Questions, please limit your testimony to five minutes. The entire Opening Statement will be made a permanent part of the record. With that, director pearson is recognized. Good morning chairman isaf, Ranking Member cummings and distinguished members of the committee. Im here to address the concern we all share following september 19 at the white house. It is clear the security plan was not properly executed. This is unacceptable, and i take full responsibility and make sure it does not happen again. As director my primary concern is ensuring the operational readiness of the workforce. I have been address it aggressive and injuring professionalism and developing leaders through active engagement with Agency Supervisors and employees i have made it clear my expectations for professionalism and personal accountability. Much of what we do to protect the president that involves information that is highly classified. So i will be limited what i can say in a public hearing. On to number 19 a
Warmer than our usual highs. Live doppler hd shows around the region not coming up with moisture and no rain. Temperaturewise out the door, 68 and mild in fairfield compared to 48 in napa and some spots you need the light jacket as you star the day. 60 in oakland and shows is at 56. Wake up weather is mainly clear and mild temperatures in some spots and turning breezy with sunrise at 7 05 and starting temperatures in the mid60 to mid50s. Now a check on traffic. Good morning, everyone. At 5 00 am we are taking you to San Francisco first and we want to give you a heads up of open world 2014 at at the mascone center. It will cause street closings for oracle. This will an lost traffic off of 80. Be sure to find another way around or give yourself extra time. Heavy, heavy traffic. The bay bridge toll plaza shows cash paying lanes stacking up and the fast track is clear as we make it from emeryville. With the as season coming to a dramatic end all eyes turn to the giants and their attempt to
Good wednesday morning to you. We begin with the nations top doctors scrambling over the first case of ebola diagnosed in america. A man traveling from west africa who arrived in texas 11 days ago has been put into strict isolation inside a hospital in dallas. Abcs Elizabeth Hurd just filed this report from dallas. Reporter it was the news america had been dreading. An individual traveling from liberia has been diagnosed with ebola in the united states. Reporter the centers for Disease Control confirming the first case of ebola in the u. S. A patient who recently travelled from liberia to dallas is sick with the disease. The unidentified man is critically ill and has been in isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas since sunday. He began feeling sick four or five days after arriving in the u. S. The likelihood for this individual to have spread it on an airplane are basically zero. He was asymptomatic. Meaning he had no symptoms while he was traveling. Reporter the head
Well, recovery continues in napa following the earthquake with a massive cleanup effort. At Napa High School, just as classes are set to resume, here is a live look at the school. You can see some of the kids coming in and teachers headed in. Katie utehs out there. Shes been on campus since 5 00 this morning and just spoke to one of the students. In two minutes, she will have more on what can be expected on this first day back since the quake and a very big problem out in front of that school. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for mornings on 2. Im maam cook in for Tori Campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, i like how you painted the sky outside our door. I havent seen it. Oh, i was giving you credit. We have patchy low clouds. 58 to 68. Lows are warmer for most. Not for all. Mostly sunny by noon. Sunny and warmer for many. Temperatures getting back up in the upper 80s to 9s for well inland, much, much cooler on monday. Fog Still Holding to hold cour
World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. And as we come on the air tonight, were covering a Major Development in the ebola outbreak. Until now, until just a short time ago, in fact, americans could at least take comfort in the knowledge that all the thousands of cases of this deadly virus were discovered outside of our borders, but a late announcement tonight from the cdc just changed that. The first case has been confirmed here in the u. S. Kate snow is here with us with late details on this. Kate . Brian, good evening. There have been many suspected cases of ebola over the past weeks that turned out to be false alarms, but this man is the first case of ebola confirmed to be diagnosed at a hospital on u. S. Soil. It was confirmed this afternoon in dallas. At a Late Afternoon news conference, the centers for Disease Control director dr. Tom frieden sought to reassure americans that the case here in the u. S. Is not cause for alarm. The