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President Obama holds news conference
The White House announced that President Obama will hold a news conference Thursday morning in the East Room at 10 a.m. CDT. He is expected to discuss the American Jobs Act, as well as the state of the global and American economies. Listen live.
A response to a previous discussion on problems caused by cormorants comes from Linda Wires, a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Dept. Of Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology.
A group of scientists warned in 2005 that Great Lakes ecosystems were on the verge of collapse because of a dangerous set of problems, including species invasions and degraded water quality. The wildlife federation report said the scientists' predictions are coming true.