But still there will be pockets of a mix of snow and sleet in parts of the area, but the roads are fine, temperatures above freezing. Were looking at a little snow still in frederick back toward the border of montgomery and Frederick County and snow toward germantown and sleet. 34 pretty much across the board and 37 downtown. Well come back, talk about when the heavy precipitation rolls in, what that means for saturday and were tracking a monster clipper for the weekend. The snow has been falling in Loudoun County a while now. Road crews wasted no time hitting the highways. Mola lenghi joins us live now from leesburg with a look at conditions there. Reporter its been coming down a couple hours now, nothing really sticking, just at this point creating very wet conditions. Virginia d. O. T. Deployed hundreds of crews there out on the roadways now. You see the silo behind me. Thats where those trucks are coming sort of in waves, coming to not only refuel, but to reload on salt. Right now
Now todays House Oversight committee. Secret Service Hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. Congressman Joseph Chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. Without objection. Without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Appreciate everybody being here. Reforming the United States secret service is not a partisan issue. Ranking member cummings and i have presented a united front on this issue and i look forward to continuing this important work with him on both sides of the aisle. The most Important Mission for the secret service is protecting the president and his family however a litany of recent mishaps to raise major concerns. In 2011 nobody recognized shots were fired at the white house until bullets were discovered by maintenance staff. It has been well publicized the secret Service Agents engag
Leadership . Is the problem with the men and women youre not getting good people . Why dont you speak up for these men and women . If in fact theyre letting off steam because youre overworking them, are they being overworked . Will this budget that toughs just gotten begin to relieve some of those serial days in which people dont get any days off . So would you describe that and would you tell us more about training and what training sessions are expected so that some of this misbehavior will be understood to be absolutely foreboden. Congresswoman, thank you. I have the same concerns you have. In fact, i want to hear more and more from these agents and these officers, what their issues are. Just in a nutshell, ill tell you that i walked by and around the perimeter of the white house frequently. This past sunday i went to the roll call midnight shift. The following morning went to the roll call and wanted to hear what are their concerns. And in terms of the you can see what their concer
Secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. And i have Great Respect for both of them. I asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. Last year in his politico article and i quote the title was down the opium rathole, roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it you might wake up one morning and say, hey, ill stop pounding money down this rathole. Unfortunately, the United States government does not think this way. Even though our combat troops are leaving afghanistan, our money will continue to flow there. Billions after billions. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to submit this politico article for the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Jones in recent days, the waste of billions of dollars in afghanistan has been dominating the h
Straw poll and got out pretty early on in the race. It is a big fundraising opportunity and the chairman talked about the importance of having it. It was interesting to hear him say that is not necessarily the direction its not necessarily going to give us direction as to who will come out on top. Steven finally, to both of you if you look at february, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, it is conceivable that you have four different winners in each of those states. Caitlin i think there are a few different lanes that these candidates are competing for. I think to your point about how long this will go on for, i think it will go on for a while as they are competing for several lanes within the party here. Kenneth it also raises questions on the super pac and. It will be a long race and he will need resources to last several months. Steven ken thomas of Associated Press and Caitlin Hueyburns of real clear politics. Figure for joining us. We appreciate it. Tonight on q a eric larson and his new