brac is so much -- i understand the politics of brac. that is a nightmare, which bases should be closed, which it should not be closed, all the businesses affected. but when you have surplus properties, maybe i am naive, but i don't see the controversy even comparable to brac. i understand brac is a process, but just some thoughts. i think there is a way to do this very easily, and i hope we don't over think this, because it is a way to make this happen for the benefit of both ends at the same time meet our goal, which is that we know what these properties if there was no public purpose -- from the purpose -- we don't want these properties if there is no public purpose from the federal government side. you are going to produce economic development which produces new revenue streams for those communities, and it just dominoes. what i have learned a run this place is that sometimes over think these issues to the point where it is not that complicated, i would just say from a local government perspective, we have done this -- mayors have do

brac is a decision making process. at least it is a process that has shown the ability to deal with local politics and federal local politics. >> that is great. i agree with that, semantics or whatever you call it. maybe i am naive about this, but the political controversy of getting rid of properties that no one uses at least has a mayor, 4 ten years on city council, not really controversial. the controversy occurs when you don't do it and it becomes a dilapidated, falling apart and deteriorating when neighbors get upset because you haven't done anything. i understand the politics of brac, what should be closed or not be closed. i don't see the controversy even comparable. it is a process but there's a way to do this very easily. we don't overthink this because it is a way to make this happen for the benefit of both ends and at the same time be our goal which is we don't want to call it purpose from a federal government site. the faster you get this into the market is not a public purpose property, to produce economic

mike koldyke will describe the brac process. following his testimony will be happy to answer the committee's questions. >> mr. lepore? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, senator brown and members of the subcommittee i'm delighted to be here to have an opportunity to present our observations on the base realignment and closure, or brac process. this may be helpful to you as you consider the civilian property realignment bill. i would address two points today, the 2005 brac process, and the department of defense's dod's key steps for developing its closure and realignment recommendations. his other 2005 brac process work. dod requested the right. congress authorized it in law, dod propose the selection criteria to be used to develop the candidate closure and realignment recommendations, and publish that in the federal register so give everybody an opportunity to see this is what dod thought was the way to do. congress been codified the criteria in law and require dod to develop a 20 year force structure plan and infrastruct

toll facility because it will have serious impacts on local businesses and on families and on the brac expansion. >> baltimore city police officer accused of shooting -- and killing a marine is back in court today. the trial does not have a jury and a judge has the final say. he is acowsed of killing tie -- accused of killing tyrone brown. the defense says he shot had in stive defense but the state says the multiple gunshot wound happened while he was retreating. everyone is back in court at 9:30. reports for you this afternoon. >>> the death toll stands at 141 people killed following this month's massive twister. that happened in joplin, missouri. city didn't identified latest found but leaders say they plan to host a town hall meeting about removing the debris. the may 22nd twister demolished about 1/3 of the town. >>> look at your screen. this is incredible video we got overnight. it's a 3d image. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration released this three dimensional image from joplin, missouri, a tornado. the move shows a vertical picture of the radar sweep from the we

and political leaders have discussed just that at the international going to make forum which has a brac in st petersburg. syria faces third round of sanctions amid more deadly anti-government crackdowns we're saw more than a dozen dead and thousands rage nationwide. so we have lines here in our teaneck star interview show spotlight talks of the project leader the south stream gas pipeline marcel kramer about what the new routes could mean for supplies to europe . hello again and welcome to spotlight the end to be cheryl on our t.v. i'm not good enough and today my guest is marcel grammer russia isn't the first thing is hard into the south stream pipeline a direct and abandoned gas shipping route to you but as the project is gaining momentum there's criticism in some quarters that south stream is unprofitable then has no future one do the project leaders have to say today here's the c.e.o. of the south stream marcel primer joining us from st peter's world economic forum. after the gas will be.

obviously have learned a ton from past experience the restoration of growth was extraordinary with the brac countries or three of those and we can still use bricks but not the term emerging economies any more. so what will we say? we have the high-growth economies which is a pessimistic version of the advanced countries and i don't find next 11 elway to refer to the smaller high-growth countries, but in any case come on sustainability we probably have a reasonable consensus unlike 10 years ago they, meaning the developing countries while leading the charge could sustain high growth even if we limp along in america for some time. the degree of decoupling is new. not complete the i am sure that if we have a problem on the fiscal side to produce a big downturn hear that will slow them down. there is one other very large change that you see when looking at the emerging economies, and if you go back to ask how correlated were the emerging economies of the growth rate, you would have answered they were correlated with us. relatively and correlated with each other because what produce problems low

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