in more than 25 years. what happened? where are what happened? [cheers & applause] what happened? where are they? and you know, this is your 99th year. so i was very disappointed to hear that. [laughter] you understand. 100 is so much cooler. i have to be honest. i ll be back next year. i ll come back. [applause] we ll come back. i want to thank governor haslam and mrs. hasham along with the tennessee congressional delegation. i sort of have this beautiful list that i wrote. some of us came in on air force one and there are great people and they are fighting for you. in addition to the governor and your great secretary, senator bob corker. they re out here someplace. bob. [applause] senator lamar alexander is here.
country s threat level at three which warns of a possible and likely threat ahead. let s go live to brussels and bring in erin live for us. what s the latest, erin? reporter: well, dave, we understand from belgian media that will are ongoing police raids in brussels. it is an area that has been linked to previous terror attacks. you may remember that is where they found and arrested aslam, one of the paris attackers. in terms of that neighborhood s connection to this failed bombing, belgian media reporting that it is the home of the suspect, 37 years old. we are not clear though at this point just sort of what explosives this individual used to carry out this failed attack. we know that it happened at this train station at 8:30 p.m. in the evening. a small explosion, military troops inside opened fire, killing the suspect. no other injuries.
contact. and a very structured stream to get information to the lead investigators with the chatanooga police department and federal bureau of investigation. thank you. you were listening to the governor of tennessee, governor haslam. saying that our hearts are breaking for the families of the marines tonight. obviously the brazen attack not shaking a city chatanooga state of tennessee and the u.s. military. correspondent barbara star joins us with the latest on that. barbara, what has the military response been to this tragic incident? well good evening, john. right now we can tell you that the u.s. marine corps continuing to reach out to all of the family members of the fallen. and indeed they are the fallen because this procedure for assisting families is the same procedure as if these marines fell on the battlefields of afghanistan or iraq. they re going to have family liaisons with them.
due to epilepsy, they were forced to make an ago nieser decision, stay together or separate and keep coverage. i can t live with her unless governor chooses to with medicaid, i ll never be able to live with her. he s written daily letters on his blog titled dear governor haslam. all you can save is lives but to do that, you must act. all governor haslam can do is save lives, potentially thousands of them. the health affairs study found refusals to expand medicaid will result in the deaths of 7 and 17,000 americans or expanding medicaid coverage would save up to 17,000 lives and for that matter, at least one marriage. that s all for now. i ll see you back tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern.
alexander, both of whom are up for re-election. then it s on to texas and a conference of education, one of his key issues. he s going to touch down in new mexico to help raise money for the governor, suzanne na martine neds and then off to meet with brian sandoval. mr. bush also set to meet with members of the republican jewish coalition. that is happening at a con seen know owned by sheldon adelson. he said he will decide about a possible run for the white house by the end of the year. the politics of equal pay for women continues to be a headache for republicans in the state of texas. it was yesterday the executive droektor of the texas republican party looked to clarify her party s stance on that issue saying in part, quote, men are better negotiators. i would encourage women instead of pursuing the courts to become better negotiators.