The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services committee. With the president budget request released earlier today, this is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber. This is an increasingly important area on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forces to protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyberspace. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 and daa, i have made cyber and cyber warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming weeks, Mac Thornberry and i, and the house Ranking Member adam smith stand to introduce legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of sensitive military cyberoperations, including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the e
Terrorist propaganda, but does it really work . Lauren nike in a global battle with adidas planning workforce and selling more sportswear to the consumer. Lea in baseball, another night of extra innings for the new york yankees as they play the oakland as. Lauren good morning, tgif, welcome to fbn am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. Lea Russias Defense Ministry say that is the leader of isis may be killed in one of the air strikes in syria along with 30 isis commanders and 300 fighters. Air strike in raqqah late last month targeted a meeting of isis leaders, russia says its still investigating the report of baghdadis death through various channels. Lauren President Trump heading to miami to announce changes made by president obama. Revised policy will take aim at travel and cutting off the flow of americas cash to Cuban Security and resources. Still a former u. S. Deplo mat says he doesnt expect major changes. There may be some small s
Former nypd officer. We are looking at these pictures, this is a chaotic scene. Do we know if this is terrorism, was would you be looking at to indicate that is a confirmed element of this, that it is terrorism . Thanks for inviting me on a sad day. It does appear to be an intentional attack. In Law Enforcement we want to default to assuming it is terror, we you want to err on the side of safety. The driver fled the scene and now Holding Hostages inside of a restaurant. Terrorists are getting smarter. They know these asymmetrical, lowtech, spontaneous, asymmetrical attacks, to interdict before they happen. Maria what are authorities looking at to track down this perpetrator who got out of the car. The van itself, a work van or if it is, they will find the individual who last had custody of the van and determine whether or not he or she is the same person who ran into the crowd and Holding Hostages. If not look for that person to find if they have any affiliation with terror groups a cr
Dow futures lower by 22, s p lower by 4, nasdaq futures lower by 7. Lauren europe affected by all the terror. Down markets across the board here. You have a 1 decline in london, paris and also in germany. In asia japanese stock follow lead, we will have a live report from london on the global action. Fbn am starts right now. Lauren good friday morning, 5 01 a. M. In new york. August 18th, welcome to fbn am. Im lauren simonetti. Im Lea Gabrielle in for Cheryl Casone. Lauren police in in spain foil attack overnight as they killed five suspects 75 miles of barcelona. Authorities say the suspect had plowed pedestrians in their car and wore fake bomb belts, police say the Second Attack has been linked to the one just hours earlier in barcelona. Mean while a manhunt continues on the driver of the van killing 13 people and injuring a hundred others. [inaudible conversations] there was terror and chaos, the van swerved side to side. I feel incredibly lucky and we did consider that, its so nice
Much of tomorrows coverage online. We will carry it live at the sister station newschannel8. Larry the past few days have been perfect weather to get outside. As the sun sets tonight, literally it appears to set figuratively on the spring like weather. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill has a look at the change that is on the way. Doug it started today. We had temperatures in the upper 50s, close to 60 the temperatures are slowly falling. Jump to tomorrow and we will see continuation of the gusty winds at time. The big thing are the colder temperatures. We start the day in the 30s. 40degree reading around noon. 43 in the afternoon. We still have up to a couple more hours until 7 00. Wind advisory across a large portion of the area. Wind gust up to 40 Miles Per Hour in spots. In the next three hours, more 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour gusts will be isolated. As far as the gusts at the moment, look at the recent wind gust. 46 Miles Per Hour gust at b. W. I. Reagan normal. Leesburg at 3