Thank you for coming tonight. It is up pleasure i see friends in the audience. Even members of my riding durbin of an amazing author the lives year in and to is and she year . We are friends on the facebook. There is a memoir called a nomans war that came almost at the same time and hers is a memoir of all the deployments as a soldier officer deployed many, many times so im here you are here also. This is my first chance to do a reading and i am excited. I have done a couple talks but this is my inaugural reading. I want to read a couple different packages provide of a paragraph about each of the three main characters. It is new material i have not read from before. Banana wanted to read about time afghanistan and iraq. Then i do questions. The first veteran i would read about this Michelle Fisher that is the main character of this book i met her 2010 she told me a lot about herself introduce me to the other two people that we began an amazing multiyear process of lengthy interviews an
Thanks mike. Leyla . Just need an early run for hair gel because of static electricity. We all need help today. The first rule . When you dig a hole . Stop talking. Top talking. Through walnut creek southbound side is moving along fine, just north of there we do have an action at greggry lane that is not causing any problems. As we make it to highway 24 we will not take much time. From our emeryville camera to the eastern span of the bay bridge traffic is smooth to the island. It is now 5 01 this morning is the six month anniversary of the napa valley earthquake that jolted residents awake and left behind pockets of destruction. Amy hollyfield is in napa with how the region has fought back and how much work remains. You walk through downtown and you can still see evidence than earthquake happened and the fence surrounding the boards up Old Post Office here on 2nd street but it is not all stark. There are personal towns too. Look at this sign that has been left here on the cope we love
A new threat just issued by the department of Homeland Security here in washington warning airlines to pay additional scrutiny for the possibility of terrorists attempting to hide explosives hidden in shoes. The warning flights from overseas coming to the United States. Jim sciutto is standing by as well as our brian todd and our National Security analyst peter bergen. Lets begin with jim sciutto. What is the precise information, jim . We always take new warnings seriously, but lets talk act what it is and what it isnt. Its based on new intelligence that terrorists are working on new shoe bomb designs. This is a trette threat that u. S. Intelligence has been watching closely ever since richard reid, the attempted shoe bomber. What we will not see is any new measures as folks are getting onto these flights. Shoes are already required to be taken off, that kind of thing. They wont institute any new measures as a result of this, but they are asking airlines to give additional scrutiny and
Their deal and their association with isis . Well, within the last hour we just wrapped up, fwrechen, an on the record brief with the fbi director james comey, and he really drilled down on the numbers for us for the first time confirming that 12 americans, based on the intelligence are fighting sidebyside with terrorists groups in iraq and syria. We also ask specific questions about this Khorasan Group and some of the players that have ties to Osama Bin Laden that go back to the 1990s. They include Musin Al Fadli and al naser. He said based on the evidence so far he does not believe that the Khorasan Group has been completely disrupted nor the plots that they were involved in, but he did say the current plotting information was imminent, but one of the frustrations for his department and others within the Intelligence Community is that we have very limited, what they call, visibility or intelligence in that part of the world, and he said it was hard to know whether the plot was set fo
She has no problem using the word radical islam. Congresswoman, good to have you back. There is this reluctance on the part of the administration to say those words. Is it such say big deal . They seem to be saying its not. Hi, neil it is a big deal. And heres why unless you accurately identify who your enemy is you cant come up with a constructive strategy a Winning Strategy to defeat that enemy. My concern with the summit happening right now in washington it really say diversion from what our real focus needs to be. And that focus is this islamic extremist threat posed not only to the United States and the american people. But around the world. From what weve heard so far the administration is really claiming that the motivation or the the thing thats fuelling this terrorism, around the world, is something that has to do with poverty. Has to do with a lack of jobs or lack of access to education. Really a materialistic motivation. And therefore, they are proposing that the solution mu