Shipbuilding plan. Are you concerned with that and what more do we need to do, what can congress do to help you overcome that ship shortfall . Senator this is an area where navy and marine corps have been discussing and again have realized together although the requirement, the military requirement is 38, the current fiscal environment is going to drive us to 34. I appreciate the assistance of congress to getting us to 34 to address those that gap between the requirement and what we can resource, were looking at augmenting our lift there with other platforms besides gray hulls. Gray hulls are absolutely the requirement thats needed for the high end threat but there may be applications and opportunities to lift marines using other platforms. Thank you and again i want to tell you, i look forward to you, your confirmation. I wholeheartedly support it. I would ask some questions about concerns in the arctic, but i have a feeling that my colleague here is going to do a better job of that t
To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. Unacceptable. And i fully expect the navys ongoing study of alternative Aircraft Carrier designs to provide real options. In all three of the lcs Mission Packages most overcome Major Technology integration challenges to deliver the promised warfighting capability. Building the first ohio class replacement submarine building the first flight three destroyer with the new Missile Defense radar, radar, radar. In Naval Aviation it will take strong leadership to oversee the smooth and timely integrati
I believe, senator, 2016 is about electing a commander in chief who is prepared to do what it takes to keep the country safe so we can remain free. You have been a vocal and outspoken outspoken in your criticism of the iran deal. How do you do with iran if you are president . Mr. Rubio i will tell you why the deal is no deal at all. The first thing about the iran deal is it releases billions of dollars of frozen assets into the hands of iran. What will they do with that money . Are they going to build roads and bridges . No. They will do what they do with money. Invest it in terrorism. Sponsorship of has law, shia militias in iraq. Of hezbollah, shia militias in iraq. They will develop the conventional technologies, the ability to destroy an american Aircraft Carrier and purchase Chinese Technology to do it. They will develop longrange rockets. Why would you build longrange icbms . Only one reason. To put a nuclear warhead. That alone should tell us everything we need to do. The u. S.
Taking place at the hickory 8 Movie Theater. Two officers working a traffic crash ran to the theater and one immediately went inside. The suspect raised his weapon towards the officer and pulled the trigger. The officer fired on the suspect and backed away from the theater. Reporter the inside of the theater was thick with pepper spray which police say drove out the other three people watching the movie. We heard screams in a theater nearby. Reporter customers in other movies were told to stay put and watch out for a man with a gun and a hatchet. We heard screams and then a shot and then a little while after that metro police came in and they escorted us out. Reporter the gunman went out the theaters rear door where police shot and killed him. We are very grateful that we only have three pepper spray exposure cases to treat at this point. This could have been a lot worse. Reporter the bomb squad is now on scene where they have just detonated the backpack the shooter was wearing. Police
Possible and i would note it is under attack today and has been under attack since the enactment by the Supreme Court as well as by individuals who do not favor the advancement of African Americans and other people of color in the country. So, it is good to be here tonight to acknowledge the 50 anniversary and commemorate and acknowledge people in the community who day in and hout u out outsides of the glare of the spotlite work to the advance civil rights and move forward and claim tire rights in our society. So move toog the presentations, as a human rightss commission 2015 hero awards i would like to note all tonight recipient will receive [inaudible] from nancy pulosea and mark [inaudible] and the student receiving awards tonight are receiving financial awards through caryn chi so congratulations in advns to all of you and well move to the presentations themselves. First well deal with award for individual leadership in Voting Rights. The first award is given to faith petric and it