We are focused on the forestructure, the challenges in the future, the need for reform in every area of national defense, and i would seek and urge both subcommittee chairman and Ranking Members as well as all members to engage in a series of examinations of natural defense in all aspects. This years ndaa. I know that senator reid is committed to the same prospect and i know we can embark on the odyssey in a completely bipartisan fashion. I think the men and women who are serving deserve it. But i think more than that america deserves a thorough examine nation of how we can best equip our military in the ability to defend this nation in very turbulent times. We are pleased to have shawn brimley, executive Vice President of director of studies at the center for new american studies, Andrew Krepinevich and chr christopher probe preble. Robert gates echoed last week what was testified to the committee all year. That we should not forget the threats we faced in the past times that the curr
We have a minute or two before we go to the pentagon for a briefing. Go ahead, kelly in oregon. Caller the trouble with Public Policy makers is that they are out of touch with the vast majority of the regular people. There are a few good persons out there. Barry sanders, our beloved peter defazio. But policy which makes sense to , they are out of touch. Do not know with the needs and the concerns of the regular individual are. Host this is marjorie in washington dc. Caller hello. I apologize, im going to have to let you go. You have 15 seconds. Axeser property tas assessments have no control. Ont when you get through washington journal, turned out a television, because you will hear everything three telephone and you will not have any delay. Pentagon briefing begins now. General breedlove good morning. He thank you again for the opportunity to provide you with an update on the things that are keeping us busy and u. S. European command. My last visit with you was back in april. Im confi
A ba area football star is killed in a crash. Experts say he could havenr survived if it hadnt been for the guardrails he struck. The 24yearold Darrell Blackman died after an accident saturday moing in marin county. The guardrail has been blamed for deaths and injuries across the country. Here is a piece of t car i found at the scene. We dont know whether he was impaired. The chp is down loading data. But a guardrail make that sued the company says he should have survived tla crash. Friends tell the i team Darrell Blackman may have been coming home om work as a bouncer in bar when his car crashed 4 30 saturday morning. He exeled on the Berkeley High football team, played at campus state, and tried out for the 49ers in april afte an injury he hopes to try again next year. Through it, he volunteered coaching berkeley kids. Just amazing to me. Just a nice guy. After blackman died in the crash, crews didnt clean up welch i found pieces alo 101. A head light and aio hazard bag full of blood
A head light and a bio hazard bag full of bloody gloves they did take special care of the guardrail end piece i couldnt find it yesterday i did find a main beam, pulled the bumper out and verified it was blackmans through id number. After phone calls caltrans took me behind black tarps to show me the end terminal at e. P. Plus. That head is responsible for the death of that boy. There is no question. Here is the way its supposed to work the force of the car pushes the end terminal down and it flattens w into a smooth ribbon of steel. That slows the car. In this case, you can see the guardrail bulging out of the channel. How it folded right at the end terminal. They lock up. And it buckled over and buckled up and ripped off. The rail flipped onto the highway. The seabring continued past. After repeated insy lawsuits, 39 states banned the ep plus. Its frustrating to people like the family of blackman. I found stacks of new et plus heads in the caltrans yard, discovering caltrans installe
Issues important to business . All that and more tonight for the nightly Business Report. Good evening, everyone, oil was the big news on wall street today with another sharp drop in prices. They touched 75 a barrel. Brent crude the International Benchmark fell to a fouryear low. The selloff was sparked by saudi arabias unexpected decision to cut what it charges the u. S. For crude. Theyre now worried that could open the way for more prices to climb as Oil Production is at an all time high, west texas crude was down 1. 59 a barrel close about 77. Jackie deangelis has more on the slide in oil prices as traders wonder how low can it bo . Reporter a blood bath in the crude pit. Traders saying saudi arabias price cuts yesterday were the trigger and the sec nickal seller. Opec was once again lowering prices, not cutting production. The dollar started to strengthen again. We traded through that 79 area. It looks like good resistance now. If next report would be the 74, 95 number. All eyes ar