Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk but never said marilyn University College which is a public Online University that is designed ago, design from the ground up to provide affordable accessible quality and relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. Into understanding i need to tell you the story. We were established in 1947 at the university of maryland as the department was charged with serving adult students, particularly those who were returning gis were born to. In 1949 we became we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our troops stationed in germany, this is beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956 we had established the patient to deliver Higher Education in both europe and asia, and in 1963 we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970 we became an independent fully accredited university that is part of University System of maryland. Ove
Chairman and the Ranking Member, the whole committee here, senator barrasso, senator carper, you have an introduction to make also. We will do that. Lets recognize senator carper because he will be coming back and doing his a little later. Very briefly, welcome to this important hearing, i think the chair and Ranking Member for putting this together and giving us a chance to say something, i ask unanimous consent him if i come back and give it live later this morning i will do that, good to see you, thank you for joining us this is important stuff. I want to thank all of you for being here today, thank you for your help in getting this together. I have taken counts, the last one other than you and me, retiring this year, that means you and me. I hope that is not a message. We did coming, working together in a bipartisan way of accomplishing things, looking forward to working with my colleagues who worked in legislation benefiting users for Transportation Networks and the economy. Since
Rolled over again. That makes saturdays drawing now worth more than half a billion dollars. This is what we came here to do. Later first look at the four. Celebrity judges diddy, dj khaled and Meghan Trainor tell u what makes this show so unique. Two of the singers hand picked by the super stars will join us live. Good day at 9a starts now. Good day, everybody. Its 9 01 on this snowy thursday january 4th and, boy, what a start to the morning for a lot of us in this region. My goodness. Got started early and figuratively. The big story the bomb cyclone. Well call a snowstorm. Its been fall along morning long. The snow should wrap up soon in the area but blizzard conditions couldnt further east and all the way up the Atlantic Coast right now. The first real wint storm of 2018 has brought the region to a standstill most schools in the area are either closed or delayed. Many of them closed. The federal government opening late. And again were not the only ones feeling the effects the snow h
Fights back. Very excellent student came out made billions and billions of dollars. His message to the author of the new book fire and fury which questions his mental stability in the white house. Americas longest serving astronaut passes away. A figure skater pushes back at the judges who she says robbed her of a spot on the u. S. Olympic team. Big changes are coming for metro riders. How it could impact how you pay to ride the rails. The news at 10 00 starts now. We begin tonight with the bitter cold weather. Man, is it cold. Today temperatures just barely got above 20 degrees and the wind chill made the air feel even more frigid. Record low temperatures in those awful and those awful wind chills are plaguing much of the u. S. Tonight. In new york city the wind chill was minus two. In boston, negative 10. Yeah, boston has had nearly two dozen days of below freezing weather. This cold is chaos at area airports. Lets take a live look outside here in d. C. If youve been outside tonight,
Im tom fitzgerald. Well start this mourning with you know t. A live look outside at a fridge id, frigid capitol hill this morning athe sun is just starting to peak over the horizon this morning. Lets get to gary mcgrady who dpary, you know, all kidding aside this is really been a brutal stretch for everybody. You might have good news here. I wish i could take somebodys lottery winnings and buy us warmer tempe temperatures. No money can take care of t that. Well have to wait. It does look like well be in for what do you got, tom, Say Something yeah, this true. You could burn that money. That would keep you i wonder how long that would keep you warm. It would still be temporary. Another day today below freezing. You have to go back to last wednesday before we had a day above freezing. Its been definitely a fridge id streak here. And look, hopefully tomorrow i hope so. Because theres a chance of little chance of freezing mix tomorrow and maybe freezing rain and maybe a little sleet. Maybe