the priority is finding survivors. officials say the earthquake saturday evening killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500 with a magnitude of 7.8. it was the strongest earthquake to hit ecuador since 1979. our miguel almadir has made his way to the capital of quitoed on >> reporter: the most powerful earthquake to rock ecuador in decades. a magnitude of 7.8. injuring well over 1,000 and leaving many missing. i need to find my baby, says vanessa santos. it's been five hours since she disappeared. all they're telling me is that my family is buried. 100 miles outside of the nation's capital of quito, the frantic search for survivors is growing even more desperate every hour.

the country's president saying the priority is to save lives. he calls this the worst tragedy to hit the country in decades. he says so far more than 270 people have died. as you said that number expected to rise. injured in the saturday night's 7.8 magnitude earthquake. the jolt felt as par away as peru and colombia. it sent thousands scrambling into the street. many buried under rubble. rescuers have been searching for survivors.

priorities memorandum. what the executive wanted to accomplish was something more, to say, not only are you not an enforcement priority, but we want you to be eligible to work and to receive benefits and the way that we do that is by taking this affirmative act of converting you into a status under our own regulation changes your eligibility for -- >> the appropriate way for texas to proceed had been to challenge the regulation under the apa? i think section 553 and then, if they were concerned about notice and comment taking too long, asking for a preliminary injunction? >> i don't think that's the way it actually makes sense for this to proceed because there is nothing inherently problematic about a regulation that tied deferred action status to work authorization. congress has passed multiple statutes. >> the point of the suit, i will not tell people how to design their suit the point of suit the areas of discretion have been so vastly changed the regulation now has been superseded? >> i don't mean to suggest tha

that is one of the key political priorities and actually, one of the main priorities of the investmentlan itself. as you know, the investment plan has three components. financing, communication components and the reform component. ovet we can do to impr business environments -- and also what we can do -- it is clearly one of the priorities that we have. mark: how much further can the european central bank go? in its effort to try to stimulate growth? the experiment in unorthodox measures continues, as it did on march the 10th. how much further do you expect will be necessary to boost growth, try to get inflation back to that target of 2%? thank you for the question. as you are aware, traditionally the european commission does not -- due to the need to respect the full independence of our monetary authority of the european union. what we have say is that we are fully supportive of all of the measures that have been implemented by mario draghi so far. and we believe we need success of the measures. the fiscal policies at the european union. mark: it was worth posting you -- worth pushing

, that mosul is at the top of the list in terms of priority, but there are things happening right now that are helping to shape that particular operation and i'll let the government of iraq describe when they are ready what they intend to do and how they will do it. with respect to the potential shift in the cabinet, the prime minister made it very clear to me that he has ideas in mind for what he wants to do in the next days, hours. he's holding his meetings. he's reaching out and talking to people as is appropriate. we don't play a role in that. that is entirely up to the prime minister and the government of iraq and he will make whatever announcements he has to make rewarding it at the appropriate time. what we certainly did indicate to him because it is in our interests was that it is important to have political stability and it is important to have a unified and functions government as rapidly as possible in order to move forward, so that all of these operations are not affected, and so that we give confidence to the coalition and to thos

this class of aliens is the lowest priority. and there is a pressing humanitarian concern in avoiding the breakup of families that contain u.s. citizen children. the principal -- justice ginsburg: couldn't the government simply, as was suggested in one of the briefs, have given these children parents of citizens or lpr's, given them identity cards that say "low priority," and would there be any difference between that and what this dapa guidance does? general verrilli: that is that's a very important point, justice ginsburg. that is precisely what deferred action is. deferred action is a decision that you are a low priority for removal, and it's an official notification to you of that decision. and respondents have conceded that we have the lawful authority to do both things: to make that judgment and to give an identification card. justice roberts: general, maybe it would make logical progression if you began with your standing argument first. general verrilli: yes. and i think this does lead right into the standing argument. i

in order to qualify you have to already not be an enforcement priority under the enforcement priority memorandum. with the executive wanted to accomplish was something more to say not only are you not an enforcement priority, we want you to be eligible to work and received benefits, and the way we do that is by taking this affirmative act of converting into status of our own regulation changes -- >> what is the appropriate way for texas to proceed? regulations under the apa. and then they were concerned about a notice of comment taking too long. >> i doi do not think that is the way it makes sense to proceed. there is nothing inherently problematic about a regulation that ties deferred action status to work authorization. >> the.would be that areas of discretion have been so vastly changed the regulation now has been superseded. >> i do not mean to suggest that is not a way you could challenge that i don't feel it is how you have to. to me the real problem is not the linking of deferred action status and work authorization but the work of deferred action status. individuals who are on

you've got to be the lowest priority. there are the regulations going back decades that talk about work authorization related to people at deferred action say that there's got to be a tie to , a statutory policy that the secretary has the authority to implement, such things as foreign relations, humanitarian concerns, or keeping or family unity when one family member or more is a u.s. citizen. so you've got to ground it 6 they've got to be lowest priority; it's got to be grounded in those policy concerns; and then are a number of -- justice sotomayor: but the chief is going more fundamentally, general. those are the parameters that the executive has set for itself now. he's asking what keeps you from changing those parameters in the future and simply saying, i have under your theory of the case, i have discretion to defer action on everybody? i think that's his question. general verrilli: a couple a things about that. one is there are statutory constraints that exist now. for example, congress has told dhs that it has to p

this class of aliens is the lowest priority. and there is a pressing humanitarian concern in avoiding the breakup of families that contain u.s. citizen children. the principal -- justice ginsburg: couldn't the government simply, as was suggested in one of the briefs, have given these children parents of citizens or lpr's, given them identity cards that say "low priority," and would there be any difference between that and what this dapa guidance does? general verrilli: that is that's a very important point, justice ginsburg. that is precisely what deferred action is. deferred action is a decision that you are a low priority for removal, and it's an official notification to you of that decision. and respondents have conceded that we have the lawful authority to do both things: to make that judgment and to give an identification card. justice roberts: general, maybe it would make logical progression if you began with your standing argument first. general verrilli: yes. and i think this does lead right into the standing argument. i

and then overall, it's just the point that, you know, if there's a dollar of government spending that's available, we need to make priorities. and what we're doing in this state is, you know, corrections and other government programs, you know, everything is sort of moving up at the same rate, as opposed to saying, "hey, let's really make kids the priority." because, you know, first of all, that's most of our priority, what we all feel. but it's just absolutely essential for our future. and so, it can't just be lip service, that the governor and legislators is there putting the budget together, really, truly making kids the priority. jessica: now, parents can find this online as well to read? ted: yeah, absolutely, childrennow.org. there's a lot in there, it covers a lot of ground, but we try to give you some really quick stats so it's more readable. jessica: great way for every parent to educate themselves. thank you, ted, for being with us. ted: my pleasure. jessica: we'll be right back. [music] jessica: welcome back to "class action." some follow-ups now on stories we've been covering. the new sat is right around the cor

. >>> the united nations is hosting a meeting in the tunisian capital to out line priorities. that latest meeting is another attempt to keep libya stable. joining us live is our correspondent, what's the main priority here for the u.n.? >> the u.n. is working alongside britain and many other countries, including the u.s. and also the i.m.f. and cold bank and other institutions which are here to work out what projection are need in libya to get the country going again, reconstruction, rebuild, the rule of law, the meets, the media, all these things that are involved in rebuilding a state that was devastated by five years of conflict and also 40 years of dictatorship. the priority now is to get donors, to get countries to pledge money and assistance, but of course, that can't happen until the security situation and the political situation in libya is stabilized. >> when people like the u.n.'s martin kobler, looking at pictures of him there, call on the people on the ground to go for a situation of calm and crucially to maintain it, i mean, the criticism that's leveled at him is

i want to talk for a minute about the priority enforcement program. meet with people and i hear quite a bit from my local sheriff in texas. and everyone loves the sheriff as they all have an opinion. and that what i hear is that they are having problems in getting you guys to determine and sometimes it will be three or four or five days before they hear back from you guys and by that time the person has already bonded out. so how can we improve that process to where they get -- let's say you pick a number. a 24 hour response there. >> in regards to the state of texas it is wiedemann. >> okay. >> okay, yeah, yeah. the problem is getting to the specifics with the jurisdiction within a timely manner. we try to get people there as quickly as possible. >> they want a determination as to whether or not to keep them. most of the sheriff's i know will be happy to deliver them. >> palmerston, thank you so much. would you give me the names of those sheriff's? not only that but i would like to know any sheriff that is having any difficulty or in hearing back from

and this is the priority -- the top priority of somalia government. after prolonged statelessness in somalia, after a long time of civil war, we do not expect the wounds will be healed overnight but we are in the process of healing the past wounds. we are in the process of addressing the reasons for those grievances that have happened in the past, building the trust among our people and building the trust of our people towards the state. this is very important. the last time somalis went into the elections was 1969. 47 years have passed since then. who is there in somalia today who participated in that election of 1969 and who can do this today? one of the benefits of the electorate process happening this year is it is a learning process. so that in 2020, we'll be doing a better elections, we'll do the mistakes and the pitfalls now in 2016. i thank you very much. [ applause ] >> mr. president, thank you very, very much for a great presentation. we've got a few minutes to take questions and i'm going to invite you over here to sit down and we have a few

we presented an amount of money by the committee that we allocate. we have set priorities and cut wasteful spending to get those projects under control to eliminate funding that saves $125 million. of the uranium processing facility that 90 percent designed before it is built on time or on budget.ind o looking for the armed services committee. we have a red team working on the new mexico the senator and i have a bill that reduced that topline growth by $1 trillion over the next 10 years but we're not co-sponsors of the bill so we're not talking about that much although there may be an attempt to change the level of funding and i will talk about that at the time but just so everybody thinks about that before he and we are following the law and number two the budget committee has begun to start that process based on the number in the appropriation bills are not the debt problem of the mandatory spending, is sooner or later. senator feinstein and i of the senate appropriations committee approved fiscal year 26 small dash 2017 appropriation bill 30 / o. as this bill includes i

i don't want to call people out, but this is the priority projects. >> there are several but one that feels urgent is the el tereval, it is a a high injury corridor, between 2009 and 14, 36 people were hit on the corridor and half of those who were hit were getting on and off the train and that's because the train doesn't have many boarding island to get off, they step off and get on to traffic, they were hit at stops that didn't have boarding islands, it's clear they're keeping people safe, city staff did a great job in creating a project that would keep people safe getting off the train, original project had boarding islands at every stop, great, great safety feature, just a basic safety feature that a transit system should provide. unfortunately, the plan has been revised based on push-back from the community, so there won't be boarding islands right now as proposed at every single stop, five of the stops will have a pilot project instead, they have paint in a travel lane that says watch out, and i don't think paint is going to keep people safe. we heard from a young man who was al

we're trying to show them the advantages of doing that. precheck is a high priority to the agency, sir, and we're trying to get more people into that. once we do that, the more people that are in precheck we think could sustain that much better. i'd let my counterparts -- mr. clay: here's the point. the excuse i get at st. louis airport is we don't have enough officers to staff it. so, you know, is that just something they're telling me? mr. livingston: sir, there is a staffing issue. i know the administrator has talked to o.m.b. about staffing issue. i know there is a long-term strategy. it's a resource issue both money and people. turning the switch is going to take some time but he's addressed that. i think he has a short and a mid and a long-term plan. he's working with senior staff to do that. i think both these gentlemen who are working in the airport can tell you what they're doing daily. mr. clay: some have suggested shifting t.s.a.'s controversial behavioral detection program to regular screeners. so let me go on. mr. rhoades, i have a question for you. mr.

this is the priority of that leadership. >> let me jump to another point here. can you walk us through the process that tsa engages when they are evaluating a potential new hire. >> at which level, sir? >> at any level. a new hire in management level specifically but any other. what's the process that tsa walks through? >> it varies. with officers obviously there's an online process and locally we're not involved in that. we'll do candid assessments and so forth. there's a background check. i don't get a lot of insight of that. posting it on usa jobs. then you have within the ses level and those are done by the executive resource council at tsa headquarters. it varies with different components. >> mr. rhodes, complaints to leadership at tsa going unacknowledged, ignored, et cetera, have you ever heard justification for these complaints not being accepted or reviewed? >> no, sir, there's no logical explanation for that. >> what explanations have been given? >> precisely, none. >> none at all? >> no contacts, no e-mails, i've got a differing opinion, that's a good

this is the priority of that leadership. >> let me jump to another point here. can you walk us through the process that tsa engages when they are evaluating a potential new hire. >> at which level, sir? >> at any level. a new hire in management level specifically but any other. what's the process that tsa walks through? >> it varies. with officers obviously there's an online process and locally we're not involved in that. we'll do candid assessments and so forth. there's a background check. i don't get a lot of insight of that. posting it on usa jobs. then you have within the ses level and those are done by the executive resource council at tsa headquarters. it varies with different components. >> mr. rhodes, complaints to leadership at tsa going unacknowledged, ignored, et cetera, have you ever heard justification for these complaints not being accepted or reviewed? >> no, sir, there's no logical explanation for that. >> what explanations have been given? >> precisely, none. >> none at all? >> no contacts, no e-mails, i've got a differing opinion, that's a good

so the priority has to be safety and security and what's going on at that checkpoint. be the airline needs to move product, needs to move people through that. so what do you think is winning out today between those two priorities, effective screening or moving passengers, what's the priority that's prevailing today in our nation's airports? mr. livingston: sir, i don't speak for the agency but i can tell you we're not going to compromise security for speed. i can tell you that we're going to balance it. i'd tell you that t.s.a. is not going to compromise our mission to expedite passengers through at the expense of our mission. what we're going to do is we're going to get better. we're going to keep pushing precheck. we're going to keep pushing through a better process. mr. neffenger has made it a priority. there is a day that doesn't go at t.s.a. that this isn't a priority. i can tell you every single senior leader he talks to at t.s.a., this is the topic of discussion. i don't want you to think that it's not a priority. mr. lynch: ok. mr. livingston: i got to go back

the president identified this as a top legislative priority of his last year, we have been working since then to try to make it a reality. i do think the president will devote a significant portion of his eight month he remains in office to getting this legislation passed through congress and onto his desk. >> there's it doesn't seem like it addresses the fighting, also are you confident they could be 70s talks to resume? >> let's first talk about the agreement that was in ounce today. since the beginning fighting has it continued in the area of north let's talk in eastern gouda. it's putting pressure, what's going on is unacceptable and damaging. as a result, the u.s. government and russia have been working to secure a general recommitment to the secession of hostilities by all parties to be implemented beginning at midnight tonight damascus time. it is our view that this essentially would be a refreshment of cessation of hostilities. getting both sides to commit to refreshing, the commitments they made in the for the concession and cessation apostolate asic could have a catalyzing effe

if budget committee talking about the new monies i don't remember hearing from staff that was the priority and again, i'm not criticizing but it feels like a big church of money without any discussion about how to spend it by the board. >> so again totally finds that that's why we bring the elements to the board and we can justifies that in our current experience priorities will shift and right now that is an area that needs port so we have a responsibility to prioritize that spending based on the need that is maneuvered in the schools as we speak we're happy to describe a little bit more why that happens but this really is strategize aligned with the school seats and educators it is not going to go through the vetting process but that's why you hire us to bring the feedback and recommendations to you. >> i have one other question specifically which schools elementary schools and which middle schools will be receiving the support. >> sure as mr. truett elaborates to builds on the superintendents comment under the realm of safe and supportive one of the areas from the school communities cle

for i want to thank senator and the majority leader for making this a priority. i want to set thank senator reid the democratic leader for suggesting that the democrats that they too wanted to see us move through the process. this gives the american people a chance chance to see how we spend their money. the american people care about how we spend their money because we have a big debt. there's a lot of talk about that that which is $19 trillion. this you the total revenues ofhe the federal government are about about 3.36 billion, but the spending is about three-point nine. so elementary school mathematics which way that we are adding about 53 4,000,000,000 more more to our 19 trillion-dollar debt this year. other mr. president, it's important to point out that the spending wery are talking about in this bill and the other 11 discretionary bills is not the problem. i like to ask the chair to look at the bottom line in front, the bluels line, that is what we call the discretionary spending, that is the money the appropriations committee works on. that is the 1,000,

in the near term, the priority is safety. i put out a report that outlines the number of actions based on my short time hereof things i want to do and things i have heard. what we learned from other sources, the purpose of that report was to be transparent and more important is to be accountable to the public and the managers to be accountable and studying that. that's why that was done. it will continue to grow. and although the actions i have taken are a start of the change of culture, that's a start of a long way to go. that's where i need them to support me to get there. i think we need to step back and look at what we have been doing with the maintenance of the system. we have gone from crisis to crisis. we tried to see the improvements and it's not getting done. we are suffering from that. i will be coming out in the near future with a new program to get at these issues and get the system up to the state it should be. we will continue to maintain it from there. it's not going to be easy and i'm not going to sugar coat it

anything is a priority, so we have in the past identified a ranking of our projects, and i think that given the state of this one i would be very happy with adding it to the list, not adding it to the top of the list but adding to the bottom of the list so these things move up in some order with appropriate exceptions being made, but i think that we have to start somewhere, and so i would very much like to start. >> i would move that we add to the landmark designation program and then bee study -- well, i would add to landmark designation program. >> i second that. >> okay. is this an informational item? do we have a motion? >> i thought there was. >> is there a motion for it or -- >> there is no formal motion to adopt. it's a recommendation. >> it's a recommendation to staff -- >> just to provide direction and then we will work with the project sponsor to file a formal application. we will add it to the work program and we can discuss it during the quarterly report which is here in a month or so and talk about the timing of

as i mentioned before, the voters across the country will consider the actions and policies and priorities of all of the candidates as they decide who they want to support to succeed president obama. but ultimately that will be a decision for the american people to make. reporter: while the president was traveling, i mean, just on the same subject, so he's in britain delivering his incredibly lengthy, detailed opinion on a referendum that the british people will undertake. but when cameron was asked directly about donald trump, and then later merkel was asked, they wouldn't say anything. this is kind of in the spirit of let's all share our opinions with our allies. is the administration disappointed that they would say nothing to weigh in on the election in that way? mr. earnest: no, not at all. i think the president answered this pretty directly when he noted that when he was the ing to london, supporters of the campaign were describing all sorts of views to the u.s. government -- ascribing all sorts of viewses to the u.s. government about how -- views to the u.s. government about how we

present a opportunity to advocate for diss cuss the needs and priorities. outside of that we continue to work with the mayors office fl balance budget submit today the board june 1 and happy to answer any question youz may have. >> thank you very much for the update. colleagues going forward we will have the budget on the committee often so that we are kept abreast of progress. alright. thank you. is there any public comment regarding update on the budget? okay. >> sean buferred. on behalf of president o'connor. just let you know 798 is supporting the efforts that the department is moving forward to increase the budget. there were [inaudible] not supportive of and i was on the committee and had a injury and unable to attend therefore there wasn't reputation. we had a clonfict with all the work so president o'connor was able to attend on my behalf monday qu once this is submitted you have a [inaudible] we'll push

you've got to be the lowest priority. g back decades to talk about work authorization related to people at deferred action say that there's got to be a tie to a statutory policy that the secretary has the authority to implement them such things as foreign relations, humanitarian concerns, or family unity when one family member or more is a u.s. citizen. they've got to the lowest priority, it's got to be grounded in the policy concerns and then there are a number of -- >> but the chief is going more fundamentally. those are the parameters that the executive has set for itself now. he's asking what teacher from changing those parameters in the future and simply saying, under your theory of the case, i have discretion to defer action on everybody. i think that's his question. >> a couple of things about that. one is there are statutory constraints that exist now. for example, congress has told dhs it has to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens and aliens detained at the border. does the way we could give defer action to

on what they think are the highest priority for us because the ability to identify which of the recommendations have the highest priority is very helpful to us, and gao has been helpful about giving us that guidance. sen. grassley: thank you, senator. senator harper? sen. carper: i want to associate myself with the comments of senator wyden earlier. the streamlined critical pay program. mr. chairman, you mentioned in by personnts that legislation was introduced. do you think it is critical that we follow through on that? mr. koskinenar, and others come to us to say, please do this. often times, we point the finger at them and say, you know, you screwed up here and there. but we have a responsibility to do, and one of the things we can do to help out is provide for the reestablishment of the streamlined critical pay program. you will hear a lot from me in the months to come. we need to do our job. about that lately. we need to do our job. this is another where we need to do our job. i want to come back to this other point that senator wyden raised. minimum s

i don't want to call people out, but this is the priority projects. >> there are several but one that feels urgent is the el tereval, it is a a high injury corridor, between 2009 and 14, 36 people were hit on the corridor and half of those who were hit were getting on and off the train and that's because the train doesn't have many boarding island to get off, they step off and get on to traffic, they were hit at stops that didn't have boarding islands, it's clear they're keeping people safe, city staff did a great job in creating a project that would keep people safe getting off the train, original project had boarding islands at every stop, great, great safety feature, just a basic safety feature that a transit system should provide. unfortunately, the plan has been revised based on push-back from the community, so there won't be boarding islands right now as proposed at every single stop, five of the stops will have a pilot project instead, they have paint in a travel lane that says watch out, and i don't think paint is going to keep people safe. we heard from a young man who was al

i think those are the priorities of the people of indiana and the priorities of this country. in this country. you look at jobs, the people of indiana are hurting. carrier has moved hundreds of jobs to mexico. wages have been stagnating. there have been two incredible governors, mitch daniel, mike pence, that have reduced taxes, that have reduced regulations and that has helped the job situation here in indiana. but indiana struggles with the 800-pound weight of the federal government still holding down job growth. my top priority as president is jobs and economic growth. reducing the burdens of the federal government on small businesses, cutting taxes, and allowing small businesses to thrive, bringing manufacturing jobs back to the state of indiana, raising wages for working men and women. that's my priority and i think the priority of the men and women of the state. >> donald trump cannot win over a majority of conservatives. you have said that again and again. that he has a ceiling of the last night he did break through that ceiling and did win a majority in states other th

. >> for the belgians, the priority is to use the c c.t.v.images. >> italian and egyptian prosecutors met in rome discussing the investigation into torture and murder of a student. he disappeared and his body found in a ditch nine days later. we have the latest from rome. >> reporter: it's a meeting that is closely watched by italian public opinion. egypt's general prosecutor, and the general, a senior police official arrive in roams for talks. they could expect some tough questions from italian officials on the investigations into the killing. the 28-year-old post-graduate student disappeared in cairo. among the italian officials, there has been skepticism as to how well the crime was vected. they were told the student was killed in a car accident. >> it's a rising issue. it's putting pressure on the government to ensure that justice is done. >> some suggest that the egyptian government has been giving misinformation to italian prosecutors. it's a test between regulations, the north african country's biggest training company in europe. they'

the question is, is how do we determine the priorities to keep a strong military, to make sure we can fulfill one of six reasons why we came together as a country. we're about to have the smallest amendment since world war ii, the smallest navy since world war i and the smallest and oldest air force ever. how can this be? the world's more dangerous right now than at any time in my lifetime? we see increased aggression from traditional rivals, russia, china. we also see the rise of isis partly because of our own intransigents and they've got to be stopped now or we'll have to deal with them later here. boko haram, al qaeda, isis, all these threats are beginning to be interconnected, impose -- and pose threats not just in the middle east but around the world. finally we have nuclear threats from rogue regimes like north korea and iran and game changing technologies such as cyber threats which nations like russia are using for hybrid warfare right now in eastern europe. there's an emerging arms race in space that we just don't talk about publicly. this is why our women and men in uniform

safety is the department of transportation's top priority. that is why we took more than 30 actions over the last two years to ensure the safe transportation of crude oil. most recently working in accordiation with the railroad issued a rule that adopted designs to reduce the consequences and helped reduce the probability of accidents involving trains and transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. they cover everything from approved tank car design to new requirements like speed and breaking systems and routing. this work builds on this agency's previous actions to help ensure the communities and emergency responders are prepared in the event of a derailment. we work closely with law enforcement and responders and professionals to share information and support the efforts to prepare for and respond to incidents involving hazardous materials. we also have a grant program that provides approximately $28 million per area to states, tribes and responders to prepare for and respond to incidents including pipeline spills and train derailmen

this afternoon, fans who are the priority wait list, well, they've got a chance to buy. and for the general public, tickets go on sale at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. tickets for the first three home games will be available. two season ticketholders are offering to sell their tickets to the highest bidder and say it's for a good cause. the money will go to the family of a 4-year-old girl in martinez who is battling brain cancer. her name is melody massick. she has an inoperable brain tumor and her family is trying to get her to england for a clinical trial of a treatment not available in the u.s. a couple from pleasanton saw the story and wanted to help. >> something just grabbed my heart strings and you know what? i would hate to be in that situation. we have kids. i have a grandchild. and what could we do to help? >> it's a roller coaster. we say that to each other all the time. it goes up and down and this guy is -- he's putting us on the upward path right now. >> bidding for the tickets stands at just over $1200. that money will go to the go fund me account and help pay f

f that is the bottom line. our top priority includes 5.4 billion to support basic energy research, 50 million more than last year, the 2nd year we have been able to increase funding setting a new record level of funding and regular appropriations bill. that puts us one step closer to doubling funding. the bill also includes energy 2.7 million for an agency that invests in high-energy technology. 1.7. thethough also supports the department of energy continuing efforts to advance computing and includes a total ofs 285 million to produce next-generation computers. so nuclear power provides 20 percent of our country's electricity, 60% of carbon free electricity. electricity.electricity. we will have the abundance of clean, cheap, reliable energy that we want and needla r made a leash nuclear power. legislation sends a strong signal but our support for new technologies and next generations of nuclear power plants. inclu that includes 34.5 million for advanced reactors, 21 million more in the presence budget. a 95 million, 32.5 milli

still seem a little bit far away, or at least not the priority of the moment for now.ra: do you think there could be a change in the public mood as the opening ceremony approaches? >> yes. organizers hope that with the torch arriving on tuesday to the country and touring the whole country -- it will travel over 300 -- travel to over 300 cities, it will get people in the mood. when it comes to the event itself, it will be different. there was a press conference with the mayor of rio giving lots of reassurances about the readiness of the city. 98% of the olympic park has been concluded. in terms of sporting venues, it seems like things will be fine, delays inh there are specific venues. there are delays in legacy and infrastructure projects that are concerning. i think the general mood is quite grim. people are doubtful about what is going on here and we will see if that'll change in the coming weeks and months. laura: thank you for joining us. in the u.s., film stars in politics is nothing new. ronald reagan even made it all the way to the white house. america is not al

of them have never seen enough money so isn't it logical and rational to say that those are the lowest prioritysident said coming and they kept saying it on a case-by-case basis but this is. each individual immigrant must admit their case individually. it isn't like everybody that's been here for five years has committed a crime. no. you have to submit the documents, pay for your background check and once that has gone through if you've been here five years -- then you get a work permit. you can't get a single federal benefit but what you can do is work. you have to pay into social security and you can only get out a the program [inaudible] social security is about to run out of money unless we do what unless they start charging the american people more money or unless you get 11 or 12 million people on the books paying social security but we know that millions of undocumented pay federal income tax but there employer [inaudible] isn't this a way to make it better? if the argument is and they admitted the president has the authority of the argument to be okay let's get a work permit but i am on

i guess what i'm asking here, if we're addressing all of the priorities that the government doesn't get, i guess that is what she is sighing, gist of what you've been saying, what i i've been saying, well all have our different priorities i argue in 3 1/2 trillion dollar budget we could find a way to address the waste and over the top spending first, then, then if we reshape the priorities and still is enough, then, talk about revenue, talk about tax. >> yeah. neil: i don't think we need to get to that point. i think what we'll find, we could certainly slow the growth of government, to address some of the things that she might want to see, that you might want to see, that i might want to see, invariably feeding the beast only makes the government more beastly. >> that is all we do is feed the beast. we talk about raising taxes, we know the u.s. government took in 2 trillion. they spent 2.5 trillion. if they took in three, it would be 4 trillion. conservatives get upset with shrimp on treadmill. liberals get upset when they look at the military defense budget. you're absolutely right. it

we're trying to show them the advantages of doing that. precheck is a high prioritye agency, sir, and we're trying to get more people into that. once we do that, the more people that are in precheck we think could sustain that much better. i'd let my counterparts -- mr. clay: here's the point. the excuse i get at st. louis airport is we don't have enough officers to staff it. so, you know, is that just something they're telling me? mr. livingston: sir, there is a staffing issue. i know the administrator has talked to o.m.b. about staffing issue. i know there is a long-term strategy. it's a resource issue both money and people. turning the switch is going to take some time but he's addressed that. i think he has a short and a mid and a long-term plan. he's working with senior staff to do that. i think both these gentlemen who are working in the airport can tell you what they're doing daily. mr. clay: some have suggested shifting t.s.a.'s controversial behavioral detection program to regular screeners. so let me go on. mr. rhoades, i have a question for you. mr. rhoade

. >> for the belgiums the priority now is to use the cctv images that they do have to find this man.al jazeera. >> italian and egyptian prosecutors have met in rome to discuss an investigation into the torture an murder of a student in cairo. he disappeared on january 25th, and his body was found in a ditch nine days later. we have the latest now from rome. >> it's a meeting that's been closely watched by italian public continue. egypt's general prosecutor and senior police official arrive in rome for talks. they could expect some tough questions from italian officials into the killing of the 28 student. the post graduate student was found mutilated in cairo. among italian officials there have been skepticism of how well the crime has been investigated. they were originally told that he was killed in a car accident. the erupting public anger is putting pressure on the government to insure that justice is being done. some italian media have suggested that the egyptian government has been giving misinformation to italian prosecutors. the tes case is a test between egypt and italy. ital

within the region the priorities that the p da delegationsnd identifying the projects the housing dollars give us is one important component and just for the benefit of the rest of the commissioners this is a proposal of a regional housing trust fund that comes to supplement the funding that is available at the local level we're working in coordination with fcc and a retreat to discuss the components that comes to support that in addition to this housing fund there is an infrastructure funding that will go in parallel with this effort we're hoping to bring you a summer summary of those projects with the housing trust fund. >> yeah. no, i'm very interested in this project but interested overall in the developments potential in these areas and the p da and figuring out i'm sure you've looked at where we have control and there is potential development but even parcels in the p da we don't have control but are vacant a possibility to negotiate with the lymph gland great to have 3 buckets one that move forward that needs a little bit to get across

the gao has given us our priorities on what they think are the highest priority for us to do, because the ability to identify which of the recommendations have the highest priority is very helpful to us, and gao has been helpful about giving us that guidance. sen. grassley: thank you, senator. sen. hatch: senator harper? sen. carper: i want to associate myself with the comments of senator wyden earlier. i thought he nailed it with his comments on the streamlined critical pay program. mr. chairman, you mentioned in your comments that by person legislation was introduced. do you think it is critical that we follow through on that? year after year, mr. koskinen and others come to us to say, please do this. often times, we point the finger at them and say, you know, you screwed up here and there. but we have a responsibility to do, and one of the things we can do to help out is provide for the reestablishment of the streamlined critical pay program. mr. chairman, you will hear a lot from me in the months to come. we need to do our job. we hear a lot about that lately. we need to do our jo

putin said promotion of dialogue with japan in various areas is one of the priorities in russian foreign policies. >> translator: i hope japanese prime minister shinzo abe's visit will contribute to the development of mutually beneficial bilateral relationship between the two countries. >>> japanese foreign minister fumio can i shia and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov met in tokyo and agreed to hold working level talks on signing a peace treaty after the summit. the negotiations on the treaty will seek to find a mutually acceptable solution for the territorial dispute over four islands that japanese call the northern territories. a day earlier putin told reporters he and abe will discuss all issues. he said the two countries will be able to reach a compromise on the islands someday. >>> in india's northern state, rescuers are trying to pull people from the rubble of a collapsed building. it happened in early hours of wednesday. police and firefighters launched a rescue operation. >> translator: i was inside my house when suddenly i heard people screaming. the building had collapsed

another vision zero is the priority for the sfmta but mode shift. we provide transit and biking infrastructure and other infrastructure and we want people moving towards those so those priorities go hand and hand and we want to make sure we're building the safest network for people to choose those modes of transportation. >> have we thought about a healthy transportation campaign, be healthy when you're moving around, as part of the healthy -- part of the obesity campaign. >> [inaudible] commissioner pating. that is in the pre-planning stages right now. mta is leading that. there is a large scale campaign. i'm on the committee for that effort and you should begin seeing some branding and communication collateral and materials coming out by the summer or the end of the year and i am happy to come back with the team and give an update on vision zero and include that messaging particularly, but that is on the docket for this year. mta got a significant add back from the mayor's office and the supervisors to develop the exact materials you're talking abo