An unprecedented food crisis in south sudan west sixty percent of the population is at risk of starvation. It may one day say the world the global seed vault home to nearly a million samples has its tenth anniversary. In sports files use of. A boy called clubs or a home game german football supporters may keep their feelings clear about much is being moved to mondays. To syria where it looks like the army has agreed to suspend as strikes and rebel held east and a daily five hour long truce Russias Defense Ministry says syrias military will now halt its bombardment so that the injured can leave the agreement comes forty eight hours after the u. N. Passed a resolution for a thirty day cease fire in the area but that was ignored and russia has now set the terms of this new deal will be live at the u. N. In a moment with reaction to that first though a look at the situation inside Eastern Ghouta zain hodder has this report. One of the front lines in eastern opposition fighters say they are
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Will come to order. Without objection that shares authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. Let me say that we are to vote between 10 45 and 10 50. I will not make an Opening Statement but put my Opening Statement into the record. I will ask every other member to allow us to the witnesses so that they all are able to get their testimony in before we have to leave to go and vote. So without objection all Opening Statements will be placed into the record at this time. We have a very distinguished panel this morning, and i would beginning by swearing in our witnesses before introducing them. Would you all please rise and raise your right hand . [witnesses were sworn in] let the record show that all of the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. I will give an abbreviated introduction for all of the witnesses so that we can hear them and get to as many questions as possible. The first witness is Kenneth Blanco who is the acting assistant attorney general for the C
Outdoor activities. Weather good. Not a bad finish to the year. Temperatures will go above average. The breezy today but we will keep it dry. We have luck out recently. It looks like cold air will hold off until late next week. We have mild days ahead to start off the new year but new years eve weekend, new years day in problems, we will see sunshine with a few cloud around breeze kicks up not quite as windy as yesterday but temperatures will return above average. We will be in the mid 40s over hose locations. The pretty quiet across the city sitting at freezing at the airport southwest breeze at 10 miles an hour kicking up to 15 to 20 later this morning in the afternoon. It is a wind chill to deal with. It does feel like mid 20s around philadelphia, 26, the actual temperature in allentown lighter wind. Twentynine in reading, wilmington coming in the upper 20s. Twentyseven in quakertown and willow grove. We have a cold start to our morning, wind speeds at 10 miles an hour or less. They
Millions. First outside we go to meteorologist chris sowers with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. The rain is on the way, if it is not already in some places. Reporter someplaces were seeing clouds and showers as we speak. We have fog out here and conditions are damp and raw. 55 degrees in philadelphia. Allentown, 53. Millville, 54. Wilmington, 56. You can see the direction of the arrows, the winds are straight out of the north northeast that will keep the numbers on the chilly side later this afternoon. The normal high for this time of the year is 66. Were starting at 55 in most cases you would think okay, its going to be a mild day. But because of the clouds and north northeasterly breeze, it will be chilly later on. We have showers pushing through the mid atlantic states. Every now and then we get embedded cells, heavier shower activity. The day planner looks like this, 11 00 a. M. , 56 degrees, cloudy skies and showers. 1 00 p. M. , its mainly cloudy at that p