Services committee is chaired by texas congressman mack thornberry. Committee will come to order. Last week the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world. Or more accurately the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. Th
Off new attacks by surviving terrorists. Belgiums federal prosecutor admitting only one of the men in yesterdays surveillance shot is identified. Ibrahim el bakraoui in the middle killed in the airport suicide bombing. Police say the man at the left may not be ibrahims brother khalid who died in the metro attack ap, and they did not say who the man in white is or where he might be. Police are questioning a fourth suspect. After the attacks that killed 34, including the bombers, and wounded over 270, sources tell nbc news police found at the brothers house along with an isis flag and unexploded bombs, ammonium nitrate, the same easily made high explosive used by Timothy Mcveigh in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Last week when Police Arrested salah abdeslam, the key suspect in the paris attacks, an apartment rented by one of yesterdays bombers. Its all one isis cell, and people in belgium expect another attack. I think terrorists can do anywhere, but, you know, you cant stop them but
An eye on it. Otherwise, as we go through the day on friday, expect clearing skies and high temperatures in the mid 40s. Winds will continue to be breezy from the north between 10 and 20 mph. This weekend, we re expecting dry weather. In fact, saturday brings partly cloudy skies. Highs will be in the upper 40s and lower 50s. By sunday, highs will be in the lower 50s under a mix of sun and clouds. Rain moves back in next monday a mother is recovering after being shot in the head by her 20 year old son, according to her family. Right now Virginia Beach police are calling Devante Williams armed and dangerous. News channel threes Margaret Kavanagh is live in the ocean lakes subdivision where the shooting happened. Margaret we know that Ocean Lakes High School was put on lock down. Yes it was. We are told the mom is home from the hospital according to her other son. He says this morning his brother Devante Jamal williams father told newschannel 3 that he has a message for his son who they c
Forty mph and now just moderate rain with occasional if he occasionally a few heavier downpours filtering and and thats going to continue here for quite awhile you can see it does get lighter the farther up the princely ago and thats going to tend to be the same sort of a setup as we go through later tonight and tomorrow but we still had almost an inch in hampden last several hours less lists the six hours a five hundred to newport news one of thirty inches in wakefield than one point four here in norfolk one in Virginia Beach and everything slide south and east were starting to see these numbers in North Carolina feeling a little bit as well. Were going to continue to watch this rain again the heaviest rain during the overnight and then i think will get a little bit of a break in some spots the first lets a half or third of the day tomorrow but the analysts attempt or sixties and then ill start to drop through the fifties the rain will fill back in comes in by afternoon talk about tha
Trend down today and while the Windsor South southwest right now thirty mph were at sea wind shift to the north and then eventually the northeast this afternoon so enjoy these temperatures for the moment cooler air is coming in and you can see that what weather that stretches down across coastal sections of the carolinas will see more opportunities for rain later today its kind of fell back in nc that with the future cats on the step over here she could see whats going on temps in the sixties this morning again dont get used to it as we go past sunrise where the fifties and dropping rapidly. I expect noontime temperatures in the low fifties isolated to scattered showers more opportunities for rain later this afternoon temperatures into the mid forties so obviously a lot cooler and you can see the temperatures are staying in the forties as we head into the evening. Now overnight low should drop in the upper thirties every bat more sunshine in the forecast in cooler weather tomorrow plus