And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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Threats we face. Our guest is dakota wood, Heritage Foundations Defense Program Senior Research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S. National security requirements, meanin
Bay. Not as much in the south bay, though. The rain made for slow going on the roads. And the winds also kicked up a bit as well there. Look at the rain along highway 101. This is in the southbound lanes near menlo park about 3 00 this afternoon. The wet weather causing delays and other problems for drivers. Sfo, though, no delays. Lets check in with meteorologist anthony slaughter. Hes got more on all of this. The rain is still coming down in many locations right now. Even as we speak, we had a main push of rain come through earlier and that dumped a good amount of rain in a lot of locations. Still, i want to show you what our scope looks like now. This will give you an estimate of what we saw as far as rainfall amounts this past morning. You can see really impressive, once you get into the greens, half moon bay, north bay, thats where we saw widespread amounts of upwards of one inch. The good news is its helping in our drought, unfortunately as you heard earlier, and really throughou
Today completely, well try our chance on monday, too. More than 1. 1 Million People have already signed up for cover california, 200,000 of them from the bay area. In the newsroom, Kimberly Terry bay area news. We want to turn to our other top story, the weather. We have Team Coverage of the rain. Marty is in San Francisco with a downed tree is causing problems. The baseball game, canceled. You are talking about Northern California tornadoes. As a matter of fact, just a minute ago our Tornado Warning near chico expired. W w it was issued until 6 00. It did expire just a minute ago but from 5 30, now it looks like they reissued it just as i zo d zoomed in there. This is more than likely a Tornado Warning for the next 30 minutes. Youll notice if you do have family or friends near Hamilton City and over towards chico, this cell is actually moving that way. If it stays organized enough, we could be talking about the potential of a funnel cloud or even a tornado moving through Hamilton City