the region. a working democracy depends on a system of checks and balances where institutions can work their will within a constitutional framework. argentina, ecuador, and venezuela is sing a reemergence of elements in the legislative and executive branches of government, eager to serve their short-term political interests. according to a 2012 index, only four latin american countries, cuba, ecuador, rank as economically repressed. these countries also share the distinction of being led by totalitarian or authoritarian leaders. this trend will diminish any efforts to help american businesses grow and invest. the u.s. response should be clear and swift. a trade agreement is the seal of approval of certain best practices and to only stay in place based on meeting certain good governance. i look forward to your testimony and hope to learn more about policies to address the opportunities to american businesses hoping to invest in this region. thank you so much. >> thank you, senator. let me turn to o

interests in the region. a major factor in the energy business in the available supply since the 70s has been the international oil cartel, opec, the organization of petroleum exporting countries, which has influenced supplies with a resulting impact on supplies on other nations. by the way, replacing the railroad commissioner of texas, for those with memory. as the arbiter of world oil prices. of course, this country tends to act in its interest, unanimity will not act in opec's behavior. the track record of the group in line with various wars and international tensions have resulted in higher prices and is a major factor in the world economy. with high impact and high interest world leaders. opec has blamed a new factor in the past decade, which has supported the unusually were on a historic basis, high prices would be interesting will futures is an asset class and world financial market. i believe this is truly becoming a factor in keeping the markets up. u.s. policymakers have achieved only spotty success

the average salary for a regional airline captain is $73,000. e average salary for a first officer at a regional airline is about $32,000, $33,000 a year. >> o'brien: i'm not talking about average. there are some people, as you well know, who make $18,000 to $20,000 a year. we're not talking about average. we're talking about human beings who are flying my grandmother to buffalo, right? okay, so there are people there living this life. and it seems as if they are in an untenable position economically.jr >> absolutely not. because there are many other people who... who earn less money than that, who work more days in these communities, that can afford it and do do it and do it responsibly. i just checked the web this morning. you can get a hotel room at the newark airport for $50 a night. >> o'brien: $50 a night, if you're making $20,000 a year, that adds up, doesn't it? >> adds up very quickly, if you have a base salary, roughly $1,200 a month is what you take home, $50 a... $50 a night for a hotel is going to disappear relatively fast. >> o'brie

but also what's planned for the future and there are strengthening towers who are the region and the eal dying to reduce that there are a number of fresh question point to this region north korea taiwan the south trying the city the borders with between india and china and of course these are all. the flashpoints for some sort of conflict and potential employers. well the other hand you know china is the undisputed powerhouse of a so it does have a certain right to regional eminence similar to that of the us. is a it certainly is a merging as. a significant power but it has no way in the heart of the military power or really the economic power of the united states i mean economic waves he has to paint on tried with my generation seen in the u.s. and europe militarily in every sphere of importance i mean he doesn't have the capacity to come back so the united states has started here. yet what about the alleged new partnership between the u.s. and india to jointly develop missile of the fans and will this potentially pose another challenge for china. well of course that's quite a possib

ground and air forces to the region. it had an influx of american man and woman power and was viewed with anxiety, especially by the king of saudi arabia. it was accepted reluctantly in order to counter the iraqi aggression. the successful defeat have the resources from drop the region carefully assembled by the u.s. and consider the high water mark of security cooperation to date. iran did not join despite a decade-long conflict with iraq. in the aftermath of the first gulf war, the u.s. retained a higher profile military presence in the region, mostly naval and air force but including substantial ground in kuwait. the focus now was to contain our iraq. salaam continued the oppression of the kurds, threatening neighbors. it is no wonder that eventually all u.s. military presence was removed from the kingdom of saudi arabia. tension remained high during the behavior frustrated every effort to stabilize the region. despite enthusiastic intentions by president herbert walker bush to encourage settlement of the new israeli-p

over 80% and the regional plan revenues are directed towards fix it first. igh level of investment continues a long-establish partnership or local and state dollars leveraged federal dollars. at the transportation authority over the last few months, we have acted to invest millions of dollars of the sales tax that we administer in a transit infrastructure, both in the current system to keep it in a state of good repair and also to enhance the system so that transit is prepared to take on its share of forecast growth in the near future which is quite significant. last week at the plans and programs committee, there was an approval+1t! sfmta to procure 90 40-foot motor coach of judges in -- buses in anticipation to the very good news we received today. we know from firsthand experience that replacing vehicles that are passed their useful life with new vehicles may be the single most important performance benefit we can offer survivors in terms of providing reliable service. in fact, in 1999, we partner with the fda in with the state muni fleet. we leveraged $50

this has been a lot of growth for the regional sector to manage. rom flying a small portion of overall flying to operating 52% of the departures today. you know, it's been a huge transition for the regional sector. >> o'brien: even before the crash of 3407, there were growing safety concerns about the regional airlines. since 2002, the last six fatal commercial airline accidents in the u.s. have all involved regionals. in four of the accidents, the ntsb cited pilot error as a cause. the investigation of 3407 opened a window into the lives of regional pilots, where the work is hard, and the days are long, says former colgan pilot chris wiken. >> it's challenging. it's very challenging. a lot of short routes, a lot of take offs, a lot of landings, and going in and out of bad weather, being down low. especially at colgan, flying the turbo props, you're not flying above the weather, you're flying in the weather. you know, eight, nine, ten flights a day, it gets to be a very long day. >> o'brien: while faa regulations limit pilots to eight hours of actua

exports and trade with the region still outnumber the amount of trade that china is doing with the region by a factor of 4:1. so it is still relatively small but it is certainly growing and becoming much more of a competitive factor. clearly china's interest is in the commodities very consistent with their global outreach. they seem this as consistent with their national growth strategy, consistent with the need to keep the political legitimacy of the communist party. and to the extent that growth depends, they're going to look wherever they can to find those commodities. so at one level they don't really care what's going on in latin america per se. they care about what latin america can sell to them and in return what the chinese have done is what they have done in other parts of the world. it's a classic america tallist strategy. you bring in the resources from outside you add value and sell them back to the countries in question or in china's case globally. this is actually impacting latin america's development in a negative way. because while the producers of these are doing quite we

they are coming to the region. trying to. find out. and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade there's a reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces modernization creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the u.s. than in the philippines that the u.s. or so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have at in store for china so all the treaty allies from japan south korea australia

you are seeing this blow up across the region here and across japan. farther towards the south we are watching storms blow up across the philippines and this could be rather hazardous. because with a 7.9 earthquake flaring up here, that could bring the risk of landslides along the steeper elevations along the coastline. with these rain showers blowing up throughout the overnight hour, you will be wanting to watch that very closely here. farther towards the north, we're also watching heavy rain showers in and around central china. this will continue to occur some 100 to 150 millimeters of rain very well could be occurring here as this low continues to push off there towards the east. behind it some cooler temperatures setting in. ulan bator with a high of 12 here for you on your saturday. out ahead of it, beijing at 29 and shanghai with 32 here on your saturday. now over towards the americas, the remnants of isaac continue to drift off there towards the north bringing some rain showers with it as well. definitely going to be seeing a little bit of a dent

navy stationed in the region but as you know reports it's a risky plan. they are courting each other at official meetings but it's a different story under the table with the u.s. employing every turn to asia policy ties between washington and beijing are getting tense there is becoming. a crucial region the u.s. interest is hanging you along. because the u.s. is in much. trouble they are coming in to this region. trying to. china. and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade the official reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces moderni

that because iran is such a powerhouse in the region it's so strong. they know that to take out iran first they have to take out syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next door to it will be hezbollah in lebanon i wonder if these two allies are taken out. they will concentrate one hundred percent on the of them who are you referring to when you say they i mean to my opinion the united states and their allies because they have their strategic interests in that region. also do. a lot of people talk about oil but you have to know syria it's not rich in oil they have some oil but it's not rich but of course the real oil is in saudi arabia and syria can be a transit country. you also have to know that or huge gas reserves in the former soviet union i mean the central asian states of the former soviet union so they're for a huge i guess reserves and i think you have to see it in this context how do you confirm the identity of the rebel fighters as you claim that they are coming from the outside they're foreigners how do we h

embassies throughout the region. allowed citizens of latin america to be a fly on the wall as u.s. officials held meetings with members of the host government, several leaders, with all sorts of actors and political and cultural society. one could see what the policies were, what the influence was, and quite a bit of revelations about what the governments of the region were saying to the united states as well. wikileaks has provided the ability for latin americans to gauge, at least in terms of the embassy -- we should stress these embassy cables are not cia or defense department cables. they do not look at the dark in covert operations that are still going on. they allow you to see the workings of the embassy, the u.s. influence, how that influence is exercised militarily, culturally in the region. >> peter, you have been covering latin the workings america for decades. what surprised you most? give us specific examples in these cables to about what was most revealing? >> each country have different levels of revela

it is pounding the region with heavy rains and strong winds expected to last all day and into the evening, and that is because issac is moving so sl s slowsly. the more it hangs around the more pressure on the systems built to protect all tof the flooding taking place. water is pouring over a levee that is in plaquemines parish about 95 miles southeast of new orleans. floodwaters are 14 feet deep and rising in some areas. homes are totally submerged. energy officials say that more than half a million customers are without power in louisiana alone. i want to bring in chad meyers to talk about what is this hurricane doing? where is the path and just how much longer do we have? >> there we go, now i can talk. >> you have the mic there. >> we are switching meteorologists out there, and the storm has not moved much and in fact, it is over homa and right where it made landfall again with our eddie lavendara. and it is not south of new orleans, but about 10 miles south of new orleans where the levee is filling in water from braithwait to white ditch, and this is to stop the mississippi river fro

interes in the region. a major factor in the energy business in the available supply since the 70s has been the international oil cartel, opec the organization of petroleum exporting countries, which has influenced supplies with a resulting impact osupplies on other nations. by the way replacing the railroad commissioner of texas for those with memory. as the arbiter of world oil prices. of course, this country tends to t in its interest unanimity will not act in opec's behavior. the track record of the group in line with various wars and international tensions have resulted in higher prices and is a major factor in the world economy. with high impact and high interest world leaders. opec has blamed a new factor in the past decade, which h supported the unusually were on a historic basis, high prices would be interesting will futures is an asset class and world financial market. i believe this is truly becoming a factor in keeping the markets up. u.s. policymakers have achieved on spotty success in moderatin

we will be a laboratory for a lot of the rest of the region in the country.hank you again, dedrick -- dubie director, thank you, mayor. [applause] >>ohz today's announcement is not just good news for san francisco. it is really good news for the entire country. in the bay area, as many of us have a preference, we're part of a network of transportation providers. each one working together with the other. we're pleased to have some of our partners in delivering transit service to the bay area here today. i want to ask them to come up and say a few words, starting with the vice president of the bart board of directors. [applause] >> thanks, everyone, for coming out. this is fantastic news. i have been on the bart board of directors for 15 years now and have really tried to make reinvestment in our system priority one. it is great to hear that echoed back. i think reinvestment in our system, keeping our system-state of the repair is a priority of art. and it is increasingly what we're hearing from muni. muni is putting a lot of their own operating money into the

respond to the united kingdom it would that mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level if it happens the browsing of asylum by ecuador stupid enough sounds has the spell the end of this tale already full of twists and turns in fact it appears to be the beginning of something else with neither the u.k. no ecuador apparently willing to back down it's developing into an ugly diplomatic spats which could affect relations for some time norris may see outside the ecuadorian embassy and up to now that it's on his extradition to sweden is in limbo other countries who want to question the whistleblower also have to wait in line and number of american officials have repeatedly called for the handover of the we can weeks founder to the u.s. to face potential charges for leaking classified diplomatic documents are just more important i has the details from new york. julia saunders mother is calling this a victory for her son many see this as a small defeat for the u.s. and that is because many believe the u.s. was hoping that julian assange would be extradited to sweden so that sweden wo

ground and air forces for the region. this influx of man and woman power and culture was viewed with anxiety and the gulf states. especially in the kingdom of saudi arabia. but it's a good, albeit reluctantly, in order to counter the aggression. expulsion of saddam's forces from kuwait featured a diverse coalition of forces and throughout the region, carefully assembled by the u.s. and is is considered the high watermark of regional security cooperation debate. iran, of course, did not join the coalition despite a decade-long colict with iraq, in fact, agreed to terms ending hostilities with saddam, shortly after the latter invaded kuwait. in the aftermath of t first gulf war, u.s. retained a higher profile military presence in the region. mostly naval and air forces, but including a substantial ground capability in kuwait. the focus now is to contain iraq, as if saddam continues suppression in the south of iraq, threatening neighbors against western interference. it is noteworthy that eventually all u.s. military presence

in syria or the people in the core of this region in syria they already got a lot of. government from the government in damascus and of course turkey is not happy with this evolution why this change of mind why are they so. anti. no i think there are different theories is can be true would that be still have this. dream aspirations to make thirty again a. powerhouse which it once once was in the region. during the ottoman era. another factor is that. the fact of the muslim brotherhood they're not really anti western because the origin of the muslim brotherhood. they are what we call rick and. so they are interested in free trade with europe with the united states with the western world i mean we see now in egypt the muslim brotherhood we know with that thirty governments also the president is also pro muslim brotherhood and maybe they are hoping to establish a new government in syria also pro muslim brotherhoods for economical economical reasons and also political reasons of course because you cannot really split this and you said th

we will have transit systems from around the region, including high-speed and future rail. we are also designed to accommodate amtrak if the decision were made to bring amtrak back into san francisco. just to give you a sense of how to import neck-and-neck to the is for the city and the region's economic vitality. just in the half mile radius are on the new transit center, there are over 180,000 jobs compared with the half mile radius are on the current terminus of about 19,000 jobs, about a tenfold difference. that's why it's important to bring cal train and high-speed rail into the heart of downtown. with that, we will turn to the video and then josh will give a presentation on the details and i will come back a little bit later to talk about the 5.4 acre roof top park. ♪ [inaudible] on the street level, buses will be incomplete the weather protected areas. primary entry to the transit center -- on the street level at the west and of the terminal, there is additional circulation as well as retail and other service functions. the mezzanine level will have more retail, offic

of america's military buildup in the region. while i live from the heart of the russian capital. with me will researcher welcome to the program britain's foreign office says julian assange will be denied safe passage out of the country even if he's granted asylum by ecuador the statement comes off of the u.k. sparked international raúl with a latin american country by threatening to raid in london and. by force very shortly here on earth he will be catching up with. she is outside the embassy as all of this is. getting more exciting by the minute. but. there. are. more. than the. well we're suddenly been speaking to a many people regarding the ongoing case with julian assange one of them was a tariq ali he was a guest on one of assigned his exclusive programs here on r.t. he has this to say regarding the current situation of a songe will he get asylum if he is granted asylum what will he even be allowed to leave the u.k. . i think we have now in different parts of the world including the western world clamp down on dissent and we have. the british home secretary referring yesterd

just some high clouds drifting over the region. coming from a coastal area of low pressure that's down around the outer banks. and that's going to affect our weather for the weekend. but right now, down into the low to mid 60s from the shenandoah valley east all of the way into the washington metro area. and the chesapeake bay, a bit milder. upper 60s, near 70. farther west, win maryland and west virginia, it's in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees. prince george's county now, it's in the mid 60s there, as well as montgomery, arlington, and fairfax. and in the charles county, prince william county, too, mid 60s. this is what has been happening here for isaac. it is still a disorganized weak tropical storm. it's affecting a wild area though over the eastern caribbean. it's south though of hate by the south of dominican republic. thankfully it's not going to be affecting them for the next few hours. however, by later today, it may be passing right over perhaps haiti, and that may bring down torrential rain and may cause flooding there

from president obama, all the g state, to our local and regional leaders, we have had the leadershipneed to make that investment in transit and transportation in the bay area. we are very lucky for that and that is the reason we are here today. without further ado, i want to introduce our local leader here, san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. we can do, besides what at redskin and the mta board, and all the staff have been doing, investing in our system and making it better and better, it is to realize that our municipal system is connected to a whole regional system. this morning you see a backdrop here a lot of our partners in the region. from caltrans, sam trans, everyone that works together here locally. that is not only important to us as a city, but clearly, coming from the u.s. conference of mayors this past weekend, we realize cities across the country are looking atz!zxxf transportation systems and making sure they are connected appropriately, whether there are regional or state or federal. so we are doing the right things. whether it is connec

bernard getting a lot of pounding, but so has the entire new orleans' region including the, you know, the center city. it is very unfortunate that people did not heed the warnings that live outside of the federal levee protection to leave. that's what the rescue officials are dealing with this morning. and you know, our hearts go out to people that were stranded, but the local officials asked over and over again for people to evacuate so that now the coast guard has to go out in the very, very tough winds still gusting in some places up to 50, 60, 70 miles an hour and try to do these rescues. the good news that i can share is that the general area of the metropolitan area and including the gulf coast and i haven't t gotten too much information about mississippi, but the region in south louisiana while we have been pummeled by the winds that won't seem to stop, the federal levee is holding. the system that the country invested in is absolutely paying off. we are not out of the woods yet. and something could go wrong, but the investments that have been made here are keeping literally hu

benefit any of the countries in the region it will not benefit the interests of your regional stability. in your country there philippa's could also end up hosting elements of the show wouldn't that make your country a potential target. that it's true that would put the philippines directly in the crosshairs of this military confrontation i'd like to point. the deception that you saw in the philippines in the in the beginning they were telling us that a land based reader would be set up for portably for maritime surveillance and nobody was talking about the missile defense system being with us so this is quite a revelation for us that what seemed to be initially. installation of a bigger broader u.s. military missile defense shield which would eventually drag the philippines into any armed conflict the us was involved in were in otto rayas political activist and head of the new patriotic alliance thank you very much indeed thank you very much. the united states has taken the protection of military secrets to a whole new level at ground time of day and that law is defending detainees are

compensates a lack of economic influence in the region. because governments around the world don't pursue their interests quite. but i think the us has special rights in the sense that it is now in economic decline. and it's been using its military. to try and reinforce its position agreements and it suits charge as the second largest economy in the world as a potential rar. and it's doing everything to turn it over to my own time it's this issue with the global economic system. or it's on the cross over to natasha the odds are your business does good to see you today you are going to stand facebook's i.p.o. lockup is expiring thursday what is i mean for the stock on the whole facebook fairy tale well that means that more than two hundred million shares could be sold but that doesn't mean they will be sold more on this and just a moment but first let's check out the equity markets european bourses in chile lower the sour the footsie is down despite better than expected u.k. retail spending figures for july the euro zone july inflation came

interests in the region. a major factor in the energy business in the available supply since the 70s has been the international oil cartel, opec, the organization of petroleum exporting countries, which has influenced supplies with a resulting impact on supplies on other nations. by the way, replacing the railroad commissioner of texas, for those with memory. as the arbiter of world oil prices. of course, this country tends to act in its interest, unanimity will not act in opec's behavior. the track record of the group in line with various wars and international tensions have resulted in higher prices and is a major factor in the world economy. with high impact and high interest world leaders. opec has blamed a new factor in the past decade, which has supported the unusually were on a historic basis, high prices would be interesting will futures is an asset class and world financial market. i believe this is truly becoming a factor in keeping the markets up. u.s. policymakers have achieved only spotty success

other people nations i should say regime supporting the rebels mainly qatar and saudi arabia in the region have been ducking and diving and weaving and trying to find some way militarily into syria and they've been and they've been failing time all the time at the time this latest call from turkey is very interesting because it's in this region obviously has to do with the refugees spilling over from syria into turkey and in the region in which they going which is a had a region where it's going the route is one of the main port cities there actually historically this was stolen from syria in one hundred thirty nine by the turks in a in a dirty game with the french against syria just a historical context of that but this spillover into turkey has create all kinds of problems for tokyo and it really if we see the way turkey has employed its diplomacy and foreign policy in the region in the last year year and a half two years we can see that nothing has come to the benefit of turkey or to turkey was developing good relations trade economic etc with iran with iraq with syria with libya and wi