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[applause] good afternoon welcome and they give you for joining us today on the topic of critical importance. I am president of the United States institute of peace with the critical moment to this serious conflict to threaten not of the regional political will security with the arrival of refugees in europe that there is 60 Million People displaced by conflict and 12 million are syrian. And estimates suggest what quarter have been killed in the civil war today. One of the pressing tragedies of ...

The morning commute should be fine will be hearing a lot more from ashley in just a moment youll notice some low clouds that she has just a little bit of moisture on the windshield coming in not enough to leave the roads wet i didnt even turn on the windshield wipers but every once in awhile so just a little bit of moisture kind of on the windshield and you may find a little bit of that yourself. Visibility is not too bad forty seven degrees right now north winds of twelve mph as we take you thr...

A truck driver is recovering from a gunshot wound in a bay area hospital. He said he was hurt he was turned away from the Oakland Coliseum and then shot by a man breaking into his big break. Amber. Reporter julie, family members tell me the 72yearold was the same stable condition after being shot in the stomach area. Hes undergone three surgeries, suffer two infections, but that he is improving. He is heavily medicated as he recuperates from a gunshot wound that his family tells us nearly missed...

The temperatures up in the mid fifties thats later this afternoon. Right now were looking at a slight reduction in visibility for inland areas near the coast not too bad his abilities five to ten miles there but Sidney Lanier is down on a couple miles and is noticing some low cloud cover certain kind of settle down a little bit as we go through the afternoon there could be a few sprinkles so you may want to keep an umbrella with you if youre headed out this morning you know youre going to be gon...

Hours. As it does, thunderstorms and showers will get closer to us. Where you see the reds and yellows, the heaviest rain off the coast of tampa is about two and a half hours away from the orlando area. From between now and 2 00 this afternoon, this whole big batch of rain will continue moving in. Right now, it is a few light showers we are seeing along i75 and i4. We are getting more rain developing in pulp and osceola counties. Brevard is seeing some light rain. For the rest of us, some light ...

They went back to their homes they could be hurt in the crossfire, in the violence. In all my meetings, security was the number one topic of concern from cabinet ministers, to u. N. Leaders, to refugees, they all spoke of the need to restore a sense of law and order in the country. This is the number one message or one to bring to you today. Is that they were concerned about the violence. When i asked for fiji is why they had fled they all mentioned fear of attack and concern for their families ...

Country and virtually nothing happens. No sustained comprehensive action is taken. But it is happening and it does every day. Illegal guns are the weapons of mass destruction on our streets. We experience as one of any fellow mayors has said has murder once by one by one in slow motion every single day in the United States of america. And so i ask the question, where is our right red line on violation violence in america . 10,000 plus murdered americans every year. That is a crime against humidi...

The work that was done during that tsunami in 2004 by crs. It is great to know that you were there making sure that happen because otherwise it would have been far worse than it actually was. I would like introduce ms. Madeleine rose is an advocacy advisor for mercycorps an aid agency. She leads mercycorps portfolios on subsaharan youth programs, counterterrorism, and humanitarian access, countering violent extremism and atrocity prevention. She has also worked for the committee on National Legi...

So lets try to work this out. I think we can. Again, ive got a whole list of reforms here ill be glad to talk to anybody about. Appreciate the work done, appreciate you gentlemen. Were going to work this out and make it better. Yield back. Thank you. Mr. Delanie. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank all the witnesses for joining us here today. Mr. Wilburn, captain, thank you. Mr. Anderson, i want to thank you in particular for joining us and for bringing so many of your colleagues. Delta is ...

Environment we have. The time of the gentlemen has expired. No others in the queue. We thank you for your testimony. We would excuse the first panel at this time. We would invite the members of the second panel to please make their way to the witness table. Committee will come to order. Well now turn to our second panel of witnesses, many of whom are familiar faces to this committee, so my introductions will be brief. If staff can be instructed to shut the hearing room doors. Honorable Fred Hock...