This morning few high clouds, ben franklin bridge area looks okay. We head to the shore, you can start to pick up that golden glow of the sun, thats up, Atlantic City looking nicety point. 58 degrees ardmore lower merion high school, teachers, kids, all thrilled about that. We have storm scan3 showing couple of showers that are showing up. And they are showing up to the north through williamsport, moving toward the poconos, and not totally out of the question that you see shower around here this morning. Better chances through the second part of the day maybe specially the really second part of the day as we head into the evening. 59 degrees temperature in philadelphia, so we have lost one agree in the last couple of minutes, 57 in trenton, 59 in wilmington, 06 Atlantic City and wildwood. We have temperatures philadelphia that will warm up like this. By 9 00 a. M. It will be 72, which is just about perfect. By noon, 81 degrees, partly sunny chance of some showers eight a, our high for
Challenges and we will continue to devote our available resources in this area. I would ask, and i know much of what you say has to be short if you had to itemize one or two or three action items we could work on resources are other tools you need to do your job what do you hope we would do . Caroline ciraolo Holding Hearings like today are critical to getting word out to the American Public. Our elected representatives taking the message back to their home state and making sure the information is out there as often and as loud as possible. Many of these scams can be stopped if the American Public is educated, and having a centralized locations for that information is a wonderful idea. It gives me hope that we will see further information in the future. Thank you. What should congress do . I echoed what she said. The scam is so simple couple we would never be able to prevent people from posing as another person. When money dries up, criminals will go away. Bringing them to justice and
Doing phenomenally well. The gap between the very, very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider and wider. The top 1 now owns about 41 of the entire wealth of this country, while the bottom 60 owns less than 2 . Today, incredibly the top 1 10 of 1 , 1 10 of 1 now owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Today the walton family, the owner of walmart, is now worth 157 billion. That is more wealth than the bottom 42 of the American People. The fact of the matter is, over the last four years we have witnessed an enormous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to multi billionaires. In 1985, 90 was 36 in 2013 went down to just 2. 8 . Just 22. 8 . Listen to this. If the bottom 90 have the same share of its nations wealth as it did 30 years ago it would have more than 10 trillion in wealth than is currently the case today. Meanwhile, the middle class has shrunk. People on top are doing extraordinarily well. Today, the richest 0. 1 have increased their share of our na
Director brennan it is a hypothetical, the iranians have certainly bought to bear many capabilities. We are working closely with the militias there. We have been able to amass enough force to push back against isil insurgence. The Coalition Strikes have softened up a lot of the iso forces and have disrupted their majestic networks. There logistics networks. There has been tremendous effort made by the coalition in terms of rights. Charlie and in the iraqi army are they fighting any better . Director brennan i think they have been able to regroup. There are training elements going on right now. A number of iraqi forces have been able to augment the forces already there. The coalition is engaged in trying to strengthen those forces with the training and advice. These will take time. We expect things not to turn around immediately. This is going to be a long tough fight. We know isil has a lot of material. They also have shown they are willing to kill the cells in certain areas. This has
Some russian making a mistake, a loose nuke idea. Do you lose sleep over that . Director brennan it has the potential for some type of cycle that was not the intention of either side. When there is a lot of violence going on that will provoke a reaction. And just a quick series of reactions to that. Whether we are talking about ukraine or the situation between north and south korea, that spark has the potential. That is why it is important to call attention to these issues. This is the time to try and keep those a bay. Charlie how do you do that . Director brennan very active diplomacy. Sometimes you need to bring to bear various tools of power. The u. S. Has a lot available to it. There are sanctions and other types of international activities. The u. S. Recognizes rightly that there are not unilateral solutions. It is important for us to work with our partners and engage in those multinational countries. Charlie can we include in our partners china . Director brennan absolutely. Chin