The threat is freezing rain and sleet. The combination is creating a problem for truth four crews trying to get ahead. Tom is here for us. Meconnecticut avenue behind looks like it is doing ok. Conditions are right for freezing. I have proof. This bmw was parked in the parking lot throughout most of the night. Right there. Under here, it is frozen and there is ice as well. When this starts happening on the roads, the state says it is ready. Tonight, it was time to load salt, a couple thousand trucks that are ready to tackle ice issues in maryland. Says pretreating roads would not be effective, so trucks have had to sit and wait on highways until they get word when conditions are right for freezing. These trucks are gearing up for is the morning rushhour. I have no choice. Sylvester is worried about making it tomorrow. It is dangerous. Others are confident that these crews will make driving less dangerous than it could be. They are doing a good job. You not like to hear about more bad w
Icy. Our headlines for today, we will have a calm day. We some sunshine with High Temperatures in the mid to upper 30 poss. There will tonight be a significant icing event. We do have warnings and advisories posted that i will show you in just a moment. We will have some wintry weather before the weekend is over. We are in a very active weather pattern. More details from the Weather Center in just a few minutes. Let us hope we have a good commute this morning. We will get at least one good commute in. We do have dry roadways. We will start off with a live shot. This was of rain coming down. You can see heading into the Douglas Bridge that it is absolute butyl conditions. Dry and light traffic through that stretch. We also have construction on university boulevard. That is in wheaton, virginia. Lanes closed. Be careful for some moderate slowdowns. It is not too bad otherwise. 295 is moving in quite nicely. 95 in virginia, we had major problems on 95 starting early and throughout the mor
30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How
It is clear by not voting we are rewarding russia with more power at the International Monetary fund while denying ukraine the opportunity to be more Energy Independent from Russian Energy sources. If members are willing to provide american taxpayer dollars from ukraine to pay russian gas bills, then we should en i would say by passing my amendment, the United States has the ability to be the strategic supplier to our nato allies and ukraine. It is worth noting that my amendment on l. N. G. Exports has strong bipartisan support in the committee. I expect our bipartisan pass an amendment that helps ukraine decrease the helps ukraine. I look forward to traveling to ukraine tomorrow and speaking to them bl buying natural gas from america to help decrease the chair rules the amendment out of order as a topic outside of the jurisdiction. I would be happy to go through those, but i think in the interest of time, we will put that into the record. , theut objections amendment is ruled out of o
Of the top officials of the nsa, including the director at the time, keith alexander. In talking about that, it was really interesting to see how they saw the thing, how they responded to it. They feel they are misunderstood. Think like the caller before that the nsa is watching everything they do. One of the top officials who has has since said what can i do to convince people we are not looking at your mail or grandmas mail . In deed because of the secrecy, people do not know how expensive this is. They are upset about the degree to which we are being surveilled in the sense that information is being collected about us. They said just collecting the information is not the same as collecting the information or this will help them in the subways of new york. People examine the claims and say that could have been other ways to got to get to it. In a sense, they have not come up with a lot of examples. The legislators have grilled them on this. I have talked to other people who have said