Quest the business many will come to order, we will do a little business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly, i know people have other meetings and then will move to the hearing itself. We think our witness for allowing us to do this and we are glad you are here. Items on theber of agenda today, we will move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer list. Theill also take up multilateral act of 2017. I want to think sen. Coons his leadership and hard work on this bill, i want to recognize senators isaacson, rubio, young, kane and merkley whether contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. Establish all process for conducting objective reviews on how multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. Authorities through this process, we will be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. Transparency alig
Them were closed. Now every once in a while theyre letting cars through the area. What were seeing is this massive backup behind this as all of these lanes try to merge together on the northbound side. Thats right around the pa turnpike. We head over to our maps and i can show you exactly what to do if youre heading out in that area right now in mansfield township. If youre coming from new jersey, your best bet will be to take 295 to get by the scene and out in pennsylvania you can take route 1 and get on 195, then hop back onto the new jersey turnpike. You can see youll be stuck for quite some time. We have a backup all the way to willingboro. We know youll update us throughout the morning. More breaking news. Police have identified the gunman responsible for last nights deadly shooting at a lose louisiana Movie Theater. He had a plan to escape. Good morning. Im chris cato. That gunman killed two, wounded nine before killing himself. Authorities have identified the shooter at 59yearol
Eye on the surf and the potential for flooding and following an accuweather alert for parts of our region as the impact of hurricane jose begins to peak. We have Live Team Coverage tracking the effects at the shore and we begin with cecily tynan with the latest from the National Weather center. Monica and rick hurricane jose remains a category hurricane maximum sustained winds 75 Miles Per Hour. Its tracking 200 miles off coast and you can see the highest winds, the most intense rain right around the center of it, beginning to make the turn to the northnortheast. Moving at 8 Miles Per Hour. Some showers are moving in south jersey and delaware and even a few light showers near philadelphia and the reports show you that we are dealing with gusty winds and one buoy in the mouth of the delaware bay winds sustained at 28 Miles Per Hour and gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour but the most intense part of jose is the wave action. Its really whipping up the surf wave heights impressive up to 25 fe
Waiver lifting federal restrictions on foreign ships entering cargo on the island. Here is the latest on the devastation and the continuing relief efforts. Reporter crisis in puerto rico is growing more dire by the day. And vital aid is stranded at the main port. Food, water and medical supplies sitting in cardiovascular containers and the massive amount of donations from the u. S. Cannot get to the island. Its completely unacceptable. There are people that are in trouble and devastated and need the resources asap. The jones act has been seen as a hindrance to speeding up relief efforts. Under pressure this morning to do more to help the hurricane ravaged island President Trump waived the law and suggested the interest of shipping companies opposed to the waiver is considered. There are a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that dont want it lifted. On cnn blasted the delay the president showed again he doesnt give a dam about poor people and the people of color and the so
On the show. The russian and turkish leaders say they have a plan to end of the six year old war in syria but the ever closer cooperation between putin and air along is raising concerns at nato headquarters. And reimagining europes future the german chancellor backs the french president s new vision for the e. U. Today the blocks the Digital Future is on the agenda at a leader summit in tolerance. And whats up with byron munich a day after the shock sacking of coach carlo and chalabi we ask whether germanys biggest club can return to its winning ways. And were on patrol with the a booge a Traffic Police we report on nigerias controversy all efforts to put the brakes on dangerous driving. Hello and welcome im brian thomas the countdown is on for a contested referendum in the spanish region of catalonia local authorities are determined to go ahead with a vote on breaking away from spain but madrid says sundays referendum is illegal and cannot be allowed to go ahead more than seven and a