Gave an update on the investigation. This is a halfhour. Good afternoon. When i was a j three they never let me come in here. [laughter] hopefully we will all find out why i thought we were going to have a small little gathering in the dining room and have a roundtable to talk about this but it clearly has gone beyond that. Let me make a quick statement and i will take some questions. I am the commandant of the marine corps. You all know we are looking at allegations that marines, specifically female marines have been subjected to cyber bullying, nonconsensual sharing of images, disrespectful comments made about them presumably by other marine. Allegations themselves undermine everything that we stand for as a marine corps and is marines. Discipline, honor, professionalism, and respect and trust amongst each other. We cannot do what our nation needs us to do, which is fight and win in combat and in life. Battles,arines, and and return better citizens to our nation, that is our mission.
Gave an update on the investigation. This is a halfhour. Good afternoon. When i was a j three they never let me come in here. [laughter] hopefully we will all find out why i thought we were going to have a small little gathering in the dining room and have a roundtable to talk about this but it clearly has gone beyond that. Let me make a quick statement and i will take some questions. I am the commandant of the marine corps. You all know we are looking at allegations that marines, specifically female marines have been subjected to cyber bullying, nonconsensual sharing of images, disrespectful comments made about them presumably by other marine. Allegations themselves undermine everything that we stand for as a marine corps and is marines. Discipline, honor, professionalism, and respect and trust amongst each other. We cannot do what our nation needs us to do, which is fight and win in combat and in life. Battles,arines, and and return better citizens to our nation, that is our mission.
Very important. This slide shows that we actually had a big success when it comes to managing High School Athlete concussions. In 20072008 academic year, 30 of athletes diagnosed with a concussion return to play in less than seven days which is a violation of return to play guidelines and disturbingly 8 return to play the same day they were injured, that is unacceptable. Look at how things have improved. Last year in 20142015, less than 2 return to the same day they were injured. This is a result of prevention. Not equipment prevention, but education and regulation prevention. Effective prevention in public health, we talk about three legs of a stool, equipment is one piece in terms of concussion, but educating individuals and providing good, strong policy policy based on evidence are the other two legs. I would love to come away from the efforts of this committee, incredibly important efforts, with the ability to do this work at the youth level. Currently, no one can give you this typ
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
M mark hayes. Moore under headlines and traffic just a moment. But first, let s check the forecast with ready rico. Starting off just great. Randi mid50 s, upper 50 s in the morning, bring it on. Yesterday we had gusty winds. At times in the 30 to 40 mileperhour range. Today will be windy, but i don t think we talk about white as strong as yesterday. Temperature wise this morning, looking pretty nice. 51 degrees in wilmington and 51 in hillsboro as some of the coldest spots on our map. 54 at cvg. As we take a look at the forecast through the day, we will warm things up nicely. The high this afternoon expected round 67 degrees. The low tonight, 55. That puts us well more than 10 degrees above average for this time of year. A nice afternoon. They will be a little windy at times. The tradeoff is a nice southerly wind. Chapters close to 70 later on today. At noon, sunny, windy and 60. It stays within warmth of the afternoon, 67 for the high. You will notice more cloud stored the evening. T