this is a critical region for the nation's ag business. he and three other republican congressman are proposing emergency legislation they say will bring more watt tore the region. democrats are raising concerns about what the bill would include. >>> the new bay bridge is up and running but a new report is questioning the quality of the workmanship. the report was released today. some engineers told investigators that are which shut down after raising questions about the structural safety. the report suggested that caltrans managers to allow steel bolts to be installed. repairs have been made. the new span opened nearly ten years late and well over budget. >> it's not a hobby. i shouldn't have to pay more than i make. it's a part-time job. i expect to be paid for my time. >> still ahead, not so cheery. a raider-ette suing the team. >>> a burglar clears out a home in east bay, but we'll show you who was caught on their surveillance camera. >>> one picture, two toilets and lots of jokes. back in a moment. man: so the everyday value slam has e

the national ag terrorism committee says the farmers whose attack raised fears for their violence before the saatchi and that begins next week are members of the militant group and ice. the sports this year france has announced extra security personnel be sent to saatchi to protect the one hundred and sixteen french athletes in the event of a attack. three hundred year old boy alien described as priceless as the stalin from the milwaukee symphony orchestra's me to find the nest during an armed robbery of the performance of some local lutheran college the restaurant and then destroyed in boston in seventeen fifteen was without a hint of between six million dollars employs less wasn't that late on monday from its anonymous on this the orchestra made up front element. according to police the robot use a stun gun on our window in the parking lot of wisconsin lutheran college before disappearing with the instrument. investigators believe the holy land was the primary target of the brokerage aye aye. more efficient way to make stem cells has been announced but to the scientists researchers lik

the nation is aging and the number of women of child-bearing age is falling. >>> bangkok residents are seeing the downside of development on their streets. more people have cars and more cars mean more traffic jams. it's forced police to get extra training and equipment to deal with unexpected challenges. nhk world explains. >> reporter: bangkok is often dubbed the capital of gridlock, and its traffic problems are only getting worse. at times, it crawls around at an average of 2.67 kilometers per hour. the city streets can hold only 1.2 million vehicles, but over 7.5 million cars are registered. >> translator: traffic really stresses me out. i need music to calm down. >> reporter: but heavy traffic can lead to more than stress. passengers sometimes seek out a surprising kind of roadside assistance. >> reporter: traffic police officer is stationed at one of bangkok's busiest sections, where he's lent a helping hand in many such emergencies, that is, helping women in labor give birth inside cars. mana has delivered more babies than any officer on the force, 50 and counting. police say at

this is a critical region for the nation's ag business. he and three other republican congressman are proposing emergency legislation that will bring more water to the region. their proportionals are filled with controversy involving the delta pumps and river restoration project. >>> governor brown spoke at length today about the drought during his state of the state address but did he also give a hint about his own political future? nbc bay area's political analyst. >> stay the course, the state has come a long way in restoring fiscal help but a long way to go in paying it down, that is past debts, stay the course, that's the big message. at the same time he noted, it's worthwhile to look ahead in terms of funding for local education, prison reduction and yes, water conservation. >> okay. this is where we need your expertise reading between the lines. did he set the stage? >> you're good. you're good. looking at all the field, all that is missing is the pom poms and balloons. that's for sure. walked that fine line between accomplishments a

the efficiency of population is projected to further decrease the nation is aging and the number of women of childbearing age is falling. people who read ornamental card in the city of makkah guy in central japan. i celebrating. an earthquake hit the region ten years ago in uni and it's unlikely head favorite findsds in the tradition. this is a yellow cushy district of downtown the city. here yet is the traditional birthplace of callie. meet your pre easter for two hundred years here the precursor preparing for competition heated up she gets ten conference play this just reminds him of how much his district has recovered from the disaster they needed to aid earthquake struck sixteen years ago. it was a major setback for quick release off the green pumpkin began increasing the area were destroyed in the forty were lost. i lost about five thousand. you want to go to the pond in my home were destroyed. it was enough to make me weak. i've tried to spawn and head aches while he was living in temporary housing. it took two years but he succeeded. for ten and that this meant a new beginning. hop

challenges to implement in the nation's first of all is necessary to star with improving the quality of national education. his plan to provide one hundred percent of the children aged from three to six years of preschool education. modern training programs and methods as well as qualified personnel are very important for the setting the president of the country said that secondary schools need to improve the quality of education to the level of not survive much all schools school attendees must know screaming which is kazakh russian and english graduate some master critical thinking skills and that any research and in depth analysis. this means. most schools need to educate literate people send our state will be able to develop further domestic educational institutions create conditions for children to receive quality education. they're a lot of different study groups. in fact chat and have no free time and all of them are engaged in their education and sports. residents of up to be our witness the handle was snow falls and heavy frost is one of the monthly normal precipitation time already fallen in the region snow covered up in some places reached fifty centimete

the united nations and ags stepped in the emergency provisions. but there's not enough to go down and many have been difficult to spot the side of the line on the idea of what i did not. i do like it. they just got off the pentagon aide to the media church attendance by the name of the side of the month the elements what happened and the dogs the buzz on over to get to start supplementing what the show the total budget chuck's was cute. it was that foreign money should have been issued due to blood of god as stunned as to the disaster management authority. a taskforce made up of various ministries describing his menus to choose to stay in . one of the biggest challenges in disgrace. many of these people even if they are given an actor. they still disheartened and prefer to live in an environment in various conditions. do you just just come from the province which is among the worst affected afflicted by a dork. on stage and grinding forward to incur distant cousin tons of dedicated nine toes and tons of aid have been distributed this is an issue b

. >>> well, ahead of the president's big change in plans for the national security ages, a report thatsa is spawning nearly 100,000 computers around the world, implanting software to help defend the u.s. against cyber attacks, security analysts are aware of the crackdown that could put us at even more risk. so you're of the prevailing view that they're going too far. you say you don't want to go. reverse this, explain. >> well, i think that the bottom line is we're in the middle of a war. and i believe that war is not going particularly well, and this is a bad time to be wrecking what is possibly one of the most important if not the most important means we have of trying to discern what people who are increasingly tech savvy, what are very much determined adversaries, they're security conscious and they're relentless in their efforts to kill americans, i think it is not a good time to be -- >> but frank, if you're going to collect over 100 million americans' phone records or you know, one out of three e-mails, you know, whatever you're going to do. and it has been proven up to this poi

china and expenses notes that the two countries which coordinates more with each other on the jet age nationally series and look to get to handle them both challenges and both presidents respect heidi at the historic decision i make these as chairman of the chilean president had shot the goal to establish diplomatic ties in nineteen sixty full the orr said cows to graze. i've had ties to a high level. president of the french national assembly has survived in china to help block the fifties and the history of the establishment of diplomatic ties featuring the two countries and a cold oven caught in boston then attend a news conference that the establishing diplomatic relations between china and france during the cuts will assist significant critical of the station had influenced the course of history. he also said the two countries to discuss topical operation in barry's tea or suggest environmental protection and food safety that will continue the momentum of the parliament. nelson welcomed chinese tyres invest is and students to come to peace country. when commenting on the present china japan

the japanese government was trying for years to turn the country into a major tourism nation on friday the age of ten tourism agencies said the government achieved its goal of attracting ten million foreign visitors a year for the first time in two thousand and thirteen agency officials said about ten million three hundred sixty thousand people visited japan last year more than eight hundred sixty thousand of them in december. they noted that he is here visa requirements pushed up the number of visitors from south east asia the ants decline also helped encouraged by the latest in a prime minister shoes on they instructed relevant cabinet ministers to work out a new action plan if they'd been given the opportunity to host the twenty twenty olympics and paralympics in tokyo this should help promote tourism. we'll try our best to achieve a new goal of twenty million visitors each year by that time the government plans to improve access to downtown took of from narita airport the four sides in four languages and provide better internet connections. with the new show weather conditions being report

pakistani nationals days of intentions to vote ndp could bend the knees and during that time she could get the arts center attacks. it also follows the arrest of two pakistani nationals and under the age when members of the baby kick out of the neocon feast on to discuss things and will be having doubts this week's a shrine city of security aches but i'm consultant at the institute of defence studies and analysis in new delhi. thank you for speaking with us. i like the second of us can feel it is both caught a td to be opened to the school parking lot got last week and be said that the outcome could be hoped i would go into those to be and on especially during the elections and inbound to the east and the economy got dollar goes to move to me um on from there. and these people or rather i suppose that the pakistani nationals from me online. i'll give me how significant is this development. nor are they using facto in the last fight he is. oh and safety mall since he allowed me the link in kampala to a movie he had been busting the number of these more humans but this is probably the first dyeing it's that they needed time to run focused on all creatives will be he tabled the issue wor

the nation can expect. >> the claims against those trying to keep a young girl on a ventilator. [cheering] >>> the 49ers nation comes out in force. fans of all sizes and ages, root on the 49ers, as they pull off a win with only three seconds to spare. it was a close one with fans on the edge of their seats. cornell bernard is live in san francisco with the excited fans. reporter: a nail-biter, but the 49ers win it, 23-20, over green bay. a lot of pumped up fans where a giant watch party has turn interest a victory party, and niner fans say they never had a doubt the 49ers would win. [cheering] reporter: the first half of the wild card game had niner fans on their feet. this woman and her son wouldn't miss it. >> pull through with everything. >> the park was a sea of red, transformed into a giant 49er watch party. man and dogs were high-fiving and chi chi. >> my mom is a niner fan so of course my dog will be a niner fan, too. reporter: across town fans were getting loud at this sports bar. no one was too worried about the 49ers and subzero game conditions in green bay. >> you know what? it's football. they can win here, on mars, on pluto. >> this bar has an

pipelines in their backyard and as we report means pushing oil on rail cars and is stressing the nation's aging> this jumped 44% in the summer months of 2013 compared to a year earlier according to the association of american railroads. the u.s. rail ways transport 10% of the crude oil out put or 800,000 barrels per day and the extra traffic has increased the likelihood of rail accidents in both the u.s. and canada. in july a 74-car freight train derailed and the explosion killed almost 50 people and destroy stroyed 30 buildings and luckily no one suffered injuries here but 11 cars burns to a crisp and in late december a 110-freight train in north dakota transporting oil back derailed near the town of castletown and caused a fireball and caused people to be evacuated from homes. the oil by rail has overwhelmed smaller branch lines which are not as well maintained as main rail lines and tankers used to transport the oil is aging, with thin metal skins that pierce easily during derailment and oil by rail is not only more hazardous to the public, it's more expensive than pipelines on a price per b

that it is the first time that this has happened since we billed out the national infrastructure for the highways and the automobile age and it is a great news for the economy and small business and because it means more of a customer base and it is also a bad things for businesses in the transportation planning where we had been used to the planning for the automobile only road space and it is just the case that when you have thousands of people moving through a city, getting everybody from point a to b by a car is not going to keep on working, new roads is not an option and there is not the land use space and the transit is expensive and it is certainly important and that is why we are seeing many cities across the country implement the bike lanes and these are lanes that have separation between the traveling and automobile traffic and bicycle traffic with plastic posts or parked cars or planters, and it is an innovative solution that does not take a lot of time to put in that many cities are starting to implement and the co-author and the impact on the local economies i have been examining the data speaking with the

thinks they've found the solution to voter turnout problems lower the voting age six months ago the scottish government lowered that nation's legal voting age extending the right to vote to sixteen year olds and seventeen year olds for the first time ever leading the charge for a lower voting age in the u.k. is the electoral reform society which believes that increased youth participation in the voting process and in government will force politicians to be more aware of the youth vote and the issues that affect young people joining me now to talk more about the effects of a lowered voting age in the u.k. and if the same could happen here in the us is katie goes chief executive of the electoral reform society katie welcome. thanks for joining us. why is lowering the voting age an important thing to do. we think the government has taken another menses to see it in its sixteen seventeen year olds that they. threatened and that's going to be taking place. they see it the reason we couldn't say it is we have a democrat see christ states in the u.k. where millions of people who own. since you now call it six months ago. i think i

the video camera on them and all of this. i'm all for competition, but i'm against videotapi and putting on national tv that kids aren't the age of consent. >> hang on, hang on. concept, the parents bring these kids to these programs. and wayne, by the way, the programs are the most successful programs in the state of texas. which by the way is one of the best states for football. >> maybe it says something about texas. i don't know. my only point is i don't think you treat children and adults the same way. i agree that winning , i agree with lombardi when you talk about professional football. winning is the only thing. "i" love to win. i love that. i'm a mature person. i don't think you treat kids that way. >> by the way, it's a very, very good interesting story to talk about. coming up, hide the remote control. some liberal lawmakers a pressuring tv networks to cover climate change stories. so now, the gov the top of the hour on america's news headquarters in moments. join us then. >> remember when greenpeace used the creepy santa to push the green agenda? >> there may be no alternative but to cancel christmas. >> you can se

and so on the one hand it is the stage of nationalism, these competing powers in the end up with great, powerful, self interest to statesman. at the age of blood and iron it's coming. famous for saying britain had no internal friends, all the national interest. napoleon the third. and that will read you this fantastic description. he said, napoleon is a man of middle height, cold, pale, slow, looks like he is not quite awake a steamed by women who want to become prostitutes and made you want to become prefects. that is what we're dealing with. now, many self-described realist foreign-policy thinkers think we're headed in that direction again. emerging markets rise. instead of acting like the sole superpower the u.s. will pursue its selfish interests, and in many ways we see that happening already. the other interesting thing is that it was also an information age. the world was shrinking. @booktv to the telegraph, the steamship, this huge boom. at the same time these national complex it taking place other forces are bringing nation's closest together. in a diplomatic world it meant nothing was private. the complaint diplomacy has so f

the students. >> fascinating piece. we could talk about this for ages. but we're moving on to something smellier. kyle. >> one of the largest dairy farms in the nationdealing with 5 million gallons of manure every day. >> hey guys, welcome back to techknow. kyle you've got a story for us that shows us how to do with millions of gallons of cow manure. >> sure, as you can see, i dealt with 35,000 cows. milk isn't the only thing that cows produce a ton of. i went to the largest -- one of the largest dairy farms in america and how they're taking advantage of their manure to fuel all the milk trucks on clean renewable energy. we're about to get the scoop on poop. [ cows maoin mooing ] >> at first glance this might look like your typical dairy farm in the heart of america. >> we probably have 32,000 acres that we own. we milk on 11 sites, we have 11 parlors and we're milking about 36,000 cows. >> what makes this farm unique isn't what you see, it's what smell. -- what you smell. s. >> these cows are full of it and it's not just milk. so you don't just have all these cows here for producing milk. it's actually a really great story. we take two products, mi

researchers from emory university say the window of opportunity to prevent obesity must be pushed back to an earlier age. >>> researchers at the nationaltes of health want to make you sick, yeah, they're looking for 100 volunteers to be infected with the virus through a nasal spray. participants will be quarantined for at least nine days while doctors observe them. these people are going to get paid about $3,000 and the experiment aims to create a better flu vaccine. >> 3,000 for nine days of sickness. >>> a southern california schoolteacher is facing animal cruelty charges after more than 400 snakes were found in his home, many dead. >> they were kept along with rats and mice and stacked all over william buickman's five-bedroom house. arrested after neighbors complained about the stench. it was so filthy workers had to wear masks and other protective gear. >>> okay, time now for some sports. >> yeah, this morning that means both pro and college hoops. highlights now from our friends at espn. >>> good morning, america. i'm wearing a jerry gar ya tie in honor of bill walton who called the arizona/stanford game tonight but first stan wil

the island. it will be towed away and dismantle in june. japan's 20-year-olds get their own national holiday. the coming-of-age day. the age when young japanese can vote as well as i booze and cigarettes. japan had the smallest number of 20-year-olds this year, 1.3 million, down from a high back in 1970. in bank, we will start earnings with two of the biggest and different results. we will start first with jpmorgan. profits jumped about 17%. jpmorgan paid out $2.6 billion in claims tied to a ponzi scheme. >> a lot of one-time items include the $2.6 million settlement tied to the ponzi scheme. also sale and visa shares and the sale of properties. analysts like to call it a noisy quarter. when you strip out one month -- some of the one-time items, jpmorgan had a profit beat of $1.40. jpmorgan set in excess of $20 billion in legal settlements in 2013. when reporters asked jamie dimon on a conference call later on whether jpmorgan will be done with the legal headaches this year, he declined to comment and said he would to take a rain check on that. no clarity from him so far on the upcoming legal settlement. what we le

kilometers the unemployment rate is one of the worst in the world according to the united nations nearly half of gaza's working age population is salt licks. but the higher rate of literacy offers a glimmer of hope. nine out of ten gaza residents can read like many other young people don a nice my own cancer hopes for a better life on her studies. on her way to university data recounts some of the challenges that sheehan of the women students face. and that man. people forgot about that. there are some nice he died at the door to sneak into the sea. not the case that many killed by name. parents are afraid to walk and serene silence. like the idea that they can come across clearly. since i got a nice break and seven. huff is here. giordano there's no question about it in gaza it's better to be a boy twenty the comments made gauci want to go outside she wanted to let it stand the place. we didn't go stink as of the sea. donna goes to the first university in gaza the locks or university. she studied french in a classroom this can lead to the back of the courtyard. the french department is an exception in the palesti

the students. >> fascinating piece. we could talk about this for ages. but we're moving on to something smellier. kyle. >> one of the largest dairy farms in the nationdealing with 5 million gallons of manure every day. al jazeera america. we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. >> we pursue that story beyond the headline, pass the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capital. >> we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> it is a scene of utter devastation. >> and follow it no matter where it leads - all the way to you. al jazeera america, take a new look at news. al jazeera america. we open up your world. >> hey guys, welcome back to techknow. kyle you've got a story for us that shows us how to do with millions of gallons of cow manure. >> sure, as you can see, i dealt with 35,000 cows. milk isn't the only thing that cows produce a ton of. i went to the largest -- one of the largest dairy farms in america and how they're taking advantage of their manure to fuel all the milk trucks on clean renewable energy. we'r

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experience of what to wear their heart plates ensure i keep them in all these consultants the commission for an aged like a nation says it plans to do a full review of all the buyers for its costs during the coming months the menu nineteen eighties it's just astounding by this and let you know what effect that old adage when you're explaining year using the dishwasher is still really struggling to answer all the questions that are at their tactics whitley has the wind and the whole day and night cycle here. when you're fired. yet there had been an expectation that they would if they appear before the accounts committee has seven members including a government members had asked him to appear before them today. what's a consummation perceiving that they belong to appear before the inquiry committee on tuesday that they had been due to appear before the apartment lease of the eleventh of every but i think the rice was on the wall it just wouldn't hold onto that they are going to have been and clarify for it that their position that the chairperson of the commissioner michael mccarthy as he said that he say that they

the cancer is a disease rising in ireland. simply because people against a potent cancer because more often people over sixty to some of this is indeed an inevitable consequence of the aging of the nation something that is related to lifestyle so the things that your business and they can do that can help themselves and their family in tears and positioning themselves to reduce the risk of cancer or even getting near the diagnoses and a cure if they know how to go but its ageing population it is the main reason behind it is this the baby bill in the fifties and sixties and early on when silence at the country with that but people continued to have done a lot of babies and now as those children age they become as high risk of getting chances to some of the station agent is nothing to fix ask that the nep and it depicts how cancer outcomes to improve and continue to improve in this country is still helping yourself around tobacco biden's healthy lifestyles such as eating healthy foods make you shake it to exercise and avoiding sun then all attending silence is to reduce the risk of skin cancer that the kids get skin cancer it is to counter that sees the biggest right yes the melanoma ski

we will take a closer look at whether or not the struggling nation is up to the task. 2022 world cup in qatar seems ages away, but it won't be held in the summer. we will find out more about that later in the hour here on "france 24." let's look at our top news story for you. no breakthrough in talks to end the conflict in south sudan. members of residents offered ir's -- resident salva ki rabinet and those of riek macha met but talks broke down. >> tuesday was supposed to be the start of peace negotiations proper, but the 2 sides met only briefly before members of the government delegation left. returned to the south sudanese capital along with members of an east african delegation for consultations with president salva kiir. opposition demands for the release of detained rebels remain a major sticking point. >> they seem to be demanding there can be meaningful discussions, they have to be released. he would be happy to set them free as long as the legal processes have taken place. >> the rebel delegation has accused the government side of destroying the peace process by not releasing detainees immedia

the life of ageing. talks between the syrian government and the syrian national coalition are continuing today. the united nations media as the blacktop or mimi said the focus is on humanitarian aid. one topic the two sides could agree on disgusting. sitting along a u shaped table but not speaking directly with each other syria's two warring sides met on saturday. in the same room for the first time up to three years of fighting for heaney said the agreement by the two sides to face each other in the storm's was an accomplishment to be mentioned in the top six. so today's discussions avoided the main issue all the stylists ads feature with both sides appearing to soften their approach of the days of escalating rhetoric. so let's say get the very late is because of the toll to think of it the cctv news by now cos both of which invested. he joins us now from geneva. welcome richard. so i went to is happening there is there in the art context expected today what's on the agenda for that old son. one of the main sticking points between the syrian government of the opposition. as you are saying that

nine hundred and ninety million dollars marking the first time that the nation's largest philanthropy gift was made by someone under the age of thirty according to the annual tally fifteen of twenty thirteen is donation succeeded hundred million dollars up from eleven donations at that level in twenty twelve twelve of the fifteen biggest donations in twenty thirteen remains university's michael bloomberg who is now the former mayor of new york is really fifty million dollars to john hopkins university in baltimore. let the pic it surpass two hundred million dollars or more total to three point four billion last year compared to five point one billion in twenty twelve but three billion of that kid from warren buffett's gets to his children's foundation excluding that morning the total would have been under two billion dollars and this year's total is too far off from twenty oh seven is four point one billion before the financial crisis several thousand rebels in southeastern mexico had gathered to mark the twentieth anniversary of the petite friday supporters wearing trademark ski masks shifted army slogan and played mexica

we will take a closer look at whether or not the struggling nation is up to the task. 2022 world cup in qatar seems ages away, but it won't be held in the summer. we will find out more about that later in the hour here on "france 24." let's look at our top news story for you. no breakthrough in talks to end the conflict in south sudan. members of residents offered here -- resident

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on the scottie dogs of all nations incdi star especially the armada and mostly eighty s and has died aged few bites like floating abducting and killing civilians. secret service agencies have also adopted it didn't dumb policy to jam with the nationalist fitted along with oats the participants ofhe lg march to announce the new season off yet another phase of struggle on foot and toes united nations. they are paid to the united nations and international media to break this silence on the issue of missing bus stop. it's a the scot besides t us decision to wendy's and sad looking members of the autumn another key of china central european congress of the cap the men were among about two dozen all those captured in two thousand and one of the og on this humble about and get to the us base in cuba. us authorities are not done will look to beijing on the deck of a doctor the slogan ministry slammed the united states on thursday sending the creative meaning to me. chinese inmates out of the guantanamo bay detention center to slovakia. saying that the terrorists who pose a real security danger. a

i think you would have gathered that we are very anxious about the national security strategy, age stimulus that the next one will be better. one point we have made repeatedly is how much we would like to see it drawn outside experts and other views. without any disrespect to the people we have. and a couple of times it's been suggested that the government might consult this committee and we very much hope that it will and we will do our best to be cooperative and helpful. >> thank you. in the end, the government has got to own this document. so it's got to reflect our collective view. but the more input and also identifying gaps and weaknesses that your committee does frankly the better. >> very kind of you. thank you very much indeed. order, order. the meeting is now adjourned. >> well, the house is out. they finished their work yesterday. but the senate is in today. and they are expected to finish up work on a bill that would delay increases in federal flood insurance premiums. votes at 4:00 this afternoon. final vote at 1:50 eastern. they're in now. you can follow the debate on c-span2.

james brook, program director of the national league of cities and from boston a reporter with wbur radio. james, you heard player bloomberg. he said the golden age of the suburbs is over, do the fact back him up? >> the facts are mixed. cities, i think, with mayors like mayor bloomberg and others who will be in office, the mayor in st. paul, the mayor in houston, who have had good tenure and good success, they continue to be a great and continuing source of real leadership in cities, in different parts of the united states. yes, there is a generational change in cities like new york and chicago and other places, but i think we have seen a lot of innovative creative leaders at a local level at a time when leadership is needed. i think that does help cities as you look forward some of the fiscal issues being barriers that they have to all confront. >> you mentioned a generational change, and i did back of the envelope calculation between joe reilly in charleston, john hickenlooper in denver, gavin newsome and michael bloomberg. that's more of a century of city hall experience walking out the door in the next two years. >> yes, michael bloomberg wi

the national golf foundation. only 14 new ones opened according to the national golf foundation. instant replay ages here. the owners approved a plan to use replay to correct missed calls. call.anager can one thing managers cannot challenge is baseball's neighborhood play at second base. that is where the shortstop feels the ball and throws to the second baseman. >> late in the game, seventh- inning, a guy on second, a guy on first. he's making it to third so they are going to heave the ball from right field to third base and we have to stop like football and have a committee meeting? >> that will stretch of the game to five hours. >> exactly. >> they will work hard to keep that from happening. of theed those pictures umpire conference. no more managers going out and throwing their hats and yelling and screaming and dirt. >> they will keep doing it. they are playing to the crowd appeared that is part of the theater in the game to see the manager store map. they have to do it. >> do you agree they have to shorten the game? >> it can't be four hours all the time. >> what would earl weaver say about the repl

in the department and he provided documents that with increasing age there's increasing difficulty with walking and climbing and those statistics were from the national survey. so basically what's happening is the transit effectiveness project has provided no evidence whatsoever that the walking along distances by the elderly to bus stops would be detrime detrimental to their height. i did seek out medical opinion and it's increasing difficulty with age with walking along distances and climbing and the combination of the two. now your publically aware of the difficulty you're causing by walking along distances to the bus and limiting and alternating buses that provide the hardship. it begins at the age of 65 or at least one quarter of the seniors owning over 65 and 69 will experience difficulty. now your publicly aware you have the responsibility to address that. i want it into the record and now no one is unaware felt circumstances. >> thank you. next speaker, please mary. >> mary that's exactly what he said your publicly aware of this. we've told the past year time and time again those cars are not insured this company is going to deny responsibili