His resignation. This is two hours. Good morning. The committee will come to order. We are here to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette. I am one who believes that you have done an excellent job as secondincommand to secretary perry. We welcome you back to the committee. It is good to have discussion with you. I want to thank you for all you have done at the department. For your willingness to serve at this point. And to step up in this new and higher capacity. We have our colleagues here today this morning to introduce the deputy area secretary. Texas and louisiana are well represented. Feel very welcome here. By having these gentlemen the two you. We will start with senator cassidy. Followed by senator cruz and senator kennedy. To introduce the deputy area secretary this morning. We do have a full complement here this morning. We welcome all of the good comments. What a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. He is eminently qualified. The United States leads the world in all kin
So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
Here this morning. Lets check the jam cams as we get ready for a monday morning we are all in a good mood eagles victory yesterday but we are ready to go, live look at the blue route southbound working your way out of mid county down toward schuylkill expressway. Is there construction that is out there on the ramp. They have long johns on working hard overnight and anything that didnt, evaporate yesterday, is laying out there in the form of some black ice. Be careful there this morning, to the maps we will go faulk land road not that far from here closed off of new port gap road some down wires from an overnight accident as we go to the ben franklin bridge a live look for the gang coming from south jersey this morning, so far, so good but again, expect some slippery conditions, as we step outside the front door. Speaking of front door we are here on the inside of the front door traders cove at penns place a cool spot that has plenty of things for to us talk about here during our six ho
We will bring you updates on air and nbc washington app. That investigation is going to be unfolding. What is going to be a bitterly cold night here in the dmv. Storm team4 has been telling you about this dramatic temperature drop for days and has issued a weather alert. We are working for you with Team Coverage. Our David Culver Laz some lastminute tips to make sure you and your car are ready. First lets head to the storm center where doug and amelia start us off this afternoon. Doug . Yeah, guys, you mentioned bitter blast. That is exactly what we have out there. This morning you walk outside maybe around noon, get some lunch, it wasnt that bad. You were just out there a minute ago. It is really dropping fast. Yeah, the cold is really moving in quickly. In fact, we are also seeing the winds pickup. Now seeing gusts in frederick almost close to 40 miles an hour. The coldest air so far this season. By far. Take a look at what else we have going on here. A little bit of moisture, some r
Have a lot going on. Even though there is not precipitation in the forecast today and tomorrow the story is how cold it is. So chilly outside. Wind is lighter then it was. You lied to me, katie. But it is a lot more brutal on the thermometer, and, and, those streets of what looks like snow showers are not verified in most spots but we are experiencing enough, cold air in place here. It feels awfully frigid outside and although i expect we will see more sun then anything, basically nothing, so to help warm things up. 24 degrees. We will likely drop off on that thermometer through the course of the morning before the sun comes up but then we dont rebound that far. Make a mental picture of these actual air temperatures. Now lets look at how it feels. Basically you have to knock 10 e nine below zero, in mount pocono right now. So that is where war of this is taking place, so lets face it 13 degrees for feels like value is no picnic either but we have sunshine in this forecast. It is cold h