Are written in vietnamese. [laughter] tonight is a special night. 35 years ago, april 22, 1975, was the night our family left saigon. It brought an end to the life that we had. A life full of joy and happiness living among your own people, speaking your native language, being around family and friends. That life will always be a part of me, but as you will hear shortly, my new American Life turned out to be very rich as a result of the people i have met in this country. And i am humbled and honored that youre here tonight so i can share that part of my journey with you. Vietnam is always a loaded topic in this country, despite 35 years. It is part of the debate that sparked me in 2004 to write this book, a sense of duty. In 2004, i have been out of the marines for 10 years on active duty. I was married and turning 40. And the election between john kerry and george bush was about to take place. As most of you remember the , discussions about who went to vietnam, who did not, the nationa
Im eric toter, codirector of the tax policy center, its an honor for me to be here honors don lubic one of the my mentors, heroes and an ideal to all of us on the panel, and many of us in the audience we have a great panel here. I will you have their full bios, i will introduce them briefly. Manuel koran is kpmg. She was previously a Deputy Assistant secretary for International Tax at the u. S. Treasury department, and during the Obama Administration and has done many other things before them. I wont go through them all. David rosenbloom is a visiting professor of tax ace and director of the International Tax program at new york universitys school of law. Hes also been a member of the Kaplan Drysdale law firm. And david has many other accomplishments, but the one ill mention is he also was the top International Tax officials at the Treasury Department back in the carter administration. Where he was tax legislative counsel. And finally we have barbara angus, the one member of panel who
Showers. Lets look live here. Live picture of rehoboth beach. You can see that little rain along the boardwalk 64 degrees. Check out the wind, 23 Miles Per Hour. That can make it difficult to get around. 62 degrees right now in center city. We are dry. We have 15 miles an hour winds there and expect to go see showers role in as we get in the latter portion of the morning. Im hopeful it will hold off for rush hour but not much longer then that, folks. We are looking at some showers, breezy, high of just 63 degrees. That wind out of the north east becoming windy tonight, rain developing and a low of 58 degrees. Lets get a quick look to show you what we are in for here. Cool temperatures, windy, rainy on friday. Sixtys with more rain and wind throughout the weekend and Hurricane Joaquin which we are keeping a eye on sitting at category three affecting us into the monday tuesday time frame. I will do all of the joaquin update when i come back in a few moment but for now lets head it to mei
The debris moved in a northeast to southeast direction in the sky around 6 00 tonight. This is far and away the most popular story on kron4. Com right now. Good evening. Im grant lodes. Our other top story tonight. The death of an executive. His private plane plane going down today in rural alameda county. Family members say john sacco, whos from the sacramento area. Often flew to the bay area for business. Sacco is the head of earthshine consulting. He was killed today when his single engine plane crashed in the steep, rugged, rainsoaked terrrain near castro valley. As kron4s jrstone tells us, the tragedy began with an afternoon call of a missing aircraft. J. R. a small flame could still be seen late tuesday afternoonhours after that plane crashed in route to oakland. This is video from our helicopter parternship with abc 7 news. The man who died in that crash was john sacco according to family members in the sacramento area. Officials tell us that in his last radio transmission he de
Out to do build a strong Republican House majority. He says now that hes reached his goal he is ready to step down next january the Statement Reads in part one i make that trip home from washington for the last time that will be bittersweet we have been on a remarkable six and a half year journey a year and half seeking office in five years serving what im convinced is truly the best Congressional District in america and we continue to follow breaking news in newport news after a violent afternoon in the Southeast Community two men were shot and killed and a third wounded by police crews quickly on the scene resulted in two crime scenes thirteen is now is told it near fourth team st. Thats where val escape is standing by force and velma. Initially police thought they were responding to a car accident thats why the call came in as an accident so they assume thats what was going to be man with a gun followed by a shooting crime scene tape blocked off the whole block and wickham avenue an