parts of the country are feeling the effects of extreme weather. three people were killed in san antonio over the weekend. some americans are digging out from a spring snowfall. msnbc bill karins joins us now this morning for what we can expect this memorial day. really a mixed bag. a lot of extremes out there and we learned the hard way flash flooding is a huge tlit and kills a lot of people. a life here or there and what happened in san antonio. what is going on? we woke up this morning to violent weather in omaha, nebraska. that is heading south. a line of severe thunderstorms not tornadoes, but this is a line of storms with dangerous winds and all it takes it one tree to go down on a house and can you have injuries and fatalities with this too. if you re? st. joseph. now 1200 lightning strikes an hour and hopefully a sign the storms are weaken. those areas of red counties in north central illinois still under flash flood warnings and heavy rain the last couple of days t
including support organizations, but there were shortcomings with each of these sources. to be able to identify track and ensure the effective management and oversight of its contracts, arlington leadership needs complete data on all contracts. second, with respect to support relationships, the army has taken a number of steps to better are align arlington contract support with the expertise of its partners. for example, arlington has agreements with the army information technology agency, i.t.a., and the army analytics group to help manage its i.t. infrastructure. while these agreements spell out the services that i.t.a. will provide to arlington and performance metrics against which i.t.a. will be measured, these are all very positive steps. these agreements do not specifically address i.t.a. s contract management rules and responsibilities in support of arlington requirements. although officials told us that they were aware of their roles and responsibilities, the question
developing plans to fill this new position in fy 13. in closing, the success of the army s efforts to improve contracting and management at the cemetery will depend on management sustained attention and efforts to institutionalize positive steps taken today. accordingly we made a number of recommendations in our december 2011 report to improve contract management and oversight in the three areas where we found shortcomings. for the most part d.o.d. agreed with our findings and that there is a need to take action and provide a time frame for doing so. we will continue to monitor their progress. mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee, this concludes my short statement. i will be happy to answer questions. thank you very much, ms. martin. we now have mr. brian lepore. thank you, mr. chairman. chairman wilson, ranking member davis, chairman whitman and ranking member cooper and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to pres
say, don t share. there s no difference. they re popping they re hitting the button, share and unshare right now. so what is difficult about saying share or unshare? i actually don t know what the experience has been in europe with that and whether consumers object to it, whether they think it you testified consumers wanted that. i know it s available. the issue technology changes over time. so in order to implement that technology today we re able to do it on certain devices. on other devices we re not able to do it. so are we to older legacy devices we can t go back and change those, because of the way they ve been designed. so people who have paid for some of our service, our devices before, now won t be able to take advantage of that feature because we can t give them opt out every time because congress told them we have to give them an opt out every time. the issue for us, again, is, giving that control to the consumer, and if the consumer so elects, to