Officers who are under the supervision of much more experienced officers. I think it is also worth noting we are talking about Foreign Service officers. These are people who have gone through a very rigorous, Competitive Program to be admitted to the service. Many are lawyers or have worked in Immigration Law or have been teachers. Many are former military. Rep. Duckworth by no means are these inexperienced people. They get about the same amount in terms of quantity of training as somebody we are sending into harms way. Im sure you are proud of our officers, and i thank them for their service. We must do everything in our power to protect our country, but we can do it without evolving into demagoguery and focusing on imaginary problems. I agree we must consider any and all options to improve our refugee process, but lets remember these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists we are fighting, isis and the a side regime. Turning our backs on people who are being persecuted and killed th
Two people are dead and another is in the hospital this morning after a crash in lee county. One car was heading south in the northbound lanes near the 31hundred block of highway 27 around 9 oclock last nighgh thats w wn it hit a car goinin north and two others crashed behind it. Authorities have not released the names of the people who died. With recent terrorist attacks from islamic extremist g gups, many have misconception s about the religion of islam. So says an iowa city mosque leader who is reaching o to the community. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live in the newsroom this morning. Forrest, hoho did this leader reach out to the community . Well brady, he held a Forum Last Night at the iowa city public libry. There he spoke to people about the terrorists groups and how they do not represent his religion. Imam molhim bilal explained the islamic faith and its purpose. He compared the definition of terrorism to the faiths beliefs of peace. That was to show that all of the recent vio
Two people are dead and another is in the hospital this morning after a crash in lee county. One car was heading south in the northbound lanes near the 31hundred block of highway 27 around 9 oclock last night. Thats when it hit a car going north and two others crashed behind it. Authorities have not released the names of the people with recent terrorist attacks from islamic extremist groupup many have misconception s about the religion of islam. So says an iowa city mosque leader who is reaching out to the community. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live in the newsroom thth morning. Forrest, how did this leader reach out to the community . Well brady, he held a forum yesterday afternoon at the iowa city pupuic library. There he spoke to people about the terrorists groups and how they do not represent his religion. Imam molhim bilal explained the islamic faith and its purpose. He compared the definition of terrorism to the faiths beliefs of peace. That was to show that all of the recent vi
Behind why the cedar rapids Traffic Cameras are in place. The city has appealed a d ot decision to take down 2 sets and move 2 other sets of cameras on interstate 380. Kcrgtv9s brea love reports the city says the cameras help with safety, iowa is the only state in the nation with permanent speed cameras on the interstate. But gary hughes is suing to take them down. Its unconstitutio nal. Section six of the state constitution says all laws have to be applied equally. His main argument centers on enforcement. Noting if a car has a bike rake or other object covering the license plate, that car would nototet a ticker. Hughes says the cameras are more about money than safety. I think its a basic flaw in the premise is that the city believes that increasing citations wilchange driver behavior, and condition drivers to being more safe. I think the opposite has occurred. Iowa dot director of traffic and safety steve gent admits the cameras can be extremely effective in getting drivers to slow
To those kurdish units . And other units fighting isis . We need a strategy not to contain isis, but to destroy isis so those young men and women now watching on the internet, suddenly get the message that its not their destiny to go join isis and expand the cal fate. That that is a losing cause. But that change, that takes a change of calculus. On the part of the administration. Are you more optimistic about the iraqi now that the military has taken back ra maddy . I am somewhat because in the past when theyve used the shia militia, the human rights abuses to put it mildly, that theyve inflicted upon village populations have created a huge blowback. So, some of that is moving in the right direction, but we could accelerate this if we listened to those in the field who want the authorization. Id say 75, 80 from what weve heard from the commanders, the flights that go out come back without getting authorization out of wags in terms of dropping their ordnance. Theyve got to get approval