Cspans q a. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Defense secretary mark eer and mark milley were on capitol hill to testify for the 2020 request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military moderation efforts and defense funds for border wall construction. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony in the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request and our witnesses we thank them for our service and both dr. Marques per and general mark. We have a pair of marks this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness adjacent to a National Defense strategy thats our vote we had heard in hearing for a long period of time now, about three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we asked our military to do more with less. That got us in trouble between 2012 and 2017, we boost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the redness of our forces were dev
Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac this footage was curious to me because its not just standing there and what are they doing . And im going to show it to you twice because i figured out what was actually happening in it. This is during the test. Hes flying around for an hour. A long time to wait. Look at this. Everybodys back is to the camera and what they do is they do this. Theyre watching orville fly around. Whats cool is because the shots that we have from the ground of the airplane going around, its just a little bit of the ark c the circle all put together. Now everybody is watching him. And right in the center here, thats his brother. Hes watching him very intently. Did something good there. Theres charlie and all of the various official army and navy observer. He broke his arm. Theres a still of wilbur timing and waiting for orville to come down. It was time enough for the camera man to change his position. He wrote to his father that after this flight, he wanted
Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
Now at 11 00, iran retaliates firing missiles at 2 bases housing u. S. Troops in iraq. Whats next . The world waits to hear from President Trump. And Tragedy Strikes in iran just hours later. A ukrainian passenger jet crashes after take off, killing everyone on board. The fiery aftermath. Scattered showers rolling across the bay on high def doppler. What you can expect for your morning commute. Plus an electric Scooter Company accused of making up its own permit to operate on city streets. Reporter walnut creek is looking for some solutions to their homelessness issue. What theyre doing differently here in the city. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are following 2 breaking stories tonight. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. We start tonight with a deadly plane crash in iran. A 737 plunges to the ground leaving no survivors. The Ukrainian Airlines plane carrying nearly 180 people crashed shortly after take off near an airport in teheran. New video i
This morning, the United States is urging u. S. Citizens to leave iraq immediately. The state Department Cites heightened tensions in iraq and the e region, and this comes after iran vowed harsh retaliation against the u. S. For the assassination of one of its most powerful military figures. The pentagon confirms that irans general Qassim Suleimani is dead. He was killed overnight in a u. S. Air strike near Baghdad International airport. The attack was authorized by President Trump. U. S. Officials say suleimani orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in iraq in recent months including one in december that killed an american contractor. Laura podestas here in new york. I imagine there will be fallout. What do we know so far . Reporter absolutely. With the death of suleimani, tensions have heightened between the u. S. And iran. A potential outcome could be more conflict throughout the middle east. Suleimani is known to have assembled a network of military allies stretching from iran to