The first video at the height of that monster storm is just coming in. Stormteam 5 meteorologist Danielle Vollmar is tracking its path. And she joins us now. Danielle . Danielle thats right, karen. I was a very strong storm earlier in the week. In fact, the strongest hurricane on record in both the eastern pacific and the Atlantic Basin but since then, coming inland it has weakened. Now a category one hurricane with winds of just 75 miles an hour and gusts up to about 90 miles an hour. It is also moving pretty quickly to the north and east at about 21 miles an hour. Now its already brought a lot of rain for parts of mexico. Anywhere from about 10 to 11 inches in spots. And expected in the next 24 hours to bring any with from 812 inches in mexico. Then it travels north and feeds tropical moisture into texas. This is one area under flash flood watches this morning because of another system that does not need any of the rain. Now closer to home, you see this area of low pressure, this col
Antoinette is off this morning. What was once Hurricane Patricia is now Tropical Storm patricia. It made land fall. The remnants carrying a lot of rain headed north. Storm team 5s meteorologist Danielle Vollmar has the latest on this storm. Danielle it was weakened as of the 8 00 update but at one point it the strongest hurricane on record both in the eastern pacific and the atlantic basin. Now though a Tropical Storm. Of course, its been moving over land so losing its tropical characteristics with winds of about 50 miles an hour. Gusts to 90 and its moving to the north and east at about 21 miles an hour. Now it has already put down in some locations 10 inches of rain looking to add an additional 48 inches in some areas. They really dont need it in mexico. Then it will move farther to the north and affect texas which, of course, does not need more rain as of right now. 42 degrees in boston. Youre still stuck at 26 degrees and 24 in jaffrey. So it is a cool start to you folks in the mer
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You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younger population of young men and women that are coming our Police Departments today, entirely different generation, 21, 22 years of age anecdotally they are much healthier, they grew up in a time when they become more Health Conscious because the parents more Health Conscious. They are less likely to drink, smoke, hang out, do the police club clique club that introduced a lot of these illnesses that we are very much familiar with. But whats really striking is the fact that for many of these young p
Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated some of them in my written testimony. I want to just spend a moment though reemphasizing the leadership that the attorney general of the United States eric holder, has focused on issue of officer safety and wellness. Im not sure he is getting enough credit for his leadership. Just a few years ago, when deaths were spiking, 171 officers killed in 2011 he held a summit in his office with about 40 L