Page 5 - Current Fleet News Today

Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains th...

Gentleman from tennessee, dr. Roe and the gentleman from california, mr. Takano, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. Mr. Roe i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore so granted. Mr. Roe i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the chairman is recognized. Mr. Roe i rise in support h. R. 4533 as amended, a bill to designate the collective...

Plus starbucks is making a big difference with couples out children. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye openinger. Your world in 90 seconds. Literally looks like a destructive buzz saw. This is the real deal for the u. S. And Virgin Islands. Its a powerful category 5 hurricane. The u. S. Preps for Hurricane Irma. States of emergency are in effect in puerto rico and florida. Flooding rain, damaging winds and seas. I think we can actually get this done in the next six months. Sout...

Travis, the barometer, i can see the leaves blowing into the freeway. Right, ken lawrence . He says, i know its thats our director, he says, i can see stuff blowing all over the place. Cooler, 60s, 70s for many. 4 31, stars. I probably wont have time to come out and say to you again. There is more stuff in the newsroom than on the roads. Something we should snow. I should tell you because thats a fact of life in San Francisco. The first time saw a naked person was in dolores park. Was it traumat...

Towards maybe brentwood, oakland, antioch again. So thats one. Lets not forget that there are other areas to the north can especially around Southern Lake county and napa county to cloverdale, heelsburg and santa rosa. Thats going bongers but right there, look at that, coming out of 128. County back into the russian river. I want to show you this one. Look at that cell soming in from the east towards gilroy and i mean, that is a monster heading towards correialedes. Holiester. Tops over 30,000. ...

His death makes solving this case bittersweet. We dont have somebody that we can prosecute. The person has died. He was running from the cops on another case unrelated to this. But it is something that we hope that it brings some comfort to the family that we did not forget nor will we the victims here. Reporter his mother talked to us about the break in the case. Im very thankful to the Oakland Police department. Right now, i feel at least the person is off the streets. And they are not going t...

Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This co...

We are engaged in nothing short of a rescue mission to finally bring relief to americans struggling under this law and to give everyone access to the care they need. Will break away from this paul ryan event and piggyback life to the floor of the u. S. Senate a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune mr. President , its hard to argue that obamacare is not a failing law. Seven years after it became law, its laundry list of problems continues to grow....

We are engaged in nothing short of a rescue mission to finally bring relief to americans struggling under this law and to give everyone access to the care they need. Will break away from this paul ryan event and piggyback life to the floor of the u. S. Senate a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune mr. President , its hard to argue that obamacare is not a failing law. Seven years after it became law, its laundry list of problems continues to grow....

Railway. A native of new orleans, mr. Moorman grew up in mississippi and educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month mr. Moorman announced plans to step down from his current role. D about a year and a half. And he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year, he says thats longer than he originally planned to. We invited him here to talk about amtraks continuing budget woes, derailments, customer complaints about service, the famous stampede at penn...