The subcommittee is meeting today to examine defense in depth strategy and its effect on local communities. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Id like to thank chief mark morgan testifying now before congress for the first time as the new chief of Border Patrol. Im sure you will be spending frequent visits the our subcommittee as we discuss very important questions related to Border Security. Things like what does a secure border hook like. What are the right tools and strategies to achieve a secure border and how do we measure success or failure. I want to focus on the second question. Specifically the unintenses consequences that live along the border including my constituents. In the early 1990s they were out matched in all aspect of illegal activity. Both between and at the port of entry. Yet despite having a smaller Border Patrol at the time agents apprehended millions of people. Border patrols response to this activity lead to operations hold the line and gate keeper th
The subcommittee is meeting today to examine defense in depth strategy and its effect on local communities. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Id like to thank chief mark morgan testifying now before congress for the first time as the new chief of Border Patrol. Im sure you will be spending frequent visits the our subcommittee as we discuss very important questions related to Border Security. Things like what does a secure border hook like. What are the right tools and strategies to achieve a secure border and how do we measure success or failure. I want to focus on the second question. Specifically the unintenses consequences that live along the border including my constituents. In the early 1990s they were out matched in all aspect of illegal activity. Both between and at the port of entry. Yet despite having a smaller Border Patrol at the time agents apprehended millions of people. Border patrols response to this activity lead to operations hold the line and gate keeper th
Other spots in the United States, and its said to have cut down accidents 25 . It sounds familiar. A smartphone does what youre talking about. Yes. The traveler information you get on your cell phone is also another element of this project. Eventually we gonna have similar type of information that motorists are used to seeing on their cell phone. Reporter at a cost of 79 million. 7 the Million Dollars for what i can get on my cell phone . 79million . A lot of Times Technology catches up with bureaucracy. Was this money well spent . Absolutely. Reporter because, he says, theres so much more. Speed limits will be changed depending on traffic. Lights coordinated on surface streets that bear the brunt of frustrated freeway drivers. Lanes could be opened or closed. For this part of highway 80, i think its worth it. Its really busy. Thats a lot of money. They could fix the potholes on the roads for 79 million. [ laughter ] reporter now, they say its going to save hundreds of millions of doll
You can get the details from the report. It will highlight the key groups, and the top two groups oceans and tropical and subTropical Forests were more than half of the species of concern. If we look at the next ones, coast, arid lands, granted, not a lot of species are on the list, but some are showing some decline. To highlight what we have done in this report is not just where are the problems, but what are some of the Key Solutions we need to work on. Not all of these solutions are easy. If they were easy, we might have done them already. Section one, going on best things that are working that we can continue, and a section that challenges that is ok. For example, seabirds, these are birds that spend much of their life at sea, but nest on the water. Many of the seabirds nest on islands. One of the challenges on islands are invasive species. Somebody has introduced something to an island somewhere and make these seabirds vulnerable. In a number of areas where seabirds are nesting th
Responded to the arrest saying we have been made aware of some allegations brought forward involving a board member. However, we do not have any details on the situation. We are allowing the appropriate Law Enforcement agency to handle this matter. We recognize there are allegations and as such we will not speculate as to the facts of the situation. Bishaw will be in court next week. There has been a mrs. Trial in the case against a man accused of killing a single mother who lived a double life as a jurors in Grand Junction deliberated all week trying to reach a decision in the case against lester jones accused of kidnapping and killing paige burkefield. He was one of the last people to call her before she disappeared in 2007. Her remains were not found until five years later. Jones defense team said investigators had no physical evidence tying him to the death. Nine of the 12 jurors believed jones was guilty. Some of them talked about the the guilty, we wanted this and i saw you all d