Upper 70s. Partly cloudy early this morning. Maybe some patchy fog. It will be cooler along the lake. Cooler than the upper 70s. 63 greg now at the lake front. 64 in lansing. Its 62 aurora. Chocolate composite shows some of that cloud cover over the region of the rain will stay to the south and west. High temperature 79 degrees today cooler along the lake. It was High Temperatures 79. Friday we have spotty showers High Temperature reaches 79. Three days in a row and 79. What wrong with the fourth day . Thats a little foreshadowing. On the roads were looking good to have an accident on the of to the overpass over the eisenhower not causing too many issues. Its still early and the volume is light. Some construction this morning we had a bit over by juliet will tell you about that of one with a few other traffic hot spots in the next few minutes. Three people are in Critical Condition after a car accident in the citys park manor neighborhood. One car crashed into another, near 71st and ca
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Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first comment i would make is over the last two years where above the level of sequestration and the army was only 33 ready. And so yes flexibility will give us the ability to manage insufficient funds in our department but thats all it does. It allows us to better manage because today we extend our aviation programs so the cost for every apache has gone up to the cost for every ua 60 has gone up. The cost for every ch47 has gone up because we have extend the programs longer and longer so we are paying m
Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. Let me ask you this general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a10 are the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems yes or no . No maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. When i read the newspaper article i contacted the general officer invo
Command general and they are in regards to addressing a group of airmen this month. What he has said to have made in comments to the airmen was anyone who is passing information to congress about these capabilities is committing treason. As part of those comments he has also said that if anyone accuses me of saying this, i will deny it. Let me just tell you general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems . No, maam, not at all. There is investigation currently ongoing with that incident. And i actually contacted the general involved and his commander and the department of defense is overseeing an investigation being run by isaf eiji. And they will present that as soon as the investigation is complete. I hope that this is a thorough investigation because obviously, i think its very serious to accuse peo