Fidel castro. Thats the announcement today from the white house. The former dictator of cuba died over the weekend. Today marked the start of a tribute in havana, where tens of thousands of cubans are paying their respects. President elect donald trump tweeted today that he might end the obama administrations normalizing of relations with cuba. He said he wants cuba to make a better deal for the cuban people. In michigan, the board of state canvassers than 10 thousand people cast a ballot for him. Its the states closest race in more than 75 years. The win gives the republican 306 electoral votes to democrat Hillary Clintons 232. Green Party Candidate jill stein is expected to ask for a recount, and has until wednesday to do so. A judge will decide if former cedar rapids substitute teacher mary beth haglin, who is 24, originally denied the allegation to School Administrator s. But in numerous interviews with the media, she admitted that she had a sexual relationship with a 17yearold Was
Thunderstorm there, in fact you will see thunderstorms out on the lake. And it is going to be choppy there with winds out of the south at about 15 knots. When can we shut off the rain . Maureen, it will eventually, but not today. Thanks for that update. Now to our top story we have been following. The man, suspected of being on drugs whether he hit and killed a state trooper on i90 is scheduled to be in court this morning. Meanwhile, his family, his friends and people who dont even know him are tribute. Channel 3s Alyssa Raymond joins us with a look at how trooper Kenneth Veliz is being remembered. Reporter good morning maureen, velizs family and friends say he was an amazing person and questions catted to his job. No one probably knew this better than the ones who looked up on to him most, his three children. His youngest son, Christian Veliz plays football for his team last night as a trib beauty to his dad. Off the field fans from both teams showed support for the family with blue.
Spend those fees on and if you use fees to expand dramatically the number of refugees from syria or other places in the middle east, that does tend to drain the money, does it not, ms. Strike, that you would otherwise have for other needs of your agency . Yes, sir. In order to reprioritize fee funding to the Refugee Funding Program in fy 16 that will come out of other uscis priorities. Follow up on this question, mr. Bartlett, if we go to 100,000, are you aware of how many of those over the 75,000 this year, thats 25,000 more, how many of those would be coming from the syrian from syria and or the region . We dont have a projection. What it would look like when we bring 100,000 in. What i can tell you is that we traditionally respond to the humanitarian crisis of the time. And so in the last five years, we have resettled a number of burmese, bhutanese, somalis, iraqis, some of those who worked for us, now increasingly syrians and Congress Goal lease and we have had a very big problem b
Families do not have their checks expire, forcing them to redo many of those screenings, when individual parts of the test expire while theyre waiting for other parts to be completed. And third, keeping families updated about their status. Frequently a large familys resettlement will be delayed because a Single Family member is waiting to be approved. Those are common sense straightforward methods of reforming the screening process so that it takes weeks, not years to reach conclusion. And i think they are doable. They may require more resources. Where the u. S. Congress should be involved. I will be sending a letter within a few days, detailing those proposals. Is large audience here testimony to the importance of this subject. Again, not just because of our standing or image in the world, but our selfimage. Our selfworth, our view of ourselves as a nation. My feeling is that the American People still believe that we are the nation of the statue of liberty. That we have arms open to p
I dont think any of you are being told your resources are going to increase when you have more refugees. So at the most fundamental level, im trying to figure out how you absorb this within the current rate of funding that you have without something giving. One of those things that may give could be the very important thing that we all have an obligation to ensure, and that is the safety and security of the homeland. There is going to be handoff between the various agencies. How do we make sure with this increased pressure that we dont make a mistake that could put our homeland at risk. And i will start with maybe Homeland Security . I was going to start with numbers, because thats perhaps the easier part of the question. Just to be clear, our goal, the target, the ceiling is 85,000. Within that 85,000 we are striving to admit 10,000 syrians. That is not a cap. Have, y question i secretary carey said, it is a ceiling. It is not a ceiling, it is a floor. That suggests to me language tha