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Pryou can ecsee the cotton ball effect that we have a lot of unstable air Mass Associated with this. No rain from the system. A couple of raindrops north bay. Temperatures cool with this area of low pressure sg e g h bay area. Sunnyvale good morning at 71 degrees. San jose should be in the 80s but instead, 73. morning raindrop or two and partly cloudy in cloverdale at 71. Full forecast and tracking maria is coming up still but right now lets say good morning to michelle and kenny. Amid ongoing s...

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A morning ive asked the committee to consider 3196 pending military nominations. All these nominations have been before the committee for the reset required length of time. All in favor say i. The motion carries. The Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. This Committee Thanks you for your decades of service to our nation, we are grateful to your wife for the support she has provided to into all hers urination i...

A morning ive asked the committee to consider 3196 pending military nominations. All these nominations have been before the committee for the reset required length of time. All in favor say i. The motion carries. The Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. This Committee Thanks you for your decades of service to our nation, we are grateful to your wife for the support she has provided to into all hers urination i...

Required length of time. Is there a motion to favorably report these 3,196 military nominations . So moved. Second . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. The motion carries. Xh tig the Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford for reappointment as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. General ton ford, this Committee Thanks you for your decades of distongue wished service to our nation. We are grate to feel your wife, ellen, for the support she has always p...

Nominations . So moved. Second . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. The motion carries. The Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination of general Joseph Dunford for reappointment as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. General dunford, this Committee Thanks you for your decades of distinguished service to our nation. We are grateful to your wife ellen for the support she has always provided to you and to all who serve our nation in uniform. Id also like to welcome your son patrick...

Recommendation to expand registration to include women. Author and former Obama Administration official cass ,unstein talks about his book impeachment a citizens guide. Host there are eight dead and anleast 11 injured following attack in new york city yesterday. Reportedly he shouted god is great in arabic after the attack. The attack was carried out in the name of isis. That we will tell you about in the first hour of washington genesys morning. We invite your phone calls on the attack and rela...

Almost exactly to a t the instructions that isis has put out in its social Media Channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. Paul judge Michael Mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the United States, and he also presided over the criminal prosecution of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing suspects. Judge, good to have you here again. Good to be here. Paul you heard john miller. This is the kind of nightmare scenario for people who are trying...

Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational re...