So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s
And there you have it, sixers get their man and now fans say it is fultz steam ahead. I could not resist it had to be done. Great to have you on this friday im Thomas Drayton, bob kelly, good morning to you. Good morning. Just the guys here. Scott williams, you can tell first weekend of summer everybody is taking off. Yes. I love your idea, lesss call sue serio and karen hepp and see if they are up. Pretend we thought they were running late. Click. Wrong number. Your vacation wasnt really approved yet. All eyes are on the weekend forecast a lot going on. We have tropical moisture heading our way. It wont be a complete wash out for weekend but we have several round of that rain to get through. Weather by numbers on the scale of one to 10, today we will give it about a six. Once again we have cloud cover , muggy conditions, and look at the temperatures at 4 00 a. M. Already 77 degrees, wind south at 8 miles an hour, lets look at that humidity high of 84 percent. Temperatures right now 76
Meeting to another. Made some good progress. Well talk after. Well go back in so i need to part the red sea. Good meeting. Good discussion. Good discussion. Good meeting. Reporter get somewhere here. Well seem it was a good meeting. Reporter meanwhile as july t is largely closed and state beaches and parks remain shuttered while governor christie lounges on a state beach shut off to all other residents. Heres the. In order for the 34. 7 state budget to be approved christie whats horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield to dedicate 300 million of its multi billion dollar surplus to fight the opioid crisis. The House Speaker is app poe. Willing to compromise but but it has to be properly vetted. I dont have a bill to put up yet. Im willing to look at components of that bill with other components and maybe other even other entities. I said this all along. Reporter christie Lieutenant Governor running to replace him walk away from christie monday. I can tell was i would do if i was the governor i ce
Tonight. It will bring two more warm days after some showers right on through the Early Morning hours. Then here comes the cold. Ill show you when the cold moves in and tracking our snow chances for the weekend. You can track them yourself with your nbc washington app. Download the app today and stay ahead of the weather. To politics now. We begin another National Battle over health care reform. The new republican plan to replace obamacare is meeting with opposition even from republicans. Tracie potts on capitol hill now with new details on what the plan means for you and your family. Reporter were going to tell you what it means for you and your wallet. First, whos opposing this plan . You would expect democrats not to like it. But democrats, conservative republicans, even some moderate republicans opposing this plan before it even really gets started. Tonight we still dont know what it costs. Its called good obamacare republicans introduced their own plan. This will be a plan where y
Top staff were getting bonuses. Mark seagraves has our report. Reporter d. C. Fire chief gregory dean says he approved over 20,000 in inn bonuses this year. Its the first time hes given bonuses since taking over the department. I gave bonuses to four sets of chiefs and one civilian. And that was for work that had been done. Weve been working very hard the last year and a half, two years. I felt that it was i needed to acknowledge the hard work they did. Were in the midst of contract negotiations. So if theyre giving bonuses for hard work and good work, remember the members that do the work daily. Reporter each assistant chief given a 5,000 bonus. The civilian employee received about 1,300. I rely on seasoned managers like chief dean to make the right personnel decisions at his department. If thats his judgment, i support it. Reporter the bonuses came as the department saw a spike in overtime costs. Overtime jumped from 1 in fiscal year 2015 to 23 million in fiscal year 2016. In the fir