A. 6 year old of. Climate change in the arctic these are sea warming twice the rate of the rest of the world one of these videos show are there i see earlier you can see that water is coursing over the surface through. These cracks there is recent he will drip to do it over from your road is really just a conspicuous. Point an ongoing large metal that was season that weve had this years doesnt like. Also coming up looking back at the genocide of iraqs its been 5 years as the socalled Islamic State on their campaign of brutality 5 years that have not told of peoples suffering we have a special report. That there is not a single yazidi family that didnt taste the bitterness of this genocide lost their loved ones their proper. And their dreams. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we start the day with a climate wakeup call the heat wave that brought record temperatures to 5 European Countries last week has now moved north and its lingering over
Of the fire fight throughout the day. Tom joins us live with the latest. Reporter i just want to show you a few things of what the firefighters are competing with. You see firefighters putting out hot spots. The reason is because they dont want to go away and have a fire start again. This is a meticulous job being done hundreds of places. The other danger is if you look over there, you will see a house in tact. The problem with that is that is fuel along with all of the other things that have been burned. Should the winds change, have a real big gusting situation, you can get another fire started, it can come right back into town and finish off the rest of this town. Despite of all that, here is pacific gas and electric. Theres a Cable Company as well trying to put these phone poles and wires back up so when people do return to the few home that is are around and as people try to rebuild, there will be power and utilities to do something about it. The problem with letting people back i
U. S. Defense officials after nine months of training and equipping Syrian Rebels to fight eyes as they have only four or five rebels on the battlefield with a few dozen more on the way. Here the chair the of the Senate Armed Services committee is john mccain, the Ranking Member zachary. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets to receive testimony on the United States strategy of military operations counter Islamic State of iraq or isil. I want to thank the witnesses under secretary wormuth and general austin for appearing before us today and their continued service to our nation. Its been one year since president obama spoke to the nation about the threat posed by isil and increased to u. S. Military operations against us. Many of us believe the goal of the present laid out quote to degrade and ultimately destroy isil is right. Many of us agree the military strategy that seeks to empower local horses and i dashed to combat isil. With training equipment assistance in their power one
Building up the military base and sending soldiers and weapons into syria to prop up a side under the guise of fighting isis . We are witnessing a buildup of forces in syria by russia. As you know, they have been there all along but are increasing the footprint. With a stated as they want to focus on helping to counter isil, as i understand it. That is left to be seen, and as you know, russia is not transparent. We dont know what their true intentions are. The interaction, potential interaction of additional capability and operations, utilizing that capability could increase the friction in that battle space significantly. General, the Senate Defense authorization bill calls for a 30 percent reduction in Headquarters Staff and cost at the department of defense starting with the seven and a half percent cut in fiscal year 2016. What impact will that have on your ability to conduct operations, and what is sent, if you want to submit for the record, planning to do to make that cut . If yo
Have the forward air observers that would make it more efficient than what youve got today. Can you share with us a little bit about what youre doing to try to improve that situation and how you would like to see that handled . General austin sir, we routinely use all of our Intelligence Surveillance and reconnaissance assets, u. A. V. s and manned aircraft, to make sure that we are understand whats going on on the ground before we employ weapons. And we are diligent in our efforts there, not overly cautious to the point where we where were not able to take advantage of opportunities to engage the enemy, but were very, very mindful of, you know, the possibility of committing civilian casualties. Senator round but were not using any of our own forward air observers at all . Is that fair to say . We dont have any forward air observers on the ground at all . General austin thats correct. Our jtacs are operating in the command center. What that does is allows jtacs to have visibility over