Dominican republi turks caicos. Weather meteorologist Charlie Meese with us what is the latest. Category 3 with 115 mileanhour wind. It is possible it will strengthen a little bit as it moves northwest at 1 to miles an hour. The problem will not be the 155 mileanhour winds when it hit puerto rico but across hispaniola and Dominican Republic. You will have tremendous flooding. They are mountainous islands. They enhance rainfall with or graphic lift. When you have 10, 20, 25 inches of rain. Catastrophic flooding going on in puerto rico, likely to extend north as the storm movers north. Hispaniola, Dominican Republic will have to deal with the same thing. Wind will be Hurricane Force there but it will be the flooding that will be a big issue as it moves farther north and west. Through the turks caicos, nine to 12foot storm surge in the lower islands, that will be a big issue right along the coast. The good news, at this point, looks like a trough off the east coast in part due to jose, ar
Were live at the Senate Veterans affairs committee, where the success tear will testify about preventing veteran suicides as the committee looks into what congress can do to prevent them. Senator Johnny Isaacson chairs the committee. John tester is the top democrat on the committee. This is live coverage on cspan 3. We call this hearing to order. I thank all of you for coming today, especially our witnesses. We have a number of members on the way, but were in the interest of your time were going to get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. This month in america is National Suicide e Prevention Month across the kocountry. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss of life. John will remember when we came in as a committee our first bill we passed was the Suicide Prevention bill. Passed this committee 990. It will ask to give us a report on the progress on the implementation of the act but its a very important act. And in august of 2014 i held a hearing at Georgia St
Order. Thank you for coming today especially the witnesses we have a number of witnesses available todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people know this month in Americas National Suicide Prevention month across the country terrible wasteful loss of life they think john will remember when we first came in three years ago the first bill we passed was a Suicide Prevention bill that passed and if they could get any report they might have on the progress on the implementation in terms of automatic but its very important. I held a hearing at Georgia State university as a member of this committee. As they feel dishing hearing on the issue of suicide th suicidey redesigned it is in that year from leading up to august, 2014, the georgia principal hospital in claremont road i indicator hd three suicides, to oncampus and on the mishandling of available tools for suicide Like Pharmaceuticals and things of that nature and others were like awareness to improve the response to suici
Of time were going to go ahead and get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people in the room know, this month in america is National Suicide Prevention Month across the country. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss, and wasteful loss of life. And preventible loss of life. I think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay hunt Suicide Prevention bill. It passed this committee 990. And we asked the secretary and the other members of the v. A. Here today to give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of clay hunt act. But its a very important act. In august of 2014, i held a hearing as a member of this committee. It was a field hearing on the issue of suicide. The reason i did was because in that year, the months leading up to august of 2014, georgia va hospital in decatur had three suicides, two on campus. Some from mishandling of available
To the militant group itself. Also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to read to take disputed kurdish held areas as the u. N. And the u. S. Appealed for calm. And from great hope to great misery south sudan is one of the worlds newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and to feed her family. Plus calls for justice grow louder in malta following the murder of anticorruption journalist tough enough to leave. And following the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse allegations stories of Sexual Harassment sweep across social media using the hash tag me to. Im sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us. U. S. Backed fighters in syria have retaken rocca the city that the socalled Islamic State considers its capital now troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the militants last holdouts that is of course the citys hospital but there are still pockets of resistance