Of the month 2016. 2 actually pretty nice outtty ce o there. Mild this morning, 55 degrees. De going to be even more mildild over the next couple days, might be a little wet, though,to too. Well talk with tuck about that and of course trafficf with erin coming outpatient onto the five at 7 05. E at good morning to you, im hollyol morris in for allison seymour. O im steve chenevey. Cne this is the scene from skyfoxm x within the hour. Wi this is route 29 at legatoat road near the Fairfax Countyount parkway. Pa started as a traffic stopic s around 6 00 a. M. M not sure where that was butas bt police say the driver took off. Officers went after him. Ent aft. This is where it ended. S wher the driver is in custody. Cto no word yet on why policeolic wanted to stop that vehicle in n the first place. P there is also breaking news right now overseas. At least a hundred people areere missing following the collapse l of an overpass that was under ud construction near calcutta,tta, india. India.
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe
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It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the entire middle east before all this took place. It is important but there are many groups we work with to try and reduce the tension that is going on. Is there a way to hold those areas that you have the refugees in going to school and being abused with whatever type of abuse that is. Gender abuse, we will say how do you go about making you said you are helping those countries deal with that and trying to make sure they are protected, but how do you go about holding that country or that government a