notices. so point three is everybody better exercise what can happen but also what might happen that s really dark and awful. and that requires leadership, that requires time and training. and a lot of people are not doing it. and that s worrisome. after that, actually a few years ago, rand had a sabrini panel. i was a member of that too. there were only two of us who were laymen. there were army generals, steve abbott, four-star navy admiral, was the chair, i was the vice chair. it was chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological event. that was what was exercised. and we concluded, to our horror, that nobody law enforcement, national guard, the local first responders had a clue what a nuclear event, dirty bomb, what did it look like in terms of injured people or a chemical or a biological event. now, have things changed since then? certainly at the state level. but guess what? no congressional committee had a hearing. amazing. we went to see one senator who said, god,
it too. john: the one thing that is a mystery to me, the hitter has gloves and pine tar on his back, and to your point, hitters don t really complain, they want to know that the pitcher knows where the ball is going. in the argument i have heard from other people who really have never pitched and don t understand, that doesn t create movement. it just creates grip to where you can throw the proper pitch that is needed. nonetheless, you know what we are getting closer to? we are getting closer to the japanese-style of baseball that comes with the tackiness on it, that s we where we are getting closer to. i don t understand why we never have had that in our game yet. the old days where the umpires used to rope up the baseballs with the mississippi river mod. they don t do that anymore. the clubhouse kids do it. but literally out of the package in japan. they are t understand, try to get the tent or color of the baseball changed so it is not so white and there for you wouldn t
i m diane macedo. and i m kenneth moton in for kendis gibson. we begin with the search for a new head of the fbi. as the justice department interviews possible candidates for the job, president trump is facing bipartisan criticism. lawmakers are calling on the president to turn over any tapes he may have of his conversations with james comey. abc s lana zak has the latest from washington. good morning, lana. reporter: good morning to you, kenneth and diane. you know, the new fbi director will require senate confirmation but with the white house s changing stories about why the previous director was fired, senate democrats are threatening to withhold confirmation until a special investigator is appointed. the hunt is now under way for a new fbi director. as candidates arrived at the justice department for interviews, the president said james comey s replacement could be named sometime this week. i would encourage the president to pick somebody we can all rally around
good morning to you all. i m diane macedo. i m kenneth moton in for kendis gibson. we begin with the search for a new head of the fbi. as the justice department interviews possible candidates for the job president trump is facing bipartisan criticism. lawmakers are calling on the president to turn over any tapes he may have of his conversations with james comey. abc s lana zak has the latest from washington. good morning, lana. reporter: good morning to you, kenneth and diane. you know, the new fbi director will require senate confirmation but with the white house s changing stories about why the previous director was fired senate democrats are threatening to withhold confirmation until a special investigator is appointed. the hunt is now under way for a new fbi director as candidates arrived at the justice department for interviews, the president said james comey s replacement could be named sometime in week. i would encourage the president to pick somebody we can
nightly business report for friday, january 3rd. good evening. welcome. i m tyler mathisen. sue is off tonight. wall street levitated into the weekend. stocks got a big lift on what investors see as gifts from washington. first regulatory rollback. the white house took the first steps to scale back rules put in place after the financial crisis to govern bank behavior. those rules criticized by bankers as too complex too, restrictive, aimed to keep taxpayers for becoming the ultimate back stops. then there was a wide ranging and clearly friendly discussion between president trump and u.s. top business leaders. add to that a strong month for job crease and boy, do you ever have a recipe for a triple digit gain. the dow jones industrials rose 186 points. back above 20,000. nasdaq closed at a record high of 30. and the s&p 500 added 16. meanwhile, back at the white house, those first deregulatory steps came in the form of an executive directive. president trump signed actions,