[inaudible conversations taking place] good morning. The committee is meeting to consider the nomination of selva, usaf for reappointment to the grade of general and to be commander, United States, transportation command and the nomination of Michael Rogers to be command of the u. S. Cyber calm and director of the National Security agency and director of the Center Security service. We welcome you and thank you for your years of service. And we thank your families who give up so much to enable you to serve. Transcom, which is the military mobility, the navy sea lift and the army command is the leech of the mobility. Transcom played a crucial role in supplying the operations in afghanistan and iraq. It has brought equipment home and we would be interested in how long we can wait for a Bilateral Agreement to be signed and meet the december 31st deadline for removing the people and equipment in the event we end up without an agreement. Like the other elements of the department of defense,
Capacity online in the next major evolution is how we broadly across the u. S. Government to apply those issues. There is also the issue of bothing out to utilities financial utilities and public utilities. Is that something where you would need either funding or authorization or encouragement from congress . At this stage, i dont know. I do make the commitment that if i am confirmed, i will assess that and if i do believe that money or authority or support from a legislative site is required, i will approach you. I would encourage you to do that because i think there are so many different moving parts in these issues that you are addressing. Its not just in terms of operational but privacy, constitutional policy, commercial Enterprises Vs governmental enterprises, not for profits i think this exercise would be hugely important. This is bubbly not the most precise analogy but when we saw and 1940,ing in 1939 we learned a lot in louisiana maneuvers. We discovered some very capable leade
Says good monday morning, everybody. We will begin with sopping wet weather in the northwest still getting pummelled after another round of soaking rain. Seattle, portland and other cities are slammed by storms. Unleashing record downpours, record flooding, and destructive winds. At one point 20,000 homes had lost power. By tonight, some rainfall totals could hit ten inches. Abcs ginger zee has more. Look at it, malcolm. Look at that thing going reporter that is just one of the crazy scenes playing out across the pacific northwest. From oregon to washington, they are plowing through record rains. It scares the hell out of me to be honest with you. Thats pretty intimidating. It just came down. It was a deluge. Reporter more than a months worth of water in less than 24 hours sinking cars and shutting down roads. Seattle, astoria and olympia, marking the wettest september days. This is crazy weather. Unbelievable. Reporter with all this rain comes wild winds, gusts up to 75 miles an hour.
Travel and the weekend, a huge sprawling and messy storm large enough to straddle both sides of the Mississippi River as it heads from west to east is tonight on the move with a second weather system right behind it. Tonights storm has triggered watches and warnings from texas where it left a foot of snow clear to new england. Its one of those storms big enough to be given a name by our friends at the weather channel. They call it iola. But for upwards of 60 million americans in its path its just going to make a mess of transportation. Its where we begin on this friday night with meteorologist dylan dreyer. Reporter up and down the east coast today salt trucks are filling up and heading out. Plows on the move as ice, snow and wind push north. Much of the eastern part of the country is gearing up for this saturday storm. The storm left texas blanketed in record breaking snow. In amarillo it piled up in a matter of hours, as you can see in this time lapse. 14 inches the past few days. In
Allison chinchar. She has a brand new update on the path and the intensity of dorian, allison, which is very important. It is, yes. Also the direction. Finally some good news to provide. The storm is now moving westnorthwest instead of due west. That may seem like such a nominal thing to point out but its very important because it now means were starting to see that gradual shift off to the north. This is great news for not only people in freeport but also along the florida coast because it begins its beginning that shift away from florida and up the coast rather instead. Now, i want to emphasize this does not mean florida will not be impacted. It just means that were starting to see that northward trend so the landfall across florida is starting to come down, at least the chances. However, because impacts will still be in place, we have hurricane watches, warnings as well as Tropical Storm warnings across the east coast of florida. Mainly due to the fact that the winds are still going