The Senate Armed Services committee met to consider the nominations of the Lieutenant General to be chief of the National Guard bureau and an army general to lead operation warp speed which is tasked with developing a coronavirus vaccine. In his testimony, he told lawmakers it was likely the u. S. Will have a vaccine by the end of the year. Their confirmation hearing is almost 2. 5 hours. Good morning. The Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of Lieutenant General David Hokanson to be chief of the National Guard bureau, and general Gustave Perna to be chief operating officer of the project warp speed. I think both of you for being here today particularly under the current circumstances of what we are facing now, we are doing things differently. I know you are down there but i can barely see you. Anyway, we enjoyed meeting the families and all of that. We were not going to be able to do with the same way. When you do your Opening Statement, you may want to introduce family
Of the body of 24 year old robert l. Fuller was found in palm dale federal Law Enforcement agencies are now were viewing the initial investigations into their deaths after outrage from Community Members many of whom accuse authorities of covering up possible lynchings meanwhile across the country in new york on june 9th a similar story played out the body of 27 year old Dominic Alexander was found hanging from a tree in a park near the hudson river jesse we dont have enough information right now to know what really happened but with all the racial tensions were reminded of our countrys horrible past which Billie Holiday one thing about in her song strange fruit. Ill tell you a barrage of this whole thing is bizarre 1st and foremost i guess i need to look at it this way ive never understood suicide to begin with and thats my fault i guess but i look at it is if youre to the point of committing suicide. Things can only get better if youre at that low level things can only improve but tha
Before we leave you this morning by 10 00am pockets maybe remaining along the coast to later this morning or even in the early afternoon. Temperatures thus far were in the mixture between 50s and 60s a lower 61, the east bay shoreline already antioch at 62 and for comparison sake most of the real estate is actually ahead of where it was this time from yesterday. The breakdown for you we cant take care of this morning, fog clouds by 11 00am were mostly sunny at 70 79 by mid afternoon, the temperatures are going to revisit the 80s in those inland valleys of looks like for today, but the real earnest warmup doesnt get here until the middle of the week well be talking all about that coming up in just a bit back to you. All right sounds good. Thank you dave a developing story that were following from overnight. Take a look at this video another fatal officer involved shooting leads to a fiery protests this time in atlanta. Youre taking a look at the that was burned down saturday where shark
Machine. For you to santos for our top story today we look at the hanging deaths of 3 black men so far all have been ruled suicides but the families of the deceased dispute the claims and of called for full investigations 2 of the men were found hanging from trees in Southern California just 50 miles apart the body of 38 year old malcolm harsh was discovered in victor ville 1st on may 31st and on june 10th of the body of 24 year old robert l. Fuller was found in palm dale federal Law Enforcement agencies are now were viewing the initial investigations into their deaths after outrage from Community Members many of whom accuse authorities of covering up possible lynchings meanwhile across the country in new york on june 9th a similar story played out the body of 27 year old Dominick Alexander was found hanging from a tree in a park near the hudson river. Or jesse we dont have enough information right now to know what really happened but with all the racial tensions were reminded of our c
In our communities of volunteer to do this. Experiencesd, their , a lot of them have appreciated the opportunity to help within their communities. It will help recruiting and retention. I think it will also help to retain them in our formations. We love them all. Let them know that. Senator reid. You, mr. Chairman, thank you for your excellent statements. Gen. Perna, we had a great discussion yesterday afternoon. Talked about typically the way the military we spent i spent some time, you spend your whole life. Planned for the worst, hope for the best. Here in d. C. , and this is a bipartisan model, it is usually planned for the best and ignore the worst. You will be put in the middle of that. It goes back to the point we reiterated. You have to base your activities on science, fact, on committing saypeak truth to power, to not only the good news but also to bring us the bad news. I hope that you will do that. Can you commit to that . I 100 will commit to that. Thank you. Ppe, that we w