Obama takes in Detroit auto show as industry flourishes

Obama, who is visiting Detroit on Wednesday, met Tuesday with Flint’s newly elected mayor, Karen Weaver, and appointed a coordinator for federal aid to the city. On his way there, he stopped for lunch in Midtown.

Automakers use the show to unveil new products and technology.

Presidents of the USA and Turkey Barack Obama and Recep Erdogan have agreed over a phone conversation of 19 January to enforce cooperation in fight against the Islamic State, according to the White House. But Flint did not return to Detroit water until October 2015 after tests showed elevated levels of lead, which can cause brain damage and other health problems, in Flint tap water and in some children.

The House committee letter mentioned reports that said people in Flint have been exposed to unsafe biological pathogens and chemicals in the drinking water. He said he would release on Wednesday his own emails regarding Flint’s water, which became contaminated with too much lead when the city switched its water source in 2014 as a cost-cutting measure. Michigan’s top environmental regulator Dan Wyant resigned over the failure to ensure that the Flint River water was properly treated to keep lead from pipes from leaching into the water.

Under a state-appointed emergency manager, the city switched to the river water from the Detroit water system’s Lake Huron in April 2014 when it protested what it considered the city of Detroit’s expensive water rates.

She said Wednesday during a trip to Detroit that the “federal government will be there to support the people of Flint.”.

At the request of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Obama on Saturday declared a national emergency in the state, ordering federal aid to assist in relief efforts. “He saved my job and my retirement”, welder Randy Gossett, of West Bloomfield, said after Obama’s speech.

McConnell seemed particularly perturbed by a recent statement from White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that Obama would take “audacious” steps in his final 12 months. President George W. Bush initiated the auto bailout with more than $17 billion in short-term loans.

The Obama administration also provided additional capital to help Chrysler and G.M. continue operating as they restructured operations prior to and during a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The companies shuttered plants, laid off workers and cut ties with thousands of dealerships. Mission of the IS is coming to an end and the U.S. can oppose the IS more actively,’ Andrei Kryzhanovsky explained.