Good morning. Picketing will come to order. This is a Hearing Resource the title protect the homeland. We will review the department of home its a good budget. When the acting sect of Homeland Security, the honorable Kevin Mcaleenan here to testify and want to fraternal appreciate and thank you for your long service to this country. And in particular, at this moment where we are glad, grappling with some issues. The aftermath of an unprecedented level of disasters of hurricanes and fires in california, hurricanes in the gold coast, the disaster that is occurring at the border right now. If we could just put up our chart. Do we have our chart . Org we have it it on the chart that we have and that an oshkosh would weaken the required a a giveaway. So a quick produced out of my factory some cups with that exact same chart. What it shows is how out of control this problem is in the first seven months of this year. We had over 300 total, 312,000 individuals coming either as over the border
The disaster that is occurring at the border right now and if we could quick put up our chart. Not only to have it on the chart but we had an event in oshkosh over against the required a giveaway so i produced out of my factory cups with that chart but it shows how out of control this problem is. The first seven months of this year we have over 300 total 312,000 individuals over the border illegally and apprehended as unaccompanied child or family unit and i know these are not for public release yet so their initial numbers but in the first three months of may another 65000 unaccompanied children but primarily people coming in his family units and were apprehended at the border between the ports of reentry and over 97000 total apprehensions so were on path for breaking again i guess it was march 10, 3000, april 10, 9000 and now it will be beyond that in may so this is a growing problem. Needs to be taken seriously and its what you and the men and women that you lead are grappling with.
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It is notjust glastonbury, the heat and humidity is widespread. Through the day it is more focused on the western half of the uk. Some eastern areas not doing as well. The reversal of fortu nes areas not doing as well. The reversal of fortunes on saturday means it is the eastern half of the uk which will see the highest temperatures. We do have cooler air waiting in the wings over the atla ntic waiting in the wings over the atlantic but at the moment we are drawing in this waft of humid air over the sahara which has brought the heat wave in central and Western Areas of europe. We are not going to see temperatures as high but we will get a significant boost over the next few days. More ploughed in the isles of scilly and the far western tip of cornwall. A bit of cloud on the east coast but elsewhere a lot of sunshine on offer. Quite a contrast in temperatures for the shetlands. 13 celsius whereas it will be 30 in the Western Highlands, which would be the warmest day of the year so far.