Judiciary will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare resources of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing and oversight of the department of justice and National Security division. Before we begin with i would like to remind members that we have established an email address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, and other written materials that they want as part of the hearing today. If you would like to submit materials please send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to the offices, and we. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. National security division, or an s day was established was in the department of justice in 2006 with the aim to create counterterrorism and streamline interactions between federal prosecutors, main justice, and the Intelligence Community. The decision operates on the front lines of meteorologist facing our country, including a ris
Council was to recall its ambassador to the us off the words from president obama the new. Most of it. It is on International Duty twenty four ounce a day until we continued our breaking news and that is that russias upper house of parliament has voted unanimously to approve the deployment of un forces in ukraine until the situation stabilizes winters and hot all speak so that is to support them because of the extraordinary situation in ukraine which represents a threat to the lines of russian citizens our compatriots and a contingent of Russian Armed forces that kate is in the autonomous republic of crimea. According to an international treaty. As stated in the constitution of the Russian Federation. Why else the upper house of parliament for permission to use all forces in ukraine until the situation is stabilized. One of his having the commission has been calling was his reaction to events in crimea and the decisions in the russian poland. Were in a lightning speed at least once ins
Calm conditions. The clouds are drifting off it will clear out early. Lots of sunshine. Warming up to 80 degrees. Tomorrow probably mid to upper 70s. 82 for most of us. Better chance for a storm on sunday. It wont be a washout. High of 71. Beautiful weather in the next few days. More details coming up. The roads are looking good. Just a reminder that starting next weekend the downtown stretch of the kennedy is going to be a mess with a bridge reconstruction starting next weekend. And keep an eye out for that. We will have reminders and updates through the week. I will be handling traffic today everything is looking good a full report in the next few minutes. You are looking at live video from france, where president obama is taking part in the 70th anniversary of the dday invasion. More than 150thousand american and allied troops stormed the beaches of normandy, to liberate europe from nazi germany. Nearly 45hundred lost their lives that day. Thousands more were killed in the following
Reporter several of the buildings became engulfed in flames in what is known as the citys toy district. Firefight on the scene they have a bad feeling going inside. It was aon arrival, moderate smoke. They initiated aggressive attack. They went interior. Things didnt seem right. Reporter governor gavin newsom praising First Responders in a tweet, writing, quote, grateful for the brave firefighters and firstresponders on the scene battling the flames. Over 200 firefighters, officers, and emts rushed to the a scene. The explosion happened at a hash Oil Manufacturer used in. They use butane, odorless gas that easily ignites. They dont know what caused the explosion. Crews investigating what caused the initial flames. Back to you guys. Pete anita. Thank you very much. The courage that all of them are okay. Jedediah yeah, i have always said being a firefighter, one of the most challenging, difficult jobs. I remember a friend taking the test to become a firefighter this is something else. Ev
Usually takes a terrorist attack town fold before we make changes and get our act together. I would take its step further. I would revoke the citizenship of anyone who travels overseas to join isis. Not only let them back in the United States but revoke their citizenship. These guys are so fan natal i doubt it whoa change them. We have this awkward visa waiver practice, and Diane Feinstein says its the akill hes legal of america in the wake of the paris attacks. Anyone can get through. Very interesting that democrats are coming out against this. The state Department Program basically if youre from western europe, britain france germany, which are having problems right now with islamic terrorism and jihad you can still enter the u. S. Without a visa and stay here for up to 90 days. How is that possible . Explain how that works or how we allow that to happen . This has been going on for about 11 years, this Visa Waiver Program, where the state Department Says look, the easier it is for f