I guess thats good news. Better or worse. I dont know. Good morning, im dick brennan in for chris. Traffic and weather on the 2s in a moment. Lets get to breaking news, it happened about an hour ago. We are being told one person is being treated for injuries. No word on any possible suspects. We have a crew headed to the scene. We will have much more at the top of the hour. First top cops waking up on desk duty this morning after being implicated in an nypd corruption scandal. Many more may soon be implicated from this is not a particularly good day for the department. A department tainted by an evergrowing crowd of corruption. Violations of nypd rules and policies. The city conflicts of interest rules and federal criminal laws. The fbi probe prompting Police Commissioner william guns and badges of deputy chief michael harrington, executive officer of citywide housing and Deputy Inspector james grant Commanding Officer of the 19th precincts reassigning them to desk duty. Eric rodriguez
Question from one of our multinational partners. Im from the british embassy. Just following on from a point you made that and with the recent events in europe and the repositioning of some of your armored combat teams back to europe, are you confident that under the Restructuring Initiative that youve got the right assets or enough assets within europe or john, you want to take the first one . I think we spend a lot of time talking to our rsccs around the world. Army service sorry. Army Service Component commands. And sorry, with the acronym soup here. We were talking about pegs earlier. Great record on that. So we stay closely tied, and the aviation Restructuring Initiative is about adding capability, increasing capability even though were going to have less structure because it is the best step. And were going to tie that to the idea that we need to become more expeditionary and we need to proat a time forrotate force basis. We did in hawaii this summer and we put a company out of c
General, thanks for your time this morning. I was hoping you could clarify how air strikes are being conducted without any jtax on the ground in most cases and also how you assess civilian casualties in most cases, if at all . Let me start with civilian casualty piece. You know, the coalition is really very deliberate about how it conducts strikes out there. And we have some great capability in terms of precision. Whats in the balance here if youre not careful is you can be precisely wrong. You could strike, you know, tribe, you could strike Iraqi Security forces and you could create a very bad situation. To date weve got a very good record. Im tracking no civilian casualties where we just if we even suspected civilian casualties, we would immediately direct investigation, determine the cause and then seek to understand the lessons is learned from that and apply those lessons learned. So thats the civilian casualty piece of this. And again, a very deliberate process. And the second que
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 420, the nays are zero. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from missouri, mr. Luetkemeyer, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 3240 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar number 480, h. R. 3240, a bill to instruct the controller general of the United States to study the impact of regulation d and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the ho
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