And that is terrorists are radicalizing americans. Time after time now we have seen more than a dozen terrorist attacks on american soil in the last seven years. Unfortunately some people around this town want to take advantage of that as an opportunity to talk about gun control. Taking away rights of lawabiding citizens, mr. Speaker, instead of focusing on the problem. They dont just use guns. They use pressure cookers, they use pipe bombs, they use axes, the internet to recruit americans. And its time we put a sharper focus on solving this problem and addressing the fact that americans are being radicalized and taking out, carrying out terrorist attacks here in the United States. Its going to continue until there is a sharper focus. This package of bills puts the focus where it needs to be. Its time for the president to join with us, to actually speak out in getting more tools to our intelligence agencies to go and do a better job of rooting out the attacks that are here on our home
John you appropriately note in your Opening Statement this hearing takes place against the of a heinous act of violence perpetrated by a troubled and evil person. Been assistingas conduct and has been provided a great deal of information on the status of the investigation. I know that your team, along with the Intelligence Community partners are also working to determine if the killer had any connections to a Foreign Terrorist Group like isil. Let me thank your officers for what they do and for the long hours that they are likely putting in to understand this tragedy while also focusing on a wide range of threats facing our nation. Director, i know your organization stands understands the threat posed by isil and theres been much public discussion about progress, the u. S. Led coalition has made to contain isil geographically, to degrade its finance in Media Operations and to remove its fighters from the battlefield, however, while progress may have been made against those goals you no
Storms running along 270 and south across the river to loudoun county. Another storm near woodstock. This stuff moves eastward. Its a fair amount of lightning and a smaller area. We track this eastward over the next hour or so. We will see it move through germantown, gaithersburg and rockville before 5 00. The southern end will probably stay along the Potomac River in loudoun county. Beyond that we will see ourselves with a chance of showers and storms longer. Again, the entire area in the day remains under the heat advisory for one more day. As the heat index values feel like 100 degrees or higher. Be back with the latest on the warnings and any additional ones in a few minutes. Alison okay, doug. Thank you very much. This was a big surprise around here today. Breaking news out of d. C. Where Longtime Police chief cathy lanier announced that she is finished at the end of the month. Michelle the next move for her, the National Football league. Jonathan thank you for staying with abc7 n
Our reporters on the ground have the latest with just hours to go before also been before polls open. Now, a large swathe of the socalled jungle migrant camp in calais is going to be destroyed. The judge ruling against the group of charities who had tried to block the partial evacuation of the right site. The mayor of calais has told reporters it will be done in a progressive manner and could start in one week from now. The French Interior minister has insisted the government wants us a humanitarian solution for the people who are set to be removed. Reporter those who called his makeshift camp home say they feel unwanted by both the country they are in and the one they want to reach, the united kingdom. , we are justhey do illegally people here to live. Reporter the residents of the camp known as the jungle have been offered temporary accommodation in Welcome Centers or heated containers set up last month. To gain access, they must scan their hands on a biometric reader, something that
Please call the roll. Commissioner buell, here. Commissioner low, here. Commissioner bonilla, here. Commissioner harrison, here. Commissioner mcdonald, here. Commissioner levitan is on the way. We have a couple announcements. We arethe order we are going in today we are going to start with the president s report which is extremely short. We are then going to item number 4, which is general Public Comment. After that we are going to item 8 which is ceez arstadium and then the other things on the agenda. If you have sound producing devices please turn them off. In regards to Public Comment if you fill out a blue card well call those first and then open up to everyone on each item. How many minutes do you want . General Public Comment. Because we have 15 minutes in the first period lets give 3 minutes and well look at other items. 3 minutes on general Public Comment and then he will see how many people want to testify. During Public Comments the commission nor staff will respond to Public