Discussed Counterterrorism Measures and the role everyday citizens can have in stopping potential threats. This is 25 minutes. So i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good mornintom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to predict how it would happen, thextent of it, geographically ideologically or anything else. I think we thought it would and i might say before we started any program we paid tribute to the families. The families of 9 11 have been the most Extraordinary Group and they have taken the greatest tragedies in anybodys li
Solutions were difficulto make up pushed off by several administratis. Now theris natural progression of these problems developing. Clearly, you cant go back and change things. If you could, what wou you change . Not putting a hard decision when there are problems developing, organizaons outside of government are taking solutions and mornizing, government cant keep its head in the sand and fall behind. These are Management Issues th i think have been important to us, and w we will tackle them head on. Do you conser yourself first and foremost a doctor . Absolutely. I still see paents, but that is who i am. I approachhe job primarily as a physician, secony as a manager. Wyatt dr. . Is about helping people why a doctor . Its a way of helping people. You can help many re people in a much broader way, so i consider my management career though, as an extension ofhat i have been doing is a physician. First nonmilitary person to hold this potion. What do you bring to the job . I bring my expe
This is not only a natural disaster, it is a National Disaster and i think the federal government has a role to help people out. There havent critics from those who look at Texas Republicans who voted against some of the a4 hurricanes in. Is there a hypocrisy here . Too. Voted against that for example, planned parenthood funding will continue because of that bill so i think it is the wrong thing for those things to be united in one bill. They shouldve had i think the federal government has to do what is necessary, but the federal government is starved for resources and has been for some time. You havebe nice one party that refuses to raise of ofever and that kind hovels washingtons ability to get things done. The federal government has to was necessary, just adding on to the National Debt is not a good way to go into the future. Host not only raising taxes, republicans are looking for a tax cut. Guest a tax cut or tax reform. In part, i agree with eleanor. The federal government is pro
Into the afternoon, well make it to the 70s and warmer than this weekend. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. First to traffic and jessica boyington. Thanks, cameras around 17th, everything looks great so far. Really quiet drive. Pretty much everywhere. Nobody and southbound looks good. This is southbound, it will be moving toward the schuylkill expressway. No problems there. Interstate 95 at least moving through delaware looks good. 11 minutes northbound from 295 to 495. Speeds into the high 50s or almost the 60s there at least. So everythings moving nicely. The new jersey turnpike, good news here. Right before this point is where the toll plaza is or at least the ezpass lanes before the delaware American Legion bridge. Watch the delaware memorial bridge. Watching that, youll get to new jersey just fine. Back to you. Were tracking irmas impact as the storm continues to pummel florida this morning. The video shows what people have been dealing with for the past 24 hours th
Motorcycle crash. Dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 15. Highway 101 to kuper teen know still in the green. Were tracking the south bay, gusting winds overnight knocking down trees in several cities. Right now thousands are without power. Matt keller is live in los gatos. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, natasha and reggie. The winds have really calmed down a lot in the past 15, 20 minutes or so. Still breezy outside but you can see whats left behind. Here we are on lark avenue by highway 17 and youve got big piles of these pine needles in the middle of the road. You have tree branchs as well. Power outages are a major issue. Were talking about 11,000 customers without power at the height of this wind storm this morning between 2 30 and 4 00. Now were being told there are about 4,500 without power in the south bay. Thats the good news. We dont know when power will be restored. Pg e is scrambling to get crews pg e is scrambling to get crews to several different locati