American troops are on the move.

There are about 1000 members of the U.

S.

Armed forces there.

They've been leading an international fight against the Islamic state terrorist group, which took over large parts of Syria early in the country's civil war.

But now, U.

S Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the American troops could become caught.

The nation of Turkey is advancing into northern Syria.

It's targeting the Kurds, an ethnic group that lived in the region.

Kurdish militias in Syria have been American allies.

They've helped the U.

S led coalition defeat Islamic state fighters.

But Turkey considers the Kurds to be terrorists.

And after the U.

S removed about 50 troops from northern Syria last week, Turkish forces pushed into the area.

Their government said it was going after terrorists there and establishing peace.

The Trump administration says it's moving all remaining US troops out of northern Syria, though President Donald Trump said last night that they'll stay in the region to prevent a comeback of Islamic state.

Critics of the U.

S troop movement have said that America abandoned its Kurdish allies, hurting US credibility and potentially reversing gains against Islamic state.

The Trump administration says Turkey was gonna move into northern Syria anyway, that the U.

S.

Needed to get American servicemembers away from conflict between the Turks and any forces that fight them.

Republicans and Democrats in the U.

S government have been pushing for new sanctions penalties on Turkey's economy.

Last night, President Trump announced some sanctions would be put in place.

It's unclear if they'll go far enough for those who want strict punishments on Turkey.

Second Trivia.

The first US presidential debate broadcast on radio feature which candidate Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, the second Herbert Hoover or Franklin D.

Roosevelt in 1948 Republican hopefuls Harold Stassen and Thomas Dewey took part in the first debate on the radio.

That debate was part of the primary process, a series of preliminary elections that decide which nominee appears on the presidential ballot.

Incumbent President Harry Truman defeated New York Governor Dewey that year, looking forward to the 2020 presidential election.

There are no debate scheduled for the Republican Party, with the incumbent president being a Republican, but they've already been several, including one tonight for a historically large field of Democrats.

All of these events are milestones on the long road to the presidency.

You want to run for president.

Being president makes you the single most powerful person, man or woman in the world.

But it's also a multiyear commitment that forces you to give up your personal life and any sense of privacy.

And then about half the country is gonna hate you no matter what you did.

Constitution has only three requirements.

Natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, 14 years residing in the United States.

But there's so much more to it.

First, there's the primary process.

Since only Republicans or Democrats or seen a serious candidates, you have to choose a party and get popular in that party.

An inspirational biography helps.

Maybe some years as governor Senator, you spent nearly a year bouncing back and forth from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina to Nevada.

If you're not with voters, you're raising money and raising money and raising money.

It takes millions to mount a serious bid, and you can only raise $2700 per donor for the primary and $2700 per donor for the general election if you get that far.

Hillary Clinton raised and spent almost a $1,000,000,000 losing to Donald Trump.

He raised much less.

But primaries are expensive to Bernie Sanders spent $222 million on his 2016 primary loss.

Why is it so expensive?

You gotta have an army of staffers and volunteers.

You have to buy TV ads, Internet ads.

In the general election, you're gonna spend every waking hour in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, maybe Ohio.

Colorado.

If you wanna win, you should probably visit Wisconsin.

There are debates in town halls and interview after interview after interview.

And then if you win, you get to be president.

He's a live above the office.

You get to try to work with Congress and get something done.

Oh, and you're gonna have to start running for reelection on Day one.

What would you think is the most abundant man made material on earth?

Steel plastic glass?

The answer is concrete.

And while it's an incredibly useful and ubiquitous material producing, it releases a large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

There is technology available that prevents the gas from being released, but it comes at an additional cost, at least it first, and only a few dozen out of thousands of American plants use it.

You wake up in the morning, you're in contact with you, go to bed there, and then as you eat sleep, play throughout the day you're in contact with.

Everything we see here is pretty much concrete.

Exactly.

All the buildings have concrete into the roadway has concrete.

Everything you see.

There's got to be somewhere.

But concrete has an admissions problem.

The energy intensive process of making concrete releases massive amounts of CO two into the atmosphere.

Its main ingredient is responsible for 7% of Global Co two emissions.

But what if there was a way that instead of releasing carbon dioxide concrete could trap it forever?

Thank you.

There's a reason concrete is everywhere at Thomas Concrete in Atlanta.

It's their business.

There is no material that will do the same thing.

That's hungry.

You cannot have the same type of strength levels.

You cannot have the same type of their ability.

I mean, it is the second most consumed substance on the planet after water.

Concrete is a mixture of rocks, sand, water and, most importantly, cement to bind it all together.

But cement has a huge carbon footprint.

£1 of cement releases £1 of C two emissions.

It's the second highest industrial source of CO.

Two on the planet, but without cement.

Concrete doesn't hold up skyscrapers.

All right, so this is what's different about your operation.

This is This is kind of the brains of three.

This silver tank is the newest thing in concrete.

It's called Carbon Cure.

This innovative system injects carbon dioxide into the concrete as it's being mixed when the concrete hardens those otherwise harmful emissions air sequester forever before they ever even reach our atmosphere.

Christie Gamble is part of the team behind carbon Cures technology.

We actually convert the CIA to intra mineral.

It's a stone, it's getting trapped in the concrete forever.

And the best part about it is that the mineral itself actually improves the compressive strength of the concrete.

That's right, the rial selling point here, adding CO two actually makes a concrete stronger.

That means producers like Thomas Concrete can use less cement in their mixtures and still achieve the same strength less cement equals fewer emissions.

Compression tests like this one proved that the concrete made with carbon cure is just as hardy as the traditional stuff.

What?

Oh, wait, Yeah, you go to any major city right now.

There's construction happening all over the place.

Exactly.

If we're able to reduce 5% of the carbon footprint of the concrete industry, that's a significant change from where we're at right now.

Ultimately, if this technology was deployed across the globe, we could reduce about 700 mega tons of CO.

Two every year.

And that's the same as taking 150 million cars off the road every year.

It's going to take the concrete industry changing the way they do things.

Carbon Cure says about 90 concrete plants across the U.

S and Canada use its technology.

Right now, that's a fraction of the estimated 5500 plants in the US alone.

The concrete industry is very slow to take on new change and innovation, and it's understandable because they work in an industry where quality is everything.

The implications of sending concrete to sites that's not up to quality could be catastrophic.

Ultimately, it all comes down to the bottom line.

Companies pay to use carbon cure signature system and have to buy CO two from a factory where it's admitted.

But they save money by using less of their most expensive ingredients.

Cement.

At an assisted living center in Texas, a group of senior citizens said they missed giving out candy on Halloween, so they took to Social Media to ask their community to send in candy and toe.

Let the local kids know their home was a safe and fun place to trick or treat.

Well.

The candy has come pouring in and the seniors air, hoping all of the kids in the surrounding neighborhood come knocking at their door in just over two weeks.

If we were just a tweet is a bit closer, I'd totally poppin.

Sure, there might be some snickers at an older kid star bursting through the door like some giant nerd or jolly rancher.

Some might want to.

God stopped me in my tracks or tell me to skittle Datil.

But that would only cause Musketeers when all I want is to walk a milky way full of almond joy with my butter fingers clasped around the whole chalk.

A lot of sugars.