Inspector general sopko, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans statement. Thank you mr. Chairman pro tem, United States has been in afghanistan for almost 19 years, the longest war in the history of the United States. We sacrificed much on the battlefield, but we achieved a great deal. We decimated al qaeda and greatly weakened their global network. As a resul
Efforts in afghanistan. We will come to order. All members will have five days to submit statements to the record. Notice, we are here today to examine the lessons from americas war in afghanistan. , welcome general sopko to the Foreign Affairs committee. I look forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans st
Collapsed at 4 30 pm. It is located south of Jacqueline Jack london square. A major project is underway on a 60 acre parcel of land. We get the news from deborah. She is perched above the estuary in oakland. Reporter Brooklyn Basin broke ground this year. A huge waterfront development. Housing and marina and retail. What happened tonight and old peer got ahead of demolition. From sky fox the mess of a collapsed peer which crumbled into the oakland estuary at dusk and said more than 100 feet of shoreline with it. It doesnt appear to be an environmental concern. The incident has stabilized. Reporter oakland fire responded. Then turning attention to the pollution hazard. For metal shipping containers each 53 feet long tumbled into the water. They were big containers. They only contained building materials. Items such as that. They will take on water in sink and stick into the mud. No concern of them floating into the waterway at this time. This part of the peer was scheduled to be demolis
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im maurice dubois, and this is our western edition. As the weekend is beginning in the east with a deadly storm. Hermine made landfall this morning in northern florida as a hurricane, the first to hit that state since 2005. A man was killed by a fallen tree. Tonight, hermine is a tropical with torrential rain, damaging wind and dangerous seas. We have a team on hermines trail, beginning with Omar Villafranca in port richey, florida. Reporter hurricane hermine barreled into the Sunshine State around 2 00 a. M. This morning. The deadly storm flooded entire neighborhoods. Wind gusts of up to 80 Miles Per Hour snapped trees, one of which fell on top of a homeless man, killing him. Nearly 300,000 people lost i dont know the condition of my house. D i dont know if its flooded or if it isnt. Its really, really, really bad. Like, ive never seen it thisd. Bad before. Reporter here in pasco county, florida
Started when 49ers quarterback down during the National Anthem in week three of the preseason and continued cwhen he knelt during. 5],the song with teamm eric reid on thursday. He is 8feprotesting the way l country and police treat minorities, he wmqsays. Friday the Santa Clara Police Officers Association responded to kaps statement and to the Police Pig Socks he wore its disappointing for them to hear when someone talks poorly about our profession. I get it. Reporter then the poa wrote that kaepernick may be the reason officers choose not to work at the stadium. Some fans are a little concerned by a ;that. I think thats unfortunate. I think they should still au reporter today the Santa Clara Police chief p responded with a letter. I just think our Department Law enforcement just needs to take the high road and understand that what Colin Kaepernick is doing we may not appreciate or respect. But he is exercising his First Amendment right. Reporter in the letter the chief urged the