Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord, concerning supply chain integrity for the department of defense in the United States. Since our her initial confirman as the undersecretary of defense, secretary lord has overseen significant acquisition reform at the department of defense, and a chill well talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armaments director she has traveled to see the u. S. , throughout the u. S. And to see our allies and partners with regard to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world, and, unfortunately, has seen firsthand just how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become come to class relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition of the global covid19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chains particularly as relates to National Security have taken on a new urgency. What you think Ranking Member k
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Opportunity is dwindling at this point because as we showed you on storm scan three that rain is obviously advancing, it is just time before we do start to see rain drops falling in the Delaware Valley and it moves from west to east. The lets take one more look at storm scan three and at the moment on the tristate sweep the initial read of this wet weather is starting to push into western most berks and lancaster county. It is still, a window, of dry weather, activity, as i call it across the garden state. Things are completely dry in delaware and most of the southeastern pennsylvania but that is changing, i would say about the window of seven to 10 00 a. M. We will see that rain moving in. Later closer to the shore and then sooner if you are closer to that leading edge in those western suburbs. Also along with this we will see that wind kick in, nothing major, nothing damaging but wind gusts will peak as high as 30 miles an hour. Quick check of the temperatures they are not bad, lower
You want to slow it down. Worst areas appear to be trenton and down to millville and airport, atlantic city, and in through wilmington top. Couple spots like plan catser and allentown showing visibility. Once we get rid of dense fog we should transition to sunshine and sun and clouds today. And thats going to be the ide idea. And 42 degrees not too cold this morning in tractortrailer 30s reading an plan cast airport allentown and trenton. 38 millville and 37 wilmington and 54 Sea Isle City and winds light this morning. As we head to get the car started we come to the malls, patchy, foggy, 42 by 6 and 43 by 8 00 starting cool. Winding up mild. Well wind up with mix of sun and clouds through the day. 59 by noon and 66 by 3 00 and thats your high and thats well above average. Matt pellman we have a little bit of cool down for the weekend along with clouds, rain, drizzle. Thats all coming up. Something for everyone. All right. Happy black friday to you david. Good morning everybody a lot o