Military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quorum is not present, but i asked committee to consider the 4,158 pending nominations, of these nominations, 503 nominations are two days short of the committees requirement. The nominations be in committee for seven days, i recommend the committee waive the sevenday rule to permit the nomination of these officers before the senate goes out for the october recess. Is there a motion to favorably report these 4,158 nominations to the senate . So moved. Is there a second . Second. All in favor . Aye. I thank the committee. We wouldnt want to go out for a long time without these pending nominations, none of which are in any way controversial. And i think that there was a cyber attack on admiral rogers automobile which accounts for him being late this morning. Well have a full investigation. Hes joking. Mr. Secretary, we welcome you and admiral rogers, and well begin with you, mr. Secret
To hillsborough to bruce b downs boulevard. We have new video of a coast guard rescue near johns pass. The boat was taking on water. When the coast guard helicopter arrived, they found the man trying to bail out using a plastic cup. Russell wow. Lets get to Shayla Reaves right now at the Coast Guard Air station. Pin a situation like that, just keep shovelling, right . Reporter thats do. In this case, help arrived just in time. If you think about this, there was a half inch, were told, separating that water from the batteries in the boat. So this really could have escalated quickly. But again, fortunately, the coast guard was able to step in and make a difference. I want you to take a look at th video. This is released to us by the air station here in clearwater. It was captured on thursy so st igine youre alone on a and youre miles from land. Thats to the man on your screen about 12 miles fr johns pass. The situation intensified as you can see there as the coast guard approached. He wa
She was quickly pulled out of the water by someone in a boat, firefighters were called. The woman was tr transported toe hospital. We are told her injuries are not serious. Most of us got some pretty serious rain earlier, beth mcleod has been keeping a look at it in the fist alert center. Its quiet out there, tomorrow will be another first we will look for storms to develop in the afternoon and again the threat will be the heavy rain, big winds, the timing is tricky, depends where you start off the day, it will blossom into the cleveland area. Noon to 8 00 at night, so, a little earlier than maybe today, but overall, tomorrow, we are probably going to see another 90 degrees day. Another stifling hot day with the humidity, definitely thick, if you have not noticed it is thick out there. Showers to be any time for the cleveland area, 1 or 2 00 taking us through the dinner hour, kind of like today. You can see we are really not looking at much on doppler max, light rain showers hugging th
It is inefficient and ineffective for military and general sublive i would like to bring us home to my state. Obviously we have the port that dates back to world war ii in terms of some of its buildings and we have temporary military construction dating back to that time and we are in an aggressive up dating of that facility which is such a key facility for our army and i notice that they even have the nerve to put military construction and to these at aces in the United States in the overseas Contingency Operating funds paid can you comment about how this impacts your ability on readiness and training when you are being put in a fund yeartoyear and not certain and you cant plan with it . Sure senator. You are exactly right you cant plan with it and you cant just go yeartoyear and things like multiyear contracts and having relationships with industries to upgrade your weapons and equipment etc. Specifically what you are talking about is infrastructure which is a key component. We have
Beginning go up with highs in the lower 90s. All right. Thanks, dave. Here 2 new lane blockage crashes starting off palm harbor u. S. 19 in area of county road 39. We do have crash appears to be southbound direction. Were seeing some delays. Moderate in nature. Particularly heading that way south. So plan a few extra minutes there. To pasco county state road 54. Heres your lane blockage crash trinity boulevard in eastbound direction. Minor in nature. Just the right turn lane will be blocked. All right. Vanessa, thank you. Nfl season kicked off last night. And with it came another National Anthem protest. Bronco linebacker Brandon Marshal took a knee. There he was. He was only player on either team to do so. Hes a College Teammate of Collin Kaepernicks. After game marshal said he was not against military or police. He said he is against social injustice bronco set team encourages players to stand during anthem but respects their as for Collin Kaepernick the president compared his refusa