Treat, not one but two part discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me, right, center to tom khan from arkansas. Part two after his keynote address as well as q a session will be what hope is a lively debate on Missile Defense with Joseph Cirincione and rebeccah heinrichs. Im going to keep my remarks prebrief doesnt want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible. It goes without saying that washington is faced with severe challenges when it comes to missiles and the proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north korea is very much in the news to get the departments of it short, medium and longrange Ballistic Missiles and the ability at some point his homeland. Senator cotton has been the forefront of advocating for a robust Missile Defense strategy. His remarks will be around 20 minutes or so. After that will open the floor to questions for about 25 minutes. Please keep in mind during the q a to state your
Today. Today and tomorrow, both, the heat is on. Not much of a rain chance today. Better chance for tomorrow. More about that and beach forecast coming up in ten minutes. For now, lets go over to jack taylor at wtov and find out how things are going in prince georges county. Its a painting project going northbound as traffic moves from left to right on the right to left, excuse me. Traffic on 202 getting by single file left on the northbound side. You see the vehicles getting through there. Can only get one lane to get through. Not a big delay so far this morning. Be aware its out there. On the rock creek parkway, crews are working until 6 00. Traffic gets by one direction at a time. Also, this is the first morning of the continuous metro work along the blue and yellow lines. It will be shut down for the first morning between braddock road and National Airport. Jack, thank you. Metro officials are starting their first morning rush of the next phase of their program. The emergency maint
For the environment. Yemens former president accused the government of destroying the country. He said president hadi whos fled from the capitol city sanna to aden should leave the country and go into exile. Tell us more about what he said and what hes aiming for muhammed. Yeah, former president is very clearly aiming for a strong comeback to the political scene. Probably he doesnt want to be president again but he has his son. We have seen thousands today rally inside sanna asking for his son to run for president in the next elections in yemen. We have seen also loyalists to him armed the country showing their presence and power. One of them is here in aden, a general who refused hadis order to move from his post and be replaced. The former president called on hadi to leave the country saying he is inefficient and destroyed the country that he is a separatist and he compared the situation in 1994 when a civil war took place because the south decided to secede. Listen to what he expres
Good evening shocking new details emerged today about the final minutes of Germanwings Flight 9525. The plane crashed in the french alps on tuesday killing all 150 people onboard. This morning the french prosecutor said that the voice recorder indicates that the copilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately sent the plane into a steep descent. And the prosecutors are trying to find out. Lufthansa owner said that hes stunned by the prosecutors conclusion. The families of the 150 victims visited the crash site and we have the latest from france. A search teams forensic expert made use of the remaining daylight to control the crash site. And unanimous of the black box recovered from the site on tuesday has revealed the planes final moments. Listening to the voice recorder, the prosecutors said that the pilot was locked out of the cockpit in the finally moments. The copilot put the plane into a steep descent. Just before it crashes into the mountains, the passengers are hear
Saudiled coalition bombed the weapons depo in the capitol sanaa causing a huge explosion. Apparently it was targeting a scud missile base for the shia Houthi Rebels in the mountain and in a separate Development Yemen foreign minister says thousands loyal to the former president have been killed since the operation started. Our correspondent is joining us now from saudi arabia and mohamed lets start with the explosion, what are we hearing now . Yeah sammy, these explosions perhaps is the biggest that has been documented by the media. We have seen the Saudi Coalition spokesman everyday showing us the explosions from air but this is the most dramatic one because it has been filmed by the media from close range and has been a huge blast and rocked not only the mountain itself but also a adjacent district and the mountain overlooking the district of western sanaa and also where the president ial palace is located and the concentration of special forces loyal to all former president and we h