Good morning, this Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on recent Navy Collisions at sea, including uss lake champlain, uss fitzgerald and the uss John S Mccain, as well as the rounding of the uss antietam. We welcome our witnesses, the honorable richard spencer, secretary of the navy, admiral john richardson, chief of Naval Operations and start on an, director of defense for structure and readiness issues at the Government Accountability office. I would like to take a moment to recognize family members who lost loved ones in the fitzgerald and mccain collisions, who are here with us today as honored guests. Ofm the fitzgerald, the wife a chief petty officer, parents of a petty officer third c lass, parents and brother of a petty officer first class. Stepmother of a seaman , father of a petty officer first class, and from the mccain, the wife of a petty officer first class and his , along with her wife. Officer of a petty first class, mother and brother of a petty up with
Good thursday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, sara eisner and with us is henry blodgett. Amazon officially closing its acquisition of whole foods google and walmart are teaming up on a voice shopping nasdaq slightly up this morning looking to avoid its fifth negative session in six. A retail analyst on yesterday who called the day of that announcement amazon whole foods a day that will live in retail infamy now getting one step closer to theyre going to close this thing in the second half. Yeah, which is great. A lot of us amazon and whole food shoppers are exited another bold step from amazon. Well be excited how they do it. How your characterizing the responses companies have you take your hat off to walmart. Theyre being very aggressive. They made a huge bet acquiring jet. They are being superaggressive its a smart idea with google. Does it immediately counter amazon no but the whole idea of ordering stuff through your home voice device, walmarts are Something Like an a
What are you going to do tonight to celebrate . Im going to go hide in my bed. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. A monster named harvey is creeping up on the gulf coast of texas. When it comes ashore late tomorrow or early saturday, it could be the first major hurricane to hit the u. S. In 12 years with winds over 125 miles an hour. Storm surges and as much as 30 inches of rain could bring what the National Weather Service Calls lifethreatening floods. Watches and warnings are posted up and down the coast. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in 30 counties. And gasoline prices surged to a threeweek high as at least two refineries in Corpus Christi were shut down. Manuel bojorquez begins our coverage. Reporter along the texas coast tonight, people are boarding up, piling sbz around homes and businesses, and leaving store shelves empty as they stock up on food and water, all in preparation for hurricane harvey, expected to make landf
Take mass transit. We also want to show you a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Only a few cars there. Looking pretty nice and clear. Okay, for some of you, the commute, though, is changing forever starting today. It has been nearly six decades since the north bay has seen regular passenger train service. But that all ends now. The long awaited smart train finally gets rolling on its regular schedule. Amy hollyfield is live in santa rosa this morning. Hi, amy. Hi, good morning, jessica. Were finding theres a little confusion. We have seen a couple commuters show up thinking the trains were going to start running this morning. That is not the case. Today is the Ribbon Cutting ceremony. Today is all about celebrating. You can count on those trains for the monday morning commute. Theyll start the celebration this morning at 9 00, and they have waited a while for this. The smart trains were supposed to start running last fall. But a problem with the Diesel Engine caused a delay. This 43
Divers recovered the remains of 22yearold Kenneth Aaron smith of cherry hill, new jersey. Still missing, are kevin bushell, of maryland, dustin doyo of connecticut, jacob drake, from ohio, 23yearold, timothy eckels, jr. , of maryland. And john hoagland, of texas. Corey in gram of new york. Abraham lopez of texas, and logan palmer, 23 from illinois. The parents of a Young American who was beat tine death in greece spoke publicly about their loss for the first time. 22yearold Bakari Henderson was pummeled by a mob last night in a bar fight that one witness suggest was racially motivated. Gale king spoke with his parents, jill and Phil Henderson at their home in austin, texas. Your son was a world traveler and clearly very comfortable traveling around the world. True . Correct, yes. More comfortable overseas than in the united states. So his desire. What do you mean . He felt it was safer in europe and overseas in general. He said, you know with the climate, with africanamerican males in