Secretary vilsack and i agree we thought that was an important thing to do. Thats the part of the process in terms of public input. I think the question here is that, one, did they follow the guidelines and what steps were taken to make sure the committee followed the law and from an ethical standpoint is once youve served as your capacity of that Advisory Committee and major recommendations, what is your responsibility in moving forward . And one of the things we dont want is that these advisory turn this into some kind of a profitable situation on their behalf because of their participation on that Advisory Committee. Be regard to these these are voluntary nonpaid. They have to file Financial Disclosures on an annual basis as they go through this process so those are things we want to protect against. With regard to the specific question of a press briefing or some kind of briefing, i apologize, not familiar with that. As i said, we have focused on the Public Comments and the steps a
Recommendations were based on dietary guidelines. Secretary burwell, what instructions were given the Advisory Committee members regarding the Advisory Committees disbandment . With regard to the specifics of the disbandment, i can get back to you, congressman, with regard to the direction that was given to review the science with regard to the issues that were in front of them with regard to the dietary guidelines and present a report about that. So with regard to the question of disbandment, i dont know what, if any, specific direction was given, but i think the point that youve made, which is this is about an Advisory Committee producing a document, an independent group of people producing a document, that then is an element in the basis is what their role is. Was the role to then go out and start doing a road show on their recommendation . Is that a part of the scope of that committee . With regard to what followed what we followed at the department and what i know about is once we
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In shoreham. And police had to shut down that street because of downed wires. We just checked. Right now there are no reports though of widespread power and you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Here we go, today, on this friday the 13th. Got 55 degrees. Which is warmer than normal. And were looking at some wind out there this morning too. Up the Hudson River Valley. 50 around caramel and newburg and middletown. 5 poughkeepsie and newburg and kingston and 52 long island, the numbers way warm for this hour of the day. But we have this wind today. And the winds going to be west as you see its about 8, 14, 16 miles an hour and it only gets higher today gang. So its going to be a gusty windy day and high this afternoon 58 degrees. But the wind is on. Wednesday gusts up to 40 wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour today and 35mile an hour wednesday gusts tomorrow and well talk more that in just a mom
Rainfall totals between 3 to 5 inches and wind speeds are between 25 and 35 miles per hour, gusting up to 50, we are tracking a high storm surge as we get closer to high today. We have a coastal flood advisory, waves 10 to 15 feet, beach erosion and threefoot storm surge. I rainfall totals into thursday night, friday, and saturday morning, anywhere between 2 to 4 inches with the heaviest amounts situated to the south of us. On top of all of that, tracking a separate system, Hurricane Joaquin, where it is right now, where its going to head, for that first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. Brittney, the rain ahead of the storm, watching for. The flooding like brittney mentioned and conditions will pretty much keep staying rainy and windy as Hurricane Joaquin gets closer to the area. At this point, a lot of uncertainty on where exactly the storm will move inland. But either way, it will be close enough to give us high wind and heavy rain. Here you see it now around the bahamas. Its cate