great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. and now from our studio, here's robert nolan. >> welcome to great decisions. i'm robert nolan. joining us to discuss energy and u.s. foreign policy are michael levi, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the council on foreign relations. and john byrne, distinguished professor of energy and climate policy here at the university of delaware. gentlemen, thanks for being with us on great decisions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, energy independence is something that previous presidents for decades have been talking about, but today it seems that the buzzword really is energy security. what's the difference between the two? michael. >> energy independence talks about a goal of only making energy in america to be used in america without having to import anything. energy security is a much broader concept involving lining up the way we produce and consume energy with our overall security objectives. it's much broader, it recognizes that energy independence isn't possible, but

they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravity from the mountains pushes the water upwards toward the surface through vertical shaf

great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. and now, from our studio, here's robert nolan. >> welcome to great decisions. i'm robert nolan. joining us, to discuss the millennium development goals, and the impact of the global financial crisis on the world's poorest countries are noam unger, global economy and development fellow at the brookings institution, and director of the foreign assistance reform project; and jonathan white, senior program officer in the economic policy program at the german marshall fund. gentlemen, thanks for being with us on great decisions. >> thank you. >> in 2000, world leaders gathered in new york city, at the united nations, and charted the way forward for the global development agenda. they came up with what are known as the millennium development goals. ah, what in essence are these goals, and why should americans care about them? >> well, the goals are essentially, ah, focused on reducing extreme poverty in half, ah, cutting hunger in half. and that's important in today's world, because you hav

great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. >> now from our studios, here's ralph begleiter. >> welcome to great decisions, i'm ralph begleiter. joining us to discuss the global impact of the financial crisis are roger kubarych, senior fellow for international economics and finance at the counsel on foreign relations. and mark calabria, director of financial relation studies at the cato institute in washington. gentlemen, ter the great depression, i think all of us had the idea that systems were put in place, safety net in place, don't worry about this, it can't possibly happen again. we learned our lessons in the 1930's. and yet, um, were those assurances, if you will, false? were we being deceived? or have the markets outgrown or become more sophisticated than those regulations could handle? >> well ralph, we had several banking systemrises just in the last 30 years. some of the more familiars ones was the uh, collapse of the emerging markets, uh, in the 1980's from over borrowing. then we had the collapse and commercial real estate lending in the un

however, the did not evacuate, this covers 35,000 square miles, this is more of states of delaware andhode island, combined. this is the san jose, and traffic is moving pretty well in both directions including the guadalupe parkway overpass. wheat will be improvac. ♪ [ horns honking ] ♪ [ male announcer ] come into an at&t store and experience tv like you've never seen before. ♪ for a limited time, get u-verse tv for only $29 a month for 6 months with dvr included. >> this just in to the kron 4 news room police say that five teenagers were shot last night in east oakland are expected to survive. late this afternoon, that no suspects, no motive. the victims are two of the 16 year- old, 217 year-old and an 18 year-old or all taken to local hospitals. four of the victims are from oakland and one is from san leandro two of them are 17 years old. and in world news, heavy rainfall in china is causing big landslides with one to zero fatalities. 1300 are missing, with one to zero fatalities, and some people were pulled out alive. one to zero fatalities 14 million people have been affected some

i have to go to delaware because there are jobs there. but the harder what was probably when my grandfather stood there with his four sons and said, ambrose, i need a favor. can you keep the gym, jeanne, and the kids? i promise it will work out. i will not be any more than a year. i will come home every weekend. that is what those statistics represent. the represent people's loss. my father used to have an expression jobs are about more than a paycheck. it is about pride. it is about dignity. [applause] this recession stripped over 8.5 million people of not only their livelihood, but their dignity. and when barack and i ran, we meant what we said. we would not measure the success of this administration on whether the stock market bounded up to 12,000 or 14,000. we would measure it on the middle-class people, having a fighting chance to stay in the middle class, and those aspiring were able to get their. we are not there yet, folks. beyond all that, we inherited a foreign policy in total disarray with doubts about our ability to lead not o

afectó maryland y delaware nueva jersey. 60 millas por hora. caída de granizo. boston con buen tiempo y las temperaturas refrescaron. donde no refrescan es en el oeste. que van afectar nuevo méxico y colorado. y bastante calor. aviso de posibilidad de incendio forestal en utah, wyomyng. y los dejo con temperaturas que son agradables para ustedes en san francisco. 65. temperatura envidiable y los Ángeles, no está mal con 80 la máxima. siga con más de primer impacto. >>> gracias eduardo una mujer de más de 300 libras de peso tuvo que ser sacada con una grúa de su vivienda no podía moverse. esto pues, ocurre en taiwán. 4 paramédicos intentaron con sus fuerzas ponerla de pie. pero fue necesaria la ayuda de 8 socorristas para colocarla en s. juan manuel santos calificó de "atentado terrorista" al coche bomba que dejó varios heridos en bogotá sólo cinco días después de haber asumido como presidente de colombia.qué tal, les informa enrique teuteló.en mexico, una criatura de 4 años sobrevivió al ser acribillados a balazos sus padres: viajaban en un automóvil por ciudad

mining is one point four million acres in the next decade an area equal in size to the state of delaware. by the summer of two thousand and six and wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government shot will do it or a local school board state school board will do it in a way it shows and you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this job there were the kids you know we're going to money for school one way or another . like we get a new school built in our community and. it's rich it's showing that our government should come to this and we can't get nothing done for children. we. were told last week charleston west virginia the worst do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school and it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our community this is the perfect guy ample. what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us dykeman our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and f

you see particularly bad storms and downpours in part of maryland, virginia and delaware so the mid-atlantic really getting it. a few thunderstorms across the northern fronts, but it will be quieter. we have high pressure across central canada and the northern plains into the great lakes. a much calmer picture here than we've seen earlier on in the week. as for the southeast, the heat has been the main story. it remains the main story, although these showers are moving down into the southeast. it's going to be a -- continue to be incredibly hot with excessive heat warnings posted for many areas. 36 in houston and 36 for atlanta. washington, d.c. has storms today and also storms in new york city, 34 for the high. let's take a look now at your europe. more storms here i'm afraid, and these ones stretch from scandinavia down into the mediterranean. pushing further to the east, but still it's really central europe that sees that rain and storms. the heaviest of the rain is found in hungary on your friday, but the heaviest storms, the strongest storms, thunder and lightning, will be in northern p

now, that's more than the state of delaware. if you put delaware between new orleans and the ocean, we wouldn't needny levees at all. so what we really need to do is rebuild the coast which has eroded for the benefit of the shipping industry, which means interstate and international commerce and the oil industry which is dredge canals through the marsh primarily. and even, you know, the land here was all built by the deposit of sediment in the mississippi river. and there are six dams in montana, north dakota, and south dakota that have now retained one-third of all the sediment that the mississippi river used to deliver to this area to sustain the coast. so there's the multiplicity of factors involved in this. >> brown: well, mr. van heerden, that's an area i think you agree with, this problem of the erosion of the wetlands. explain what you see there. >> well, you know, the healthy moss will reduce the surge by at least a foot per mile. a healthy swamp will reduce the surge by about six feet per mile. and, you know, we've lost

and to give you a sense of the scale of the disaster, just this lake alone is bigger than delaware. those trapped on the ground now rely on aid packages dropped from helicopter. others escape the rising waters by any means necessary. and the fallout from this catastrophe will only grow. many of the displaced have nowhere to go. and because the flooding happened so quickly, there was no time to put shelters up or get relief workers in place. the united nations has appealed for $500 million in aid. the u.s. has pledged $71 million. >> additional lots of human lives and further suffer will go occur. >> reporter: the pakistani government has been criticized heavily for not being able to deliver more effectively and more widely. but they say any government would be overwhelmed by this. and the u.n. says the number of people affected by this flood is greater than the number affected by the kashmir earthquake, the asian tsunami and the earthquake combined. >> our thanks to nick schifrin. we've put a list of eight organizations on our website, abcnews.com. >>> in chicago, jurors in the rod

they follow tennessee and delaware in sharing $4.3 billion. to compete states have been aggressively overhauling their curriculums, adopting new math and reading benchmarks, changing teacher evaluations, and focusing on underperforming schools. nationwide, 25% of kids dropped out before graduating from high school. advocates say race to the top pushes desperately needed reform. but many teachers unions oppose the growth in charter schools and tough new teacher evaluations. among the most dramatic, colorado, which passed a law tieing teacher pay and tenure to student performance. colorado wasn't chosen for a grant today, and the governor isn't happy. >> if you take the land mass of the united states that is sort of west of the appalachian mountains, no state got funded. >> reporter: in fact, the president's home state of hawaii is the only state west of tennessee to receive money. it's now up to congress whether to spend more on race to the top. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> it's primary night tonight in two big states. and that finds

tennessee and delaware won in the first round. the program requires states to agree to a teacher evaluation system. it is thought that california may have lost out because such a change would have to be negotiated with local teacher unions. >>> still ahead tonight at 5:00, more on the fire i on mount ir diablo. >>> plus we're tracking the heat across the bay area. current conditions at th fire right now, 105 degrees. with winds at 10 miles per hour and we'll have details on the record-setting heat and when we'll see some major cooling across the entire bay area. >>> also coming up tonight, not your typical story about kitty litter. the video involving a cat that's sparking a lot of outrage. >>> and the 411 on who's texting and talking. the new study on people who spend the most time on the phone. >>> and why you could soon be waiting at longer. we're backs ien n longer. we're back itwo min nutes. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership

for the latest, weather channel's mike seidel joins us from rehoboth beach in delaware. >> reporter: much of the east coast is dealing with dangerous rip currents caused by hurricane danielle. the hurricane is hundreds of miles away east of bermuda. today was the worst they've seen in many years in florida near melbourne, 30 rescues. in nearby ocean city, maryland, just south of here, over 200 rescues. expect more of the same tomorrow. from new york state all the way to florida. more rip currents. the best advice, swim on a guarded beach. there is that conga line of storms. take a look at this. danielle racing well east of beuda into the north atlantic. no more issues for the u.s. east coast after tomorrow. earl is on its heels. now a 60-mile-per-hour tropical storm speeding west, forecast to become a hurricane on sunday. behind earl is our next potential opical depression. it would be named fiona. tropical storm watches heading up to the u.s. virgin islands. the forecast, earl turns west/northwest, slows down and strengthens. by midweek, projected to be a category 3 hurricane, a maj

the entire east coast july brought much above form normal temperatures tuesday rhode island and delawareve their hottest july effort. a live look outside from the golden gate bridge in you can see that the fog rolling in about a blanket the entire bay area tour of familiar site this summer this is been one of the coldest in memory. as christine conley explains experts say this is all connected to the extreme weather were seeing all across the country. take a look at these two picturesthe experts say this is all connected to the extreme weeather were seeing all across the u.s. take a look at these two pictures on the left you see the fog, the record cold temperatures the bay area is experiencing. on the right a heat wave that's hitting the east coast. both are extremes the national weather service says of linked. the best we understand this weird weather is to think of it as a giant wave that covers the earth. at the top of the wave is high wñuvpressure creating hot weat. at the bottom of the wave there's low pressure, creating cold weather. this summer that wave is shifted with the bott

commissioner maine delaware: thank you. commissioner antonini: 90. i believe that was extremely well done, and i agree with your belief that this eir is complete and thorough. i would also like to point out that in regards to the analysis, which you mentioned of the office space and residential space in the area approximately between market and probably folsom and fremont, actually, 1/3 of the square footage, as you pointed out, of the office space in the downtown financial district is now located there. or about, rather, 15%, but the residential space is about 1/3 of the office space in the area, said they are both uses that are quite well studied in the area, and i also appreciated your historical analysis, in particular, the reference to 631 howard st., which was very well done. so i think it is well done. i would move to certify. >> second. again for the general public, remember the eir addresses the alternatives, and some of the issues brought up. we will discuss later, but the eir itself i think is very well done, and michael here is extremely

answer that question in a moment but first here is a profile of our distingui born women ming ton, delaware, 59 years of age, wife carol and three children. republican. roman catholic. gettysburg college ba. georgetown university, m.d. and georgetown university medical school, associate professor, ten years. george washington university, clinical professor of neurology, ten years. 14 books, including most recently mysteries of the mind. richard martin restak. >> dr. restak, you have had quite an extraordinary career. first of all, you taught at georgetown. >> yes. >> then you abandoned the jesuits or did they dump you? then you moved over to g.w. >> yes. >> do you still teach inta at georgetown? >> i'm in the faculty but spend most of my time at g.w. >> okay. i have that number, by the way, and england and wales, out of every millionth person born alive in 1880, only 223 could expect to be alive 100 years later. 1880. so that's 112 years from now. 110, about that. for those born in 1990, out of one million people, 8,710 can expect to be alive 100 years later, 40 times greater. infants born

this big, this complex, with this many diverse problems, against other states, put it up against a delawarer whatever, and is anything going to change as we go forward, change the way we come out of this process? >> well, new york, florida, ohio, some significant urban states also were winners. so it's not just the diversity of the student body. i think in sacramento it's -- as we learned in the first round, it's impossible to get all the districts to participate. and so this was a say let's have seven districts that are committed to the reforms that the obama administration identified and have them lead it. as a matter of fact, they -- 1/3 of the kids who are low income and minorities are within those districts. and california has 6 million students. so we're talking about 2 million students alone among these districts that are participating. that's larger than most states. >> belva: so we're talking about a pot of money that's $700 million that we're trying to get a bit of. >> 700 million. >> belva: where did we do well? >> in terms of the application? >> belva: yes. >> well, california a

tennessee and delaware won the first round, they are joined now by florida, georgia, hawaii, massachusetts, maryland, new york, north carolina, ohio, rhode island, and the district of columbia. congressional correspondent nancy cordes tells us the latest winners will share nearly $3.5 billion in grants. >> congratulations! >> reporter: we were there today when the head of washington, d.c.'s e.l. hanes charter school got the good news. >> the good news is that d.c. has won the big grant called race to the top. >> ooh! >> reporter: the reform proposal she helped author had garnered her city $75 million. that's a tenth of d.c.'s entire annual public school budget. how long will it take before kids at this school can actually feel the effects of that money? >> i think will be nearly immediately. >> reporter: to compete in the race to the top, states were required to adopt rigorous reading and math standards. 35 of them plus the district of columbia took on the challenge and 19 of them with ambitious plans for reform made it to the finals. today the administration announced the winners-- nine s

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