Partially shut down after midnight monday. And some 800,000 federal workers could be told to stay home next week. President obama put out an e mail this morning, blaming, quote, far right republicans, of pushing us closer to the brink. Senator john mccain says compromise is in the countrys best interest. The american people, by 80 to 20, do not want the government shut down. Reporter the budget battle looks far from over with another one around the corner with the congress having to decide whether to raise the debt ceiling. Tara mergener, capitol hill. If the government partly shut down, more than a third of federal workers will not be allowed to work including National Parks and museums. Services critical to National Security safety and health would go on as usual. The use of drones inside america continues to be a controversial topic. A new Justice Department report shows the fbi has been using drones since 2006. The report by the Justice Departments Inspector General also shows that
An internal investigation at the Alexandria Police department has concluded the officers didnt do anything wrong when they killed a man this past february. This happened two blocks from Police Headquarters when ten officers answered a call for a domestic dispute. Peggy fox reports, the mans mother was there and she did not think police were justified in using lethal force. When they saw the shooting i was there and i know what i saw. Reporter vicky sellers watched as seven Alexandria Police officers opened fire and killed her son. 30yearold t aft sellers a former marine legally carried a gun but he didnt fire on february 18th when officers opened up hitting him five times with 37 rounds. He continued to shoot him as he walked in front of him. Even with him laying down and the gun not in his hand. Reporter vicky sellers questions why officers opened fire in the first place. Today police chief cook said their own internal investigation found officers fired in selfdefense. Only at the poi
Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the groundrules wrote that. What we are going to do today is secretary james and general welsh will have opening remarks and then well open it up for questions and answers. Standard rules of engagement apply today so please state your name and affiliation when you are called on and then we will do one question and one followup and depending on how much time we have with us if we can get to other questions. If there are any questions we dont get answered today you are more than welcome to call the a
Obviously its congresss constitutional prior if to rearrange priorities but in so doing please to not carve money out of our readiness account. Readiness is key, and ready to get those goals up. Please lift sequestration. Fees choices were troublesome, all on your hands. It will get worse and more difficult. This is a message that i wanted to repeat today. We need to get full Spectrum Readiness up. Now that i talk about todays readiness, let me shift to the future i also told, i think we will have greater reliance because obviously you know our numbers have been coming down. Right to leverage their reserve more. We have to maintain a technological edge. We have to be remaining ready with topnotch people. We need to become more agile. So what does all that means . It means a lot of things. We need to keep working diligently of our top three programs. The new fighter, the new tanker, the new bomber. In the general would give you some updates on the street. These and other technical inves
Tell it, but it all happens the way it had to be. Great question. So thank you so much, austin. Thank you, both people. [applause] and i will see you over here. [applause] yeah, we can start designing now. If you purchased about, you can start lining up this way towards the elevator. [inaudible conversations] pulitzer prizewinning author Lawrence Wright recounts the camp david accords or president jimmy carter brokered a peace treaty between israeli administered egyptian president. The other professor respected World Leaders and reports on their daily meetings over 13 days. This is about an hour and 10 minute. Good evening. Tony clark from the carter residential museum. I am really pleased you all are here. There is no more appropriate place for the Soccer Program than right here. Last november the Carter Library the Central Intelligence agency had a seminar. The cia released a number of documents related to the camp david accords and it was just a fascinating book at everything that w