House comes to alexandria. One day after spending 11 hours in a congressional hot seat, Hillary Clinton took the short trip to alexandria for a campaign rally. Our senior political reporter scott thuman was there. This is a Rare Campaign visit outside the state. We are hearing so much about, iowa and new hampshire. Scott it is, aldlyson. But i guess virginia now is a swing state. It has been for the last couple of cycles. It was interesting. You mentioned the testimony yesterday. Hillary clinton never referenced it. At least not directly. She instead let Terry Mcauliffe the governor of virginia do that. He had a go at it pretty good about the benghazi testimony. Instead she just continued to reference herself as a fighter. She said she is not a quitter. While she did at times tout the democratic record, the administrations record saying its one to run on, they shouldnt run away from it. At the same time she was careful to distance herself from any previous president. When i look at wha
Talk about the blimp. The blimp is used for the defense mechanism for the United States and they are supposed to be tethered not come untethered. Feel us in on the problem and the threat it poses now. Michael i can tell you p 12 20 this afternoon eastern time as mentioned earlier, it became untethered. We are watching it closely and coord mating closely with the Pennsylvania Emergency Operation Center folks. We are coordinating with the state and the Law Enforcement officials. Id like to stress we are also interested in the Public Safety aspect of this as well as the infrastructure aspect of what the situation is presenting. Public safety is our number one concern. Our next priority after Public Safety Infrastructure Protection would be the safe recovery of the aerostat. Alison michael, what can you tell us about where this is right now . And what people, you talk about Public Safety, what should people be doing or looking out for . Michael so at this point, people are seeing things. I
While this morning. 95 again worth another look here at the i. C. C. It is foggy, kind of hazy looking so be careful and get the low beams working this morning. 270 here at democracy boulevard, no problems northbound or southbound especially as youre headed to the beltway. Inner loop of the beltway across the American Legion bridge, thats where the picture is this morning. As we drive you can see a little bit of that spit sort of rain on the windshield this morning. May have to work the wipers a bit. Big look at 9 beltway, no major problems. Live look at 66 coming up. Right now a rare winter flood has most of missouri under water. Torrential rain has pounded that state over the past few days. So far 13 people have died. The governor called in the National Guard there to help save people from the rising water. The Mississippi River is expected to swell 15 feet above the flood stage by tomorrow. Our flight was at 5 30 and its 10 00 and they canceled it. Now they wont let us speak to some
February 23 has come and gone and the annual report has not been given . Im not sure the question you are asking. To whom is it referred . I them with the gao. Oh. You are are all over saying it, right . You are the accountability office. We have done our first audit which is what im here talking about today sir. What im concerned about what it alarm you all that they might not be able to meet the person that needs as far as personnel . Thats all they have been able to hire. We understand and someone else enter this . I can certainly respond to that. First of all the annual report actually has been issued. There was a bit of the time delay but you should have access to that at this point and it does require significant review youre absolutely correct on on that and maybe theres an opportunity. But i mean this is what upsets people. You are talking to someone from the private sector. No simply doesnt make sense but im not an expert on government process so im not sure. Sioux this is a N
Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were specific statutory requirements that this had to meet and the mississippi plan that came forward was not a viable alternative that medbee statutory requirements. One of the things that ntia is committed to the. To requirements from 2012 . I believe from the original btop program and my understanding is the Mississippi Program didnt provide broadband so that was one of the challenges of this. But look we wanted to try to make this work or at the Firstnet Team worked very hard and long hours with missi