Understanding of this truly devastating problem. That concludes our hearing. Thank you. We are live on capitol hill this morning in the Canon House Office building where up next counterterrorism and intelligence officials from the departments of Homeland Security, justice, state and the National Counterterrorism center will testify before the House Homeland Security committee about the threat of far win and domestic terrorists who the United States. Its expected to get under way in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan3. While we have a moment the Associated Press reporting today that the president is asking congress to formally authorize war against Islamic State militants, offering a draft resolution that says the Islamic State poses a grave threat. The president is sending congress a proposed threepage authorization for military force. The president would limit authorization to three years with no restriction where u. S. Forces could pursue the threat. By the way, the entire do
The end of the fiscal year. With that i yield back. I thank the Ranking Member. Pleased to have three distinguished witnesses before us today to discuss this important topic. First, the honorable francis taylor. Became the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security in april 2014. Hes held a variety of senior level positions over his 35year career in government service. Most recently undersecretary taylor served as the assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security and director of foreign missions. Thank you, sir, for being here today. Next we have the honorable nicholas rasmussen, sworn in as director of the National Counterterrorism center in december of 2014. He previously served as nctcs Deputy Director since june of 2012, prior to returning to nctc he served with the National Security Council Staff as special assistant to the president , and senior director for counterterrorism. Thank you, sir. And last but not least, Michael Ste
Its sitting over in the senate and now its time for the senate to do their job. Good morning, everyone. As we continue to advance an opportunity economy, today i wanted to highlight just one of the things that makes america exceptional. And that is the spirit of generosity that we see all across this country. We see it in homes, in schools in hospitals, in hearts. And yesterday kevin mentioned that we had the chance to visit d. C. Central kitchen right here in the heart of the nations capital. And beyond the tremendous effort to get that food and to distribute it, theyre changing lives and it was so inspiring to meet lives that had been changed, people, because of this effort, had gone to school, had got some training and now were employed. And this is one of the Many Organizations across the country that embody that spirit of generosity. In eastern washington, i visited christ kitchen and we have a campus kitchen at gonzaga, union gospel kitchen and there are so much more. A large num
To win but i dont know they saw a shutout coming. Go birds. Sprinkles and showers around the region. Some of the stuff pushing up through bucks county. A little clipping southern Lehigh County and down in New Castle County, delaware, more of a shower that will pop up. I95. In towards chester and definitely in towards salem county over the next half hour or so. Chester may miss out of that. Cape may county looking at arrival of light shower off the coast. All is on the light side enough to make roads slightly wet out there. Also mreptsty of clouds cover where it is not raining and dloudy day today. Well look for sprinkles and showers later afternoon and perhaps early evening hours. But again by no means a washout today. As we look at temperatures, 57 in philadelphia. 52 allentown and 54 reading and 54 millville and low 60s sea isle. As we start the day, mid to upper 50s between 6 and 8 00, notely cloudy on the cool side. And this afternoon getting up to high of 68 around 3 00. 67 by 6 0
With this out break. Kenneth moton is live with more on the situation, kenneth. Reporter walter, busy night in dallas as Health Officials worked to contain this virus. Investigating how that nurse who is supposed to take gear while she was caring for that ebola patient still managed to get the virus. E bowl scares in one of the largest cities in this country. Dallas is taking all precautions after a nurse at texas health the Presbyterian Hospital contracted the deadly virus. Her neighbors put on notice by the health department. Definitely scary, being in dallas, but when it is scary. Reporter twenty something yearold nurse was treating Thomas Eric Dunn an who died last week. Hospital said she was wearing full protective gear, face mask, two layers of gloves, shoe covers, and leg covers. While in quarantine. Cdc ace there was a clear breach of safety protocol and all those treated are considered exposed which led to this dire statement. Unfortunately, it is possible, in the coming days