The secretary of dhs just came by and had a meeting with mr. Connolly and i and has laid out a number a number of steps on where he is wanting to address this particular concern for employee morale. I think all of the witnesses for being here today and i look forward to a working relationship where we can Work Together to make sure that we have improved numbers but more importantly improved improve satisfaction among our federal workforce. With that i would recognize member connolly from virginia. And i your commitment is quite sincere. You want to collaborate to make things better. Thats an important. To be emphasized. You and i most certainly will collaborate and try to accomplish that. It is easy to complain or highlight problems. It is a lot more difficult to try to address them. Them. As you said mr. Chairman the secretary of Homeland Security cares enough about this topic to come and see you and me prior to this hearing, and hearing, and i would ask unanimous consent that the let
Around the 18 acres of the white house plus the executive Office Building and eventually, they say likely around the treasury department. The National Parks service work in collaboration with the secret service on these proposals described as temporary anticlimb devices or temporary anticlimb features. Theyre described as reversible if they decide to go in a different direction in the future but they say theres an immediate need for these changes. But when asked specifically what these anticlimb devices are, the National Park service declined to go into specifics and the secret service was unavailable after that vote. These are described as just proposals. Thats why they wont go on further record. But when asked about reports that this is a 1 2 inch steel spike that would be bolted on the existing fence on the north and south sides of the white house, the nationalshltional park service told me that report is not wrong. We can also tell you thats a temporary fix. Theres a process under
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Hello once again, top of the hour. Hello from the World Headquarters cnn, im brooke baldwin, once again welcoming our viewers in the United States and all around the world covering a huge story for you right, the blizzard, blanketing much of the northeast and new england, bearing down on 50 million people, problems are piling up. Look at these pictures with me. Well begin in massachusetts. Live pictures of our driving camera. More than 380,000 homes and businesses are without power at this point in time, and you know those numbers will change, but that is more than half of the total across the region, just about 614,000 customers scattered across 9 different states, no power right now. Look at that, fenway park, just about zero visibility, more than a into the and a half of snow already falling in parts of massachusetts. In new york, the worst of the storm is hitting in the predawn hours. Some cab, some vehicles out and about around Columbus Circle in this eerie calm of night. We learn
Friends, family, and community members gathered today at the Light of Christ Lutheran Church in La Porte to celebrate the life of 71-year-old Connie Elaine Fortune, who died tragically in a fire at her home earlier this week.