This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome general kelly. It should come as no surprise that the security of our border has been a top priority of this committee. A top priority of this committee. In november 2015 after about 13 hearings and three round tables we published a report if state of americas border security. Weve got a bunch of copies, so any new members or old members that didnt get a copy, id be happy to give you one. Weve learned an awful lot. I would ask that my Opening Statement be entering into the record. Ask for consent for that. No objection. Ill the take silence as conse consent. Thanks. But id like to read some of the findings out of that Opening Statement as well as just some other things weve learned. Just kind of bullet points. First and fore most what weve learned between now this is going to be our 23rd hearing on various aspects of border security. Our borders are not secure, number one. Number two, americas insatiable demand for drugs is one c
Any travelers to keene, New Hampshire get ready for steady rain in those location. A lot of those heavy showers will weaken as they progress in boston 68 degrees and currently dry. Lets time out those showers with futurecast by 7 a. M. To the boston area and they will be weakening and i think they will be a little weaker than futurecast painting them by 9 a. M. They are really saving fast and noontime the last hour we will see any kind of drizzle out there. So this afternoon, your hourbyhour for west have clearing skies and upper 70s. Julie grauert up now with live drivetime traffic. Shiri julie good morning. So far so good. A lot of green on the traffic map. Expressway wide open. 128 moving along fine from dedham, needham. North of the pike no issues on route 1 and 93 south. Live drive times. 24 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 8 minutes on the expressway. 20 minutes from 495 to the leverett connector. Happening today, a Boston Community center is reopening to ki
With the wet towns and city this afternoon. Shiri soaking from auburn and westward up 190 to gardner. Shades in yellows and orange he can extending to rindge New Hampshire as well. That is the heaviest rain. Lightening up as you go eastward. The whole system will weaken toward bedford and boston, but it is on track to reach you folks around the 7 00 hour this morning. Around 7 in the boston area and continues to weaken as we go deep neither morning hours. By noontime, most of the showers will fade off the map. And then during the afternoon. Partial clearing. Highs inland in the upper 70s. Middle 70s at the coast and the cape. Julie grauert is back with an accident update and a little good news on the road. Julie yes improvement at the accidents right now, shiri. 24 northbound near route 23 in brockton and things starting to open up. Overall drive time not too problematic. Shift north, average speeds on the expressway 38 Miles Per Hour, but that will be slowing down the closer we get to
Gene power couple strengthening ties in another city. The new waterfront property they are reportedly buying. Gene good morning, everybody, it is august 2nd, thank you for being with us, im gene elizabeth im Elizabeth Hopkins in for sara underwood. Shiri spear is todays storm with todays showers. Gene hes right shiri lighter rain and worcester getting heavier rain, auburn, sudbury, clinton, shirley, leominster and extending into southwestern New Hampshire making way to mildford and lightens up as you patchy, lighter, almost drizzle out there, just north of the city, also as you head westward on the pike you will encounter the showers, but look at how it encloses on boston area. I say steadiest through 9 00 this morning and then it lightens up by latemorning, so here you have it, afternoon bringing clearing skies. Thats check on forecast for now. Lets get you over to Julie Grauert. She has the latest information on new accident. Julie accident on route 3 northbound, near route 139 in st
Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found