I wonder why air marshals have to fly first class. Roderick mr. Congressman, i cannot elaborate in an open hearing about our tactical seating. I would be happy to discuss with you in private and answer any question you might have. I will assure you that as i stated before, our impact on the Aviation Industry we view it as a partnership. As a matter of practice, those things are managed to a very high degree. I look forward to having a private conversation with you in a closed setting, and i will give you the full path or a full plethora of information to where we sit and why we sit there. Rep. Carter i certainly respect that. I understand there are probably situations where you would. It seems to me you would need the whole first class family first class cabin. Roderick i would agree with you. Rep. Carter i suspect you would. I imagine this is sensitive in light of the fact we have made so much progress on the doors, the cabin doors, to where they are secure, that the real target is go
From fema will speak. Then we have the commander of the eight district of the United States coast guard. He will speak today and introduce himself to the folks of louisiana. We appreciate his presence. President trump approved a request i made yesterday for a federal Emergency Declaration in louisiana. That covers five parishes. Beauregard, calcasieu, cameron, jefferson davis, and vermillion parishes. I spoke with the administrator of fema this morning and he confirmed that the president did sign the declaration upon request and if we need to and the situation warrants, we can add additional hearses to the declaration moving forward we can add additional parishes moving forward. As we told you all last week, this will play out over several days. That is what is happening. But itrm is stationary is actually moving east in our direction. That makes this a dangerous situation for our state especially those on the western portion. While the Tropical Storm has weakened it remains a named Tr
Good afternoon. I will speak and then bill dorn from fema and then well have meryl paul thomas. Commander of the United States coast guard hell speak today and introduce himself to the folks of louise say in the. Theres five parishes. Parishes. Did speak with the administrator of fema earlier this morninging where he confirmed the president did sign the declaration upon our request and obviously if we need to and the situation warrants we half can add additional parishes and we do have a long way to go in this particular storm. As we told you all and the folks of louisiana last week this is going to play out over several days. Thats whats happening. The storm is more less stationary. This is actually moving towards the east in our direction. That makes this obviously a dangerous situation for our state especially those people on the western portion of our state. While the Tropical Storm is finish ed finished it will remain a Tropical Storm and will drop a lot of rain. We believe this w
Good afternoon, thank you all for being here this afternoon for this press briefing. We gathered on the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina. Currently harvey, remains a Tropical Storm. It is strengthening slightly. If its not going to turn swack into a hurricane. The winds are picking up a little bit. Most concerning aspect the gulf the moisture will pick up. Thats what we dont want is anymore rain that is necessary. This is going to contue to be a heavy rain and flood event. I dont want people to total discount what can happen because of the winds. The ground is very saturated. It has been for a long time. The wind has not been blowing far long time. That means trees certainly can be uprooted. You will see more outages in terms of electricity. We are starting to see that across all southern louisiana including in southeast louisiana. Thats because of those winds. We dont have watch outages yet. We do anticipate over the next 24 hours southwest louisiana will see additional 10 to 24
Since she was taken ill with a cold before christmas attending a Church Service at sandringham. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has said the government will take back control of britains borders when we leave the eu and appeared to acknowledge that a new relationship is likely to mean leaving the Single Market. In herfirst interview of the new year, theresa may said we wont be keeping bits of our eu membership and that she doesnt see trade and immigration as a binary either or issue. Mrs may said shed be setting out details of her Brexit Strategy over the coming weeks. Heres our political correspondent, carole walker. After six months in power, the Prime Minister has begun to signal what she wants from the brexit negotiations. Brexit means brexit. She knows that no longer satisfies anyone. Theresa may denies muddled thinking, saying britain would take back control of its borders and appeared to hint that would mean leaving the Single Market. People talk in term