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He discussed the implications of a potential Government Shutdown on military operations and urged congress to provide budget predictability for the Defense Department. This is just over 45 minutes. Peter good morning. Im peter lewis, vice dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of advanced international studies. Before making my brief introductory remarks, i think we will start by asking everyone to silence or turn off your cell phones. We just finished our Holiday Season and i had the oppor...

The speaker good morning. Our government has no higher responsibility than to support our men and women who are in harms way. For months now we have been working to get our military the resources it needs to keep the peace. This budget agreement delivers on that commitment. It fully funds our National Defense at levels that secretary mattis has requested. It provides what the pentagon needs to restore our militarys edge for years to come. As secretary mattis said yesterday, i quote, congressiona...

Whole bunch of statistics, you hear me do this every week, this is a statistic that gets to me. In 2017 we lost 80 Service Members in accidents and training incidents, nearly four times more than we lost in combat. In 2017, we lost 80 Service Members in accidents and training incidents, four times as many people we lost in combat. Think about that. With better training and equipment, many of these deaths could have been prevented. This is a sad and tragic state of affairs. And this is why we can...

Uptick utilities is the Top Performing sector, i guess we could say it had a pullback. It did hit a nine year high today. Tech strong, Consumer Staples are strong lets begin with dominic chu wh is following the stock market. The stock market might be a little bit ways away from getting back to the highs before the selloff, we looked at the s p 500, it turns out that 93 members of the s p are 5 away from claiming those 52 week highs or better that theyve seen 81 stocks have hit highs so far in 20...

Our government has no higher responsibility than to support our men and women who are in harms way. For months now we have been working to get our military the resources it needs to keep the peace. This budget agreement delivers on that commitment. It fully funds our National Defense at levels that secretary mattis has requested. It provides what the pentagon needs to restore our militarys edge for years to come. As secretary mattis said yesterday, i quote, congressional action will ensure our m...

The winds it will feel like the 40s. Clouds increasing from the west. A broken line of showers pushing in from the ohio valley. That moves into our neck of the woods overnight tonight and that will set up a rain stretch of weather tomorrow in the morning and after. Today, comfortable and mild high of 57. When i come back ill time everything out on future tracker 6 for tomorrows rain and theres a chance of the light snow monday into tuesday, ill have that as well. Thank you for the update. 18 hou...

Dreary throughout the day. But as amelia forecasted, it did clear up in time for the fireworks. And ill take credit for that. No but in all serious ngs we did have heavy rain moving through the area yesterday afternoon. But by the time fireworks came around, it was muggy, dry, it was feeling like summer. This morning were dealing with areas of fog across the region. National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for all of the counties here in gray. This includes fairfax, parts of mont...

Gusts to 22 milesperhour. The air temperature right now at 77. A relative humidity of 41 . This fire in el dorado wind gusting to 15 milesperhour, higher and humid right now. Relative humidity at 34 . Not all that hot. And now we have the lowell fire and much warmer there the air temperature right now is at 86 degrees. And unfortunately, Mother Nature is really going to crank the heat over the next several days. Warmer temperatures red winging in the accuweather forecast in a few minutes. So man...

Lines in the area. Right now a meeting just getting underway in yolo county so fire officials can update the community on their response. This is the meeting in winters. The fire has been burning near Lake Berryessa. It is now 55 contained. Other good news all evacuations and road closures have been lifted. Fire officials lifted mandatory evacuations and reopened highway 50 in El Dorado County after gaining ground on a wildfire burning there since thursday. It has scorched more than 200acres and...

Catastrophic mass mortality disease outbreak could have profound implications for counties, for the state. The North Carolina poultry industry is responsible for as much as 34 billion in total Economic Activity and creates supports as many as 109,000 jobs. North carolina has a long standing commitment to agriculture and has responded to and recovered from agriculture disasters in the past drought disease and weather events but unprecedented in potential to impact our state and the entire southea...