Plus, Hurricane Dorian, a massive storm churning in the atlantic with the bahamas in the cross hairs. Dorian has just been upgraded to a category 5 hurricane. The latest forecast coming up. But lets begin with the mass shooting in west texas. This one played out after miles and miles of a routine traffic stop. The gunman went on a rampage between the texas cities of midland and odessa. Garrett is in odessa with the latest. Good morning. Were learning more about the victims of the terrible shooting. One of them a local high school student. The other a little girl just 17 months old. What we dont know much about is the shooter. Police have not released his motive or his name but they say the threat here is now over and the investigation is fully underway. Theres an active shooter. A traffic stop turned deadly. The shooting right there. At 3 25 p. M. Authorities say state troopers stopped a gold vehicle on the highway and the driver began shooting out the back window with a rifle wounding
Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
Of the storm. Also this morning, suspicious deaths. Families demanding answers after as many as 11 veterans died at this hospital in West Virginia under suspicious circumstances. We need answers and the family needs answers. The investigation this morning. Pitchers death. New details about how l. A. Angels star tyler skaggs died. This morning his family shocked. As we observe a moment of silence. What they and the team are saying about the findings. And celebrating the life of Valerie Harper. Im very pleased you got a big part in a play. The longtime tv star best known as rhoda on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Tributes from fans and costars pouring in this morning. Hey, good morning, everyone. Lets get right to our top story. Hurricane dorian barreling toward the east coast right now. Take a look at the satellite imagery. This storm is a beast, strengthening overnight. It is now a category 4 with winds up to 140 miles an hour. The Big Development this morning, the forecast models now pred
We are delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities , so i hope we see you more frequently and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs most faired well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a substantial increase in the International Fusion project which i advocated for as well. I went to visit that project a couple years ago,
one balloon circumstnavigated t glove, drifting pass hawaii and florida at an altitude about 65,000 feet. this is what jake sullivan told kasie hunt about that discovery. because the intelligence community made this a priority at the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial air space. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the trump administration was unable to detect. and we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american air space and american territory. okay. let me bring in our guests now. cnn analyst, john miller. errol lewis and scott jennings and shawn. i want to understand. help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yea