Recently visited puerto rico to assess the impact these hurricanes have had and continue to have on americans. This committee has been conducting oversight of the federal response to the recent hurricanes since shortly after harvey made landfall in texas. Unfortunately, i expect that our work here will continue for years to come. The committees jurisdiction involves not just Public Health issues but rebuilding the electrical grid, addressing environmental cleanup and restoring telecommunications to name only a few. The people of puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands continue to face a long road to recovery and many are living without power and Running Water. I believe we are going to be joined today by representative Jennifer Gonzalez from puerto rico, someone who knows all too well about the difficult challenges her home is facing. Thank you for being here at this important hearing. From coordinating overall response to insuring that individuals have the medical treatment they need
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And, yes, dont foet. Building a more effective border wall. Our fox business all stars have every angle covered for you. Plus President Trump has his new National Security adviser ready to go. Start with russia, iraq, north korea, and other hot spots testing the new administration. Where should general mcmaster start . Former deputy National Security adviser john hannah will answer that question and many others. Plus milo resigning from Breitbart News. Charlie gasparino way ahead of the story, he breaks it with details from inside the firestorm. Were less than an hour from the closing bell. Im Ashley Webster in for liz claman, lets start the countdown. Ashley well, we are following breaking news at this hour, milo resigning from Breitbart News. Hes due to speak to the press at any moment about his resignation which comes from the wake of controversial statements he made late last week. When that happens, we will take you there live as you can see the podium waiting. In the meantime, th
Hiring thousands of Additional Border patrol agents but how will it all get paid for. Meanwhile the president condemning new threats targeting Jewish Centers all over the country. Well speak with a former Homeland Security director for new york. Did you see this tweet from nbc, President Trump, and im reading now, reaches 32 days, will not be the shortest u. S. President. What do you think about that . Wall street journal Columnist Bill ma gurn responds to blatant Mainstream Media bias coming up. Melissa amazing. More breaking news. The 200 Police Officers responding to shots fired in ben taub houston near Rice University and the houston zoo. The hospital is right now on lockdown. We break. Back to the markets. The dow continues its record streak closing up more than 120 points. Lets go right to adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange, and adam, who were the big wins today . Reporter you had so many winners, goldman sachs, apple, boeing, alltime highs. David said, 10th
Trains were just stopping on and off, and we were trying to figure out what was going on. Make me late for meetings i have this afternoon and just confusion. Reporter septa Officials Say a moving train slammed into the back of a stopped train and then derailed hitting part of a third train going the other way. How fast it was going is uncle unclear. Although the limit at the kirsh is 10 miles an hour. The collision hurting several people. There were four injured. Two the two operators and two passengers. One operator was transported in Critical Condition and the other three were transported with nonlife threatening injuries. Reporter septa says its unclear why the two injured passengers were still on board since they should have exited at the platform before the train made the loop around for new r run. Now buses are picking up the slack between 63rd and 69th streets where the market frankford line service was suspended. Im going back downtown. Going to take you bit longer to get down