Comrades decided to hijack a plane from new york to cuba he spent 41 years living in cuba that he decided to come back to the United States and reunite with his wife and adult daughter. And he was arrested the moment he stepped off the plane in jfk. I was interested because of the fugitive and exile that was my sri spot and attracted to but i thought how can you get away with the hijacking for 41 years . I was vaguely familiar with the period of American History when the jet planes to cuba but i did not know much about it so i started to look and i was overwhelmed by the sheer number of hijackings in that period of the late 60s and early 70s between the 1968 and 72 there were over 30 hijackings and america. Sometimes at the rate of more than one per week or even two per day. I was looking for people that had been fugitives for many years after hijacking planes. Looking at the list of those who led another run there is pretty much of male crew then they saw a womans name cathy kerkow fr
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Five years ago if someone asked what a bow tiewearing progressive democrat from oregon and my colleague, ted poe, a cowboy bootwearing conservative republican from texas could agree on, you would have said, not much. Today we are partners in an issue, however, that makes sense regardless of your politics. Ensuring sustainable equitable access of clean water for nearly 800 million wom
South and east. The areas in bright white getting a combination of sleet and freezing rain across Loudoun County. Across the potomac into Montgomery County, the areas in bright white, from poolsville, gaithersburg, clarksburg, all getting sleet and light icing. Farther south and east of there, just a few light sprinkles and temperatures are a little bit above freezing around the beltway and inside the beltway. Just north and west, we have it right near the freezing mark. Hour by hour through the morning hours, hovering near freezing. Sleet and icing, 5 00, 6 00 a. M. By 7 00, some light icing on untreated surfaces, elevated surfaces. Thats the same for 8 00 and 9 00 a. M. May have a few isolated slick spots on roads. A look at traffic now with danella. Good morning. Checking the roadways in your first 4 traffic report. Looking for construction, looks pretty clear. Well talk about the beltway. From the American Legion bridge towards i95 in maryland in both directions and as you loop aro
Thousands of hospitals. He built in new york alone four hospitals and 2,900 beds. Got them done so quickly. Nobody sign anything like it. Fortunately we havent had to use too many of them. Thats okay. Thats better news than having to use them all. A lot of good things are happening in new york and elsewhere. So through the publicprivate partnerships and deregulation, the federal government has already made amends testing capabilities available. Some states need to take action to fully utilize it. To date, the United States has conductance million more test than any other of the country. You can add them all up and they dont catch us. Our numbers are doubling almost certainly on a monthly basis but almost on a weekly basis. We are moving very rapidly. At a number nobody thought possible. And well be doubling our number of daily test if the governors bring their states fully online to the capability that they have. We have tremendous capability out there already existing. And we explaine
Trump and the Daily Briefing on the coronavirus to start at any moment now. Meantime, the president has been digging in his skmeels his ongoing feud with governors around the country over testing and other help from the federal government. The bipartisan frustration on full display today as governors pushed back against trump repeatedly blaming them for any problems they have with equipment or testing. The president arguing that states have everything they need. Thats just delusional to be making statements like that. We have been fighting every day for ppe. And we have got some supplies now coming in. We have been fighting for testing. Its not it is not a straightforward test. We dont even have enough swabs believe it or not. I talk to governors on both sides of the aisle nearly every single day. To try to push this off as the governors have plenty of testing and they should just get to work on testing and somehow we arent doing our job is absolutely false. I could double, maybe tripl