Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into. A crowd of those attending a Country Music concert. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an aut automatic weapon. 58 people died. Our laws prohibit the manufacture machine guns for decades and decades that has been the case. During the Obama Administration they determined that bump stocks are legal. A number of member of congress recently rote the atf asked it to revision the decision. Two days ago the atf announced
[applause] and why we read all this weekend that the Reagan National Defense Forum for those of you in the audience if you had a chance to see on television if you were watching it a suggest you shouldnt have a life you should be inside watching television. [laughter] with those timely topics thanks for asking me to come to address this group. And with that 4,000pound knapsack on his back he was smiling happily. There are Interesting Times we are living in with a chinese fortune cookie. And to those that you can into were the endorsers of National Security and forceful advocates for a strong Navy Marine Corps team. And to address my thoughts on how we take this institution Going Forward to have an update right now is starting to be a good weekend the pentagon which doesnt mean that will stay on the same trajectory but certainly is a nice day today because this war in the new undersecretary of the navy. Tomorrow i can swear in the assistant secretary and we are making a frame that will
Francisco to sacramento, floodwaters and fierce winds have been knocking out power to thousands of people. Some people who lived in the areas for decades say they have never seen anything like this. Thing just went up fast. Weve had previously where its gotten up real high but hasnt gotten this bad. Do you live right here in the park . Right here. Right here . Yeah, right there. I got my mom out. I took her down to a friends house down the street because you never know if water like this what its going to do. People are evacuating out of the cars, and as you see, you cant get out. I had to march up the hill and walk down the side hill to get in here. So its really, really very bad. Rob marciano is tracking the storms from the cnn Weather Center in atlanta. How is it looking in the near future, rob . Well, a bit of a break today, soledad. More rain coming tomorrow. You saw the folks dealing with the rain about fall, cars driving through it. The rivers rushing. But we have infrastructure
Entering. The high court reacted by indefinitely suspending all court sessions. That will postpone a ruling on the legitimacy of the group that wrote the constitution. President morsi has declared his decisions are now immune from judicial oversight. Hungarians took to the streets protesting comments made by a member of the countrys far right opposition party. Last week a member of the parliament suggested it would be timely to tally up people of jewish ancestry bringing back outrage and memories of the nazi party. The comments followed a debate over fighting in the gaza strip and national security. The lawmaker later apologized and said his remarks were misunderstood. Three suicide bombers all in cars today attacked a Forward Operating base in eastern afghanistan. Nato says all the bombers were Wearing Coalition military uniforms. Three Afghan Soldiers reported killed. Also two civilians. It happened in a province where nato handed over Security Control to Afghan Forces just a few wee
Republicans and democrats remain far apart. And over the weekend, there was worry negotiations may actually fail. I think were going over the cliff. Its clear to me they made a political calculation. Before president obama and his team are demanding that they allow bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 of americans expire. Theres no way we can govern this country with those low rates in place for future generations. Those rates have to go up. Reporter but republicans have drawn a line in the sand in raising tax rates. Instead, signaling theyre open to raising revenue by limiting the tax code. Its a major sticking point. Holding up a deal. Right now, id say were nowhere. Reporter president obama is looking for 1. 6 trillion in new tax revenue over ten years. Speaker boehner is offering half of that. Theres 600 billion. The speaker says thats not enough. Although he hasnt outlined what he thinks should be cut. If they cant avoid the fiscal cliff, it means on january 1st, every american