Mayor had to say about this. Reporter the ghost ship fire revealed dangerous oversights by the city. It has been 11 months. The mayor said this internal memo is proof there has been progress. But a long way before the city delivers on the promises. With a table full of her Staff Administration department the mayor invited media this morning to her office. To clarify what oakland has accomplished since the fire. And what needs work. The city plans to do more than two double its inspectors staff at the end of 2018. None are on staff yet. The Fire Department is working to catch up on 1000 backlog mandated inspections. Oakland plans to implement a digital interdepartmental system to show information on Problem Properties is more easily shared. The families are asking why it took a fire to get the city to get things done. The improvements we are making our improvements we should have been making as a normal course of business. Taking advantage of new technological advances. New business pra
The system needs to include technology, whether it is unmanned ariel vehicles, ground sensors, aerostats that we saw high in the sky to try to protect our country against Transnational Criminal Organizations that exploit our porous border to import poison for our people, drugs, illegal drugs, that traffic in children or sex or other illicit purposes, or import their gang members into the United States only to wreak havoc on the communities here in the United States. And you know the object of most of the mayhem associated with that porous border are the immigrant communities in the United States. People act as if theres no negative downside to this porous border and illegal immigration. But i will tell you that frequently the devastation thats wreaked on americans, People Living here in the United States is in immigrant communities where these folks do most of their harm. So we are working very hard to try to come up with a solution here. Its frankly insulting that the democratic leade
Intrinsically linked with at least some of the arguments being made by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And what were trying to do its fairly simple. Year trying to fund our service members, were trying to fund our veterans. We want to get a longterm authorization for the chip program. The chip Program Actually expired last year but there were sufficient funds on account to continue funding, but theyre running out. In states like North Carolina and other states, this program is going to start being shut down if we dont get muchneeded resources. Were talking about a multiyear reauthorization for the plan. And of course continuing to Fund National institutes of health, which is a critically important part of us combating diseases, finding treatments and cures. Thats all were trying to do with this spending bill. The other thing were trying to do is create a bridge for the month so we can get our colleagues on both sides of the aisle talking and hopefully get some certainty i
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Going on right now. Skyfox is life over the james t. Vaughn Correctional Center in smyrna where police say inmates took Corrections Officers hostage and some of those officers are still held up inside the prison right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. It is maximum security prison. Our Chris Oconnell has been at the scene all night. Chris, authorities have made it abundantly clear, this is not over yet. Reporter that is right, lucy. Very tense hostage negotiation still continues at this hour at delawares largest maximum security prison. Two Corrections Officers still remain being held as hostages at this time at james t. Vaughn correctional facility as the standoff with inmates now enters its 13th hour. Prison Officials Say tonight they are in communication with unknown number of inmates who have taken over at james t. Vaughn correctional facility. Its been a long and difficult day. Reporter delaware governor john carney reacting to the hostage c