[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. There are thousands of federal buildings across the country that not only serve as workplaces for federal employees, but also host daily visitors who come to access important federal services and help keep our government functioning efficiently. These facilities face a range of security threats that put both people and property at risk. And of those threats are only continuing to grow. Threats related to domestic and International Terrorism and even disinformation are rising and according to the department of homeland security, can endanger our federal personnel and Critical Infrastructure. Todays hearing will focus on what actions are needed to secure the 9,000 federal facilities overseen by dhs federal protective services. The facilities host the mold of bold ofthe civilian and federal employees and are visited by 1. 4 million americans each and every day. Currently the federal facilities are secured through a twostep proces
Against these relevant type on file will be live in harris and the, and also in the news and unfolding disaster in brazil. Some desperate victims of slides are taking the law into their own. The thank you for joining us. These really military forces have taken control of the palestinian side of the roof of Border Crossing between guys in egypt as the main road for humanitarian supplies. Egypt is condemning the most saying is there as actions involve a threatening efforts towards reaching a permanency fire. Israel is not bulky, the main entree bringing aid into the strip, where many people already experiencing full blown from in. Hi, my most begins coverage with this fully hours after her mazda acceptance of us. These fire proposal is really times rolled into rough. This military video shows the concrete border wall that separates the city from egypt. The crossing here has been, does a lifeline for international its, thats been a trickling. And since the start of the war with is ro cont
[inaudible conversations] we will call the meeting to order. Thanks for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one votes are starting at 3 00 oclock we will deal with that when we have to but second this committee does not meet as frequently as others but the primary reason is the issues we deal with our sufficient magnitude they are dealt with by the whole committee. In any event to be an appropriate subject for the subcommittee the complexity of dealing with the issues in north africa certainly are worthy of our consideration. We have a very good panel for people who deal with this all the time. Ambassador i know your travel schedule is quite robust and as a result i appreciate you accommodating us to be here yourself north africa is the important region as well as transatlantic security some years ago we watched the arab spring began in tunisia spreading across the middle east. One better life of the slow pace of change despite her aspirations and has not met their e
When he gets in the car, he knows what he is going to happen what is going to happen. Tonight, on cspans q and a. Now, Homeland Security undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding talks about protecting the nations infrastructure. She was part of an event hosted by the American Bar Association. It is about 90 minutes. [applause] youood morning and thank for that very gracious introduction. Some of you know and everybody will eventually learn that when you have spent over six decades occupying space, you take on a variety of roles. Way, you it another wear a variety of hats. I will explain to you three different hats that i wear. And currently special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on net law and National Security, we celebrated by 54th birthday, founded aba president and Later Supreme Court Justice Lewis powell and chicago lawyer. The committee focused on the legal aspects of Security Issues and conducted studies and sponsored programs and conferences and highlights t
We want to go to the bill kapone with the pennsylvania turnpike commission. Bill can you update us . The turnpike is closed, we anticipate being able to reopen it within in the hour, i cant be be much more specific than that. We feel conditions will be such that we can reopen, east west section from morgantown to the delaware bridge to the new jersey line within the hour. So the roads are getting better. We had accidents and vehicle accident scenes to address and get the vehicles off the roads and treating the roads so the report i just got from our road crews was that they expected that within the how we may be able to reopen the road. Good news, pennsylvania turnpike commission, thanks so much. Thank you byebye. This warrington bucks county a white pickup truck slid on the bristol road this morning. The force of the collision as you can see snapping that pole there in half. We want to update you on the Weather Forecast and where the freezing rain is falling. Reporter meteorologist ch