Hi there, everyone. Its 4 00 in New York. At this hour, millions of people along Floridas Gulf Coast are bracing for one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in The Atlantic basin. The outer bands of Hurricane Milton are already hitting parts of the state. It is forecast to make landfall some time tonight between 10 00 p. M. Eastern and 2 00 a. M. And is expected to double in size before making landfall. This is the scene right now in ft. Myers, florida, being battered by high winds and rain. The top concern for officials at this moment is making sure that residents get to safety. The window for evacuating is now rapidly closing. Even as the storm is already complicating those efforts. This video shows a tornado touching down near i75 in south florida, thats hundreds of miles from Hurricane Miltons core. Just a few hours ago, president Joe Biden called Hurricane Milton, quote, the storm of the century. And made a plea to people in the Storms Path to please evacuate. First, man
Apology. At todays rates if late feed had been amid that i would hey totaled more than 10,000. Booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv. Org. Im bill burns, im at the president of the cash anything gee Carnegie Endowment for billion and im die lighted to welcome Rebecca Lissner and mira rapphooper and their become, an open world. Recovering diplomats like me are sometimes prone to understatement, but even i can see that it its a vast understatement to say that were living through a moment of profound upheaval on both the international and landscape. Domestic landscape. The post colored world war primacy is in Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is dimly lit and domestic preoccupation its easy to lose be and to leach from restoring our uniolaugh dominance to equally ill losery idea we can disenavailable from the rest thereof he world and focus only only ourselveses but rebecca and mira have done in this n
He was deployed to vietnam in april of 1969 and on his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975, which, this evening, we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. And the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later retired from the corps in 1996. Please help me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] colonel holden thank you. [applause] colonel holden thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start, i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation frequent wind when we
Americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to today by your television provider. The Senate Intelligence committee met to consider the nomination of Christopher Miller to be the director of the National Counterterrorism center in peter to be the general counsel to the office of the director of National Intelligence. The two nominees were asked about Russian Election interference, interrogation tactics, the fisa application process and whistleblower protections. They were also questioned related to the recent deployment of federal Law Enforcement agents in u. S. Cities experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional
Experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear directly from the nominees. Mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university in commission as an infantry officer in 1987, he has a masters in National Security studies from the Naval War College and also graduated at the Community Staff and army war college. His military career as an enlisted infantryman in the army reserve in 1983 and served in the district of Columbia National guard. In 1993 christopher transferred to special forces and served for the fifth special forces group and participated in combat operations and iraq and retiring from the army in 2014 he wo