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Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being here. Well provide an update acting secretary duke, administrator long and chris, our senior official performing the duties of the undersecretary from the department of Homeland Security. Before i do an update, just give you an idea, they have commitments on the back side so well have about 25 minutes with you so thanks. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us as we continue to respond to Hurricane Irma. Our number one concern today is with s...

The air to see what Additional Resources would be needed. Heres the latest briefing from fema on Hurricane Irma Recovery Efforts with administrator brock long and acting Homeland Security secretary elaine duke. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us. To continue as we continue to respond to Hurricane Irma. Our number one concern today is with saving lives. The u. S. Coast guard, customs and border protection, and department of defense have deployed significant assets to the area to...

Terrorist come insights of a former fbi undercover agent. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on booktv. 1995 law in calls the us embassy to be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem. President clinton, obama, bush and trump have issued waivers on the move citing National Security interests. The house. Looked at policy applications that moving the embassy would have on relations with israel and neighboring countries. This House Oversight subcommittee hearing is just under two hours. Subcommi...

As already tense relations between the two nato allies worsened. As londons mandates a vigil, the victims of saturdays attack, british names to of the killers, one of them was known to the authorities but was not thought to be an immediate threat. A major diplomatic rift is opening up in the gulf region, six arab governments led by saudi arabia and egypt have cut diplomatic ties with qatar. The accused the small gulf state of terrorism and destabilizing the region. The government is lining up ag...

Between the two nato allies worsened. As londons mandates a vigil, the victims of saturdays attack, british names to of the killers, one of them was known to the authorities but was not thought to be an immediate threat. A major diplomatic rift is opening up in the gulf region, six arab governments led by saudi arabia and egypt have cut diplomatic ties with qatar. The accused the small gulf state of terrorism and destabilizing the region. The government is lining up against qatar, libya, egypt, ...

Hey, gerri. Hey, neil. I took a look at the results. Start with home depot. They were out with a solid Fourth Quarter beat. Eps, earnings per share up a dime over expectations 1. 44 versus 1. 34. The housing recovery has legs here. Alltime high for the stock as youve been seeing on our network. Lets talk about walmart. Here is company struggling with amazon as a competitor but they come in with a handy eps beat. Their earnings per share up a penny over expectations at 1. 30. Revenue fell short o...

Briefed lawmakers on a Pilot Shortage affecting all four of the services. This House Armed Services subcommittee hearing runs about an hour 1 2. And a half. Comes to order. I want to welcome everyone to the hear on the shortage of pilots in military services. Today well hear from the services on their progress towards increasing the retention of military pilots both officers and warrant officers. We know pilot demands are increasing in the commercial sector and the demand to hire qualified milit...

Briefed lawmakers on a Pilot Shortage affecting all four of the services. This House Armed Services subcommittee hearing runs about an hour 1 2. And a half. Comes to order. I want to welcome everyone to the hear on the shortage of pilots in military services. Today well hear from the services on their progress towards increasing the retention of military pilots both officers and warrant officers. We know pilot demands are increasing in the commercial sector and the demand to hire qualified milit...

In women and girls. Seizing these opportunities will help prevent crisis in the future but we must still respond to the crisises of today. We cannot turn away from the more than 60 Million People who have been forced to flee their homes, the highest number since world war ii. Many are fleeing the very same terrorists that we are fighting. Now is the time to do more by welcoming more refugees to america. Without discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity. And providing more support to r...

With that, mr. Chairman. Actually that process that youre describing used to be used by the department of where manufacturers wouldan opportunity to test a product under a new standard or to even employ a new Test Procedure before you could determine whether a standard was appropriate. But what weve seen in the last several years is because so many rulemakings are going on at the same time, that d. O. E. Has not been able to go through this very thorough process of lets do a Test Procedure and m...