What matters most to all of us are our friends and family, and their safety. Thats true of folks inside of government, as well as outside of government. Here is what i want everyamerican to know. Sense 9 11, we have taken extraordinary steps to strengthen our hope land security. Our borders, our ports, our airports, our aviation security, including enhanced watch lists and screening. And we have much better. Thanks in part to people in this room, of preventing large attacks like 9 11. More over, and i think everybody here will agree, we have the best intelligence, Counter Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement professionals, in the world. Our folks are the best. Across our government, these dedicated professionals are releaptless. At the operates center here, people from across our government work literally shoulder to shoulder pouring over the latest information, analyzing it, integrating it, connecting the dots. They are sharing information, pushing it out across the feder
A lifetime contract. We are half an hour into the trading session. It has been quite a big cello around the world. Matt miller has the latest. Matt im looking at oil prices, especially. Crude, not only nymex crude, started dropping precipitously around 7 00 this morning. Brent is also down. West texas intermediary, you can see the big drop that we had to 36. 85. We bounced up a little. Brent came down earlier and drop to below 40 a barrel. Both of these products, commodities, are down till those that we have not seen since february of 2009. Brent had a bounce it is now at 40. 39. I graphed a spread. Even see it is getting tighter and tighter. The less of a difference and they are correlating more. Betty stocks are moving in tandem with the slide were seeing in oil. Matt stocks have come down for the third day in a row. Looking at the major averages. We have recovered a little. We are off 1 of the Dow Jones Industrial average. The s p have recovered down a tense of 1 down 8 10 of 1 . Th
About why we did not discover communications in advance as well as discussion with department of homeland security. And with that visa process in their holes that needed to be plugged to prevent people from using the marriage or Fiance Visa Program to enter with the purpose to carry out an attack. We have additional insights in the investigation is in its early stages and we have a lot to learn how these two came into contact with each other or separately become radicalized. The investigation is literally all over the globe and there is a great deal more to be explored with communications and devices. Dash shooters did use certain Operational Security measures to avoid detection to help and p the investigation after the attack but were working through these challenges. Day you know, if they had any help or if they chose this time to attack . The director has emphasized were not aware of any other components like coconspirators. That is the first and foremost, priority. Theyre not aware
3 record rainfall continues to pound parts of the Pacific Northwest. As over the last few days the unrelenting storm system has caused flooding, landslides and evacuations in washington and oregon. Cole miller is in portland with the latest. 3 as the rain continues to fall for a Third Straight day across the northwest. Already swollen rivers and creeks have caused major flooding, evacuations, and landslides around the area. Crews in portland worked into the night to clean up tons of debris along a local highway. sot don hamilton odot spokesman this has been a big mess but we hope to get it cleaned up quicklythe record rainfall dumped a little over three inches of rain on the hours. Triggering dozens of rescues. Officials say it could take months to repair this giant sinkhole that opened up in nearby gresham. Where powerful winds also toppled trees onto cars. sot dale hall resident all of a sudden i heard a big woosh come down and next thing i know we got tree down standup cole miller c
About drones ever since they started flying sometimes in the same airspace used by planes and helicopters. The drone operator was found. That near miss happened about 800 feet off the ground as a helicopter was flying along highway 4 in martinez. It was the more oil and alhambra exits. Just how close that drone came to the chopper. Reporter 30 feet apart, ken, way too close. This story might have had a much different ending if not for the quick action of the flight crew. When the Highway Patrol helicopters rescue people as they often do pilots know and expect the dangers. The lives, wind, waves. Theres a drone out here altitude 1,000 feet. Reporter but a drone, an unexpected hazard. Almost hit this thing. Were keeping an eye on it here irk thats the voice of pilot pete gaffe it talking to an air Traffic Controller in concord after his near miss saturday night. I saw a red light out there. We couldnt identify it at first. Reporter a red light appeared the size of a golf ball on a drone