Alyx Des Moines Police investigating another homicide in the city. Around 2 00 this morning officers responded to 2020 east 14th street. When officers arrived they found an adult male deceased inside the home. When other person has been transported to the hospital for treatment. Witnesses are being interviewed and police are processing the scene. Right now, the fbi says it is now investigating the california mass shooting that left 14 dead and 21 wounded, as an act of terrorism. Investigators say at least one of the killers had pledged allegiance to isis. Sally kidd has the latest from washington. Sally as the first 911 calls came in alerting police to the grisly massacre, the fbi says suspected killer Tashfeen Malik took a moment to pledge her allegiance to isis using an alias on facebook. Its just one piece of evidence that has led the fbi to call the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and potential of inspiration by foreign terrorist orga
I want to talk a little bit about the division of iraq or keeping iraq whole. On the one hand, quh you look at some of these borders in the middle east, they were all done by the colonialists and i have often felt why should we be obligated to maintain those borders . Iraq is not a real state. It was slapped together. Youve got the kurds, you have the shia and the sunni, who really dont want to be part of each other, and so particularly the kurds, who have autonomy now, practically have their own nation, and probably will proclaim it very shortly, so my sympathies would be to say to the kurds, well, why should we suck you back into iraq . You have the right to your own nation. Frankly, nobody has ever explained to me why the palestinians are entitled to selfdetermination but somehow the kurds are not. I dont know i dont think thats fair, quite frankly. On the other hand, we are told that if the kurds break off, theres practically no way that you could stop the radicals from dominating
The orion and sls the vanguard of the program are the key to advancing these interests. I look forward to hearing from mr. Gerstenmaier and ms. Chaplain about the challenges and opportunities facing these important programs. I now recognize the Ranking Member from maryland. Its been a good morning to the witnesses. I want to join the chair man in congratulating nasa, lockheed, United Launch Alliance and the Contractor Team on conducting the exploration test of the orion capsule last week and i think that it was exciting and i know that around the country and around the world there were many of us working on Solution Division for the first time in a long time at the u. S. Space program that is very forwardlooking. They are below the orbits to test and verify the design can reduce technical risk and recover ability operations. Mr. Chairman, i belief that this Shows Americans the tangible progress is in fact being made on returning humans to exploration beyond earths neighborhood in the g
Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right from time to time and people that are doing the right thing. Following in the footsteps of one of our former colleagues here i dont think the presiding officer had a chance to work with him but ted kaufman served here for two years. He succeeded joe biden and went off to do some other job. I think Vice President maybe thats what he is. And then before senator chris coons was elected two years later,
Very direct and grilling questions of witnesses that would come before our committee. Sometimes there would be a tense moment. But ralph always had something funny or a story to tell that broke the ice. Youve seen a number of members of the texas delegation here today, particularly the republican delegation and every thursday, we have lunch together. Talk about whats good for texas. But what was always a thing that we always looked forward to, we couldnt wait until ralph got there so that we could ralph could share a funny story. And you know, one of the things that ill miss most about ralph is those times when hed be on the floor or he would be at lunch, sharing those stories. Now one of the things about ralph is that as he got older, he got wiser. And in fact he, got so wise, in 2004, he realized he needed to be a part of the Republican Party and so he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. We were so glad to welcome him to that. So as i said, its been an honor a