An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
it is clear that sequestration would risk hollowing out our force and reducing its military options available to the nation. we would go from being unquestionably powerful everywhere to being less visible globally, and presenting less of an overmatch to our adversaries. it was designed as a meat a, designed to be a disaster. because that the hope was it s such a disaster congress would respond and do what was right and so i m just here to tell you, yes, it would be a disaster. that was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark dempsey and leon panetta making their case yesterday against across-the-board defense cuts. the automatic reductions do go into effect next january, the pentagon is going to have to cut
states congress has. the oil industry which is essentially done nothing has done more than congress, which has done nothing. the co-chair of the bipartisan oil commission says in the two years since the bf disaster congress has yet to enact one piece of legislation, not one, to make drilling any safer. the oil industry went out and at least bought more boom, whoopie, congress did nothing. actually, there s an asterisk on the nothing they did. this week house speaker john boehner passed his long-awaited highway bill through the house. and there was something related to oil drilling and the oil industry inside that bill. tucked inside the highway bill was there, the federal energy regulatory commission shall not later than 30 days after receip issue a permit without additional conditions for the construction, operation and maintenance of the keystone oil pipeline. the keystone pipeline would transport something called tar
since the bp disaster congress has yet to enact one piece of legislation to make drilling any safer. the oil industry went out and bought more boom. congress did nothing. there s an asterisks on the nothing that they did. this week john boehner passed his long awaited highway bill through the house. there was something related inside that bill. tucked inside the highway bill was there, the federal energy regulatory commission shall not later than 30รง days after set an application issue a permit without additional conditions for the construction, operation and maintenance of the keystone oil pipeline. the keystone pipeline would transport something called tar sands throughout the midwest. as bad as we are of cleaning up crude oil, we have no idea how to clean up spills of tar sands oil. congress s role is to do nothing