And saved many lives and thanks for your considerable effort there. The dedicated u. S. Team that joined the response effort deserves our gratitude and as you already mentioned mr. Chairman and Ranking Member mentioned, six of our marines paid the ultimate price to help the nepal ease people and they will be forever missed. And as soon as i heard, i remember this, the ambassador voicing his concern to us as we drove through there about the stone buildings and brick buildings and vull vull vulnerability. You but longterm maybe preventing more people from losing their lives down the road and how we can assist. Thank you for what you have done and i yield back. The chair ms. Meng would you like to make an opening statement. Ms. Meng new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. I want to thank all of your departments for the Immediate Response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. A tragedy like this one every minute a
Saudi arabia Ground Troops have been deployed in yemens port city of aden to support forces of Abdrabbu Mansour hadi. We joined live on the phone. It was just a few days ago that the saudi government announced the campaign was entering a new phase, was this phase expect . Yes, there is an element of surprise in this. They havent been showing a lot of prepares to really be on the ground in yemen. We have seen them amassing troops on the boarder for the last several weeks. This is a surprise to many people. Many inside and outside. It is a force that has been deployed is limited. We dont know if it is made of saudis or other counties, we know that the egyptian president has been here for a new hours. Also for a surprise just. And there was that was revealed about the intentions. Egypt has the biggest contribution outside of saudi arabia. Thats where it was talked about at the beginning of the campaign. Surprise beginning and que dont know how big theyll come to that. Etch was expecting t
Discussing the challenges we face in the region is necessary pare f to prepare for future potential disasters. And working toward minimizing the loss of life as well as ncere depleting limited resources associated with relief efforts. I give my sincere thanks to our colleagues and our witnesses forer joining us in this conversation today. And i yield to the ranking m member, mr. Connolly. D st thank you, mr. Chairman. And welcome to our panel. The United States has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to assistance in disaster readiness in nepal. For over 60 years weve had a presence in nepal in the form of our bilateral aid program. And weve been focused on strengthening the countrys Disaster Response capabilities for the last two decades. Include the establishment of a disaster risk office to make the country more resilient. Implementation for the program the enhancement of emergencyme response to train nepally First Responders and medical personnel and publication of a disaster Ri
Finally, as we are still in the midst of relief, we are already the lo talking about andng focusing on the longer term recovery and we nited arena working together with the k, t internationalhe communicate with the world bank, the united ors states, the Asian Development bank, the European Union and bilateral donors to come together around a common framework of needs. There will be a postdisaster Needs Assessment led by the world bank and u. N. Under which the government of nepal and all of the Donor Community are work o working together to have a common assessment of need. Based on that, we will work as together to ascertain the assistance pledges from within asia and around the International Community. We do expect that a lot of the a recovery will be asian led, but the United States will have a very Important Role to play if we are to help nepal not only recover from this earthquake, chairm but build backan better. We will have more on that as we progress. But mr. Chairmansely i wan
45 in wilmington. 45 in millville. 44 in trenton. 38 degrees in allentown. 34 in the poconos where we still have a frost advisory in effect for another hour now. Its the northern Lehigh Valley and upper bucks county as well as the poconos this is until 8 00 a. M. This morning temperatures are warm, or at least milder, above 32 degrees, so i dont expect widespread frost, but i wouldnt be surprised to see patchy frost to the south temperatures are milder down here, were seeing patchy drizzle over the delaware bay region from millville fortescue east ward port norse and portions of Cape May County. That also racing off to the east. Over the next couple of hours youll see the skies brighten up and the return ever sunshine here today. Promises to be a nice day. Look for a combination of sun and clouds on it is greens, a nice gentle breeze, 10 00 a. M. Temperature, 56. 2 00 p. M. , 62. Were shooting for a comfortable high of 64. Whats ahead . Theres a couple of showers on board possible for