I want to thank you for your unbelievable strength and courage and leading that conversation. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] out hearing of the subcommittee will resume. Thank you, e. G. , for your service, for dedications, for your sacrifices youve made for country. Im so grateful you are here today with this important hearing. Am also incredibly grateful that many of you came this morning and participated and listened to the first two panels. That means a great deal, not just to our witnesses but also to their families and all of our military families. We appreciate it very, very much. I know that this is becoming very debated issue, both within the military and in everyday conversation. I also know that many of you have seen the film the invisible war, so the jumping off point on how important this issue is for our military and their families. Im very, very eager to hear your testimony, and
Case. But as to the climate in the military, the fact victims feel they cant come forward clearly this has to be addressed. I want to thank you, maam chairman for bringing this to the nations attention. The committees attention, and i look forward to finding a way to continue the progress it seems to be made. Thank you senator graham. I am extremely disturbed based on the last rownld of question and answer that each of you believes that the convening authority is what maintains discipline and order within your ranks. If that is your view, i dont know how you can say in having 19,000 sexual say all assault and rapes a year is order. I dont understand how you can say of the 19,000 cases to have 2400 even reported because victims tell us they are afraid to report because of retaliation and the blame they will get and the scorn they will get from the colleagues is order and discipline. I cant understand how 2400 cases only 240 of which go to trial can be result in you believing that author
Spoke hopes to make his three wins on the bounce. The winner. And im christine one go out welcome to the program. Indonesian rescue work has also changed for survivors in the office a matter of a devastating tsunami which struck a busy tourist region on saturday nights the official death toll is now two hundred and twenty two the tsunami swift the coastline the longest and a strange hitting sumatra and java it is believed to have been triggered by an eruption off and island located though which sent a wall of force a crashing onto shore. And besides hotels would destroy to along the coast which is popular with tourists dozens of people remain unaccounted for and more than eight hundred are reported injured. Carried to safety after the disaster clinics like this one in western java are treating an influx of tsunami victims. Others have found refuge in temporary shelters after the waves demolished hundreds of homes and buildings. It was at the moment i heard people shouting to run away a
Life in gilroy. Jeff . We got an update from police who tell us they still do not have a motive in their shooting, but they are looking into any possible associations the shooter might have had and they said the fbi is assisting with that. They also tell us the gunmen in this case had an assault style rifle, the officers who got here according to them in less than a minute, they had handguns despite being outgunned the police chief said they were able to stop the threat. I cant tell you how proud i am of the officers being able to engage this guy as quickly as they did. We have thousands of people there. In a very small area. It could have come so much worse. So fast. Im really proud that they got there as quickly as they did in that they were successful in taking that threat out of the equation. They say the shooting started 5 30 p. M. Local time and they believe the shooter got inside the festival with his gun by cutting into a fence, once inside witnesses reported shot after shot sa