In texas. Mark fema administrator brock long says the agency is focused harveysn the wake of Second Coming is on search and rescue. He gave an update today on the situation on the ground. More than 50that counties across texas had been impacted by the storm. He added that fema is ready to support efforts in louisiana, which he said still is not in the clear. After dumping a record amount of rain in houston, harvey has a landfall again, this time in leicester louisiana west in louisiana. At least 22 people have died in the storm and we expect that number to go higher. E than to any thousand the 200,000 people are in shelters. Meanwhile, 21 of the nations oil refining output is offline. Officials say it is too soon to know that the thousands of houston area homes can be rebuilt. Some homes have been flooded with as much a six feet of water. The counties flood Officials Say these homes could be flooded again after controlled water releases from two reservoirs. There has been plenty of dev
Through a civil war as they try to get through winter. Thiswe begin in france where people were killed in last weeks attacks are being held to rest. Jacky rowland has more from paris. Reporter 17 were shot dead last week. Two were shot police were shot at the Charlie Hebdo attack. France is still on its highest state of alert. Journalists have been peering this weeks issue of Charlie Hebdo. Staff on the paper are determined that it should be business as usual despite the killing of their colleagues. They made it clear they would not be giving in to pressure to those who would like to censor them. Its not the front page that the world wanted us to make, but it was the one we wanted to make. It was not the front page that terrorists wanted us to make because there are no terrorists in it. Just a man crying. Its mohammed. Im sorry we drew him again but the mohammed we drew is a guy crying above all. Charlie hebdo never used to have a massive readership. A lot of readers felt their cartoon
Thats important because metro now gets control of its tracks once again, can start making repairs and get Yellow Line Service restored. As far as what happened learning more about that too. The ntsb makes a number of key points about yesterdays frightening and confusing episode. This was an electrical issue involving the third rail and power supply cables to the third rail. Some sort of electrical arcing incident which is essentially a big spark and pop happened. It happened in a tunnel about 800 feet south of the Lenphant Plaza amount of smoke to tour into the tunnel and the train. There was not a fire on the train. The train did not redeath rail. Michael flanagan, lead ntsb investigator describing the issue. The third rail runs along the side of the track and at various points there are cables that connect that third rail to the power source of the pump station. And that appears to be where the arcing occurred that generated the event. Reporter people were taking it upon themselves t
Integrating of the individual on the i. T. Side and the business side. Those are all three things that even right now at gsa three weeks ago implemented some of the things that we think will improve availability of providers to get access and work in that way. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you were senator hagen. Senator white house. Thank you, chairman. Welcome, ms. Burwell. In your summary of your very impressive career you describe yourself as having had the opportunity to lead large and complex organizations and work across a range of issues in each odds my role i worked on forming strong teams, forging relationships and delivering results. Has it been your experience that having solid clear performance metrics is an advantage. It is a an advantage to know where youre headed. Thats part of the accountability that you just described to senator hagen, correct . Yes. Knowing where youre headed and how youre going to measure whether you get there or not is important. Under
Timothy writes for the hill. He houses out for another week long break, but the senate will be in. Says, it is crunch time on energy. What is the status of that measure . Said, theyus, as you have scheduled a vote for the bill. What is Holding Things up right and what might hold up the bill as a whole, is republicans want to get amendments into that. Including senate reid,ty reader leader have blocked those amendments. One of the amendments would be to force the approval of the Keystone Pipeline. Reid is open to having a vote on a separate bill just for the Keystone Pipeline. Fiveesnt want these other Energy Related amendments to be considered for this bill. He used a procedure called filling a tree to prevent any amendments from being considered. For ain, senators calling vote on the pipeline. What is the boot mood of the country on building the pipeline . A lot of polls have shown that the country does support this pipeline. For the most part, the polls have shown the possible jobs t