Of starting on time and say good morning to the committee today to consider the nomination of general mark milley to be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. We thank you for being here today and are grateful for your decades of distinguished service to our nation. We also welcome why you are family and friends and invite you at the appropriate time to introduce those that you feel are appropriate. Its standard for the committee to ask certain questions. These are the required questions, we will ask them fast and if you would audibly respond to them, i would appreciate it very much. First, if you adhere to the applicable laws and regulations governing conflicts of interest . Yes. Do you agree if confirmed to appear and testify upon request before this committee . Gen. Milley yes, chairman. Chairman do you agree to provide documents including copies of the forms of communication in a timely matter when requested by a duly constituted committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding
Nation we welcome your family and friends and invite you at the appropriate time to introduce. To respond i would appreciate it very much. Much. For us to adhere to the laws and regulations with interest. Yes. Do you agree to testify upon request before this committee . Do you agree to provide documents including copies of the communication in a timely manner requested to the Committee Without any goodfaith delay or denial in providing such documents . Do you agree when asked to give your personal view is even those that are different from the administration . Yes. Will you ensure that your staff complies with the deadlines established for the request to communications including questions for the record in the hearings . Yes. Will you cooperate with the witnesses and respons the respoo the congressional request . Have you undertaken any actions which would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No. Individually in different forms its the most fres threatened we bee
Steve testing for lead in new york schools, the mayor saying that officials may have known about the problem, but first we have to talk about the weather. Dari because justs spring is starts this weekend, we may be in for snow, we get to nick gregory. Nick march has surprised. A spring officially arrives on calendar 12 30 in morning sunday, this storm is headed to sea. That is not energy, but energy will come in off of the pacific driving down from northern plain states, end up here, storm as we head to the saturday to sat saturday nighttime frame, that storm will move in, High Pressure is moving down, establishing a cold feed of air from the north and east, then here. Cold in place that storm gets moving, it looks like right about this fashion here, close enough that well talk about snow up from washington, d. C. , philadelphia to new york city to new england. The question, is there any rain at start of sunday afternoon . I think that chance will be small, heavier snow could be sunday
Blues icon b. B. King dies overnight. Well remember the man and his music today. Friday may 15th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning and for music fans all around the world, it is a sad friday morning. B. B. King what a legend. And he has passed and i think all of us are saying oh my gosh he contributed so much to the world of music. I looked at my phone and my library of music, ive got 63 b. B. King songs on there. Well talk about his life coming up. But we want to start with this breaking news. That u. S. Marine chopper missing for three days has been found in the mountains in nepal. Jik miklaszewski has the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter after a search in the air and on the ground this is the discovery the u. S. Marines worried about from the beginning. They found it on the side of the mountain where it had crashed three days ago and
All business outside the United States. There are some provisions like the r d credit and the production deduction that are part of u. S. Tax law. You would then add some back in for state and local taxes. At the end you come up to 29 . I just am curious why it is that you would pay even with the overseas profits, you would still pay a higher effective tax rate than motion other corporations. We do think that is significant, especially considering 65 of our business is or more than 65 is outside of the United States. When and how often since 1999 has the Internal Revenue service cadetted caterpillar. We are under continual examination, the irs literally sits outside my office in that time frame we have closed 99, two 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, five what havent you closed, what year . The 2007 and later years are still under exam. Theyre still under examination. Uhhuh. You are under constant auditing from the irs. Yes, we are. And they have not claimed you were in violation of irs regulati