About mosquitos and the diseases they carry, so they are asking everybody in the strawberry noels area to stay inside. County crews are spraying pesticide. They plan to inspect properties through the weekend. You may call a phone call or knock on the door in reference to this. Im molette green at the live desk. Were keeping our eye on hermine, a Tropical Storm expected to become a hurricane when it makes landfall tonight. Folks in northern florida, we have live pictures of whats happening there. They are bracing for the high winds, heavy rain between apalachicola and tampa, there could be a storm surge up to five feet. Northwest florida could see 12 inches of rain when its all said and done. Hermines impact in could see it by labor day weekend. Back to you. 4 31 right now. We want to get caught up on our forecast for the next couple days. Thats right. And chuck were looking at you and looking at the radar thats got lots of rain behind it. Yeah. A little bit of rain from martinsburg, fr
Coast. That will lighten the impacts here, but still be quite a wallop out on the beach. Do not turn your back on this storm. That track could just as easily come back to the coastline between now and the time we deal with it. For now, your thursday morning, rain drops across Northern Maryland, a wet ride for work and school. A sliver of sunshine back later this afternoon. Todays highs will be in the low to mid 80s. Trouble now in bowie , maryland, heres the latest. Im molette green. Ive got the latest on this triple Weather Threat across the u. S. , first to hermine, take a look at images there. This storm as an everchanging track as chuck has mentioned throughout the morning. Expected to become a category one storm by tonight when it makes lafa a pacific storm battering hawaii right now, heavy winds and waves pummelling the shorelines. Thats just part one. Another storm on the way. Well stay on top of the latest developments throughout the day and of course our Storm Team Weather tea
Chief White House Correspondent and editor. Good morning. Thank you for recovering from your same patrick festivities to make it out here for an early breakfast. We appreciate it. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Where always grateful to you for tuning in. I am joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came to politico from the boston globe. He has known secretary carter going back to the 1990s. How did that work out . Brian i wish it was a more peacekeeping operation. We are honored to have with us today secretary of defense Ashton Carter who told me he has worked directly for seven secretaries of defense including republicans and democrats. He has worked in 11 administrations and came back as the boss. Someone who has negotiated with our enemies, has written or cowritten 11 books when he was at yale, enjoy the upset astrophysics and medieval history. Comes in handy these days. Before we kick off we want to thank bank of america and John Collingwood for these conve
Thank you. As do you. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill oevans in the weather center. We will probably drop to 45 through the morning but the numbers are warmer than normal. It should be 25 around new burn but it is 45 there. Poughkeepsie. The same. Monticello 37. 43 around wrightstown. Well be looking at a nice, mild day. Normal High Temperature this time of the year is 50. Well get to 61 this afternoon and much of the parade will be dry and breezy and the wind will be at your back. If youre on 5th avenue, the winds are at your southwest. Look at that and the sun will shine warmly upon your face. Here is the fdr drive. We have construction setup there so we do have sml sm really heavy delays on the fdr drive. Lets go over to our maps and explain where it is. It is southbound to the 90s and 70s into the 60s. Northbound 60s up into the 70s. Three trains suspend services, use the trains instead. Extra service on new Jersey Transit buses
Those teams have some great capabilities. It gives you a great starting point. And i think that our first thought in 2010 was lets set up with the initial structure, set it up in terms of offense and defense and teams that could do offensive actions to defend the country. Anyone have anything to add to that . Yes, sir . Dr. Singer . Just two things. The first is the idea of assuming that our response would have to be limited just to cyber means. If someone carries out an act of war against us using cyber means we are not and should not be limited in our response to use other means, and thats why were seeing that kind of deterrence hold. The second though is as general alexander said weve built up great capabilities. There are many things mr. Snowden did but one of the other things he did was reveal we have very potent cyber offense capability capability. I would add to those who believe building up more will deliver deterrence. The question, why has not not delivered deterrence yet . T