I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
At sfo. Reporter because the runways are surrounded by marshland, its no wonder why many birds are tracted to this area and attracted to this area and why sfo is susceptible to bird strikes. The United Express taking off for redmond, oregon, bird getting stuck in one of its two engines. The plane like this one was in the air for 30 minutes before making an Emergency Landing at sfo [ indiscernible ] affirmative. On board, still remaining . Got 74 and about three hours of fuel. Looks like we hit a bird in the engine [ indiscernible ] reporter after that Emergency Landing, a united 737 bound for seattle had to abort its takeoff role when it hit turkey vultures. Heres an example of what the species looks like. Turkey vultures are very large birds that average two and a half feet with a six foot wing span and can weigh up to five pounds. Those planes were taken out of service and passengers had to be put on other planes. [ indiscernible ] reporter heres a photo a passenger tweeted showing a
At sfo. Reporter because the runways are surrounded by marshland, its no wonder why many birds are tracted to this area and attracted to this area and why sfo is susceptible to bird strikes. The United Express taking off for redmond, oregon, bird getting stuck in one of its two engines. The plane like this one was in the air for 30 minutes before making an Emergency Landing at sfo [ indiscernible ] affirmative. On board, still remaining . Got 74 and about three hours of fuel. Looks like we hit a bird in the engine [ indiscernible ] reporter after that Emergency Landing, a united 737 bound for seattle had to abort its takeoff role when it hit turkey vultures. Heres an example of what the species looks like. Turkey vultures are very large birds that average two and a half feet with a six foot wing span and can weigh up to five pounds. Those planes were taken out of service and passengers had to be put on other planes. [ indiscernible ] reporter heres a photo a passenger tweeted showing a
Vultures. Betty yu reports. Reporter the United Express skywest plane taking off for redmond, oregon, hit a bird, sucked into one of its two engines. The plane was in the air for 30 minutes before making an Emergency Landing at sfo. No one on final just to let you know. Would you like equipment standing by . Affirmative. Okay. How many souls on board . We got 74 and then we have about 3 others. Looks like we hit a bird in the engine. Reporter after that emergency land, a united 737 bound for seattle had to aboard its takeoff roll when it hit turkey vultures. Heres an example of what the species looks like. Turkey vultures are very large birds that average 2. 5 feet with a 6foot wingspan and can weigh up to 5 pounds. Both planes were taken out of service and passengers were put on other planes. [ radio chatter ] reporter heres a photo tweeted by a passenger showing emergency trucks on the runway. The runway had to be shut down while crews cleaned up debris from what was left of the bird
The parkway. Breaking news in Prince Georges County, right now. Police are still on the scene of a fatal accident thats shut down part of suitland parkway at naylor road. Derrick ward is live near the scene now for the latest details. Derek derrick, good morning. Reporter yeah, you dont normally associate the suitland parkway with pedestrian traffic. This is the scene of a fatal incident. It remains closed. Suitland parkway is closed between alabama and branch avenue. It was about midnight when an adult male was crossing here at naylor road when he was hit background a car heading westbound, that is into the district. That person has since died. They dont have an identity yet. They have held the scene. Accident reconstruction crews are on the scene and traffic is shut down in both directions. You will likely have to work your way through the neigh avenue, alabama avenue. We dont have any word how long this will remain closed and how long this investigation will continue, but again adul