To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
Hospital after a shooting. Metro telling us it happened outside the deja vu adult emporium. Near tropicana and arville around 12 thirty this morning. Were told the person is facing nonlife threatening injuries. Well keep you updated as we get more information. Turning to a developing story. And run driver who killed a 2 year old girl. Daniel garciamartinez was arrested saturday in the death of evelyn green. The tragic crash happened one week ago and a memorial for green is still going strong. Garciamartinez is charged with a felony for not stopping at the scene of a fatal accident and his bail is set to one million dollars. Green was playing in the street when Garcia Martinez reportedly hit and killed her in a white windowless van. Greens mother vicki told 13 action news he pulled over smelling of alcohol and left before police got there. Garcia martinezs neighbors say hes a good guy who was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. They never knew him to be a drinker. Many of the g
Attention. 26 miles in 50 pounds of fire gear. Why did he do it . We have the story behind this photo. Hi, good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Those stories are straight ahead we gip tonight with blast of cold weather. We havent felt in several months. Meteorologist kate bilo has more on how long the mercury will drop. Kate . It is dropping pretty quickly already, ukee and jessica. Temperatures in the 20s in many locations outside already on the heels of what has been our coldest day in quite sometime. The high today only got to 43 degrees. Thats the average high for mid to late december. Not node late november. So we were about 10 degrees below average today and tonight these numbers are plummeting. None millville feels like the teens. Allentown youre only at 22 degrees right now. 17 in mount pocono. We just dropped to 36 in philadelphia. Numbers are continually dropping it will be subfreezing in the city. 20s across the suburbs. Ill tell you how low we go in the mornin
Not node late november. So we were about 10 degrees below average today and tonight these numbers are plummeting. None millville feels like the teens. Allentown youre only at 22 degrees right now. 17 in mount pocono. We just dropped to 36 in philadelphia. Numbers are continually dropping it will be subfreezing in the city. 20s across the suburbs. Ill tell you how low we go in the morning and then it all turns around. A warming trend later in the week. Leading to what could be a very mild thanksgiving. Ill tell you your holiday forecast and some changes for the second part of the Holiday Weekend thats all coming up in a few minutes. Ukee. See you in a bit. As we gear up for one of the busiest travel time of the year the state department issued a Worldwide Travel alert for us citizens due to terrorism concerns. That alert is in effect until february 24th. Those traveling by air for the thanksgiving holiday should expect increased security measures. Among them, passengers screening dogs.