Good morning. The committee today to consider the nomination of the lieutenant general. Thank you for your decades of service and willingness to serve in this a very important position. I would like to welcome your son, john and daughter, sarah and while not present but we acknowledge the parents randy and belinda. I am know they are very proud of your nomination. Recognizing the increasingar importance of the space domainm and growing threats to the critical space assets by china and russia, congress established the space force on the fiscal year 2020 National Defense authorization act. , legislatively transferring ino 2020. First of the space force must develop, train and equip guardians. Space is a remote domain that is contested and have to have thean ability to integrate digital digitalinto their advanced techs to accomplish their mission by a strongan background. The Space Training and Readiness Command i will want to know your views if confirmed how they will train future guardi
Reporter from lockdown drills to improving listening skills to learning new crisis strategy. The hope is new layer of protection for our chirp. Children. Another thing is how to improve communication during a shooting. Often schools have code words but police say its best to be clear and simple and to announce on the pa system theres a gunman on campus. New information on a story we brought you first last night. Within the last two hours Police Released a sketch of the man they say tried to rip a 2yearold girl out of her mothers arms. Kris sanchez joins us from the San Jose Police department with more on that. Kris . Reporter hi there, diane. You dont have to be a parent to know the horror this family went through. The mother just spent the last couple of hours here at san jose pd headquarters working with a sketch artist. This is what she came up with. This is the man who she said tried to wrestle her toddler out of her arms right in her own front yard. We are were just a little shake
Good evening. Tonight, the breaking news. New details tonight about Andreas Lubitz, the copilot who crash the flight murdering 149 people. His doctors had declared him unfit to work quotes around that. Unfit tworko work before the crash. The New York Times is reporting he was being treated for depression and hid that from his employer at lufthansa. Police are scouring his apartment in germany. They have collected boxes and bags. Among that evidence records this indicate an ongoing medical condition as well as doctors notes excusing him from work on the day that he actually flew. Cnn is covering this break story from all angles. Will in germany with new details about his condition. Carl penhall near the crash site with the latest on the recovery. We begin with pamela brown outfront. What have you learned about the search . We saw the bags and bags coming out. What did they find . Reporter thats right. Investigators have been bringing out mounds of evidence. We know they found a crucial
Relatives who one of our crews met outside a residential building here that in fact patrick was the man who was steering that plane. Patrick sondenheimer. Weve known from lufthansa that he was a captain who had been flying with the airline both lufthansa and germanwings as well as another German Airline called condor for ten years. He had 6,000 flying hours. By all means a very very experienced pie lt. He was also the one who tried to get back into the cockpit, first knocking a little bit normally obviously and then trying to kick the door down in the end as the plane descended down there. So we know his identity now. We have talked to his relatives, but they at this point say they are not comfortable speaking in front of the camera because, of course they are still in a state of grief, fredricka. And what about those who knew, the copilot particularly the girlfriend who has been quoted in a german newspaper there in interviews. What more is being said . Reporter well theyre trying to
Germanwings flight 9525. Lets go to cologne, germany. Fred, what have you learned about the pilot . Reporter yeah good morning, guys. This comes from a relative of patrick zondeheimer. He confirmed to a cnn crew that met him there that indeed his relative Patrick Sondenheimer was the captain of the flight the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit after he was locked out by andreas lieu bits. He was described as a man with a lot of experience about 6,000 flying hours in total. Been with the company for ten years and we know his name is Patrick Sondenheimer. He is the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit. Fred youre from cologne, germany. You know a lot of the officials. There have been some new revelations coming to light that the copilot who Authorities Say crashed the plane had an illness. There has been speculation about whether it was a mental illness. What are the companies saying germanwings and lufthansa. Germanwings is saying they had these sick leave notes th