Morning, everyone, the committee will come to order. Happy halloween. Happy world series. Everybody stayed up late watching the game. Kind of exciting. Kind of exciting. So we are here to talk about good things, recreation, and im going to keep my comments brief because i know colleagues have been very engaged in this and a couple of you want to make some opening comments as well but we have three pieces this morning that were considering, s1665, which is the simplifying Outdoor Access for recreation act. Senator heinrich calls it the s. O. A. R. Act. I like the acronym there, pretty good. S1723, the ski area fee retention act from senator gardner. We all love skiing, or we love skiing. I cant wait. S1967, the recreation not red tape act from senator wyden. This hearing is building off one that we held in march where we focus in improving access, infrastructure and permitting to meet the increasing demands to provide highquality recreation opportunities on our federal lands. So the pro
Before 11 30 friday night. A single story house was on fire. Nobody was home. The house was severely damaged and was red tagged. 3 3 and another call went out less than five minutes later. Firefighters were called to a house that was on fire in the 1400 block of center street. They were told one person was still inside. The house was completely on fire when crews got there. After the fire was partially extinguished firefighters went inside and found a man in the living room. We dont know what condition that man is in right now. Both fires are still under investigation. 3 one of the founders of sioux citys Gateway Computers is dead. The body of mike hammond was found thursday morning at his home on sioux citys northside. Hammond was 5353 years old. His friends cacaed him hammmer. He met tedd waitt when they both worked for a des moines computer and software seller. Waitt. And hammond came up with a plan to start a they set up in a vacant space on the waitt family cattle farm. Thanks to
What else did we learn . Nikole the fbi is trying to figure out whether this was terrorism or a workplace shooting. Chaos in california. After a heavily armed couple opened fire at a holiday banquet at a social Services Center outside of los angeles. You are searching that motive. Nikole Police Identify the shooters as 27yearold Tashfeen Malik and 28yearold sayed was juan farouk. I have no idea why he would do that. Nikole the pair were killed in a shooting after a search of the suv, a big bomb thrown at officials during the chase. We do not know if this is a terrorist incident. Nikole president obama renewed calls for gun control. President obama the one thing we do know is that we have a pattern of Mass Shootings in this country that has no the steps we can take. Nikole the president is pushing for commonsense gun safety laws and stronger background checks. Nikole killion, kcci eight news. Elizabeth the shootings happened to 60 miles east of los angeles. Emmy victor is here with more
Recess, they will not need to bundle up quite as much. Had it for highs today near 44 degrees, a light breeze and plenty of sunshine. Elizabeth thanks, metinka. And we do want to get to those new developments in the california mass shooting. The police chief says hes reasonably comfortable that the two shooters are dead. They have been identified as a county employee and his wife. They were killed in a police gunbattle. Police say they are the ones who killed 14 and wounded 17 at a social service center, during a Holiday Party. Nikole killion is in our washington bureau. Nikole, what else did we learn overnight . Nikole elizabeth, the fbi is trying to figure out whether this was terrorism or workplace shooting. Chaos in california, after a heavily armed couple opened fire at a holiday banquet at a social Services Center outside of los angeles. We are still searching that motive component of it. Nikole Police Identified the 27yearold Tashfeen Malik and 28yearold Syed Rizwan Farook, whos
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