probably the largest impact that all the defense effort has is a diversion of intellectual entergy and our monetary resources away from trying to solve an address some of the long term problems. in sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of land. i mean if the united states were losing that to some foreign power we'd have the military out there defending you. we often ask the question where were you on september eleventh well i remember that very curtly because i was in new york and i was there specifically to give a luncheon address at the new york times on the new book eco economy building an economy for the year. well by mid-morning that much was already history terrorism is a threat no question about it but on my list of threats to our future. there are there are many more serious threats climate change being an obvious one population growth being another the economy does not exist in the vacuum it is entirely dependent on the earth's natural systems and resources and if we damage and destroy those systems and resources then t

asked to carpool, little mitt energy use -- limit enjoy use -- inner gentleman use -- inner if i -- entergyse. >>> traffic is moving nicely along the east shore freeway up to the mcarthur maze and the metering lights are not on the bay bridge toll plaza but when you get there the traffic is light and there are no major problems coming into this area. also in the south bay, we would like to look at that, the road work has been picked up 280 looks good getting up to 517. >>> storms erupted over the central sierra once again and collapsed once we had the sunset but they are up there sometimes you look up there and you see the building, the key for us coast was clear and the fog is starting to thicken and fill up i should say but it kinds of peels off and is rather solid on the santa cruz coastline, but fog shallow and will only impact the coast. monterey service santa cruz 77 city hit 86 and that will not be the case today, it will be cooler. 50s for many, 51 in santa rosa some incredible spreads on the temperatures, i know i saw one, like a 4 degrees spread between the high and low not much o

this week the state of vermont and entergy are going to court over the decision. the company that owns the plant thinks the state of vermont shouldn't get say over whether or not there will be a 40-year-old nuclear power plant operating in the state that many more years. they say the license should be enough to keep them open no matter what vermont wants. the state of vermont deciding they as a state wanted to send the nuclear power plant packing once its 40 year license expired, now the state of vermont has to prove to a federal judge they have a right to make that decision as a state which means we're about to find out who has more power in this country right now. a nuclear power plant company or a state? joining us now is the president of the global security foundation. joe also serves on secretary of state hillary clinton's advisory board and council of foreign relations. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> let me ask you first about vermont. the state of vermont in federal court trying to prove it has the power to sent vermont yankee packing.