Historians, Mark Lawrence and lien hang nguyen on the legacy of the vietnam war. This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any
So lets move on and talk about whats going to happen with your 12hour planner. My accuweather 12hour planner. Sprinkles, scattered light rain at 7 00. 44 to 53. Rain becomes more possible by noon. And then a better chance at 4 00. That just increases as we head through 7 00. Thats when well throw in a chance of lightning and thunder. More on that coming up. Sue . Exciting. We havent heard that type of activity in quite some time. We do have our usual commuters getting up and at them early. Otherwise were looking green and that is, of course, good. A look at your drive times. Tracy to dublin still about 30 minutes. Highway 4, antioch to concord, looking great. You have a straight shot from san rafael to San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge is fog free. Currently three lanes in both directions. The zipper truck will be along shortly to reconfigure. Hi, everyone. I want to show you breaking news out of georgia, live pictures coming in. Look at all these flashing lights, firefighters outs
Meanwhile the brutally cold and dangerously low temperatures continue to persist. Tonight theres a number of School Closings and delays for tomorrow. Right now, heres what we k know. Anne arrundel, calvert, charles, howard, Prince George are all on a twohour delay. All of those School Systems on a twohour delay. St. Mary county is closed. Meanwhile in virginia cul culpeper, fairfax and fauquier counties on two hour delay tomorrow. You can find updated list of closingss and delays on the bottom of your screen. From the cold and snow and storm preparations and your safety, sue palka. Most of us will see snow covering the brown ground with the most intense period of snow just before dawn and boy, we have a lot of advisories to cover. Let me get straight to that. You may have seen picture of the a record 5. 3 in South Carolina today. Thats historic. Its only done that three times i believe. Third grade of snow. As we look in our area we have a number of advisories to get you caught up on.
Next, defense secretary james mattis and general paul seldom the before the armed Senate Armed Services community. Secretary mattis stressed the need for Stable Funding for the military to be fully trained and ready. This is a 90 minute portion of the hearing before members went to the closed session. The committee will come to order. The Committee Meets today to hear testimony on the nationalations Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture review. We welcome back the secretary of defense and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide decisions the executive branch have to make. Now we have one. It is a component of the Broader National Security strategy released in december, and it has within it the Nuclear Posture review, the first of its kind since 2010. A lot has changed since 2010. And both documents come at
Hill this week to testify on the pentagons National Defense strategy and a recent review of u. S. Nuclear capabilities and security. The services hearing took place a full a few days before Congress Approved a twoyear budget deal that raises defense spending by 165 million. It is 90 minutes. May you come to order. The Committee Meets today to her testimony on the administrations National Defense strategy and Nuclear Posture review, both of which were recently released. We welcome back secretary of defense and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide decisions that we and the executive branch have to make. Now, we have one. It is a component of the Broader National Security strategy released in december, and it has within it, the Nuclear Posture review, the first of its kind since 2010. A lot has changed si