70degree mark in clearwater and 71 in st. Petersburg. Dew points are manageable. You know, as long as we can keep that number where it is in the lower 60s. It may sneak up to the mid 60s. I think well be okay. Another very warm afternoon coming at us with a mixture of clouds and sun. Your highs go back to the mid 80s. Vanessa . Vanessa and right now we want to get to the scene video out of the lutz area. A vehicle has crashed into a home and this is all happening off of Heritage Harbor road. The driver, unfortunately, died. We are able to tell you, however, the folks in the home are okay. Power was knocked out briefly to the neighborhood, but were hearing thats restored. We do have some lane blocks reported on lutz lake fern road on Heritage Harbor road. While we were to get more information, well give you more work arounds and bring you those looks like state road 54 up to the north is probably going to be one good work around and the second one is van dyke which is going to be toward
Committee will come to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today as the Committee Examines military Cyber Operations. I note that just about exactly two months ago, president obama confirmed for the first time that the u. S. Is conducting Cyber Operations against isis. And as the leadership of the department of defense was discussing this, they said it was the first time that Cyber Command has been given the guidance to go after isis. Just like we have an air campaign, we want to have a cyber campaign. And some of the press went on to discuss that secretary carter was pushing for u. S. Cyber command to have greater freedom to launch attacks and to address tactical Cyber Threats against isi isis. The Department Defense capabilities to fight and win the countrys wars and be prepared and ready to execute those missions remain on solid footing regardless of which domain we are talking about, including the cyber domain. The department has been developing organizations capabilities
Document. When secretary signed the document, he directed the department to focus its efforts on three primary missions in cyber space. One, defend the department of information, department of Defense Information Networks to assure our dod missions. Two, defend the United States against Cyber Attacks of significant consequence and, three, provide full spectrum cyber options to support contingency plans and military operations. Another key part of our strategy is deterrence. Dod is supporting a comprehensive Cyber Strategy to deter attacks on the u. S. And our interests. This strategy depends on the totality of u. S. Actions, to include declaratory policy, overall defensive posture, Effective Response procedures, indications and warning capabilities and the resiliency of u. S. Networks and systems. I am proud to say that the department has made important strides in implementing dod strategy since it was signed in 2015. My colleagues and i look forward to going into greater detail on our
Midnight. And this tropical wave just between puerto rico and the dominican republic, its still an invest meaning its a tropical wave, not a tropical system at this point. They are sending in the Hurricane Hunters every day. Yesterday, they didnt find a closed circulation. Thats good news. And in the short term, actually doesnt have a good chance of developing. But once we get into the five day range, thats an 80 chance of becoming tropical. And lets focus on gaston with 45 Miles Per Hour winds. Should weaken and then strengthen again out to sea. And not an issue for land masses. Now thats the difference between that and invest 99. It will impact land masses. It will head toward the bahamas. If its not a tropical system by the time it heads into the bahamas, good chance it will at that point. This is saturday morning. After that, it heads toward the florida area, more than likely, how strong it is, thats still it comes. Anywhere from east florida over toward the central portion of the
Latest on the tropics. Thats right. Obviously an active time as we head toward the end of august and beginning of september. We expect the atlantic to get active. We have two systems we are watching. We have hurricane gaston which has just weakened to a Tropical Storm just moments ago coming in at 11 00 a. M. It was a hurricane and now back to a Tropical Storm. And then we have invest 99l which the Hurricane Hunters have been investigating it. Still not finding a center of about an 80 chance of development in the next five days. And now Tropical Storm gaston. You can see its going to stay in the atlantic although it should regain category one hurricane state road 54 us this weekend. Not an issue for anyone hurricane status this weekend. And not an issue for anyone. This tropical wave, they recall morning, the noaa Hurricane Hunters went through the storm center and found a wind speed then made their way back to tampa. So theyll use that data they checked in the forecast month els. They