until then though neighbors and visitors the liberty can rest assured edna mitchell is on the job. >> 202 to waldo com. >> you'll miss it? >> more than anything i can think of. >> lisa fletcher, al jazeera, liberty maine. >> sounds like she has another career ahead. tell us what you think. at aljazeera.com/americatonight. please come back, we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. fp tomorrow. >> gaining ground. iraqi government claims it could retake the strategic city of ramadi from i.s.i.l. by the weekend. but u.s. officials say it could be a much more protracted fight. syrian crisis, opposition accuse the government of using serin

until then though neighbors and visitors the liberty can rest assured edna mitchell is on the job. >> >> you'll miss it? >> more than anything i can think of. >> lisa fletcher, al jazeera, liberty maine. >> sounds like she has another career ahead. tell us what you think. at aljazeera.com/americatonight. please come back, we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. fp >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. >> in a little more than two years i.s.i.l. has become a major player in the conflicts raging in the middle east. in that time the group has overtaken al qaeda as the biggest foreign terrorist threat in most americans. smuggling of oil mountain territory it controls in are syria and iraq. howard shatz is a senior economist at the think tank rand, studied organizational structure ever i.s.i.l. when it was still known as al qaeda in iraq.

until then though neighbors and visitors the liberty can rest assured edna mitchell is on the job. >> 202 to waldo com. >> you'll miss it? >> more than anything i can think of. >> lisa fletcher, al jazeera, liberty maine. >> sounds like she has another career ahead. tell us what you think. at aljazeera.com/americatonight. please come back, we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. fp >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. in the strategic districts of sang. u.n. security council backs a deal between warring factions in libya to form a government,

. >>> and the spewing lava that can be seen from afar, as mount edna erupts again. ♪ >> half a millionwill lie fallow. >> if we had another year of this severe drought, i'd say all bets are off. ♪ >>> reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. journalists join the fight against isil in syria. the country's parliament votes overwhelmingly to send military support. it will be a non-combat role, however. >>> cameroon says some of the hundreds of hostages rescued were to be used as suicide bombers. >>> and there have been confrontations on the occupied west bank, four palestinians have been killed in separatists incidents. and indeed a high proportion of recent attacks on israelis have been made by pretty young palestinians many teenagers. hoda abdel hamid has been to meet some of the youngsters in occupied east jerusalem to try to find out what is pushing so many of them to use violent ends. >> reporter: i wish to wake up in a jerusalem at peace. for how long will our blood run? for this boy, rapping is the best way to express how he feels. >> translator: life in the old city has bec

at 87 years old, edna is as tough as nails.t emt, completed her qualifying course back in 1978. lisa fletcher spent the day with mitchell. >> if you need emergency medical care in southern maine, don't be surprised when edna mitchell shows up. >> back in service. >> an 87-year-old great grandmother, edna mitchell is maine's oldest emt and ambulance driver. >> basically, when the pager goes off, i'm ready. all i have to do is tell them i'm responding. >> i imagine somebody might look at you and say, she can't do this, what are they thinking? and you're like a force of nature. clearly. the surprise factor with you is huge. >> well, a couple of years ago i went on a call, and one of my swimming friends said, my friend in new hampshire said they were in an accident and some old woman helped them and i know who they were talking about. >> a volunteer for the liberty fire department, mitchell covers some 400 square miles of coastal maine, handling more than 100 calls a year. that's nearly 4,000 calls in 37 years on the job. that's a

edna kaptoyo is with the kenya-based indigenous information network.a member of the indigenous people's caucus and the women and gender constituency here at the u.n. climate summit. welcome to democracy now! priscilla, that picture, i'm sure you saw it, the family photo, talk about who is missing. here -- firste and foremost, thank you bring much for bringing the issue at this cop, which is very crucial to the african woman. just as you said, when it comes to the issue of negotiations, the african woman is mostly completely absent are nearly absent. this is something that is very important for us. we cannot be talking about negotiations that half of the populations are affected, which are the women, and then the issues that have been discussed completely neglected. badlands of the africa, this is something that is crucial for us and something that we want our leaders to really take on board. because you cannot be discussing the issues that affect us without us being at the table to negotiate these issues. amy: ban ki-moon said climate change affects us

our team looks forward to serving [indiscernible] >> president edna james.ent gustavo, commissioner richard ow. please note that deputy director, shireen mcspadden is present. >> [can't hear] >> all in favor. any opposed. motion carries. president james is joining us. if you'll kindly wait, i'll turn it over to her. thank you. item three is approval of the december 2, 2015 consent agenda. any comments or question about that? hearing none, all in favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. item four is approval of the october 7, 2015 meeting minutes. may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> any comment or questions. all if favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? motion carries. item number five is general public comment. that's comment that is not related to specific items on the agenda. hearing none. move to number six. reports. deputy director shireen mcspadden. >> good morning commissioners. i'm going to keep my remarks very brief this morning because we have a huge docket. lots of items today. ann hintton is in washington d.c. this week. she's also

edna is local, she is chair of the history department at howard university. much published herself, she is the lincoln expert, specializing in the civil war and reconstruction. she has had an incredibly busy year. she busy year. she was part of the national commission on the lincoln centennial celebration. she has spent the entire year with the commission attending all of the lincoln events. so i set as we were to reach the anniversary of lincoln's expiration last week, she is probably breathing a sigh of relief that she can reclaim some of her time back. so welcome edna, of howard university [applause]. >> have managed to do something to moderate should do, i've to panelists by the same first name. so let me introduce you to carl cannon. carl is the washington bureau chief of real clear politics. he has covered every presidential campaign since 1984 and has covered the white house since then. he is an author, a biographer, he's also a historian. if you sign up for his daily real clear politics briefing, you get the daily politics but you also get a history l

[applause] >> and edna medford is local. she is a lincoln expert, professionalizing in the civil war and has had an incredible busy year. part of the commission on the lincoln centenial celebration and has been attending events. she's probably breathing a little sigh of relief. let me introduce edna greene medford of howard university. [applause] >> now, i managed something to do that no moderator has done, let me introduce you to carl cannon. he has covered every single presidential campaign since 1984 and was covered all the white houses since then. he is an author himself and he is also a historian. if any of you saw up for his daily politics morning briefings you get the daily politics but you always get history lessons because he loves history. he comes from passion. his father cannon, was ronald regan's biogragher. carl cannon. [applause] >> and our final panelist is someone i had just gotten to meet over the past two years, krissah thompson. a reporter who is covering michelle obama and has written many detailed stori

. >> the hearing is attended by aross sew's parole officer, antonio ramos, and is run by edna corales. >> is anyone subpoenaed to be here today? >> offender's mother is here but she speaks only spanish. i tried to get the complainant to be here. her testimony is important. she hasn't made it yet. i'm assuming she's not going to make it. she stated that she was just simply afraid of the threats that had been made, according to her. >> orosco caught a break in that his sister-in-law is not here to testify against him. but he must still defend against her allegations. >> do you admit or deny the allegations? >> deny. >> okay. >> do i have problems with her and have i had problems with her in the past? yes. to the extent that i would hurt her? no. threatening her? no. did i confront her about it? yes. never at one pointdy say i was going to hurt her family or house or anything like that. >> next allegation, failure to abstain from the use of illegal drugs, narcotics, or controlled substances. admit or deny? >> admit. i went out to a party took some pills, they were ecstasy pills and i end

and i think we can all agree with aunt edna, nobody likes fruit cake. >> dana: don't give it in the first place. apparently we were given champagne flutes as a wedding gift and it was a pregift, because there was merrill lynch on the side. >> kim: obviously they have must have gone to a conference or something, and they said oh, kim and dana are getting mared, this will be perfect and never looked at the box. >> jeff: a couple years ago on that note, my parents gave me a coat for christmas and it looked like something sherlock holmes would wear and the next day when they took me to the airport to to them and said i'm not going to wear this. >> dana: you gave it right back to them. >> jeff: i gave it right back. >> kim: i bet that was finance. >> jeff: this is a commercial structure fire at 13th and carson. a big police and fire presence there. not too long ago, the fire department was actually over the top of the building with their hoses fixated on the roof. it looks like that is out and they're in the investigation phase. 15 southbound, approaching the ramp to the eastbound beltway of t

. -- [indiscernible] >> president edna james. vice president gustavo, commissioner richard ow. please note that deputy director, shireen mcspadden is present. >> [can't hear] >> all in favor. any opposed. motion carries. president james is joining us. if you'll kindly wait, i'll turn it over to her. thank you. item three is approval of the december 2, 2015 consent agenda. any comments or question about that? hearing none, all in favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you. item four is approval of the october 7, 2015 meeting minutes. may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> any comment or questions. all if favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? motion carries. item number five is general public comment. that's comment that is not related to specific items on the agenda. hearing none. move to number six. reports. deputy director shireen mcspadden. >> good morning commissioners. i'm going to keep my remarks very brief this morning because we have a huge docket. lots of items today. ann hintton is in washington d.c. this week. she's also spending some time visiting our repr

wind, the great giants of texas literature who have come before her she returns to again and again, edna ferber, i think that that's really a key to understanding who she is. she's not a crusader, as much as she is a reader and that is what then forms the way she moves through life in many ways. mark: and what transported her from west texas, i mean she talks about the incongruity of being in west texas reading plato, these classic writers and leaving midland through those pages, through those narratives. i think her book is exceptionally well-written. and what i was far more interested in the first part of it which is the story of her growing up in midland which she writes so poetically about than i was about her duties as first lady which will often get into, you know, one ceremony after the next. it's very difficult i think to write compellingly about ones tenure as first lady because again it is so ceremonial in nature. susan: debbie is watching us from louisville. debbie: hi susan. i want to thank you very much for this program. my question is we have many influential first ladies t

edna in florida. five and that own less, sammy, you're on "the washington journal". caller: i have approximately three guns. you go to mcdonald's and a child happy meal or a something like that, they can be sued. think that the gun manufacturers should be responsible for anybody that's a victim of a crime. they should pay for the funeral. they should pay for any medical type things, the manufacturers bullets that prove that they're a hazard to the community. the n.r.a. should pay for the funerals and expenses. host: what do you use your guns for? caller: i keep it for home protection only. use it other to than target practice. i've been in the navy for 20 tors, and i never really had use the gun in the navy, other than qualifying for marksmanship. host: how easy is it to get a kinkingston, north carolina. prevalent in our community. we have a lot of young people. >>: we're losing you there, sammy. sorry about that. we'll go to bob who's waiting in jacksonville, texas. who own ine for those 20 or more guns. bob, good morning. washington he journal." caller: good morni