Examining the u. S. Agency for International Developments food for peace program, as well as ways to distribute food more effectively around the world. The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. We are currently facing an historic a humanitarian crisis. The United States continues to be a world leader in providing more than a third of all emergency food today, over 2 billion annually. Sadly, despite our generosity, there are shortfalls due to other nations not meeting the challenge. In that years deliberations, we have the opportunity to do more without having to in more money having to spend more money. A little more than half of our food date is provided by the farm bill, saddling our fees a program with u. S. Commodity and cargo preference requirements. Requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from u. S. Farmers, half of which must be shipped on u. S. Flagged vessels. These restrictions result in spending as little as . 35 to . 40 on a dollar on food. Let me say this one
Well need to watch for some morning thunderstorm s over extreme northeast iowa and southwest wisconsin through the Early Morning hours. While not severe, some heavy rainfall is likely and may lead to localized flash flood concerns. Highs will be tricky today and solely depends on the extent of sunshine, but low 80s northeast and upper 80s southwest should be a good compromise at this time. Later tonight into tonight, areas of thunderstorms should blossom again, especially towards northwest iowa. This activity should sink south into the area overnight carrying a heavy rain risk with it. Dry weather is still on track for friday and saturday. Toda y rtly cloudy and m, with a chanc inly north. Wind s 515. Hig 87 tonight chancof storms. Nd s 515. High83 tom. Thanks kaj. The city council in iowa and housing groups say theyre trying to create more Affordable Housing. Together, they have laid out several potential solutions to keep up with growing demand. Last night, Council Members to a Milli
Verbal commands. The police chief says thats when officer Brentley Vincent fired the fatal shot. Striking scott. Investigators say cpr was performed. And scott later died at the hospital. But scotts family gives a different scenario about what transpired. Sot sister didnt want to be identified they jumped out they trucks. They said hands up. He got a gun, he got a gun. Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. Thats it. He had no gun. Pkg tag the officer who fired the fatal shot. Has been placed on paid administrative leave. Pending the outcome of an internal investigation. The police chief is looking thru scores of dash cam and body cam footage. But he did say that who fired the deadly shot, was not wearing a camera. Ray raimundi, abc news, new after police in killed a man in tulsa oklahoma. The officer who fired her weapon is now on paid administrative leave. Video appears to show 40 yearold Terence Crutcher with his hands up when he stops for a moment by his suv. Thats when officer betty shelby fire
Our new soccer team. Good morning thank you for joining us. It is 7 am, i hope you are having a great start to your day. In case you didnt know, if youre heading out to get a snack, grab a bag of pistachios. It is National Pistachio day. [laughter] what a great day. There is National Route your day, National Root beer day, and National Pistachio day. Today shouldve been nacho cheese day. Go to a couple different weather will be great. We had some warm temperatures on the way, once again later today. Yesterday we saw the upper 60s. You are going for the upper 60s once again today. And by tomorrow, we could see the lower 70s. But the breeze will be picking up. Today, not so much on the wind. 6 to 7 southlake, and 54 in alcoa, mostly sunny to partly cloudy. Otherwise, its mainly quiet. For your friday, you will see the breezes pick up a little bit. 20s and 30s for our temperatures across the area going from 50s and 60s as we head into those afternoon hours. And again, i mentioned, we coul
Look at a recent visit to long beach, california. Youre watching American History tv, ill can have every weekend on cspan3. Long beach has always been proud of its aviation history. In january of 1910 the first United States air meet was held here in doing this field, domingus field which is adjacent to long beach. People came from all over southern california. It was amazing. A lot of people were inspired to become aviators. They caught what i call aviation fever. It was the goal of the city of long beach to make long beach as important to aviation as detroit was to the ao world. Long beach always had a vision for an airport. The first airfield opened in 1920 and it was one of the first municipal airports in the United States. One of the people there was amelia erhardt. It was where she was inspired to learn how to fly. She was about 23 years old then and decided she would get a job as a telephone operator. She earned money enough to learn how to fly and she learned from one long beac