concerns along the roadway and carries a last tourists from marin county to the coast. >> how a b

an officer suffered minor injuries. >> >>> a small earthquake shook the south overnight. this morning the army corps of engineers is checking for damage on two dams in south carolina and georgia this morning. it was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake, rattling the region, near edgefield, south carolina. and at around 10:00 last night. and we found this picture on twitter, a water tower, that sprang a leak, not too far from the famous augusta national golf course. >>> the earthquake is unusual. for people living in that area, but there was a man from san francisco who happened to be there, and he assured local tv news crews that everything will be all right. >> and i had no clue, i was seeing my friend rodney krause, play in concert, i felt nothing but a 4.4 to us in california, and that's nothing. >> no major damage or injuries have been reported from that earthquake. >>> well, state agents have confiscated more than a ton of shark fins stopping them from ending up in the soup many like to eat. kpix5 kristen ayers went to a restaurant serving it despite it is against the law. >> the investigators say it was

an army that remains capable as you bring it down is hard. it takes a lot of time and planning and the army and marine corps did that planning.e left that in the budget but we know where the offerings are so forget assurances that we are going to the president's budget level in 16 rather than sequester we will plan that offramp and put that into the budget's mission next year in the year after. the aircraft carrier is another one. we have to take a carrier out of sequester. again you have to plan fueling in the yards and all that planning so frankly that planning is still in the budget but in 15 we will kind of cold. we won't take the people out. we won't take the air wing out. we will put the ship in the yards and start the actions that you would take whether you are going to refuel it put it back in service or take it out of service so we have time. again if we get some assurances that the budget is going up instead of down in fy16 we will keep the carrier. if however we go back to sequester we really have no choice. it's true that the budget is higher, $115 billion higher so what we try to put in there are things that we c

an eir. the other part deals specifically with section 2 b of the mitigation activities which deal essentially with the take activities authorization within the project. the project or the u.s. corp. - u.s. army core of engineers hazed not paragraphed the take off activities until they do the project can't go forward. the other part i was involved with in in my professional career was q a and q c of hazard i didn't see activities. those activities allows for continuing operations the finding continuing operations without understanding what's going on during those operations >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. just to read the names again (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm just here as a resident of panicking can and a member of environmental groups they're the environmental family although i don't represent them as a group but as somebody that hikes there all the time i've never seen a san francisco garden that's to beautiful. i have a lot of friends that feel the way i do. i have friends who golf and they won't golf there. they care about the environment and a city that's been a beak on its important to take the

army korean corps in san francisco. he claims to be affiliated with the living well ministry an alleged nonprofit that he created to help orphans, the homeless and widows. as for the animal cruelty, investigators found evidence of "severe" animal cruelty at his house and base of it a small dog was put down. >> c.e.o. of the sochi olympics is reacting to safe concerns face the olympics a day before tomorrow's opening ceremony and says this ising in to worry about. in an interview with this yy, he said that sochi is likely to be the most safe place in the world during the games and added that sochi officials have been working with the international olympic committee and the russian government to ensure a safety winter game. this comes a day after the department of homeland security issue a new terror wanting that has new intelligence showing terrorists might try to smuggle bombs on to the planes in toothpaste tubes. the let is not directed at members but is, instead, focused on flights in russia during the olympics. >> hard to avoid rain in the bay area right now. >> why thing you can. we are seeing light rain and an aver

army korean corps in san francisco. he claims to be affiliated with the living well ministry an alleged nonprofit he created to help orphans, homeless and widowed. as for animal cruelty they found evidence of severe animal cruelty at his house with a small dog had to be put down because of that. >> anyone who has information on this man or information about other possible victims, call the san ramon police department this morning. >>> a former san francisco teach certificate in custody accused of trying to have sex with a 17-year-old boy. police say harlan edelman want to the park looking to meet the boy he was commute indicating with but the "boy" was a police detective. investigators say they had exchanged pornographic videos and pictures. detectives are looking if other possible victims. he was a teach at the academy of arts and sciences in san francisco but resigned in 2013 and worked at two local high schools the a background check was done prior to being hired. >> san francisco conservation commission will get the proposal of the plans for an arena on waterfront. a coalition of groups turned in 21,000 signatures to q

an army that remains capable as you bring it down is hard. it takes a lot of time and a lot of planning. the army and the marine corps both did that planning. we know where the off ramps are. if we get assurances that we are going to the president's budget level in 16, we will plan that offramp and we will put that into the budget submission. the aircraft carrier is another one. carrier outake the at sequester. you have to plan refueling and all of that. the navy did all of that planning. that planning is still in the hold., but in 15, we will we will put the ship in the yards and start the actions you would take whether you will refuel it and put it back into service or taken out of service. we have time. if we get some assurances that the budget is going up instead of down in fy 16, we will keep the carrier. if we go back to sequester, we have no choice. the budget is higher, $115 billion higher. what we try to put in were things that we could reverse were quickly than those complicated things i just mentioned. or parts of our structure you would take out readiness, which we put a lot of investment in. it is a complicated story. thank you

an alleged non-profit that he created to assist widows, the homeless and emancipated orphans. police say. the youth pastor first met the girls at the san francisco salvation army korean corps. where he worked. new tonight at 8-- >> pam: kron4's scott rates >> reporter: surprised and upset to say the least. 33 year-old kid to 17 year old girls at his inn had unlawful interest course with one of them. >> we hit for anything bad to happen to minors. this is terrible is a terrible thing. >> reporter: according to investigators it was during that time he met the to attain. he met the talmudic two teens two teens. >>i only met him on a few occasions. we did strict background checks. >> reporter: dow cruelty charges and sexual who molestation charges. >> pam: a car burst into flames today at a burger king drive-thru in hayward. restaurant. which was evacuated and remains closed tonight. it happened around 2:30- >> pam: this afternoon at the burger king on mission boulevard and industrial parkway. >> pam: the people in the car were able to get out unharmed. and the fast- food restaurant sustained some damage. >> pam: investigators in santa clara. want you to take a close look at th

our current policy requires of course that an assistance officer, whether it is a casualty representative from the air force or the army or navy and marine corps, assist the family members to the initial phase of a loss. we are also required to provide long-term support for those family members for as long as they want to be a part of the military community. again, we want that family member to feel that they can be a part of the military community for as long as they need us. each service has their own long- term care program. army, for example, can expand the -- can expound upon that. they have a services program, and i will allow you to talk weather program of the that program is the dutch is in place. there are people that are available for the family members term caree that long- support. >> thank you. can you give me some specifics, and counseling, other therapeutic services, an opportunity for suggestions on how to improve those processes, involvement in the services, and to the highest degree possible, can you give me some level of specificity about because of services that you are providing to family members and loved ones? >> yes, ma

an argument over loud music. this is the fourth day of deliberations and we'll bring you the verdict as soon as it happens. >>> a rare 4.1 magnitude earthquake hitting south carolina yesterday. the u.s. army corpsrs plans a thorough review on two dams on the susanna river there. >>> the obama administration releasing guidelines to help banks do limited businesses with marijuana sellers. the move is a victory for the growing pot industry that runs cash-only operations. treasury department saying the guidance will increase the visibility of financial services for legal marijuana businesses. >>> well, you could say he's a prisoner of love. one arizona inmate back behind bars after a daring jail escape all to spend time with his valentine's sweetheart. police catching the inmate a few hours after waiting for his girlfriend in the town of coolidge. he now faces an escape charge adding to all the other problems that he must be facing right now in jail. >>> and that's a quick look at the top stories makining news today. >>> rewarding donors with coveted u.s. ambassadorships is heating. an embarrassing number of gaffes from appointees raising questions about the qualifications needed to serve in the po

particularly the house version section 132 encourages the army corps to use innovative materials where they can. on some of these new projects. i come from an industry that makes innovative material that is are used in water infrastructure reinforcement, so i'm just wondering where the corps is on some of the terms that are lighter stronger don't rust, and maybe what industry can do to try to highlight their importance in infrastructure both water and around the country in land transportation? thanks. >> i appreciate that question. one of the -- one of the parts of our organization that many people may not be that familiar with is our engineer research and development laboratories. a lot of people are very familiar with the similar part of the army corps of engineers that think of waterway experiment stations. many people heard of the waterway experiment station, but our engineer research and development centers, our labs is where we do our resource and development aspects of what we do in the army corps of engineers. that's not just for civil works but it supports the missions and war fodder, et cetera, but we do have a group of folks work

corps and have a couple comments. there was another operational doctrine called amphibious warfare the we used in world war i and to an extent in world war ii by the army. the second thing is joel schumacher, hope you know, the unheralded element, the introduction the brigade modules, amazing transformation how the army brought in ten brigades and they were all together. i was very impressed by that. i was saying as a person who was used to joint task organizations but the fact is you could have almost the course of last group of units from different parts of the united states and europe come together in baghdad and work almost with one focus, significant achievement by the army and i commend all of you for doing it, you did great job in doing that. what would you say to the state department. one thing i found amazing when i showed up there was part of the baghdad pr t that was unfunded, how in the world to use supplement your efforts in baghdad between lack of funding and for leadership on the part of the state department. recognize that is not their job, to do nation-building but there was significant responsibility, and surf funding and other source

an army guy doing in a air force association. he said he would just want to make sure that we were taking care of his army air forces was . -- army airee him corps, that is right. with a wonderful group of senior corporate executives, industry leaders, attachÉs from around the world, and we have got a lot of patriotic americans in the audience today, and we cannot have a better keynote speaker today for the breakfast series than our neck -- our new sector of the air force. secretary deborah james is the 23rd secretary of the air force, and she came into the job -- i was talking to chuck -- probably the most uniquely qualified secretary we have ever had, with vast amounts of experience in inustry, independent on, -- the pentagon and in government. i cannot think of a better person to lead the world's greatest air force then secretary james. you all have read her bio, so i'd imagine to take up much time and you did not come to hear me speak, so without further do come i would like to bring secretary james to the podium, and thank you, madam secretary, for being with us is very cold and brisk morning. thank you. [applause] thank you so much, genera

of being -- i'm an army strategist which is a very unique and small career field, yet the army has decided to promote me and a couple of other army strategist into the general officer corps. i think it's indicative of the fact the army has changed because that would not have happened before. it's not that we need lots of people with my skill set and experience and assignments, knowledge, et cetera, but we have recognized as an army there are unique capabilities we have to bring forward all the way through the ranks. both enlisted, warrant, and in the officer corps. the last point on cybercom as a mentioned at the beginning, one of the key areas that we are focused on is this convergence of cyber, land, and human, and what does that mean to how we deal with both the human domain, i'll put it in quotation marks for my marine brother here, but also what does that mean in terms of how conflict unfolds, what that means at the tactical level, et cetera. one of the challenges we have levied in our army concept development is the capability to take local action for local effect and not be relied on what is currently a principally strategic on that comes out of washington and the