Breaking developments on Hurricane Sally as we come on the air right now. A slow motion disaster with the gulf coast getting inundated with torrential rain, storm surge, strong winds, the National Hurricane center says flooding will probably be catastrophic and they call it life threatening were talking about three to four inches of rain every hour, within some spots totals of three feet of rain you can actually walk faster than this storm is moving as it just sits and dumps water on the region sally made landfall just within the last few hours, near gulf shores, alabama, as a category two storm. Winds were stronger than 100 miles an hour, youve got tornado warnings and watches in effect, with 26 Million People feeling the effects of sally it comes exactly 16 years after hurricane ivan devastated the region good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington with our nbc News Reporters on the ground in the storms path ali velshi in orange beach, alabama, not far from where sally made landfal
Yeah. In the mortal words of abraham lincoln, that administration will be me. Are we sure . Are we sure he doesnt drink . I mean, i understand that would be a relief. Yeah. His brother drank, so he didnt. Weve heard that. Man, hes got to be on something. Its just fullblown crazy, mika. Yeah. Heres the thing, like, if youre going to say that, and im sorry to even try to suggest a logical sequencing to the crazy things he does, but if youre going to say that, if youre going to take that position, take it before the election. With this election as close as it is, a lot of democrats are even saying, if he had supported a 1,200, 1,500, i mean, he could have won the election. Now, hes talking 2,000. Just break the bank, mika. Ill tell ya, if he had done this earlier, as close as the election was and, also, i will say, if he were smart enough to do what i was saying he needed to do every day, which was talk about the economy, talk about the economy, talk about the economy, and then talk about
Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we focus on that 1 versus the 99 . That 1 was aimed at us. And isnt that the important thing and it certainly is for americans. We dont Pay Attention to that or that messy stuff going on out there. Al qaeda said was their real objective. And that would replace them with people with the extremist version of sharia law. That is their underlying objective. Attacking america was in a means because they saw
Wideranging sanctions. Thats coming as the g7 summit in brussels for which russia was excluded for the first time in six years and was taking place. And on capitol hill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looked at the political situation in ukraine following last months elections. Thats coming up next on cspan2. Also today a bipartisan agreement was reached in the senate on a bill that aims to address some of the problems that the va medical facilities. And president obamas pick to head the department of health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell was approved by the senate 78 to 1724 republicans voting for the nominee. She will take over as the Health Secretary pleasing kathleen sebelius. Russia as the United States is a nation which believes in its mission. In our missions are pretty similar. We believe in freedom, we believe in this living our values which suddenly disappear. But it was still there and so the biggest idea for russia all those years was the victory day. That is a r
Additional economic sanctions on russia. This is just over two hours. Go. The committee will come to order. Twant to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time co to or to share their perspective with committee on developments in ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in act one of this crisis. Now, were in the beginning of t act twhao with the successful election of a president by the ukrainian people, intion of pren internationally certifie certifd elections, which is a victory for ukrainians struggle for freedom. Divisions between east and west, significantly president Petro Poroshenko won districts from one end of ukraine to the other. It seems clear that with russias violation of sovereignty, it unified ukrainians better than before. The challenges president poroshenko has are daunting. He must rebuild an economy weakened by the previous president s corruption. While countering prudent in the east. We are committed to working with , tonew governme