[crowd conversations] jim good morning. Good morning. Jim my name is jim. I am with the comcast corporation. We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Cspan, our partner at comcast, cspan is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. It gives our audiences on cable a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public poli
We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Comcast,ur partner at it is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. Cablees our audiences on a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public policy. It is a wonderful way, and a gift to the cable industry, to see how our Government Works and how we can all be better citize
President of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found, can you define what you are calling an earmark . Guest the seven point criteria includes whether
South. But with this cold front having flipped slue during overnight were going to see that drier air mass move in. Its in the first alert seven day forecast. Right now its time for another look at timesaver traffic and larry miller. Thanks erica. Your right now 6 00. Metro riders doing really okay little seasickness there right . Were doing really well this morning, no issues on the trains or buses this morning. But its out in oakton were keeling a crease owe on the accident thats eye on the accident thats closed fox mill road at fox vail drive this morning. Should be there within next moment or so. So coming up in ten minutes a live picture, thats the goal but traffic is being diverted on to hunt road. So for commuters out in oakton youll need to be mindful of this that the morning. A live look from the cameras this morning shows us this is eastern tv kenilworth avenue and eastern avenue. Inbound on 50 no problems. Coming down from areas like frederick on i270, you might see a little
Are you safe on had the metro . Virginia senator mark warner is ray raising concerns about Cyber Security and firsts responders ability to react. Former dc schools chancellor kyla hen toder son here to talk about the career path after abrupting resigning at dc, you put schools. The news at 10 00 starts right now. It is bitterly cold out and those fridge temperatures are having a serious make the on the region and school schedules. Thanks for joining us im shawn yancy. Im tony perkins. The frigid weathers and link he snow prompting changeses for tuesday. Spotsylvania county Public Schools closed tomorrow. St. Marys county Public Schools delayed two hours fredericksberg city schools delayed two hours lets check in with sue palka for the latest big snow they had down toward spotsylvania. And down into st. Marys county because of these temperatures we have not been above freezing since friday. At reagan and dulles and the tie temperatures only the in 20s. Shield your eyes if you if you don