The Judiciary Committee look on the order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. I will begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for your first time in front of this committee, and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that, at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis impartiality first came to light under the Obama Administration su
Holly agrees i think. I agree that today is a day to be festive i will say that. Thanks erin. Thanks mike. Appreciate you both. All right. So, the weather actually should cooperate today for all the planes trains and automobiles that are rushing out of town in time for christmas so expect more volume. However, youre trying to get away. And if your travels include an airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick live at Reagan National with all the details. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Just checking around the maps and the travel board arent it and itlooks like the only delaye a few out of los angeles but for the most part everything is on time and going well. The airport here really not very crowded at this point its still a little bit early so we expect maybe later those t. S. A. Checkpoints will stack up just a little bit. If you think that youve seen a lot more crowds on airplanes and in the airports lately, youre absolutely ri
Definitely grown, people trying to get through security here and theres some of that additional security that we talked about. T. S. A. Saying that with the additional load of passengers, they are bringing in additional officers, 1400 extra t. S. A. Officers and additional k9 teams. But the dogs here doing that snisniffing that helps people gt through security faster. These people have been somewhat cleared. You know when they used to have to do the swipe test. Theyre not having to do that any. So, it looks like most people here are in a pretty good holiday mood. Number of people are most people we should say, most of them are going to see family and friends. We talked to a couple of people here at the airport and asked them where they were going and what theyre doing. Im going to go to bogota colombia south america. West palm beach florida. We go away every christmas with my brotherinlaw and his wife went relax on the beach. Nashville 1010ism whats in nashville. Its a beautiful countr
Dreams. But for mamabini her dream came true. For the first time on camera bieni shares her journey with sports director daren hayes. What started off as a dream, became a reality. Mame bini made history. Mame was born in godson in a. And moved to live with her father in wheeten, maryland and said goodbye to the only life she knew. After a couple of days she just changed her mind and said daddy, i like it here. I want to stay here. Mame fell in love with the states and they saw a sign that said learn to skate. We stopped every saturday morning. She got on the ice. Oh, my god. I was like what did i get myself into. I was afraid she was going to fall and break her head open. My figure skating coach, coach helen was like hey your daughters going a little too fast for figure skating. She should try speed skating. Mame took the idea of speed skating and sped off with it. Literally. But she faced challenges. At one point she was going like this. Like this going this way. So she was taking of
Out there it feels like zero in philadelphia. Feels like three below in wilmington. Five below in reading, 18 degrees below zero in the poconos. As we head throughout the daytoday really these temperatures dont matter, right . Nineteen by noon, 23 as we head in the 3 00 oclock hour but of course it will feel much colder then that when we factor in the winds. Look for highs, regional today in the teens and 20s we will have single digit wind chill, across the entire region today with below zero wind chills in the poconos. A few afternoon cloud and then bone chilling cold sets in tonight, ill have everything you need to necessity for that new years eve planner coming up in just a bit, back to you. Chelsea, thank you. We have bitter blast forecast ted as chelsea mentioned continuing into the new year, the city of philadelphia has opened up a new code blue warming center. Center opened up late at cione Recreational Center in aramingo avenue in kensington. Now through tuesday, people who nee