We take on tough jobs, challenging jobs. Im impressed with you and impressed with the folks that are grateful for your services. Many times i have been down to the bothered, sometimes with other members of the committee. I look forward to being there with you in the not too distant future. It is important to me. I think everybody in this room. Most people in this country want stronger borders. Weve got a real problem. We all want to keep terrorists out of this country. We also need to remain clear about some of the other real risks and real solutions. We have to focus on the root causes and how to address the root causes. During this past campaign season, which thankfully is over, immigrants were attacked as a grave threat where theyre not. We heard about walls and deportations and not the underlying causes of real immigration challenges that we face. As a result, too many immigrants that come to the u. S. That no one will be able to care for the families to our great country. This inc
We take on tough jobs, challenging jobs. Im impressed with you and impressed with the folks that are grateful for your services. Many times i have been down to the bothered, sometimes with other members of the committee. I look forward to being there with you in the not too distant future. It is important to me. I think everybody in this room. Most people in this country want stronger borders. Weve got a real problem. We all want to keep terrorists out of this country. We also need to remain clear about some of the other real risks and real solutions. We have to focus on the root causes and how to address the root causes. During this past campaign season, which thankfully is over, immigrants were attacked as a grave threat where theyre not. We heard about walls and deportations and not the underlying causes of real immigration challenges that we face. As a result, too many immigrants that come to the u. S. That no one will be able to care for the families to our great country. This inc
Military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quorum is not present, but i asked committee to consider the 4,158 pending nominations, of these nominations, 503 nominations are two days short of the committees requirement. The nominations be in committee for seven days, i recommend the committee waive the sevenday rule to permit the nomination of these officers before the senate goes out for the october recess. Is there a motion to favorably report these 4,158 nominations to the senate . So moved. Is there a second . Second. All in favor . Aye. I thank the committee. We wouldnt want to go out for a long time without these pending nominations, none of which are in any way controversial. And i think that there was a cyber attack on admiral rogers automobile which accounts for him being late this morning. Well have a full investigation. Hes joking. Mr. Secretary, we welcome you and admiral rogers, and well begin with you, mr. Secret
Coverage along the river for you. Lets go to kevin. Reporter we are just north of the district on the nature trail. You can see it goes underneath this rail bridge around 9th avenue. It goes down about 34 feet. It is all solid water. You can get a good look at how nasty the water is. This is why you should not go in floodwaters. Look at all of these branches and twigs that were brought from upstream. The water is low right now compared to what it is supposed to get to. Right now it is 14 feet. This is the first while that will stop first wall that will stop the water. As you can imagine, at about 45 feet clear this wall. We will almost certainly see water coming up over this embankment in the next few hours and then it will start heading towards newbo. We will take one last look at this. This is the first piece of real flooding we have seen on the bike trail. It gives you an idea of how high this is just a few feet below where the railway is. This could potentially be very dangerous in
Try to save those. And they were not alone. There was a massive effort to save the areas. Here is a look at the flood defenses constructed over the weekend and how they are holding up so far. We have been showing you the air view all day long. Well show you some of the incredible images captured by the fox 28 drone from high communities, including palo, imosa. First, well get the latest on where the flood river stands right now. Lets turn to chief meteorologist terry swails. Lets get to some numbers here and show you where we are. And the cedar river at vin ton that means that crest has passed there. It is between cedar rapids and vinton and so that is probably close to palo. We are looking at seens like this. We did have residential areas flooded by the water. This home pretty much an island. Its definitely a problem in parts of palo as the river continues to rise there, but it should be very close to cresting in that, it moves down stream towards cedar rapids. We still think that cre