Appreciate the support of congress to resolve this extraordinary challenge. Thank you. Director jarvis, thanks very much. Because of the number of senators here, ill ask one question to get us started and recognize our colleagues. Director jarvis, for decades, the park service has recommended expanding the Oregon Caves National monument. And one of the primary reasons has been because the existing site is not large enough to protect the site, given the volume of visitors. So in the case of oregon caves, not expanding the site could actually increase the cost of maintaining a very unique resource. My point is that the park acquisition and maintenance costs are not always in conflict, and certainly the oregon caves raises that issue. Adding to the monument might actually hold down the cost of maintaining the site. So my question to you, dr. Jarvis, is isnt this part of the thinking that ought to go into this debate . In other words, were going to explore plenty of ideas. And you saw that
We have Live Team Coverage of the flooding. Boris sanchez is in South Carolina. Nick, lets start off but. First, you have been driving across the state for the past few hours. Describe what youve seen. Reporter the most traumatic image that weve seen in our travels. You can see behind me images speaking 1,000 words. The cars completely understand water, the building behind me used to be a title max becoming part of the road i way here. This is a result of the relentless rain that just persists, that has not stopped over the last course of the 48 hours. A lot of residents coming out to see exactly what the situation is about. Lets bring in local residents here. Bob and megan, your daughter, you live close by. Are you doing all right . Yeah, were doing fine. We live up the hill here. We just came out to check out the scene. Its a tough one. Have you ever seen anything like this . This is a pretty serious situation that were looking at. Not around here. A bunch of our neighbors just got r
Ahead. The president s latest threat to use his power to get involved with the Justice Department. News is breaking now. Lets get to it. From washington. Rarely have we had so many to report on different fronts from the white house. First, President Trumps lawyer, rudy guliani giving details of what he thinks a facetoface meeting with the president and Robert Mueller would look like and sound like. The former new york city mayor told robert costa this afternoon and john roberts just confirmed, he would want the interview to be a maximum of two to three hour and around a narrow set of questions. Not as broad as the 49 question list that somebody floated two nights ago. He made those comments after fox news confirmed that the white house later that ty cobb is leaving. He will no longer deal with the russia investigation. Officially, hes retiring at the end of the month. Theres more reporting to be done on this. In his place, emmett flood, an attorney that represented president bill clint
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