Begins with education secretary betsy devos. She was narrowly confirmed by the senate in february with Vice President mike pence casting the tiebreaking vote. The daughter of a wealthy michigan family and the wife to the air of amway fortune, she has been a long time Publican Party activists and served at one time as state party chair. Advocacy has focused on the issue of school choice. We will show you a portion of her hearing from january, starting with questions from North Carolina republican richard burr. Thank you for agreeing to serve. I think a lot of americans watch thatgoes on here and say is never me. I will never go through with it. Most of us say that after an election cycle. Somebody who find is the full monty. He did not have to do this. That is apparent married that is apparent. He did not have to choose education as you like ambition, but you did. I thank you for the investment and all the kids that you have impacted, for the unbelievable statistics. You and the senator
The attention of riders safety. Adam tuss joins us live at metro headquarters in northwest d. C. Adam . Thats right, melissa. The News Conference about to get under way in about a minute. We are expecting the general manager to lay out a huge massive track work plan that will deal with things that are completely disruptive, not just for the metro system but the entire region, really. Were talking about single tracking around the clock for as long as a month, possibly even longer on certain sections of rail lines. Were talking about closing down certain sections of stations for weeks on end. And a lot of buses will have to be called in to help people get around. This is going to be a Maintenance Plan that the region has never seen before. The general manager of the board of directors here at metro said in no Uncertain Terms the Maintenance Plan for metro up to this point has not worked. Its not been effective and that is why we have gotten into this state of disrepair of where we are. T
Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first comment i would make is over the last two years where above the level of sequestration and the army was only 33 ready. And so yes flexibility will give us the ability to manage insufficient funds in our department but thats all it does. It allows us to better manage because today we extend our aviation programs so the cost for every apache has gone up to the cost for every ua 60 has gone up. The cost for every ch47 has gone up because we have extend the programs longer and longer so we are paying m
Weather for our first weekend of fall, yes i did say fall. Chris sowers has a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. The confused Mother Nature continues. Reporter it could be the warmest weekend we see until next spring. Lets get you outside and start you out with a view in Atlantic City. Its a quiet, tranquil morning, you can see patchy fog, it is clear and comfortable and everybody is getting set to enjoy a nice weekend around the delaware valley. 52 degrees in millville. 60 in philadelphia. Trenton, 55. Beach haven 59 degrees, 61 is the number for Sea Isle City on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Allentown, 50, poconos 55, lancaster, 51. Theres the entire saturday right there. So far this morning we are not seeing any cloud cover. We expect to have a bright, blue sky all day long. Looks like a pictureperfect start to the weekend. The normal for this time of year by the time we get into sunday is 73 degrees, well be ten degrees warmer than that come sunday afternoon. Mo
Warnings including a Tornado Warning southwest of harrisburg. At least been the potential for hail on our storm tracks. A couple of isolated cells tracking do you think eastward down to the northeast corn of maryland down through southern delaware little bit of rain thats just it. Now its quiet so far here in philadelphia. Dont think we see the storms for at least a couple more hou hours. But just in time for the eagles game kick off temperature 78 degrees. Scatter the thunderstorms much more on this unsettled pattern to come. Lucy and iain. Thank you very much, caitlin. Breaking news right now in philadelphia, some crooks out there are targeting our senior citizens. Police just went public with details. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at east detectives to night. Shawnette, what are you hearing . Reporter lucy, police tell me theyre looking for one possibly two people responsible for about a dozen strong armed robberies of mostly elderly people. Its happening when these victims leave