[inaudible] i might just wait for good afternoon, welcome to the committee of the 118th congress. I am pleased to welcome all of you here for this testimony on the military and civilian personnel programs at the department of defense, and the military services and review of the Administration Defense authorization request for fiscal 2024. All of my brothers served in the military, supporting the military, a military families means a lot to me. I am particularly pleased to be chair in my first hearing as an Armed Services subcommittee chair. I am honored to chair at the subcommittee, and i look forward to continuing its long history of bipartisanship and working as a partner with Ranking Member scott, and with all of our members, on both sides of the aisle, to improve the lives of our Service Members, of retirees, military families, and the civilian workforce. Our annual posture here provides the department the opportunity to discuss their personal priorities for the coming year. This y
Charged with murder, telling police he was hoping they would shoot him. Force of nature, former fox news star bill oreilly pays tribute to the Networks Founder and claims public hatred killed his friend. Thisrau roger ailes sudden death will affect the against the network. Pippa middleton famously a bridesmaid going to be a bride. Today, friday, may 19, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday. Lets go back out there for a second. We have a great crowd outside because we have a great concert coming up in our 8 30 half hour. Mary j. Blige is up there. And we are going to hear from her in just a few moments. But, let us start with our top story on this friday morning. President trump set to embark on his First International trip. The nineday, fivestop store will serve as a crucial test abroad for the commander in chief. It comes as his administratio
Ive said before, i think we made some useful contributions to it, but the primaryni heros n this stage of our growth that is a democracy and as a society are all the individual activists and and sons and daughters and couples who courageousxdly said, this is who i am and im proud of it. And that opened peoples minds, and opened their hearts and eventually was caught up, but i dont think any that have would have happened without the activism in some cases loud and nowco see, but izi some cases jt quiet stand very personal. And i think that what we did as an administration was to help the societynr to move in aco ber direction but to do soni in a wy that didnt create enormous backlash and was systematic and respectful of the fact that in some cases these issues were controversial. I think the way we handled for example, dont ask dont tell being methodical about it, working with the joint chiefs, making sure we showed that this would not have an impact on thei effectiveness of the greates
Thats what patco blames anyhow. Good evening im lucy noland. Patco says its work to go fix the issues but riders are frustrated. Very from the frustrated. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live at the patco station in collingswood. Dave . Reporter lucy, patco riders had to deal with handful of cancellations for the evening rush home and we can tell you crews are work to go try to make fixes and not only that, theyve had to pull some cars off to do the job. Computers between south jersey and philadelphia this morning riders noticed. Shale theyll shoot up again the window. Kind of weird. Things going on with it. Reporter flashes on the tracks coming along with train delays and cancellations yet again. Schedule is like well posted but sometimes it just totally doesnt come when its supposed to or, um, or its just like minutes late. Some trains are just absent report roar social media slammed with images like these standing room only in many train cars with platforms packed, too. Theres like sometime
Care in texas hospital. How long president George Hw Bush could be in that icu we do not know. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Meantime his wife former First Lady Barbara Bush is also in the hospital. Heres what we know right now. The couple are in the same Houston Texas medical center. The 41st president were you admitted saturday for shortness of breath and by this morning he was moved into up tense seive care unit. Doctors performed a procedure to clear the former president s airway and address a respiratory issue stemming from pneumonia. Meantime barbara bush was admitted to the hospital after experiencing fatigue and coughing ton night a longaid to former president bush says 41 is a fighter. You know, hes a great man. You cant keep a great man down, and hes always got the best attitude of anyone in the room. Both president and mrs. Bush just made a public appearance. They just celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary. Our fox 29 app users the first to learn of todays news thanks to